... years can hedge against the risk that rates will rise (squeezing their profit margins by increasing the cost oftheir short-term deposit funding) by entering into fixed or floating rate swaps Similarly, ... firms,” Journal of Finance, forthcoming Strahan, Philip E., and James P Weston, 1998, “Small business lending andthe changing structure ofthe banking industry,” Journal of Banking and Finance, Vol ... the Gen Xers and Gen Yers andthe Net generation, instead of finding another bank because their father’s or grandfather’s bank doesn’t anything.” Given this uncertainty, it is paramount that...
... to become involved inthe school and to feel that their knowl- edge andtheir culture are valued The legitimization of local languages that comes from their use in schooling can strengthen children’s, ... outperforming their official-language counterparts by the end ofthe 4th grade inthe official language Resistance will continue unless the education system supports the use of local languages in several ... work in education The views expressed in these notes are those ofthe authors andnot necessarily reflect the views ofthe World Bank For additional copies of Education Notes, please contact the...
... Department of Education and Training (HDOET), the administrators asked the teachers to feedback their teaching by noting down some remarks after each teaching session Lesson plans had to be modified in ... to examine continuously their planning, thinking, assessing, teaching, etc., to ensure that all the students intheir classroom are learning and can provide evidence of that learning If done correctly ... teaching practices resulting in improved learner outcomes, give teachers control over theirown evaluation process and reinforcement their perceptions oftheir teaching As a result of engaging in...
... suggestion ofthe expert of Haiphong Department of Education and Training (HDOET), the administrators asked the teachers to feedback their teaching by noting down some remarks after each teaching session ... process in teaching inorder to improve their profession andthe teaching and learning effectiveness as well The design ofthe study The thesis was designed in three parts Part A is The introduction ... towards the necessity of TSE for their profession development andthe effectiveness in teaching and learning The implementation of selfevaluation raised their awareness oftheir teaching practices and...
... sectional time points within the same population allows for better understanding ofthe effect of variability in pathophysiology of RA within the foot over time Embedded within the design of study was ... draft the manuscript JHB participated inthe conception and design ofthe study and helped to draft the manuscript CJE participated inthe conception and design ofthe study and helped to draft the ... after the clinical foot examinations and foot pressure measurements by a single investigator (CB) We attempted to reduce the effect of investigator bias by maintaining a systematic order to the...
... Phosphoinositide 3-kinase PKB Protein kinase B PLK Polo-Like Kinase PTEN Phosphatase and tensin homologue PYK2 Proline-rich tyrosine kinase Rb Retinoblastoma REMBRANDT Repository of Molecular Brain ... Addition of matrigel, varying the severity of immune-compromised mice depending on strains used, and extending the time to formation ofthe tumor This study thus demonstrated that the tumorinitiating ... mammalian GSK3α and GSK3β with the tyrosine and serine phosphorylation sites pointed out by arrowheads (adapted from Doble and Woodgett47) Insulin stimulation of cells results in inactivation of GSK3...
... Board (IRB) ofthe National Health Research Institutes Susceptibility tests The MICs to fluconazole were determined according to the guidelines ofthe Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute ... Cambridge England) after incubated at 35°C for 48 hours The MICs of fluconazole were defined as the minimum inhibitory concentrations of drugs capable of reducing the turbidity of cells to greater ... MICs % mg/l) from the same nine hospitals Ofthe 88 isolates, there were three Candida species andtheir distribution in relation to the susceptibility to fluconazole is shown in Table It shows...
... practitioner regarding their neck pain The mean subjective pain level was 4.46 (with minimum and maximum values ranging between and 10) andthe mean number of pain days inthe preceding 12 months ... when such pain is of a longstanding and fairly intense nature This is an interesting finding inthe context of recent pronouncements by the Task Force on Neck Pain and Associated Disorders[12] ... non-threatening[13] Pain sufferers cannot always reduce their pain intensity, but can psychologically confront the experience, thus gaining control over the pain intheir daily lives Finally, our observations...
... agents) andthe notion of respecting the inherent “dignity” of all agents (treating people as ends -in- themselves and willing from the standpoint ofthe “kingdom of ends”) gave Kant, so he thought, the ... Kant’s own reasons for this inthe Metaphysics of Morals are not convincing on theirownand require us to understand them inthe full context ofthe rest of his ethical thought in Terry Pinkard, ... virtuous inthe right proportions (since the union of virtue and happiness demands a harmony of nature and freedom, which human agents are on theirown incapable of bringing about) Both these are...
... cash inflow over the life ofthe investment and dividing it by the number of years inthe life ofthe investment The ARR does not guarantee that the cash inflows are the same in a given year It ... the tax relief on debt interest Behind the use of WACC (the average ofthe costs of these sources of financing) as the NPV discount rate is the assumption of an unchanging capital structure In ... opportunities andtheir merits and limitation Moreover, the nature of gearing and potential effected of high gearing on perceived risk and cost of capital I-Analysis ofthe reasons behind takeovers and the...
... Role of electrostatic interactions in SH2 domain recognition: salt dependence of tyrosyl-phosphorylated peptide binding to the tandem SH2 domain ofthe Syk kinase andthe single SH2 domain ofthe ... intheorderof phosphorylation ofthe subsequent tyrosines inthe whole cTCRf chain in vitro, relative to the single-tyrosine-containing peptides, may well be due to the presence of an SH2 domain ... ofthe six ITAM tyrosines in TCRf and simulated trypsin digest of His-cTCRf The ITAM tyrosines have been named according to the ITAM they are inandtheir position within each ITAM (towards the...
... chain andthe Rab4 binding site of Rabaptin-5 are located inthe N-terminal portion of protein However, some discrepancy exists inthe literature concerning the position ofthe Rab4-binding site ... determined in [14] and [26], respectively The Rab5 binding domain (R5BD) is marked as a dotfilled box The region deleted in Rabaptin-5d is shown in white Positions of coiled-coil regions CC1-1 and ... coordination of endo- and exocytosis through interaction with Rabphilin, a regulator ofthe exocytic pathway [18,19] Finally, Rabaptin-5 interacts with the ear domains of c1-adaptin, a subunit of...
... performed using the standard mode for the acquisition of images andthe spectral mode for the acquisition ofthe spectra ofthe dyes For the acquisition of images using the standard mode, FITC and RBITC ... ring surrounding the microspheres The image ofthe same (x, y) plane taken using CSLM is shown in Fig 2B In this image, the spherical particles are orange, resulting from the combination ofthe ... LYS-RBITC (A), and fluorescence intensity of FITC (green line) and RBITC (red line) along the dotted line (B) Scale bar ¼ lm at the microsphere area The size ofthe microsphere determined using the two...
... breeding companies, is to make an offspring test An offspring test involves producing a number of offspring from each breeding candidate and placing them in an infected environment The rate of ... of several dozen feathers on the front ofthe neck Frizzling is caused by a single incomplete dominant gene, known as F In homozygotes, the shafts of all feathers are extremely recurved andthe ... with ISABrown layers and compared laying parameters and yolk sizes for the Fayoumi, the ISABrown andtheir crosses from the start of laying to the age of 63 weeks; the birds were kept in individual...
... vertically and spaced to either side ofthe midline, with the side of presentation randomized Participants indicated their preferences by using the keys Z, X, C, N, M, andthe comma key, which were indicated ... conceivable that during the act of viewing the golden rectangle we add the width to the height and obtain the straight line representing the sum? The intellectual factor does not seem relevant ... what often are hypertrophied theoretical structures derived from mathematics Without denying any ofthe beautiful and intriguing mathematics of , and accepting that there is also a beautyin numbers...
... induced Inthe autoradiography, note the formation of a 40-kDa labelled protein in lanes and (containing the ab constructions) and proteins of 29 kDa in lane 11, and 11 kDa in lane (containing, respectively, ... subunits in lane 2); lanes and 4, E coli [pULCTab] containing the penDE gene of A nidulans without and with induction (note the formation ofthe 40-kDa protein andthe lack of processing to the 29-kDa ... bands of 40 kDa, 29 kDa and 11 kDa are indicated by arrows on the right Note the presence ofthe 40-kDa band andthe absence ofthe 11-kDa IAT band inthe A nidulans extracts penDE gene was introduced...