... recruiting large enterprises with tax breaks, financial incentives, and other induce-ments. Instead, they are relying on building businesses from the groundup and supporting the growth of existing ... situation, offering an alternativeto leaving (Anderson and Meyer). Further, larger firms offer more on- the- job training and more advancement opportunities, which makes iteasier for them to maintain ... example, in Canada (Morisette), Germany (Schmidt and Zimmermann), Austria (Winter-Ember), the United Kingdom (Belfield and Wei), and Switzerland (Winter-Ember and Zweimüller), among others.8Kraybill...
... & Lynch, K. (1999).Offeringahand to pragmatic understanding: Theroleof speech and gesture in comprehension and memory. Journal of Memory and Language, 40,577–592.Lansing, C. R., & McConkie, ... review the lecture outline in advance, and to expand on or omit some ofthe material to ensure a morenatural delivery with minimal reference to the outline duringrecording. The first part ofthe ... (Nunnally, 1978) and is acceptable given the rela-tively small number of questions andthe subject population.Longer tests and participants with wider and continuous ranges of ability increase test...
... existing infrastructure.Data and evidence on therole of savings and retail banks in access to financeWSBI has conducted research into theroleof savings banks in providing access to finance2. ... organisations that have sprung out of the savings banks movement, have done a Bringing the Hidden Giants to the Footlight: theRoleof Savings and Retail Banks in Increasing the Level of ... savings banks could make use of their front and back of ce systems for disbursing of loans and collecting loan repayments. Another promising track for savings banks is to invest their savings...
... is under the direct control of kinases and phosphatases, and the indirect control of phosphorylation through the regula-tion of other apoptotic proteins. Furthermore, manykinases and phosphatases ... PP1 by OA enhances the phosphorylation of p53 at Ser15 and Ser37, decreases the expression of bcl-2 and increases the expression of bax in humanlaryngeal epithelial cells and human lung fibroblastWI-38 ... inhibitors The protein phosphatase inhibitor OA andthe proteinkinase inhibitor, the broad spectrum inhibitor of pro-tein kinase ST for example, often exert opposingeffects on protein modification...
... according to the borrower, the purpose and use ofthe loans, their sectoral composition and concentration, the currency denomination, andthe maturity and other conditions ofthe loans. In terms ... capacity to service their loans and their access to new loans. These factors play an important rolein extending a boom and increasing the severity and length of a downturn. In practice, it has ... under these circumstances. Apart from developments in the amount of credit, the nominal increase inthe number of loans is a relevant factor, also in terms ofthe ability ofthe banks and supervisors...
... of GSK3 (using Li or SB-415286)appears to be sufficient for inducing activation of GS in muscle and fat cells, and that inhibition ofthe kinasepotentiates insulin action in muscle of insulin-resistant ... < 0.05.Results and discussionEffects of insulin, Li and SB-415286 on GSK3 activityAs an initial starting point for our studies we investigated the effects of insulin, Li andthe maleimide, ... Cushman, S.W., Akanuma, Y., Yazaki, Y. &Kadowaki, T. (1997) Roleof insulin receptor substrate-1 and pp60 in the regulation of insulin-induced glucose transport and glut4translocation in...
... Williams-Shanks and Destin (2009), and Haveman and Wilson (2007) find that net worth has a significant positive relationship with college attendance. However, Jez (2008) and Nam and Huang (2009) find ... Savings and Wealth in Reducing ―Wilt‖ between Expectations and College Attendance Subsequently published as: Elliott, W. and Beverly, S. (2011). Therole of savings and wealth in reducing ... suggest that factors other than desire and ability play an important rolein determining whether attending a four-year college is more than a dream for many American youth. Somewhat surprisingly,...
... volume ofthe acyl binding pocket and thereby alter the binding mode and affinity of the enzyme for PAA and derivatives thereof, while maintaining the hydrophobicity ofthe binding site.To test the ... maintaining the structure ofthe binding site given the short distances of 3.5 A˚ and 3.9 A˚between bF57(CZ) andthe substratebinding residues bP22(CB) and bF24(CE2), respectively.Changing ... site suggesting that hydropho-bic interactions between the aromatic phenylalanines and the phenyl ring ofthe substrate play an important role in substrate binding. The large effect ofthe mutations...
... ability andthe surface charge through the number of oxygen vacancies, and as a result, controls the initial surfaceband bending (eVs) ofthe metal oxide andthe change of eVs atreplacement ofthe ... experimental study and theoretical under-standing ofthe fundamentals of gas-sensing mechanisms in metal oxides. In analyzing the opportunities of one-dimensional structures of various types for their practical ... formodulation of surface band bending of semiconductors with the change ofthe surrounding atmosphere. The change of surfacestoichiometry of metal oxide films may result from changes in deposition and annealing...
... greenfield direct investments, total capital inthe banking sector increasesleading to an overall improvement ofthe banking system and a decrease in ratio. On the other hand, foreign bank ownership ... rejection ofthe theory. Trying to overcome this difficulty we calculateλMV Pestimating variances and covariances ofin ation and change in the real exchange rate over varying period lengths and with ... inthe parenthesis.*, ** and *** - significant at 10%, 5%, and 1%∆lshtot, ∆dshtot - change in total loan (l) and deposit (d) dollarization, ∆lshind, ∆dshind - change in individual (ind)...
... importance of each vector in U and V. The signal-to-noise ratio is very high inthe earliestcolumns of U and V andthe random noise is mainlyaccumulated inthe latest U and V columns. The wave-length ... two-statemechanism, as suggested by the lack of coincidence of the changes in relative fluorescence intensity and in k and by the hysteresis ofthe reversibility process(Fig. 4). At the end ofthe transition, ... structure arrangements of the protein and suggest that, inthe native state, the effect of the mutations are directed and localized to the mutated residue. In the presence of 7.9 m GdmCl, and analogous...
... at the level ofthe individualfund. Mutual funds are operated by management companies, andthe resources, policies, and culture of these companies play an important roleinthe determination of ... of individual funds’performance and fees. Management companies differ in their ability to attract and retaintalented managers, the incentives provided to these managers, the availability of ... finan-cial performance: before-fee performance and fees. According to standard portfolio choicetheory, constraining the investment opportunity set cannot improve performance. Since one of the...
... for the central roleof ADAM10 and confirming thatTACE has a minor roleinthe a-secretase cleavage of APP in human cells.During the course ofthe present study it was reportedusing an RNA interference ... Biochem. 271) 2547 Theroleof ADAM10 and ADAM17 inthe ectodomain shedding of angiotensin converting enzyme andthe amyloid precursor proteinTobias M. J. Allinson1, Edward T. Parkin1, Thomas ... between the critical cysteine ofthe prodomain and the zinc atom ofthe active site, the so-called Ôcysteine switchÕ[16]. ADAMs also contain a cysteine switch in theirprodomain and APMA has been shown...