... change over timegiven the shortness of the analysed period. Secondly, the model is speci…edin semi-log transformations in order to handle the severe skewness in auctionprices. Transforming the ... important the size, the function,and the period of the production. The market for sculptures has characteristics that make it di¤erent fromother markets for collectibles. Although similar to the ... and Zanola, 1999b]. How-ever, the trend of the performance of an investment in sculptures is lower during the analysed period, due to the inelasticity of the demand which characterisesthis market.A...
... Figure 2), theirresults are quite similar to the other group of participants forthe pleasant andbeautiful dimensions (compare Figures 1 and 2); there are significant or near-significant differences ... assumeOBJECTIVE MEASURES OF AESTHETIC JUDGMENT / 97education. On the other hand, the hypothesis is not supported forthe interestingand original dimensions. In these cases, participants with art education ... presented the same 96stimuli as in the previous session and asked to perform, for each of them, asemantic judgment task. They had to rate, ona1to10scale, the followingdimensions: pleasant, beautiful,...
... that can be queried from the browser via standard inter-faces such as JavaScript or Flash. Second, we anonymized the information and only stored the data forthe offline anal-ysis we performed ... purpose search engines (Google, Yahoo, and MicrosoftLive) and ten adult search engines. We then automaticallyextracted the URLs from thesearch results and stored themin a database. The result ... sites. For eachcrawled URL, we stored the web page source code, and the embedded hyperlinks. This formed the data set for our sub-sequent analysis. In addition to the crawling, we used the 44...
... SpsB). The importance of the transmembrane segment for optimum activity of the SPases was also confirmed bythese results, which revealed a 30-fold reduction in the specific activity of the tr-SpsB ... 103m)1Æs)1and 59.4 ± 6.4 m)1Æs)1, respectively, asdetermined using the fluorogenic synthetic peptide substrate. These obser-vations highlight the importance of the amino acids in the transmembranesegment ... incubated firstfollowed by the sixth and the fourth and, finally, the 0 hsample was removed just before preparing the samples for loading on gel. For stability of SpsB in the presence of inhib-itor...
... of the stars, the galaxies and the universe itself. Whether that hoped -for permanence is no more than a projection upon the heavens of our modern myth of progress and therefore, like the ancient ... In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God was moving over the face of the ... in an ocean of darkness, they have guided our thoughts over the millennia to the secure harbor of reason. It was in the attempt to understand the motion of stars and planets that the human...
... our-selves—seeking the aches for their own sake. The less of them the better, so long as the marriage is preserved. And the more joy therecan be in the marriage between dead and ... love and the lives they lived. We can stillcherish them and treasure their lives and what we have sharedwith them. Like Laura, we can have and hold the part of themthat ... with hisgrandfather by the seashore beneath a clear red sky near sunset. Asthey walk, the grandfather tells tales of the Old Ones, the elders of the community, and of their...
... increasesimultaneously weight and distance on one side. This is not by any means the wholestory: the major lesson is how cumbersome Piaget gets on these matters. For Wertheimer, on the other hand symmetry ... howemotion can be regarded as rational and therefore as cohering to an expanded, moreIntroduction3A is the length of any side. Let L and B respectively represent the length and breadth ofany rectangle. ... immanent with an articulated theory of symbolicfunctioning. In other words, we cannot treat all mentation as simply the picking-up ofaffordances. The starting-point for our theory of human...
... are the hardened remains of plants and animals. After an animal or plant dies,soil and sand may cover it.31 The crew carefully packed the fossil-filledrocks so they wouldn’t break. The ski ... shirts. The crew chose warm pants.They also got thin, windproof pants.They wore these pants over their regular pants.They also needed two jackets.One was a lightweight jacket. The other was ... eating it!Most of the year, Antarctica is too cold for fossil hunting.Hammer and his crew can search only in the summer.Summer in Antarcticalasts from December to January.Then the sun shines...
... inUS Caucasians82% US Japanese,US Chinese,US African,US Hispanic,US CaucasianMean LD similaramong Asian popu-lations and higherthan Caucasians,African Americans,and HispanicsDunninget ... approaches for drug resistance in microbesand cancer cells, and the reduction of unexpected serious side effects.Taken together, these advances will permit scientists and clinicians who areversed ... free-living organisms:Pharmacogenomics focuses on SNPs forthe simple and practical reason that theyare both the most common and the most technically accessible class of geneticvariants. For clinical...
... (EIRP) of the trans-mitters. The EIRP is essentially the transmit-ter power divided by the fraction of the sky the antenna covers. In the case of an omni-directional transmitter, the EIRP is ... she and Ar-roway were only children whose fathers encouragedtheir interest in science and who died when they werestill young girls. And both staked their lives and careerson thesearchfor ... about the lines and elaborate civilizations were put to rest after the U.S. and the Soviet Union sent the first space probes to the planet. The orbiters showed that there were in fact nocanals,...
... Cen-ter forthe Advanced Study of Language under TTO32. The authors are grateful to Christiane Fellbaum and Mari Broman Olsen for collaboration and discussions; to Rafi Khan, Sau-rabh Khandelwal, ... sentences, their annotations, and the Web page where the example occurred. 2.2 Built-In and Custom Collections Linguistically annotating and indexing the entire Web is beyond impractical, and therefore ... interest rate that must be paid to investors; The more you bingo, the more chances you have in the drawing; The more we plan and prepare, the easier the transition. Figure 1. Querying by example...