... states in interpreting the broad provisions of international human rights treaties These increasingly February 2006 An Instrument for Advancing Reproductive andSexual Rights comprehensive interpretations, ... community and who makes that determination leave a lot of uncertainty in the interpretation of the rights in the Charter.”) 10 Women in Law and Develoment inAfrica (WiLDAF), WiLDAF News, The African ... treaties binding on African states parties and the term “regional treaty” or “regional instrument” refers to African regional instruments The terms “treaty” and “instrument” are interchangeable and...
... illegal land grabbing It also outlines concerns regarding the intimidation of journalists who critically reported about incidents of land grabbing in the country Finally, it addresses the concerning ... concern regarding the possible broad interpretation of “clear information”, and have urged alternative wording such as “convincing evidence” that would be more in line with international standards ... clarity regarding land titles and rights has increased the vulnerability of small landholders A recent housing survey (Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction, 2003), points out...
... of Sexuality: Similarities and Differences Between the Real World and the Cyber World Theory and data in the real world have pointed to greater sexual concerns andsexual involvement with increasing ... issues––sexuality and identity––are played out in the cyberspace of teen chat Sexuality and Identity in Adolescent Development Both sexuality and personal identity are key adolescent issues (Weinstein ... 321 weekend and after-school minutes and found that one sexual comment was made every four minutes in the chat spaces Exploring teen health bulletin boards on the Internet, Suzuki and Calzo (2004)...
... Seigniorage increases with inflation but as inflation continues to increase, the demand for real money, including interest free demand deposits, declines more than proportionally with the increase in inflation ... deposit and lending rates; direct and indirect taxes explain an additional 30% and the net bank margin the remaining 35% (Banco Central Brasil, 2001) The sharp decline in spreads between 1996 and ... (figures and 2) A variety of tax and quasi-fiscal instruments affect financial institutions and financial intermediation in Brazil Some are explicit taxes included in the tax code, such as the income...
... through a set of informal political practices and explained by a combination of discretion, norms, and incentives; and economic constraints that suppressed demand for land, explained in large part ... development walked their dogs in the fields, trampling down seedlings and ruining crops In the face of rising conflict between residents of the housing development and members of Ukrainka, the district leadership ... ownership into the hands of individuals In both Ukraine and Russia, land privatization drew upon global boilerplate policies and was accompanied by intense anxiety regarding questions of local and...
... corresponding bother For this analysis, we focused on subject urinary andsexual function (UF and SF) and urinary andsexual bother (UB and SB) Responses were scored from to 100, with a higher score indicating ... were fixed in formalin, coated with India ink, weighed, and serially sectioned, staged, and graded according to the 2002 American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) staging system Follow-up included ... Angeles, Prostate Cancer Index; UF: Urinary Function; SF: Sexual Function; UB: Urinary Bother; SB: Sexual Bother; Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Authors'...
... Korean manufacturing companies including KTC, Taihan, and Posco Engineering and Construc on.121 KB Kookmin is one of the biggest banks inSouth Korea and is itself a subsidiary of KB Financial Group ... including inSouth Africa, Vietnam, China, Mongolia, Dubai, Australia, the US and Canada.107 The KTC website states that in 2007 and again in 2008, KTC won two rounds of bids for supplying World ... proposed in Cambodia, and the pace of approval and construc on of dams in southern Laos has also picked up pace In addi on to EVN involvement there are now new actors moving into the sector, including...
... ligand for β2-integrins, and α4-integrins (α4β1/VLA-4 and α4β1/VCAM-1), could be potential candidates [30-34] In addition, neutrophils also express CD11d/CD18 and α9-integrin, which both bind ... Pselectin and ICAM-1, adhesion molecules involved in cytokine production, neutrophil infiltration, and hepatocellular injury, following hepatic I/R injury after short and longer periods of insult ... the ischemic and non-ischemic liver lobes were fixed in buffered 10% formalin, embedded in paraffin, and used for hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) staining Other portions of ischemic and non-ischemic...
... two-hybrid screen and identified CTNNBL1 (beta catenin-like protein 1) as an AID-interacting protein Interestingly, he found that an AID mutant deficient in CTNNBL1 binding retains deamination activity ... restraining the expression of pro-myeloid factors (such as Gfi1), and acting directly to induce the recombinase (Rag) genes and thereby recombination at the immunoglobulin heavy-chain locus Interestingly, ... asymmetric division in cell-fate determination, and provided compelling evidence suggesting that the cell fate determinant Numb is critical in determining lineage commitment in the immune system...
... of total financing Informal sources can be important for working capital finance Leasing, credit card finance, and equity play a minor role as financing sources.14 Looking at financing patterns ... Financing Patterns, and Credit Constraints in Brazil 11 Table Firm Size and Sources of Finance: Working Capital and New Investments Working capital No of employees Internal funds Bank finance1 ... size and access to finance, and discusses the data sample and the variables used in the present investigation Section investigates financing patterns by firm size and analyzes differentials in...
... year Combat HIV and AIDS, malaria and other diseases Sexualand reproductive health care includes preventing and treating sexually transmitted infections, including HIV and AIDS In addition, reproductive ... tools in the fight against the spread of the epidemic • Is New Zealand imposing family planning services on developing countries in the Pacific? No Men and women who participate in New Zealand-supported ... planning projects so voluntarily, free of coercion, and with fully informed consent In particular, New Zealand-supported family planning projects aim to meet existing demand for family planning...
... participating in the initiative, students reported feeling more confident in protesting and registering complaints against unwanted sexual advances (girls – 51% to 79%; boys – 48% to 66%), a finding ... preventable sexualand reproductive ill health, disability and death It operates in Africa, SouthandSouth East Asia and the Pacific SPRINT facilitates implementation of the Minimum Initial Service ... during pregnancy across 19 countries, including Australia, Cambodia and the Philippines, and examines trends across age groups and regions Findings suggest that IPV during pregnancy is common, and...
... Quality Standards (or Ambient Environment Standard), (2) Effluent Standards; and (3) Supporting Standards (testing, sampling standards etc) Most of supporting standards are adapted from those of International ... guard-net In the oil heating room Oil spilt on the floor Namdinh Silk Co Outside the dyeing unit WIN TEX VIEW co Oil heater In the dyeing room Spinning room Yenmy Dyeing Co and Phonoi Industrial ... technical aspect in the dyeing-finishing process It is the liquid ratio in dyeing The quantity of chemicals in the machine is determined by the concentration of the dyeing batch and most of these...
... subdomains A and B and the spacer region) the highest homology between the pRb protein family is found in the A and B subdomains The pocket-domain is responsible for binding to proteins containing ... while the pocket-domain and the C-domain are involved in binding E2F proteins Mdm2 (as well as c-Abl) binds to the C-domain All pocket proteins are subject to phosphorylation (indicated with “P”) ... transcription machinery (Helin et al 1992, 1993; Flemington et al 1993) However, expression of an E2F variant containing the DNA binding motif but not the pRb-binding or transactivation domain or introduction...
... men in barracks.’’ Honor and masculinity went hand -in- hand in Kipling But masculine honor is not Gender, race, and the writing of empire sexual restraint in Kipling, as any of ‘‘The Ladies’’ ... Gender, race, and the writing of empire ‘‘shameful treatment of women and children’’ (), including farmburning, the herding of women and children into concentration camps, and British rudeness ... the worst in the British troops and the British public Stead asserts that public opinion in Britain should be a strong enough force to rein in the excesses of the military inSouth Africa, who...
... causes irregular bleeding and pain during intercourse in women, burning during urination in men, and discharge in both men and women If left untreated, chlamydia can lead to pelvic inflammatory disease ... like shaking hands or hugging, and it is not transmitted by mosquitoes •• Women are most commonly infected through heterosexual intercourse During vaginal or anal intercourse, tiny cuts and scrapes ... Reproductive Health In East Africa •• In Rwanda, Ethiopia, and Tanzania, fertility has declined steadily in recent decades, with the steepest decline in Rwanda •• In Kenya, fertility declined substantially...
... Services (YFS) and institutional capacity building (Pathfinder International); policy and advocacy, and coordination and dissemination (UNFPA); and behavior change communication and life and livelihood ... collaborator and host, especially the President’s Office - Planning and Privatization, and the Ministries of Health, Mainland and Zanzibar The following were implementing partners of AYA/Pathfinder: ... Kasulu, and Kibondo and the municipalities of Arusha, and Ilala, Temeke and Kinondoni in Dar es Salaam In addition, the project was implemented in the Urban West region and Pemba Island, in Zanzibar...
... homosexuality in diverse settings and largely in schools and the majority identified in this study were Malawian nationals Furthermore, unprotected sexual intercourse was reported by about a third and ... being implemented in the prevention of HIV For instance, in many cultures and religions, concurrent sexual partnerships, extra-marital and pre-marital sex are discouraged Encouraging correct and ... messages and other interventions targeting MSM are therefore required in Malawi in order to curb the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections among MSM Léobon & Frigault (2008) reminds...
... proteolysis of ubiquitin-tagged proteins [41] Ubiquitination of proteins is catalysed by three enzymes: ubiquitin-activating enzyme (E1), ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme (E2) and ubiquitin protein ligase (E3) ... taken and cells were washed and taken up in defined mineral medium [21] lacking glucose In previous studies, we did not observe significant alterations in enzyme activities during the washing of ... Table S1 C-flux in mmolÆCÆmin)1ÆgÆprotein)1 during fermentative capacity assay in samples from the nitrogen-starvation experiments Table S2 C-flux in mmolÆCÆmin)1ÆgÆprotein)1 during fermentative...
... code for a single protein Interestingly, during the initial process of identifying the NR family members in the A aegypti genome, we predicted two isoforms of AaFTZ-F1, differing only in their A ... Ets-domain protein and Broadcomplex, C2H2-type zinc-finger DNA-binding protein [18,19] Despite the achievements mentioned so far, there are additional NRs that remain uncharacterized in the mosquito, ... castaneum and A aegypti as well as the sequences of the human orthologs When different isoforms were recovered, only the longest amino acid sequences that included the DNA binding, hinge and ligand-binding...