... those of the author and not necessarily those of the BIS Introduction Financial institutions are constantly designing and marketing innovative financial products that promise to meet investors’ ... through plain vanilla structures that involved buying all the underlying securities comprising the index as in Figure Subsequent modifications involved replicating the index by holding an optimised ... holding an optimised basket of the underlying securities in the index and generating additional income by lending the securities out In the United States, this involved organising ETFs as open-ended...
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báo cáo hóa học:" A Population-Based and Longitudinal Study of Sexual Behavior and Multidrug-Resistant HIV Among Patients in Clinical Care" pdf
... engaged in risk behaviors occurred at a low frequency One of the most interesting findings in this study is the wide variability in distribution of sexual risk in the population The number of individuals ... picture of the risk of drug resistance transmission via sexual risk behavior among patients with HIV infection and provide insight into the growing rate of drug resistance in incident HIV infections ... transmission of HIV among HIV-seropositive individuals in an urban setting Clin Infect Dis 2004, 38:122-127 Abstract Crepaz N, Marks G: Towards an understanding of sexual risk behavior in people living...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Regional Distribution and Relative Frequency of Gastrointestinal Endocrine Cells in Large Intestines of C57BL/6 Mice" potx
... intestinal glands of the colon (Fig 3) However, no glucagon-IR cells were observed in the remaining portions of the large intestinal tract of this strain of mouse Gastrin-IR cells No gastrin-IR ... proteins (CG A, B and secretogranin Ⅱ) Members of this family are found in the secretory granules of a broad spectrum of amine and peptide-producing cells of the adrenal medulla and gastrointestinal ... location of the large intestinal tract, and these differences are shown in Table The regional distribution and relative frequency of the endocrine cells varied according to where in the large intestinal...
Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 15:20
Báo cáo toán học: "The Skew and Relative Derangements of Type B" pptx
... Project of the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Science and Technology, and the National Science Foundation of China the electronic journal of combinatorics 14 (2007), #N24 References [1] T Andreescu ... determined by the entries of π Hence X is uniquely determined by π Let σ1 , σ2 , , σn be the elements of X arranged in the increasing order of the underlying elements of X If f has a fixed point, ... points πi (1 ≤ i ≤ n − 1), namely, πi = i or ¯ Using the same argument as in the proof of Lemma 2.4, we see that the signed fixed i points are completely determined by the remaining elements in...
Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 15:22
The potential environmental risks of pharmaceuticals in vietnamese aquatic systems case study of antibiotics and synthetic hormones
... occurring in the Escherichia coli crisis in Germany during 2011 or the decline of vulture population in India due to the bioaccumulation of diclofenac taken from carcasses of dead livestock (Ginebreda ... Hospital Pharmacies Internal treatment External treatment Fluoroquinolones Ciprofloxacin Levofloxacin Norfloxacin Tetracyclines Doxycycline Tetracycline Oxytetracycline Cephalosporins Cefaclor Cefotaxime ... GARP-Vietnam, University of Oxford and Vietnamese Ministry of Health has shown high consumption of antibiotics in most hospitals in Vietnam, with an increased use of new generation and expensive antibiotics...
Ngày tải lên: 13/09/2015, 18:05
Circuit theory of finance and the role of incentives in financial sector reform
... concepts of financing and funding as, respectively, initial financing and s final financing (See Graziani, 1984) Monetary circuit theory, in particular, stresses the role of banks in sustaining the ... profitability is declining The internalization of information within the same institution may thus enhance intra-circuit and inter-circuit stability by reducing the incentive to overfinancing ... overfinancing, excessive risk taking by investors, and changes in investment funding decisions in terms of individual rational responses to economic incentives • By integrating money, credit and...
Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2012, 09:33
Theoretical modeling of combustion characteristics and performance parameters of biodiesel in DI diesel engine with variable compression ratio
... presently working as Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering (A), Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, A.P., India She has completed her PhD in Heat Transfer and energy ... Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering (A), Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, A.P India He has completed M.Sc in (Power Mechanic) from University of Babylon, Iraq in the year 2006 and B.Sc in (Mechanic) ... emission and combustion characteristics of a methyl ester sunflower oil eucalyptus oil in a single cylinder air cooled and direct injection diesel engine”, International Journal of Engineering Science...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:11
Process evaluation and treatability study of wastewater in a textile dyeing industry
... Bengal, India Both the continuous and batch dyeing processes are practiced in this unit Eight basic sub-processes namely Desizing, Scouring, Neutralization, Dyeing, Soaping, Dye fixing, Hardening/Softening ... marginally with the addition of bleaching powder and then passing through 20 cm bed of C.B.C as shown in Figure COD of the final effluent for 10% bleaching powder addition and after passing through ... wastewater [6] With a bleaching powder dosage of 2%, about 50% of initial COD and 97% of initial color were removed (Figure and Figure 6) Further increase in bleaching powder dosage up to 10%...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 17:03
A study on syntactic, semantic and pragmatic features of exaggeration in english and vietnamese
... in teaching and preparing the linguistic content and the set 5.5.1 Emotion and Exaggeration of exercises for the teaching and practising exaggeration or function 5.5.2 Hearer Interpretation of ... capacity of being a stylistic device Galperin defines that a stylistic device is “a conscious and intentional literary use of some of the fact of the language (including Brown & Levinson (1987) ... semantics and pragmatics - Making tables and calculating the frequency of occurrence - Suggesting some implications for teaching and learning of exaggeration 3.3 DESCRIPTION OF SAMPLES In order...
Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:16
Investment evaluation methods and required rate of return in finish publicly listed companies
... according to Graham and Harvey (2001) Sweden seems to fall in between Finland according to the older surveys, and the U.S., since Sandahl and Sjögren (2003) find that 78.1 percent of the largest Swedish ... budgeting? Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Working paper HONKO, J & VIRTANEN, K., 1975, The investment process in Finnish industrial enterprises A study of the capital investment planning and ... situation in Finland compares with other countries Third, we analyze how the required rate of return is set and what is the cost of capital Finally, we provide insights into the use of the CAPM...
Ngày tải lên: 17/12/2013, 15:08
Slide an investigation into some approaches to vocabulary teaching and learning and the application of games in teaching and learning vocabulary at pre – intermediate level at foreign language center – haiphong university
... 1.What you think of the games your teachers used in your vocabulary lesson? a b c d Very interesting and useful Rather interesting and useful Interesting and useful Uninteresting and useless How ... three: Data collection, findings and disscusion, some suggestions 3.1 Data collection 3.2 Findings and discussion 3.3 Application of games in vocabulary teaching and learning Part two: Development ... Application of games in vocabulary teaching and learning Applied games: Hang man Simon says Word puzzle Selling and Buying thing Part two: Development Result of Post ’ class survey and discussion...
Ngày tải lên: 29/01/2014, 14:36
Tài liệu Egypt''''s Water Warriors : Water Pollution in Egypt and the Role of NGOs in Reaching Integrated Management ppt
... Association in St Kathrine, and an emerging Society15 for protection of environment and sustainability…etc) and have been leading several initiatives aiming at raising public awareness, lobbying against ... chemical and microbiological properties of groundwater in Saint Katherine, South Sinai, Egypt and exploring the diversity, occurrence and distribution of fungal taxa in groundwater in South Sainai, ... the Bedouins Egypt's Waters and Education Educating in Egypt is defective7 in regards of relating science to life and environment, we have carried our several campaigns and initiative in order...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Characterization of human deoxyribonuclease I gene (DNASE1) promoters reveals the utilization of two transcription-starting exons and the involvement of Sp1 in its transcriptional regulation ppt
... splicing, whereas a dashed line in exon of fragment C represents a deletion of 39 bp The thick lines indicate intron of 75 bp in fragments B and C, 3¢ portion of 35 bp in intron in fragments C and ... contain the entire coding region Thus, use of alternative promoters in DNASE1 results in no generation of protein isoforms The 5¢-UTR of eukaryotic mRNA in uences the initiation step of protein ... sequence indicates the 5¢-end of exon Open circles indicate locations of 5¢-ends of the DNASE1 transcripts, determined by 5¢-RACE using cDNA obtained from pancreas The star indicates the 5¢-end of...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 06:20
Tài liệu NATURAL ENDOWMENTS, PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGIES AND THE QUALITY OF WINES IN BORDEAUX. IS IT POSSIBLE TO PRODUCE WINE ON PAVED ROADS? pot
... terroir and production technologies influence quality We are interested in trying to quantify the impact of each of the many inputs and steps used in producing wine in one of the most renowned wine ... to be completed, (7) putting the wine in oak barrels and letting it age and (8) bottling the wine (1) Picking and selecting Harvesting usually starts after September 15 and may take as long as ... grape sugar into alcohol, (5) macerating or keeping the grape skins and pips in contact with the grape juice for additional extract and color, (6) pressing and racking or transferring the wine to...
Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 09:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Efficient and targeted delivery of siRNA in vivo pdf
... successfully inhibited the expression of VEGF, thereby suppressing the growth of hepatocarcinoma tumors in mice [87] In addition, no noticeable increase in inflammatory cytokines, including interferon-a and ... vivo Regardless of administration routes, the final destination of siRNA is the cytoplasm of the target cell, where it incorporates into RNA-inducing silencing protein complex and encounters target ... angiogenesis and the growth of integrin-expressing murine neuroblastoma tumors in mice [96] Systemic delivery (i.v injection) and local delivery of poly(ethylene glycol)-polyethylenimine-RGD complexing...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 01:23
Báo cáo khoa học: Caenorhabditis elegans metallothionein isoform specificity – metal binding abilities and the role of histidine in CeMT1 and CeMT2 potx
... highly informative regarding the presence of Zn-His bonds In vivo and in vitro Cd(II)-binding abilities of CeMT1 and CeMT2 Unlike the results obtained for Zn(II) coordination, the biosynthesis in ... Capdevila M & Gonzalez-Duarte P (1999) Replacement of terminal cysteine with histidine in the metallothionein a and b domain maintains its binding capacity Eur J Biochem 259, 519–527 FEBS Journal ... to in uence the binding properties of MT [25] R Bofill et al 7041 C elegans CeMT1 and CeMT2 metallothioneins R Bofill et al uncommon trait in MTs and, highly noteworthy in view of their coordinative...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 02:20
Democratic Accountability and the Use of Force in International Law docx
... personnel in clearing land mines and training Cambodians to clear land mines, civil administration, restoration of essential infrastructure, repatriation and resettlement of refugees and displaced ... principle of classical international law Intergovernmental international institutions are associations of states Because of the doctrine of sovereign equality of states, decisions in such international ... newly independent Congo Its mandate was later modified to include maintaining the territorial integrity and political independence of the Congo by preventing the secession of Katanga province ONUC,...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 11:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Regulation of arginase II by interferon regulatory factor 3 and the involvement of polyamines in the antiviral response potx
... conversion of l-arginine into l-ornithine [16] The latter is in turn used by ODC to produce putrescine, the precursor of spermidine and spermine To further analyze the regulation of the polyamine-synthetic ... iodide (PI) staining of apoptotic cells was quantified in VSVinfected Jurkat T cells in the absence or presence of spermine As shown in Fig 7, the presence of spermine during VSV infection strongly ... annexin V+ ⁄ PI– and 30.4% annexin V+ ⁄ PI+) Interestingly, spermine alone induced significant apoptosis (3.5% annexin V+ ⁄ PI– and 15.9% annexin V+ ⁄ PI+) No effect of spermidine or putrescine...
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