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... entities in Great Britain are a case in point, with far-reaching consequences for the financial sector R Martin and D Turner, ‘Demutualisation and the Remapping of Financial Landscapes’, Transactions ... Spanish case The cajas de ahorros (hereafter savings banks) became totally integrated in the financial system without losing their status as not-for-profit firms and, at the same time, maintaining ... establishing the savings banks as entities that were capable of capturing private savings and as a vehicle for financing the emission of public debt and other financial assets This legislation...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 20:21

... computer readable and can be used to create a relational database To accommodate data from NMR and cryoEM experiments, a PDB Exchange Dictionary (PDBx) was created that has the same syntax as mmCIF ... There are specialty databases such as the Nucleic Acid Database (Berman et al., 1992) and the HIV Protease Structural Database (Ravichandran et al., 2002) that create in- depth resources for researchers ... et al., 2000), UniProt (Apweiler et al., 2004), model organism databases and many, many others In addition, the global nature of science makes it essential to coordinate these data efforts at an...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 11:20

... K: Task force on fact sheets for the global year against pain ‘Pain in Women’ 2007/2008 The IASP Global Year against pain in women Pain 2007, 132:S1-2 14 Lund I, Lundeberg T, Kowalski J, Svensson ... account of the individual variation in the pain data The measure of the individual changes, the relative rank variance is then defined by the square of the mean rank differences as in formula (4) where ... characteristic (ROC) curve starting at the (0,0) point with a main diagonal representing no change (Figure 3a- b) A non-zero RP value means that the ROC curve deviates from the diagonal indicating...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 14:20

... that if Vietnam maintains this policy, local auto companies will not have an incentive to increase localisation and produce local parts Automobile manufacturing will remain at the assembly stage ... Bangkok, Samut Prakan, Samut Sakhon, Nakhon Pathom, Nonhtaburi and Pathum Thani - Zone includes Ang Thong, Autthaya, Chachoengsao, Chon Buri, Kanchanaburi, Nakhon Nayok, Phuket, Ratchaburi, Rayong, ... Glass Textiles ENGINES AND TRANSMISSIONS Forging and casing of engine and transmission Machining and assembly of engines and transmissions Source: The changing nature of the Asian automobile industries...

Ngày tải lên: 26/05/2015, 08:36

... uncertainties in engineering systems and models has been widely acknowledged (Ang and Tang, 1975; Hokstad et al 1998; Straub and Faber 2005; Gao and Moan 2009; Lee and Song 2011; Agarwal and Manuel ... averages and extremes of sea states are stationary is valid (Vanem 2011) If non- stationarity is assumed, a simple statistical model for the ocean parameter may not be appropriate in assessing ... highlighting the characteristics in each approach in modeling multivariate data 1.1.4 Efficient Methods for Multivariate Analysis To assess the long term performance of a structure within a multivariate...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:31

... assisted in data analysis and assisted in drafting the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests ... Office A reconviction was regarded as being “serious” in cases of murder, manslaughter, assault, rape, indecent assault towards adult male, adult female or child, robbery and arson, based on ... performance indicators In recent years, there has been a move away from reliance on criminal outcomes alone and recent work suggests alternative measures such as readmission and collateral and self...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... Regional systems of innovation are increasingly being framed within an international arena The links between sub-regional, regional, national and international systems of innovations imply hat analyses ... main emphasis was put on strengthening research and highquality education The Commission proposed a standardisation and streamlining of teaching programmes, a large increase in doctoral programmes, ... the Danish Broadcasting Corporation broadcast the documentary “Made In 50 Denmark”, which showed how peasants in Nicaragua used Cheminova’s pesticide Methyl Parathion in a hazardous way This gave...

Ngày tải lên: 16/01/2014, 16:33

... played a part in bringing these separate streams of research together Although the American tradition of tax resistance and 12 Isaac William Martin, Ajay K Mehrotra, and Monica Prasad anti-statism ... William Martin, Ajay K Mehrotra, and Monica Prasad historical racial conflict in South Africa increased tax compliance among whites, and enabled the development of comparatively high tax rates and ... longest-running statistical series in existence (see Mann 1980) Quantitative tax data of relatively high quality and comparability are available for an extraordinarily long swath of historical time and an...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 08:20

... Nordin et al 2007; Mao, Genco et al 2008; Marinova, MateosEspejel et al 2009; Huang, Ramaswamy et al 2010; Mora, Mahmoudkhani et al 2011), gasification of biomass (Varma, Chaouki et al 2010; Isaksson, ... traditional sensitivity analysis where the energy market parameters are varied separately, often called onefactor-at -a- time analysis Such an approach can be a suitable, simple, option for an analysis ... mill depicting a typical Scandinavian pulp mill As an addition, Papers IV, VI and VIII are based on data from existing European pulp and paper mills and cover a broader spectrum of the industry...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 09:20

... chance at a professional conference that lasted several days She was a physician and chief of staff in a hospital, an attractive, “feminine” woman in her mid-forties, with a heart-warming laugh ... Jung’s Analytical Psychology tion is asked whether a man has an animus and a woman an anima The object-related ability of man, his gift for creating an outer reality, his activities, are manifestations ... leads to doubts and uncertainty A short dream of a man at the very beginning of his therapy is a good example: I was on a dark street A sinister character was following me I became frightened and...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 05:20

... Canada in a globalized economy: an investment perspective Factors driving investment decisions abroad Although reasons for investing abroad certainly vary across companies, there are two primary ... survey 2011 Canadians in Economist Intelligence Unit survey 2011 US China Canada China India US Hong Kong SAR US China Belgium Canada India Brazil Vietnam Brazil Source: UNCTAD; Economist Intelligence ... means that half of all respondents regard Canada as average or worse in this area A particular striking outcome of the survey was the low degree to which respondents regarded Canada as having a...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 06:20

Ngày tải lên: 09/03/2014, 09:20

... Canadian, American and British occupational standards for several event management-related positions, such as ‘special event manager’, and the Australian National Training Authority (ANTA) having ... Africa She has published in the area of tourism planning and management, appearing in Anatolia and Journal of Human Resources in Hospitality and Tourism She is also a board member of ATLAS-Africa ... contain information to attract appropriate individuals, they can also represent occupational, organizational, industry and societal artefacts and can therefore contain rich and insightful information...

Ngày tải lên: 11/03/2014, 18:05

... Conventional environmental financial accounting falls within the framework of modern accrual accounting and its associated financial reports It deals with differentiating financial accounting information ... ‘true’ and ‘fair’ information about the actual economic performance of the company Therefore, financial accounting and reporting are being dealt with in national laws and international accounting ... significant changes in business information systems and corporate rating practices, we also underline the importance of making the associated technological, organizational and institutional innovations...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 22:20

... planned behaviour (TPB) as an overarching framework linking different disciplinary perspectives; Taking individual-level decisions and behaviour as paramount; Linking individual and aggregate-level ... aggregate-level analyses; Studying contextual influences by applying a comparative crosscountry framework; Using qualitative analysis of narrative data as an essential component; Employing a variety of datasets, ... behavioural and value changes (Neyer and Andersson 2008) Policies that have a certain effect in one welfare context may not operate in the same way in another one For instance, offering cheap and...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 12:20

... nonessential signals functioning as inputs to bring about activation of the pathway as the spindle pole moves into the bud during anaphase? Similarly, we are still lacking a thorough understanding ... 4) Eventually all Clb-CDKs are inactivated resetting the cell cycle to a GAP phase state degraded leading to the activation of Separase (Fig 3) The protease then not only initiates anaphase chromosome ... detailed understanding of the pathway, but also to generate new tools to understand how the pathway is regulated in vivo Is one essential pathway activating the MEN during anaphase or are many...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 06:20

... online activities are not allowed? Disclosing Making Talking to Spending a Creating a Using Accessing Downloading Using personal purchases people they lot of time profile in an chat certain /playing ... metropolitan areas were the least likely to have rules against creating a profile in an online community (59% vs 64% in urban areas and 63% in rural areas), parents in the rural areas were the least likely ... Portugal (45%), Austria (42%), France and Sweden (both 40%) In Germany, France and Sweden, parents were more likely to have rules against downloading and playing music, films and games than against...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 19:20

... in academic research libraries and assume physical consolidation of individual print collections into an above-the-institution aggregation This paper takes an alternative approach, based on a ... as a regional asset In short, the extra-regional collections are a varied and abundant inventory that is not organized in a way that easily supports shared access or management The total value ... regional consolidation of print collections, we are not necessarily advocating megaregions as the appropriate scale for achieving consolidation and cooperative management in practice Assuming that...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 13:20

... English was declared a co-official language and it was supposed to be taught as a compulsory subject in all primary schools (Mlama and Materu, 1978) In addition, English was also declared a language ... Mlama and Materu, 1978) have advocated a switch to Kiswahili as a language of instruction at all levels of education insisting that the current system of bilingual education has negatively affected ... regions of Tanzania mainland The target population was all finalist degree programme students in 20 degree programmes at SUA in the 2010/2011 academic year A simple random sampling technique was used...

Ngày tải lên: 02/04/2014, 05:21

... MMR maternal-mortality rate PDN perinatal-death notification PSANZ-PDC Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand perinatal death classification RR relative risk SGA small for gestational age ... on any acquirer British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Woods, Robert Death before birth : fetal health and mortality in ... data or they have been instrumental in shaping my comparative approach to fetal health and mortality: Anne Løkke (Copenhagen), Frans van Poppel (The Hague), Lucia Pozzi (Sassari, Sardinia), Graham...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 10:33