... and spruce trees were harvested in autumn 1994 and 1995 Only 137Cs and 40K activities were measured in tree rings as well as separately in needles andin the wooden parts of branches, including ... and environmental monitoring in Croatia 163 species, sorption and desorption processes in soil, mineral soil composition, grain size and soil types, lateral cesium migration, and so on Certain ... officinale, Trifolium sp., and Onobrychis viciaefolia In nectar meadow honeys collected in 1992 and 1993, Compositae and Brassicaceae dominated over Umbelliferae and Rosaceae Among pollen grains...
... Original Sustainability, S for Sustainable Level for human activities ΔOS means the marginal increase of consumption against environmental amenity while original sustainability is maintained The degradation ... became increasingly criticized by international activists as a source of poverty and environmental degradation in developing countries One of the most important turning point was the WTO Ministerial ... Issues In this chapter, environmental issues in the global context are explained in detail The issues include the opening of world summit meetings for environment, ODA and its relation to trade and...
... depletion and degradation of the global environmental assets Many efforts are being made by individuals, governments, NGOs and international organizations including Green Peace and WWF International ... completely and self-sufficiently sustainable in their original net amount on an annual basis Here, it is named as the Original Sustainability Consumption (OS) line OS=0 line is the boundary within which ... for Consumption, E stands for Environmental Resources, S stands for Sustainable Level, and OS stands for Original Sustainability - 22 - 1.2 Theories of collective actions and International Agreements...
... leaders, in an attempt to increase understanding of what constituted effective leadership These concepts relating to leadership styles were introduced in 1938 by Lewin and Lippitt, but reached prominence ... explaining in advance the procedures for accomplishing the goals, and granted the followers independence to commence their own tasks and congratulating them in an objective manner According to ... women or feminine characteristics being included in the leadership theories between 1940s and 1980s Not surprisingly, all the researchers and writers on early leadership were men and hence the...
... active role in financial restructuring in China by introducing international standards and good practice and providing policy advice and personnel training in specific areas For instance, China has ... technology, in exploring on-line banking business as well as in promoting non-bank financial institutions Efforts should be made in upgrading financial operations and financial services, andin conducting ... China Statistics Yearbook, China Financial Yearbook and People’s Bank of China Statistics Quarterly bulletin B Development of direct financing and indirect financing markets providing financing...
... per million vaccinees in Sweden and Finland, respectively (46 ) Regional increases in the incidence of BCG osteitis have been noted following changes in either the vaccine strain or the method ... forming a lesion approximately mm in diameter Draining lesions resulting from vaccination should be kept clean and bandaged Scabs form and heal usually within months after vaccination BCG vaccination ... whose skin-test results are negative (i.e.,
... Current Issues in Economics and Finance, August Strahan, Philip, and James Weston 1998 “Small Business Lending and the Changing Structure of the Banking Industry,” Journal of Banking and Finance, August ... advances in information and communication technology are reducing their comparative advantage in relationship-based lending, especially small business lending (Petersen and Rajan) Rating agencies and ... the large banking organizations falling in the latter group are two kinds—those that conduct most of their business within a single state (for example, Commerce and UMB in Missouri), and those that...
... Electrostatic interactions and antitumor RNases the dimer interface of the models or in the surroundings of the hinge loop residues Likewise, the models of nonexchanging and exchanging HHP-RNase ... 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 regions, ... homologous to the RNases investigated in this study, have been isolated from human eosinophils, namely eosinophil-derived neurotoxin (EDN) and eosinophil cationic protein (ECP) They are RNases...
... modification may in uence many of the physicochemical and biological properties of the proteins, such as protein folding, stability, targeting, dynamics and ligand binding, as well as cell-matrix and cell–cell ... a misfolding of this protein, resulting in its partial retention in the ER and its rapid digestion thereafter [16,19] Accordingly, our results indicate that the intracellular trafficking of N-glycosylation ... and blocked with 5% bovine serum albumin and 0.1 m glycine in NaCl ⁄ Pi for 30 and washed with NaCl ⁄ Pi again Polyclonal antibodies against GAT1 were used for immunostaining at room temperature...
... attempt to integrate AI and brain theory, BT, on two levels, behaviorally and within processing HOPE uses concepts from c e l l u l a r neurophysiology to define its control Information in H P is ... meanings spreading parts of FIRING-INFORMATION-PROPAGATION: Asynchronous activation propagation that occurs when information reaches threshold and fires I t can be INHIBITORY and EXCITATORY in ... 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 in English An example...
... equal to ô ằ (increase in indebtedness) by 15 points (33 minus 18), and increases the probability of Expected-Debt to be equal to ô ằ (not indebted and not going to be) by 13 points (34 minus 21) ... decreasing for 53% of the sample, it has been increasing for 36%, and has been stable for the remaining 11% An increase in indebtedness (of 80% in average) is associated with a 14% decrease in production, ... good markets - demand-side constraints for 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...
... lack collateral, andin some cases they have low levels of reading and writing skills By serving this segment of the population in developing and emerging economies the microfinance industry has ... an indirect participation through linkages (Uganda, Zimbabwe) with sustainable and promising microfinance institutions (e.g., refinancing of wholesale loans for on-lending to retail microfinance ... banks involved in microfinance because they are subject to stringent banking regulations Microcredit is in principle uncollateralized lending and as such it is more demanding for complying with...
... of principles for composition, mixing, and editing in the “classical” Hollywood film, emphasizing primarily the period between the late 1930s and 1940s and based on the scores of Max Steiner, ... referential and narrative cues Music provides rhythmic and formal continuity And, finally, music aids in the construction of formal and narrative unity To confirm her intention that none of these principles ... and the retention of that experience in long term memory According to this model, the input from levels B (bottom-up) and D (top-down) meet in the observer’s conscious mind (level C), where information...
... variants In a standard assay, 100 lL of a mixture containing enzyme, 20 lM substrate, 50 mM citrate/phosphate buffer, pH 6.3 [36] and 0.1 mgÆmL)1 bovine serum albumin was incubated at 37 °C for 10 min, ... the free enzyme, Asp142 is in the ÔdownÕ position, interacting with Asp140 Upon substrate-binding, Asp142 moves into the ÔupÕ position and interacts with the substrate and Glu144 This rotation ... ring into a 4-sofa conformation is an inherent part of the catalytic mechanism (Fig [17,19,21,22]) Structural studies show that Asp142, Tyr214 and Asp215 are involved in binding the )1 sugar in...
... knowledge in conceptual retrieval: A study in the domain of clinical medicine In SIGIR 2006 J Lin and D Demner-Fushman 2006b Will pyramids built of nuggets topple over? In HLT/NAACL 2006 G Marton and ... open for the integration of natural language understanding techniques J Lin and D Demner-Fushman 2005 Automatically evaluating answers to definition questions In HLT/EMNLP 2005 J Lin and D Demner-Fushman ... Creating and evaluating multi-document sentence extract summaries In CIKM 2000 D Harman 2002 Overview of the TREC 2002 novelty track In TREC 2002 W Hildebrandt, B Katz, and J Lin 2004 Answering...
... and Psacharopoulos and Patrinos (2004)), which are frequently interpreted as indicating diminishing marginal returns to schooling There are some reasons for caution in interpreting the precise magnitude ... study wages in the United Kingdom and find strong returns to both numeracy and literacy.13 Finnie and Meng (2002) and Green and Riddell (2003) investigate returns to cognitive skills in Canada ... education and skills on the one hand and individual earnings on the other It misses an important underlying factor determining the interpersonal distribution of incomes across societies And, it...
... rainfall use through improved water management, particularly water harvesting; increasing crop yields in rainfed areas through agricultural research; and reforming policies and increasing investments ... resources; ensuring effective risk management; investment in rural infrastructure; providing a policy environment that does not discriminate against rainfed areas; and improving the coordination among ... water infiltration into the bare ridges and evaporation in areas of China that experience much lower intensity rainfall Other factors that influence the choice of rainwater harvesting method include...
... reforming the POSB into a postal bank (or a savings bank in Botswana) and licensed financial institution Similar steps have been taken in Zimbabwe and Uganda Discussions in Senegal, Benin, and ... financial service packages Insurance and pensions • In some cases, a traditional state life insurance program exists (India, Pakistan), and is just being introduced in others (China, India) in ... infrastructure as the main points for collecting, processing, sorting, and distributing mail items Increasingly, Asian postal operators are re-engineering their postal business processes By creating large,...
... only increase by 50 basis points, and the increase in inflation is 50 basis points less than in the baseline case A banking sector that remains well-capitalized can thus reduce the length and amplitude ... tightening, the initial adjustment is largely borne by aggregate investment It , which declines significantly Declines in aggregate investment depress earnings and thus lead to lower levels of bank and ... resource constraint is in (48) and the law of motion for aggregate capital in (49) Finally, (50) and (51) represent the market-clearing conditions for funds invested in banks and for currency...
... of chitin into valuable oligosaccharide derivatives for various industrial applications Pf-ChiA has a unique multidomain structure containing two chitin-binding domains (ChBD1 and ChBD2) and two ... number of amino acid residues contribute to the binding of the substrate by hydrogen bonding and ⁄ or hydrophobic interactions Using the ligplot program [31], we investigated the specific interactions ... hevamine (Protein Data Bank code 2HVM and 1LLO) (B), ScCTS1 (Protein Data Bank code 2UY2 and 2UY4) (C), SmChiB (Protein Data Bank code 1E15 and 1E6N) (D), CcCTS1 (Protein Data Bank code 1D2K and...