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... 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 findings may assist in elucidating the role of OS in the patho ... independ- ent of body mass index (BMI), is responsible for an in- crease in oxLDL [71]. Insulin resistance and/ or compensatory hyperinsulinemia increase the availability of both circulating androgen and androgen ... catalyzes the formation of NO from O 2 and L -arginine using NADPHasanelectrondonor[24]andarecomprisedof the following isoforms: neuronal NOS (nNOS or N OS I), inducible NOS (iNOS or NOS II), and endothelial...

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... performance. 2. Role of the central bank The central bank has played a role of policy designing and implementation in the process of institution building in the financial sector. The promulgation of The ... under the framework of financial globalization. II. Review of Institution Building in the Financial Sector A. Main driving forces of institution building A review of the developments of China’s financial ... bonds. In the case of the 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...

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... ). The renewed interest in examining the indications for BCG vaccination in the United States included consideration of the wide range of vaccine efficacies deter- mined by clinical trials and ... to explore the sources of the heterogeneity in the efficacy of the BCG vaccine reported in the individual studies. Using a model that included the geographic latitude of the study site and the data ... resurgence in the incidence of TB occurred in the United States and included increases in the number of TB cases among adults and children and outbreaks of multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) involving...

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... Allen N., and Gregory F. Udell. 1998. The Economics of Small Business Finance: The Roles of Private Equity and Debt Markets in the Financial Growth Cycle,” Journal of Banking and Finance, August, ... and James Weston. 1998. “Small Business Lending and the Changing Structure of the 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 ROLE OF COMMUNITY BANKS The banking system in the United States has always been unique in the sense of containing large numbers of small...

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... the dimer interface of the models or in the 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 of the models or in the surroundings of the hinge loop residues. Likewise, the models of nonex- changing and exchanging HHP-RNase were prepared start- ing from 1Z7X. The ... (rotation angle ‘r’) and variation of the inclination (inclination angle ‘i’) with respect to the plane of the membrane (parallel to the xy plane). Cter and Nter are the C-terminal and N-terminal structural...

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... involved in the regulation of the stability and trafficking of GAT1. It has been reported that a variety of molecular chaperones and folding enzymes assist the folding of newly synthesized proteins in ... N-linked oligosaccharide side-chains are important for the GABA transport activity. 1-Deoxymannojirimycin inhibits the GABA-uptake of GAT1 In order to gain further insight into the role of the terminal ... clarify whether N-glycans are directly involved in the GABA- uptake process and whether the modulation of N-gly- cosylation in uences the biochemical properties of this protein, quantitative and kinetic...

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... disambiguated word meaning. It is the in interaction of the results of these asynchronous processes that the process of comprehension is defined. The processes are independent of the know- ledge ... affected. The study includes off-line picture naming which forces use of articles in all of the 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...

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... most of them and access-to-input for the worst in this sub-pool. Conversely, the overbearing influence of the 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 increasing debt raises with the fact that the enterprise was indebted in the past (in all the groups). Nodebt thus appears as a strong inertial component in the credit-demand...

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... microfinance stands unrivalled in scale, and outreach continues to grow in terms of the number of microborrowers. Institutions providing microfinance in Asia play a critical role in increasing the ... very helpful in bringing microfinance into the spotlight not only in developing countries but also in the developed world. The awareness by policy makers about the role of microfinance as a major ... been pioneers in the Latin American microfinance industry. As of today, 7 out of 15 Latin American members are active in microfinance. These members are involved in different ways in the microfinance sector...

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... music), taking into account the director’s – and, therefore, the composer’s – intentions, the narrative content of the film, and the overall strategy of the director in constructing the multifaceted ... theoretical – of film music perception and the role of music in film, referencing some of the most significant research investigating the relationship between sound and image in the cinematic context. ... other-worldly. In this capacity, the role of music is significantly enhanced by the level of ambiguity inherent in the visual scene. Specifically, the more ambiguous the meaning of the visual image, the...

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... affinity of ChiB for allosamidin, which is an analogue of the proposed oxazolinium ion intermediate [32]. The minor (or even positive) effects of Y214F on substrate and intermediate binding and the ... conformations. The Asp142 equiv- alent in the family 18 chitinase from Coccidioides immitis was found to be in the ÔdownÕ position in the apoenzyme and in the ÔupÕ position in the complex with allosamidin ... for the position of residue 142 [34]. The pK a calculations indicate that the only candidate for a residue determining the basic arm of the pH-activity profile of the D142N mutant is Glu144. The...

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... 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 same observation in the factoid QA task. There are a few caveats to consider when in- terpreting ... acquiring nuclear weapons?”, which are the focus of the AQUAINT program in the U.S., and opinion questions such as “How does the Chilean government view attempts at having Pinochet tried in Spanish...

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