Examples of maintenance

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Our understanding of the mechanisms that control the initial clustering of these proteins is limited and less is known about domain maintenance.
The use of space within the house thus relates to the maintenance of hereditary linkages within the family.
In order to0 provide them with maintenance and protection.
Producing interpretable discourse : the establishment and maintenance of reference.
All children enrolled were seen for routine health maintenance care in our paediatric resident physician clinics.
The latter approach of observing and analysing user phenomena and then manually constructing rules to cover them incurs significant development and maintenance costs.
As discussed under point 2, attention and maintenance in working memory may be necessary for the acquisition of complex structures involving discontinuous dependencies.
To clarify further, home maintenance and housekeeping included preparing meals, laundry, cleaning, childcare, gardening, pet care, home repairs, and paperwork.
Regarding the types of help received, the most common were lifts in a car, shopping or home maintenance.
The maintenance of the jobber's position depended upon striking the right balance between the imperatives of management and workers.
Consolidation may be dependent upon maintaining bindings in an active state, but maintenance in an active state does not require consolidation operations.
Preventive health maintenance - prehabilitation that is neither a commodity for sale nor a birthright - is an obligation to oneself and to society.
In the experimental conditions, subjects continued maintenance of stimulus information in the second delay interval, while in the control condition retention was discontinued.
In some, delays were imposed between stimulus and response, to probe the maintenance of the stimulus over the delay.
With the possible exception of maintenance rehearsal, other well-known mnemonic strategies presumably involve the use of long-term memory.
Maintenance rehearsal could increase the observed memory limit as follows.
Both ruminants and non-ruminants provided manure for the maintenance and improvement of soil fertility.
The engineering task is to analyze and evaluate valve behavior during plant operation and recommend a maintenance and repair plan.
In other words, good combination of maintenance, reuse, and recycling is essential.
Gaskets can be replaced by the maintenance task.
I do not know whether all the ' railway labourers ' were involved in the construction of new lines or the maintenance of existing ones.
The many different types of maintenance makes it difficult to make a precise comparison of the level of different forms.
A final possibility was that a pension dwelling could be provided on another farm or with maintenance from another farm.
A problem, in the avoidance of surgery, is the maintenance of pulmonary blood flow in the neonates.
In addition to hygiene problems, maintenance of the distribution system proved to be crucial for the delivery of good-quality drinking water.
Thus, a complex pattern of transfer versus maintenance emerges that does not fit easily within existing theories of transfer or convergence.
Finally, the present study has much to offer by way of informing our understanding of language maintenance in the context of language contact.
In this model, maintenance of activated representations is achieved by two parameters of spreading activation, its strength and its duration.
The analysis of brain sources indicated that maintenance of visuospatial information involves sustained activation in both prefrontal cortex and posterior visual processing systems.
There is less agreement about whether lexical-semantic codes actively contribute to the maintenance process.
Nevertheless, there is also a demand for continuous labour, working with threshing, supplementary cattle raising and dairy farming, various maintenance tasks, and the like.
Thus, the enumeration of assets included by definition the maintenance of the farmer.
Communication skills also involve establishment and maintenance of the relationship (interpersonal behavior) between the patient and clinician.
We have also shown that the stack maintenance can be performed within the times specified by the second and third parts of the claim.
On the other hand, actors from the preparatory and design phase could easily be drawn into discussions about realisation and maintenance.
Maintenance of friendship is the fourth phase in which competence can be improved.
Operating and maintenance cost is fully covered by the volumetric charge.
Variation in operating costs across abatement facilities was mainly based on differences in the quantity of electricity used, equipment maintenance costs, and labour cost.
We assume that the real construction and maintenance costs per linear meter are the same throughout the island.
Even if construction and maintenance costs are higher than expected, the total protection cost is still significantly lower than the benefit.
Furthermore, maintenance treatment strategies for bipolar youth have yet to be established.
Stress can also play a role in the onset and maintenance of a variety of comorbidities to which bipolar patients are particularly vulnerable.
One explanation for the maintenance of crop diversity is the lack of a market for quality of locally produced items.
Key examples are systems combining no-till seeding, crop-rotations including legumes, plus maintenance of continuous crop-residue cover to the soil.
In this case, therefore, it is reasonable to define resource sustainability as the maintenance of the current level of final fish stock.
The agreement could, for example, be over the sharing of the benefits and burdens associated with the construction and maintenance of an irrigation system.
The model could be further improved by expanding it to incorporate other factors such as transportation, installation, and maintenance.
They both improved the operation of the system (by supervising water delivery more intensively and using new techniques) and increased canal maintenance.
Of more relevance are the other types of cost, particularly from maintenance cost and foregone revenues caused by the sediment accumulation in the intake ponds.
Other, more global contextual factors are also vital to an understanding of the development, maintenance, and amelioration of behavior problems.
Children who show resistance often also show proximity seeking and contact maintenance in response to distress.
We propose that children's containment beliefs represent an important but understudied factor in the development and maintenance of childhood aggression.
In this manner, brief focused family interventions followed by preventative maintenance sessions may decrease inpatient care costs in the long run.
In addition, the results add to our growing understanding of the processes associated with the establishment and maintenance of relationship trajectories.
The latter allows some replacement of maintenance foliage, but the height of the plucking table will rise.
Confucianism saw the world in terms of a series of hierarchical relationships and the maintenance of the proper interactions between these.
Cyprian, moreover, was able to refashion the cosmic narrative of the community in a way that supported identity maintenance through hierarchy.
The maintenance of these animals was a responsibility spread throughout the parish, with over two-thirds of the households participating in 1531.
What accounts for the origin and maintenance of the functional environment/behavior system as an evolving behavioral unit?
Failure of these regulatory pathways in adult tissues can result in the development of cancer instead growth and maintenance of a healthy tissue.
The processing problem in this case is therefore not restricted to one structure and mere maintenance, but includes keeping the two maintained structures separate.
Most of his research focuses on interpersonal relationships, particularly mating, attachment, and relationship maintenance processes.
A lot of time and resources must be invested and generation and maintenance of the mice is often expensive.
In summary, multiple studies have now shown the strong correlation between the formation of heterochromatin and the attainment and maintenance of the senescence phenotype.
Apoptosis i s a sophisticated programme that allows maintenance of this balance.
The major problem in expanding any business is maintenance of the quality of the product.
Certainly, as this book makes clear, the standards of collection, databasing and maintenance have greatly improved since the early days.
A stochastic model concerning the maintenance of genetic variability in quantitative characters.
Maintenance of observations such as changes in local communities will supplement core data such as yields or farmer opinions.
However, although its fixation rates suggest this crop can contribute to soil fertility maintenance, it does not have the potential of cowpea in other respects.
Infants received scores on four 9-point scales including proximity seeking, contact maintenance, avoidance, and resistance.
Moreover, stress has been implicated in the onset and maintenance of a number of mental disorders.
Results underscore the complex interactions of risk and multiple levels of resilience that are implicated in the maintenance of problem behavior over time.
We must increase funding for the implementation of maintenance programs.
The new labor division based on waged work strongly influenced women's choices for marriage and self-maintenance.
Chieftaincy titles were not reserved to particular ile, but allocated to leaders according to pragmatic criteria of military merit and maintenance of a large following.
As might have been expected, there is a rather close connection between the avoidance of fill-in and the maintenance of scarcity.
Maintenance of a surface litter cover on the soil is a key feature, which allows the development of soil macro fauna.
Reasoning and truth maintenance of causal structures in interdisciplinary product modelling and simulation.
The cost of long-term management and maintenance of product knowledge, as product models and configuration constraints evolve, may seriously impair the advantages of configuration systems.
Finally, in considering these classes of variables, consideration should be given to the maintenance of behaviour.
Most respondents recognised the importance of exercise and diet to the maintenance of a healthy lifestyle.
Beyond that, the approach falls short with respect to the maintenance of institutional trustworthiness and protection of public trust.
Nevertheless, when they are stretched too far in a particular case, this puts a strain on the maintenance of reciprocity.
Here illusory lack of control might serve the maintenance of self-esteem.
A second question is thus that of how long this maintenance therapy needs to be continued after the initial signs of recovery.
Many other elements play essential roles in the structure and maintenance of living things, so these other elements are also relevant to our theme.
Conversely, they are all deducted from income support and housing benefit and maintenance are taken into account in calculating entitlement to family credit.
There is little information about maintenance and there are no national statistics.
However, certain aspects of maintenance research for eroded areas remain characteristically neglected.
Separation and maintenance orders can also be obtained from magistrates' courts.
Maintenance, facilitation, and induction are not ways of partitioning the conditions nor the contents of learning.
While such concern gained support for the provision of rate-financed school meals, proposals for full state maintenance had far less backing.
The client was dissatisfied with the amount of maintenance he would have to pay.
The transitions mentioned above are envisaged to become" standard development" for expert systems in aircraft maintenance in the next few years.
Such systems offer scope to allow aircraft maintenance engineers to transfer between aircraft types more easily.
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