... factors that have little to do with the age of populations and include the availability and cost of medical technology; and ã demand-side factors, such as physician and patient expectations that ... commitments are at an all time low. That means they have more time and money on their hands than at any other stage of their lives. It is not surprising, therefore, that they spend their consumption ... Parliament of Victoria 1997) and centres have been set up over the last decade in each ofthe states of Australia, funded mainly by government, to help manage supply and demand and to look after the...
... determinants of FDI and its impacts on the economy of Vietnam. Our regression analysis ofthe determinants of FDI spatial distribution across provinces points to the importance of market, labour and ... a member of WTO, the MFN status with the US would contribute significantly to the inflow of FDI. The authors then used their estimate to simulate theeffectofthe BTA on the inflow of FDI into ... thank CIDA for financial support. Henrik Hansen, Jim Taylor, Pham Quang Ngoc, Nguyen Dinh Chuc and Getinet Haile provided useful comments and suggestions. Doan Quang Hung and Nguyen Van Anh...
... part of several tens percent of HC and the last one whereas can only reach several hundreds of gauss. Thus, theincreasingof Co-concentration led to theincreasingof anisotropy property of ... (3) where B2θ is the full width half maximum (rad), λ the wavelength ofthe X-ray, θ the angle between the incident and diffracted beams (degree) and d the particle size ofthe sample (nm) (in ... and octahedral location. That led to increasingof total magnetization of a molecule Ni1-xCoxFe2O4 and hence there is increasing of MS (table 3). Another side, it is known that the...
... non-TARP banks and 13 TARP banks; and, lastly for the smallest size group, there are 24 non-TARP banks and 7 TARP banks. Table 1 shows the descriptive statistics for the loan and bank characteristics ... how the banks changed the pricing on their loans along with the risk profile. The nominal interest rate ofthe loan is one ofthe loan characteristics recorded in the STBL. The respondent banks ... significantly increased the risk of loan originations by the large banks receiving the funds and significantly decreased the risk of loan originations by the small banks receiving the funds. These...
... course, theeffectof compounds such Arg-HCl and Gdn-HCl may be also due to changes that theyinduce in the stability and ⁄ or intermediate states of the target protein itself. The denaturant effect ... 4A), pre-cluding analysis oftheeffectof these concentrationson the chaperone activity of aB-crystallin (Fig. 4B,C).None ofthe compounds had aneffect on the morphol-ogy ofthe amyloid fibrils ... that the effect of these additives on the chaperone action of aB-crys-tallin is dependent on the target protein used, and therefore the results highlight the need to assess the activity of chaperone...
... shown as stereoimages in thick ball and stick andthe position ofthe Arg213 side-chain ofthe wild-type enzyme is overlayed and shown in thin ball and stick. The SIGMAA [33] weighted 2mFo-DFcelectron ... quantified from digital images of ethidiumbromide-stained gels, usingIMAGEQUANTsoftware, and depurination was calculated by relating the amounts of the small aniline-fragment and 5.8S rRNA and ... levels and, as such, these mutantscould not be purified. To assess theeffectof substitutionsmade at each ofthe arginyl residues on catalytic activity of RTA, the ability of each ofthe purified...
... acetylation of H3 and H4histones, andthe remaining DHSs in the deleted cellswere examined to determine the roles of these DHSson the transcription of Ig-b gene and on the mainten-ance ofthe active ... Size ofthe bands observed in each autoradiogram is indicated at the right side. The 6.6 kb banddetected in lanes b, c, and d in autoradiogram (B), and lanes c and d in (C) is derived from the ... enhancing activity, as determined bytransient transfection, was associated with DHSs in the Na channel gene and in the first intron ofthe Ig-bgene. Furthermore, the acetylation status of H3 and H4...
... kB, h and R as Boltzmann’s constant, Planck’sconstant and gas constant, respectively, and T and DG#as absolute temperature and Gibbs free energy of activation, respectively, the DG# of unfolding ... kinetics ofthe pseudo-wild type (pWT) neutralprotease from Bacillus stearothermophilus, ofthe disulfide bondmutant G8C ⁄ N60C, andofthe protease variant W55F, in the pres-ence of 7.25M guanidine ... of unfolding and autoproteolysis of G8C ⁄ N60C and pWT. In contrast to previous studieson the kinetics of thermoinactivation [13,24], thisapproach allows quantification ofthe contribution of Fig....
... rewarded and sanctioned for their behaviour and hence to comply with norms and trustworthiness. This decreases the chance of their children dropping out of school. Coleman’s study was one ofthe ... presidencies. Furthermore, Bjørnskov points out that high trust countries like for example the Scandinavian countries andthe Netherlands have a rather peaceful political history and that their royal ... increases the accumulation of human capital through the family andthe society. Coleman argues that a higher endowment of social capital eases the transfer of human capital from the parents to their...
... loss of domestic jobs, and a drain on the balance of payments? Can one justify BITs and DTTs on the basis that public sector foreign assistance (whether bilateral or through the World Bank and ... http://www.unctad.org/sections/dite_dir/docs//webiteiit20051_en.pdf14. Examples ofthe former are the extension ofthe prohibition of performance require-ments andthe strengthening of transparency provisions; examples ofthe latter are clari-fication ... data, to Matthew Beck for creating the graphs and tables, and to Matthew Quint, Chryse Bautista and especially Michael O’Sullivan and Kimmie Lathana for their instrumental assistance in preparing...
... agonist analogue) and Glu82.MD simulations of MBP(74–85), and Ala81MBP(74–85)in water and Me2SOTo further assess the structural origin ofthe difference inactivity between the agonist and antagonist, ... of Asp81 and G lu82 [this isconsistent wi th the observed long-range NOE cross-peakbetween the side chain of Arg78 (Hg) and Glu82 (Hc1 )and the medium-range NOE between the side chains of ... distance solute–box of 14 A˚. The various systems comprised 3899 and 4516 SPCmolecules for the agonist andthe antagonist in water,respectively, and 817 and 927 Me2SO molecules for the agonist...
... rearrangement ofthe ‘open’ and ‘closed’ forms ofthe ligand loop [19]. Therefore, con-former A may be considered as the open form, albeitwith the axial ligand still intact, with the main- and side-chain ... bond coupled with the dynamic process of ligand exchange. It thus seemslikely that the mechanism of release ofthe axial ligandunder alkaline conditions and in the presence of GdmHCl is different. ... presence of wat6 in the heme cavity. This water H-bonds to the K100 ligand most likely increasingthe basicity of the N-donor to the heme-iron and lowering the reductionpotential further than may...