... China Statistics Yearbook, China Financial Yearbook and People’s Bank of China
Statistics Quarterly bulletin.
B. Development of direct financing and indirect financing markets
providing financing ... capital flow, monetary
system, financial markets, financial institution, and financial coordination and
supervision.
In China, institution building inthe financial sector takes place against the
backdrop ... 67.8
Sources: Almanac of China’s Finance and Banking and China Statistical Year Book
V. An Outlook of Institutional Reforms inthe Coming Years
In light ofthe opportunities and challenges posed by China’s...
... wonderful monetization," the old man said. "Maintaining a blog isa lot of work, and
the blogger has the right to earn some income. The ads aren't too distracting, and they
actually complement ... nothing to say. I stared deep into
the old man's eyes as I awaited certain death.
And then I found that the events ofthe previous days were flashing before my eyes, as in a
dream. A vivid, ... you."
The old man then booted up a laptop that was running Windows Vista. He opened Internet
Explorer 7, and then opened many blogs in different tabs without it crashing. What a
magical place this...
... in determining a) the efficacy of
BCG vaccine in HCWs or b) the effects on efficacy ofthe vaccine strain administered
6 MMWR April 26, 1996
not a factor in determining whether the reaction is ... 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. BCG
vaccination is not ... and
Drug Administration is considering another vaccine, which is produced by Connaught
Laboratories, Inc., for licensure inthe United States. This vaccine was transferred from
a strain that was maintained...
... larger
banks in making small business loans. Loan officers at small banks can
take into account a wide variety of factors in reviewing applications for
small business loans, including the character of ... McNulty, and James A. Verbrugge. 2002. “Do Small
Banks Have an Advantage in Lending? An Examination of Risk-Adjusted
Yields in Small Business Lending at Large and Small Banks,” unpublished
working paper, ... the bank to carefully monitor the
borrower over the course ofthe loan. To cover the fixed cost of investi-
gating a loan applicant and learning his business, the bank may also
need to maintain...
... Renata Piccoli, for
critical reading the manuscript and helpful suggestions;
and to Dr Valeria Cafaro, Aurora Bracale, Antonella
Antignani and Sonia Di Gaetano for preparing some
of the RNase variants ... through rotation ofthe RNase around its major axis (rotation
angle ‘r’) and variation ofthe inclination (inclination angle ‘i’) with
respect to the plane ofthe membrane (parallel to the xy plane).
Cter ... residues
Asp38 and Glu111. In RNase-AA-GG the ‘basic sur-
face’ is more similar to that of BS-RNase because of
the removal ofthe four carboxylates. The ‘basic sur-
face’ ofthe mutant HHP-RNase is...
... 1631
The roleof N-glycosylation inthe stability, trafficking and
GABA-uptake of GABA-transporter 1
Terminal N-glycans facilitate efficient GABA-uptake activity
of the GABA transporter
Guoqiang Cai
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, ... are
involved 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 ... oligosaccharide side-chains
are 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...
... 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 ... nonterminal labeling that
node. A new nonterminal is created for each node
in the training data. This nonterminal is called A
k
.
Let a
j
represent the number of subtrees headed by
the node A@ j, ... developed a
statistically consistent estimator for DOP which is
based on the assumption that maximizing the joint
probability ofthe parses ina treebank can be
approximated by maximizing the joint...
... 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 ... morphemes has
also been associated with certain types of aphasic
behavior in English speaking patients, speci-
fically in agrammatics and Broca's aphasics.
French neurolinguistic studies have ... warranted. What
we claim instead is that the processing is
similar, indeed universal and that we must begin
to make cross-linguistic studies that assume this
underlying commonality and at...
... 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: ... into the statistical information included inthe database; that is, some clues
for further, more focused analysis. First, this graph demonstrates that whatever the
occasionally missing answers, the ... appears as a strong inertial component inthe credit-demand equation. This can
be interpreted as an indication that a disproportionate share ofthe demand for bank credit is
coming from already indebted...
... up campaigns that are innovative and add value to the bank in
addition to the marketing aspect. This pedagogical engagement and support
to initiatives aimed at achieving social and financial inclusion ... serving women: 98% of borrowers
were 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 “Average Loan Balance per
Borrower” for Latin America, Asia and Africa for the year 2005.
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1.1. The context: Microfinance in Latin America
In Latin America, microfinance has experienced...
... meaning (i.e., it is equally valid to say that the
music projects the meaning ofthe image or the image projects the
meaning ofthe music), then the multimedia example has passed the
similarity ... 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, ... relationships inherent inthe association of one
musical tone with another. Patterns of tension and release provide a
sense of organization and meaning to the musical sound, apart from
any extramusical...
... 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 same
enzyme.
To obtain an insight into ... along the reaction pathway of cyclodextrin glycosyl-
transferase elucidate catalysis inthe alpha-amylase family. Nat.
Struct. Biol. 6, 432–436.
16. Terwisscha van Scheltinga, A. C., Armand, S., Kalk, ... Mutation of this residue to aspartate in other family
18 chitinases also reduced activity dramatically [26,29].
The pK
a
calculations indicate that Glu144 has a slightly
elevated pK
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in the...
... plans and whatrole he may play after Fidel Castro’s death.
vital Raul Castro was formally designated his brother’s successor
vital Raul isthe head ofthe Armed Forces
okay Raul is five years younger ... Relevance(c) − λ max
s 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 ... are able to pin-
point the exact span of text that directly satisfies
an information need.
Nevertheless, IR engines remain integral com-
ponents of question answering systems, primar-
ily as a...
... specific approaches, but the basic underlying analysis involves estimating a
standard “Mincer” earnings function and adding a measure ofindividual cognitive skills. This approach relates the
logarithm ... estimation approaches can have an impact on the precise value ofthe rate of return, it is clear that there isa strong
causal impact of school attainment on earnings.
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using the mathematics component ... sensibly
assume that the average student ina school in Ghana or Peru would gain the same amount of
knowledge in any year of schooling as the average student ina school in Finland or Korea? Still,...
... gain of about 15-25 percent
compared to local materials in tropical areas. Applying these data to the estimated area
planted to MVs in Africa, the overall yield gain due to adoption of MVs alone ... increasing crop yields in rainfed areas through
agricultural research; and reforming policies and increasing investments in rainfed areas.
WATER HARVESTING
Water harvesting involves concentrating ... relationships among water availability and demand, food
supply and demand, international food prices, and trade at regional and global levels.
Globally, 69 percent of all cereal area is rainfed, including...