... include information on the price paid, the profits attributable to the net assets being bought and the effect ofthe transaction on the profit and loss account and balance sheet ofthe purchaser Consignia’s ... outright The partnership agreement could give the public sector “step-in” rights in the event of a major failure in the delivery of services or the bankruptcy ofthe partner However, these should ... that the essence ofthe portfolio approach is that some ofthe projects are likely to fail, the SAI should ascertain whether the public sector partner ensures that the partnership subjects each of...
... One ofthe most appealing aspects ofthe Web is its interconnectivity Some ofthebest sites encourage visitors to bounce around from page to page within the site—or even section to section on the ... for sure the slant ofthe group Create a good signature The signature is the block of text at the end of a message that says something about the person who sent the message Signatures are often ... Awards Awards started off slowly There was a Cool Site ofthe Day, The Top 5% of All the Sites on the Web, and so forth; but Web site awards have exploded There’s a Cool Site ofthe Second, for crying...
... at the regional level the health workforce that would support the delivery ofbestpractice care The focus ofthe model is on the occupations and professional groups that are responsible for the ... local The choice of condition could reflect the importance ofthe health problem within the region (number of persons affected, loss of quality of life/loss of life, costs of management) and the ... supportive of delivery ofbestpractice care There are potential barriers at thepractice level under the control of individual clinicians and practice teams, including factors such as practice...
... at the regional level the health workforce that would support the delivery ofbestpractice care The focus ofthe model is on the occupations and professional groups that are responsible for the ... local The choice of condition could reflect the importance ofthe health problem within the region (number of persons affected, loss of quality of life/loss of life, costs of management) and the ... supportive of delivery ofbestpractice care There are potential barriers at thepractice level under the control of individual clinicians and practice teams, including factors such as practice...
... assessment of these domains were generated by the UK centres The toolkit was designed to be completed by the manager ofthe facility since we were aware, due to the complexity of their mental ... or more ofthe nine domains by the UK research teams Since some questions were combined for the purposes of scoring, a total of 96 question scores contributed to the rating of domains Of these, ... who participated in the research They would also like to acknowledge the contributions ofthe members ofthe International Expert Panel throughout the study and thank them for their valuable input:...
... Cross-validation ofthe toolkit ratings against service users' quality of life, autonomy and markers of recovery tests whether it can deliver a proxy-measure ofthe service users' experiences of care and the ... Ethical approval aspects ofthe institution (such as the décor and homeliness) by the interviewer A later stage ofthe study involves the assessment of service users' quality of life, autonomy, satisfaction ... organised to disseminate the practical implications ofthe toolkit We shall also discuss the findings fromthe study with the World Health Organisation, the Departments of Health and care standard...
... will profoundly affect the organization—then by definition, it takes the passion and obsession ofthe CEO to make it happen We saw Six Sigma—and by the way we call it Raytheon Six Sigma—as a way ... influence on the nature of global business today All of them have profound implications for the productivity and profitability Introduction ➤ xix of companies worldwide For example, ofthe more than ... executives— people who’ve both discovered and leveraged the benefits of Strategic Six Sigma thinking and best practices inside their own organizations In Strategic Six Sigma: Best Practices from the...
... into the environmental legal regulation in Vietnam and the impacts they have on theindustry I.1 Research questions The thesis aims to answer the following questions, fromthe macro level of policy ... partially or more than fully offset the costs of complying with them (the lower part ofthe CLD) Such ‘innovation offsets’, as one can call them, can not only lower the net costs of meeting environmental ... situation for the environment but further research is needed The thesis is inspired by the idea of further research on the linkages that should be made on theindustry specific basis rather than...
... water, the expansion of which provokes the formation of micro air bubbles The particles, that are likely to decant, accumulate at the bottom ofthe truncated part and are then evacuated towards the ... other petroleum products resold to the Ivorian Refining Company (SIR) The hydroskimming units and the DHC are the main producers of waste water Figure describes the treating process flow ofthe ... truncated base where they are evacuated 8) The observation tank The treated water flows through the siphoned partitions ofthe flotator and, under the influence of gravity, goes down in the equilibrium...
... to their positions The arrowheads depict the residues important for the structural core ofthe IL-10 gene The underlined amino acid residues are the signal sequences ofthe respective genes The ... sequence show a degree of similarity to the carp IL-10 sequence The most highly conserved stretch in the IL-10 family is at the C-terminus in the C-helix and at the Nterminus ofthe F-helix; a similar ... against products of b-actin The x-axis indicates the time-periods of LPS incubation and the relative expression ofthe carp IL-10 gene on the y-axis Controls for 0, 1, and h of incubation without...
... 1) Subsite mapping On the basis ofthe assumptions of Hiromi [30] that the intrinsic rate of hydrolysis (kint) in the productive complex is independent ofthe length ofthe substrate, Km and ... subsite order from )5 to +3 [5] As the substrate most likely binds to the nonreducing end towards the N-terminus ofthe enzyme 5468 Fig Schematic representation ofthe subsite map of exopolygalacturonase ... the substrate, thereby facilitating binding to the substrate-binding cleft It is obvious that elucidation ofthe 3D structure of PelB would give more insight into structural organization of the...
... (e.g., the height of a person), while for others it is only the center of a distribution (e.g., the weight of a coffee cup) Questions with no trusted and exact answers were eliminated Fromthe remaining ... object During the first stage it is possible that we directly extract fromthe text a set of values for the requested object The bounds processing step rejects some of these values, and the comparisons ... choose the most frequent value based on the number of web snippets retrieved during the value acquisition stage If there are several values with the same frequency we select the median of these...
... the number of pages that contain the term on the Web We use the following notation H(x) = the number of pages that contain the term x” The number H(x) can be used as an estimated frequency of ... collected from each seed word, and then checked whether each ofthe target terms was included in the system output We counted the number of target terms in the following five cases The right half ... total; the average number of output terms per input is 12.2 terms We checked whether each ofthe 610 terms is a correct related term ofthe original seed term by hand The result is shown in the...
... air quality model to estimate the dispersion function, the accuracy ofthe estimated emissions will depend on the ability ofthe model to reproduce the dispersion ofthe pollutants Until now, in ... and when the wind is perpendicular to the street axis, the concentration of pollutants increases at the leeward side ofthe street concentrations are higher than that in the morning From pm to ... difference in the emission factors of VOCs for LDVs and HDVs The emission factors calculated in this study are generally higher compared to the results ofthe other studies around the world Only the emission...
... focused on the thermal stability, revealing that the secondary structure ofthe enzyme remains intact up to the upper limit ofthe investigated temperature range (99 °C) [1,4] To our knowledge the pressure ... in the protein In addition to pressure and temperature, the chemical composition ofthe protein solution (pH, salts) will also influence the stability ofthe enzyme In particular, the effect of ... treatment The pressure–temperature dependence ofthe pH ofthe Mes buffer (pH 6.0) was calculated in the relevant range for the enzyme inactivation experiments, using the equation of Elyanov...
... di-sodiated forms ofthe de-O-acylated LOS and the ion with m ⁄ z of 1479.6 is the anhydrous form ofthe de-O-acylated LOS The ion 1277.6 is the de-protonated molecular ion from de-O-acylated ... construction ofthe lgt3 mutant in M catarrhalis O35E Large arrows represent the direction of transcription; the site ofthe transposon insertion identified in the O35E is denoted as EN:TN, and the location ... consisted of Glc, Gal, GlcNAc and Kdo, whereas the carbohydrates derived fromthe mutant O35Elgt3 consisted exclusively of Glc and Kdo The glycosyl linkage analysis by GC-MS showed that the OSs from the...
... that the number of pilots hired by the major airlines is an indicator of some ofthe uncertainty in the civilian market and measures to some extent the health ofthe airline industryThe number of ... YOS 20) as the difference between the log ofthe two expected earnings profiles.12 Whereas ideally we would like to separate the effect of ACP fromthe effect of other military pay on the stay-or-leave ... construct expected pay from civilian airlines Furthermore, because much ofthe variation ofthe civilian pay profile lies in the probability of being hired, the number of civilian major airline...
... above The fulllength cDNA of lac1 was then generated by 3¢-RACE using the primer 5¢-TCTCAACCGTCGACAGCAG TGTTCGTG-3¢ designed fromthe sequence ofthe extreme 5¢ end of lac1 The full-length cDNA of ... Although the spectral characteristics ofthe lac1 protein suggest the absence of a type copper site, this is not borne out by analysis ofthe deduced amino acid sequence ofthe enzyme Thus, the 10 ... positively affected the activity and stability ofthe enzyme [40] The effect of copper on enzyme stability may be related to the inhibitory effect ofthe metal on the activity of an extracellular...
... with the side chain of Lys10 The unusual chemical shift values ofthe side-chain protons of Lys10 are consistent with the vicinity ofthe aromatic ring Other residues giving NOE peaks to the indole ... Cys27 These data together with the calculated structures are indicative of a number of intersheet hydrogen bonds in both ofthe molecules The exchanging properties ofthe amide protons of SGCI[L30R, ... Furthermore, the results ofthe H±D exchange experiment suggest a signi®cant difference in the internal ¯exibility ofthe molecules The rigid nature ofthe second b strand is consistent with the...