the evolution of reproductive effort

... this reason the transaction might be rejected If the buyer, on the other hand, have credence in the seller, then the evaluation of the credence charac-teristics is quite straightforward: the claims ... seller rather than try to cope with the individual elements of the set of standards If there is a trustful relationship, the standardisation of most issues allows both parties to concentrate their ... punishment of the seller The reasons for this behaviour are only partly of the rationalistic type; even a deep-felt emotion of anger of being cheated may play a role Given the customers’ problems of

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 10:20

... 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 genome [24], in which the psbU ... following the secondary endosymbiosis Based on these immuno-logical analyses, together with the current genome data, the evolution of photosynthetic oxygen-evolving PSII was discussed from a view of ... detect the presence of PsbU in these algae which plays a role in optimizing the availability of Cl– cofactors for water oxidation [5,29] This may be due to the high species-specificity of the antibody

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 15:21

... Report presents the results of the survey The information contained in this publication does not necessarily reflect the opinion or the position of the European Commission Neither the European ... COMMISSIONReport on the Regulation of Reproductive Cell Donation in the European Union Trang 2Report on the Regulation of Reproductive Cell Donation in the European Union Results of Survey EUROPEAN ... anonymous so that the donor and the recipient are no longer identifiable); • Anonymity (measures regulating the disclosure of the identity of the donor This could mean either that the donor must

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 16:20

... 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, agencies, ... 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 individual ... greater access to credit in the subprime market Two of the major benefits of this type of lending, then, are the increased numbers of homeowners and the oppor-tunity for these homeowners to create

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 01:20

... are the symbol of conjugalfelicity The most solemn part of the marriage ceremony is the scene of the two-mouthed vase At a signal,one butterfly fills the vase, and the other offers it to the ... but some form of exchange for theservices of the woman are insisted on, and often take the shape of a present of cattle to the bride's father Onthe West Coast, in the neighbourhood of Gaboon, where ... find the courtiers of the day improved upon the prevailing mode by stuffing their shoes, and twisting them into the shape of aram's horn; the point of which was attached to the knee by a chain The

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 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 again the object, ... morethan that The important point is that the imbalance between the twopatterns of reproductive behaviour is a huge factor to be taken account of in the task of reaching an adequate theory of sexual

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 00:35

... On the evolutionary scale, mathematics is part of our present rather than of our evolutionary past It is therefore out of the question for mathematical talent as such to have been a factor in evolution ... sense of that crucial difference, consider what we would think of someone who, after watching Galileo drop stones from the top of the tower of Pisa, offered the following account of the event: The ... common Why did the inventive genius of the Wright brothers not enable them to design a 747 straight off the bat? If we ignore the time scale, the path from the Kitty Hawk “Flyer” to the supersonic

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 00:45

... center of the bell), while small variations expressed amongmembers of a population and the chance of the draw explained the error orscatter of points around the mean (the area beneath the bell ... of this hypothesis using the technique now known as meta-analysis.Together they gleaned data from published records of the peerage, the landedgentry These data covered the ages of fathers and sons ... selfishgenes do not bite the hand that passes them to the next generation Ultimately, the notion of death offering an advantage founders on therocks of the fossil record In fact, there isn’t any—or

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:57

... one of the primary technical factors limiting the advancement of the study of human movement is the measurement of skeletal movement from markers or sen-sors placed on the skin The movement of the ... limit the risk of producing artifact due to markers or the constraints of the testing methods For example, the constraints of the laboratory environment as well as the markers placed on the subjects ... extend the application of kinetic analysis to clinical prob-lems Current state of the art As discussed the expanded need for improved knowledge of locomotion drove the invention of new methods of

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... published to the GenBank Also, there have been limited longitudinal studies of the complete genome of influenza A viruses The present study characterise the complete genome evolution of H3N2, H1N1 ... with strains from the avian reservoir, as was the case of the pan-demics of 1957 and 1968, or by direct introduction of an avian strain into the human population as suggested for the 1918 pandemic ... since the re-emergence of H1N1 in 1977, increasing the possibility for genetic reassortments The prevalence of the different subtype combinations may vary from season to season The H3N2 has been the

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 01:20

... and were thereby able to determine their appropriate sizes Each worked independently of the other, in the mid-19th century, using ancient knowledge of mathematics, physics, and strength of materials. ... time as the motor car era began, the turn of the 20th century, the concept of reinforced concrete was introduced It was generally unaccepted until the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 The few ... that their city is also deserving of a signature span on their side of the Bay (Courtesyof California Department of Transportation.) Trang 20© 2000 by CRC Press LLCReinforced Concrete About the

Ngày tải lên: 08/07/2014, 12:20

... independent of the size of the transistors in the circuit The electrical effort h describes how the electrical environment of the logic gate affects performance and how the size of the transistors in the ... of the unit of capacitance asthe capacitance of a transistor gate of minimum length and unit width.The parasitic delay of a logic gate is fixed, independent of the size of the logicgate and of ... stage effort f (Appendix A lists all of the notation used in this book.) The total delay, measured in units of τ , is the sum of the effort and parasitic delays: The effort delay depends on the

Ngày tải lên: 29/07/2014, 16:21

... ancestral host of Achryso- chroides Regarding the effect of taxa sampling on the reconstruction of reproductive strategies, although the biology of most species in other parts of the world is less ... use and reproductive strategies parthenogenesis The sequence of changes was then reconstructed using parsimony Since two origins of split sex ratios are suggested, we tested whether there was ... (Fig 5) The two parthenogenetic species appear basal in the atys group, and we cannot yet identify their closest sexual relatives We also examined the pattern of sex allocation in one of the species...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 16:20

... network The function of these gateways is to packetize the voice signal on the originating end of a call so that it can be transported over an IP network At the terminating end of the call, another ... biggest problem with IPT, the quality of the voice, was seriously affected by the end user’s own ability to configure their system (the PC, the software settings, etc), and the reality is that non-hobbyist ... Probe's ongoing analysis of bandwidth to the home and small office, and all of the associated terminal equipment, standards, and other issues surrounding the take off of residential multimedia,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 17:15

... all were, in the words of the former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), Admiral William Owens, “either ruled out by the context of the battle or were ineffective in the confined littoral ... For its part, the F-14 involved in the incident was operating from the carrier USS Saratoga in the central Mediterranean Sea One goal of the exercise was to test the ability of the Air Force ... of forces in the region that preceded the war 13 14 Combat Pair: The Evolution of Air Force–Navy Integration in Strike Warfare and the six weeks of fighting that ensued thereafter, the Navy did...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 23:20

... leading to the failure of 160 members of the New York Stock Exchange) Toward the end of the period, glimmers of deregulation and technology advances laid the groundwork for the beginning of financial ... notable at the end of 1998 was the creation of the financial behemoth, Citigroup, that challenged the separation of banking and insurance under the then-in-effect Glass-Steagall Act THE MASSIVE ... INCEPTION AND THE EARLY STAGES (1970 TO 1997) During the latter part of the twentieth century, four forces worked together to drive the separation between the past and the present businesses of financial...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 18:20

... knowledge about their evolution is basic to understand the evolution of aesthetic preference itself A comprehensive understanding of the evolution of the human brain, as well as of certain specific ... number of reinterpretations of the archaeological record have recently questioned the place and time of the appearance of modern human cognition They have shown that the revolution hypothesis ... there is no way of determining which level of analysis is the most relevant to the study of the neural correlates of aesthetic preference Additionally, the evolutionary emergence of such a capacity...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 17:20

... different regions of the eye The expression of cN in the central regions of the lens, fiber cells that were laid down before birth, is consistent with the familiar pattern of expression of the principally ... encoding the two motifs of the C-terminal domain The crygn gene is thus a hybrid of b and c crystallin gene structures, apparently an intermediate in the evolution of the c-crystallins from the b-crystallins ... polypeptide capable of completing the C-terminal domain of the protein Currently there is no evidence for expression of canonical cN in primates This leaves open the question of whether the gene for...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 17:20

... effect on A) There is no significant effect of the age of the firm It is clear that the size of the firm in total assets is the key determinant of the amount of advertising Large firms have the financial ... extension of the familiar Gibrat process See also Davies and Geroski (1997, p 385) depending upon the extent of the persistence of market shares The sum of the effects on the future market shares (the ... 0.080 Note: The table presents the number of firms, the number of entrants (Ent), the number of firms which exited (Ext), the number of firms with market share (S) in excess of 5%, the Herfindahl...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 10:20

... respectively [29] The overall analysis, examining the topology of the phylogenetic tree and the position of each gene inside the cluster, was informative regarding the orthology relationships of the distinct ... vertebrate enzymes The most significant difference between the amphioxus and the other retinal reductases was, nevertheless, their preference for the NADH cofactor To our knowledge, these are the first SDR ... on the cytosolic side of the membrane [38,39] Amphioxus RDH did not show positively charged amino acids at the N-terminus of the signaling sequence, but rather contained the L24ERGR motif at the...

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