... country Figure Responses from non-EU countries In terms of the interest groups, a majority of responses represented the interests of the audit profession – 59% of the total number of responses (see ... regulators should be able to refer the auditor to a disciplinary tribunal Nobody believes that the auditor should play a role in the field of CSR The objective is not to give new markets to auditors ... auditors should have access to the reports and other documentation of all auditors of components of the group 22 4 SUPERVISION The Profession Professional bodies and associations linked to the...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 05:20
... demonstration of the efficacy of healing in effecting the transformation of the person from madness to health; from asociality to humanity Two of the pastors interviewed had collected photographs of men ... research within the field permits one to trace the trajectory of family responses to mental illness in which chaining often forms part of a long period of helpseeking This research enabled encounters ... signs of mental illness For some the use of chains was a means of preventing this fate for a son or daughter and of keeping him or her within the family home We were told moving stories of family...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21
Immune mechanisms of responses to environmental mycobacteria
... 3.3.1 Cell subsets involved in cytotoxicity .49 3.3.2 Mediators of cytotoxicity .53 3.3.3 Specificity of cytotoxic responses 53 3.3.4 Effect of Env sensitisation on live BCG infection ... The broad aims of the project were: 1) In CHE‐sensitised mice, to analyse the role of different cell types, cytokine factors and mediators of cytotoxicity on the host’s responses to BCG, and their subsequent impact on BCG survival ... 3.2: Effect of cell subset enrichment on cytotoxic activity 52 Fig 3.3: Role of FasL, perforin, IFN‐ and IL‐10 in CHE‐mediated cytotoxicity 54 Fig 3.4: Cytotoxicity is specific to CHE and not non‐specific...
Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 15:51
An asthma allergen specific animal model for the study of responses to dust mite allergen induced asthma
... Immunization of mice 147 Generation of a Der p specific CD8 T-cell line 153 Characterization of T cell receptor gene 156 Cloning of T cell receptor gene into cassette vectors ... transfer of antigen-pulsed DCs into the lungs of mice showed that DCs were able to induce Th2 allergic lung responses to the inhaled allergen (33) Depletion of lung CD11c+ dendritic cells prior to ... identification of CD4 T cell epitopes for Blo t would allow for the study of T cell responses to Blomia tropicalis, a major source of mite allergen in the tropics that remained poorly studied to date...
Ngày tải lên: 15/09/2015, 21:56
An investigation into some types of verbal responses to questions in English and Vietnamese conversation
... closeness of relationship and status of the interlocutors and the kinds of responses to questions - putting forward some implications for teaching and learning the functions of responses to questions ... different patterns of responding to question They are: direct and indirect responses, refusals to answer, challenges to the presupposition of question, responses to implicit meaning of the question ... research, we try our best to give some types of verbal responses to questions in English and Vietnamese conversations The followings are various patterns of responses to questions defined linguistic...
Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:54
A comparative analysis of institutions, national policies, and cooperative responses to floods in Asia
... Illustrations of scale-dependent actors, institutions and perceptions with regard to flood-related disasters Scale of Key Actors Examples of institutional Common perceptions of responses disaster ... Authorities tend to be heavily top-down At the local level, governance reforms often account of splitting areas of responsibilities to geographic units It often creates issues of fit, for example ... institutional responses to floods in the countries of Asia are still inadequate to significantly reduce the risks of flood disasters Despite the better understanding and monitoring of disasters, losses of...
Ngày tải lên: 22/10/2013, 10:15
Using a Spend Analysis to Help Identify Prospective Air Force Purchasing and Supply Management Initiatives - Summary of Selected Findings potx
... of Air Force contracting and Identified different sources of Air Force contracting and other data to “piece together” total spend other data to “piece together” total spend Identified indicators ... standardization Lack of economies of scale or scope or tradeoffs among them Lack of economies of scale or scope or tradeoffs among them Separate pots of funding Separate pots of funding Payoffs from competition ... 9.7 percent of all nonmandatory MIPRs went to GSA (Morris, 2003) - 17 - Summary of FY02 Air Force Transactions >>$25K Summary of FY02 Air Force Transactions $25K Reveals Complexity of Air Force...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 16:20
RESPONSES OF ORGANISMS TO WATER STRESS docx
... relevance of each aspect is difficult to be clarified through simple comparison of impact factors of each method On the other hand, the consideration of influential factors on the impact of freshwater ... stomatal behaviour in response to situations of drought stress may be indicative of water use efficiency for the production of photosynthates Exposure to stress may induce alterations in photobiological ... resulting in stomatal restrictions regarding the supply of carbon dioxide, the loss of water vapour and limitations to non-sto matal components, with harm to the reaction centres of photosystems...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 23:20
Retail Consolidation and Produce Buying Practices: A Summary of the Evidence and Potential Industry and Policy Responses pot
... retailers wishing to procure large volumes, for purposes of offering the item on sale for example, must offer favorable prices to create incentives to move the product from storage to the market ... industry against Mexican tomato exporters As part of this agreement, Mexican tomato shippers agreed to a price floor of $5.17 per 25-pound box The Mexican price floor was increased to $5.27 in 1998 The ... distribution of grocery stores and gives the typical store a modicum of market power over those consumers located in close proximity to it and hence the ability to influence prices at least to some...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 13:20
Report of the Sub-Committee of the Central Board of Directors of Reserve Bank of India to Study Issues and Concerns in the MFI Sector doc
... be permitted to give loans to the microfinance sector, which in the aggregate exceed 10% of its total assets Areas of Concern The advent of MFIs in the Microfinance sector appears to have resulted ... The Board of Directors of the Reserve Bank of India, at its meeting held on October 15, 2010 formed a Sub-Committee of the Board to study issues and concerns in the microfinance sector in so ... to the terms of 2.1 The Microfinance sector Microfinance is an economic development tool whose objective is to assist the poor to work their way out of poverty It covers a range of services which...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 14:20
The Temporal Pattern of Mortality Responses to Air Pollution: A Multicity Assessment of Mortality Displacement potx
... only for part of the period Because of resource and time constraints, it was decided a priori to limit the analysis of mortality displacement to ten cities To maximize the power of the study, ... 4.13 * Mean of PM10 on day of death and day before death † Exposure up to 40 days before death, subject to constraints to keep the estimated effect from changing too much from one lag to the next ... producing a distorted shape, whereas too little constraint produces estimates that are too noisy to be informative Although a cubic polynomial was sufficient to match the results of the smoothed...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 20:20
HPA axis responses to laboratory psychosocial stress in healthy elderly adults, younger adults, and children: impact of age and gender ppt
... different laboratories by Dickerson and Kemeny (2002) They concluded that the TSST-protocol is one of the best standardized tools to evoke HPA axis stress responses in a laboratory setting Furthermore, ... pituitary sensitivity to CRF signals in men Also, a low sensitivity of the adrenal to ACTH might necessitate higher (compensatory) ACTH responses to achieve a ‘normal’ response of the active end ... impact of age and gender on HPA axis responses after psychological stress are still rare and results remained contradictory Therefore, the present reanalysis aims to contribute to the question of...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 14:20
The impact of and responses to HIV/AIDS in the private security and legal services industry in South Africa potx
... Profile of respondents compared to the national profile of employees in the private security sector 28 Table 3.4 Profile of study participants from the private security firms vs national profile ... impact of HIV/AIDS on selected indicators within the sub-sectors Due to the availability of new laboratory-based HIVincidence methods, the HSRC and SASSETA agreed on the use of the BED technology to ... developing responses to cases of discrimination The implementation of the policy must be designated as the responsibility of a specific person, and resources need to be committed to the policy Monitoring...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20
The Federal Home Loan Bank System: The Lender of Next-to-Last Resort? ppt
... bank affiliate? Foreign bank US Depository institution Foreign bank No No US Depository institution Foreign bank Foreign bank Foreign bank Foreign bank No Foreign bank Foreign bank US Depository ... Bank plc Rabobank Royal Bank of Canada The Norinchukin Bank The Royal Bank of Scotland Group UBS AG West LB AG FHLB Member? Yes Union Bank of CA No Yes No No No HSBC Bank USA, NA Yes No Rabobank, ... Central Bank and the Swiss National Bank allow U.S dollars to be lent, on term, to foreign banks without access to the Discount Window or TAF The ability of these central banks to lend directly to...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20
Báo cáo Y học: Modelling of simple and complex calcium oscillations From single-cell responses to intercellular signalling pdf
... Meaning of the symbols for reaction rates: vb,j, net rate of binding of Ca2+ to the j-th class of Ca2+ buffer (e.g protein); vd, degradation of IP3 (performed mainly by hydrolysis to inositol1,4-bisphosphate ... phosphorylation to inositol-1,3,4,5-tetrakisphosphate); vin, influx of Ca2+ across plasma membrane channels; vmi, Ca2+ uptake into mitochondria; vmo, release of Ca2+ from mitochondria; vout, transport of Ca2+ ... two-dimensional system, a chaotic trajectory arose, it would have to avoid to tend to a stationary point and to spiral to a limit cycle (Fig 6) To avoid the latter, it would have to move in opposite directions...
Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 00:21
Accountability in Complex Organizations: World Bank Responses to Civil Society pot
... specifically, how and to what extent have civil society actors furthered the accountability of the World Bank to its constituents? The case of the World Bank is important to the central question of this volume ... World Bank Group: Management Response to Executive Director’s Comments and Suggestions " Washington, DC: The World Bank — 2002e "The World Bank Policy on Disclosure of Information." Washington, ... institutions of global governance to enhance both legitimacy and effectiveness (Woods 2007) THE LANDSCAPE OF ACCOUNTABILITY AT THE WORLD BANK We turn now to an exploration of the various mechanisms of...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 07:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Sodium pump a1 and a3 subunit isoforms mediate distinct responses to ouabain and are both essential for survival of human neuroblastoma docx
... proteins These might lead to specific targeting of each isoform to different micro-environments of the plasma membrane or to isoform-specific interactions with other proteins of the micro-environments ... through the a1 or a3 isoforms The recent demonstration that the a1 isoform is recruited to the plasma membrane via interaction of adaptor protein with Tyr255 of this isoform supports this hypothesis, ... Lipofectamine Negative control RNAi α3 isoform of SP RNAi Fig Effect of transfection with various RNAi on expression of a subunit isoforms (A) Expression of a subunit isoforms in SK-N-AS cells without...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 09:20
WORKING PAPER SERIES NO 1350 / JUNE 2011: THE OPTIMAL WIDTH OF THE CENTRAL BANK STANDING FACILITIES CORRIDOR AND BANKS’ DAY-TO-DAY LIQUIDITY MANAGEMENT pdf
... circulation, banks will have to take recourse to the borrowing facility If the banking system is “long” of reserves at day end because of lower than expected banknotes in circulation, banks will have to ... the most automated approach to monetary policy as it implies the total absence of discretionary decisions to be taken In view of these apparent advantages of a zero corridor approach to monetary ... regarded as closely linked to the topic of the current paper – the optimal spread in a symmetric corridor approach The Bank of Canada appears to have been the first central bank to introduce a corridor...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 13:20
biological responses to new advanced surface modifications of endosses
... regarding the responses of cells to materials may provide important insight into the development of a number of promising surface modifications to be used in endosseous medical implantology in the ... differentiation of stem/progenitor cells Recent studies have shown strong cell responses of mesenchymal populations and osteoprogenitors to nanofeatures with increased levels of two important ... increases, the differentiation of osteogenic cells and their synthesis of extracellular matrix increase together Table A summary of the current advanced surface modifications of implants Nanoscale surface...
Ngày tải lên: 28/05/2014, 15:00