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... is whether the growing trend in globalization in banking results in events such as the U.S financial crisis affecting the real economy in other countries through the bank lending channel In particular, ... according to their ownership stakes, including the savings banks in North Rhine-Westphalia In particular, as shown in Table 1, the two savings banks associations in North Rhine-Westphalia (Rheinischer ... inthe business models of Landesbanken are considered to be larger than risks inthe “narrow banking” model of local savings banks, which profit from their strong presence in retail banking In...
... Chapter Monitoring, assessing and terminating the learning process The monitoring, assessing and terminating ofthe active learning process go hand in hand The purpose of assessing the learning process ... in keeping the amount of training data needed down, compared to random sampling Brinker (2003) addresses the issue of incorporating a diversity measure when selecting batches of instances Brinker’s ... also increasing the number of iterations during which Co-training 10 Initialize the process by applying base learner B using each v in views V to labeled training set DL to obtain a committee of...
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... conceived the idea, collated the information from the field, and was the principal author IvE was medical coordinator during the time ofthe violence and contributed to the history ofthe events ... safely Even during the worst days of rioting, MSF was able to keep at least one clinic open Within the clinics, the triage system was put in place to deal with the sudden influx of trauma victims ... struggled to maintain services in Kibera Challenges for the MSF program The violence in Kibera varied daily, especially in January, making the planning of services a constant challenge The riots targeted...
... It was therefore decided to use these relationships inthe evaluation The purpose of this investigation was to examine the impact of relationships on the ranking of sire breeding values, their ... of noting that y is < y the difference between the values reflecting the dispersion , l of solutions k The further these indexes are from 1, the larger the mean gain in connectedness resulting ... coefficients ofthe sires (rand r,!) were computed m relationship The overall gain in Evaluation ofthe accuracy gain was the ratio between the traces of both matrices: in connectedness between sires The...
... that the conference theme was how SBs responded to the crisis (and the state in which they found themselves intheaftermathofthe crisis), thus assuming that the latter was mainly over by then ... more about increasing the number of firms involved than about, for example, increasing the involvement of firms already exporting Policy oriented to increase the ‘extensive margin’ should, therefore, ... over the last decade The price of doing otherwise would be exclusion from all markets Supporting SMEs on their difficult path towards rebuilding is inthe interest ofthe entire nation, and the...
... used in both the conviction of guilty offenders and the appraisal ofthe consanguinity Amino acids, peptides and proteins Proteins are very important to life, the complex molecules of proteins ... numbers), the number of double bonds and also the exact position of these double bonds, this will define the biological reactivity ofthe fatty acid molecule and even ofthe lipid containing these ... effective components innatural products Hence, the major aim of this thesis is to expand the analytical applicability of CE inthe analysis ofnatural products The range ofnatural products is...
... that brings it into conflict frequently with the discipline of 30 history Keith Windschuttle in his book The Killing of History is committed to maintaining the integrity ofthe discipline of history, ... seeing it as an integral component of any discussion of Indian postcolonial history: 'Since [ ] the partition of India in 1947 and the assassination ofthe then prime minister Indira Gandhi in ... expressed his opinion that the production should have used the play to point the rise ofthe Hindu right-wing incontemporary India as well as used the plurality ofthe character of Tughlaq to...
... number of samples taken in Korea Inthe case of Tokyo and inthe Philippines, urban runoff from roads on rainy days contributes to the increase in metal concentration inthe sediments of receiving ... samples taken inthe eastern side of Manila Bay The concentration profiles inthe sea sediments show the decrease in lead and zinc concentrations inthe sediments with the increase inthe distance ... on the uniform distribution of these metals inthe sediments ofthe lake The higher concentration inthe northwest part ofthe lake is probably due to reverse flow ofthe polluted Pasig River in...
... results in trimming something off something else; inthe case of example (9) above trimming the bush results in trimming the dry branches off the bush And this is what the semantic type in (16) ... Impingement Predicates In order to capture the semantic properties ofthe arguments ofthe most representative verb ofthe impingement predicates class in German, the verb schlagen (hit) in examples ... argument ofthe embedded stateof-affairs Finally, as far as direct arguments are concerned, in Koenig and Davis (2000) these are predicted to link off the value ofthe KEY attribute 3.1 The verbs...
... (i.p.) administration of xylazine (6.6 mg/kg) and ketamine (100 mg/kg) Mice were inoculated by scarifying the cornea with the blunted tip of a 25-gauge needle, blotting tear film from the eyes, ... Role ofthe protein kinase PKR inthe inhibition of varicella-zoster virus replication by beta interferon and gamma interferon J Gen Virol 2005, 86(Pt 1):1-6 Sainz BJ, Halford WP: Alpha/Beta interferon ... (Fig 6A) In contrast, CyP treatment enhanced the spread of KOS-GFP into the periocular skin of scid mice on day p.i relative to the other treatment groups (Fig 6A) PBS-treated scid mice infected...
... (i.p.) administration of xylazine (6.6 mg/kg) and ketamine (100 mg/kg) Mice were inoculated by scarifying the cornea with the blunted tip of a 25-gauge needle, blotting tear film from the eyes, ... Role ofthe protein kinase PKR inthe inhibition of varicella-zoster virus replication by beta interferon and gamma interferon J Gen Virol 2005, 86(Pt 1):1-6 Sainz BJ, Halford WP: Alpha/Beta interferon ... (Fig 6A) In contrast, CyP treatment enhanced the spread of KOS-GFP into the periocular skin of scid mice on day p.i relative to the other treatment groups (Fig 6A) PBS-treated scid mice infected...
... The co-ordinates of recorded herb species on the canonical axis (time) projected against EIV for the moisture ofthe given species The fitting ofthe resulting field of points shows a shift in ... movement of some ofthe ecological factors Inthe case of floodplain forests, one ofthe most important factors is the height ofthe water table The changing character of some ofthe sites due to ... composition ofthe herb layers, according to the degree of their being influenced by the water table height and length of time when water stagnates once the floods drop The fullarea surveys including the...
... of these cells are not contained within the lymphoid gate, the loss of this cell population had minimal impact on the proportions ofthe other cell populations examined Subject demographics The ... heritable trait These findings raise the possibility that one ofthe explanations for the clustering of multiple autoimmune disorders within the families of lupus patients is the presence of genetic ... by the NKT cells inthe different lupus mouse models, with interleukin-4-secreting NKT cells inhibiting lupus and interferon-γ-secreting NKT cells exacerbating lupus [53,54,56,57] Similar findings...
... time The declining percentage of patients remaining on the first HAART regimen results from complete discontinuation of or changes in therapy Discussion In this study, we describe the clinical ... NNRTI-containing initial regimen (predominantly efavirenz) Ofthe 2,327 patients initiating their first HAART regimen, 557 (24%) remained on the same regimen for the entire duration of follow ... followed in each era and the fact that many patients starting HAART inthe EHE became infected well before the availability of HAART Despite the challenges experienced by participants initiating in the...
... deviation obtained using MSTRAT software (five independent samplings) Determination ofthe optimal size allowed the capture of all alleles ofthe original sample A For the 271 alleles ofthe restricted ... observed a gain (Table 3), the greatest of which being obtained for the selection ofthe G-48 Analysis ofthe diversity retained inthe nested core collections using different descriptors The reference ... maximize the number of observed alleles inthe SSR data set [19,20] The efficiency ofthe sampling strategy was assessed by comparing the total number of alleles captured using MSTRAT in samples of increasing...
... inthe critical interpretation ofthe intellectual content and drafting ofthe paper Competing interests The authors and their institutions have no financial or other conflicts of interests There ... planning must occur, including having multiple stockpiles within the same country in order increase the possibility of distributing the supplies This type of stockpiling must be weighed against the ... to bridge the gap between the different type of organizations and professionals who respond to naturaldisasters and CEs; these include trainings on the different types of injuries and infectious...