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... (including securitizations) of at least $200 million (current dollars) with a minimum of 50 percent of assets in consumer lending and of 90 percent of consumer lending in the form of revolving ... part of this process, examiners engage in varying levels of verification and validation ofthe practices and processes used by banking organizations, including, in many instances, the testing of ... section 1229 ofthe act.2Scope ofthe Report This report focuses on credit card debt, in keeping with statements made on the floor ofthe Senate in 1999 by the principal sponsor ofthe amendment...
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... notprovide information on the member of staff who activated the system. It would be interesting to known whether there wasvariation inthe nature ofthe member (doctor versus nurse) andseniority of ... common during the hours covered by the parent unit doctors (47% of MET callsduring 42% ofthe day). Inthe 5 years that the MET system hasoperated, there has been a trend for an increasing proportion of ... ward. The success ofthe MET system relies on the assumption that early intervention inthe course of clinicaldeterioration improves patient outcome [4]. It would be impor-tant to gain insight into...
... influence the effect of PPARδ on metabolism. In our data and inthe study by Skogsberg et al., the effect ofthe C allele on lipid levels increased if over-weight individuals were excluded from the ... ofthe +T294C SNP. The C allele frequency of 0.24 in our high risk patient group was similar as the frequency of 0.21 reported by Chen et al. in their study for chd patients derived from the ... humans. Of note both animal studies used obese models to investigate the effect of an activated PPARδ. In an obese state the activities of numerous interacting genes are altered which may influence...
... increases the risk of venous thrombosis independent ofthe C677T mutation ofthe Int. J. Med. Sci. 2004 1: 181-192 192 Figure 3. The effect ofthe T allele on the plasma homocysteine inthe different ... and the mean values ofthe two sites were used inthe analysis. There is an apparent increase inthe degree of carotid intimal thickness in the examined patient (0.9mm) compared with 0.6 mm in ... testing inthe different studied groups. Showing the frequency and the results ofthe cross tabulation ofthe T allele and the different genotypes inthe studied groups. The total number of cases...