reaching across the gender divide

... sections of the world by comparing a case study in Rwanda and The Netherlands First, the digital divide between Northern countries and Southern countries is introduced Then Trang 3the concepts ... assess the situation regarding the electronic prescription system (EPS) in the Netherlands The practical aim was to unravel the unsatisfying diffusion-situation of the EPS The protocol builds on the ... 2002) The North-South divide not only shows on technical issues More cutting are the figures on the life expectancy in table 1 or the number of physicians in the African countries (table 2) The

Ngày tải lên: 11/01/2020, 17:56

... when the moon is hidden by the sun 5 Many people wonder if there is intelligent life elsewhere in the - 6 The teacher told us to draw a line across the page 7 The most successful products in the ... the house of tomorrow The house of the future helps with the battle of the sexes The compact home of tomorrow iv = The multipurpose home of tomorrow v Housework declines in the house of the ... industrialists or of the public, but the third image of the home of the future did From World War Il until the present, the evolving story of the home of the future is a story of ‘the house as a wonderland

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 11:20

... to the same extent as men And finally, another reason the gender earnings differential exists is because there is gender discrimination in the labor market The contribution of each to the gender ... that the decrease in the returns to education for women in the U.S in the 1970s widened the gender eamings differential more than any other factor considered (1988, 527) Theoretically, the individual ... much of the gender earnings differential is due to other unobservable determinants, such as gender discrimination Finally, the significance of these other unobservable determinants of the gender

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 03:20

... unfolded in their lives? Were they drinking away their babies’ or teenagers’ futures, or were they rather savoring precious moments of content amidst the harsh cruelty of their labors? Were they stoking ... made of the raw materials, they would taste the water, the sweet wort, Trang 21the boiled wort, the rinsings from filtering materials, and so on Nothing (except the caustic used to ensure the pristine ... close to the brewery For the majority of beers it is downhill from the moment that the crown cork goes on the bottle, the lid goes 14 B EER I S P ROOF G OD L OVES U S Trang 32on the can, or the keg

Ngày tải lên: 31/05/2014, 00:22

... not extravasate across the less defective BBTB of the smallest gliomas within the size range of brain tumors in our study (Figure 3B) In the case of the largest RG-2 gliomas within the size range ... to prevent the effective transvascular passage of most nanoparticles [22-25] If the upper limit of the therapeutically relevant pore size of the BBTB could be accurately determined, then intravenously ... nanoparticles in traversing the BBTB of malignant gliomas is the large size of these particles relative to the physio-logic pore size of the BBTB In this work, using the RG-2 malignant glioma model

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 15:20

... result further supports the idea that HIV-1 penetration across the BBB is through the transcellular route rather than the paracellular route In addition, these results may suggest that the receptors ... act at the luminal, but not the abluminal, endothelial surface to increase the transcellular permeability of BMECs to HIV-1 Furthermore, the results suggest that the LPS-induced increase in the ... in the luminal side did not increase the phosphorylation of p44/42 MAPK, p38, or JNK Trang 16Discussion The present study evaluated whether the LPS-enhanced transcellular transport of HIV-1 across

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... all the AFM measurements as well as all the theoretical calculations, participated in the design of the study, wrote the manuscript, and coordinator between all the participants LO made all the ... [26] The barrier for electrons is high because of the pinning of the Fermi level close to the valence band maximum at the CNT-substrate interface [27] In Figure 1d1 and 1d2, on the left side of the ... (a) Schematic view of the AFM tip and the «tip-CNT-substrate» junction A bias voltage V is applied between the tip and the substrate, the arrows represent the direction of the current lines (b)

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 04:20

... Okay, they’re sort of like me—on the spectrum but at the high-functioning end Would their parents have thought to have them tested for autism in the 1980s? Probably not And then thereare the geeky, ... autism—environmental not only in the sense of toxins in the air or drugs in the mother’s bloodstream, but other factors, like the father’s age at the child’s conception,which seems to affect the number of gene ... gray matter that make up the outer surface of the brain The prefrontal cortex coordinates the informationfrom the other parts of the cortex so that they can work together and perform executive

Ngày tải lên: 11/07/2014, 00:01

... resources? including people close to home http://www.flickr.com/photos/featheredtar/3081108482 “The digital divide refers to the gap between people with effective access to digital and information ... at three of them [...]... update 1 low-cost mobile 2 a free standards-compliant browser 3 locally-created web services and information the most relevant content is local and the web is an ... the population at the beginning of 2010 – source: U.N Telecommunications Agency 3,400,000,000 number of unique users many people... American population with household income < $75,000 the

Ngày tải lên: 11/07/2014, 16:46

... another way to ascertain the isotropic effect of thermal activation (at least in the transverse plane). The tem- perature effect is obvious; for example, in the case of spruce, the modulus is divided ... easily computed: due to the linearly decreasing inertia of the beam up to the load position, the curvature of the bending sample is constant. Con- sequently, the stress and the curvature ρ are assumed ... expressed in MPa (N/ mm 2 ). The MOE is determined by the value of H gathered at room temperature before the creep test and the time evolution of the AMOE is obtained by using the deflection measured

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:22

... to +144). The canonical (peak) distance from the TSS to the midpoint of the -1 nucleosome is -215 bp, and +55 bp for the +1 nucleosome. These zones and the peak distance relative to the TSS were ... fit the probe signal of the idealized nucleosomes to the tiling array probes. The probe position with the best fit (that is, the highest Pearson correla- tion coefficient) was defined as the ... one extreme, the SOLiD platform (dataset 3) called 80% of the nucleosomes within 16 bp of the reference posi- tions, while at the other extreme the Affymetrix platform called 80% of the nucleosomes

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 20:20

... on the IBD probabilities between the parents and the inheritance of the markers [6] Whenever the IBD probability of descendant haplotypes with one of their parental haplotypes exceeded 0.95, the ... over the genome, both were compared to the true genetic diversity Methods A population was computer simulated with neutral SNP markers across the genome Next, for each locus in the genome, the ... marker) (Figure 1) In the next marker interval, this middle ungenotyped marker became the flanking marker of the interval with the adjacent marker being the ungenotyped marker The genetic diversity

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:21

... regions) The enlargement of the Union adds a further dimension to the digital-divide issue The European Space Agency and the European Commission have decided to give joint consideration to the use ... in detail and the results from this detailed analysis then scaled to the other countries in the group The factors considered most important when the groups were determined were: the expected levels ... representatives from the European Space Agency and the European Commission The content of these Technical Notes, as well as the comments received from the stakeholders within both ESA and the EC are reflected

Ngày tải lên: 21/08/2014, 15:25

... Taking these various arguments together, I hypothesize that the variations across countries in the size of the gender gap in workplace authority is the result of the interaction between the relative ... being in the hierarchy altogether are only 44% less than those of a man In all the other countries, there is either no difference between insiders and everyone in these gender gaps or the gender ... scale The results for the ®rst of these variables are presented in Figure 9.3 (The results for the other variables are in Wright 1997: 349) If there is a strong glass-ceiling effect, then the gender...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 07:20

... reported three or more.3 (See table 2.) The Effects of Childhood Stress on Health Across the Lifespan  The Effects of Childhood Stress on Health Across the Lifespan Table 1: Prevalence of Individual ... in teach- The Effects of Childhood Stress on Health Across the Lifespan 11 ing children about safety and providing them with skills that may reduce their risk of abuse.18 However, the research ... cortisol can damage the hippocampus, an area of the brain responsible for learning and memory These cognitive deficits can continue into adulthood.1 The National Scientific Council on the Developing...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 19:20

... Labour Force The activity rate as the ratio of the labour force in the total population above the age of 15 years The employment rate as the ratio of the number of workers employed to the total ... VII The Labour Divide - VI The Future of Work VIII Immigrants and the Fallacy of Labour Scarcity IX The Morality of Child Labor X The Iron Union - A Profile of IG Metall XI The Demise of the ... recognizing the home as the domicile of business (especially through the appropriate tax laws) By equalizing their legal rights and their pay By protecting them from sexual or gender harassment 22 II The...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 22:20

... students can quiz themselves or each other as they reference the answers (safely hidden on the other side of the folded sheet) They check back and forth between the questions and answers The right column ... remind their students that they will encounter the words in the text they will read After reading the text, students compare their possible sentences with the actual sentences of the text where the ... Describe the author's point of view • How does the author's attitude shape the way the writer presents the material? • How does the author’s attitude affect the way that the reader responds to the...

Ngày tải lên: 24/02/2014, 18:20

... achievement around these scores using the ratio of the score at the 90th percentile to the 10th percentile averaged across the three PISA literacy measures The final indicator identifies the proportions ... below the average for the OECD area White values indicate countries around the OECD average The greater the number of white values in a dimension, the closer the clustering of OECD countries across ... Note: The measure is of country inequality in scores, averaged across the three literacy dimensions The measure of inequality used is the ratio of the score at the 90th percentile to that at the...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 10:20

... gestational diabetes, the primary focus is on the clinical management of the mother’s glycemic status for positive birth outcomes After the birth of the child, systematic follow-up of the mother with gestational ... dictated that the primary focus of women’s health be on their reproductive function, to the neglect of many other aspects of their general health.39 Such thinking was also reflected in the types ... if their social environment does not support the messages The authors conclude that the same social bias that resulted in women’s health historically being viewed primarily in the context of their...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 13:20

... protein is then transported in a process energized by the DpH across the thylakoid membranes The transported protein is released from the translocase into the lipid bilayer, where the signal ... transported by the Tat pathway contain a characteristic pair of arginine residues in the N-terminal region of the signal peptide, which gives the pathway its name The Sec pathway The chloroplast ... and SecY [8] In the bacterial system, the signal peptide of the preprotein interacts post-translationally with SecA in the cytoplasm The SecA–preprotein complex associates with the Sec core components...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 03:20