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... availability of mousemodels devoid of UII receptor or its ligands will pro-vide a rational approach for the investigation of the neurophysiological role ofthe UII system. While ourunderstanding ofthe ... course ofthe effect, and the route of administration. The studies describingincreased locomotion and anxiety were measured soonafter UII application (within one hour) and utilize icvroute of ... interaction with othersleep and wake promoting systems.Conclusions The discovery of UII as a direct activator of centralcholinergic neurons and a modulator of REM sleepfeatures again the power of...
... function onthe RHS of (1.11) at s = 0 is canceled by the simple poleofthezetafunctionζ(1 -s)andthesimplezerosofthesinefunctionats =1,2,3, are can celed by the simple p oles ofthe gamma function ... possible candidates for the anyon function as they interpolatevery naturally between the BE and FD functions. The above connections enable us toobtain an asymptotic expansion ofthe function in the ... case ofthe function andits relation with the zeta fam ily does notseem to have been realized so far. We studied the properties and functional relations of the new function. It achieves the...
... for the expectation over the set of iterations (we can consider an arbitrary subset of all iterations) andthe observation vector.Once the autocorrelation function is given, the solution of the ... givennot only by the iteration andthe observation vector, but alsoby the position in the FG (of course only the messages μPS →ϕ and μϕ →PS). The results ofthe analysis are shown in Figures 11 and 10. ... case). The next point is also a consequence ofthe phenomenonthat the KLT analysis ofthe message leads to the har-monic functions. The harmonic functions based linear basisoptimizes the MSE of the...
... recorded the five Mandarinvowels [a], [i](yi), [u](wu), [e], and [o](wo) with four tones: the flat tone (tone 1), the rising tone (tone 2), the falling and rising tone (tone 3), andthe falling tone ... speech. There-fore, the aim ofthe mel-scale subband integration (and, additionally, the truncation ofthe sequence of cepstral Hindawi Publishing CorporationEURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and ... representation. Nevertheless, the FFT-based spec-tral harmonics are an intermediate step in the computation of the envelope, so a more precise representation of the harmonics in relevant regions of the...
... vol. 31 of Mathematics and Its Applications (East European Series), D. Reidel, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 1988.26 C. Das, S. Mishra, and P. K. Pradhan, On harmonic convexity concavity and ... concave function if −fis a convex function. Journal of Inequalities and Applications 9Therefore, Theorem 4.6 follows from Theorem 3.1, 4.7 ,and 1.2.Theorem 4.7. Let A be an n-dimensional ... problems,” The Mathematics Education, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 58–64, 2003.28 K. Kar and S. Nanda, “Harmonic convexity of composite functions,” Proceedings ofthe NationalAcademy of Sciences, Section A,...
... tenuifolia), and the near-elimination ofthe second dominant coral speciesby bleaching were unprecedented events on a time scale of millennia (Aronson and Precht 1997; Aronson et al.2000), and they ... temperatures (SSTs) constitute the sole source of Fig. 1. Map ofthe central shelflagoon ofthe Belizean barrierreef, showing locations of the sampling stations along the Channel Cay reef complex. ... prospects forrecovery of affected coral populations andthe implica-tions for continued reef accretion.Study area The central sector ofthe shelf lagoon ofthe Belizeanbarrier reef system is characterized...
... during lunch. The lunches typically end with the consumption of a dessert and often coffee (and cigarettes for those who smoke). Sundays is one ofthe two days ofthe weekly market. These weekly ... TRADE-CONCENTRATION ANDITSIMPACTON COMMERCE AND TRADERS OF A MEXICAN CITY A Dissertation by JAYANT ANAND Submitted to the Office of Graduate Studies of Texas A&M ... within the trading community through the formation of associations. The Trade-Concentration Model To understand retail development, in this dissertation, I employ the model of trade-concentration....
... available for the measurement ofthe performance ofthe health care services and health promotion [36-41]. We did not use any of them as they are very long and our respondents will have time constraints. ... International migration and health. A paper prepared for the Policy Analysis and Research Programme ofthe Global Commission on International Migration, International Centre for Migration and Health, ... Retzmann for their generous contributions. References 1. Ponsonby L. Health conditions of migrants and refugees in Europe. United Kingdom, SOC, for the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Demography,...
... focuses only onthe investigation ofthe sec-ond premise. It addresses a number of questions related to the provision of institu-tional credit in the context of rainfed agriculture and poor market ... analyze the determinants of access to credit in Malawi and itsimpacton farm and nonfarm income andon household food security. The study also sought to quantify the relationship between the demand ... classified according to the types of access to credit andthe binding ofthe creditconstraints of their individual members.Table 7 tabulates the credit limits and occurrence of credit constraints by...
... intensity ofthe outgoing radiation. The net effect ofthe carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is to prevent some of the thermal energy from escaping from the earth; hence, it leads to aheating ofthe ... in the earth, it is calculated that52% ofthe 14 billion tones of carbon dioxide is being retained in the atmosphere per year; and 37% sinks into the oceans, whereas the depositional locations ... Forecastsbased onthe current rate of fossil fuel consumption suggest that by the year 2065 the CO2 concentration will increase from its present value of 350 ppm to a value of 600 ppm. It has...
... discontinuity and can vary as a result of factors such as the differential stress magnitude, fault models, the friction coefficient on the discontinuity andthe strike ofthe discontinuity relative to the ... permeability reduction for the Namur, Hutton and Murta formations of 30%. In the other hand, the normalized permeability for the Poolowanna and Birkhead formations decreased only 10%. This agrees ... The selections of fault models, fault friction, friction internal angle and Poisson’s ratio are very important to assess the influence of discontinuity onthe reservoir compaction and subsidence...