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... referees for comments and suggestions The paper also strongly benefited from the comments and suggestions of the participants of the workshop ‘Economic Theory and the Practice of Consumption: Evolutionary ... and other Approaches’, organised by the University of Cassino and the Max Planck Institute, 18-20 March 2005 and at the conference of the Economic History Society in Leicester, April 2005 The ... of the Advanced Institute of Management Research (AIM), London Business School, and a Lecturer in the Departments of Economic History and Accounting & Finance at the London School of Economics

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... welfare of the production system that delivers pork exemplify a credence characteristic Although the trichotomy of “search characteristics”, “experience character-istics” and “credence charactercharacter-istics” ... of definitions to which we for the sake of completeness have added the classical case of “bundled credence characteristics”: hidden credence characteristics cannot be detected by inspecting the ... because they concern details about the production process that has little or no influence on the objective characteristics of the purchased good, e.g because the they concern “ethical” characteristics

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... (lane 7); the latter is consistent with the result of Shibata et al [21] The presence of PsbV in C paradoxa is consistent with the presence of the psbV gene in the complete sequences of the cyanelle ... Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan 2 Institute of Biological Science, University of Tsukuba, Japan 3 Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Okayama ... proteins from the cyanobacterium T vulcanus The PSII complex is highly active in oxygen evolution in the absence of Cl– and Ca2+ and its crystallographic analysis showed the existence of PsbO, PsbV

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 15:21

... necessarily reflect the official positions of the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, the Federal Reserve System, the Board of Governors, the Office of Comptroller of the Currency, or other officers, ... financial economist at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Anthony Pennington-Cross is a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis The views expressed here are those of the ... Mortgage, CA 7 First Franklin Financial Corp, CA Countrywide Financial, CA 8 New Century, CA Conseco Finance Corp (Green Tree), MN 9 Ameriquest Mortgage, CA First Franklin, CA 10 Bank of America, NC

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 01:20

... half-waydown the back, or in a cascade of curls reaching from the crown of the head to the waist These were followed by gigantic rolls at the back of the skull, Grecian knots, varying from the dimensions ... of a Greek maiden She is depicted scattering corn, an ancient rite always performed at the conclusion of the ceremony As she gracefully sways backwards and forwards, to the accompaniment of thejingling ... the world is that at the Cluny Museum, Paris, formed by the eminentFrench engraver, the late Jules Jacquemart This was enlarged by the purchase of the collection of BaronSchvitter The Queen of

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 13:20

... participants in the state of aVairs), namelyElizabeth and the can The phrase the can, the object of the verb open,expresses the argument with the semantic role Theme, while Elizabeth, thesubject of ... biological incharacter They include such disparate phenomena as the role of theFibonacci series2 in determining the shape of pine cones, and the role of physics in determining that a mouse the size ... thesubject of the verb, expresses the Agent In (3), by contrast, the can, while itstill expresses the Theme, is the subject of the verb rather than the object In (4), as in (2), the Theme the can is

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 00:35

... From the purely physical point of view, of course, the voltage changes are effectively continuous This illustrates the importance of distinguishing between the characterization of the physical ... a complex coopera- tive system linking the myriad cells of which it is composed From that perspective, cancer can be thought of as the consequence Trang 31of a break in that collaboration: the ... speed of the machine increases, the central shaft revolves more quickly The centrifugal Trang 26force induced by this rotation lifts the wings, counteracting the pull of gravity that keeps them,

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 00:45

... Empirical Evidence 42 Modeling the Evolution of Lifetimes 48 Accommodating Increased Longevity 51 Life as a Cycle: Lifecycles Connect Life to Life 58 Adaptations to Lifecycles 71 The Linear View of ... reflected in thethought of great philosophers around the world and throughout the ages, thehuman soul is considered the nature of being, an active principle of life, ofconsciousness, conscience, ... die in the place of their leaders;can martyrs die in the place of their followers? Or, to reverse the field, can vic-tims and scapegoats effectively condemn their persecutors to death? For themost

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:57

... which describes the appearance of the person at that time For each frame of the sequence, an alignment T is computed, which brings the surfaces of M and V into correspondence, while respecting the ... influenced by the design of the implant [84], and the mechanics of walking influ-enced the disease severity of osteoarthritis of the knee [26,29,80,85] It should be noted that each of the clinical ... biomechanical applications is critical The majority of research on human motion capture in the field of compu-ter vision and machine learning has concentrated on tracking, estimation and recognition

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... http://www.virologyj.com/content/5/1/40 © 2008 Bragstad et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), ... '/' indicate equal substitutions of either amino acid at the given position Letters in upper case above an amino acid indicate the antigenic site location of the residue In N1 the upper case letter ... were also observed The evolution has been stochastic, influenced by small "jumps" in genetic distance rather than constant drift, especially with the introduction of the Fujian-like viruses

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 01:20

... 2000 by CRC Press LLCReinforced Concrete About the same time as the motor car era began, the turn of the 20th century, the concept of reinforced concrete was introduced It was generally unaccepted ... designed byConde B McCullough of the Oregon Highway Department The 225.2 m main span is a classic example of a cantilevertruss Built in 1936, it is the largest of McCullough’s coastal gems The concrete ... (Courtesy of American Society of Civil Engineers.)Trang 14© 2000 by CRC Press LLCFIGURE 67.14 The Cold Springs Canyon steel plate girder arch, in Santa Barbara County, California, is the longestarch

Ngày tải lên: 08/07/2014, 12:20

... quantification of the cover of the individual woody levels The cover of the herb layer and total cover of the woody species were estimated on the site when making the records The cover ratios of other ... species and the scores of the given species on the first canonical axis is expressed by the correlation coefficient The statistical significance was assessed using the F-statistics A certain complication ... species For this reason, the following method was used for the calcu-lation of relevé EIV It counts with the frequency of occurrence of the indicator value as the valuing fac-tor for the calculation

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 03:22

... least⌈αn⌉|H| choices, and for each of these chosen appearances we may choose a ‘special’ vertex in the K4 that is not the root 3|H| choices
Let us then delete all 3|H| edges that are incident to the ... in the previous proof, we could have constructed a component isomorphic to H directly from an appearance of H We chose to instead build the component from isolated vertices cut from appearances ... m) The fact that the original graphs contained no components isomorphic to H can then be used to show that there isn’t too much double-counting, and so we find that we have actually constructed

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 11:20

... predictors of acute GI toxicity were the percentage of rectum volume receiving 70 Gy (the higher the percentage of rectum, the higher the chance of high level toxicity) and the 3DCRT tech-nique ... Institute of Microbiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v.v.i., Prague, Czech Republic Full list of author information is available at the end of the article © 2011 Vranova et al; licensee ... significantly increased the probability of late GI toxicity occurrence The results pointed to the significant asso-ciation of acute GU toxicity and the percentage of the urinary bladder receiving

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:20

... been the focus of biochemical and immu-nological analyses [1-4] With larger-scale genomic approaches now possible, a screen can be designed in which the characteristic signal sequences, necessary ... Effects of relaxing cutoff scores on distribution of signal peptide-containing predicted gene products among conserved, nematode-specific and novel categories Numbers of clusters in each category ... range of prediction accuracies Has there been evolutionary acquisition of signal peptides? The subset of signal-peptide-encoding N brasiliensis clusters with similarity to predicted genes from C

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 20:20

... included in the substrings created, which has the effect of removing the character(s). The logic is much simpler and less error-prone. The foreach loop in the second half of the program puts the ... to the end of the string: “cd,e” . (It’s the “+ 1” that skips the comma.) The Concat() function puts the two substrings back together to create “abcd,e” . Control passes back up to the top of ... RemoveSpecialChars() function // from RemoveWhiteSpace program // RemoveSpecialChars - remove every occurrence of the // specified characters from the string public static string RemoveSpecialChars(string...

Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2013, 21:20

... have the option to put my current call on hold and answer the incoming call, or I can ignore the incoming call. Best case scenario, my service provider may offer me the option of sending the call ... and exceedingly slow access, as well as the basic issue of limited PC deployment. In the early 1990s, however, several factors coincided to cause the Internet to become a viable commercial platform: ... with the UC Berkeley Computer Science department and School of Information and Management Sciences. As more applications such as multimedia, telephony and electronic commerce move to the Internet,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 17:15

... matter of standard practice. 6 Finally, in the realm of doctrine, there was an emergent Navy acceptance of the value of strategic air campaigns and the idea that naval air forces must become ... Control, Communications, and Computers CAFMS Computer-Aided Flight Management System CAS Close Air Support CAOC Combined Air Operations Center CAP Combat Air Patrol CCIP Continuously Computed Impact ... integration because, with approximately 500 lb less internal fuel-carriage capacity occasioned by the space taken up by the aft cockpit for the second crewmember, that aircraft is operationally incompatible...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 23:20

... address soci- ety’s needs. At a macroeconomic level financial engineering helps improve the allocation of scarce resources. Allocation of resources is the fundamental objective of any economic system. ... and approximately 30 articles to fully describe the current state of financial research and practice in a particular area of finance. The essays in each volume are intended for practicing finance professionals, ... OPEC increased price of oil due to the devaluation of U.S. dollar—received less real income, and political conflicts in the Middle East at the time also spurred unpredictable changes in oil prices. Multinational...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 18:20

... not others. Hence, the question of the evolution of aesthetic preference becomes the question of the evolutionary history of those components, their neural bases, and their interaction. A consequence ... affective state during aesthetic preference, has revealed two major modifications in cytoarchitecture: the appearance of two novel cytoarchitectonic brain areas, and the clustering of a kind of ... humans. THE PRODUCT OF GENES AND CULTURE The fact that structural and cytoarchitectonic modifications of the brain that occurred throughout the human lineage owe, ultimately, to changes in the develop - mental...

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