... undergraduate students The goal of each volume is to encapsulate the current state of knowledge in a particular area of finance so that the reader can quickly achieve a mastery of that special area ... describe the current state of financial research and practice in a particular area of finance The essays in each volume are intended for practicing finance professionals, graduate students, and advanced ... by the downfall of Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM) in 1998 All of these events raised fears ofa global economic meltdown Also notable at the end of 1998 was the creation ofthe financial...
... study, data triangulation was used to combine the advantages of analyzing data at certain times and with different research analysts Field analysis recorded immediate observations ofthe moderator, ... session The results were coded and entered into a database using Atlas.ti, a qualitative research software package In our analysis, we examined and used the data collected from each round of testing ... consumers about privacy laws and financial institutions’ sharing practices in a factual and neutral way The language could and should not direct a consumer to make any particular decision Through the...
... required at the bottom ofthe stack to manage the hardware and support the layers of software protocols all the way up to the phone-signaling stack Treating the phone as a black box encapsulated by a ... Compaq and Sharp (The Communicator was classified by market analysts as a PDA, partly because it had a keyboard, but also partly because Symbian phones really were a new category, and analysts didn’t ... Bollen, was the lack of real hardware Software development started well ahead ofthe availability of any prototype hardware but even by mid-1995, when the software project was in full swing, the device...
... only patients on antimicrobial and other therapies that can alter the balance ofthe gut microbiota (for example, antacid/proton pump inhibitors and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs), but also ... with a loop and inoculated into the top to mm of BHI agar in the glass vial These were then left overnight in the anaerobe chamber; the vials were then removed from the anaerobe chamber and photographed ... manuscript Additional data files The following additional data are available with the online version of this paper: CDSs specific to PCR-ribotype 027 isolates (Additional data file 1); CDSs that have...
... The Trauma Association of Canada: Trauma System Accreditation Guidelines Toronto, Canada: Trauma Association of Canada; 2003 Ahmed JM, Tallon JM, Petrie DA: Trauma management outcomes associated ... between ASCOT standards for participation of trauma surgeons in the critical care of trauma patients and the realities of practice in US trauma centers [27] Lack of manpower among Surgical Intensivists/Trauma ... ofthe EMP relative to the trauma team Current models of trauma care in the US frequently utilize an approach that brings the trauma team to the ED, often in a somewhat separate physical space,...
... not available At the onset of my thesis, I assessed what is known based on the available data The reconstruction of phylogenies of large groups like the Calyptratae can be approached by either ... molecular markers Chapter 2: Sensitivity analysis, molecular systematics, and natural history evolutionof Scathophagidae (Diptera:Calyptrate: Musocidea) Chapter 3: The Muscoidea (Diptera:Calyptratae) ... Streblidae, are all genuine ectoparasites (i.e species with a trophic and a spatial association to a host) spending all or most of their adult life within the fur or among the feathers of their mammal and...
... modes of interactivity and collaboration The landscape ofthe workplace has changed dramatically, even in the past year The same forces that have shifted the barriers to remote work the ubiquity of ... performance areas? Please rate on a scale from “Well above average” to “Well below average” (% respondents) Well above average Somewhat above average Average/on par with peers Somewhat below average ... IT and technology 11 Singapore, Switzerland Healthcare, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology Brazil, China, Germany, Italy, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Spain Manufacturing Belgium, Bulgaria,...
... Following that, the value of action is further evaluated If action has a value of "ff", an onEnterFrame event handler is attached to the messages_mc instance This event handler advances the messages_mc ... object and played, and the functionality for carrying out either the fast-forwarding or rewinding ofthe messages_mc timeline is accomplished via an onEnterFrame that gets attached to the messages_mc ... fast-forward or rewind), and tells the messages_mc instance to play() If the function is passed a value of "stop", the second part ofthe conditional statement is executed This part ofthe statement...
... accgcggctccgatcctaaacg-3¢; mutation K201F, 5¢-ggttatggatctg ctacttcgctccgatcctaaacgc-3¢; and mutation M45 3A, 5¢-ggacaa ctttgaatgggcggagggttatattgag-3¢ The incorporation of mutations was verified by DNA ... E19 0A, 5¢-caacgagcctagagcgatttgctttgagg-3¢; mutation E190Q, 5¢-caa cgagcctagacagatttgctttgagg-3¢; mutation E19 4A, 5¢-gagagattt gctttgcgggttatggatctgc-3¢; mutation K20 1A, 5¢-gttatggatctgct accgcggctccgatcctaaacg-3¢; ... Journal compilation ª 2008 FEBS L M F Mendonca and S R Marana ¸ Following the characterization ofthe binding of different types of aglycone, a comparative analysis ofthe mutational effect on their...
... placed in glass test tubes Radioactivity was measured using a gamma counter (LKB, Wallac, Finland) All animals were maintained and handled according to local and national ethical guidelines Animal ... because it may form the basis ofa drug acting in pathological situations involving the overexpression of TNF -a Materials and methods Preparation of rIris, mutant L33 9A and the cleaved forms of ... cytokine analysis (MCP-1, TNF -a, IL-6, IL-10, IL-1b) All animals were maintained and handled according to local and national ethical guidelines Statistical analysis Data are represented as means ±...
... monosaccharides available in their environment (e.g L-arabinose, D-xylose) A comparison ofthe substrate specificity of Lad1 with that of mammalian SDHs shows that Lad1 has a much higher catalytic ... contrast to the role of Lad1 in the alternative D-galactose degrading pathway in H jecorina shown in this paper, and may explain thetransient accumulation of up to 400 mM galactitol during its action ... regulation of other genes On the other hand, the lack of growth ofthe wildtype strain on D-allitol and L-iditol may either be due to a lack of uptake of these hexitols, or due to a lack of lad1...
... have the roar of artillery, the rattle of musketry, the prancing of impatient steeds, the marching and countermarching of battalions, the roll ofthe drum, the clash and clatter of sabers, and the ... The Major is a man of excellent natural capacity, the son of Hon Thomas Ewing, of Lancaster, and brother-in-law of W T Sherman, now a colonel or brigadier-general in the army W T Sherman is the ... or the day after, if they not leave, a battle will take place Our men appear eager for the fray, and I pray they may be as successful in the fight as they are anxious for one 29 It is half-past...
... mutations that are far apart in the structure Overall, the inactivation experiments clearly demonstrate that the selected P ⁄ CAF mutants have a strongly enhanced resistance towards thermal inactivation ... substantially more thermostable mutants ofthe catalytic domain ofthe human HAT P ⁄ CAF, without affecting its catalytic activity or substrate specificity P ⁄ CAF, p300 ⁄ CBP-associating factor, ... removing the negatively charged aspartate side-chain Alternatively, the release of conformational strain allowed by the extra flexibility ofthe glycine residue may lead to better protein packing and...
... gynecological malignancy patients reported annually on Friday and Saturday was on an average 215, among the average total number of 5,126 newly registered patients 786 Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer ... ovarian malignancy (23.9%) Contribution of other malignancies was endometrial malignancy and gestational trophoblastic neoplasia in 5.3% ofthe patients each However, vulval malignancy and vaginal ... lack of cancer awareness, poor health education and inaccurate death certification Cancer registries in different parts of India reveal that majority of cancer cases present in an advanced stage...
... Kanbayashi and Toyoshi Hosokawa Preface Understanding the rapid changes in the evaluation and management of peripheral neuropa‐ thies, as well as the complexity of their mechanism, is a mandatory ... dictated, at least in part, by the particular pathology Chronic back pain, for example, is associated with a loss of bilateral dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and unilateral thalamic gray matter ... attack are often overlooked without a complex and careful examination A case in point is the anti-diabetic drug Avandia for which the market approval has been a center of dispute Avandia’s active...
... 5¢-TTAA GGATCCTAAGAACGAGACAGGCTGAACTCTCC-3¢; BCCPD67, 5¢-GTAACCATGGGTGAACAGGAAGA A- 3¢; BCCP-rev, 5¢-GGATCCTTAAACGTTTGTGTC TATAAG-3¢; BCCP K117L, 5¢-GAAGCTCTACTG GTTATGAAC-3¢ DNA was isolated ... mLÆmin)1 The total ion count in the range 500–2000 m/z was scanned at 0.1 s intervals The scans were accumulated and spectra combined and the molecular mass determined by the MAXENT AND TRANSFORM algorithms ... algorithms ofthe MASS LYNX software (MicroMass) Assay ofA aeolicus BPL BPL activity was assayed by measuring the incorporation of [14C]biotin into purified BCCPD67, in a similar way to that described...
... b-D-galactosidase after h of incubation, at which time D600 was Cells were incubated in a rotary air heated shaker at 250 r.p.m at 30 °C At 24 h intervals the acylase activity ofa small sample was assayed ... two bands on SDS/PAGE, one of approximately 55 kDa and another of approximately 17 kDa (Fig lane A) Some small extra bands are visible only in the boiled samples As they are not separated in the ... deacylated glutaryl-7-ACA with a catalytic constant kcat of 8.1 s)1 and with a Michaelis constant Km of 0.08 mM Adipyl-7-ADCA is deacylated at a lower kcat of 0.65 s)1 and a higher Km of 1.2...
... lacks stan- the capabilities ofa crawler program humans may derive the metadata, which dards that would facilitate automated Another drawback of automated in- can then be attached to a Web page ... and the rest ofthe Internet constitute a gigantic storehouses of raw information and analysis, the database of all databases Worries about the future ofthe Net usually center on the delays and ... consists of an electric typewriter, an automatic perforator and an automatic writer In preparing the form letter, the operator types manually the date and the name and address ofthe recipient Then a...
... was the mentor of LK and participated in the face validity process ofthe translation LK also participated in the writing ofthe manuscript LA had the comprehensive responsibility for the main ... Bolling-Sternevald E, Junghard O, Talley NJ, Agreus L: Gatro-oesophageal reflux symptoms and health-related quality of life in the adult general population -the Kalixanda study Aliment Pharmacol Ther 2006, ... English words as abdomen, stomach, and pain can be accurately translated into Swedish in various ways We compared the back-translation with the original English version and found a few variations in...
... primarily along and about the implant axis Distal migration accounted for 94 to 99% ofthe total translational migration The average absolute rotational migration was smaller than 0.04° in the sagittal ... motion ofa triangular plate that was rigidly attached to the lateral surface ofthe implant through a hole in the cortex The implant motion was calculated from the motion ofthe triangle using a ... http://www.josr-online.com/content/5/1/40 Page of 14 Fa Fa Tabd y Tb dm x Tabd doff Tcc Fabd Fcc Fa M Where: Fa Fcc Fabd force applied by the linear actuator cranial-caudal hip contact force on the femoral head, i.e resultant of the...