... —Evaluating Small and Medium Enterprise Support Programs in LatinAmericaand support from the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Division oftheLatinAmericaandCaribbean Region ofthe World ... implementation in the West and East Midlands of England, the South West of England and South Wales. The sample included 4,326 firms of which 2,840 firms re-ceived support (the treatment group) and 1,486 ... project was co-funded by the Research Committee andthe Poverty Reduction and Economic Management division ofthe Latin AmericaandCaribbean Region ofthe World Bank.measures of rm performance...
... with the objective of strengthening the response to the HIV epidemic in formal and non-formal educational settings, we, the Ministers of Health and Education ofLatinAmericaandthe Caribbean: 1.1 ... implementation ofthe Program of Action ofthe International Conference on the Population and Development, of July 2, 19997;z The Declaration ofthe Tenth Ibero-American Summit of Heads of States, of ... Meeting of Ministers of Health and Education to Stop HIV and STIs in LatinAmericaandthe Caribbean Preventing through education1. Preamble Gathered in Mexico City, in the context ofthe XVII...
... share ofthe costs ofthe care theyreceive. While the amount of income accumulatedthrough user fees tends to be small, if these fees areretained and reinvested at the service facility they ... improving the quality of life for individuals, primarily through the promotion of human rights andthe provision of a comprehen-sive range of reproductive health information and services. Tenets ofthe ... requires respon-siveness to the needs and demands of service users.Among the advantages of decentralization are that itputs authority in the hands of managers, often at the district level, who...
... necessarily reflect the views ofthe Executive Directors ofThe World Bank or the governments they represent. The World Bank does not guarantee the accuracy ofthe data included in this work. The boundaries, ... and unemployment protection.CHAPTER 1 The State of Social Protection in Latin Americaandthe Caribbean: Recent Progress and PendingChallenges 11Slow progress in improving the coverage of ... tocontributions can be affected by the timing of workers’ enrollment and retirement, by their career histories, and by the frequency (density) of their contributions. The rules of most pension systems in...
... orthodoxy. Therefore, it also seems likely that the recent financial and economic crisis the Great Panic and Recession of 2008 and 2009—will both rearrange the economic landscape and affect the focus of ... within the model change after the introduction ofthe liquidity facilities. The hypothesis of constant parameters is overwhelmingly rejected, suggesting that the behavior of this factor, and thus of ... expectations ofthe macro variables; that is, possiblechanges in risk premiums are often ignored, andthe expectations hypothesis ofthe termstructure is employed. Of course, differences between the...
... may provide the competent authorities the authority to inform the rightholder ofthe names and addresses ofthe consignor, the importer andthe consignee, and of the quantity ofthe goods in ... activities as the exchange of experience and training of staff, and have the aim of strengthening the legislative and regulatory framework in the field of intellectual propertylaw, strengthening the administration ... taken ofthe knowledge ofthe trademark in the relevant sector ofthe public, includingknowledge in the Party's territory obtained as a result ofthe promotion ofthe trademark.Neither...
... to a half-life of dissociation of 36–105 min[15]. The oxidation of elafin and trappin down-shifts the half-life of there complexes with NE to % 1.3–1.8 min. On the other hand, the oxidized inhibitor–Pr3complexes ... binding ofthe methioninesulfoxide residue at the S1Â subsite ofthe active centers of NE and Pr3. The fact that the S1Â subsite of Pr3 issignificantly smaller than that of NE [21] might thenexplain ... oxida-tion of M51 and M89 of M25L elafin and M63L trap-pin, respectively. On the other hand, oxidation of M25L elafin and M63L trappin did not significantlyaffect their Kifor NE (Table 2). We therefore...
... evaluation, since the nature ofthe data is different from that of the QA dataset. Most ofthe questions asked over the Web target named entities like specific car brands,places and actors. There is usually ... (e.g., the height of a person), whilefor others it is only the center of a distribution(e.g., the weight of a coffee cup). Questionswith no trusted and exact answers were eliminated.From the ... information for the requested object, the requested object will receive the average ofthe extracted values ofthe whole set of the retrieved comparable objects andthe com-parison step will be essentially...
... 1981 andthe Barometers. These are today the main sources for researchers within this area andthe number of countries for which the data is available rises every year. Yet, the validity ofthe ... 2. Who does trust others? The thesis is structured as follows: The first chapter gives an overview ofthe existing literature andthe current state of research. The concept of social trust is ... 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...
... US forces and refused to recognize the interim President who replaced him. Aruba Aruba is the most westerly ofthe chain of islands in the southern Caribbeanand lies 25km north ofthe Venezuelan ... is part ofthe Kingdom ofthe Netherlands together with the Netherlands Antilles, from which it was separated in 1986. History: Aruba was claimed by the Spanish in 1499 and settled by them, but ... overview ofthe region based on the most up-to-date information available at the time of writing. Latin America, for the purposes of this book, encompasses all ofthe countries in the Americas...
... establish the importance of GSK3 in the acute regulation of glucose transport in terms of itsregulatory control of GS in muscle and fat cells we haveinvestigated the effects of Li andthe anilinomaleimide, ... cell system we compared the effects ofthe maleimide on the phosphorylation of PKB and GSK3 and upon the stimulation of glucose transport inresponse to a submaximal and maximal insulin concentra-tion. ... insulin. Since the activity of GS depends on the relative activities of GS kinases and PP1G, inhibiting GSK3 (one ofthe principal GS kinases)will shift the balance towards dephosphorylation and activation...
... States ofAmerica or the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. 4. The parties to the dispute, unless otherwise agreed between them, should specify as the place of arbitration a country other than the ... value ofthe imported merchandise on whichduty is assessed, or of like merchandise, rather than on the value of merchandise of nationalorigin or on arbitrary or fictitious values, with the transaction ... ArticleVII ofthe GATT 1994; and 5. Within two years of entry into force of this Agreement, the Parties shall ensure that the fees and charges referred to in paragraph 3 of this Article andthe customs...
... mortality ofthe patient. Moreover, the presence ofthe blood-brain barrier(BBB) limits the passage of a wide variety of anticancer agents. The high incidence of recur‐rence and poor prognosis of ... ependymomas. The accumula‐tion of tenascin in the ECS in high grade glial tumors can be one ofthe major factors leadingto the critical increase in ECS tortuosity andthe simultaneous enlargement ofthe ... therapies block activation of oncogenic pathways, either at the ligand-receptor interaction level or by inhibiting down‐Evolution ofthe Molecular Biology of Brain Tumors andthe Therapeutic Implications38...
... dissociation may be facilitated in the female genitaltract because of dilution ofthe protein in the intraluminal fluids ofthe cervix and the uterus, andthe acidic fluid ofthe uterotubal junction. Such ... [24], andthe C1sprotease ofthe C1 complex of complement [25]. Thus, the Trp band can be regarded as a characteristicfingerprint ofthe native fold of PSP-I and PSP-II. The near-UV CD spectra of ... spectrum of PSP-I ⁄ PSP-II reflects the specific environment of chiral aromatic side chainsin the tertiary structure ofthe folded protein, and the band intensities decrease in a sigmoidal way as ther-mal...