... unification-induced dilution of their voting power by increasing their holdings in advance And, after the unification, they may reverse the initial erosion in their voting power by acquiring more ... controlling shareholders in unifying firms prepared for the unification ex ante, and partially offset the expected dilution in their voting power by increasing their shareholdings inthe year ... 2000 Our main findings are as follows First, controlling shareholders offset the dilution of voting rights they incurred upon unification by: 1) increasing their holdings prior to the unification...
... minimize the negative effects on the wood quality of the butt log), one from the northern side of the trunk and the other from the southern side Throughout the text, age refers to that determined ... comparing the production Norway ation during the episodic crises as well as the long- term trend, ie the average inthe production rate over more than a century In contrast to these results, there ... The main aim of this study was to establish the presence or absence of a long- term trend inthe radial growth rate of oak growing on the plain If it were shown to exist, then quantifying the trend,...
... were included inthe analysis The same net was used for all sampling; the mesh size for the net opening was 6.3 cm, the depth of the net opening was m, the width of the net opening was 22.6 m, the ... structure in 1959, whereas in 1982 the percentage of demersal fish inthe catch had greatly declined Correspondingly, the proportion of pelagic fish inthe total catch increased, peaking in 1993 and then ... The Japanese Anchovy, which is the key species of the food web and the main commercial species inthe Yellow River estuary, has greatly declined since 1993, thus accelerating thechangesin the...
... Care” INTRODUCTION Confronted with rising long- term care needs due to an increasingly ageing population, the European Union is supporting the Member States in their efforts to improve health and long- term ... 4.2 Paying for the long- term care of a parent 85 RECEIVING LONG- TERM CARE 91 5.1 Likelihood of receiving appropriate care inthe future 91 5.2 Expected and preferred form of long- term ... the future, how they expect and prefer to be taken care of should the need arise and how they think they will finance their future long- term care Inthe last chapter, we look at the extent to which...
... SCAP-HQ Combines the patient’s feeling about the amount of privacy where they live, the way things are in general between them and their family, and the protection they have against being robbed ... Combines the patient’s feeling about the way they spend their time, the amount of fun they have, and the amount of friendships in their life General life satisfaction SCAP-HQ The patient’s feeling ... emergency services) to be included inthe cluster analysis at each time point In addition to characterizing patients by sustained favorable long- term outcome inthe second step of the analysis, cluster...
... writing a decade ago for the Worldwatch Institute predicted almost exactly what is unfolding today [6] Causes of the food price increases include rising oil prices, surging demand for grain (to ... 15 percent addressing micronutrients and percent focus on stunting and hunger In contrast, there has been progress in redressing this lack of investment in science in developing countries with ... hampered them talking to each other, are slowly giving way to the development of creative ways of interacting The emergence of new business models that tackle social problems while remaining profitable...
... since it is the largest river flowing into Lake Shinji and the population inthe watershed had been decreasing The purposes of this study were to analyze the long- term trends inthe water quality ... adversely affected the water quality inthe following way In forests (covering approximately two-thirds of the land in Japan), delayed thinning of conifer plantations (covering approximately 40% ... RESULTS Changesin concentration Figure shows thechangesinthe concentrations of nitrogen, phosphorus, COD, and SS at point H2 In addition, the average values and standard deviations of the concentrations...
... collected at the middle parts of the grove from points Sampling points St.1 and St.2 are inthe same stream, and sampling point St.3 is inthe other stream The two streams flow together to be one ... the sampling point St.4 is situated inthe joined stream, which is the only stream that flows into the reservoir The reservoir water was also sampled from point Po inthe reservoir close to the ... streams flow together from 47 m above sea level The water inthe stream is the leachate from the grove and it flows into a collecting reservoir at the foot of the hill The surface area of the reservoir...
... has high long- term- care needs and the other spouse remains inthe community Further, so as not to unduly discriminate against middle-income seniors with accumulated savings, the provinces could ... Provincial governments have strengthened their roles inthe financing and regulation of long- term care in recent years, but they face tight financial constraints, and the debate over policy has not ... sold or on the death of the surviving spouse In Canada, where subsidized long- term care is supplied in kind and nursing homes are paid by the provinces, it would, of course, be the provincial government,...
... during hypoxia Inthe absence of differential regulation of a specific nuclear gene coding for the subunits of CytOX, changesinthe microenvironment of the cell may induce alterations inthe ... inthe Materials and Methods section The stripped blots were rehybridized with a [32P]18S rDNA probe to determine the RNA loading The blots were scanned in a Bio-Rad GS-525 Molecular Imager The ... significant increase in TN However, both the CytOX activity and heme content were reduced by about 50% in macrophages exposed to hypoxia, thus indicating a major change inthe CytOX content in these...
... signaling via the trk receptor in PC12 cells involves caveolin [51], and that caveolin associates with LDs [52] Therefore, NPs may induce the accumulation of lipids in PC12 cells by disturbing the ... stopper into each flask with a syringe, and the flasks were then shaken gently for 24 h at room temperature The filters were then removed and placed into scintillation vials containing scintillation ... HIF-1a is involved directly inthe accumulation of lipids triggered by QDs under the conditions of uncompromised cell survival inthe presence of serum On the basis of the results obtained in this...
... binding inthe RT, thus limiting the options for maintaining a balance in RT The combined-cycle vintage (CCGT) modeled in this analysis, for instance, is assumed to not be able to start within ... screening curves without operational constraints were applied Though they not include uncertainty in wind generation inthe analysis, they find that the inclusion of operational constraints in investment ... periods rather than always part-loading the resource The tradeoff is the increase in start-up costs to bring the generation offline and then back online at a later point 45 The heat rate curves and the...
... protect the enzyme against thermal denaturation The increased resistance of the a-FMH-treated protein to thermal denaturation would indicate that the covalent binding of the adduct to the catalytic ... structure inthe enzyme, suggesting several interaction points for the adduct within the catalytic center in addition to those established by the internal aldimine alone From the shape of the a-FMH-treated ... induced in HDC by histidine and histidine-analogs involve alterations inthe environment of the aromatic amino acid residues of the protein Fig Thermal denaturation of the free HDC holoenzyme and the...
... [40], indicating the importance of His86 in PLP binding The conformational changesin His86 upon PLP binding may correlate directly with interactions between the N and C domains, leading to the ... triggered by the local conformational changes induced by PLP binding to the active site PLP binding to the apo-Ecb induced the following major conformational changes (a) PLP bound to the N terminus of ... other regions, including residues of thelong loop of the C domain These changes were primarily observed around the active site and hinge residues connecting the N and C domains (b) PLP binding...
... Sonny.As the story nears completion, a single event brings the narrator out of the second phase and intohis third phase It is in this final pahse that the narrator obtains a true understanding of ... freedom.Finally, during the third phase, the narrator finally started caring about Sonny instead of try tocare for Sonny He no longer saw him as just something to be taken care of, he finally began ... brother He became sensitive to what offended Sonny and took caution to avoid them He was willing tobe interested in what Sonny interested in Finally, he was willing to sit and listen to Sonny instead...
... structural changesinthe flaps near the mutated Ile46, and inthe interactions of the mutated Thr82 and Val84 with indinavir [18] Local changesinthe mutated residues were also observed inthe crystal ... and more distal changes propagating to the inhibitorbinding site Fig Structural variation in residues 81–82 near indinavir Stereoview showing the benzyl group of indinavir interacting with residues ... the values inthe two mutants Ile50¢ was ordered in all three structures and the side chain fitted well inthe S2 binding pocket created by the t-butyl group of indinavir Ile50, on the other hand,...
... services are integrated with housing needs In defining long- term care, then, several points are worth emphasizing: • • Long- term care is primarily concerned with maintaining or improving the ability ... defined by the reimbursement mechanism rather than by the goals of the care, the skills it requires, or the characteristics of the recipients THE ROLE OF RESIDENCE IN LONG- TERM CARE In long- term care, ... significantly influence the size and character of the long- term care population THE AGING POPULATION The new century will bring an unprecedented increase inthe size of the elderly population as the large...
... This finding is hardly surprising because the balance challenges during walking are quite different from those involved in maintaining upright posture During standing, the goal is to maintain the ... Hz The smoothed coordinates then became inputs to the standard link-segment model ing during walking These variables are presented inthe Table Results and Discussion In addition to the joint ... with the CG, which is its location inthe gravitational axis Inthe 16 / 341 sagittal plane, even in slow walking, the horizontal momentum of the HAT results in inherent instability The role of the...