... chip and ligands are allowed to flow past Ligands that bind to the protein cause changes in the reflectivity properties ofthe metal that are related to the mass ofthe ligand andthe mass ofthe ... energy of ligand binding” is normally expressed in kilocalories per mole andthe number of heavy atoms refers to the number of non-hydrogen atoms in the ligand Of course, the free energy of ligand ... to take off is because of all these problems Aggregation in particular was not really appreciated until the early part of this century In the absence of a clear understanding of some of these pitfalls,...
... the motives and use of RRs across the world 4 partly reflects the sectoral and targeted nature of many of these other macroprudential instruments and also their less active use over the cycle ... Colombia, and Peru 24 The cumulative dummy captures changes in the rates ofthe RRs and therefore, facilitates the comparison of changes to the RR regime across countries However, the variable ... against the wind”: (i) raising RRs during the upswing phase ofthe cycle to contain excessive credit growthandthe associated build up of vulnerabilities and (ii) lowering them during the downswing...
... to the borrower, the purpose and use ofthe loans, their sectoral composition and concentration, the currency denomination, andthe maturity and other conditions ofthe loans In terms ofthe ... that many ofthe CEE countries are still in the midst of a period of rapid credit growth, and some ofthe measures taken may not yet have demonstrated their full impact Any assessment ofthe effectiveness ... guided by the nature ofthe risks associated with the nature ofthe credit growth (see Table for a mapping from various features ofthe credit growth to different types of risks, and Table for the...
... cannot reject the null hypotheses ofthe appropriateness ofthe instruments andthe assumption of no serial correlation ofthe differenced error terms The results seem to indicate that there is a ... productivity growth, (iii) experience more rapid capital accumulation, and (iv) have higher saving rates To evaluate theimpactof banks on growthandthe sources of growth, we seek an indicator ofthe ... instruments andthe lack of serial correlation in ε Table shows that theimpactof PRIVATE CREDIT on productivity growth is robust to the use of alternative measures of productivity growth Due to the...
... Island They would then cross another thirty-two miles of ocean to the southern flank of San Clemente Island, a naval base and artillery range populated by unexploded ordnance and a dwindling herd of ... had seen from the air and set a course that soon put them within earshot of what seemed the loneliest bell on the face ofthe planet The tiny man-made island was laden with guano and inhabited ... breakfast into the deep blue sea The buoys stayed anchored, offering the surfers a point of reference and a measure of relief When the next set of four or five waves broke, they showed that the surf...
... context, they exceed the percent rate of return suggested for government programs by the Office of Management and Budget; they also exceed the historic real rate of return in the stock market of approximately ... implementation site, and also among families within a single program site.190 The intensity ofthe services provided, the skills ofthe home visitors, andthe content ofthe home visiting curriculum ... to meet the needs of working parents Furthermore, states should welcome a diverse set of providers that meet quality standards andthe needs ofthe parents and communities they serve Business...
... quoting and trading the stock We use unique quote data with the identity ofthe market maker to examine the quoting behavior ofthe lead underwriter during the preopening period; the behavior of other ... Price t The indicative price at time t is taken as the average ofthe bid quotes andthe average ofthe ask quotes during the 30-second interval If the preopening is efficient, then the slope ... early and others later Besides the preference ofthe lead underwriter, characteristics ofthe individual offering also determine the opening time Therefore, we examine whether initial returns ~offer-to-open!...
... in the credit growthofthe CEE countries This chapter ofthe thesis has the following structure The following section provides the characteristics ofthe transition in the CEE countries, andthe ... after the second year of joining the monetary union, and further, Spain and Greece show the symptoms of getting caught in the same undesirable path The symptoms ofthe Euro trap are the loss of ... degree of foreign bank ownership in the CEE banking system motivates this investigation oftheimpactofthe parent banks on the credit growth pattern ofthe CEE countries The interest for the fourth...
... none of these considerations bears in the least on the theory of relativity, they were all very much part of how the media portrayed Einstein and it is these traits rather than the profundity of ... del Duomo, the board that supervised the building ofthe cathedral, but their plans were found unpersuasive The Opera was made up ofthe political and business leaders ofthe city, and their personal ... helpless, at the mercy of cold, hunger, wild beasts, and one another They had no idea how to explain the great forces they saw around them the rising and setting ofthe sun, the wheeling stars, the alternating...
... development of planting area, yield, output and marketing 3.2 Results of assessing growthand development ofthe imported varieties of soybean in Thai Nguyen 3.2.1 Results of assessing growthand development ... height, LAI andthe level of Bean pyramid and Lima bean podborer The yield components and yield gradually increased from the treatment (20 kg N/ha) and reached the peak in treatment and then gradually ... appendices 27 and 31) In winter, both the EY andthe AY increased basing on the raise of density from Treatment to treatment (45 plants/m2), but then reduced even though the raise of density The EY...
... the scientific community Users of ConSite can either provide an existing alignment of two orthologous sequences or input just the sequences alone andthe program will generate the alignment The ... alignment of orthologous sequences; then, automated computer programs were developed to assist the process In this issue of Journal of Biology, Lenhard, Sandelin and colleagues describe their most ... positions in the two aligned sequences, are selected and reported in the output The remainder ofthe sites, which are not conserved between the two species, are considered to be false positives and are...
... further growing was performed on the basis ofthe complex evaluation of parent trees (the health status was the main criterion, and both the individuals with intensive growth dynamics andthe ... RESULTS Comparison ofthegrowthof parent trees and clones ofthe 1st and 2nd generation Research plots were evaluated in the intervals of several years So data acquired in plantations of different ... locations The results of field surveys showed the same relations in height and diameter growth among the studied clones in generative mother plantations and clone plantations ofthe 1st and 2nd...
... enhancing the photosynthetic capacity [11] and by increasing the uptake of water and nutrients, and their accumulation in the seedling tissues [3, 8] Environmental conditions marked by the Mediterranean ... prevented the formation of mycorrhizas The relatively high pH value (7.7) ofthe substrate could have reduced the efficacy of all fungi tested Since most of them are acidophilous, both the germination ... required by the fungus [11, 35] The lack of stimulation of seedlings growth by the fungi could also be influenced by nursery practices like the fertilisation levels, the type of substrate, or the container...
... before the start ofthe experiment and, unlike seedlings growing under FL and LS, only a small portion ofthe leaves actually initiated their growth after the start ofthe experiment The significant ... MS (p ≤ 0.011) at the 60th day into the experiment and FL > HS/ MS (p < 0.005) and LS > HS (p < 0.067) at the end ofthe experiment At the end ofthe experiment, total biomass and each biomass ... their first growth flush and about 80% initiated their second growth flush during the three-week transplant acclimation time before the start ofthe experiment The optimized soil moisture and nutrient...
... respectively)) andthe dry mass ofthe main stem (DMshoot) at the end ofthe experiment, the dry mass ofthe main stem at the start ofthe experiment and after 50 days was estimated using the following ... particular the ratio ofthe red components of radiation to those ofthe far red (R/FR-ratio) is altered below the crowns ofthe canopy trees due to the selective absorption of light by their leaves ... (product of branch length andthe square ofthe diameter at branch base (in cm respectively)) andthe dry mass ofthe branch (DMbranch) that was calculated using the branches of a quarter of total...
... 1976) and a further 40-50 kg N The soil at -1 -1 year be deposited from the may atmosphere in southern and eastern England (Goulding, 1990) The total uptake of N into the shoots and leaves ofthe ... ence Early in the season the concentrations of N and Ca in the stems and shoots of ’Colt’ were greater than in P avium From May until the end of July the concentration of K, Mg and Mn were significantly ... that each ofthe degrees of freedom ofthe variety x nitrogen interaction andofthe irrigation x nitrogen and variety x irrigation x nitrogen interactions was confounded in or ofthe replicates...
... differences between the pH treatments = = acidity andthe addition ofthe ionic mix- ture The effect of acidic rain on the Gn of clone 1019 seemed to depend upon envi- ronmental and/ or ecophysiological ... interaction of pH x ions x d was found The Newman Keuls test was not significant at P
... inoculation and tem- maintained out -of- doors before the first trials; were stored at 2°C in darkness for the period Dec 87-May 88, a common B.C practice; and had recently completed the 2nd yr growth ... flush in July 88 Thegrowth chambers were programmed for 14 h daily photoperiods with a constant air temperature of 20°C and soil temperatures of 3, 10 and 17°C Seedling caliper and shoot length ... Alberta Environment, RRTAC pp 32-45 status of Lavender D.P (1988) Characterization and manipulation ofthe physiological quality of planting stock Proceedings ofthe Tenth North American Forest Biology...
... activities The residual cost (Table 1) is the difference between the cost of null hypothesis andthe total cost The larger the difference between the cost ofthe null hypothesis and total cost, the ... %Y, the percentage of known actives in the hit list (recall); Ht, the number of hits retrieved; D, the number of compounds in the Page of 13 database; E, the enrichment ofthe concentration of ... found at the bottom ofthe gorge The combination of these interactions in other inhibitors (e.g., donepezil, galanthamine) is already found in the AChE crystal complex structure and therefore the...
... with the systems of Sachs and Metcalf These methylcellulose colonies of leukocytes provided too few cells andgrowthof these cells were limited in number and in time When we had our next hint of ... 2) Discoveries of HTLV-1 and HTLV-2 The first detection and isolation of HTLV-1 was in 1979, andthe first detection came from the analysis of a T cell line established by J Minna and A Gazdar ... considering the decades of attempts and failures I was, nonetheless, encouraged by discussions with William Jarrett, the Scottish veterinarian who discovered feline leukemia virus, and by the work of the...