... centrifuged for minutes at 1,000 g Murine IL-1β, IL-6, and TNFα levels were determined using the Luminex multianalyte technology and the BioPlex system in combination with BioPlex Mouse Cytokine Assays ... remain to be elucidated In this study, we investigated the effects of TNFR1mediated signaling in synovial lining cells (SLCs) and the reticuloendothelial system (RES) during experimental arthritis ... protection against cartilage destruction and a significant reduction in the amount of synovial inflammatory cell infiltrate and joint space inflammatory cell exudate (Figure 4c) TNFR1 silencing in the...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 12:20
... on institutional strengthening and capacity building in 40 provinces with abundant forests and support pilot implementation of all the REDD activities + in provinces as Bac Kan, Ca Mau, Binh ... from deforestation and forest degradation in Vietnam and in the region In addition, to assist the Government of Vietnam in developing an effective REDD regime in Viet Nam and to contribute to ... Systems began early and has generated important discussions among forestry policy makers In the pilot province of Lam Dong, the pilot exercises on applying the principles of Free, Prior and Informed...
Ngày tải lên: 23/01/2013, 22:06
Money, banking and the financial system (1st edition) r glenn hubbard, anthony patrick o''''brien prentice hall (2011)
... an introduction and overview of the Fed in Chapter 1, “Introducing Money and the Financial System, ” and in each subsequent chapter, we expand on the Fed’s role in the financial system So, by the ... newspapers and probably discuss among themselves and with their families In Chapter 1, “Introducing Money and the Financial System, ” we cover the key components of the financial system, introduce the ... taking in deposits and using them to make loans The financial system matches savers and borrowers through two channels: (1) Banks and other financial intermediaries and (2) financial markets These...
Ngày tải lên: 18/08/2013, 19:46
Theories of cognition, emotion and the social world - missing links in psychosis
... that the syndrome has failed, in the sense that the knowledge built up in relation to it is confused and imprecise, and there may be better ways of organising the clinical information for the ... have to go on is the disorder as defined, the phenomena, not the noumena In other words, it is the strange beliefs, the hallucinations, and their contents, that we have to explain There has long ... about the self and others, and emotional disturbance, all of which interact with (and sometimes originate from) the social contexts that individuals find themselves in We will consider these...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 09:20
Tài liệu Corporate Ownership structure and the Informativeness of Accounting Earnings in East Asia doc
... which in turn increase earnings informativeness On the other hand, the information argument suggests a negative relation between ownership concentration and earnings informativeness As the incentive ... earnings divided by the market value of equity at the beginning of the year SIZE = the natural logarithm of the market value of equity in millions of U.S dollar at the beginning of the year Q = the ... the book value of total assets at the beginning of the year LEV = the total liability divided by total assets at the beginning of the year SEG = the number of industry segment(s) V = the voting...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 01:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Role of K22 and R120 in the covalent binding of the antibiotic fosfomycin and the substrate-induced conformational change in UDP-N-acetylglucosamine enol pyruvyl transferase docx
... of binding and stoichiometries were determined from the binding isotherm by fitting a : binding model to the data using the software provided by the manufacturer Results Reaction of fosfomycin ... chain of K22 participates in fosfomycin binding, thus providing a rationale for the loss of fosfomycin binding to the K22V and K22E mutant proteins However, two other positively charged amino ... lysine reduces the probability of forming the fully closed form of the protein The results obtained with the K22V/R120K double mutant protein point toward a central role of arginine 120 in the...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 13:20
Multidimensional Poverty and the State of Child Health in India pdf
... decline in the poverty in five of these countries Srinivasan and Mohanty (2008) using three rounds of Indian DHS data, estimated the change in deprivation level in Indian states In India, the ... combined to form a composite index, often referred to as the wealth index and the PCA is the most frequently used method in deriving the wealth index The utility of wealth index in explaining ... Pradesh and Nagaland had a value of three and more indicating higher inequality in the state of health care All other states had a value between two and three indicating the degree of inequality in...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 10:20
Trial and Error: J. Marion Sims and the Birth of Modern Gynecology in the American South docx
... discoveries, including the invention the Sims Speculum and the Sims Position, and the use of silver sutures to prevent internal infections These innovations eventually enabled him to repair a vaginal ... vesico-vaginal fistula.1 These are small tears inside the vagina, causing urinary incontinence and pelvic discomfort; if these lesions are left untreated, they can spread to the bladder, cervix, and ... students examining Lucy, while Anarcha and Betsy watch from behind a curtain This artist’s rendering does not show the pain or suffering of these women, and fails to include any sign of their ailments...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 15:20
Cost Recovery and the Crisis of Service Delivery in South Africa ppt
... establishing the initial links between the HSRC and the Municipal Services Project and in establishing the basis for this joint initiative To him we extend a warm thanks John Daniel and Garry ... led by the state and financed by: • redirecting existing investment; • restructuring corporate tax in order to increase the tax collected; • introducing progressive taxes such as land and wealth ... the ultimate cost-recovery mechanism They collect money in advance, thereby earning interest for the service provider in the process They also not allow the consumer to go into default and, theoretically,...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20
Enterprise Adjustment and the Role of Bank Credit in Russia: Evidence from a 420 Firm''''s Qualitative Survey pdf
... constraints deriving mostly from the real good 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 ... financial constraints The descriptive, statistical analysis in Table indeed confirms that the lower the decline in production (or the higher its increase, in the best cases), the higher the probability ... the lower the supply of credit Finally, the higher the co-ordinate on the f2 axis, e.g the more the enterprise is faced with financial limit, the higher the level of barter transactions and the...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 08:20
THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF TREE CROPS AND THE PREVENTION OF VEGETATION FIRES IN SOUTH SUMATRA, INDONESIA pptx
... smallholder farming remains the main land-use in the peneplains of Sumatra (10 million hectares nationwide) These smallholders retain a direct interest in the preservation of the both forests and the plantations ... is in the hands of the National Land Agency, below 200 with the Provincial Office The process in theory takes into account environment conservation, regional planning and existing rights The ... I.P Anderson, I.D Imanda and Muhnandar Vegetation fires in Sumatra,Indonesia: the presentation and distribution of NOAA-derived data I.P Anderson, I.D Imanda and Muhnandar Vegetation fires in Indonesia:...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 10:20
Interest rate setting by universal banks and the monetary policy transmission mechanism in the euro area pot
... on average over the 1990s (this is not the case in Ireland and the Netherlands for the former, and Finland for the latter) The picture is less clear in the case of mortgages and long-term loans ... check whether the EMU break which is observed in the estimation of the baseline model can be explained by the change in the underlying trend in the market rate that coincided with the beginning of ... disappeared since the mid-1970s: 1974 in Spain, 1975 in Belgium, 1989 for the Netherlands, 1984 in France, 1990 in Italy Moreover, in Germany and Austria, universal banking had been the grounding principle...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 02:20
Emerging Infectious Diseases and the Threat to Occupational Health in the U.S. and Canada doc
... Abert The States and the Metropolis, Patricia S Florestano and Vincent L Marando 11 Changing Bureaucracies: Understanding the Organization before Selecting the Approach, William A Medina 12 Handbook ... surveillance and response system probably is at least a decade away owing to inadequate coordination and funding at the international level and lack of capacity and funds in many developing countries The ... in its care, use and limitations before wearing or using it for the first time and at regular intervals thereafter and the worker shall participate in such instruction and training It also states:...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 05:20
The financial crisis and the pricing of interest rates in the Irish mortgage market: 2003-2011 ppt
... provided by the ECB and the Irish central bank are also incorporated within the analysis The rest of the paper is outlined as follows: Section provides further information on variable rates in the context ... two other potential drivers of variable rates: banks’ interest margins and funding costs The net interest margins for Irish institutions have declined for the last two decades, as shown in the ... used in the modelling The price lenders have to pay for their funding is a key variable of interest in the analysis In the case of Ireland up to the end of 2008, lenders tended to use the ECB...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 14:20
Cost Recovery and the Crisis of Service Delivery in South Africa doc
... establishing the initial links between the HSRC and the Municipal Services Project and in establishing the basis for this joint initiative To him we extend a warm thanks John Daniel and Garry ... led by the state and financed by: • redirecting existing investment; • restructuring corporate tax in order to increase the tax collected; • introducing progressive taxes such as land and wealth ... the ultimate cost-recovery mechanism They collect money in advance, thereby earning interest for the service provider in the process They also not allow the consumer to go into default and, theoretically,...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 11:20
American Public Service: Radical Reform and the Merit System pot
... Abert The States and the Metropolis, Patricia S Florestano and Vincent L Marando 11 Changing Bureaucracies: Understanding the Organization before Selecting the Approach, William A Medina 12 Handbook ... 193 Dissin’ the Deadwood or Coddling the Incompetents? Patterns and Issues in Employee Discipline and Dismissal in the States 195 Richard C Elling and Lyke Thompson Introduction ... contemporary thinking on this essential topic Their readiness to revise and resubmit their initial manuscripts attests to their respect for the subject matter and their skill in mastering it The task...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 19:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Fission yeast decaprenyl diphosphate synthase consists of Dps1 and the newly characterized Dlp1 protein in a novel heterotetrameric structure doc
... measuring the in vitro activity of this enzyme as described in the materials and methods Both the Ddlp1 and Ddps1 strains did not produce decaprenol, while the Dppt1 strain and wild-type retained their ... proteins and incubated them with the protein crosslinker disuccinimidyl suberate The crosslinked proteins were then purified by a GST column and subjected to SDS electrophoresis Western blotting ... beyond the first methionine The amplified fragment was then cloned into pT7BlueT to yield pT7DDSA pT7DDSA was then digested with HindIII and BamHI (this site was in pT7Blue-T) and cloned into the HindIII...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 21:20
Báo cáo Y học: Changes in ultrastructure and the occurrence of permeability transition in mitochondria during rat liver regeneration ppt
... succinate and phosphate Mitochondria were suspended in the swelling medium and the absorbance of the mitochondrial suspension as a function of time was monitored either in the absence or in the ... protein No statistically significant differences in Ca2+ content were observed when the mitochondrial preparation was performed either in the presence or in the absence of ruthenium red and EDTA in ... Matrix proteins release assay For the assay of the in vitro release of matrix proteins, mitochondria (10 mg proteinÆmL)1) were suspended in the swelling medium, above reported, and incubated at...
Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 04:21
The interaction between climate and the processing of coated papers in printing and finishing pot
... The situation in paper production and printing industry ˿ The situation in printing and finishing industry ˿ Circumstances in the workshop ˿ Paper handling 11 ˿ ˿ ˿ ˿ Blistering Breaking in the ... tearing in the internal structure of the paper and blistering in the printed areas (see figures) binding agents and coating pigments used, the amount of binding agents contained in the paper and ... bars and the former fold, causing the print to smear and preventing successful processing in the folding unit Two-sided printing in a printing unit Heatset inks settle (or “set”) when the thin-liquid...
Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 05:20
Dual-track interest rates and the conduct of monetary policy in China potx
... binding and the lending-rate floor is not binding (no credit quota),raising the deposit-rate ceiling increases the market interest rate in the wholesale capital market, and changing the lending-rate ... both the deposit-rate ceiling and the lending-rate floor are binding, the market rate in the deposit market is the ceiling rdb , and the market rate in the lending market is the floor rlb Therefore, ... ceiling and the lending-rate floor are binding, and there is no credit quota If both the deposit-rate ceiling and the lending-rate floor are binding, i.e., rdb < rd* and rlb > rl* , neither the...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 13:20