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... Policy and Practice Information and coordinating CentreFINCA Foundation for International Community AssistanceFSDT Financial Sector Deepening Trusts in Kenya and TanzaniaGHAMFIN Ghana Microfinance ... two were of savings schemes alone. They include evaluations of programmes within Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania (Zanzibar), Uganda and Zimbabwe. Ten ... studies included inthe in- depth synthesis 85Appendix 4.2: Narrative synthesis of findings relating to the impact of microfinance on the wealth ofthe poor 89Appendix 4.3: Narrative synthesis of...
... China Statistics Yearbook, China Financial Yearbook and People’s Bank of ChinaStatistics Quarterly bulletin.B. Development of direct financing and indirect financing marketsproviding financing ... capital flow, monetarysystem, financial markets, financial institution, and financial coordination andsupervision. In China, institution building inthe financial sector takes place against the backdrop ... 67.8Sources: Almanac of China’s Finance and Banking and China Statistical Year BookV. An Outlook of Institutional Reforms inthe Coming Years In light ofthe opportunities and challenges posed by China’s...
... in determining a) the efficacy of BCG vaccine in HCWs or b) the effects on efficacy ofthe vaccine strain administered6 MMWR April 26, 1996not a factor in determining whether thereactionis ... because ofthe potential ad-verse reactions associated with the use ofthe vaccine in these persons. In the United States, the use of BCG vaccination is rarely indicated. BCGvaccination is not ... andDrug Administration is considering another vaccine, which is produced by ConnaughtLaboratories, Inc., for licensure inthe United States. This vaccine was transferred from a strain that was maintained...
... largerbanks in making small business loans. Loan officers at small banks cantake into account a wide variety of factors in reviewing applications forsmall business loans, including the character of ... cover the fixed cost of investi-gating a loan applicant and learning his business, the bank may alsoneed to maintain a long-term relationship with the firm. Large bankingorganizations may be ... McNulty, and James A. Verbrugge. 2002. “Do SmallBanks Have an Advantage in Lending? An Examination of Risk-AdjustedYields in Small Business Lending at Large and Small Banks,” unpublishedworking paper,...
... Renata Piccoli, forcritical reading the manuscript and helpful suggestions;and to Dr Valeria Cafaro, Aurora Bracale, AntonellaAntignani and Sonia Di Gaetano for preparing some of the RNase variants ... through rotation ofthe RNase around its major axis (rotationangle ‘r’) and variation ofthe inclination (inclination angle ‘i’) withrespect to the plane ofthe membrane (parallel to the xy plane).Cter ... residuesAsp38 and Glu111. In RNase-AA-GG the ‘basic sur-face’ is more similar to that of BS-RNase because of the removal ofthe four carboxylates. The ‘basic sur-face’ ofthe mutant HHP-RNase is...
... areinvolved in regulating the GABA translocation of GAT1, but not in binding of GAT1 to GABA.Transport of GABA by GAT1 across the cell mem-brane is driven by an electrochemical gradient of Na+and ... 4B). This indicates that the terminal trimming of N-oligosaccharides is not involved inthe regulation of plasma membrane trafficking of GAT1, but in the regulation of GABA uptake.As well as wild ... FEBS 163 1 The roleof N-glycosylation inthe stability, trafficking andGABA-uptake of GABA-transporter 1Terminal N-glycans facilitate efficient GABA-uptake activity of the GABA transporterGuoqiang...
... from the WSJ domain or the LA Times domain. Although the effect of adding LA Times data is weaker than adding WSJ data, it is noteworthy that the unsupervised induction of trees from the LA Times ... nonterminal labeling that node. A new nonterminal is created for each node in the training data. This nonterminal is called A k. Let a j represent the number of subtrees headed by the node A@ j, ... developed a statistically consistent estimator for DOP which is based on the assumption that maximizing the joint probability ofthe parses ina treebank can be approximated by maximizing the joint...