... .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 ... education initiatives to improve the knowledge of pension fund trustees THE ROLE OF PENSION FUNDS IN FINANCING GREEN GROWTH INITIATIVES1 I Green Growth Financing Requirements Transitioning to a ... well as increased private flows, including instruments to incentivize private flows such as carbon markets and other forms of carbon pricing 10 II Potential Role of Pension Funds in Green Investment...
Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 12:20
... showing the presence of iNOS (~130kDa) in LPS rats pre-treated with flurbiprofen or nitroflurbiprofen Figure 6-3b Quantitation of liver (shown in Figure 6-3a) iNOS Figure 6-4 Effect of flurbiprofen ... Effect of flurbiprofen or nitroflurbiprofen on NF-κB activation in the liver of rats at h after LPS injection Figure 6-7 Effect of flurbiprofen or nitroflurbiprofen on the proteolytic activity of ... puncture (CLP)-induced septic shock model Induction of sepsis is intrinsically more challenging than inducing endotoxemia since the immune challenge is episodic in nature Some of the guidelines for...
Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 14:16
The role of leadership theory in raising the profile of women in management
... viewed as limited in 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 ... more typical of male behaviours Of interest is the inclusion of ‘‘control’’ as a significant feature of the transactional style, common in definition of leadership in the 1990s In contrast, women ... superiority in utilising effective leadership styles of interaction with their subordinates and organisational outcomes, actually translates into a dramatic increase in the numbers of women being appointed...
Ngày tải lên: 08/10/2013, 15:56
Globalization: the Role of Institution Building in the Financial Sector _ The Case Study of China
... The role of FDI in institution building Over the past 20 years, foreign financial institutions, mainly foreign banks have played an important role in the opening up of Chinese financial industry ... technology, in exploring on-line banking business as well as in promoting non-bank financial institutions Efforts should be made in upgrading financial operations and financial services, and in conducting ... 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...
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
... boosted by administering a tuberculin skin test week to year after the initial postvaccination skin test; ongoing periodic skin testing also might prolong reactivity to tuberculin in vaccinated persons ... of skin testing is the Mantoux tuberculin skin test using 0.1 mL of tuberculin units (TU) of purified protein derivative (PPD) (1 ) BCG vaccination contributes to the prevention and control of ... whose skin- test results are negative (i.e.,
Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 13:20
Tài liệu The Role of Community Banks in the U.S. Economy pdf
... them to maintain higher net interest margins Indeed, during most of the 1990s, the net interest margin of small banks held steady at over 4.5 percent, while the net interest margin of large banks ... key role serving certain types of communities and providing certain types of banking services ECONOMIC REVIEW • SECOND QUARTER 2003 17 Definition of a community bank There is no single definition ... Banking Industry,” Journal of Banking and Finance, August Sullivan, Richard J 2000 “How Has the Adoption of Internet Banking Affected Performance and Risk in Banks? A Look at Internet Banking in...
Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 11:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: The role of electrostatic interactions in the antitumor activity of dimeric RNases docx
... Electrostatic interactions and antitumor RNases the dimer interface of the models or in the surroundings of the hinge loop residues Likewise, the models of nonexchanging and exchanging HHP-RNase ... produced a modest intermixing RNase-AA-IG instead, which induced a low, but significant degree of membrane aggregation, did not show any effects on vesicle intermixing No effects of membrane fusion ... trafficking, specifically associate to negatively charged membranes As all these data are suggestive of a role of membranes, in particular of negatively charged membranes, in the mechanism of action of...
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
... substrate binding process This provides strong evidence that N-glycans, in particular their terminal structures, are involved in regulating the GABA translocation of GAT1, but not in binding of GAT1 ... terminal structures of the N-glycans of GAT1, N-glycosylation processing of NNN was inhibited by 1-deoxymannojirimycin (dMM) Inhibition by dMM leads to the formation of NNN molecules containing ... 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...
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
... appropriate masculine/feminine indicators (Jayez, 1982) The issues are not whether human brains work in a universal fashion, but instead raise questions of how interpreted levels of representation, ... often generic and mark masculine, feminine, or plural (Gross, 1977; Goffic and McBride, 1975) And furthermore, these same articles often are not translated into meaning preserving sentences in ... results Because of the parallel 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...
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
... remaining 11% An increase in indebtedness (of 80% in average) is associated with a 14% decrease in production, and with a 2% rise in inventories Conversely, enterprises with a decrease level of indebtedness ... equal to ô ằ (increase in indebtedness) by 15 points (33 minus 18), and increases the probability of Expected-Debt to be equal to ô ằ (not indebted and not going to be) by 13 points (34 minus 21) ... markets - demand-side constraints for most of them and access-to-input for the worst in this sub-pool Conversely, the overbearing influence of the financial constraints in the lower half is statistically...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 08:20
BEYOND MICROCREDIT: THE ROLE OF SAVINGS BANKS IN MICROFINANCE potx
... 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 underprivileged ... presentation of regional leaders Report Microfinance in Latin America – The leadership of WSBI members 1.1 The context: Microfinance in Latin America 1.2 Microfinance as carried out by WSBI Latin American ... Microfinance Services by Savings Banks in Africa – The Sleeping Giants have started moving, but where are they going? 2.1 Summary 2.2 Main characteristics of microfinance in Africa 2.3 Savings...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 10:20
THE ROLE OF MUSIC COMMUNICATION IN CINEMA potx
... imagery of an individual, even in the absence of an accompanying film Instead, music appears to exert a direct influence on the cognitive processing of a film by guiding selective attending toward ... this query determines whether or not the inter-media relationship is one of contradiction in which the meanings of the component media are in opposition one to another, producing a collision or ... score, in its typical role, serves to reinforce, alter, and/or augment the emotional content of a cinematic narrative In the following paragraphs, we will propose an extended set of ways in which...
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
... formation of the oxazolinium ion intermediate; (C) Hydrolysis of the oxazolinium ion intermediate Copyright National Academy of Sciences, USA questioned on the basis of studies of chitinase A from ... 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 how the ... of the )1 sugar ring into a 4-sofa conformation is an inherent part of the catalytic mechanism (Fig [17,19,21,22]) Structural studies show that Asp142, Tyr214 and Asp215 are involved in binding...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 14:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "The Role of Information Retrieval in Answering Complex Questions" ppt
... shine The other value of this work lies in its use of an automatic evaluation metric (P OURPRE) for system development—the first instance in complex 529 QA that we are aware of Prior to the introduction ... in conceptual retrieval: A study in the domain of clinical medicine In SIGIR 2006 J Lin and D Demner-Fushman 2006b Will pyramids built of nuggets topple over? In HLT/NAACL 2006 G Marton and A ... term-based approaches to reducing redundancy Instead of selecting sentences for inclusion in the answer based on relevance alone, we implemented a simple utility model, which takes into account sentences...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 02:21
The Role of Education Quality in Economic Growth* pdf
... This work, following the innovative analyses of human capital by Jacob Mincer (1970, 1974), considers how investing in differing amounts of schooling affects individual earnings Over the past ... underlying analysis involves estimating a standard “Mincer” earnings function and adding a measure of individual cognitive skills This approach relates the logarithm of earnings to years of schooling, ... and Patrinos (2004)), which are frequently interpreted as indicating diminishing marginal returns to schooling There are some reasons for caution in interpreting the precise magnitude of estimates...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 08:20
The Role of Rainfed Agriculture in the Future of Global Food Production doc
... agricultural research; and reforming policies and increasing investments in rainfed areas WATER HARVESTING Water harvesting involves concentrating and collecting the rainwater from a larger catchment ... being grown Types of external catchment systems include runoff farming, which involves collecting runoff from the hillsides into flat areas, and floodwater harvesting within a streambed using ... scenario that eliminates groundwater mining throughout the work would result in a decline in irrigated cereal production of 20.1 million metric tons in China, 18.4 million metric tons in India, 18 million...
Ngày tải lên: 09/03/2014, 00:20
The Role of Postal Networks in Expanding Access to Financial Services docx
... 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 Post Offices in Credit 21 The Need ... 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 Postal ... institutional point of view, there appear two main directions in development One is the continuation of the postal office savings bank operating under the agency agreement of a ministry of finance,...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 10:20
The Role of Bank Capital in the Propagation of Shocks potx
... disturbances originating within the banking sector, which we interpret as episodes of distress in financial markets We show that, following adverse shocks, economies whose banking sectors remain well-capitalized ... lending Figure illustrates the sequence of events that unfold in each period 2.2 Final good production Final Good Assembly Competitive firms produce the final good by combining a continuum of intermediate ... shirking project, instead of behaving and running the “good” project Ensuring that they have an incentive to the latter is a key component of the financial contract discussed below Bank monitoring...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 10:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Kinetic and crystallographic analyses of the catalytic domain of chitinase from Pyrococcus furiosus – the role of conserved residues in the active site pdf
... bioconversion of chitin into valuable oligosaccharide derivatives for various industrial applications Pf-ChiA has a unique multidomain structure containing two chitin-binding domains (ChBD1 and ... number of amino acid residues contribute to the binding of the substrate by hydrogen bonding and ⁄ or hydrophobic interactions Using the ligplot program [31], we investigated the specific interactions ... important role in ‘cycling’ the pKa of catalytic Glu during catalysis [24,38] The mutation of the D1 residue to Asn (D140N) in SmChiB caused a 500-fold decrease in activity [39] On the other hand, in...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 11:20
The Role of Tradable Permits in Water Pollution Control doc
... Murray-Darling Basin (Australia) Interstate salinity trading came into force in 1992 as part of the Murray-Darling Basin Salinity and Drainage Strategy, administered by the Murray-Darling Basin Commission, ... US including the Tar-Pamlico Basin in North Carolina (case of point-point source trading also allowing for point-non-point trade), the case of Lake Dillon and the case of the Cherry Creek Basin ... measuring the concentration of salts, the nature and origins of which are well understood Salt pollution usually originates in the mining industry (salt mines, but also mine water from coal mines,...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 16:20