... comprises two segments. One is for the Ministry of Finance toissue bearer treasury bonds to individuals and enterprises. The other is both for the Ministry of Finance to issue and for individuals ... 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 ... 18 The rising trend inthe M2/GDP ratio is partially due to the continuedmonetarization of China’s economy. Professor YI Gang made the hypothesis that the rising trend of money supply...
... <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 ... of BCG vaccine in HCWs or b) the effects on efficacy ofthe vaccine strain administered6 MMWR April 26, 1996not a factor in determining whether the reaction is caused by M. tuberculosis infec-tion ... developed at the University of Illinois (Chicago, Illinois) from a strain originated at the Pasteur Institute. The Food andDrug Administration is considering another vaccine, which is produced...
... community banks still comprise the vast majority of banks, the question arises whether their rolein the banking system has declined to the point of insignificance. This sectionshows that community ... understanding issues facing community banks. I. THE CURRENT ROLEOF COMMUNITY BANKS The banking system inthe United States has always been unique in the sense of containing large numbers of small ... 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 that is...
... ofthe hinge loopafter ligation. Also in this case no clashes were detected at the dimer interface ofthe models or inthe surroundings of the hinge loop residues. Likewise, the models of nonex-changing ... structure is stabilized 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 ... around the axis z (byrotation angle r); values of EIE were recorded at 30° inter-vals of r from 0 to 360°;(d) the inclination ofthe dimer major axis with respect to the z axis, hence to the...
... 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 ... thatN-glycans, in particular their terminal structures, 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 ... N-glyco-sylation is important 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...
... sentences, resulting in a total training set of 4,040k sentences. We believe that our result is quite promising for the future of unsupervised parsing. In putting our best f-score in table 4 into perspective, ... 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 domain ... 3 indicates that there is a monotonous increase in f-score on the WSJ test set if NANC text is added to our training data in both cases, independent of whether the sentences come from the...
... disambiguated word meaning. It isthein interaction ofthe results of these asynchronous processes that the process of comprehension is defined. The processes are independent ofthe know- ledge ... hension of French, will form the basis ofthe discussion. 4.1 Word Boundaries in On-Line Comprehension of French Because ofthe parallel activation of all meanings of each recognized word in ... and inwhat contexts these morphemes are 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...
... Analysis and identifies the determinants ofthe probability of an enterprise declaring itself profitable, on the basis of aprojection of discriminating variables along two orthogonal axis: one ... 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 ... current production, the lower the supply of credit. Finally, the higher the co-ordinate on the f2 axis, e.g. the more the enterprise is faced with financial limit, the higher the level of barter transactions...
... 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 ... it is still important to identify the variousmodels and understand the existing distinct approaches to microfinance.There is significant diversity among the type of players in the microfinance...
... this role, explaining the residual activity ofthe D215Nmutant. The possibility to interact is obviously lost in the D215A mutant which in fact is one ofthe least activemutants described in ... prepared usingPYMOLsoftware [41].Results and discussionFigure 2 shows part ofthe structure of ChiB, highlighting the residues discussed in this report. Inthe free enzyme,Asp142 isinthe ÔdownÕ ... for catalysis[20,26–31]. 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...
... 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 ... divided into two types: 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 ... answering. The decreases in performance at-527Qid 25: The analyst is interested inthe status of Fidel Castro’s brother. Specifically, the analyst would likeinformation on his current plans and what...
... 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 ... schooling of Canadian 19-year-olds. This finding is particularly interesting for the international comparisons that we consider below, because the analysis follows up on precisely the international ... 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, measured by the knowledge...
... 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 ... list several traits used 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 ... in areas where the runoff must travel over a long distance before reaching the cultivated area. When the slope along which the runoff must travel is very long, the velocity ofthe flow is often...
... know the price of a mousetrap?Customers no longer need to know the price of servers, software and the rest ofthe parts making up the IT service stack. This knowledge is as useful as knowing the ... undertaking a Return on Investment (ROI) without taking into consideration the time value of money, or where applicable, foreign currency exposure. The title of this ebook hints at the error in this ... against their cloud services costs. This is best seen as a ‘generation one’ performance measure. This measure is no longer suitable for the assessment of value from cloud services. It is akin...