... resulting in increased levels of the SO an ion [209]. The mechan ism of placental NAD(P)H activation is still unclear, but the above findingsmay assist in elucidating theroleof OS inthe patho ... independ-ent of body mass index (BMI), is responsible for an in- crease in oxLDL [71]. Insulin resistance and/ orcompensatory hyperinsulinemia increase the availability of both circulating androgen and androgen ... catalyzes the formation of NO from O2 and L -arginine usingNADPHasanelectrondonor[24]andarecomprisedof the following isoforms: neuronal NOS (nNOS or N OS I),inducible NOS (iNOS or NOS II), and endothelial...
... performance.2. Roleofthe central bank The central bank has played a roleof policy designing and implementation in the process of institution building inthe financial sector. The promulgation ofThe ... under the framework of financial globalization.II. Review of Institution Building inthe Financial SectorA. Main driving forces of institution buildingA review ofthe developments of China’s financial ... bonds. Inthe case ofthe latter, commercial banks trade with investors at the prices they offer through their outlets, and provide depositing and clearing services to the investors.B. Roles of the...
... ). The renewed interest in examining the indications for BCG vaccination in the United States included consideration ofthe wide range of vaccine efficacies deter-mined by clinical trials and ... toexplore the sources ofthe heterogeneity inthe efficacy ofthe BCG vaccine reported in the individual studies. Using a model that included the geographic latitude of the study site andthe data ... resurgence inthe incidence of TB occurred inthe UnitedStates and included increases inthe number of TB cases among adults and children and outbreaks of multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) involving...
... Allen N., and Gregory F. Udell. 1998. The Economics of Small BusinessFinance: The Roles of Private Equity and Debt Markets inthe FinancialGrowth Cycle,” Journal of Banking and Finance, August, ... and James Weston. 1998. “Small Business Lending and the Changing Structure ofthe Banking Industry,” Journal of Banking and Finance, August.Sullivan, Richard J. 2000. “How Has the Adoption of ... understanding issues facing community banks. I. THE CURRENT ROLEOF COMMUNITY BANKS The banking system inthe United States has always been unique in the sense of containing large numbers of small...
... the dimerinterface ofthe models or inthe surroundings of the mutated residues. The models of RNase A covalent dimers in the exchanging conformation were prepared using the 7RSA structure and ... at the dimer interface ofthe models or inthe surroundings of the hinge loop residues. Likewise, the models of nonex-changing and exchanging HHP-RNase were prepared start-ing from 1Z7X. The ... (rotationangle ‘r’) and variation ofthe inclination (inclination angle ‘i’) withrespect to the plane ofthe membrane (parallel to the xy plane).Cter and Nter are the C-terminal and N-terminal structural...
... involved inthe regulation of the stability and trafficking of GAT1. It has beenreported that a variety of molecular chaperones and folding enzymes assist the folding of newly synthesizedproteins in ... N-linked oligosaccharide side-chainsare important for the GABA transport activity.1-Deoxymannojirimycin inhibits the GABA-uptake of GAT1 In order to gain further insight into theroleof the terminal ... clarifywhether N-glycans are directly involved inthe GABA-uptake process and whether the modulation of N-gly-cosylation in uences the biochemical properties of thisprotein, quantitative and kinetic...
... disambiguated word meaning. It is thein interaction ofthe results of these asynchronous processes that the process of comprehension is defined. The processes are independent ofthe know- ledge ... affected. The study includes off-line picture naming which forces use of articles in all ofthe above contexts, as well as on-line production of these morphemes in an attempt to determine in which ... but are often generic and mark masculine, feminine, or plural (Gross, 1977; Goffic and McBride, 1975). And furthermore, these same articles often are not translated into meaning preserving sentences...
... most of them and access-to-input for the worst in this sub-pool. Conversely, the overbearing influence ofthe financial constraints in the lower half is statistically associated with a rather ... book, index of current production, the lower the supply of credit. Finally, the higher the co-ordinate on the f2 axis, e.g. the more the enterprise is faced with financial limit, the higher the ... The probability of increasingdebt raises with the fact that the enterprise was indebted inthe past (in all the groups).Nodebt thus appears as a strong inertial component inthe credit-demand...
... microfinance stands unrivalled in scale, and outreach continues to grow in terms ofthe number of microborrowers.Institutions providing microfinance in Asia play a critical rolein increasing the ... very helpful in bringing microfinance into the spotlight not only in developing countries but also inthe developedworld. The awareness by policy makers about theroleof microfinance asa major ... beenpioneers inthe Latin American microfinance industry. As of today, 7 out of 15 Latin American members are active in microfinance. These membersare involved in different ways inthe microfinance sector...
... music), taking into account the director’s – and, therefore, the composer’s – intentions, the narrative content ofthe film, andthe overall strategy ofthe director in constructing the multifaceted ... theoretical – of film music perception andtherole of music in film, referencing some ofthe most significant research investigating the relationship between sound and image inthe cinematic context. ... other-worldly. In this capacity, the role of music is significantly enhanced by the level of ambiguity inherent inthe visual scene. Specifically, the more ambiguous the meaning ofthe visual image, the...
... affinity of ChiB for allosamidin, which is ananalogue ofthe proposed oxazolinium ion intermediate [32]. The minor (or even positive) effects of Y214F on substrate and intermediate binding andthe ... conformations. The Asp142 equiv-alent inthe family 18 chitinase from Coccidioides immitiswas found to be inthe ÔdownÕ position inthe apoenzyme and inthe ÔupÕ position inthe complex with allosamidin ... for the position of residue 142 [34]. The pKacalculations indicate that the only candidate fora residue determining the basic arm ofthe pH-activityprofile ofthe D142N mutant is Glu144. The...
... properties of the document containing the sentence and properties of the sentence itself. Regarding the former type,two features come into play: the relevance score of the document (from the IR engine) ... in the case of Indri. These results are consistent with the findings of Monz (2003), who made the sameobservation inthe factoid QA task.There are a few caveats to consider when in- terpreting ... acquiring nuclear weapons?”, which are the focus ofthe AQUAINT program inthe U.S., and opinion questions such as “How does the Chileangovernment view attempts at having Pinochet tried in Spanish...