... buying inflows to reduce the NOFP Nonetheless, in certain cases involving large one-off inflows of FDI, the SARB may have sufficient prior information to make an assessment as to whether the inflow ... hostage” to the objective of reducing the NOFP Not surprisingly, the SARB has chosen not to pursue this option Option 2: Identifying “cool” capital inflows Rather than stepping into themarket on ... expectation of a strengthening ofthe rand) or by raising interest rates Under either of these options, it would probably be both difficult and undesirable for the SARB to maintain the higher rates of...
... for drafting the outline ofthe document following recommendations from the meeting of experts held in Manila, the Philippines, in 2010 The document was revised and updated after an international ... of new therapeutic options Mathematical modelling Mathematical modelling should be used to: • study the costing of aspects of AMR and control oftheimpactof AMR, in order to transfer the knowledge ... cure a minimum of 95% ofthe population infected in any particular setting (1) The prevention and control of gonorrhoea is an important public health intervention because ofthe magnitude of the...
... individuals out of 23 were females Only one ofthe deceased individuals inthe group with widespread pain had a known malignancy at the time ofthe initial survey However the causes ofthe other ... pain at the outset During the 12-year period ofthe study, 23 out of 214 individuals died (or 10.7%): from the 73 individuals without chronic pain at the start ofthe study (or 6.8%), from the ... 2004; Turk, 2002b) The main characteristic of these models is that they attempt to account for the experience of pain and its impactin terms of an interaction between the three main factors Thus...
... the collective programming ofthe mind which distinguishes the members of one category of people from another In another viewpoint, according to Rao and Swaminathan (1995) culture refers to the ... or punished depending on the severity ofthe mistakes During the observation, the writer had a chance to join in a monthly meeting ofthe accounting department In this meeting, the manager had ... collecting and spending cash, budgeting, payment cards, etc Business accounting and distributing income as the regulation of VietinBank; Examining, auditing internally; Building business plan suitable...
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... range of services, including system deployment and administration, training of faculty and administrators, assistance in content development, the design of learning pathways and programs, marketing ... learner.11 Inthe online environment of e-learning, adaptive learning is possible through identification ofthe learner, personalization of content, and individualization of tracking, monitoring, support, ... opportunities exist inthe relatively new field of e-learning Faculty, administrators, and the public will demand that educators evaluate theimpactof e-learning on the quality and efficiency of medical...
... itching, pain, scaling, and cracking of skin Some symptoms (itch, soreness, pain, stinging) are included inthe Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI), a 10-item questionnaire commonly used in clinical ... probably the most day in, day out thing that a lot of people face in that the itching is – comes to the top of forefront of symptomology, whether it's itching in your scalp, or itching on the patches ... remaining clinicians, with 10 indicating the highest rank for importance Three clinicians rated itch as the most bothersome symptom, though one of those clinicians rated itch, pain, burning, stinging,...
... growing need to understand theimpactof HAART use on the quality of lives of HIVinfected individuals [4-8] There is a sizeable body of research on theimpactof HAART on health-related quality of ... significant impact on HRQoL during the first year of HAART, supporting the ongoing use ofthe current national first-line regimen 13 14 15 Competing interests The authors declare that they have ... to the study included possible selection bias and information bias related to the use ofthe MOS-SF36 instrument The loss of up to 50% of patients, who had incomplete HRQoL data, from the final...
... Advances in Signal Processing line whereas dn is the length ofthe considered in- domain disturbed line To evaluate theimpactofthe out -of- domain crosstalk, we introduce the following two parameters: ... From the table we see that the sensitivity ofthe average bit rate on the parameters identifying the model is rather limited: the change inthe precoding gain, for example, is inthe order of 5% ... by adopting a smaller number of bits The organization ofthe paper is as follows In Section 2, we remind the structure ofthe considered precoding system In Section we face the problem of residual...
... understanding ofthe importance ofthe former in affecting the latter Next, promoting and managing growth in property markets has always been one ofthe important policy objectives ofthe government ... GDP Main Findings and Discussions We first report findings in step of our research The results ofthe bounds test for the baseline models, summarised in Table 2, rejects the null hypothesis of no ... channel The model of investment channel captures two types of impacts of property price changes on investment spending, namely the Tobin-q effect and the financial accelerator principle To test the...
... been influenced by gene exchange between the oaks The morphology ofthe trees in each ofthe two groups (1 and 2) is so similar that within them no distinct subunits can be detected in either the ... 0=extremely cordate to 4= tapering); 7) number of lobes; 8) sinus-veins (relative frequency of lateral veins running to sinuses inthe middle portion ofthe leaf; values obtained ranged from to 1.0 ... promotes introgression ofthe species, thus increasing the variability and with it the taxonomical problems The major part of these difficulties is due to insufficent understanding of species...
... inspecting DVH The same effect is the difference of dose calculated inthe muscle tissue ofthe breast, and again not visible in common DVH analysis being the muscle tissue only one fourth ofthe ... Presenting, on the contrary, very negligible differences inthe region out ofthe field between the two algorithms, the offset here measured is generally not visible inthe common practice of inspecting ... Acuros XB in Lung _IN This spread decreases between the two Acuros XB versions, but only inthe FB cases B Soft tissue The results ofthe analysis ofthe target volume and its stratification in the...
... observed infrequently [9] The efficacy findings ofthe trial (Table 1) prompted the Independent Data Monitoring Committee to recommend unblinding the trial at the time ofthe interim analysis and the ... of other signaling pathways may play a role inthe emergence of CRPC The interaction of endothelin-1 (ET-1) with the G-protein coupled endothelin-A (ETA) receptor has been implicated in carcinogenesis, ... expressing these variants were found to be inhibited by MDV3100 despite the absence of a ligandbinding domain in some ARs [20] These findings suggest that MDV3100 could partly prevent some of the...
... Between the two SNPs, the linkage disequilibrium D' was 0.87 (p < 0.0001), the G allele ofthe rs4578621 SNPS being associated with the A allele ofthe rs894160 SNP, and the r2 was 0.15 Therefore, ... Moreover, they showed that a particular haplotype was associated with increased obesity risk in Malays and Indians, but not in Chinese [16] In this study, we examined the genetic variability ofthe ... not shown) Discussion Inthe present study, we assessed theimpactofthe genetic variability ofthe PLIN gene on obesity, type diabetes and related phenotypes in a sample of men and women issued...
... on incidence of delirium Inthe RCT comparing SBTs alone with SBTs plus daily sedation hold there was no difference inthe incidence of delirium [6] An RCT comparing sedation with dexmedetomidine ... length of stay in ICU Improved sedation practice was associated with a reduced length of stay inthe ICU Sixteen studies reported theimpactof a sedation protocol on length of stay inthe ICU ... reported theimpactof introducing a sedation protocol on length of patient stay in hospital [Table S1 in Additional file 1] [3-6,10,12,1820] All found a reduction in length of stay inthe protocol...
... training Industry populations have advantages for genomic prediction Inthe case of elite or widely used industry animals, the individuals included inthe training data will be relevant to the ... production, finishing and processing system; and welfare factors, both ofthe animals in terms of exhibiting natural behaviors and being free of disease, suffering, and mortality, and ofthe labor in terms ... many interesting scientific discoveries arose from these endeavors Following the sequencing ofthe bovine genome, which led to the discovery of millions of bi-allelic SNP, and the creation of subsets...
... engineering companies, the engineering marketin Singapore is in fact, a part ofthe global engineering market Thus, the Singapore engineering market, like the global engineering market, is further ... However, themarket for the engineering industry was not operating inthe open market initially When Singapore first gained independence, the engineering industry was wholly-owned and managed by the ... EngCom It is one ofthe major engineering groups in Singapore The open market policy makes the Singapore market an epitome ofthe global engineering marketThemarket is segmented into two parts...
... contributed inthe clinical and demographic database and KAS and SAS in making the TMAs RB and LTB supervised and participated inthe study design, result interpretation and inthe writing All authors ... to confirm these results Potential microRNA-based therapy is now being exploited in cancer, attempting to modulate their expression, reintroducing microRNAs lost in cancer, or inhibiting oncogenic ... semiquantitatively for cytoplasmic staining on computer screen The dominant staining intensity in tumor cells was scored as: = negative; = weak; = intermediate; = strong (Figure 1) In case of disagreement (score...