... an incentive for people to bring their money into the formal financial system, instead of relying on informal circuits In designing their products, savings banks take into accountthe special needs ... decided on the basis ofthe borrower’s investment need and their ability to repay The amount ofthe first loan does not exceed US$ 750 and the borrowers can apply for a second loan of up to US$ 1,250 ... on the borrower’s investment need The interest rate is 12 % per annum and the repayment term ranges from to years before the expiry date ofthe lease right As of February 2, 2005, a total of...
... in context with the other exploring the safetyefficacy balance ofthe addition of bevacizumab to chemotherapy for advanced breast cancer strengthen the need of a deep analysis ofthe correlation ... chemotherapy, the HR in terms fir the time to progression is 0.70 [28] In the phase III trial evaluating the addition of capecitabine to docetaxel in the same setting of patients, the HR for time ... compares with the benefits of other important therapeutic choices such as the addition of taxanes forthe st line treatment of metastatic breast cancer, where the advantage in terms of relative...
... interpreted at the individual level, thus avoiding the ecological fallacy [2,14] However, the results can be used as a basis for discussion and forthe generation of new alternative hypotheses The used ... rates were calculated for each ofthe 289 Swedish municipalities for men and women and each ofthe age groups 40-49, 50-59, 60-69 and 70-79 years The population sizes forthe year 2000 were used ... Land Survey of Sweden [11,12] An official grouping of Swedish municipalities into nine groups according to number of inhabitants and infrastructure was used, in order to form subgroups of similar...
... model The adjective model assumes that the meaning ofthe composition is the same as the adjective: p=u The noun model assumes that the meaning ofthe composition is the same as the noun: p=v The ... versa Notice that the former assumption ofthe multiplicative model corresponds tothe modifier-head interpretation where adjectives are used to modify the meaning of nouns To foreshadow our results, ... ofthe noun, rather than disjunctive interpretations that add together or take the union ofthe semantic features ofthe two words Thus, we predicted that the multiplicative model would outperform...
... is the vector of records; b is the vector of fixed effects; a is the random b vector of breeding values of base animals; a is the random vector of breeding r values of non-base animals; e is the ... MME that accountfor reduced genetic variance of base animals due to selection, they did not explicitly give a set of rules to set up the associated MME The purpose of this paper is to present ... no longer valid to assume that the breeding values ofthe base animals have the same mean and variance, and that the genetic variance ofthe base generation is twice that ofthe Mendelian variance...
... (28 degree of freedom, P = 0.05), so the null hypothesis of spherical distribution ofthe original variables can be rejected and the FA can be used to reduce the dimensionality ofthe data set ... that are capable of explaining 94.5% ofthe variance and thus most ofthe information in the original data set The new “latent” factors are obtained by linear combination ofthe original anthropometric ... 0.5 First factor First factor Fig 3.—Scores ofthe samples on significant factors and Fig 2.—Loadings ofthe original variables on the first two factors (or principal components) ofthe direct...
... Responsibilities The receiver has the least control over the movements ofthe dangerous goods and therefore, bears the least responsibility forthe safety ofthe shipment The receiver is responsible forthe ... you become the shipper The shipper ofthe dangerous goods bears the greatest responsibility under the TDG regulations for ensuring the safety ofthe goods The shipper is responsible forthe following: ... that much ofthe information that’s required for transporting dangerous goods is forthe benefit ofthe emergency responder In the event of a spill or release of a dangerous good, the emergency...
... target genes of p53 and their respective TAp73 isoforms [6] Therefore, the TA isoforms may be expected to have functions in tumor suppression while ΔN isoforms might be oncogenic Forthe first time ... eligible forthe treatment [27] However, not all ofthe wild type K-Ras and B-Raf patients are responding to cetuximab Therefore, the identification of additional genetic determining factors ofthe ... similarity to p53 and have been shown to share functions with the tumor suppressor gene p53, but their contributions tothe inhibition of tumor formation or tothe response to chemotherapy has...
... labs were asked to store the samples in liquid nitrogen upon arrival The method used for thawing and counting of vials was left tothe discretion ofthe participating labs The total cell number ... collaboration with the CIC executive office and the steering committee ofthe CIC Immunoassay working group The authors of this group acknowledge the concept ofthe Minimal Information About T ... Individual laboratories acquired the data on their flowcytometer and analyzed the FCS files following laboratory-specific analysis strategies and software The requested format for presenting the results...
... labs were asked to store the samples in liquid nitrogen upon arrival The method used for thawing and counting of vials was left tothe discretion ofthe participating labs The total cell number ... collaboration with the CIC executive office and the steering committee ofthe CIC Immunoassay working group The authors of this group acknowledge the concept ofthe Minimal Information About T ... Individual laboratories acquired the data on their flowcytometer and analyzed the FCS files following laboratory-specific analysis strategies and software The requested format for presenting the results...
... Year of Planting : 2004 Location: The Centre of Gia Lai Targets: Growth, rate of flowering trees, rate of collasped trees RESULTS OFTHE RESEARCH 3.1 Assess and select the macadamia (Chart to Chart ... varieties Chart 8: Number of falling Fruit as the fruit Time of macadamia varieties Number of falling fruit as time Variety Total The 2nd Month The 3rd Month The 4th Month The 5th Month H2 53 1.462 ... Continue to assess the possibility of flowering and producing fruits, and productivity of macadamia varieties in the above experiments, which will be the permanent base forselectingthe suitable...
... approve of a mother's decision to test for HIV was the strongest predictor of whether the mother had the intention of testing or not This finding highlights the importance ofthe male partner in the ... forthe reduction of MTCT if offered, and acceptance rates for these medications were high Role of male partner Forthe women living with their husbands, the majority of women (339 or 89%) informed ... the developing world roll out programs forthe prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV, there is need to consider the potential barriers that these programs may face In addressing these...
... allow forthelevelof adherence to drug therapy regimes to be monitored Additionally, such an analysis would facilitate a more accurate assessment ofthe progression ofthe patient in terms of their ... treatments often so because they 'simply forgot' [30] Presentation ofthe hypothesis The importance of having accurate information on adherence is underscored by the fact that in order to achieve ... educational effort prior tothe commencement of retroviral therapy [21] although there is some concern over the long term efficacy when the information content is low Page of (page number not for citation...
... aim ofthe proposed review according to their experiences and the priorities of their organizations Consensus on the need to produce a comprehensive accountofthe benefits of PR and on the three ... them through the selection tool Due tothe complexity ofthe dataset, we decided at this stage to further limit the scope of our review to community-based settings, and to participatory interventions ... final goals Page ofof research Given the vast PR literature, we reduced the pool of studies in a systematic way to achieve an adequate levelof uniformity ofthe retained set for synthesis Disagreements...
... transmission of micro-organisms Dissemination ofthe task and before from the patient flora to other surfaces in patient flora to contacting another the healthcare setting the rest ofthe patient ... strategies, the results of our project will considerably add tothe general body of knowledge by evaluation ofthe added value ofthe extended strategy as compared tothe state -of -the- art strategy ... strengths because ofthe large numbers of observations and participating wards, the randomisation of wards either tothe state -of -the- art strategy or the extended strategy, and the use of unobtrusive...