... 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 ... deepening inthe developing countries. He suggests that as financial 7F. Roleofthe government, central bank and international financialinstitution in institution building1. Roleofthe governmentAs ... source of financing for enterprises, if their owncapital is excluded. In summary, the deepening process ofthe financial markets has rendered the dominance ofthe banking sector 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...
... 1998. “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 ... understanding ofbusiness conditions inthe communitiesthey serve. In this way, the bifurcated banking system has served the needs of a diverse U.S. economy composed of businesses of all shapesand ... banks since the mid-1990s says more about the local economies in which they operate than the viability of community banking as a business model.Implications of advances in information-gathering...
... 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 and the structure of exchanging BS-RNase(1BSR) ... 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 ... wereprepared using models of these dimers. The models of RNase A covalent dimers inthe nonexchanging conforma-tion were prepared using the 7RSA structure and the struc-ture of nonexchanging BS-RNase...
... 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...
... 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...
... schooling, the estimated schooling effect could include both the impacts of schooling and the fact that those continuing in school could earn more inthe absence of schooling.2 For the most ... influence. Ignoring these nonschool factors introduces another element of measurement error into the growth analyses inthe same way as it did inthe analysis of individual earnings. From the mid-1960s ... regardless ofthe quality ofthe education system in which it takes place, but delivers different increases in skills depending on the efficiency ofthe education system, the quality of teaching, the...
... 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 ... infiltration of water, it may also result in soil degradation inthe form of increased erosion (Fall and Faye 1999). Thedevelopmentof new farming techniques may be useful in combating these...
... business case for thedevelopmentof cashless payments systems. The Roleof Post Offices inInternational Remittances In view ofthe growing numbers of Africans migrating to work abroad (to the ... an institutional point of view, there appear two main directions in development. One is the continuation ofthe postal office savings bank operating under the agency agreement of a ministry of ... offices, attracting the interest of small entrepreneurs and providing limited financial services. PakPost is the agent ofthe Ministry of Finance for a range of financial services including...
... test ofthe validity of our framework. Although tighteningbanking norms in recessions may exacerbate thebusiness cycle, in this case it represents the optimal re sponse to adverse shocks affecting ... to the banking sector The previous subsection analyzes how the banking sector, through the dynamics of bankcapital, affects the transmission of shocks. In recent years, however, episodes of increasedvolatility ... to them. In this context, this subsection considers the effects of a shock that arises inthe bankingsector of our model and leads to exogenous declines in bank net worth. Following the theoretical...
... number of amino acid residues contribute to the binding of the substrate by hydrogen bonding and ⁄ or hydrophobicinteractions. Using the ligplot program [31], weinvestigated the specific interactions ... 2010)doi:10.1111/j.1742-4658.2010.07685.x The hyperthermostable chitinase from the hyperthermophilic archaeonPyrococcus furiosus has a unique multidomain structure containing two chi-tin-binding domains and two catalytic domains, ... crystal-line chitin hydrolyzing activity at high temperature. In order to investigate the structure–function relationshipof this chitinase, we analyzed one of the catalytic domains (AD2) using mutational...