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Using visual grammar as the theoretical basis, author makes an analysis of use images in "Belt and Road" documentary "Common Destiny" reveals that foreign publicity video shows camera operator main characters is realized via representational, interactive compositional meanings through processing vectors, contacts, viewpoints, distances, information values, fr...

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The buyer’s type is his value  ∈ [ ] and the seller’s type is his cost  ∈ [ ]. The buyer’s value is drawn from a distribution (·) whose density (·) is nonzero on [ ], while the seller’s cost is drawn from the distribution  (·) whose density (·) is nonzero on [ ]. A trader observes his own type but not the type of the other trader. The buyer’s ex post utility from acquiring the...

Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration [CO2] will increase in the future and will affect global climate and ecosystem productivity. Crop models used in past assessments of climate change effect on ecosystem productivity have not been adequately tested for the ability to simulate ecosystem responses to [CO2]. Our objective was to evaluate the ability of the default CROPGRO–Soybean model to pre...

1Institute of Community and Public Health, Birzeit University, Birzeit, Palestine (Correspondence to Abdullatif Husseini: [email protected]). 2Department of Biology, Al-Quds University, Jersusalem. ABSTRACT An audit was made of laboratory records of triple test results from 943 Palestinian women residing in the West Bank from 2000–03. The mean expected age at delivery of the subjects was 2...

The prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is increasing and it is estimated that by 2030 approximately 366 million people will be diagnosed with this condition. The use of dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPP-IV) inhibitors is an emerging strategy for the treatment of T2DM. DPP-IV is a ubiquitous aminodipeptidase that cleaves incretins such as glucagon like peptide 1 (GLP-1) and glucose-depende...