“American applicants, to Dutch eyes, oversell themselves. Their CVs are worded in superlatives...during the interview they try to behave assertively, promising things they are very unlikely to realize...Dutch applicants in American eyes undersell themselves. They write modest and usually short CVs, counting on the interviewer to find out by asking how good they really are...they are very carefu...

We give a new proof that there are arbitrarily large indecomposable abelian groups; moreover, the groups constructed are absolutely indecomposable, that is, they remain indecomposable in any generic extension. However, any absolutely rigid family of groups has cardinality less than the partition cardinal κ(ω). Added December 2004: The proofs of Theorems 0.2 and 0.3 are not correct, and the clai...

A series of oxime ether and oxime ester derivatives of the potential anti-Parkinson prodrug PD148903 (2.3) were synthesized and evaluated in pharmacological models. Oximes 4.3 (hydroxyl-oxime) and 4.4 (methoxyl-oxime) were inactive in vitro but in the Ungerstedt rat model for Parkinson’s disease 4.3 and 4.4 produced a pronounced and long lasting effect at 1.0 mg kg po. Enantiomerically pure (–)...

In this paper we present a class of Anderson type operators with independent, non-stationary (non-decaying) random potentials supported on a subset of positive density in the odd-dimensional lattice and prove the existence of pure absolutely continuous spectrum in the middle of the band for for small disorder.

We relate the decomposition over [a, b] of a measure dμ (on R ) into absolutely continuous, pure point, and singular continuous pieces to the behavior of integrals b ∫ a (ImF (x+ i )) dx as ↓ 0. Here F is the Borel transform of dμ, that is, F (z) = ∫ (x− z)−1 dμ(x). §

the radar cross section of a target plays an important role in the detection of targets by radars‎. ‎this paper presents a new method to predict the bistatic and monostatic rcs of coated electrically large objects. ‎the bodies can be covered by lossy electric and/or magnetic radar absorbing materials (rams)‎. ‎these materials can be approximated by the fresnel reflection coefficients‎. ‎the pro...

Recent studies have shown that anemia is commonly observed after exposure to pathogens or pathogen-derived products, which are recognized via Toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9). In the current study, we demonstrate that CpG oligodeoxynucleotide-2006, a TLR9 ligand with phosphodiester (PO; 2006-PO) but not with the phosphorothioate backbone, selectively inhibits the erythroid growth derived from human ...

Ultra-pure, carrier-free (209)Po solution standards have been prepared and standardized for their massic alpha-particle emission rate. The standards, which will be disseminated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as Standard Reference Material SRM 4326a, have a mean mass of (5.169 ± 0.003) g of a solution of polonium in nominal 2.0 mol▪L(-1) HCl (having a solution densi...

This study quantified the horizontal influence range of larch stumps and coarse roots on phosphorus (P) fraction availability microsite soils explored whether this changes with different plantation types. The total P, available P fractions were measured in at 0–75 cm distances from soil depths 0–40 a pure (Larix olgensis Henry) mixed larch–ash (Fraxinus mandshurica Rupr.) plantation. Soils 85–9...

Age classification based on computer vision has widespread applications. Most of previous works only utilize texture feature or use contour and texture feature separately. In this paper, we proposed an age classification system that integrate contour and texture information. Besides, we improve the traditional Local Binary Pattern(LBP) feature extraction method and get pure texture feature. Sup...