Currency manipulation by China and several other Asian nations makes their goods artificially cheap and makes U.S. exports artificially expensive in China and in world markets.
Indeed, amid charges of oil price manipulation by greedy speculators, several leading contenders for the 2008 U.S. presidential race seized on the escalating petroleum price as a major campaign issue.
These may include physical violence from clients, intimidation from older or more experienced sex workers who may feel threatened by the arrival of younger women, bullying and sexual harassment by unscrupulous law enforcement agents, demands for sexual and other favors from brothel managers/landlords, and economic manipulation and outright exploitation by several other go- betweens.
The election, and its results, were a rerun of an election in October that federal election authorities overturned after federal judges had ruled that Mr. Andrade's slim victory had been marred by manipulation at several levels.
Spinal manipulation, also known as "spinal manipulative therapy," is performed by several types of health care providers, including chiropractors and physical therapists.
In our view, this proposed mechanism is identical to the female heterogametic system (ZW/ZZ) that has been found to be incompatible with zebrafish SD based on data obtained earlier by several genome manipulation experiments (Table 1).
Capture and/or analysis of single cells with these lab-on-a-chip approaches by several single-cell manipulation strategies have been carried out, including microwell-based docking, electrokinetic or hydrodynamic single-cell focusing, and injection techniques, etc.
The primary direction of Straight-Ahead (SA) can be biased left or rightward in healthy humans by several sensori-motor manipulations [see 1 for review] including trunk rotation [2], neck muscle vibration [3], [4], optokinetic stimulation [5] or prismatic adaptation [6], [7], [8].
For data capture we used the 4D database software suitable for a simultaneous data entry by several people, for data manipulation we used Microsoft Office Access 2003.
When compared to other multi-focal techniques, this system is also advantageous in that the beams are spatially separated by several millimeters, allowing for manipulation of the individual beams with little difficulty.
