... because ofthe alternative costs of verifying “each sack of purchased flour” and of employing “persons in devising methods of detecting the new modes of adulteration which might be continually ... on the investment of acquiring new customers There might also be benefits from the change inthe long-term behaviour (e.g increased loyalty) of existing customers The problem of asymmetric information ... be shrinking over time (due to the increasing cost of time and memory inthe mt The household production function) Thus there is a tendency that nt rest ofthe quality characteristics ofthe product...
... background 2.1 The monetary policy framework inChina According to the Law on the People’s Bank of China, the aim of monetary policies shall be to maintain the stability ofthe currency and thereby ... determined by the lending-rate floor, which is designed to keep the interest-rate margin of banks sufficiently wide to maintain the aggregate profitability ofthe banking system Whether the lending-rate ... binding and the lending-rate floor is not binding (no credit quota),raising the deposit-rate ceiling increases the market interest rate inthe wholesale capital market, and changing the lending-rate...
... occurrence of gout The dramatic increase in gout inChina probably reflects the rapid westernization and urbanization ofthe society Finally, the absence of fibromyalgia inChina could be explained ... exceedingly low prevalence of fibromyalgia inChinaIn addition, given the import of genetic variations in explaining racial and ethnic differences in chronic pain [8,9], an assessment ofthe prevalence ... less common inChina than inthe western world, might provide important insights into what causes these diseases Competing interests The author declares that they have no competing interests Acknowledgement...
... in saline at 37°C, washed × in saline and × in RPMI1640 containing 100 µg/ml penicillin and 100 U/ml streptomycin Worms were incubated with 10% gentamicin for 20 and then washed a further × in ... taxa to the Strongylida are members ofthe Rhabditina, including C elegans, and both are grouped in Clade V ofthe Nematoda, on the basis of small subunit rRNA sequence analysis [48] The set of 742 ... [58] Inthe case ofthe globins, conversion to the secretory pathway (as well as gene multiplication) may be interpreted as a physiological adaptation to the environment within the Similar findings...
... test single interventions, such as the benefits of a drug compared to placebo and although the principles underlying the testing of a more complex intervention are the same, particular theoretical ... implement the protocol Blinding Blinding should be possible Blinding ofthe intervention is likely to be difficult or impossible, and may not be desirable if the intention is to determine the best ... where the tidal volume is determined by the treating clinician would resolve this concern This allows those performing the study and clinicians reading the results to determine whether the new intervention...
... work is one of generalizeablity, since the patient population consisted of young, otherwise healthy men suffering primarily penetrating injuries from combat trauma Whether these findings translate ... the emergency department with a systolic blood pressure of 70 mmHg had already lost 67% of their blood volume [6] Preventing the development of profound and often refractory coagulopathy in these ... after the institution of an early goal directed therapy protocol calling for a 1:1 ratio of plasma to RBCs within the first hours of injury [10] Sperry and colleagues retrospectively examined...
... overlapping DNA binding specificities, then a single site can evolve to bind both TFs As theevolutionof these sites relies on the functional similarity ofthe paralogs, it is debatable whether these ... could be underestimating the rate of HGT for these genes As inthe case of crp, these global regulators often have conserved context, so insertion of a xenolog and loss ofthe original gene appears ... duplications within the E coli lineage For the duplicated TFs, we examined whether they regulate the same genes as their duplicates For the HGT regulators, we examined whether they were co-transferred...
... Selenoproteins are found in a variety of phyla within all three lines of descent of life The number of genomes encoding selenoproteins is indicated (‘selenogenomes’) together with the total number of ... domain within the elongation factor In eukaryotes, the SECIS element is inthe 3’ untranslated region ofthe gene and the SECIS-binding protein is encoded by a separate gene (SBP2, reviewed in ... 88% ofthe selenoprotein genes falling into one of three families SelW-like, peroxiredoxin or proline reductase The remaining 12% of genes were spread over 22 families cannot be cultured in the...
... were injected into theofthe big The Bank ofChina and China Construction Bank each received $22.5 bn in 2003; $15 bn went to the Industrial and Commercial Bank ofChinain 2005 For more detail ... Fitch’s International Bank Database Some are collected from the various editions ofthe Almanac ofChina s Finance and Banking, China Statistical Yearbook, and the websites ofthe sample banks The ... business to some degree This finding may be indicative of some success ofthe recent reform aimed at improving rural financial services by creating new types of financial institutions in the...
... REVIEW The Development of Auditing Profession inChina Shortly after the founding ofthe People’s Republic ofChinain 1949, the auditing profession inChina disappeared entirely due to the public ... expropriation of minority shareholders’ interests thereafter As a result, the auditing profession and the stock market may be able to develop smoothly inChinaIn line with the continuing progress ofthe ... THE DETERMINANTS OF AUDITOR SWITCHING FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE INCHINA costs of raising capital and hiring a low-quality auditor to maintain the gains from the opaqueness...
... the purpose of “opinion shopping” in order to mitigate the negative impact ofthe unclean audit report on the firm's stock price inthe market, and on the self-interests ofthe management or the ... act inthe best interest ofthe owners One ofthe binding mechanisms is the auditing function performed by independent professionals over the operations and information disclosures provided by the ... auditing firms according to the ranking of Chinese auditors The largest controlling owners, on average, held 48.94% ofthe total shares ofthe sample firms, indicating high ownership concentration in...
... as the starting point for counting the time limit? Or as long as the applicant does not withdraw the application, the starting point will be the beginning ofthe promulgation ofthe law? If the ... Bulletin in Hong Kong in 1994 which is devoted to monitoring and defending the workers’ rights in China. 70 Such organisation is impossible to exist inthe mainland since Han participated inthe ... organisations in order to encourage the establishment of such organisations.60 Establishing Party Office As required by the Charter ofthe Chinese Communist Party, all kinds of social institutions in China...
... innovation inthe first variable inthe system in uences the other variables in sequence The innovations inthe other variables cause the changes in all those below them in order and in none of ... mainly consisting of Commercial and Industry Bank of China, Bank of China, and Agricultural Bank ofChina and Construction Bank ofChina Non-state banks loans: loans from private banks, holding ... choose the indicators ofChina' s monetary policy in a VAR approach because the accuracy ofthe estimates ofthe effects of monetary policy depends crucially on the validity ofthe measure of monetary...
... the emergence ofthe Q151M MDR complex [13,15] The Q151M complex has been identified in up to 19% of patients failing therapy containing stavudine (d4T) as part of ART rollout inthe developing ... to dissect the intrapatient viral population dynamics inthe context of full-length RT Results We investigated the emergence ofthe Q151M MDR complexin one ofthe two patients inthe CHAP2 cohort ... raises the possibility of suboptimal use ofthe drugs contributing to the emergence ofthe Q151M MDR complex Conclusions Understanding theevolution and molecular mechanisms leading to the emergence...
... 唐宋吉礼变迁研究 THEEVOLUTIONOFTHE PROPITIOUS RITUALS IN TANG AND SONG CHINA 朱 溢 ZHU YI 新加坡国立大学中文系 博士论文 A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT OF CHINESE STUDIES ... o u r a g e m e n t and advices In addition ofthe libraries in Japan, I made full use ofthe NUS Libraries and the Library of Center for Research on Ancient Chinese H i s t o r y a t P e k i ... t h e Su b u r b a n R i t u a l s , which were the most significant rituals in imperial China, since the Southern Suburban Rituals and the Northern Suburban Rituals are o f t e n s t u d i e...
... relies on the securities booking system ofthe CGSDTC and the bond trading system ofthe inter-bank lending centre The trading system ofthe national inter-bank lending centre provides pricing information, ... China Statistics Yearbook, China Financial Yearbook and People’s Bank ofChina Statistics Quarterly bulletin B Development of direct financing and indirect financing markets providing financing ... source of financing for enterprises, if their own capital is excluded In summary, the deepening process ofthe financial markets has rendered the dominance ofthe banking sector inthe financial...
... threats in training, not only in air but also in space and cyber operations • extending integrated air warfare training to the surface and subsurface Navy • enlisting the real-time involvement of ... commander ofthe Navy’s Second Fleet, such integration “is now a part ofthe culture” of U.S combat aircrews, regardless of whether the wings they wear on their uniforms are made of silver or gold.3 In ... blending Marine F/A-18A and C squadrons into Navy carrier air wings as a matter of standard practice.6 Finally, inthe realm of doctrine, there was an emergent Navy acceptance ofthe value of strategic...
... ofthe c ring, respectively The C-terminal helices show a clear handedness, and two ofthe rings face inthe opposite direction inthe membrane to the other two, forming the same pattern as in ... ion-binding site Therefore, the c ring of A woodii has only 10 membrane-buried negative charges that are essential for binding the ion and also for the rotational mechanism ofthe ring The c ring ... inthe AFM surface representation of Fig 2A By comparison with the 3D structure ofthe I tartaricus c ring [24], the black rings represent the view from the cytoplasm (open rings in AFM) and the...
... encoding the two motifs ofthe C-terminal domain The crygn gene is thus a hybrid of b and c crystallin gene structures, apparently an intermediate intheevolutionofthe c-crystallins from the ... part of a suite of molecular adaptations inthe eye inthe human lineage In addition to theevolutionof cN and cS crystallins, even more specialization inthe c-crystallins has occurred with the ... encodes the first two structural motifs, and hence the N-terminal domain ofthe protein, just as inthe genes for cS and cA–F However, the second half ofthe gene has the structure of a b-crystallin...
... properties ofthe document containing the sentence and properties ofthe sentence itself Regarding the former type, two features come into play: the relevance score ofthe document (from the IR engine) ... evaluating answers to definition questions In HLT/EMNLP 2005 J Lin and D Demner-Fushman 2006a The role of knowledge in conceptual retrieval: A study inthe domain of clinical medicine In SIGIR ... task within the TREC QA track exploring complex questions within an interactive setting Furthermore, we note the convergence ofthe QA and summarization communities, as demonstrated by the shift...