... progress, rather than shifting the level of the production function or increasing the impact of an additional year of schooling. In sum, the existing evidence suggests that the quality of education, ... consideration ofthe quality of education, measured by the cognitive skills learned, alters the assessment oftheroleof education inthe process ofeconomicdevelopment dramatically. When using the ... to the value of schooling focuses on theeconomic returns to differing levels of school attainment for individuals. This work, following the innovative analyses of human capital by Jacob Mincer...
... cost-effective way of as-sessing health risks; the identification of all risk points along the chain of events from the origin ofthe wastewater to the consumption ofthe produce (e.g. the farm-to-fork ... Ho-epner,2008). There is scope to improve the sustainability of the desalination process. The process results inthe discharge of a concentrated brine into the receiving waters. Temperature and salinity ... approach ofthe HAPPC meth-od in food safety); the design of a combination of health risk management mea-sures, to be applied along the same chain of events, with the aim of ensuring health...
... buying inflows to reduce the NOFP. Nonetheless, in certain cases involving large one-off inflows of FDI, the SARB may have sufficient prior information to make an assessment as to whether the ... two-thirds since the currency crisis of 1998. Nevertheless, the NOFP and other indicators of international reserve adequacy remain a source of concern for investors that is reflected in South ... offering improved rates of return. This could be done either by forcing a step exchange rate depreciation (and thereby generating the expectation of a strengthening ofthe rand) or by raising...
... source of financing for enterprises, if their own capital is excluded. In summary, the deepening process ofthe financial markets has rendered the dominance ofthe banking sector inthe financial ... under the framework of financial globalization.II. Review of Institution Building inthe Financial SectorA. Main driving forces of institution buildingA review ofthe developments of China’s financial ... forceful in improving microeconomic performance.2. Roleofthe central bank The central bank has played a roleof policy designing and implementation in the process of institution building inthe financial...
... (39 ). The renewed interest in examining the indications for BCG vaccination in the United States included consideration ofthe wide range of vaccine efficacies deter-mined by clinical trials ... toexplore the sources ofthe heterogeneity inthe efficacy ofthe BCG vaccine reported in the individual studies. Using a model that included the geographic latitude of the study site and the data ... <5 mm indurationafter skin testing with 5 TU of PPD tuberculin. The Tice strain of BCG is administeredpercutaneously; 0.3 mL ofthe reconstituted vaccine is usually placed on the skin in the lower...
... Gregory F. Udell. 1998. The Economics of Small BusinessFinance: The Roles of Private Equity and Debt Markets inthe FinancialGrowth Cycle,” Journal of Banking and Finance, August, pp. 657-59.Carter, ... an important roleinthe financial system of the U.S. economy. They complement theroleof large banks by special-izing in relationship banking and providing credit to smallbusinesses—a sector ... “Small Business Lending and the Changing Structure ofthe Banking Industry,” Journal of Banking andFinance, August.Sullivan, Richard J. 2000. “How Has the Adoption of Internet Banking AffectedPerformance...
... detected at the dimerinterface ofthe models or inthe surroundings of the mutated residues. The models of RNase A covalent dimers in the exchanging conformation were prepared using the 7RSA structure ... at the dimer interface ofthe models or inthe surroundings of the hinge loop residues. Likewise, the models of nonex-changing and exchanging HHP-RNase were prepared start-ing from 1Z7X. The ... through the exchange between subunits of either their N-ter-minal, or their C-terminal ends [33–35]. We foundthat the behavior with the model membrane of the dimer in which the C-terminal ends...
... N-linked oligosaccharide side-chainsare important for the GABA transport activity.1-Deoxymannojirimycin inhibits the GABA-uptake of GAT1 In order to gain further insight into theroleof the terminal ... results in reduction of the stability of GAT1 In order to study thein uence ofthe N-glycosylationand N-linked oligosaccharides on protein stability, the intracellular decay time ofthe GAT1, ... for the stability of this protein,but the terminal structure ofthe N-glycans is not.Defective N-glycosylation reduces the trafficking of GAT1 to the plasma membrane In order to study thein uence...
... disambiguated word meaning. It is thein interaction ofthe results of these asynchronous processes that the process of comprehension is defined. The processes are independent ofthe know- ledge ... affected. The study includes off-line picture naming which forces use of articles in all ofthe above contexts, as well as on-line production of these morphemes in an attempt to determine in which ... HOPE, the determination ofthe phonetic representation of a recognized word determines the breadth of active competition amon 9 meanings for subsequent time intervals ofthe process. Depending...
... most of them and access-to-input for the worst in this sub-pool. Conversely, the overbearing influence ofthe financial constraints in the lower half is statistically associated with a rather ... expected-debt. The probability of increasingdebt raises with the fact that the enterprise was indebted inthe past (in all the groups).Nodebt thus appears as a strong inertial component inthe credit-demand ... decreasing for 53% ofthe sample, it has been increasingfor 36%, and has been stable for the remaining 11%. An increase in indebtedness (of 80% in average) is associated with a 14% decrease in production,...
... beenpioneers inthe Latin American microfinance industry. As of today, 7 out of 15 Latin American members are active in microfinance. These membersare involved in different ways inthe microfinance ... microfinance stands unrivalled in scale, andoutreach continues to grow in terms ofthe number of microborrowers.Institutions providing microfinance in Asia play a critical rolein increasing the ... positions as savings mobilizersranking ahead of most other financial institutions in their regions.19They also play an important role investing in their regions. From the USD 154 million savings collected...
... the meaning ofthe image or the image projects the meaning ofthe music), then the multimedia example has passed the similarity test and the relationship exhibited is one of conformance. In ... music), taking into account the director’s – and, therefore, the composer’s – intentions, the narrative content ofthe film, and the overall strategy ofthe director in constructing the multifaceted ... other-worldly. In this capacity, the role of music is significantly enhanced by the level of ambiguity inherent inthe visual scene. Specifically, the more ambiguous the meaning ofthe visual image, the...
... However, the mechanistic roles of several of these residues are not described well and there is no example of mutational analysis of all of these residues inthe sameenzyme.To obtain an insight into ... by the surrounding residues. The results so far indicate thatlarger parts ofthe polar core ofthe catalytic TIM barrel of family 18 chitinases play a role during catalysis. It will thusbe interesting ... conformations. The Asp142 equiv-alent inthe family 18 chitinase from Coccidioides immitiswas found to be inthe ÔdownÕ position inthe apoenzymeand inthe ÔupÕ position inthe complex with allosamidin...
... properties of the document containing the sentence and properties of the sentence itself. Regarding the former type,two features come into play: the relevance score of the document (from the IR engine) ... Surprisingly, adding1Since the count variant of POURPRE achieved the highestcorrelation with of cial rankings, the nugget score is simply the highest fraction in terms of word overlap between the ... acquiring nuclear weapons?”, which are the focus ofthe AQUAINT program inthe U.S., andopinion questions such as “How does the Chileangovernment view attempts at having Pinochet tried in Spanish...
... trees. The largest plant height was obtained using linings of stone and marble. During the first year ofthe study, when the lining served only as mulch due to lack of rainfall, an increase of ... to improve the HI of wheat, 9 The harvest index is defined as the ratio of grain to total crop biomass” (Cassman 1999). The Roleof Rainfed Agriculture inthe Future of Global Food Production ... Considerations of risk may be very important inthe initial decision of whether to adopt rainwater harvesting at an individual farm level. Especially due to the low economic status of many ofthe farmers...