... the fact that these indicators are much easier to measure In addition, conventional methods have the advantage of being investment evaluation settings Their major drawback of evaluation is that ... emphasis on value creation but it has been accused of an excessive focus on the shortterm and undervaluation of growth potential In addition, some authors argue that it is only a variant of residual ... Ittner, C.D and D.F Larcker (1998b), ``Are non-financial measures leading indicators of financial performance? An analysis of customer satisfaction’’, Journal of Management Accounting Research, 36,...
... bread and jam and their small share of hot tea, and blankets have just been issued We ourselves have a rug, and a ration of bread, tea, and jam; we had dinner on the station When I think of your ... has got a small French boy by him who is teaching him French with a map, a 'Matin,' and a dictionary A great deal of nodding and shaking of heads is going on Sunday, August 23rd. The same dazzling ... own ship and another We have a lot of R.E and R.F .A and A. S.C., and a great many horses and pontoons and ambulance waggons: the horses were very difficult to embark, poor dears It was an exciting...
... from an anion exchanger at a salt concentration of less than 100 mM with a yield of about 10% (Fig 3A) For a comparison the interaction of the foot-specific peroxidase with a cation exchanger, Mono ... against amino acids 20–28 of PPOD1, generated in mice (Eurogentec), used at a dilution of : 250, and visualized with an alkaline phosphatase conjugated secondary antibody (Sigma) at a dilution ... was monitored at A2 80 and fractions were assayed for peroxidase activity Grey bars indicate the active fractions pooled, subjected batchwise to cation-exchange chromatography by Mono-S and concentrated...
... GAPDH_rev TGAAAGACCTTTCAAACCCCTC GTTTTGCAGTAGGCCACCAC GCCAGGGAAGTCAGAACTTC GTTTTGCAGTAGGCCACCAC CCACAGAAGGAGCAAATACTTC GTTTTGCAGTAGGCCACCAC AGGAGGAGGAGTGGTGCTG GTCCCCAGCAGCAGCAGTA GAGGTGAGCCGATGGAGATTTA ... GAGGTGAGCCGATGGAGATTTA CCTCTCAGGCGCTCAGCTTC TCTCCGGCGAGATGTCCGA GCTCCAGTGAATCCAGGTTG TCTCCGGCGAGATGTCCGA GGCAGCGATCACCAGTAAAC GAAGGGCTCATGACCACAGTCCAT TCATTGTCGTACCAGGAAATGAGCTT Immunoglobulin domain (type ... Universitat Darmstadt, Germany) was applied at a ¨ concentration of lm GM6001 (Calbiochem, San Diego, CA, USA) was used at a final concentration of 10 lm and phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (Sigma,...
... BPL-for, 5¢-TTCTTAACCATGG GCTTCAAAAACCTGAT-CTGG-3¢; BPL-rev, 5¢-TTAA GGATCCTAAGAACGAGACAGGCTGAACTCTCC-3¢; BCCPD67, 5¢-GTAACCATGGGTGAACAGGAAGA A- 3¢; BCCP-rev, 5¢-GGATCCTTAAACGTTTGTGTC TATAAG-3¢; BCCP ... BPL to a final concentration of lM, and incubated at 70 °C for 30 The reaction was terminated by the addition of ice-cold trichloroacetic acid (final concentration 25% w/v), and incubation on ice ... were accumulated and spectra combined and the molecular mass determined by the MAXENT AND TRANSFORM algorithms of the MASS LYNX software (MicroMass) Assay ofA aeolicus BPL BPL activity was assayed...
... spectra of the GGN4 analogues, including the native GGN4, showed a strong negative band near 200 nm and a weak and broad band around 222 nm, indicating a predominantly random-coil conformation with ... changed dramatically, with a strong positive band near 192 nm and strong negative bands centered at 208 and 222 nm, which are indicative ofa highly a helical conformation [22–25] The signals at 193, ... perpendicular to the helical axis in panels A and B, and is parallel to the helical axis in panels C and D rapid exchange of the Hz amino protons This observation indicates that the lysine side-chains are...
... the DNA concentration of 0.5 M According to the calibration, the increased deflection indicates that the cantilever bends downward, away from the DNA-coated side (the probe DNA is coated on the ... Hagan, A K Chakraborty, and A Majumdar, Proc Natl Acad Sci U.S .A 98, 1560 (2001) G Wu, R H Datar, K M Hansen, T Thundat, R J Cote, and A Majumdar, Nat Biotechnol 19, 856 (2001) C A Savran, T P Burg, ... complementary DNA used as the target DNA is an ss-DNA with the sequence of 5ЈAGG TCT AGT GCA-3Ј A noncomplementary ss-DNA with the sequence of 5Ј-TGC ACT AGA CCT-3Ј is used as a reference The DNA used...
... Leiomyosarcoma Melanoma Ovarian carcinoma Ovarian sarcoma Pancreatic cancer Pharyngeal cancer Plasmocytoma Pleural mesotelioma Prostatic cancer Rectum carcinoma Thymic carcinoma Thyroid carcinoma Tonsillar ... components analysis (rotation: varimax with Kaiser normalisation) We used the self-regulation questionnaire as a main convergence criterion because it's two dimensional scale is measuring the adaptive ... participants Participants with malignancies had a broad range of tumour localisations (table 3) At the time of being surveyed, at least two weeks had elapsed since a participant's last operation,...
... equation and a Jensen-quadratic equation Abstr Appl Anal 2007 (2007) Article ID 45179 Găvruta, P: A generalization of the Hyers-Ulam-Rassias stability of approximately additive mappings J Math Anal ... pnas.27.4.222 Bae, J-H, Park, W-G: On stability ofa functional equation with n variables Nonlinear Anal TMA 64, 856–868 (2006) doi:10.1016/j.na.2005.06.028 Bae, J-H, Park, W-G: Ona cubic equation ... Bae and Park Journal of Inequalities and Applications 2011, 2011:82 http://www.journalofinequalitiesandapplications.com/content/2011/1/82 Page of for all x, y, z, w Î X Thus, the mapping F satisfies...
... observation indicates that the intra-dot relaxation is slower than the direct carrier capture for high power density excitation Such a fast relaxation probably occurs through a finite continuum of ... the QD transition energies in our samples Conclusion In conclusion, we have measured the rise and decay dynamics of the ground and first excited state of InAs QDs capped with an InGaAs quantum well ... upconverted with a time-delayed portion of the excitation beam in a mm thick b–barium–borate (BBO) crystal The upconverted PL light was detected by a monochromator and a cooled GaAs photomultiplier...
... is only 8.8% for Korea TABLE Nominal Devaluation and Rates of Inflation in ASEAN and Korea, 1997-99 REGION ASEAN Nominal Devaluation CPI Inflation Real Devaluation 67.3% 0% 14.3% Indonesia Malaysia ... currency depreciation As a consequence, the real rate of depreciation for both ASEAN and Korea have been much lower In the case of ASEAN the computed average rate of real devaluation is only about 14.3% ... significant market share in textiles and apparel and other manufactures TABLE Market Share of ASEAN and China in Selected Markets (Asian Crisis Simulation Result) SECTORS USA EU JAPAN ASEAN China ASEAN...
... decomposition rate of organic matter and consequently the nitrogen mineralisation rate increases after a clear-cut 405 Several authors have described an increase in nitrogen availability after a clear-cut ... mineralisation increased Finally, Barg and Edmonds [4] found no change in mineralisation and nitrification rates after partial or total clearcut, as soil moisture, temperature and microbial biomass ... discussed later) 2.5 Statistical analysis Each year, the annual fluxes were calculated by adding up the 13 4-week incubation period fluxes As in 1993 only summer month data are available, we calculated...
... a decrease in A with maintenance of CO concentrations in the sub2 stomatal spaces (c and a decrease of CO ) i at the carboxylation sites (c In contrast, ) c the activation state of Rubisco was ... steady-state value ofA in Ca-deficient plants was reduced to half of the control A unique linear relationship found between A and the stomatal conductance to water vapour (g at steady ) w state ... after stabilisation of stomatal conductance, the shoot was transferred to a tube containing an aqueous solution of ABA (10 M) Stomatal conductance was fol-3 lowed with a porometer (Delta-T Device,...
... including a discussion of the qualitative data and the choice of quantitative outcome measures Figure Example ofa qualitative study carried out alongside a randomised trial: lay health workers for families ... not available Figure Flow chart trials: qualitative data collection carried out pre-trial 14 trials: qualitative data collection carried out during or post-trial Glenton et al Implementation Science ... Cochrane review We defined a qualitative study as any study that used qualitative methods for data collection and analysis We contacted the authors of the 82 trials, asking if any such research had...
... [http://www.diabetes.ca/cpg2003/chapters.aspx?agrowing healthcareproblem.htm] Canadian Diabetes Association (CDA): Clinical practice guidelines for the management of diabetes in Canada Canadian Medical Association Journal ... involving an iterative process of data reduction, data display, conclusion drawing and verification [111] Discussion Limitations An inherent limitation of collecting data through chart audit is ... D, Donaldson N: Building organizational capacity to engage in research utilization Journal of Nursing Administration 1995, 25:12-16 Tsai SL: Nurses' participation and utilization of research...
... [http://www.diabetes.ca/cpg2003/chapters.aspx?agrowing healthcareproblem.htm] Canadian Diabetes Association (CDA): Clinical practice guidelines for the management of diabetes in Canada Canadian Medical Association Journal ... involving an iterative process of data reduction, data display, conclusion drawing and verification [111] Discussion Limitations An inherent limitation of collecting data through chart audit is ... D, Donaldson N: Building organizational capacity to engage in research utilization Journal of Nursing Administration 1995, 25:12-16 Tsai SL: Nurses' participation and utilization of research...
... Sivanandan C, Sujatha TP, Prasad AM, Resminath R, Thakara DR, Bhat SR, Srinivasan R: T-DNA tagging and characterisation ofa cryptic root-specific promoter in Arabidopsis Biochim Biophys Acta ... BLASTx http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BLAST/ programs against the GenBank database, and against a banana EST database donated by Syngenta to the Global Musa Genomics Consortium The 5'-tagged putative ... Israeli Y, Lahav E: Injuries to banana caused by adverse climate and weather In Diseases of Banana, Abacá and Enset Edited by: Jones DR Wallingford, UK: CAB International; 2000:351-379 Robinson...
... and provided valuable demographic data RG, AG, CA, and PAM amplified gag and performed the phylogenic analysis All authors read and approved the final manuscript Acknowledgements This work was ... infection is latent or that the antibody tests are false positives These data demonstrate that a pathogenic, novel strain of HIV-2 is circulating, at least, within Sierra Leone Health care providers ... 68:7433-7447 Damond F, Worobey M, Campa P, Farfara I, Colin G, Matheron S, et al.: Identification ofa highly divergent HIV type and proposal for a change in HIV type classification AIDS Res Hum...
... enzymes aspartate aminotransferase and alanine aminotransferase), circulatory failure, accompanied by thrombocytopenia and haemoconcentration Complications such as gastrointestinal bleeding can also ... deepest appreciation to all the members of Vasudevan Lab for their guidance, assistance and help In particular, I would like to thank Elfin Lim, Dr Ravikumar Rajamanonmani, Dr Danny Doan, and Dr Prasad ... manifestations are characterized by high fever, bleeding, increased vascular permeability/ rapid onset of capillary leakage, liver enlargement/ damage (indicated by elevation in the levels of...
... resistance patterns of leading nosocomial pathogens (gram) and number of boxes were calculated from two databases, 1) Hospital pharmacy computer databases, and 2) International Medication System ... non-parametric correlations A P value of less than 0.05 was regarded as significant Software package STATA 9.0 (USA) was used for the analysis Materials and Methods Results Hospital setting and antibiotic ... NARP was initiated in Turkey in February 2003 by a central regulation of Ministry of Health and was announced nation-wide via official newspaper of the state [11] This is a quasi-experimental...