or not adopting existing models

... Alliance For more information please visit: www.grant-thornton.co.uk/refresh 54 Retrench or refresh? New business models Retrench or refresh? New business models 55 © 2010 Grant Thornton UK LLP ... Retrench or refresh? New business models Retrench or refresh? New business models Executive summary Do existing business models still deliver the goods? Over the next 18 months, the majority of ... act more quickly only when forced In the healthcare sector, for example, the delayed effects of the recession help explain why 21% of respondents say their business models are not geared for success...

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... following keyword combinations: (glutathione s-transferase OR GST OR GSTT1 OR GSTM1 OR GSTP1) AND (polymorphism OR polymorphisms OR SNP OR mutation) AND (cancer OR malign* OR carcinoma OR tumor OR tumour) ... association of more than polymorphisms The Impact Factor (IF) of each journal was extracted from Journal Citation Reports (Institute for Scientific Information, JCR-ISI) [9] When a journal was not included ... for this finding First, the pressure for publication among authors and the competition for acceptance in journals are fierce [3,4] and may lead the authors to perform studies with few polymorphisms,...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:51

... and their application in practice) Attestation of statutory auditors and auditors As statutory auditors or auditors of ACCOR and in accordance with Rule 98-01 of the Commission des Opérations ... and /or exchangeable into new and /or existing shares -8- Translation into English for information purposes only - Original in French Neuilly-sur-Seine, 25 April 2002 Auditors: Revisors (for consolidated ... Masse for the purposes of an amalgamation, reorganisation, consolidation or merger which is implemented; or (d) any other present or future indebtedness of the Company for or in respect of borrowed...

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... quite distorted if output or inflation is not stable over time See for instance, Laubach and Williams (2003) for the United States; Bernhardsen and Gerdrup (2007) for Norway; ECB (2004) for the ... Evridiki Tsounta Authorized for distribution by Charles Kramer October 2012 This Working Paper should not be reported as representing the views of the IMF The views expressed in this Working Paper are ... the euro area; Bjorksten and Karagedikli (2003) for New Zealand; Lam and Tkacz (2004) for Canada; and Adolfson et al (2011) for Sweden See for example, Ogunc and Batmaz (2011) for Turkey; Calderon...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 14:20

... label information to be ethical? The term ethical is defined as related to beliefs of what is right or wrong or morally acceptable (Hornby, 2005:498) The present article examines the moral acceptability ... persons or entities are good, sincere or honest, while trustworthy implies persons or entities that have these values (Hornby, 2005:1586) Consumers who trust food suppliers, such as restaurants or ... claims for product promotion (Keller et al., 1997:257) and thus the information provided might be untrustworthy and unethical Furthermore, US consumers tend to view nutritional information as more...

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2014, 18:33

... elements in this organ In support of this hypothesis, Huang et al [2] show that T1 and T2 are expressed exclusively in the testis and during early stages of embryonic development The authors also show ... exonisation of transposable element sequences BMC Mol Biol 2009, 10:74 Lev Maor G, Goren A, Sela N, Kim E, Keren H, DoronFaigenboim A, Leibman-Barak S, Pupko T, Ast G: The “alternative” choice ... can add new regulatory motifs and new protein-coding sequences They find that some of the alternatively spliced transposable-element-derived exons located upstream of the original ATG translation...

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 19:21

... is regular or not and whether it has a stem change or not To form the present subjunctive, start from the third person plural of the indicative, the ils/elles form, drop the -ent to form the stem, ... Subjunctive or Not The verbs parler (to speak), finir (to finish), and vendre (to sell) serve as examples of the three categories of regular verbs You create the stem for each with the ils/elles form ... sortir (to go out) ils sortent sort- suivre (to follow, to take a course) ils suivent suiv- vivre (to live) ils vivent viv- Il est important que les enfants lisent tous les jours (It is important...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 10:22

... de bonnes notes Showing Emotion or Judgment Another important category of verbs and verbal expressions is the one that expresses emotion as well as judgment Take a look at Table 20-2 for a list ... *See the following paragraph for more information on these conjunctions The conjunctions in Table 20-5 that have the asterisk before them can take the expletive ne before the subjunctive And I know ... said that ne is an expletive, but it’s not a dirty word! In grammar, an expletive is a nonessential word or phrase that you don’t need in the sentence in order to understand it The expletive ne...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 10:22

... Subjunctive or Not Q Bien qu’il _ (essayer) d’ouvrir la porte, il n’a pas pu A Bien qu’il ait essayé d’ouvrir la porte, il n’a pas pu (Even though he tried to open the door, he was not able ... of view in order for the verb in the subordinate clause to be in the subjunctive Remember: Use the past subjunctive when the action of the verb in the subordinate clause comes before the action ... verb in the subordinate clause occurs at the same time or after the action of the main verb, you use the present subjunctive But if the action of the subordinate verb occurs before the action...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 10:22

... treated with CRMMF and ORIF for subcondylar fractures Ellis and Throckmorton20 compared vertical measures of mandibular and facial morphology after open or closed treatment for fractures of the ... statistically significant differences between the ORIF and CRMMF groups for gender, race, diagnosis, or cause Moreover, there were no differences for age at injury, maximum interincisal opening, ... and, 3) open reduction with or without internal fixation.4 Basic and very important requirements must be taken into consideration before the choice or option is made for the type of treatment in...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 17:20

... transcriptional co-factor for steroid hormone receptors such as estrogen receptor [13] Besides tumour formation, cyclin D1 can also play a pivotal role in the invasiveness and the metastatic phenotype through ... node status or tumour size or HER2 amplification poorer prognosis indication for need for additional chemotherapeutic treatment positive correlation with ER status (p < 0.005) positive correlation ... for lymphadenopathy) and laboratory data (except for LDH) were not influenced by cyclin D1 overexpression which, nevertheless, proved to be associated with poor outcome of NHL patients [20] More...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 03:24

... argument for withholding immunotherapy in isolated facial diplegia variant of GBS until the eighth day or so before committing these "mild" GBS patients, who are still able to walk, to IVIG or plasmapheresis ... remain ambulatory during the second week of illness [5] Observation until the eight day though is advisable to be certain that the disease does not progress or relapse Conclusion It is not our intention ... 1: Motor and Sensory Nerve Conductions Nerve/Site Median nerve (APB) Right Med Wrist Med Elbow Tibial nerve (AH) Right Med Mall Pop fossa Facial nerve® Orb Oculi® Nasalis® Facial nerve (L) Orb...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:22

... factor expressed in floral organs whereas the two other loci cGAPDH and nrITS are expressed in every tissue, but recent studies demonstrate that gene classification is not a strong predictor for ... according to the corrected Akaike Information Criterion for each alignment was estimated for exon and intron sequences separately with MrModeltest v 2.3 [60] The parameters of the best model for ... been observed for the majority of homeologous genes in allopolyploid systems [5] We found no evidence for complete epigenetic silencing of a homeolog, which has been reported for cGAPDH and ribosomal...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 11:21

... cultivated, further work would be needed to explore their implications for drug use and abuse in different situations and contexts A bridge between the laboratory and the library or the street would ... unblinded in order for subjects to learn with certainty their internal sensation in response to ever-smaller doses of the drug Howard Gardner's distinct types of intelligence may or may not correspond ... That is an unforgiving way to learn In fact it is not a situation for learning but rather for selection of certain preexisting characteristics Scoring under non-learning conditions could explain...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... those recorded for the Norwegian pigs, the cortisol levels for the three herds were all within the normal range [32] and no extreme stress-related behaviour such as tail-biting were recorded in ... those recorded for the Norwegian pigs, the cortisol levels for the three herds were all within the normal range [32] and no extreme stress-related behaviour such as tail-biting were recorded in ... for 15 followed by 41 cycles of 94°C for 50 sec, 55°C for 60 sec and 72°C for 45 sec (PCV-C-1256U21) or 95 sec (PCVF-13119L21), with a final elongation step of at 72°C) Inner primers used for...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:22

... Before adopting new hemostatic techniques or devices, should not solid evidence of comparative efficacy be available? At the current time, the clinician faced with the question of APCDs or not ... plug or not to plug?’, and the answer requires well-designed, randomized, blinded clinical trials Hemostatic occlusion of a puncture vessel is an important issue for clinicians caring for patients ... Koreny and colleagues is that there is only marginal evidence that APCDs are effective Given the poor quality of the reported clinical data and the heterogeneity evident in the data, one cannot...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... ischemic human brain endothelium and is neuroprotective Nat Med 2003, 9:338-342 Page of (page number not for citation purposes) ... activated protein C in maintaining endothelial tight junction function and its relationship to organ injury Crit Care 2006, 10:239 Mosnier LO, Zlokovic BV, Griffin JH: The cytoprotective protein ... Endothelial barrier protection by activated protein C through PAR1-dependent sphingosine 1phosphate receptor-1 crossactivation Blood 2005, 105: 3178-3184 Finigan JH, Dudek SM, Singleton PA, Chiang ET, Jacobson...

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