... capture and make sense of. In the 5thD my role was more active, pursuing, and overt since I initiated and was partly responsible for running the 5thD. Here I was more of a participant -as- observer. ... From the start I have struggled with problems of trust and access - I had problems with “getting along” (Lofland & Lofland, 1995). My “gatekeeper” (Elvy, et al., 1991)...
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... small and rural post offices in Japan would have to be closed, as was the case in Finland and Sweden discussed in Part IV, Section B. Putting these charges and counter-charges aside, the success of ... system has long been an important collector of savings and provider of finan - cial services for middle, low-income and rural people, and has played an important role in...
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Agricultural Marketing Companies as Sources of Smallholder Credit in Eastern and Southern africa docx
... Companies as Sources of Smallholder Credit in Eastern and Southern Africa” aims to enhance IFAD’s understanding of a range of issues relative to these two strategic areas, and so to assist IFAD and ... cultivation of the food crops for the domestic market. Of export cash crops, smallholders produce almost all rice, pulses and cotton, 60% of coffee, 60% of fruits an...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: The effect of small molecules in modulating the chaperone activity of aB-crystallin against ordered and disordered protein aggregation pdf
... molecules, such as Arg-HCl, may be potential candidates as therapeutic agents in the treatment of protein-misfolding diseases. Experimental procedures Materials Bovine j-casein was obtained from Sigma ... was no influence of the additive on the chaperone activity of aB-crystallin (i.e. the effect of the additive on the aggregation of the target protein is inde- pendent and di...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Crystal structure of salt-tolerant glutaminase from Micrococcus luteus K-3 in the presence and absence of its product L-glutamate and its activator Tris pdf
... mammals, fungi, yeasts and bacteria [1–5]. Glutaminase from Micrococcus luteus K-3 (Mglu) and AoGlS glutaminase from Aspergillus oryzae RIB40 are salt-tolerant [6,7]. Glutaminase (YbaS) from Escheri- chia ... l-glutamate (referred to as G); and in the presence of both Tris and l-glutamate (referred to as TG). Furthermore, the li- ganded (TG) and unliganded (T) structures...
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WORKING PAPER SERIES NO 898 / MAY 2008: CENTRAL BANK COMMUNICATION AND MONETARY POLICY A SURVEY OF THEORY AND EVIDENCE doc
... Federal Reserve has now joined the the Bank of England and the ECB in providing more frequent official forecasts of output measures. A number of central banks even publish estimates of the output ... also releases the transcripts of FOMC meetings, albeit only after a five-year lag. 22 The central banks of the Czech Republic, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Sweden, and...
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CENTRAL BANK INDEPENDENCE: AN UPDATE OF THEORY AND EVIDENCE pptx
... of the inflationary consequences of wage demands. In this case, the overall impact of a decreasing degree of CWB on unemployment may well be positive instead of negative as in the Cukierman and ... accordingly. The theory underlying this view is the time inconsistency model by Kydland and Prescott (1977) and Barro and Gordon (1983). The basic message of this theory i...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Ubiquitination of E3 ubiquitin ligase TRIM5a and its potential role pdf
... antibody to FLAG (M2) was purchased from Sigma (St Louis, MO, USA). Rabbit antibody to MBP was purchased from New England Biolabs (Beverly, MA, USA). Preparation of cDNAs The cDNAs of ubiquitin, Ro52 ... ubiquitin-conjugating enzymes and act as E3 ubiquitin ligases [13,14]. Recently, we showed that Ro52 functions as an E3 ubiquitin ligase in a RING-finger-dependent manner as we...
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Báo cáo khóa học: Differential carbohydrate epitope recognition of globotriaosyl ceramide by verotoxins and a monoclonal antibody pdf
... Da. The mass spectra were externally calibrated with the molecular mass of a mixture of standard peptides. Results Comparison of ligand/Gb 3 binding by RELISA The binding of VT1, VT2, and mAb ... In the majority of samples, the staining of anti-Gb 3 and VT1 corresponded. In some cases, however, tubular staining by anti-Gb 3 was distinct from that of VT1 and this varied...
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Effect of Fund Size on the Performance of Mutual Funds Evidence from Iran pdf
... relationship between fund size and Sharpe measure, Treynor measure, Sortino measure and Information measure, and the performance of Small Cap Stock mutual funds. But, there was a significant relationship ... relationship between Fund Size and Sharpe measure, Treynor measure, Sortino measure and Information measure and the performance of Small Cap Stock mutual funds. But, th...
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