... Modeling in Terms of Optimization 2.3.1 The Model of FITs in Terms of Optimization 2.3.2 The Model of RPS in Terms of Optimization 2.4 Modeling in Terms of Linear Programming ... modify the attributes of the facility or the service by investing in an innovation without violating the contract In this sense, the contract is considered incomplete There are two types of investment, ... investment i, incurring cost i, at the beginning of the facility construction stage Investment i improves the quality of the facility, resulting in increased benefit to society However, the increased
Ngày tải lên: 06/01/2020, 09:45
... state and low back pain (LBP) However, the degree of the association between mental health and chronic low back pain (CLBP) in the general population is poorly understood The objective of this ... this study was to analyze the incidence of CLBP in Chinese college students and to examine the association between students’ unhealthy mental states and the prevalence of CLBP Methods: This is ... quality of life at their university, study-related stress and interpersonal relationships The evaluation of students’ mental states in the survey was divided into two major parts: direct and indirect
Ngày tải lên: 10/01/2020, 12:41
Factors affecting malnutrition in children and the uptake of interventions to prevent the condition
... however there is insufficient data on the uptake of these health interventions and the factors which affect them According to UNICEF the main causes of childhood malnutrition can be categorized into ... exposure of these children and their mothers to selected health interventions that prevent the malnutrition and the sociodemographic and health outcomes affecting them Study setting Princess Marie ... antenatal and postnatal care and interventions contained in the Under Fives Child Health Programme The latter includes promotion of breast feeding, appropriate complementary feeding, growth monitoring,
Ngày tải lên: 27/02/2020, 13:19
Implementation and Enforcement of Rules in Singapore and the Case of China Aviation Oil
... Implementation and Enforcement of Rules in Singapore and the Case of China Aviation Oil Mak Yuen Teen Director Corporate Governance and Financial Reporting Centre National University of Singapore Singapore ... range of offences Singapore’s Legal System Making false statements, falsifying documents, insider trading, corruption, cheating Few directors faced breach of duties offences Overview of Recent ... Criminal Actions Punishment Jail of 18 weeks to years Fines of $10,000 to $1.6 million Time taken: From first sign of scandal to filing of charges: months to 19 months From filing of
Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2022, 18:52
Zara case study The ZARA Case Study in Economics and The Organisation of Economic Activity
... headquarters at the country level, supervising and coordinating the operations of the various Inditex brands Zara's headquarter in Spain consists of three spacious halls for each of these centers There ... owns 20 other factories for internal manufacturing that apply just in time.8 Inditex is purchasing raw materials through the company’s regional offices in the UK, China, Holland and other offices ... will be their motive to work hard instead of shrinking? For Zara’s shareholders, CEO and etc, their goal is to increase the sales and profits Working hard raises the probability of making more
Ngày tải lên: 03/02/2023, 20:31
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: TEC family kinases in health and disease – loss-of-function of BTK and ITK and the gain-of-function fusions ITK–SYK and BTK–SYK pptx
... directly involved in ligand binding, presumably abolishing the interaction with signaling partners. The remaining mutations alter amino acids located outside the ligand-binding pocket and reduce ... disease, thereby providing the missing data. The phenotype of XLA and the potential of BTK and ITK inhibitors The outcome of defective BTK signaling in humans has been described previously in detail ... the linker B kinase region of SYK. The PH domain of TFKs usually binds to phosphatidylino- sitol-3,4,5-trisphosphate, thereby bringing them in close proximity to other membrane-tethered signaling proteins.
Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 18:20
Tài liệu Corporate Ownership structure and the Informativeness of Accounting Earnings in East Asia doc
... number of industry segments operated by the firm and to varying the starting and ending dates of the stock return window. This analysis of East Asian corporations allows us to study the subject of ... 40% of the voting rights are in the hands of the 11 The two extreme percentiles of firm-year observations of annual stock returns and net earnings over market value of ... logarithm of the market value of equity in millions of U.S dollars at the beginning of year t; Qit = the market value of equity divided by the book value of total assets at the
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 01:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Characterization of human deoxyribonuclease I gene (DNASE1) promoters reveals the utilization of two transcription-starting exons and the involvement of Sp1 in its transcriptional regulation ppt
... indicate intron of 75 bp in fragments B and C, 3¢ portion of 35 bp in intron in fragments C and D, and 3¢ portion of 25 bp in intron in fragments F and I The number at the right of each RT-PCR ... contain the entire coding region Thus, use of alternative promoters in DNASE1 results in no generation of protein isoforms The 5¢-UTR of eukaryotic mRNA in? ??uences the initiation step of protein ... to the transcription starting site of exon Constructs are shown in the left-hand panel; construct names are given at the left of the bar and the locations of the inserted fragment are shown The
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 06:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: cN-crystallin and the evolution of the bc-crystallin superfamily in vertebrates pdf
... protein, just as in the genes for cS and cA–F. However, the second half of the gene has the structure of a b-crystallin gene, with two exons encoding the two motifs of the C-terminal domain. The ... positions delineating protein domains; however, in the c-crystal- lins the introns that divide the sequences encoding the two motifs of each domain are missing. Thus a c-crys- tallin gene has ... in the eye in the human lineage In addition to the evolution of cN and cS crystallins, even more specialization in the c-crystallins has occurred with the loss of the
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 17:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Proton transfer in the oxidative half-reaction of pentaerythritol tetranitrate reductase Structure of the reduced enzyme-progesterone complex and the roles of residues Tyr186, His181 and His184 pdf
... productive binding of steroid substrates: in the first, a (small) sub population of enzyme binds directly the steroid in the reactive conformation, with the remainder of the enzyme binding the unreactive conformation. ... tunneling in the multiple H-transfers of the catalytic cycle of morphinone... sequencing and expression of the gene encoding NADH oxidase from the extreme anaerobic thermophile Thermoanaerobium ... half-reac- tion of MR [25]. PETN reductase is unusual in having two histidine residues (rather than the His-Asn pair seen in OYE, MR and some of the other member proteins; Fig. 1B) in the active site
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 02:21
Tài liệu NATURAL ENDOWMENTS, PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGIES AND THE QUALITY OF WINES IN BORDEAUX. IS IT POSSIBLE TO PRODUCE WINE ON PAVED ROADS? pot
... really influence in a measurable way both the quality and the taste of a wine: soil, subsoil, slopes and exposure of vineyards. All the other elements are either not quantifiable (the influence of ... interested in trying to quantify the impact of each of the many inputs and steps used in producing wine in one of the most renowned wine producing regions of France, Haut-Médoc with its celebrated ... fermenting of grape sugar into alcohol, (5) macerating or keeping the grape skins and pips in contact with the grape juice for additional extract and color, (6) pressing and racking or transferring
Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 09:20
Multidimensional Poverty and the State of Child Health in India pdf
... fixing of a cut off point for the poor and nonpoor, aggregation of multiple dimensions into a single index, weighting of dimensions and the unit of analyses, while theoretical issues relate to the ... poverty in the dimension of education, health and living standard of the household The dimension of education includes literacy status of all adult members and the current schooling status of school ... poliomyelitis These vaccines have been integrated into the public health program of many developing countries including India Usually, the date and type of vaccination of a child are recorded in a health
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 10:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Muramyl-dipeptide-induced mitochondrial proton leak in macrophages is associated with upregulation of uncoupling protein 2 and the production of reactive oxygen and reactive nitrogen species docx
... modulates MDP-induced mitochondrial inefficiency central nervous system, and the lack of induction of in? ??ammatory responses [22] Despite a long-standing interest in the field of muramyl peptides, the impact ... results in significant increase in UCP2 expression (3.6-fold, P < 0.05) On the other hand, analysis of the kinetics of induction of UCP2 protein in MDP-treated macrophages revealed a significant increase ... [28] These findings agree with the hypothesis [29] that an increase in the mitochondrial membrane potential would slow the transport of electrons through the respiratory chain, increasing the time
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 23:20
Cost Recovery and the Crisis of Service Delivery in South Africa ppt
... industrial and high-income areas Consider the following The Durban Chamber of Commerce and Industry “has in recent years expressed the concern of its members regarding the increasing ... establishing the initial links between the HSRC and the Municipal Services Project and in establishing the basis for this joint initiative. To him we extend a warm thanks. John Daniel and Garry ... eroding some of the gains of service delivery, the ideology and practice of cost recovery became more dominant in a number of ways First, there is the question of how
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20
Credit Growth and the Effectiveness of Reserve Requirements and Other Macroprudential Instruments in Latin America pdf
... against the wind”: (i) raising RRs during the upswing phase of the cycle to contain excessive credit growth and the associated build up of vulnerabilities and (ii) lowering them ... power, and if the supply of deposits was replicated as the aggregate behavior, loan supply would be higher and determined by the intersection of the supply of deposits and the lending demand curve. ... Impact of. .. that most of these instruments are effective in reducing the procyclicality of the financial system, but this depends on the type of shock facing the financial
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:21
Tài liệu Investigating the Role of Poultry in Livelihoods and the Impact of Avian Flu on Livelihoods Outcomes in Africa docx
... culled No information is available on the costs of culling, diagnostic testing of samples, cleaning and disinfection, and other administrative costs (Obi, Oparinde, and Maina 2008) Regarding the impacts ... et al 2008; Aning, Turkson, and Asuming-Brempong 2008; Obi, Oparinde, and Maina 2008; Omiti and Okuthe 2008) Therefore, information regarding the role of poultry in the livelihoods of small-scale ... detail the role of poultry (both as a source of income and as an asset) in the entirety of the households’ income and asset portfolios Regarding the sources of data used in this study, for the West...
Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 01:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Adenine and adenosine salvage pathways in erythrocytes and the role of S-adenosylhomocysteine hydrolase A theoretical study using elementary flux modes Stefan Schuster and Dimitar Kenanov ppt
... of them involve the modes starting from adenine obtained in the first simulation and include methyltransferase and SAHH2 in addition Some others involve the modes starting from adenosine obtained ... is involved in these pathways Since adenine is a substrate of ADPRT, the elevation of ATP in the absence of adenosine kinase shows that adenine must be released in the process before being incorporated ... starting from S-adenosylmethionine involving the standard functionality of SAHH (here denoted as SAHH1) and another 10 pathways starting from adenosine (rather than S-adenosylmethionine) and involving...
Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 20:20
báo cáo hóa học: " Effects of betaine on lipopolysaccharide-induced memory impairment in mice and the involvement of GABA transporter 2" doc
... and both exogenous application of betaine and the introduction via transgenes of the betaine-biosynthetic pathway into plants that not naturally accumulate betaine increase the tolerance of these ... impairment in order to understand the mechanism of action of betaine in the central nervous system In this study, we investigated the effects of betaine on LPS-induced memory impairment using the Y-maze ... levels of glial markers and the betaine transporter Glial activation is also involved in the pathogenesis of LPS-induced memory impairment; therefore, to understand the effects of betaine on these...
Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20
Báo cáo y học: "Genetic diversity in India and the inference of Eurasian population expansion" doc
... samples The number of individuals sampled from each Indian population is shown (b) The number of SNPs found in HapMap non-Indian and Indian populations (c) The number of SNPs found in south Indian, ... separated into distinct clusters Next, we examined the divergence between Indian and non-Indian populations using pairwise FST estimates In comparing major continental groups, India and Europe have the ... crossed the mouth of the Red Sea into the Arabian Peninsula, and subsequently migrated into India, Southeast Asia, and Australia Later, populations migrated out of Africa along a ‘northern route’...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 22:23
Rice Land Designation Policy in Vietnam and the Implications of Policy Reform for Food Security and Economic Welfare
... Jointly, the rise in baseline rice production and the decline in baseline rice consumption accounts for the increase in the baseline value of the rice surplus index (row 1) Removal of the land ... Region-specific land use modeling Within each of the seven agro-ecological regions of our model, we distinguish modeling of the demand- and supply-sides of the land market Beginning with the demand side, ... in the policy simulation values for these indexes away from their baseline values To aid in the interpretation of these deviations, we also report the levels of the indexes in both the baseline...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2015, 19:23