... differences within Can Tho city and Hau Giang province in terms of quality and quantity ofthe available water resources Thus, the improvement ofthe rural drinking water supply requires investigations ... Here, the tidal amplitude is approx 1.5 m The study site Hoa An is located in an area where an interaction ofthe tidal regimes ofthe South Chinese Sea andofthe Gulf of Thailand eliminate ... Outlook Regarding the ground water andthe surface water quality the two study sites Hoa An and An Binh are typical for the conditions ofthe rural area ofthe Mekong Delta At present, there are...
... Fate of trypsin and chymotrypsin inthe human small intestine Gut 10, 477–483 Low, A.G (1982) The activity of pepsin, chymotrypsin and trypsin during 24 h periods inthe small intestine of growing ... inactivation of wild-type trypsin (Table 2) Finally it is of interest regarding thein vivo mechanism of inactivation, that chymotrypsin and trypsin, mixed in concentration ratios close to those inthe intestines, ... E S U LT S The enzymatic activity and molecular stability ofthe mutants The catalytic activity andthe molecular stability ofthe mutants were assayed because a change in either of these parameters...
... for the lower limb, havebeen grouped into the extension synergy (internal rotation, adduction, and extension ofthe hip, extension ofthe knee and extension and inversion ofthe ankle) andthe ... abduction, and flexion ofthe hip, flexion ofthe knee, and flexion and eversion ofthe ankle) [16,17] with varying levels of completeness [18] and dominance [19] Much ofthe literature attempting to ... pressure, arthritis, or history of seizure, that would inhibit exercise in a standing position Informed consent was obtained before testing and all protocols were approved bythe local institutional...
... present have not done so inthe absence of efforts inthe area of development ‘aid’ but in spite ofitand alongside it, and systemically with the support of development finance institutions ... actions and reactions of individuals, groups, communities and institutions, going about their business within the inherited structures of class struggle So what are the critical institutions ... outlines andthe poverty that Bush (2007) examines The book examines the political economy of global capitalism as it particularly affects the poorest, by examining the mystified institutions of...
... liquidity crisis of 1991, the regulatory institutions ofthe frontier nation state reformed and expanded again, as part of what has become known as the ‘third wave’ of institution building inthe international ... or so and, by means of this account, introduces the reader to the contours ofthe political economy of development andthe institutional regime within which ‘creditor states’13 compete and co-operate ... and huge demand led to ‘large and profligate lending outside the limits of banking probity, inability by borrowers to repay and to service loans; a threat to international banking stability and...
... status and critically obscures how the divide between the global haves and have- nots is maintained; the technical slights of hand are the implementing policy machine ofthe political economy of development ... at the end of chapter We return to the effect of development finance on politics in chapter 11 These problems with the political economy of development havebeen noted by writers who point to the ... brief overview ofthe availability of liquidity from the private sector andthe public sector inthe form of development finance, and has examined the intimate relationship conceptually and practically...
... roles for the IFC, depending on the relative size and profitabilities ofthe different circuits of capital inthe countries concerned Once profitability is assured in productive units of capital through ... understanding the human nature of these people, how they are moving andthe politicians, rather than looking at computer figures So I think there is a lot of, in this business of investing in developing ... cabal of bankers, working ostensibly with the ‘public good’ in mind And as we saw inthe last chapter, inthe boardroom ofthe system it is the perception of borrowing elites’ attitudes and behaviours...
... partly offset bythe establishment ofthe developmental discourse and its institutions, including the CDC Even in 1937 and 1938 there had been widespread riots inthe West Indies against colonial ... 72 MONEY AND POWER In 1961 the CDC won the 1961 Financial Settlement andthe primary responsibility for maintaining a proper balance in its own portfolio, andin 1963 restoration inthe independent ... consolidation ofthe CDC within the official ‘aid’ programme of a Labour Government allowed it to develop and reinvest in a lattice of interdependent arrangements with other IFIs that it had been developing...
... review ofthe frontier institutions ofthe British state and an account ofthe changing role ofthe CDC in managing investment and liquidity The case study shows how one dominant core lender inthe ... ‘aid’, but in spite of it, and alongside it, and sometimes because of it, as the analysis in this book argues Bearing this in mind, the rest of this chapter, andthe next two, will explore the suggestion ... negative in five ofthe seven years since 2000, and were only positive in 2002 and 2003 The ODF flows remained healthily positive, but as the definitions indicate, these include finance transferring...
... constant: their continued and regular profitability, inandof themselves as institutions, outside of any consideration of whether their policies work or don’t work, are imposed or advised The institutions ... is another economy in Africa which is informal and possible quite large, but the official one reviewed here shows increasing inequality and income poverty for the majority Adding in to the picture ... correlated to the distribution of derivative economic benefits inthe expenditure of funding, relative to who paid itinIn other words, the respective nationality of firms successful in winning contracts...
... think it can be argued that it suits the current government, to maintain CDC, doing a bit of what its doing because it doesn’t cost the government anything If they cut the supply of funding, and ... companies, andin sponsoring financial institutions and instruments The IFC set up its Capital Markets Department back in 1971 and initiates a ‘high proportion’ of financial sector interventions itself, ... mill Investment portfolio of almost €2 bill The state of Finland owns a 79.9% share in Finnfund Finnvera, the stateowned official export credit agency of Finland, owns 20% andthe Confederation of...
... illustrating well the role of DFIs in providing institutions and structures for the export, and then recycling, of finance capital from the core states In Ghana the CDC worked in collaboration with the ... measuring? Inthe last three chapters we have examined profitability within the political economy of aid, both inandof itself in chapter (through direct contracts), and then in terms ofthe market ... these investments would not havebeen profitable In short, they were profitable only in so far as the inequalities on which their profits relied were sustained As markets have changed, and resistance...
... reduction in their value, global inflation and rising oil prices since the oil-producing countries’ elites andthe US oil companies have a shared interest in clawing back their profit margin as the ... were, and are, shaped bythe better off and imposed on the worse off, and that this: institutional order is implicated inthe reproduction of radical inequality in that there is a feasible institutional ... assist the profitability ofthe Northern cores of capitalism through their frontier institutions and companies (illustrated by a case study in chapter 9) Inthe process, it is hard to find evidence...
... multiconditioned bythe past, and its continuing structural inheritance within the present, but this does not mean that the heroic leaders ofthe national liberation struggles, andthe inheritors of their ... the managing structures of capitalism, starting with the ones most pertinent to the economic futures ofthe poorer majority as outlined in this book, and shift their ‘fields of action’ once and ... saw inthe example ofthe research by Radelet et al (2005) on the relationship between aid and growth Always, the language and practice of benevolence hides the underlying capitalist profitability...
... Culture and Imperialism London: Chatto and Windus Santiso, C (2007) ‘Strengthening checks and balances in financial governance: The evolving role of multilateral banks in Latin America’ In S Bracking ... Bracking_14_index.qxd 13/02/2009 10:55 Page 238 INDEX independence: undermining 22 independent territories 70–1 India: contracts awarded 120–3 industrial strength 116 inelastic demand 199 inequality ... Williamson, J (1990) The Progress of Policy Reform in Latin America Washington D.C.: Institute for International Economic Williamson, O E (1985) The Economic Institutions of Capitalism New York:...
... al introducing and maintaining LPAI in seropositive flocks? and 3) What are the current monitoring and surveillance systems for LPAI in Korea? Materials and Methods Selection of poultry farms and ... regarding the owner; 2) habitation ofthe employees; 3) sanitary concept ofthe farm workers; and 4) activity ofthe employees Data were collected by staff at the VSCG via interviews Analysis of ... significance of differences between the groups with log-transformed data To analyze the relationship between an increase in age and seropositivity inthe layer flocks, raw data pertaining to seropositivity...
... Loblolly pine Inthe inner rings ofthe same species, Megraw [13] measured an increase of 15 % in basic density whenthe height inthe tree decreased from to 0.3 m However, these within-tree patterns ... if the property and its radial gradient were inheritable A narrow-sense heritability of 0.44 for basic density values inthe juvenile zone of maritime pine (from the pith to the 12th growth ring) ... DISCUSSION The occurrence ofthe height gradient inthe tree is usually explained bythe influence of root growth on wood properties ofthe butt log, the increase in physiological age ofthe apical...
... previous findings inthe PTSD literature in mind, we find it relevant to examine thefollowing hypotheses concerning the lifespan distribution of PTSD prevalence: (a) the lifespan distribution of PTSD ... women The age distribution ofthe participants ranged from 13 to 80 years of age Ofthe included studies, 20 were carried out in Denmark, in Iceland, andinthe Faroe Islands Ditlevsen and Elklit ... reactions when reminded ofthe incident) into two questions However, this additional item was not included inthe HTQ total scores used for analysis inthe present study, giving a total of 31 items with...
... that they have no competing interests 17 Authors' contributions PSM and MKB participated inthe design ofthe study, laboratory tests, andinthe writing ofthe manuscript LSWM performed the laboratory ... performed in whole blood, drawn in EDTA tubes A total of 100 μl of whole blood from patients and controls were stained with μl of CD14-PerCP and μl of CD66-FITC The tubes were also stained with thefollowing ... that regulates the adhesive activity of CD11/CD18 [18] Firm adhesion involves the interaction of leukocyte integrins ofthe beta subfamily (CD11a, CD11b and CD11c) with endothelial ligand receptors...
... consistent with either the loss ofthe negative regulation (PTEN and PPAR), or the suppression of NF-κB and other signal pathways and genes by gaining or retaining p53 functions in cells with mutant ... al R53.15 Binding activityprevious page) of RELA and NFκB1 Figure (see and motif logo Binding activity and motif logo of RELA and NFκB1 (a) The basal and inducible binding activity of RELA or ... regulators of cell growth and survival, andthe down-regulation of these genes has been shown to be the critical step in tumorigenesis in epidermis and epithelia [76] Interestingly, the involvement of...