... irrespective ofthe amount ofthe loan. However, the larger the loan, the larger the amount ofthe repayment installment, and a large installment may strain the repayment capacity ofthe borrower ... b) There has, therefore, to be a linkage between the amount ofthe loan and the tenure ofthe loan. It is, therefore, suggested that for loans not exceeding Rs. 15,000, the tenure ofthe loan ... borrower and the cost of funds to the MFI. While this, too, suffers from the drawbacks of an interest cap, it is fairer to the MFI since it is not exposed to the risk of volatility of cost of funds....
... demonstrated the role of PufX in the orientation ofthe RC inside the LH1Fig. 4. Isolation ofthe PMCs on a sucrose gradient. The final detergentextracts from the ICM were loaded on the top of a 10–40% ... our results. The presence in vitro of a less stabledimer in the mutant PufXD2)7neither affects the photo-synthetic capability ofthe bacteria nor the efficiency of exchange ofthe ubiq uinol ... residues ofthe LH1 apolypeptide in the organization ofthe LH1–RC complex[12]. In the present work, we have investigated the possible involvement ofthe N-terminus and of the C-terminus of PufX...
... abuse their office andinfluence to the injury ofthe laws and peace ofthe country. The elimination ofthe Christian teachers of the Negro race, and the prevention ofthe immigration of workers ... in thenumber of colored freeholders. As a result ofthe introduction ofthe Lancastrian and monitorial systems of instruction the enrollment was further increased and the general tone ofthe ... as their peculiar needs demanded. In the agricultural sections the first duty ofthe teacher ofthe blacks was to show them how to get their living from the soil. This was the final test of their...
... until the intense dry heat ofthe north Indian plain had lowered the water content to 30 percent. Then it and the poppy petal sheets went together to the caking room.Down the sides ofthe caking ... can really say why the peoples east ofthe Indian Ocean got into the habit of assimilating the drug in this way. Opium came to them as it had come to the Indians, through the Arabs. For years they ... isI draw upon the original prefacewesterners in China in the early decades ofthe nineteenth century and the war, the Opium War, that they brought on. The war is the centerpiece, And at the...
... and 42 (8%) of unknown gender.It was the mother who answered the questionnaire in89.5% ofthe sample, it was the father in 4.57% of the sample, and it was someone else in 6.28% ofthe sample.Distribution ... SummaryScore, the mean is computed as the sum ofthe itemsdivided by thenumberof items answered in the Emo-tional, Social, and School Functioning Subscales. The sequenti al validation procedure ofthe ... children is known from the literature [4,11,21,25].Thepsychosocialsupportofthefamilyshouldbethepart of health care of chronically ill children. In light of the apparent limitations of parents’ assessments...
... Magnitudes in the correlations of all DQOL domains with the physical relevant domains of the D-39S (diabetes control and energy/mobility) wereslightly larger than with other domains ofthe D-39S(social ... discriminant validity of the DQOL against the D-39S and the RAND-12. In general,domain scores ofthe DQOL were moderately correlatedwith the D-39S (except sexual functioning) and the RAND-12 PHC ... correlation coeffi-cients ofthe satisfaction domain ofthe DQOL with diabe-tes control and energy/mobility ofthe D-39S were all0.57, which were larger than with the other D-39 domains(0.30...
... related to the small numberof items that compose the subscale [22]. Furthermore, Alpha Coefficient values maybe influenced by the level of schooling in the sample [23]. The analysis ofthe Corrected ... hospitals ofthe city. A total of 190 families of Bra-zilian children between the ages of 2 and 18 years, of bothgenders, with malignant neoplasm in various phases of treatment or control ofthe ... A number of studies have demonstrated that the mode of administra-tion does not affect the performance ofthe instruments[21,30]. Nevertheless, a comparison between the inter-view mode of...
... Comparisons to the mean scores of the other subscales within the present study to those of the previous PedsQL™ school study [3], the mean scoreson the social functioning scale of both healthy ... respondents in the way it wasintended by the developer ofthe scale [15]. Thus, the assumptions about both the quality ofthe measures andutility ofthe rating scale in facilitating interpretable ... 1.9%). The race/ethnicity ofthe total sample was Asian. Respondents of parent self-report consisted of mother (n = 1250,86.0%), father (n = 159, 10.9%), grandmothers (n = 5,0.3%), grandfathers...
... silences the neural activity in the early phase of phrenic neurogramregardless of maturation.Although we do not know the exact mechanism underly-ing these changes in the patterns ofthe phrenic ... gasping for the first week of postnatal age in piglets. After the first week of postnatalage, the duration ofthe phrenic neurogram burst significantly increases and the patterns during the early ... phases of phrenic neu-rograms in 2 of 3 piglets in the mid-group. We suspect thata reduction in thenumberof dendrites per cell after 2weeks of maturation could be responsible for the failureof...
... applicability. The primary goal of our study was to assess the applicabil-ity, internal consistency, and construct validity ofthe Ital-ian version ofthe EQ-5D in a random sample of the citizens of Bologna ... set-tings, it lacks of empirical evaluations in Italy. The lack of information on the construct validity and reliability of the instrument as well as the absence of utilities estimated in the Italian ... adults, randomlyselected from the Registry ofthe Health Authorities ofthe city of Bologna, Italy. The primary carephysician of each subject was contacted to report on the subject's health...
... demonstrate the feasibility of the Japanese version ofthe PedsQL 3.0 Cancer Module.Discussion The present study demonstrated t he reliability, validity,and feasibility ofthe Japanese version ofthe ... version, the interviewer was the child’sparent. After the parent completed the parent proxyreport separately from their child, they read out the questions for the child’ s self-report and marked the answers. ... now, validation ofthe Japanese ver-sion has not been conducted. The aim of this study was to demonstrate the reliabil-ity, validity, and feasibility ofthe Japanese version of the PedsQL 3.0...
... According to the manual ofthe instrument, if more than 50% ofthe items 2 Abstract Background: This study aimed to investigate the reliability and validity ofthe Iranian version of the Pediatric ... The unavailability of information on nonrespondents and investigation of only a sample from Tehran, the capital city of Iran, may limit the generalizability of the findings to other parts of ... loaded to other factors. One possible explanation for the discrepancy between physical functioning factor of children and their parents is their different perception ofthe construction ofthe mentioned...