... and whether we can find any evidence of business cycle synchronization inthe region. We examine the following twelve countries intheAsiaPacific region: five Asian crisis countries (Indonesia, ... underlying shocks inthe economy, etc.6 Using the data of twelve AsiaPacific countries, we find the following stylized facts of business cycles. First, business cycles inthe five Asian ... correlation in general increased inthe 1990s from the previous periods. This is mostly due to the industrial countries inthe sample. In conclusion, we can summarize the main characteristics of the...
... FOR ASIA AND THEPACIFIC IN THE ASIA- PACIFIC REGION 2008PROSPECTSDEVELOPMENTSKEY ECONOMICAND 4China seeks growth with sustainabilityChina continues to be beset by its inability to rein in ... markets asinvestors cashed in their holdings. Financial-market contagion thus spread from the United States to the Asia- Pacific region. There was also a withdrawal from markets intheregion as ... spurred the record inflation in China in 2007. The increase inthe CPI in August of 6.5 per cent year on year wasled by food price inflation of 18.2 per cent. Pork prices in China, the world’slargest...
... farhanah.farhanah@gmail.comas keypoints to cutting the cycle of violence and achieving SRHR. ey have to be meaningfully involved in policy making, programme planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluating at all ... are being utilised in the region include integrating GBV into primary health care, reproductive health care, or family planning services. ere are also NGO-led models, as in Papua New Guinea ... however, most often these are not holistic and integrated.13 Moreover, integration of GBV into the medical curricula is still lacking inthe region. 13ã One of the main challenges faced...
... found mainly in NinhThuan Sea and P. stimpsoni in Quang Binh–QuangTri Sea (Thuy 1996, 1998). The greatest hurdle inthe commercial culture ofspiny lobster is the difficulty in growing speciesthrough ... of the breeding ecology of the stocks in these regions. Larval ecology of P. ornatus inthe Coral SeaRecruitment processes inthe Torres Strait andeastern coastal regions are governed by the ... recruitment IntroductionThere is growing interest inthe aquaculture of spinylobsters as the world market demand for lobsterincreases beyond what wild fisheries are capable ofproducing sustainably....
... received a single vaccination since their birth. So we had to start right from the beginning.” “Since then, we have seen a positive increase inthe interest of the mothers in their children’s ... sessions, including demonstration of cooking and feeding, to the group. After that they take on the responsibility themselves, cooking khichuri in their own houses and starting new groups of their ... 45Six mothers happily demonstrate breastfeeding in front of other mothers and villagers during the celebration of World Breastfeeding Week in Samlot district, early August. After attending a three-day...
... some-one uses the Internet to cause an injury in one State, the person causing the damage may be hauled into court inthe State where the injury occurred. In caseswhere the connection between the activity ... linking involves enrolling a target in dozens-sometimes hundreds-of e-maillistings.4. Spoofing is faking the e-mail sender’s identity and tricking the target recipientinto believing that the ... protection in the Internet? 18Are there international initiatives to protect intellectual property in the Internet? What Internet-specific treaties are in place? 18Why is there a need for such initiatives?...
... either in wild-type strains and in mutant strains harboring mutations in the genes encoding enzymes of the biosynthesis and/or the transfer of the O-specific polysaccharide [12,13]. The core region ... [40–42]. The structure of the inner core region of the LOS fromP. stutzeri OX1, as determined in this study, was found toagree closely with the general structure described above. Itincludes the ... Y.A.,Zaăhringer, U. & Pier, G. (2003) Elucidation of the structure of the lipopolysaccharide core and the linkage between the core and the O-antigen in Pseudomonas aeruginosa immunotype 5 using...
... the recent enforcement settlements under EPA’s Petroleum Refinery Initiative that affect petroleum refineries inthe MARAMA region. Ten of the 14 refineries inthe MARAMA region have been included. ... applicable to a petroleum refinery. Another element of the SIP was finalized by EPA inthe NOx SIP in 1998. The final version of the rule called for NOx emission reductions in twenty-two states that ... is the loading of finished products into marine vessels, tank railcars, and tank trucks. Flaring activities also emit VOC. Other activities (cracking/coking units, boilers/heaters, cooling...
... profilingtheextensivedegreeofLPSheterogeneityintheH. in u-enzae strains. The extreme variability observed inthe OSstructures is likely to have important implications for the biology and virulence of these isolates. The 38 variant ... were identified on the basisof spin-connectivity pathways delineated in the 1Hchemicalshift correlation maps, the chemical shift values, and the vicinal coupling constants. From the glycoform composi-tions ... residue being present inthe pyranosylring form. Further evidence for this conclusion wasobtained from NOE data which also served to confirm the anomeric configurations of the linkages and, togetherwith...
... suggestedthat the N-terminus of the RT domain is required forprotein interactions with the high-affinity binding site in subdomain DIVa of the intron, whereas otherregions of the RT and domain X interact ... splicing of the intron RNA into the insertion site inthe DNA are shown at the top. Solid lines indicate DNA and dashed lines correspond to intron RNA.M. D. Molina-Sa´nchez et al. Group II intron ... DNA-binding region, anextension of domain X, or simply a nonfunctionalextension. In the present study, we investigated the C-terminal region of the RmInt1 IEP up to the maturase domainand the...
... Sectors in the high income countries of the Region was about US $11 000–33 000, and the aver-age annual growth rate of GNP in all the high income economies was 2.3% in the period 1980–1991. The ... with other factors, con-tributed to the enormous changes in the CCEE and NIS at the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s.Table 1.4 illustrates economic growth in 1989–1993. The annual ... de-crease inthe share of agriculture, an increase in the role of industry in two groups of coun-tries, and a decrease for industry and an in- crease for services inthe third.1.2.3 The CCEE...
... described for the sulfuration of the C-terminal glycine in ThiS andMoaD, involved in thiamine biosynthesis and molyb-dopterin biosynthesis, respectively, and for the sulfura-tion of uridine in tRNA ... methylases[9]. How the sulfur is transferred into the carboxamidegroup of glycine inthe peptide chain remains to beshown.Neither the functions of the five modifications norwhether the modifications ... nm N2laser). From the peptide ladder, the N-terminal amino acidsequence of the peptides was obtained as shown in Fig. 2for the thioglycine-containing tryptic peptide of the MCRa-subunit from...
... concerning agricultural production, trade, processing, retailing (including catering) and marketing.Food prices The real price of food is the lowest in history for many countries inthe European Region. ... programmes. The literature supports an emphasis on interventions combining instruction in healthier eat-ing with a structured approach to increasing physical activity inthe workplace (96). Workplace interventions ... obesity 24 Main messages 24 Introduction 24 Interventions in micro-settings 25 Interventions in macro-settings 27 Promoting physical activity 28 Economic instruments 28v 14 ã THE CHALLENGE...