results—contributors to growth in mfp

... Opening doors to growth in China Figure In China, customer service is the business process that requires the most re-engineering (% respondents who think the process needs re-engineering) China ... growth in China An ear to the ground with customer service Privately owned companies in China are using innovation, including personalisation, to gain a competitive advantage, but customer service ... hindering a bank’s ability to capture general trends in customer behaviour and needs © Economist Intelligence Unit Limited 2009 Personalisation Opening doors to growth in China Up -to- date customer...

Ngày tải lên: 04/12/2015, 00:16

... Understanding Regulation presented indicators in topics: starting a business, hiring and firing workers, enforcing contracts, getting credit and closing a business Doing Business in 2005 updates these measures ... firing workers, enforcing a contract, getting credit and closing a business (topics in Doing Business in 2004 and 2005)—happened in EU countries Reforms in registering property and protecting investors ... performing standardized tasks: starting a business; hiring and firing workers; obtaining business licenses; getting credit; registering property; protecting investors; enforcing contracts; and closing...

Ngày tải lên: 11/12/2013, 14:15

... Understanding Regulation presented indicators in topics: starting a business, hiring and firing workers, enforcing contracts, getting credit and closing a business Doing Business in 2005 updates these measures ... firing workers, enforcing a contract, getting credit and closing a business (topics in Doing Business in 2004 and 2005)—happened in EU countries Reforms in registering property and protecting investors ... performing standardized tasks: starting a business; hiring and firing workers; obtaining business licenses; getting credit; registering property; protecting investors; enforcing contracts; and closing...

Ngày tải lên: 11/12/2013, 15:15

... This in turn leads to an increase in the supply of bank credit, all thing being equal Our baseline speci…cation includes per capita GDP, bank credit to the public sector, nominal lending rates, in ... equilibrium in those countries Housing prices are found to lead to an increase in private credit only in countries with high housing price in ation This …nding disquali…es this variable from being included ... when moving from point A to C through B The depicted trajectory of the increase in the credit to GDP ratio (credit growth) can be thought of as an equilibrium phenomenon insofar as it is in line...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 04:20

... Savings Industry Potentials for Growth E Developing the Mortgage Finance Market F Increasing the Financial Leasing Industry’s Contributions to Access G Developing the Factoring Industry H Improving ... reforms to foster the factoring industry, including amending the Executive Regulations of the Investment Law, setting the main rules and regulations governing factoring activities; licensing requirements; ... of Banks in Egypt Main Reasons for not Lending to SMEs in Egypt Lending Rates for Local Currency of Banks Operating in Egypt Compound Annual Growth Rate by Sub-Sector in Egypt Statutory Investment...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 09:20

... rk to level the playing field fo r all investo rs Strengthening and sustaining growth in MENA will depend on whether the region’s policy makers will be able to convince existing and would-be investors ... improved the business environment by simplifying business regulations, opening up the financial sector, and reducing restrictions to trade and investment All international indices of the business environment ... rming institutio ns, and pro mo ting mo re inc lusive po lic y making Make investo rs c o nfident that things are really c hanging in a sustainable way Some reform strategies may be appealing...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 10:20

... Savings Industry Potentials for Growth E Developing the Mortgage Finance Market F Increasing the Financial Leasing Industry’s Contributions to Access G Developing the Factoring Industry H Improving ... reforms to foster the factoring industry, including amending the Executive Regulations of the Investment Law, setting the main rules and regulations governing factoring activities; licensing requirements; ... of Banks in Egypt Main Reasons for not Lending to SMEs in Egypt Lending Rates for Local Currency of Banks Operating in Egypt Compound Annual Growth Rate by Sub-Sector in Egypt Statutory Investment...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 20:20

... likelihood to lead to sustainable employment than training in state-run vocational or other classroom institutions Apprenticeship training is facilitated by providing financial incentives to enterprises ... banking system including a number of participating banks, microfinance, and non-bank financial institutions • Do ministries and state enterprises maintain multiple, independent deposit accounts in ... or not maintained at all during the conflict In deciding which infrastructure to rebuild, donors and governments need to take into account not only the infrastructure’s contribution to the resumption...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 20:20

... designed to introduce an NdeI site (underlined in the forward primer) and a BamHI site (underlined in the reverse primer) The amplied PCR product, containing Hp1193, was cloned into the pET 16b vector ... plasmid pJMK30 containing a gene encoding resistance to kanamycin was amplied using the universal sequencing primers M13 and cloned into the unique XcmI site within HpAKR to yield pGEM:HpAKR::aphA-3 ... Columbia agar (Oxoid, Basingstoke, UK) plates containing debrinated horse blood (7%, v v) in a microaerobic (Anoxomat) atmosphere at 37 C E coli strains were routinely grown in LB broth and on LB...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 04:20

... a point mutation leading to the arginine to histidine substitution R525H disrupted BunA-binding (the point mutation derived from the Madm allele 4S3; Figure 3e) Thus, Madm is a Bun-interacting ... UAS-Madm together with UAS-bunA using a wing driver (C10-Gal4) caused an overgrowth phenotype in the wing (Figure 5i,j) We observed additional tissue between the wing veins, resulting in crinkled wings ... pcDNA3.1/Hygro(+) to the pBluescript II KS(+/-) vector using HindIII and XhoI, then further subcloned into the pUAST vector [34] using EcoRI and XhoI, and finally cloned into the pUAST-attB vector with...

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 19:21

... trajectories are possible, as shown in Figure 3: (1) Both storage and growth are promoted, (2) growth is favoured over storage, (3) both storage and growth decline (toxic effect), and (4) growth ... watering in Q ilex and Q faginea, being higher at MW and at HW in the former and in the latter, respectively Therefore, no species followed a clear Stpool -[St] trajectory in response to an increase ... harvested in the morning, separated into leaves, stems and roots and gently washed All plant parts were introduced in liquid nitrogen for 2–4 h to stop their metabolic reactions, and transferred to...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 16:20

... light thinning (25% of basal area removal); D- moderate thinning (35%) and E- heavy thinning (50%) According to the terminology used by Assmann [1] in thinning experiments developed in European ... Variables Time 1994 Dg Before thinning A CDE* ECD After thinning IcDg After thinning Bm Before thinning A After thining ECD A EC CD 2002 A* EDC DCA* A* After thinning rDg 1998 ED ED CDE* EC A* ... This fact seems to indicate a slower response to light thinning Absolute increments (mm year–1) of the stem diameter of individual trees during the first interval after thinning were only slightly...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 01:22

... closely, radiation being the main factor driving photosynthesis and consequently tree development in the model In spring C was preferentially incorporated into leaves and new GUs During this period ... buds can react to pruning) in relation to intensity, date, etc of pruning A better way of modelling inhibitive correlations would be directly to model the processes leading to the inhibition of ... Reynolds J.F., Strain B.R., Modelling photosynthesis of cotton grown in elevated CO2, Plant Cell Env 15 (1992) 271-282 [27] Houllier F., Leban J.M., Colin F., Linking growth modelling to timber quality...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:22

... effects, or, in other words, an expression of the competitive status A least square linear regression line was fitted to the data, and were examined against In (1 -In( FV/FV showing again a linear )), ... and it is easier to find trees, rather than stands, in practically all possible growing conditions the first to attempt growth to local stand conditions Numerous works followed to express for a ... of the surrounding trees with a single value in a "competition index", sometimes used in a computer program to simulate the development of a whole stand, based on the growth of individual trees...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:22

... trunk during zebrafish embryonic development There are two main apoptosis pathways including cellintrinsic (mitochondrial) pathway and cell-extrinsic (death receptor) pathway; the intrinsic pathway ... and cyclin kinase inhibitors (p27 and p57) In protein level, remarkably plentiful production of apoptosis-related proteins including CASPASE-3, CASPASE-8, and BAD were proved by immunohistochemistry ... fusing a 468-bp fragment of tbx5, which included the morpholino target side into a GFP producing vector Tbx5-MO at 19.4 ng and tbx5-GFP DNA at 150 μg were coinjected into 1-cell stage embryos In...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:20

... pre-weaning growth All authors have been involved in drafting the manuscript and proofing and have approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests ... differs between ewes nursing single and twin lambs Ewes suckling twins have been shown to produce more milk than those suckling single lambs; their peak yield is reached during the 3rd week of lactation, ... this study was to evaluate the best way to take account for differences in pre-weaning growth between single- and twin-reared lambs in comparison with the method used at present in the French...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:21

... to evaluate the presence and importance of G × E interactions in a slow growing commercial line of chickens used for French “Label Rouge” type production, in order to take them into account in ... taking into account all available weights from birth to slaughter In the C environment, transfer to cages led to much slower growth rates between and weeks (habituation), followed by high growth ... were treated as distinct (e.g for BRY we G × E interactions in slow-growing chickens 519 distinguished BRYC , BRYS , and BRYE , subscripts indicating the environment) Since preliminary analysis showed...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:22

... we often include simultaneous analyses concerning wing, thorax and ratio, in order to save space Data included in the tables but concerning the ratio is discussed in the second section Wing and ... considered as contingent, ie related to internal genetic constraints ? In the present paper, variations of size characters (wing and thorax) have been considered in relation to growth temperature ... mean values During the development of our investigations, it turned out that the covariation of the wing and thorax could be investigated in an interesting way: by calculating the wing/thorax ratio...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 19:22

... increase in private consumption in China would be needed to offset just a percent reduction in U.S consumer spending This is not going to happen China is not a strong enough economic engine to ... income inequality and stagnating middle-class real earnings in the United States since 1983 As real earnings fell, middle-class Americans were forced to borrow in order to maintain living standards ... question, therefore, is what drives a winning performance in a downturn and the following upswing? To find some answers to this question, we have dug deeply into the history of past recessions, particularly...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2014, 13:32

... percent of the total global increase in household incomes over this period (see Figure 1) In particular, China and India are projected to experience significant increases in total household income, ... transmit stock level and pricing information Unilever then uses the information to manage inventory and predict demand Improved demand forecasting has helped Hindustan Unilever to increase rural store ... expansion into new industries—their success in one market can be a buffer for cycles in other industries, or provide a steppingstone to entering new markets Preparing for your next victory Companies...

Ngày tải lên: 04/12/2015, 00:08