... capital flow, monetarysystem, financial markets, financial institution, and financial coordination andsupervision. In China, institution building inthe financial sector takes place against the backdrop ... Structure of Financial AssetsYear Mo Depositswith FIsLoans of FIs Borrowing by the Ministry of Finance Bonds Capitalization of A Share andB ShareMarketsInsurancePremiumsTotalFinancialAssets1980 ... 67.8Sources: Almanac of China’s Finance and Banking and China Statistical Year BookV. An Outlook of Institutional Reforms inthe Coming Years In light ofthe opportunities and challenges posed by China’s...
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... in determining a) the efficacy of BCG vaccine in HCWs or b) the effects on efficacy ofthe vaccine strain administered6 MMWR April 26, 1996not a factor in determining whether thereactionis ... because ofthe potential ad-verse reactions associated with the use ofthe vaccine in these persons. In the United States, the use of BCG vaccination is rarely indicated. BCGvaccination is not ... techniques. The vaccine currently available for im-munization inthe United States, the Tice strain, was developed at the University of Illinois (Chicago, Illinois) from a strain originated at the Pasteur...
... largerbanks in making small business loans. Loan officers at small banks cantake into account a wide variety of factors in reviewing applications forsmall business loans, including the character of ... future using more recent data. 5 In Charts 3 -5, the size categories are not adjusted for inflation and are basedon the size ofthe bank rather than the size ofthe banking organization. 6An alternative ... SmallBanks Have an Advantage in Lending? An Examination of Risk-AdjustedYields in Small Business Lending at Large and Small Banks,” unpublishedworking paper, January.Cole, Robert A. , Lawrence...
... Aurora Bracale, AntonellaAntignani and Sonia Di Gaetano for preparing some of the RNase variants used in this study.This work was supported by the Italian Associationfor Cancer Research, the Ministry ... ‘r’) and variation ofthe inclination (inclination angle ‘i’) withrespect to the plane ofthe membrane (parallel to the xy plane).Cter and Nter are the C-terminal and N-terminal structural regions,respectively, ... fordestabilizing and eventually permeating membranes,and that intracellular membranes play a decisive role in defining the antitumor action of an RNase.Experimental proceduresAssays with membranesSynthetic...
... areinvolved in regulating the GABA translocation of GAT1, but not in binding of GAT1 to GABA.Transport of GABA by GAT1 across the cell mem-brane is driven by an electrochemical gradient of Na+and ... 1631 The roleof N-glycosylation inthe stability, trafficking andGABA-uptake of GABA-transporter 1Terminal N-glycans facilitate efficient GABA-uptake activity of the GABA transporterGuoqiang Cai1,2, ... 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 structures...
... address. The notation A@ k denotes the node at address k where Aisthe nonterminal labeling that node. A new nonterminal is created for each node in the training data. This nonterminal is called A k. ... non-constituents and that inthe field of syntax-based language modeling the end of supervised parsing has come in sight. 1 Introduction A major challenge in natural language parsing is the unsupervised ... from the WSJ domain or the LA Times domain. Although the effect of adding LA Times data is weaker than adding WSJ data, it is noteworthy that the unsupervised induction of trees from the LA Times...
... linguistic analysis. The remainder of the paper focuses on our initial work inthe adaptation (Gigley, 1984). As the research is currently underway, the discussion will raise several unanswered ... 5. MEANING-PROPAGATION: Fixed-time spreading activation to the distributed parts of recognized words ' meanings. 6. FIRING-INFORMATION-PROPAGATION: Asynchronous activation propagation ... French Because ofthe parallel activationof all meanings of each recognized word in HOPE, the determination ofthe phonetic representation ofa recognized word determines the breadth of active...
... Choice Analysis and identifies the determinants ofthe probability of an enterprise declaring itself profitable, on the basis of a projection of discriminating variables along two orthogonal axis: ... would have to take into account the evolution of real wages as well as of wage arrears. However, a remarkable point is that a substantial proportion of firms (31 .5% ofthe sub-sample) has increased ... into the statistical information included inthe database; that is, some cluesfor further, more focused analysis. First, this graph demonstrates that whatever the occasionally missing answers, the...
... them have 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 in ... of “Average Loan Balance perBorrower” for Latin America, Asia and Africa for the year 20 05. 121.1. The context: Microfinance in Latin America In Latin America, microfinance has experienced ... serving women: 98% of borrowerswere women in Asia in 2006, as compared to 66% in Africa and 61.8% in Latin America. Microfinance in Asia is also associated with some of the lowest average loan...
... of ambiguity inherent inthe visual scene. Specifically, the more ambiguous the meaning ofthe visual image, the more influence is exerted by the musical score inthe process of interpreting ... the music alters meaning ofa particular aspect of the film” (1988, p. 109). Marshall and Cohen also acknowledge the important role played by temporal characteristics ofthe sound and image, ... 1989). There is, however, certain music that is intended to be heard by the audience as part ofthe cinematic diegesis, i.e., the narratively implied spatiotemporal world ofthe actions and characters”...
... in fact is one ofthe least activemutants described in this report. The acidic shift inthe pH-optimum ofthe D215N mutantshows that Asp2 15 has a second major rolein catalysis,namely to increase ... enzyme that, at least in part,results from the vicinity of Asp2 15 (Table 3, rows 1 and4). The calculations indicate that the pK a of Glu144 is further, and somewhat drastically, increased upon ... Mutation of this residue to aspartate in other family18 chitinases also reduced activity dramatically [26,29]. The pK a calculations indicate that Glu144 has a slightlyelevated pK a in the...
... plans and whatrole he may play after Fidel Castro’s death.vital Raul Castro was formally designated his brother’s successorvital Raul isthe head ofthe Armed Forcesokay Raul is five years younger ... ques-tion answering. The decreases in performance at- 52 7Qid 25: The analyst is interested inthe status of Fidel Castro’s brother. Specifically, the analyst would likeinformation on his current plans ... Relevance(c) − λ maxs A sim(s, c)This model isthe baseline variant ofthe Maxi-mal Marginal Relevance method for summariza-tion (Goldstein et al., 2000). Each candidate is compared to all...