... crisis, the informationcontentof interest rate projections relative to the no-change prediction of a random walk has increased further According to Table 1, the informationcontentof the RBNZ’s ... Table summarizes the main results of the regressions, the complete set of results is provided in the appendix The results show that the informationcontentof the RBNZ’s interest rate projections ... provides new evidence on the informationcontentof interest rate projections for market expectations and the behavior of long-term interest rates in New Zealand The role of interest rate projections...
... happiness with me I will bear all of these in my mind forever i Table of Contents Page i ii iv vi Acknowledgments Table ofcontent Summary List of Tables Contentof Thesis 1 Chapter 1.1 1.2 1.3 ... Introduction InformationContentof Cash Dividends Stock Distributions Introduction Accounting Treatment of Stock Dividends in China InformationContentof Stock Dividends Rights Issues Introduction Information ... features of the empirical tests of this thesis in comparison to those in the literature of the informationcontent theory Firstly, the aim of the thesis is to find out the nature of the information...
... State-Preference Model of Optimal Financial Leverage, Journal of Finance 28: 911-22 Kwan, C W (1981), Efficient Market Tests of the InformationContentof Dividend Announcements, Journal of Financial and ... Complementarity of Prior Accounting Information: The Case of Stock Dividend Announcements, The Accounting Review 1: 28-47 Bar-Yosef, S and L Huffman (1986), The InformationContentof Dividends: ... Constraints, Journal of Financial Economics 10(2): 211-33 Kalay, A., and U Lowenstein (1986), The Informational Contentof the Timing of Dividend Announcements, Journal of Financial Economics...
... window of time relative to annual reports, potentially providing increased discretion to managers in this scenario InformationContentof Quarterly Reports Research on the informationcontentof ... alternative measures of the degree ofinformation asymmetry that have been used in the prior literature: the percentage of institutional ownership of the firm and the number of analysts following ... decile rank of the percentage of institutional ownership as a measure ofinformation asymmetry, I find that the coefficients on the interaction of the Risk Factor update variables with information...
... THE DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING AND THE FACULTY OF THE LEONARD N STERN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS OF NEW YORK UNIVERSITY IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY ... permission Timing and informationcontentof insider trades Before and after the Sarbanes-Oxley Act Abstract: This paper examines the informationcontentof Form filings of insider trades under ... results in terms of returns around filings of insider sales appear inconsistent with my contention that Section 403 of SOX increases their informationcontent I argue that the impact of the increased...
... price of risk Secondly, due to the nonnegative feature of the diagonal elements of volatility matrix, the sign of the elements of market price of risk vector has to be fixed as same as the sign of ... value of the OFRB is adjusted higher than the nominal dollar value of par $𝐹, while in an event of cumulative deflation over the entire life of the TIPS, the nominal dollar value of the OFRB will ... as well as slowingdown of major developed and emerging economies 4.2 Informationcontentof the embedded deflation option To get a better understanding of the informationcontent in the option...
... regulatory DNA represents a significant portion of the intergenic DNA in a genome, then there should be a direct correlation between regulatory informationcontent and quantity of intergenic DNA [52] ... has approximately 55 Mb of intergenic DNA, has more genes with large amounts of intergenic DNA than does the C elegans genome, which has approximately 47 Mb of intergenic DNA (estimated using upstream ... rates ofDNA loss may sculpt the spacing of genes toward minimum functional requirements for regulatory DNA Such functional constraints in noncoding DNA are known to affect distributions of insertions...
... one of two major types of motifs, which have either uni- or bimodal informationcontent shape More specific informationcontent shapes can also be specified through the 'profile' extension of ... 40 Position 50 10 20 30 40 50 60 Position Figure Plots ofinformationcontent (IC = + Σi pilog2pi) for example motifs Plots ofinformationcontent (IC = + Σi pilog2pi) for example motifs The binding ... = 12-17) member of a particular structural class of factors This information can be used to select between a uni- or bimodal specification Examination of transcription factor -DNA complexes suggests...
... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy By Ali Mofarreh Ali Serhan May 2005 University of Arkansas Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner ... consisting of the minister of finance and national economy, the minister of commerce and industry, and the governor of the Saudi Monetary Agency The purpose of this research is to study the impact of ... and trade with each other the number of shares they wanted to trade The proof of ownership of shares was “certificate of shares”, which indicated the number of shares owned by an investor in the...
... and soft skills from every body in the company I myself think that the company is an ideal organization that students of foreign languages can collect information and get valuable experience of ... contribution to the development of tourism in Danang and it is becoming a trusting destination of domestic and foreign tourists As an English-majored student of Duy Tan University, I have an ... 2011 To Teachers in Duy Tan university! To Director and all of Officer Staff in “Dong Hanh Viet” Travel Company in Da Nang! First of all, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to teachers’...
... nature of the damage to the nutritive value of some vegetable oils from heat treatment II Investigation of the nutritiousness of the products of thermal polymerization of linseed oil The Journal of ... 0.2% (wt/vol) 95% ethanolic solution of 2’,7’dichlorofluorescein, examined under UV light and marked The bands were scraped off, then poured into a short column of anhydrous sodium sulfate (prepared ... concentration of SFA was identified with brand IN5 (51.8%) The contentof polyunsaturated fatty acid ranged from 6.3% to 10.6%, which are significantly higher in brand IN1, IN3, IN4 and IN5 The low PUFA content...
... fragmentation, which is one of the most typical characteristics of apoptosis Regulators ofDNA fragmentation One of the terminal processes of apoptosis is DNA degradation During apoptosis, DNA breakage usually ... molecular mass DNA fragments; the second is cleavage of loose parts of internucleosomal DNA (in approximate multiples of 180 bp, oligonucleosomal size) into low relative molecular mass DNA fragments ... tail Phosphorylation of H2AX on Ser139 is a key event in the repair ofDNA damage and the induction ofDNA degradation leading to cell death; therefore, the phosphorylated form of H2AX (cH2AX) is...
... Department of Interior Department of Commerce Department of Treasury Office of Management & Business Department of Labor Department of Veterans Affairs Department of Justice Department of Agriculture ... was a memorandum from the Acting Director of the Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO) and the Co-Directors of the Justice Department’s Office ofInformation and Privacy (OIP) (“ISOO-DOJ ... Justice Department’s Office ofInformation and Privacy for assistance in applying exemptions of the Freedom ofInformation Act (FOIA) to sensitive but unclassified (SBU) information The National...
... blockade ofDNA gyrase-induced supercoiling activity The observation that the antimicrobial effects of H4(86–100), HNr and the compound 3, like those of the quinolone class of antibiotics acting on DNA ... electrophoretic mobility of standard supercoiled pBR322 DNA (SS sample from Topogen) The migration of the small amount of relaxed DNA contained within this sample was also not affected by any one of these agents ... 3E,F) Time dependence of the bactericidal activity of H4-(86–100) and ciprofloxacin In order to evaluate the rapidity of action of histone H4 peptides and compare it with that of the quinolone antibiotic...
... Table Purification step of C cinereus DNA polymerase a One unit (1 U) ofDNA polymerase was defined as the amount needs to catalyze the incorporation of pmol of [3H]-d TTP into a DNA polymer in 30 Protein ... of p140 and p48 from meiotic cells The expression profile of each subunit ofDNA polymerase a-primase has been shown in mammalian somatic cells [13] and yeast [33,34] The transcripts of both DNA ... despite the lack of bulk DNA synthesis, we observed significant levels of expression of p140 and p48 in both the leptotene and zygotene stages (Fig 2) In both cases, the highest level of expression...
... methylation of one DNA domain whereas without the cooperation with Dnmt1, Dnmt3a would have to rebind to the DNA after each turnover to achieve complete methylation of one domain of the DNA It should ... for maintenance of the methylation at certain DNA sequences A role of Fig Stimulation of Dnmt1 and Dnmt3a by fully methylated CpG sites In this experiment the rates of methylation of the 310mer ... novo methylation ofDNA in the absence of Dnmt1 Whereas the maintenance methylation is not an issue of our work, we present a mechanistic basis for the functional cooperation of Dnmt3a and Dnmt1...
... accuracy of the classifier trained on all types of features except for the one shown in that row For easy reference, the accuracy of the classifier trained on all types of features is shown in row of ... approximations of the definitions of the corresponding subtypes, the med rules are more complicated than their old counterparts, in part because of their reliance on the extraction of sophisticated ... features for it Rule predictions (17) None of the features fi ’s defined above makes use of the predictions of our hand-crafted rules (i.e., the Bi ’s) To make use of these predictions, we define 17 binary...
... for human telomeric DNA sequences containing one, two, three or four repeats under different experimental conditions [25–54] The number of G-tracts is often taken as the number of repeats, when ... the absence of looping constraints There are four medium-size grooves in such a structure For the d(TTAGGG) sequence, high concentrations of K+ and ⁄ or DNA favor the 3¢-end stacking of two such ... totally of four to six base pair ⁄ triple ⁄ tetrad layers, which might explain the high stability of this structure The folding principle of Form indicates that the overall G-quadruplex topology of...
... selective excitation of Trp residues, or at 320 nm for excitation of essDNA For analysis of the quenching of Trp fluorescence, Mhr1– DNA complexes were formed by addition of 74-mer oligoDNA to 0.5 lm ... ssDNA (Fig 1B) This result suggested that the fluorescence modification of ssDNA employed here did not affect the DNA- binding activity of Mhr1 FRET of Mhr1 mutants To identify the Trp residues of ... of Mg2+ Circular ssDNA of / X174 (10 lM) or circular dsDNA of pUC119 (5 lM) was incubated with the Mhr1 mutants (0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8 and 1.0 lM for ssDNA; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4 and 0.6 lM for dsDNA)...