... permitted to give loans tothe microfinance sector, which in the aggregate exceed 10% of its total assets. 6 Areas of Concern The advent of MFIs in the Microfinance sector appears to have resulted ... 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 ... lend tothe same borrower. d) there must be a minimum period of moratorium between the grant ofthe loan and the commencement of its repayment. e) recovery of loan given in violation of the...
... to give them such practical training as their peculiar needs demanded. In the agricultural sections the first duty ofthe teacher ofthe blacks was to show them howto get their living from the ... colonists, tothe mutual aid resulting from the proximity of the communities, and tothe coöperation ofthe Canadians. The previous experience of most of theseadventurers as sojourners in the free ... unfortunates by the spiritual cultivation of their minds. He aimed,too, not to take into his scheme the solution ofthe whole problem but to appeal to a special class of slaves,those ofthe plantations...
... (QB). Thefull reduction of the quinone m olecule at QB to quinol requires a secondphotoexcitation ofthe RC and is coupled tothe uptake of two protons from the cytoplasmic space. The formedubiquinol ... PufXD2)7neither affects the photo-synthetic capability ofthe bacteria nor the efficiency of exchange ofthe ubiq uinol molecules between th e RC and the bc1, a s judged from the reduction kinetics of ... monitoring the reduction of the cytochrome b561induced by a short actinic light fl ash in the presence ofthe inhibitor a ntimycin A [ 29]. Reduction of the cytochrome b561typically shows...
... first reaction, however, with time the smoker (and the eater too) learns to expect the sensations that the heroin user of today is accustomed to. The cares and distractions of daily life drop ... containing the drug. But working mothers paid no attention to such warnings. They had to leave their infants in the care of old women or very young children when they went off tothe mills; there ... Indian plain had lowered the water content to 30 percent. Then it and the poppy petal sheets went together tothe caking room.Down the sides ofthe caking room sat the cake-makers. Beside each...
... 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 ... Mogyorósy1AbstractObjectives: The aim ofthe study was to investigate the psychometric properties ofthe Hungarian version of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ (PedsQL™) Generic Core Scales ... 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...
... Compared to the RAND-12, both diabetes-specific HRQOL instrumentsshowed slightly better discrimination by using laboratoryindicators. No specific domains ofthe DQOL, the D-39S,and the RAND-12 showed ... diabe-tes treatment and symptoms of glycemic control. We alsohypothesized that, compared tothe RAND-12 the DQOLand the D-39S would discriminate better between the known groups of retinopathy, neuropathy, ... [23] suggest that the combined use of anchor-based and distribution-based approaches tend to expand the range of MIDs compared to using eitherapproach. The MID derived from the distribution-basedapproach...
... deficiencies attributed to the toxicity of chemotherapy or the isolation to which the individual is subjected [9,15]. The analysis ofthe correlation between the scores the chil-dren/adolescents ... AlphaCoefficient regarding the total scale and the different sub-scales according tothe age group ofthe individuals. The analysis ofthe results revealed values greater than 0.70 for the total scale in ... Hematology /the Education Program ofthe American Society of Hematology American Soci-ety of Hematology 2004:118-145.3. Bowden A, Fox-Rushby JA: A systematic and critical review of the process of...
... home, thenreturned them to school via students. Parents were asked to return the surveys even if they chose not to consent to participate. The students completed their questionnaireafter the ... estimate ofthe replicability of item placement within a hierarchy of items along the measured variable if these same items were to be given to another sample of comparable ability. Analogous to Cronbach's ... school to go to doctor or hospital .853 .832 .860 .892 .898 .879Numbers in parentheses are factor loadings of subscale on psychosocial health of second-order factor.Table 4: Covariances of factors...
... completion of the decerebration, anesthesia was removed. Piglets werechemically paralyzed for the rest ofthe experiment. Aminimum of one hour was allowed to elapse betweenremoval of anesthesia ... 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...
... 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 ... 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 status.Results: ... respondentsreporting impairment in the 5 EQ domains. The magni-tude and significance ofthe ORs for the EQ-5D domains,as well as the sign and significance ofthe regression coef-ficients for the EQ-5D Index,...
... Accord-ing tothe pilot testing, the time required to complete the questionnaires was estimated to be 5 to 10 minutesTable 2 Multivariable analysis ofthe total score of the PedsQL Cancer ModuleFactor ... looked at the responses on eachquestionnaire, checked how long it took to complete,and asked the subjects how well they understood the questions.A f inal version ofthe Japanese version ofthe PedsQLCancer ... when waiting to see the Table 7 Exploratory factor analysis ofthe PedsQL Cancer Module in parent proxy-reportsSubscale Item Factor 1 Factor 2 Factor 3 Factor 4 Factor 5 Factor 6 Factor 7Pain...
... In the parent-report, the first factor consisted of items 1 to 6 and the second factor consisted of items 7 and 8; however in the children report, the first factor consisted of items 1 to 4 ... 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 ... and the second factor consisted of items 5 to 8. Similarly, the school functioning scale was split into two factors; in the parent and child reports, the first factor consisted of items 1 to...