... other words, function as regulatory mechanisms that aid groups in understanding themselves, in maintaining their goals and their knowledge of where they are with regard to the achievement of these ... question of "when" that becomes pivotal for them All in all, the chapters of this volume display part of a broad spectrum of novel and important approaches to the study ofthe psychology of leadership ... (b) a brief synopsis ofthe book; (c) the table of contents; (d) the full text of one or more chapters; (e) text from the dust jacket and/ or back cover ofthe book; (f) the author's brief biography;...
... Continental” The Best Medium of Exchange Cross of Paper How Our Money was Ruined The Gold Coin Standard The Gold Bullion Standard The Gold Exchange Standard The Managed Fiat Currency Standard The Stage ... Founding Fathers, who decreed death—in the Mint Act of 1792—for any officer or employee ofthe Mint who debased the coinage ofthe United States “Without the automatic check of a gold standard,” ... and Prosperity The fact that the later gold exchange standard lasted longer than the one set up in the 1920s, and that the patchwork monetary policy ofthe managed fiat currency has delayed the...
... 3, andthe 5¢ part of exon encode the mature protein; exon encodes the 5¢-UTR, and exon and part of exon encode the signal peptide The 110 nucleotides at the 3¢ end of exon encode the 3¢-UTR The ... Ib in the genome of this snake These findings provide clues to the evolutionary position ofthe neurotoxic V a aspis population with respect to the other snakes studied The genome of one of these ... indeed the case, then substitutions occurring in these areas may affect the neurotoxicity or anticoagulant effect ofthe PLA2 The substitutions in the A and B chains of vaspin, in the inhibitor and...
... tragedy the fall of Troy and ended with hope, the founding of Rome My theme starts with the Enlightenment andthe new optimism aroused by the birth of modern science andthe first stirrings of democracy ... Alexander Pope ‘O arms andthe man I sing’, wrote Virgil at the start of his epic about Aeneas andthe founding of Rome My theme is science and society or, more precisely, the importance ofthe ... experts, many of them talking to each other, or to professional commentators, the village pundits ofthe press, offering their pearls of wisdom for the edification ofthe populace I...
... normative structure ofthe practice of domestic politics, the existing consensus on economic theory and on the relationship between politics and economics, andthe norms and practices ofthe international ... to ensure the value of investments abroad andthe liquidity of profits The first is the maintenance ofthe value ofthe currency in which the investments are made and denominated, andthe convertibility ... constructs of domestic politics, and are integrated with the policy demands of other interest groups Both the constructs ofandthe conflicting interests within the domestic polity ofthe state...
... signals The hand-operating ETSE will be attached outside ofthe chamber There, the researcher can operate the device without the potential harm of an ETS exposure Glove ports on the outside ofthe ... collects the smoke inside During the compression ofthe bag, the smoke will be released in the chamber The compression and decompression ofthe bag will follow a predefined protocol under support of ... contributions to the conception and design ofthe review, acquisition ofthe review data and have been involved in drafting and revising the manuscript All authors have read and approved the final manuscript...
... because the influence ofthe height difference on the range is negligible compared to the influence ofthe x, ycoordinates CINRR and ER are the average values of CINR and E, respectively, over the samples ... and 3: RCINR|5 and RE|5 To determine RCINR|5 (defined in Section 2.3), a window of 80 samples is slid along the route For each position ofthe window, the average CINR ofthe samples inside the ... as the distance between ITx andthe location ofthe sample in the window that is the furthest away from the transmitter ITx An analogous definition is used for RE|5 A comparison ofthe values of...
... impact C, N, and water uptake and then alter root regrowth The major goal ofthe present study was to test the hypothesis of a relationship between regrowth and water, C and N status of Corsican ... transplanting (day 0), at the beginning of root regeneration (day 13), and on days 27 and 41 The significance ofthe effects of lifting and time and their interaction are indicated for the different variables; ... seedling The different sampling dates were: at transplanting (day 0), at the beginning of root regeneration (day 13), and on days 27 and 41 The significance ofthe effects of lifting and time and their...
... stayed in the orphanage and shared the meals with the children and played with them in their free time Analyses All variables except one met the preconditions for the analyses The sum of depressive ... mental health and development ofthe children The decline in PTSD severity and violence experienced in the orphanage after the implementation ofthe new instructional system andthe individual ... assesses the severity of symptoms based on the frequency of symptoms reported by the child The occurrence of each DSM-IV symptom within the last month is scored on a scale ranging from none of the...
... Judaism But ofcourse it was in finance that these egos made the most impact The story of hedge funds is the story ofthe frontiers of finance: of innovation and increasing leverage, of spectacular ... talk about their success.” If hedge-fund managers had emerged as the It Boys ofthe new century—if they had supplanted the leveraged-buyout barons ofthe 1980s andthe dot-com wizards ofthe 1990s—it ... MALLABY The World’s Banker: A Story of Failed States, Financial Crises, andthe Wealth and Poverty of Nations After Apartheid: The Future of South Africa MORE MONEY THAN GOD HEDGE FUNDS ANDTHE MAKING...
... = F0 (t) and Fs (t) is the absolute value ofthe sth remainder ofthe Taylor series ofthe exponential exp(−t) The following lemma shows that the problem of estimations ofthe volume of smooth ... (6.3) and (6.5) The fundamental idea ofthe proof relies on the structure of (6.3) and (6.5) allowing to represent the volume ofthe continuous and smooth s-dimensional HCs as a sum of volumes of ... ⊂ P (s, T, a − 1/2) Therefore, the proof of (2.9) requires a completely new idea and technique To focus the reader’s attention on the main path in our theory, the proof of Theorem 2.4 which is...
... indicate the position ofthe introns The boxes indicate amino-acid substitutions skipping of three successive exons during thecourseofthe processing ofthe primary transcripts [9] At the peptide ... F, while components e and d seem to be in common with the A variant Therefore, band b represents the only component specific to the M variant The intensities ofthe bands in the MF pattern indicate ... under these conditions, by the presence of a protein band with a slower mobility (lane 3, *) occurring within the as complex As the as1-Cas and as2-Cas overlap in the same zone ofthe gel, the...
... modifying them The AutoRun feature in Microsoft Windows systems was a default feature at the time ofthe Conficker malware and was one ofthe three ways computers became infected When the AutoRun ... antivirus and antispyware software program and keeping it up to date is a critical step in protecting your computer Many types of antivirus and antispyware software can detect the possible presence of ... form of whitelisting, or identifying wirelessly connected computers you trust) • Change the default wireless SSID Learn more about each of these configurations and others in the document “Small Office/Home...
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... considerations as the supply ofthe arts (e.g., the hours and locations of museums and galleries andthe cost of attendance), the availability of leisure time, income levels, andthe dissemination of information ... provided by intermediaries The interaction of supply and demand forces has dramatically expanded both the size and diversity ofthe arts market andthe players operating in it There are several ... their effects by influencing the actions of private individuals and institutions The future ofthe visual arts system will largely be determined by the multitude of nonprofits, commercial intermediaries,...
... mouth ofthe Chao Phraya many revere the Chao Phraya as the ‘heart’ of Thailand, at the Gulf of Thailand Here, the calculated loads ofandthe river basin is widely regarded as the most these ... delta in the Netherlands and Belgium formed by the confluence ofthe Rhine, the Meuse andthe Scheldt rivers Theeconomic importance ofthe Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt delta is enormous, since the three ... clean-up costs in the region of hundreds of millions of euros The Swiss town and agglomeration of Basel, on the borders of Germany and France, forms the heart ofthe country’s chemical and pharmaceutical...
... local examples of benefits realization, there has so far been only limited evaluation ofthe experience of implementation andofthe impact of Agenda for Change The results ofthe case study ... accommodate these requirements, the longer the process, the greater the danger that the organizational context and priorities in which the pay system will function may have changed In the case ofthe ... in the first full year of implementation The absence of a detailed costing by all the trusts, andthe absence of a consistent approach to costing, provides one example ofthe relative lack of...
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... public official ofthe state or a local public body during the two years prior to the date on which the contractor submits a proposal or, in the case of a sole source or small purchase contract, the ... process” means the time period commencing with the public notice ofthe request for proposals and ending with the award ofthe contract or the cancellation ofthe request for proposals “Person” means ... person elected to an office or a person appointed to complete a termof an elected office, who has the authority to award or influence the award ofthe contract for which the prospective contractor...
... virtue ofthe Banach’s fixed point theorem andthe resolvent operator technique, we prove the existence and uniqueness of solution for the system of nonlinear variational-like inclusions The results ... are worth of being mentioned as follows: Theorem 3.2 extends and improves in 4, Theorem 3.1 and in 19, Theorem 4.1 ; the class of ζ, ϕ, -g-relaxed cocoercive operators includes the class of α, ξ ... Fixed Point Theory and Applications References Q H Ansari and J.-C Yao, “A fixed point theorem andits applications to a system of variational inequalities,” Bulletin ofthe Australian Mathematical...