... between the regulated banking sector and the shadow banking system However, an in-depth assessment of the activities of shadow banking and of the interconnection with the regulated banking system ... assigned to the tranches, and it was even possible for the senior tranches to have a higher rating than any of the underlying assets ECB (2011b) Chart Transaction participants and functions in the creation ... where the size of the shadow banking system was 53% of the total of banks and shadow banks in the second quarter of 2011,32 the overall size of shadow banking in the euro area was only 28% of the...
... that Lagrangian theory only needs a rather crude model for the wind field [37, 140] Further details on both the Eulerian and the Lagrangian approach for scalar transfer within canopies can be found ... by Jones and Sutherland [69]) The first approach does not link stomatal conductance and photosynthesis, while the second and third approaches exploit this linkage The fourth approach can be viewed ... (J kg1 K1), and the psychrometric constant (Pa K1), respectively Ts and Ta are air and leaf temperatures, and es and ea are the water vapour pressure in the substomatal spaces and in the air, respectively...
... designed the experiments, analyzed the data and drafted the manuscript PC carried out the laboratory studies and analysis of mRNA DT and AM selected the donors, obtained the samples of fat and aided ... values in panel A are the means of two experiments The values for IL-8 mRNA [log2 scale] in panel B are the means ± SEM of the ratios of mRNA at the indicated times to that at the start of the incubation ... taking antihypertensive agents and another third drugs for diabetes, but were fairly well controlled since the mean plasma glucose was 5.4 mM The study had the approval of the local IRB and all...
... editing the manuscript Authors’ contributions FM, ZD and AP were involved in the study conception and design FM performed the acquisition and interpretation of data and prepared the manuscript ZD and ... eosinophils and may enhance inflammatory processes at sites such as the lung or the airways, and thereby augment allergic airway responses, at least in part [130,131] Additionally, studies have raised the ... suggesting that the influence of leptin is under the control of the systemic inflammatoryresponse [108] The airflow limitation in COPD is linked to structural changes, including the presence of an abnormal...
... supervised the experiments, analyzed data and prepared the manuscript CvD, DVG and JdG performed the experiments CLH and FAD helped design the experiments and reviewed the manuscript PV performed the ... adding the scores obtained from day to day 24 and presented as the mean ± standard error of the mean (n = rats per group) Statistical analysis was performed using analysis of variance (ANOVA) ... suppress theinflammatoryresponse There is still some controversy around the topic of additional ERs such as GPR30 [44] Our current study and the study by Engdahl and colleagues confirm the important...
... and standardized our tracking mechanisms My chief and myself were given the task of setting up the Staten Island Ferry Casualty Collection Point While working around the tip of lower Manhattan, ... port, standing against any sea wall space they could find, in an attempt to help civilians (injured to varying degrees) get away from the dust and debris covering Manhattan We set up an aide ... were created to treat the throngs of selfevacuating civilians from Lower Manhattan: to the north, Chelsea Recreational Piers; and to the east, Staten Island Ferry terminal These two Casualty Collection...
... regulating the lifespan in macrophages and whether apoptosis of these cells participates in theinflammatoryresponse of the virgin mammary gland The aim of this study, therefore, was to confirm the ... multifactorial analysis of variance The significance of differences in RESMAC and INFMAC before and during theinflammatoryresponse and during in vitro cultivation were tested by determining the proportions ... mammary glands and during aninflammatoryresponse For this purpose, an inflammation model based on induction of inflammatoryresponse in Page of 13 mammary glands of virgin heifers was used We analyzed...
... ASA and TPS conducted the study in the volunteers and drafted the manuscript OHM conducted the BMNC isolation and HSP70 Western blotting, with the assistance of TPS and PM GvH conducted the analysis ... Rousing, Hanne Villumsen and Lene Foged are acknowledged for their technical assistance, and Kirsten Møller is acknowledged for reading and commenting on the manuscript The Centre of Inflammation and ... EXGENESIS), the Danish Food Industry Agency, and by grants from Thora and Viggo Groves mindelegat The Copenhagen Muscle Research Centre is supported by grants from the Capital Region of Denmark and the...
... Furthermore, Cl- channels in the parasite plasma membrane would facilitate the distribution of Cl- ions in accordance with the membrane potential The membrane potential across the membrane of the ... late in the cycle, with the greatest increase in transcript level occurring between 32 and 40 hours reports organic and inorganic anions The mechanism of transport also varies within the superfamily ... permeability in a given organism It encompasses the full range of channels and transporters encoded in the genome The original annotation of the P falciparum genome, published at the end of 2002, identified...
... Vietnam The American public believed their was a “credibility gap” between what the gov’t was saying & the reality of the Vietnam War The Tet Offensive, 1968 In 1968, the Vietcong launched the Tet ... Vietnam… but height of the Vietnam War As 1968 morewas menthe were drafted into the war, the& the year the disastrous Tet Offensive larger theofanti-Vietnam protests became Protesting the Vietnam War ... passing the War Powers Act in 1973 The Impact of the Vietnam War The war changed America at home People began to lose faith in the honesty of gov’t leaders during the Johnson & Nixon years The...
... Thermodesulfobacterium and Thermodesulfovibrio, with the sulphate reducers in the third branch (iii) being thermophilic, while the other two branches (i and ii) encompass psychrophilic, mesophilic and thermophilic ... from the anoxic marine sediments of different locations in Western Europe (Canale Grande in Venice, Italy; the Bay of Arcachon, France; and the Wadden Sea in the North Sea at Horumersiel, Germany) ... both mesophiles and thermophiles Other important thermophilic genera include Sulfolobus, Acidianus and Thermothrix Table presents the growth conditions for a number of phototrophic and chemolithotrophic...
... complications for the host and shed virions for transmission to other naive individuals They reach a balanced state where the host usually is not seriously disadvantaged by the HPV infection, and the virus ... natural antibodies respond so poorly, HPV-vaccines that generate serum neutralizing antibodies work? The answer is that the quality and the quantity of the immune response generated by the vaccine ... not induce anti-L2 antibodies [37] and many L2 epitopes are not on the virus surface [57], how can the antibodies against the L2 N-terminal region neutralize the virus? A possible explanation is...
... the design of the study, obtained data, made the analysis, interpreted the data and wrote the first draft MS and AL contributed to the design of the study and the interpretation of the data and ... mortality, the question is whether a systematic SIRS registration of acute medical patients offers more information and gives better guidance to the clinician than he or she had in advance From ... from other wards or hospitals were excluded If patients had more than one admission to the department during the inclusion period, they were included at the first admission and not at the following...
... more and more people pick up learning a new language so that they can have more advantages in running their business Nevertheless, most of language learners have the same obstacle in comparing and ... refers to the close and intense relationship between the form and the meaning of a sentence (Thiêm, 2004) Comparing and contrasting questions in terms of their semantics enable us to point out the ... Thanks to its constituents, the options of the question are clearly shown and the speaker can choose either or chưa E.g.: Mẹ nấu cơm chưa? Anh công tác chưa? A framework is generalized from the...
... to another Member State (which expects to have a deficit) The transferred quantity shall be deducted from the country making the transfer and added to the country accepting the transfer In the ... the applicant can prove that the system cannot be erected without the grant and assures that no other investment subsidy will be received for the very same system in the future According to the ... summarized in section The EU RES directive The EU policy on RES is set out in the relevant Directive [3] of the European parliament and of the Council The Directive concerns the promotion and use of energy...
... constipation The physiotherapist and the orthotist The early involvement of an experienced physiotherapist is invaluable There are many potential interventions, ranging from simple passive range-ofmotion ... dystonia and associated reactions Most of the previously described positive phenomena of the UMN syndrome can occur at rest Another range of problems can occur on movement For example, there is the ... in either a flexor pattern or an extensor pattern The commonest pattern of flexor spasm is flexion of the hip, knee and ankle The spasms can sometimes occur spontaneously or, more commonly, in response...
... organisations such as WB, ADB, UNICEF, UNDP and donor nations such as Finland, Denmark, France, Japan, the Netherlands, Australia, Sweden, South Korea and Germany Looking at urban markets anywhere, ... out and can be treated by aeration and filtration Aeration is used to change iron content ferrous to ferric form (Fe3+) and to reduce tastes and odours • Depending on the financial and management ... treatment and distribution Depending on the mean, place and time for water quality and quantity, the Mekong people have many ways for collection and treatment (See figure 2) Concerning the water...
... AnOverview of the Financial System • Primary function of the Financial System is financial Intermediation • The channeling of funds from households, firms and governments who ... (borrowers) • Direct finance vs Indirect finance 2-2 AnOverview of the Financial System II 2-3 Structure of Financial Markets I Debt Markets • Short-term (maturity < year) – the Money Market • Long-term ... that loan won’t be paid back • E.g Borrowed funds are used for another purpose 2- Types of Financial Intermediaries • Depository Institutions – Chartered Banks – Trusts and Mortgage Loan Companies...
... important for US, European and Taiwan investors only For Japanese and Singaporean investors, the labour cost does not seem to be important factors in their location decision Our analysis of the ... country rather than in others Finally, multinationals must have the ability to internalise the O and L advantages.13 National Determinants There are only a few studies that examined the determinants ... WTO, the MFN status with the US would contribute significantly to the inflow of FDI The authors then used their estimate to simulate the effect of the BTA on the inflow of FDI into Vietnam Their...
... their annotations, and the Web page where the example occurred 2.2 Built-In and Custom Collections Linguistically annotating and indexing the entire Web is beyond impractical, and therefore there ... important is that the structure produced when analyzing the query will be the same structure produced via analysis of the corresponding sentences in the corpus Other search features include the ... other examples of this construction, such as The higher the rating, the lower the interest rate that must be paid to investors; The more you bingo, the more chances you have in the drawing; The...