... Impact ofFinancialSector Developments on Economic Growth A. Rapid growthoffinancial assets resulted in a higher financial assets/ GDPratio In the past 20 years, with the deepening of the financial ... in exploring on-line banking business as well as in promotingnon-bank financial institutions. Efforts should be made in upgrading financial operations and financial services, and in conducting ... using traditional monetary policyinstruments.C. Sequencing of institution building in the financial sector The sequencing of institution building in the financialsector may differ fromcountry...
... ethanol-induced mucosal injury in the upper gastrointestinal tract leading to increase in the permeability of the gut mucosa to endotoxins [43, 44]. These factors are involved in ethanol-induced ... . Interestingly, HMGN3 has been found to be associated with resistance against anticancer drugs including vinblastine, topotecan, paclitaxel and doxorubincin in human hepatocellular carcinoma ... signaling. This finding corroborates the interaction observed between various intracellular signaling pathways and apoptosis induced by 1mM concentration of ethanol in HepG2 cells [19]. Int....
... important rolein the restructuring of weak banksand finance companies, including through the infusion of new capital.COST OFFINANCIAL SERVICES IN ASIA An analysis of the impact of internationalization ... overall financial system, with the degree of internationalizationmore important indirectly in terms of influencing the quality of the financial systemthan in terms of directly affecting the ... Foreign financial firms may introduce new financial instruments, which may affect the behavior of money 7 In particular, much of access to international financial services will be denominated in...
... shown that interactions betweenKCs and endotoxin comprise the initiating event lead-ing to hepatotoxicity in liver injury, including endotox-emia and ischemia ⁄ reperfusion injury [14]. In ourstudies, ... signaling is independent of Toll-interleukin 1 receptor domain-containing adaptorprotein. Drug Metab Dispos 36, 95–101.10 Ghose R, Guo T & Haque N (2009) Regulation of geneexpression of hepatic ... USA). Binding of all of the anti-bodies was detected using an ECL detection system (iNtRONBiotechnology, Seoul, Korea) in accordance with the manu-facturer’s instructions. The intensity of the...
... renewed interest in examining the indications for BCG vaccination in theUnited States included consideration of the wide range of vaccine efficacies deter-mined by clinical trials and estimated in ... should continue to be included in ongoing testing programs if their skin-testresults are <5 mm induration. Those vaccinees who have positive tuberculin skin-testreactions (≥5 mm of induration) ... preventing pulmonary TB in adoles-cents and adults. These studies also were not useful in determining a) the efficacy of BCG vaccine in HCWs or b) the effects on efficacy of the vaccine strain administered6...
... REPORT 2013 1 GLOBAL FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2013Rethinking the Role of the State in FinanceWashington, D.C. GLOBAL FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2013 BENCHMARKING FINANCIAL SYSTEMS AROUND ... would involve the following determinations: in terms of producing information about possible invest-ments and allocating capital, the financial (a) developing and analyzing measures of the ... destabilizing economies, hindering economic growth, and jeopardizing hard-won development gains among the most vulnerable. Fostering sustainable financial develop-ment and improving the performance...
... Gregory F. Udell. 1998. “The Economics of Small BusinessFinance: The Roles of Private Equity and Debt Markets in the Financial Growth Cycle,” Journal of Banking and Finance, August, pp. 657-59.Carter, ... important rolein the financial system of the U.S. economy. They complement the roleof large banks by special-izing in relationship banking and providing credit to smallbusinesses—a sector that ... them to maintain higher net interestmargins. Indeed, during most of the 1990s, the net interest margin of small banks held steady at over 4.5 percent, while the net interest margin of large banks...
... Washington, D.C. 20009 202-293-5380 www.cepr.net CEPR A Short History ofFinancial Deregulation in the United States 9 taking in the combination of banking and securities dealing. ... crowning achievement of decades and millions of dollars worth of lobbying efforts on behalf of the finance industry. The repeal of Glass-Steagall was a monumental piece of deregulation, but in ... not involve the actual transfer of assets, so a buyer often does not own the underlying asset.22 The financial industry developed a wide range of derivative instruments in the 90s, most of...
... dis-charge can contain a wide range of contaminants and originate from a myriad of sources. Some of the biggest generators of toxic industrial waste include mining, pulp mills, tanneries, sugar ... from mining operations can contain silt and rock particles and sur-factants. Depending on the type of ore deposit being mined, tailings can also contain heavy metals like copper, lead, zinc, ... examples of persistent environmental damage caused by the discharge of toxic mine waste. In Papua New Guinea for ex-ample, companies discharge millions of tons of contaminated mine waste into...
... or without hematoxylin staining. In hypoxia experiments, 3T3-L1 cells were maintained in a hypoxia chamber (Invivo 400; Ruskinn Inc., Cincinnati,OH, USA) constantly maintained at 1% O2. Culturemedium ... cultured in DMEM containing 10% fetal bovineserum. OP9 cells were grown in aMEM containing 20%fetal bovine serum. C2C12 cells were maintained in DMEMcontaining 10% fetal bovine serum.Adipogenic ... serumand IDM (10 lgặmL)1insulin, 1 lm dexamethasone, and0.5 mm IDM). Cells were then maintained in DMEM con-taining 10% fetal bovine serum and 1 lgặmL)1insulin. Themedium was replaced...
... calcium-independentphospholipase A2participates in ER stress-inducedINS-1 insulinoma cell apoptosis by promoting cera-mide generation via hydrolysis of sphingomyelins byneutral sphingomyelinase. Biochemistry 46, ... leading to the accumulation of sphingomyelin [27]. Because one of the pathwaysfor ceramide recycling is the sphingomyelin pathway, itis conceivable that in addition to the accumulation of Fig. ... should have a key rolein our under-standing of the mechanisms of the disease. We proposethat pathology data will, in most cases, be moreinsightful than clinical data in defining the disease.This...
... rolein skin woundhealing. After a skin injury, PPARb expression is rap-idly elevated in the epidermis at the wound edges; dele-tion of a single PPARb allele results in delayed woundhealing ... culturedhuman keratinocytes [14]. In this study, we examined the interaction betweenCerK and PPARb, and its rolein regulating keratino-cyte survival. We report that in a mouse keratinocytecell line upregulation ... important rolein keratinocyte sur-vival during skin wound healing, and PPARb expres-sion is elevated at injury sites [10,15]. We investigatedwhether skin barrier disruption by tape-strippingwould...