... the public firm indicator in some ofthe analyses but without changing the tenor of the results. TheImportanceof Reporting Incentives:Earnings Management in European Private and Public Firms*David ... rule of law, and corruption index). SIZE is the book value of total assets at the end ofthe fiscal year (in EUR thousands). We use the natural log ofthe size variable inthe analysis. Financial ... on the role of institutional factors and market forces in shapingfirms’ incentives to report informative earnings.To empirically illustrate theimportanceof reporting incentives, we examine...
... disregard ofthe increased utility of precoordinated strings of subject terms, and catalog browse displays of them The problem with any discussion of such issues lies inthe complexity of theirinterrelationships. ... under -the- hoodprogramming, etc. The paper considers the need for, and requirements of, education of researchers; and it examines in detail many ofthe glaring disconnects between theory and practice ... whole can indeed be indicated bya combination of individual index elements (“Finance” AND “public” AND “Greece” AND “Athens”), researchers have much more difficulty thinking up all ofthe terms...
... main chains and 1-4 branchings, andthe more common 1-3main chains and 1-6 branchings.18 This frac-tion also is highly active in vitro andin animalmodels of cancer, although activity in theseexperimental ... hospitals in Shanghai, Beijing, and otherareas in China, with a total 189 patients. The double-blind study used the same doses and test materials as the previous study, and ex-amined PSP against the ... en-ter the oral cavity, they can be sampled by the LC present inthe oral mucosa, and then bydendritic cells inthe stomach and intestines.After glucan materials are absorbed and cir-culate to the...
... progress in our knowledge ofthe bio-synthesis of DIMs and PGLs, thein vivo functions of these FadD proteins in this pathway remain to beestablished and ⁄ or completed. For instance, the involvement ... topromote the transfer ofthe p-HB moiety ontoPKS15 ⁄ 1 [16,18].To examine the involvement of FadD29 inthe bio-synthesis of DIMs and PGLs, we took advantage of the existence inthe laboratory of ... becontrolled in vivo by specific interactions betweenFadD29 and PKS15 ⁄ 1 on the one hand, and FadD26 and the FasI system on the other hand. Further inves-tigations, including protein interaction...
... recklessness? These and other questions are the starting-point for a theoryof authorial ethics which will be further developed in aforthcoming book on the interanimating thought of Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques ... dislodges the discretion – if not heresy– of paraphrase. Likewise, the passages describing the intersubjective light of understanding inthe Phaedrus andthe Seventh Letter remain entirelyilluminating ... best dis-cerned inthe refusal of a plan; the governing intent inthe abandon-ment of intent to in nite variety, discursive fecundity. The relationsbetween the deontological andthe consequential...
... mMBicine buffer 7.0–8.5). The pH stability of Sfbgly50 was checked by incubation in the same buffers for a time equal to the assay time and thendetermining the activity remaining at the optimum ... [10,12].Nevertheless, it is not possible to assume that the same isoccurring inthe mutant R97M, because there is no data on the interactions between the substrate andthe arginineresidue.Finally, another ... clearly increased. Actually, the substitution of R97 bymethionine or lysine resulted inthe same increment in the pKa of E399 (Table 2). Therefore, M97 and K97 are equallyeffective in stabilizing...
... coastal environments by industrial and domestic effluents. In Proceedings ofthe Workshop on theCurrent State and Developmentof Marine Sciences in Tanzania. Institute of Marine Sciences, 11 ... and Vingunguti). Over 80% ofthe households inthe city use pit latrines and septic tanks. These frequently overflow, especially during the rains, contaminating water sources thus increasing ... River. Mwandya (1996) determined the concentrations of heavy metals Pb and Cd inthe soft tissues of Saccostrea cucullata in Ocean Road beach and Msimbazi Creek. Other studies in include that of...
... resources inthe ongoing negotiation of so-cial life). As the role of habitus and practice inthe expression of taste has been18 Ethnogenesis andthe Archaeology of Identity THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF ETHNOGENESISRace ... points to theimportanceof the exercise of power in negotiating social identity. Neither primordialism nor in- strumentalism can account for the persistence of ethnic distinctions in certainhistorical ... overde-termination is one ofthe ways that volatile identities come to appear inevitable and intractable. In that sense, using the concept of overdetermination risks a certain slippage, in that the...
... minimum values in summer and maximumvalues in winter [43], have also been linked to frost hardiness in the stem tissue of Cornus sericea [3], inthe leaves of Euca-lyptus gunnii [4] andinthe ... (determination of an index of injury) was suitableto reveal the periods of frost hardening (in late autumn) and dehardening (in late winter; Fig. 3). Compared to the controltrees, the frost hardiness ... defoliation). The freezing injury was determinedas the slope b ofthe linear relationships between the log values of rela-tive conductivity (RC; %) ofthe incubation solution andthe duration of bark...
... resistance to the action of aerosols is the result of the strength of the structures protecting the leaf, and increaseswith sclerophyllia and with the thickness of the cuticle.ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The ... sam-ples and depositsWhen interpreting the results of the chemi-cal analysis of rainwater and deposits it isnecessary to bear in mind the interactionsbetween the matrix and ... near the coast and 2-3 km inland. Samples of bulkdeposits were taken from pine trees (Pinus pineaL) from the section of the crown exposed to the sea and also from the...