... asignificant step forwards to assess the utility of thesequestionnaires in another practice setting.Therefore the aim of this observational study was toassess the utility ofthe MYMOP2 and W-BQ12 healthoutcomes ... latter setting, the W-BQ12 was notfound to be responsive. The authors of this latter studyattributed the lack of responsiveness ofthe W-QB12 totwo possible causes: either the socioeconomically ... shown in Table 3.TheMYMOP2scalesofSymptom1andProfileshowed a moderate negative correlation with the General Wellbeing (GWB) and Energy scales of the W-BQ12. The Wellbeing scale ofthe MYMOP2 had...
... tasks of Microfinanceto stimulate efficiency access to the financial resources;to create work places;to grow of tax proceeds;to create a credit history for the further development of ... millions (including 4.5 millions of individual entrepreneurs); 90 % ofthe total number of establishments; 44 % of GDP; 45 % of employment.Social Effect of MFIs MFIs create new work ... achievements in the sphere of Microloans In 2000-2002: banks increased the intensiveness and volumes of the small business financing; reduced a minimal loan sum; began to use flexible...
... some ofthe most fundamental moral obligationsconcern the promotion of general ideals or ends such as our own perfec-tion and the happiness of others. The obligations ofthe morality system are ... with the historical facets of his position, some with the philosophical, and somewith both.4What are the defining features ofthe morality system? At the end of Chapter 10 of Ethics and the ... and others are not. After the initial space and time lotteriesare held, everyone is subject to further lotteries associated with the class system, the race system, and the gender system (systems,...
... 0);// Close the filesclose(infd);close(outfd);Figure 6-36. A program fragment for copying a file using the UNIX system calls. This fragment is in C because Java hides the low-level system calls ... consisting of logical records. (a)Before reading record 19. (b) After reading record 19.Original processChildren of AGrandchildren of AA A AAA AFigure 6-43. A process tree inUNIX.6 THE OPERATING ... pointers to the datapublic static long buffer[ ] = new long[BUFSIZE];// primes stored herepublic static producer p; // name ofthe producerpublic static consumer c; // name ofthe consumerpublic...
... Pearson Canada Inc.2 - 2An Overview ofthe Financial System •Primary function ofthe Financial System is financial Intermediation• The channeling of funds from households, firms and governments ... Copyright 2011 Pearson Canada Inc.2 - 1Chapter 2An Overview ofthe Financial System Copyright 2011 Pearson Canada Inc.2 - 6Structure of Financial Markets IIIExchanges•Trades conducted in ... Costs•Financial intermediaries make profits by reducing transactions costs•They reduce transactions costs by developing expertise and taking advantage of economies of scale Copyright 2011 Pearson...
... by special-ized cells in the wall ofthe afferent ar-teriole ofthe renal glomerulus. Thesecells belong to the juxtaglomerular ap-paratus ofthe nephron, the site of con-tact between afferent ... terms of their positive in-otropic effect, !-sympathomimetics,unlike dopamine (p. 114), are of littletherapeutic use; they are also arrhyth-mogenic and the sensitivity ofthe !-re-ceptor system ... membranoussacs ofthe sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR);c) Ca2+bound to the inside ofthe plas-malemma. The plasmalemma of cardio-myocytes extends into the cell interiorin the form of tubular invaginations(transverse...
... funds All U.S. households3Age of head of household11 Age is based on the age ofthe sole or co-decisionmaker for household saving and investing.2 For the complete time series of data from ... 21Mutul Fund Owners’ Dily Useofthe InternetPercentge of mutul fund–owning households with Internet ccess, 2011Household had Internet accessFrequency of use 1Never in the past 12 months or ... the member of the household who was the sole or co-decisionmaker most knowledgeable about the household’s savings and investments. The standard error for the 2011 sample of households is ± 1.5...
... funds All U.S. households3Age of head of household11 Age is based on the age ofthe sole or co-decisionmaker for household saving and investing.2 For the complete time series of data from ... the member ofthe household who was the sole or co-decisionmaker most knowledgeable about the household’s savings and investments. The standard error for the 2012 sample of households is ± 1.6percentage ... data include the number of mutual fund owners per household, which is applied to the number of U.S. households owning mutual funds. The average number of mutual fund owners per household is...
... veinthrombosis.Because many ofthe principal procoagulant compo-nents ofthesystem are serine proteases, regulation of thesystem is principally by the action of serine proteaseinhibitors. One major class of ... intermediate by the unique action ofthe serpin,whereby the RCL ofthe serpin inserts into the majorA b -sheet causing the protease to be rapidly translo-cated from the top to the bottom ofthe inhibitor ... polymers of serpins, where the insertion of another molecule’s RCL takes place [8]. Both of theseresult in the irreversible inactivation (generally) of the serpins, and, in the case ofthe anticoagulant...
... account both ofthe probability of derivationsyielding a specific relation and ofthe proportion of such derivations in the forest produced by the parser. A weighted set of GRs from the parse for-est ... 85% ofthe Susannecorpus (used for grammar development), and most of the remainder consists of phrasal fragmentsmarked as independent text sentences in passages of dialogue. The coverage of ... level in the hierarchy. The micro-averaged precision, recall and F1scoreare calculated from the counts for all relations in the hierarchy. The macroaveraged scores are the mean ofthe individual...
... notinto the incubation medium as this would have required the use of a modified incubation medium containing either ablocker of endocannabinoid uptake or BSA [22]. Further-more, detection of these ... ofthe enzymes mostly involvedin endocannabinoid inactivation. The heterogeneous distri-bution of CB2receptors among cells ofthe immune system suggests that these receptors might exert their ... marrow stem cells, are the most potent antigen-presenting cells ofthe immune system. They play a central role in the initiation of primaryimmune response and in the enhancement of secondaryimmune...
... elastic recoil of the lung (Fig. 2) [9]. The kyphotic curvature of the spine and the anteroposterior diameter ofthe chestincrease with aging, thereby decreasing the curvature of the diaphragm ... Conversely, there is a progressive decrease invital capacity to approximately 75% of best values.Because ofthe increased stiffness ofthe chest wall, the age-related diminished elastic recoil ofthe ... al. Quality control of spirometry in the elderly. The S.A.R.A. study.SAlute Respiration nell’Anziano = Respiratoryaging ofthe respiratory system 481Aging ofthe Respiratory System: Impact on...
... 17 ofthe Act concerning the conditions of Accession ofthe Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of ... III(4) ofthe Treaty of Amsterdam.1345.2. The General Council shall comprise the President and Vice-President ofthe ECB and the Governors ofthe nationalcentral banks. The other members ofthe ... established, the President, the Vice-President and the other members of the Executive Board shall be appointed by common accord ofthe governments ofthe Member States at the level of Heads of State...
... C. mawsoni).However, the lack of a clear relationship with the Hbsequences of other nototheniid species suggests that in thiscase the evolution ofthe oxygen-transport system hasoccurred in ... Fishes ofthe SouthernOcean. Smith Institute of Ichthyology, South Africa.21. Balushkin, A.V. (1992) Classification, phylogenetic relationships,and origins ofthe families ofthe suborder Notothenioidei(Perciformes). ... wasestablished on the basis of their different amount.In b2, T2 and T6 coeluted in the same peak. Being the sequence of T2 already known from the N-terminus, the sequence of T6 was established...
... the basis of classical theories of immune surveillance and more recent awareness of the tumour-promoting properties of innate immune cells, researchers are now investigating the efficacy of ... approaches is how therapeutically manipulating one arm ofthe immune system affects the anticancer or cancer-promoting properties ofthe other. For example, induction of anticancer humoral ... greater risk of cancer, either because they are maintaining low-level chronic inflammation as a consequence of defects in their natural immune defence mechanisms, and/or because they fail to...