analyze and interpret the effect of an increasing population

The benefits of an ageing population pot

The benefits of an ageing population pot

... factors that have little to do with the age of populations and include the availability and cost of medical technology; and ã demand-side factors, such as physician and patient expectations that ... commitments are at an all time low. That means they have more time and money on their hands than at any other stage of their lives. It is not surprising, therefore, that they spend their consumption ... Parliament of Victoria 1997) and centres have been set up over the last decade in each of the states of Australia, funded mainly by government, to help manage supply and demand and to look after the...

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Foreign direct investment in Vietnam: An overview and analysis the determinants of spatial distribution across provinces

Foreign direct investment in Vietnam: An overview and analysis the determinants of spatial distribution across provinces

... determinants of FDI and its impacts on the economy of Vietnam. Our regression analysis of the determinants of FDI spatial distribution across provinces points to the importance of market, labour and ... a member of WTO, the MFN status with the US would contribute significantly to the inflow of FDI. The authors then used their estimate to simulate the effect of the BTA on the inflow of FDI into ... thank CIDA for financial support. Henrik Hansen, Jim Taylor, Pham Quang Ngoc, Nguyen Dinh Chuc and Getinet Haile provided useful comments and suggestions. Doan Quang Hung and Nguyen Van Anh...

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Tài liệu Báo cáo " The effect of cobalt substitution on structure and magnetic properties of nickel ferrite " pptx

Tài liệu Báo cáo " The effect of cobalt substitution on structure and magnetic properties of nickel ferrite " pptx

... part of several tens percent of H C and the last one whereas can only reach several hundreds of gauss. Thus, the increasing of Co-concentration led to the increasing of anisotropy property of ... (3) where B 2θ is the full width half maximum (rad), λ the wavelength of the X-ray, θ the angle between the incident and diffracted beams (degree) and d the particle size of the sample (nm) (in ... and octahedral location. That led to increasing of total magnetization of a molecule Ni 1-x Co x Fe 2 O 4 and hence there is increasing of M S (table 3). Another side, it is known that the...

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Tài liệu The Effect of TARP on Bank Risk-Taking Lamont Black and Lieu Hazelwood docx

Tài liệu The Effect of TARP on Bank Risk-Taking Lamont Black and Lieu Hazelwood docx

... non-TARP banks and 13 TARP banks; and, lastly for the smallest size group, there are 24 non-TARP banks and 7 TARP banks. Table 1 shows the descriptive statistics for the loan and bank characteristics ... how the banks changed the pricing on their loans along with the risk profile. The nominal interest rate of the loan is one of the loan characteristics recorded in the STBL. The respondent banks ... significantly increased the risk of loan originations by the large banks receiving the funds and significantly decreased the risk of loan originations by the small banks receiving the funds. These...

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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

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

... course, the effect of compounds such Arg-HCl and Gdn-HCl may be also due to changes that they induce in the stability and ⁄ or intermediate states of the target protein itself. The denaturant effect ... 4A), pre- cluding analysis of the effect of these concentrations on the chaperone activity of aB-crystallin (Fig. 4B,C). None of the compounds had an effect on the morphol- ogy of the amyloid fibrils ... that the effect of these additives on the chaperone action of aB-crys- tallin is dependent on the target protein used, and therefore the results highlight the need to assess the activity of chaperone...

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Tài liệu Báo cáo khóa học: The effect of mutations surrounding and within the active site on the catalytic activity of ricin A chain pptx

Tài liệu Báo cáo khóa học: The effect of mutations surrounding and within the active site on the catalytic activity of ricin A chain pptx

... shown as stereo images in thick ball and stick and the position of the Arg213 side-chain of the wild-type enzyme is overlayed and shown in thin ball and stick. The SIGMAA [33] weighted 2mF o -DF c electron ... quantified from digital images of ethidium bromide-stained gels, using IMAGEQUANT software, and depurination was calculated by relating the amounts of the small aniline-fragment and 5.8S rRNA and ... levels and, as such, these mutants could not be purified. To assess the effect of substitutions made at each of the arginyl residues on catalytic activity of RTA, the ability of each of the purified...

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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Effect of deletion of the DNase I hypersensitive sites on the transcription of chicken Ig-b gene and on the maintenance of active chromatin state in the Ig-b locus docx

Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Effect of deletion of the DNase I hypersensitive sites on the transcription of chicken Ig-b gene and on the maintenance of active chromatin state in the Ig-b locus docx

... acetylation of H3 and H4 histones, and the remaining DHSs in the deleted cells were examined to determine the roles of these DHSs on the transcription of Ig-b gene and on the mainten- ance of the active ... Size of the bands observed in each autoradiogram is indicated at the right side. The 6.6 kb band detected in lanes b, c, and d in autoradiogram (B), and lanes c and d in (C) is derived from the ... enhancing activity, as determined by transient transfection, was associated with DHSs in the Na channel gene and in the first intron of the Ig-b gene. Furthermore, the acetylation status of H3 and H4...

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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: An engineered disulfide bridge mimics the effect of calcium to protect neutral protease against local unfolding docx

Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: An engineered disulfide bridge mimics the effect of calcium to protect neutral protease against local unfolding docx

... k B , h and R as Boltzmann’s constant, Planck’s constant and gas constant, respectively, and T and DG # as absolute temperature and Gibbs free energy of activation, respectively, the DG # of unfolding ... kinetics of the pseudo-wild type (pWT) neutral protease from Bacillus stearothermophilus, of the disulfide bond mutant G8C ⁄ N60C, and of the protease variant W55F, in the pres- ence of 7.25 M guanidine ... of unfolding and autoproteolysis of G8C ⁄ N60C and pWT. In contrast to previous studies on the kinetics of thermoinactivation [13,24], this approach allows quantification of the contribution of Fig....

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Tài liệu The Effect of Social Trust and Economic Growth pdf

Tài liệu The Effect of Social Trust and Economic Growth pdf

... rewarded and sanctioned for their behaviour and hence to comply with norms and trustworthiness. This decreases the chance of their children dropping out of school. Coleman’s study was one of the ... presidencies. Furthermore, Bjørnskov points out that high trust countries like for example the Scandinavian countries and the Netherlands have a rather peaceful political history and that their royal ... increases the accumulation of human capital through the family and the society. Coleman argues that a higher endowment of social capital eases the transfer of human capital from the parents to their...

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the effect of treaties on foreign direct investment: bilateral investment treaties, double taxation treaties, and investment flows doc

the effect of treaties on foreign direct investment: bilateral investment treaties, double taxation treaties, and investment flows doc

... loss of domestic jobs, and a drain on the balance of payments? Can one justify BITs and DTTs on the basis that public sector foreign assistance (whether bilateral or through the World Bank and ... http://www.unctad.org/sections/ dite_dir/docs//webiteiit20051_en.pdf 14. Examples of the former are the extension of the prohibition of performance require- ments and the strengthening of transparency provisions; examples of the latter are clari- fication ... data, to Matthew Beck for creating the graphs and tables, and to Matthew Quint, Chryse Bautista and especially Michael O’Sullivan and Kimmie Lathana for their instrumental assistance in preparing...

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Báo cáo khoa học: NMR and molecular dynamics studies of an autoimmune myelin basic protein peptide and its antagonist Structural implications for the MHC II (I-Au)–peptide complex from docking calculations ppt

Báo cáo khoa học: NMR and molecular dynamics studies of an autoimmune myelin basic protein peptide and its antagonist Structural implications for the MHC II (I-Au)–peptide complex from docking calculations ppt

... agonist analogue) and Glu82. MD simulations of MBP(74–85), and Ala81MBP(74–85) in water and Me 2 SO To further assess the structural origin of the difference in activity between the agonist and antagonist, ... of Asp81 and G lu82 [this is consistent wi th the observed long-range NOE cross-peak between the side chain of Arg78 (H g ) and Glu82 (H c1 )and the medium-range NOE between the side chains of ... distance solute–box of 14 A ˚ . The various systems comprised 3899 and 4516 SPC molecules for the agonist and the antagonist in water, respectively, and 817 and 927 Me 2 SO molecules for the agonist...

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Báo cáo khoa học: The effect of replacing the axial methionine ligand with a lysine residue in cytochrome c-550 from Paracoccus versutus assessed by X-ray crystallography and unfolding ppt

Báo cáo khoa học: The effect of replacing the axial methionine ligand with a lysine residue in cytochrome c-550 from Paracoccus versutus assessed by X-ray crystallography and unfolding ppt

... rearrangement of the ‘open’ and ‘closed’ forms of the ligand loop [19]. Therefore, con- former A may be considered as the open form, albeit with the axial ligand still intact, with the main- and side-chain ... bond coupled with the dynamic process of ligand exchange. It thus seems likely that the mechanism of release of the axial ligand under alkaline conditions and in the presence of GdmHCl is different. ... presence of wat6 in the heme cavity. This water H-bonds to the K100 ligand most likely increasing the basicity of the N-donor to the heme-iron and lowering the reduction potential further than may...

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