evidence from the collaborative study on the genetics of alcoholism

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Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 02:01

... of harmonization? 4) What changes on LLT can be recommended to make the procurement system be effective? Objectives To describe the common and the unique provisions in the International Law on ... Legislative harmonization = Transparency Procurement + Openness Procurement Methods of Analysis The results of the survey were analyzed in two parts The first part was the profiling of the respondents ... respondents in terms of individual and profile The second part was the assessment of the procuring procedure applied of the respondents 10 CHAPTER IV RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Provisions in ILT and LLT...

Ngày tải lên: 18/07/2014, 14:50

... software The analysis was mainly based on the outputs of data processing and the information collected from the personal interviews It is used to test the resulting of conclusion from secondary ... appraise the effect of competition in procurement in the international market Scope and Limitations of the Study The conceptual framework of procurement regulation identifies a relationship between ... implementation of the Law on Tendering and the selection of construction contractors Government procurement funded by ODA loans and grants is normally governed by regulations on tendering of relevant donors...

Ngày tải lên: 11/07/2015, 10:14

... Foundation None of the funders contributed to the study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript; and in the decision to submit the manuscript ... interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Authors' contributions DC designed the study, contributed to the development of the lifetable models, analysed and interpreted the ... template used in this study and helped to draft the manuscript RC participated in the design of the study and interpretation of the data and helped to draft the manuscript AT is the principal investigator...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... questionnaires: 1) the Swedish Obstructive Lung Diseases in Northern Sweden (OLIN) questionnaire [18] with additional questions on work and housing conditions; and 2) the Swedish version of the ... in the remaining region of West Sweden 29 218 could be traced The total response rate after three reminders was 62%, and the final study sample consisted of 18 067 subjects A non-response study ... prevalence of symptoms or disease between responders and non-responders [17] Questionnaire The questionnaires used in the study have been described in detail elsewhere [6] In brief, the folder contained...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:23

... shows the results for the association between social support and time spent on LTPA For the engagement group, the highest level of the material dimension and the intermediate level of the emotional/information ... maximum of hours per week These findings indicate two different modes of social support: first, the influence of the emotional/information dimension on the time spent on LTPA is related to the Oliveira ... respectively On the other hand, the positive social interaction dimension might be linked to LTPA by providing motivation and self-efficacy The role of self-efficacy as a mediator of the relationship...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:20

... with the introduction of the mandatory audit firm rotation policy, constituting a timely contribution The introduction of such a rotation policy continues to be contentious, as evidenced by the ... current study Perhaps the study that is most similar to the present study is Kim and Yi’s (2009) examination of the impact of the “auditor designation” rule in South Korea from 1991-2000 The auditor ... rotation policy on audit quality? As well as questions regarding the impact of the introduction of mandatory audit firm rotation on audit quality, there are questions as to its impact on audit...

Ngày tải lên: 06/01/2015, 19:43

... Independence b Professionalization of Judges and the Issue of Corruption c Conclusion B The Second Type of Forced Labor: Convicted Labor Reform System (Laogai) i Re-visit the ILO Convention No 29 & ... it further pronounces, the non-public sectors of the economy … constitute an important component of the socialist market economy; the state protects the lawful rights and interests of the individual ... to in the 1998 Declaration as the Fundamental Conventions ① They include: Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organize Convention, 1948 (No 87) which protects the right of workers...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 14:04

... 7), reconfirms the positive effect of high financial depth on the probability of banking crises found in the literature When conditioning on the broad set of macrofinancial indicators of banking ... estimation after controlling for a large set of macroeconomic and financial variables and the correlation of our variable of interest with some of the macrofinancial variables contribute to the lower ... derive a parsimonious estimation of the regression because of numerous significant cross-correlations among the macrofinancial variables (see the correlation matrix in table A3 in the appendix)...

Ngày tải lên: 29/08/2016, 08:24

... conservation of natural resources The pollution control and prevention are not explicitly addressed in the Constitution - Law on Environmental Protection The Law on Environmental Protection (LEP) ... example of how economic interests intrude the effective implementation of regulations None of the interviewed companies worried about the impact of inspection on their production though they were ... into the environmental legal regulation in Vietnam and the impacts they have on the industry I.1 Research questions The thesis aims to answer the following questions, from the macro level of policy...

Ngày tải lên: 24/08/2013, 18:48

... not only useful for charactering the metamorphic conditions along the whole shear zone but also very suitable for constraining the time of metamorphism In order to determine the age of Con Voi ... chlorite of the second assemblage of minerals Stretching lineation defined by minerals of two parageneses had the same direction The different criteria of shears recorded by the minerals of the first ... regional to thin section one Tectonic setting and structural characteristics Analysis of thin section of gneiss samples taken from the Con Voi range evidenced the existence of two parageneses which...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 12:20

... humidity on the indoor environment was studied to identify the influence on the psycho-physiologic condition of the occupants.40) Temperature The relationship between buildings-related symptoms and thermal ... The regulation of chemical emission from furniture and the education of residents are required COMMUNICATION BETWEEN MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS AND REGIONAL HEALTH CENTERS The Ministry of Health, Labour ... purification and to purify water contaminated with low concentrations of toxic pollutants.150) JAPANESE REGULATIONS ON FORMALDEHYDE EMISSION FROM ARCHITECTURAL MATERIALS In 2003, the Ministry of Land,...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 22:20

... just the month-s average funds rate target minus the target on the ¯r ¯ last day of month s , 1, denoted ∆˜s (The non-standard ∆ notation is used to refer to the change from the last day of month ... Implications for the term structure of interest rates The behavior of the short end of the yield curve has been something of a puzzle for researchers Contrary to the implications of the expectations ... associated with the VAR literature mentioned earlier, and shifts the focus away from the precise timing of the policy actions.11 In addition, the assumption that the dates of possible policy actions are...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 02:21

... elastic connection, and it takes the length of the cycle as already known, so that once the length of the contraction (time from the start to P) is known, the length of the recovery (from P to ... over contractions), we attempt to account for the effect of crisis severity The results looking out either four quarters from the trough or the duration of the contraction into the expansion were ... recovery from the 2007 recession We measure the amplitude of the contraction by the percentage drop (from the peak) of quarterly RGDP We measure the recovery strength as the percentage change from the...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 19:20

... increasing attention since the inception of the EMU.4 Our aim, however, is not to study the determinants of the CDS or the bond spread, but, rather, the determinants of the basis to test whether both ... in the sovereign credit default swap (CDS) and bond markets reflect the same information on credit risk in the context of the European Monetary Union The empirical analysis is based on the theoretical ... report the standardised coefficients As expected, the strongest effect is the one corresponding to the lagged relative basis Among the rest of the variables, the strongest effects are the ones...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 07:20

... solution at a concentration of 25–500 lM GDP, GMP, and ATP were added at the concentration of 500 lM These mixtures were preincubated at °C for h in the absence of CaCl2 and added to the reaction ... sequences (Fig 4) When aligned according to the middle region with high homology among the various TGases (from the front of region A to the end of region C in Fig 3), a similar phylogenetic tree ... the formation of the corneum [47] Additional amino-terminal residues of TGase include the sequences that are post-translationally Fig Effects of purine nucleotides on the inhibition of PpTGase...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 23:20

... other The post-World War II period saw the former Italian colony of Eritrea become a region of Ethiopia, but growing dissatisfaction with the Ethiopian occupation led to a prolonged period of ... the mean height of the same-aged international reference population, divided by the standard deviation of the reference population On average, across households in all regions of Ethiopia, children ... both the war and non-war regions.11 The empirical identification strategy relies on a comparison of height-for-age Z-scores of similarly aged children in war and non-war regions We compare the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 09:20

... favour of the Lebanese Pound has brought the level of dollarization of (resident private sector) loans from 87.01% at the beginning of 2001 to 77.28% at the end of 2010, and the dollarization of ... rates in Lebanon In section we shed light on the literature regarding the determinants of bank net interest margins The empirical methodology of the study is presented in section The data set ... August 2011 This consists with the main objective of monetary policy in Lebanon The central bank of Lebanon conducts its monetary policy by defining two operational targets: (1) the spread between...

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