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Clinton's Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which proposed the regulations implementing the new food-stamp bonuses, says they will promote the goal of "ending the dependence of needy parents on government benefits."
The dependence of this increased turnover on phosphorylation of Rlk suggests that a phosphotyrosine-dependent association with another molecule may be required for this process, reminiscent of the increased degradation of the PDGF receptor and Syk caused by association with the ring-finger protein Cbl [ 47, 48, 49] or the Lck-dependent degradation of the TCR [ 50].
In this study, we investigated the relationship of patients' cognitive function to dependence on caregivers before the patients reach a severe stage of the disease.
One of the depressing things about public discussion of the Microsoft case, even among supposedly well-informed people, is that much of it has come to be dominated by a basically primitive view about what increasing returns do to markets--namely, that they convey monopoly power purely randomly, on whoever happens to be in the right place at the right time--and that this "path dependence" allows clearly inferior technologies to become "locked in."
The relation of the two dichotomous dependence outcomes (>12 hours supervision and dependence level>=3) to potential predictors, including cognitive function, was investigated initially in bivariate analyses.