... .6 THE ROLE OF PENSION FUNDS IN FINANCING GREEN GROWTH INITIATIVES I Green Growth Financing Requirements II Potential Role of Pension Funds in Green Investment ... and green growth related projects Though generally offering these bonds with the same interest rate as other instruments, and with the same credit rating, ring-fencing the financing for green ... investing in infrastructure – including green projects - and the opportunities offered in the market Pension funds are „buy and hold‟ investors and their main focus is on long term income rather...
Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 12:20
... raising the profile of women in management However, during this period of research, there was an emerging recognition of the importance of a concern for people in the behavioural theories as being ... anything towards raising the profile of women in management, as the theory was constructed as a male model at a time when women were not visible in paid employment One of the off shoots of the ... enabling of others to help achieve the goals of the organisation Furthermore, the ability to control others is given no prominence in this recent definition of leadership A brief review of early...
Ngày tải lên: 08/10/2013, 15:56
Globalization: the Role of Institution Building in the Financial Sector _ The Case Study of China
... relies on the securities booking system of the CGSDTC and the bond trading system of the inter-bank lending centre The trading system of the national inter-bank lending centre provides pricing information, ... source of financing for enterprises, if their own capital is excluded In summary, the deepening process of the financial markets has rendered the dominance of the banking sector in the financial ... in turn contributed to the financial stability not only in Asia but also in the whole world Role of the international financial institutions ( IFIs ) The IFIs have played an active role in financial...
Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 07:15
Tài liệu The Role of BCG Vaccine in the Prevention and Control of Tuberculosis in the United States: A Joint Statement by the Advisory Council for the Elimination of Tuberculosis and the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices docx
... adults (39 ) The renewed interest in examining the indications for BCG vaccination in the United States included consideration of the wide range of vaccine efficacies determined by clinical trials ... explore the sources of the heterogeneity in the efficacy of the BCG vaccine reported in the individual studies Using a model that included the geographic latitude of the study site and the data ... efficacy of BCG vaccine in HCWs or b) the effects on efficacy of the vaccine strain administered Vol 45 / No RR-4 MMWR and the vaccinee’s age at the time of vaccination The protective efficacy of BCG...
Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 13:20
Tài liệu The Role of Community Banks in the U.S. Economy pdf
... understanding issues facing community banks I THE CURRENT ROLE OF COMMUNITY BANKS The banking system in the United States has always been unique in the sense of containing large numbers of small ... banks continue to be chartered (Chart 2) After declining steadily since the mid-1980s, the number of new bank charters in the United States increased sharply during the second half of the 1990s, ... While community banks still comprise the vast majority of banks, the question arises whether their role in the banking system has declined to the point of insignificance This section shows that...
Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 11:20
Tài liệu SICK WATER? THE CENTRAL ROLE OF WASTEWATER MANAGEMENT IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT pdf
... Figure 19 in the timing and intensity of rainfall, or the period of time without rain, as well as affecting the quality of water in rivers and lakes through changes in the timing and volume of peak ... cost-effective way of assessing health risks; • the identification of all risk points along the chain of events from the origin of the wastewater to the consumption of the produce (e.g the farm-to-fork ... Hoepner,2008) There is scope to improve the sustainability of the desalination process The process results in the discharge of a concentrated brine into the receiving waters Temperature and salinity...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 10:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: A role of miR-27 in the regulation of adipogenesis ppt
... or without hematoxylin staining In hypoxia experiments, 3T3-L1 cells were maintained in a hypoxia chamber (Invivo 400; Ruskinn Inc., Cincinnati, OH, USA) constantly maintained at 1% O2 Culture ... relevant role of miR-27 in the regulation of adipose tissue functions in vivo, we examined the expression of miR-27 in the genetically obese ob ⁄ ob mice The 2352 expression levels of both miR-27a ... IDM (10 lgÆmL)1 insulin, lm dexamethasone, and 0.5 mm IDM) Cells were then maintained in DMEM containing 10% fetal bovine serum and lgÆmL)1insulin The medium was replaced every other day Mature...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 08:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: The role of electrostatic interactions in the antitumor activity of dimeric RNases docx
... through the exchange between subunits of either their N-terminal, or their C-terminal ends [33–35] We found that the behavior with the model membrane of the dimer in which the C-terminal ends ... geometry of the hinge loop after ligation Also in this case no clashes were detected at Electrostatic interactions and antitumor RNases the dimer interface of the models or in the surroundings of the ... Nter are the C-terminal and N-terminal structural regions, respectively, of the two A and B monomers of the dimeric RNase The black circle between the monomers indicates the mass center of the dimer...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 06:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: The role of N-glycosylation in the stability, trafficking and GABA-uptake of GABA-transporter 1 Terminal N-glycans facilitate efficient GABA-uptake activity of the GABA transporter pptx
... N-linked 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 the role of the ... misfolding of this protein, resulting in its partial retention in the ER and its rapid digestion thereafter [16,19] Accordingly, our results indicate that the intracellular trafficking of N-glycosylation ... Aliquots were used for measurement of the remaining [3H]GABA and [14C]sucrose The protein concentration in the supernatant was determined using the bicinchoninic acid protein assay reagent (Pierce, USA)...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 17:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "From HOPE en I''''ESPERANCE On the Role of Computational Neurolinguistics in Cross-Language Studies " pptx
... t is the in interaction of the results of these asynchronous processes that the process of comprehension is defined 4.1 The processes are independent of the knowledge representations defined ... activation of a l l meanings of each recognized word in HOPE, the determination of the phonetic representation of a recognized word determines the breadth of active competition amon meanings for ... defined than through other methods, because i t enables one to develop a broader perspective of the questions within an analysis of the hypothesis in the cont e x t of a characterization of the...
Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 20:20
Enterprise Adjustment and the Role of Bank Credit in Russia: Evidence from a 420 Firm''''s Qualitative Survey pdf
... evolution of the same type of variables; their judgement on their actual and future behavior, including the type of constraints they face Some sets of answers are strongly cardinal, as for the current ... access-to-input for the worst in this sub-pool Conversely, the overbearing influence of the financial constraints in the lower half is statistically associated with a rather low occurrence of real ... Adjustment and the Role of Bank Credit in Russia: Evidence from a 420 Firm's Qualitative Survey The main underlying question in the above-mentioned conclusions rather brings back to the issue of the adjustment...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 08:20
BEYOND MICROCREDIT: THE ROLE OF SAVINGS BANKS IN MICROFINANCE potx
... many of them have been pioneers in the Latin American microfinance industry As of today, out of 15 Latin American members are active in microfinance These members are involved in different ways in ... unrivalled in scale, and outreach continues to grow in terms of the number of microborrowers Institutions providing microfinance in Asia play a critical role in increasing the access to finance for ... very helpful in bringing microfinance into the spotlight not only in developing countries but also in the developed world The awareness by policy makers about the role of microfinance as a major...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 10:20
THE ROLE OF MUSIC COMMUNICATION IN CINEMA potx
... the music projects the meaning of the image or the image projects the meaning of the music), then the multimedia example has passed the similarity test and the relationship exhibited is one of ... other-worldly In this capacity, the role of music is significantly enhanced by the level of ambiguity inherent in the visual scene Specifically, the more ambiguous the meaning of the visual image, the ... music), taking into account the director’s – and, therefore, the composer’s – intentions, the narrative content of the film, and the overall strategy of the director in constructing the multifaceted...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 14:20
Báo cáo khóa học: Mutational and computational analysis of the role of conserved residues in the active site of a family 18 chitinase docx
... 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 in the same enzyme To obtain an insight into ... 1), thereby confirming the crucial role of Asp142 Catalysis in family 18 chitinases (Eur J Biochem 271) 259 In most ChiB structures, Asp142 is clearly defined, being either in the ÔdownÕ or in the ... positioned in the ÔupÕ position rows and shows that in the presence of the substrate, rotation of Asp142 towards Glu144 lowers the pKa of the latter by 0.8 pH units The calculated effects of the D140N...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 14:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "The Role of Information Retrieval in Answering Complex Questions" ppt
... 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 document (from the IR engine) ... evaluating answers to definition questions In HLT/EMNLP 2005 J Lin and D Demner-Fushman 2006a The role of knowledge in conceptual retrieval: A study in the domain of clinical medicine In SIGIR ... the findings of Monz (2003), who made the same observation in the factoid QA task There are a few caveats to consider when interpreting these results First, the test set of 25 questions is rather...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 02:21
Báo cáo khoa học: Leishmania donovani methionine adenosyltransferase Role of cysteine residues in the recombinant enzyme pptx
... whereas the slope of the slow semi-inactivation process was rather similar to the slope of the curve found when the medium did not contain AdoMet, with an estimated halflife of 10.5 The role of the ... are located in the central domain of each subunit, in the interface between the two dimers comprising the tetrameric structure [29] This domain contains five cysteine residues, two of them (Cys35 ... forming a disulfide bond which may be necessary for the tetrameric state of the enzyme In addition, Cys69 is involved in the correct folding of the monomer, supporting the establishment of the...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 08:20
The Role of Education Quality in Economic Growth* pdf
... additional schooling, the estimated schooling effect could include both the impacts of schooling and the fact that those continuing in school could earn more in the absence of schooling.2 For the most ... income levels mainly though speeding up technological progress, rather than shifting the level of the production function or increasing the impact of an additional year of schooling In sum, the ... student in a school in Ghana or Peru would gain the same amount of knowledge in any year of schooling as the average student in a school in Finland or Korea? Still, using the quantitative measure of...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 08:20
The Role of Rainfed Agriculture in the Future of Global Food Production doc
... trees The largest plant height was obtained using linings of stone and marble During the first year of the study, when the lining served only as mulch due to lack of rainfall, an increase of 33.3 ... crop yields in rainfed areas, even in the more marginal rainfed environments The continued application of conventional breeding and the recent developments in non-conventional breeding offer considerable ... Considerations of risk may be very important in the initial decision of whether to adopt rainwater harvesting at an individual farm level Especially due to the low economic status of many of the farmers in...
Ngày tải lên: 09/03/2014, 00:20
The Role of Postal Networks in Expanding Access to Financial Services docx
... as Points of Access into the Financial System The Role of African Post Offices in Payments The Role of Post Offices in International Remittances The Role of Post Offices in Savings The Role of ... agreed between the ministries of finance, the IMF, and World Bank In the recent past in Africa, no distinction was made of the roles of the post as the mail provider, as owner of the post office network, ... Services The Role of Post Offices in International Remittances The Role of Post Offices in Savings The Role of Post Offices in Credit 5—Conclusion 16 17 17 17 18 19 20 21 21 21 Worldwide Landscape of...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 10:20
The Role of Bank Capital in the Propagation of Shocks potx
... in prices translates into a stronger response in output, which continues to decline after the onset of the shock, reaching a low point in the fourth period, at −0.45% below steady-state Overall, ... rapidly, even overshooting its steady-state level periods after the onset of the shock The relative abundance of bank capital is also 22 reflected in the response of the market determined capital adequacy ... rates only increase by 50 basis points, and the increase in inflation is 50 basis points less than in the baseline case A banking sector that remains well-capitalized can thus reduce the length...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 10:20