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... conducive to excessive risk-taking by the banks, which can lead to `too high' real interest rates, bankruptcies of firms and bank failures That led to the introduction of new elements into the analysis ... sector came to be seen as a prerequisite to financial reform Thus, financial repression would have to be maintained during the first stage of economic liberalisation A further development took ... concentration, due to widened access to finance and decreased degree of credit market segmentation This benefits small firms because it avoids subsidising priority sectors, which leads to market segmentation,...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2012, 08:50

... contribute to the customers’ value creation and how to help customers succeed Understand technology opportunities — Jones’s employees work to understand how and why customers, and the customers’ customers, ... and counted In today’s world each business and enterprise is constantly required to change; to be reinvented in order to provide new capabilities and perspectives; to be able to cope with new ... customer value — Jones’s management emphasizes the need to provide the best matches to the individual customer’s needs and requirements, thereby providing the highest possible value to customers...

Ngày tải lên: 25/12/2013, 09:15

... reaction towards Gram-negative bacteria Generally, LPS activates monocytes and macrophages to produce cytokines such as TNF-a, IL-1b and IL-6, which, in turn, serve as endogenous inflammatory mediators ... exhibit potential immune functions, similar to the non-myelinating glia of the CNS SCs can be induced to produce cytokines and chemokines, to express major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II ... leukocytes to inflammatory sites [14,15] and adhesion of polymorphonuclear cells and monocytes to CNS cells [16,17] Schwann cells (SCs) are glia cells found in the PNS In addition to their roles...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 18:20

... contrast to WT Mst1 and Mst2, the kinase-dead mutants failed to induce a mobility shift in Sav (Fig 6A) The failure of the kinase mutants to phosphorylate Sav was not due to an inability to bind to ... A Callus et al To determine whether Mst kinase had to bind to Sav to induce this mobility shift, we coexpressed WT Sav with Mst1, Mst2 or Mst truncation mutants that are unable to interact with ... were unable to bind to Sav failed to induce a mobility shift These results indicate that the mobility shift of Sav is not simply due to overexpressing Mst kinases, but is likely to be a direct...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 06:20

... surface is estimated to be in the order of 50%, conjecturing the mitochondrial shape to be ellipsoid To substantiate whether this assumption also holds true for the inner mitochondrial membrane ... gene products encoded by mitochondrial DNA and nuclear DNA, with the appropriate stochiometry of all mitochondrial proteins [33] Based on the twofold increase in mitochondrial volume in PV– ⁄ ... identical to those in WT SOL (i.e significantly higher than in WT TA) Thus, PV deficiency induces regulated mitochondrial biogenesis of ‘slowtwitch’ mitochondria in TA, resulting in a mitochondrial...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 07:20

... Lui stood up and went to the technician 8:30 am The technician asked Mrs Lui if she was Mrs Trueman; she said "yes." 8:35 am The technician took Mrs Lui to the dressing room and asked her to change ... have contributed to the error Root-cause analysis drills down through the system to examine why the mistake occurred, rather than who made it; the goal is not to point fingers but to learn from ... Lui nods At 8:35 am, the technician takes Mrs Lui to the dressing room and asks her to change into a gown Mrs Lui and her son are then taken into x-ray room The radiology nurse comes in and asks...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 18:20

... inhibitor LY294002 (40 lm) or co-transfected with Akt siRNA (1 lg) for 24 h, the relative inhibitory rate in SGC7901/PrPC was decreased to levels similar to the controls because of their toxicity ... promoter sequences were then cloned into a pGL3 enhancer vector (Promega, Madison, WI, USA) to construct the reporter vector pGL-MDR SGC7901 cells were passaged into 24-well plates at a density of ... loading control Autoradiograms were quantified by densitometry, and gene or protein levels were calculated relative to the amount of b-actin gene or protein (B) Luciferase reporter assay to determine...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 03:20

... original question used to retrieve the sentences to be fused The experiment was run using a web-based script Participants were told that the purpose of the experiment was merely to gather data, they ... fusions, to be able to quantify the overlap between participants in the various conditions One complication is that these metrics are sensitive to sentence-length (longer sentences are more likely to ... statistics in Table Naturally, intersection fusion leads to shorter sentences on average than union fusion More interestingly, question (Q)-based fusions lead to significantly shorter sentences than their...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 01:20

... proportions of the of cell metabolism to the same strictly related [32] or to rather diverse [33] extents The enzymes that need to be over-expressed to the same extent belong to a functional unit [34,35] ... transcription factor [3840] Consequently, a new approach to bioengineering may be to rst identify the natural regulons of the host organism and then modulate their activities towards the desired ... cooling costs of large bioreactors) [15,63] Therefore, K marxianus may be close to the true absolute maximum growth rate, perhaps even too close for any further increase to occur on dened medium conditions...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 04:20

... analysis that tries to take this into account by allowing a mortality rate at a given age to depend on current and past GDP levels leads to estimates that are potentially very sensitive to small model ... present but is not taken into account then the coefficient η of the indicator of early-life effects can be expected to be biased towards zero, and the true effect is likely to be at least as large in ... a town during a recession leads to the 28 same CV mortality rate later in life as birth in Copenhagen during a recession, whereas in a boom year it is much more advantageous to be born in a town...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 08:20

... doctor meet What they say to each other? PATIENT: DOCTOR: Good evening, doctor Good evening, sir At the end of the dialogue, the patient leaves the doctor after the consultation What they say to ... dictionary today records pronunciations in such symbols The key in 'Signs and Symbols' is self- explanatory and easy to follow, and it is expected that any motivated learner will be able to understand ... your servant to buy some postage stamps Ask your uncle to lend you his umbrella Ask your little brother to lend you his bicycle Ask your father to post a letter Ask your mother to buy something...

Ngày tải lên: 26/03/2014, 09:45

... Importin a3 (mammalian importin a3 subfamily homolog) is required for flies to mature into adults and for tiling of photoreceptor axons in the visual system [14,19] Moreover, it was very recently reported ... and long arms into the NsiI–XhoI or NheI–AscI and PacI– AvrII sites in the pNT1.1 vector, respectively The targeting vector was linearized by NotI digestion and introduced into ES cells of line ... with hematoxylin and eosin, dehydrated, mounted in Entellan New (Merck, Darmstadt, Germany), and then photographed with a Provis AX-80 microscope (Olympus, Tokyo, Japan) For immunohistochemistry,...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 23:20

... Reconstitution of LdTOPIL with truncated LdTOPI-D(1–210)S shows topoisomerase I activity (data not shown) Interestingly when LdTOPI-D(1–210)S was fused to intact LdTOPIL to create a single ORF LdTOPIL-fus-D(1– ... Maidstone, UK), as described previously [7] Finally, the purified proteins LdTOPIL-fus-S, LdTOPIS-fus-L, LdTOPIL-fus-D(1–210)S, H453A (LdTOPIL-fus-S), H453Q (LdTOPIL-fus-S), LdTOPIL and LdTOPIS ... reverse fusion construct LdTOPIS-fus-LdTOPIL was generated by PCR amplification, where the stop codon of LdTOPIS was removed and fused to LdTOPIL in bacterial expression vector pET28c under the restriction...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 10:20

... phase of a Triton X-114 solution (Fig 6A) The possibility that the observed EGTA-resistant binding of cPLA2-a to membranes was due to a cytoskeletal interaction was investigated Cytoskeleton fractions ... binding of pure re-folded C2 domain to to EA.hy.926 cell membranes (A) Cells were grown to confluence in flasks, scraped into EGTA buffer and fractionated into cytosol and membrane fractions Membrane ... allowing it to partially insert itself into the lipid bilayer To address this question, temperature-induced phase separation of Triton X-114 was performed A solution of Triton X-114 is homogenous at...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 13:20

... comparable to that of hGSTA4-4 Thus, transformation does not appear to be due to interaction of hGSTA4-4 with signaling kinases but seems to be linked to its catalytic ability to conjugate 4-HNE to GSH ... GS-HNE, has been shown to mediate mitogenic signaling in vascular smooth muscle cells [37], and its inhibitors have been shown to inhibit tumor necrosis factor-a-induced apoptosis and caspase-3 ... samples were mixed : bringing the coinjected vectors to a concentration of 20 copies of each vector per fL Just before injection of the vectors into cells, all samples were dialyzed against injection...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 13:20

... separated on 12% SDS/PAGE and electroblotted onto nitrocellulose filters The blots were exposed either to X-ray film or to a PhosphorImager screen to measure intensity of the 32Plabelled substrates, ... with the return of pRb phosphorylation HR12 leads to an increase in p27Kip1 levels and to a decrease in pRb phosphorylation in a dose-dependent manner To analyse the cell cycle components affected ... the levels of Cdk-inhibitor p27Kip1 bound to the cyclin E/Cdk2 immunocomplexes in HR12treated cells were at least three- to fourfold higher than those of p27Kip1 bound to the cyclin E/Cdk2 immunocomplexes...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 01:20

... naturally The majority of people exposed to HCV slowly develop into chronic infection Long-standing chronic inflammation in the liver due to the virus infection leads to liver cirrhosis and carcinoma ... possible to use this cytokine as a potential antiviral to treat number of virus infections [34] The antiviral action of interferon is initiated when IFN-α binds the receptor Interferon binding to the ... experiments to compare the level of expression of individual proteins of Jak-Stat pathways between IFN-sensitive and IFN-resistant cells Interferon first binds to cell surface receptor that leads to activation...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20

... developed to address this task This study aims to determine how different aspects of fibromyalgia are inter-related when measured by means of a self- reporting tool The objective is to develop ... based on exploratory factor analysis The aim was to simplify and reduce the number of items of each scale according to their internal consistency and complementation with the global tools used With ... with the new tool, in relation to other variables obtained by hetero-assessment Calculation was made of the score obtained by each patient in relation to each of the factors obtained To this effect,...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... was provided to all rats: betadine was applied to the exposed skull and scalp prior to closure to limit local infection and ml of sterile isotonic saline were injected subcutaneously to prevent ... leading to the degeneration of NMDA-expressing neurons [14,15] The infusion of LPS leads to the release of inflammatory cytokines by activated astrocytes and microglia [32]; these cytokines stimulate ... of glutamate receptors, the depolarization-dependent unblocking of NMDA receptors by Mg2+, and the entry of toxic amounts of Ca2+ into neurons and the subsequent generation of toxic levels of nitric...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... and applied to Aβ1–40-coated ELISA plates Immunohistochemistry and image analysis Immunohistochemistry was performed on 12 µm paraffin sections using the ELITE ABC method (Vector Laboratories, Burlingame, ... epitope in humans [15], monkeys [16] and mice [17-19] is located in the Aβ1–15 region, whereas the T cell epitope has been mapped to within Aβ15–42 [20,21] Based on these nonoverlapping epitopes, ... epitope but not the T cell epitopes may avoid a deleterious cellular immune response Prior reports have suggest that this may be true as shorter Aβ fragments conjugated to T cell helper epitopes...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20