... and the investment funding of REITs The second essay tests the value of sponsors backing in REIT IPOs in relation tothe numbers of shares that sponsors retain at the time of an IPO and the reputation ... relationships, that is, the insurance value of bank lines of credit in protecting REITs against credit crises The value of sponsor backing at the time of an IPO is examined in Chapter Three, inthe essay ... study examines the question of whether REITs are able draw down on their credit lines in a credit crisis, either due to a decline in their credit standing or a tightening of credit inthe capital...
... other studies without concurrent controls Most of these studies showed that reducing the price of healthy food increased the purchasing ofthat food The duration ofthe interventions covered in ... particular rates of certain foods (19) Another model projected the effect of extending the VAT (17.5%) to leading sources of dietary saturated fat inthe United Kingdom Noting the lack of data on price ... opportunities to avoid disincentives It included 47 studies of consumer incentives for preventive care, including pertaining to obesity and weight loss (all of which are included in this synthesis.) Of...
... homework) The teacher gives a list of verbs on the board, then asks the students to work in groups to find the verbs going with an -ing form, the verbs going with to + infinitive form The group ... to get the most out ofthe time he/she spends playing games Lin Hong (2002), author of "Using Games in Teaching English to Young Learners", explains that not all games are goingto work to teach ... teaching in general and English grammar teaching in particular The result or the aim ofthe study is thatthe application of grammar games brings benefits tothe teachers and the students in teaching...
... reproducing the myth ofthe selfdetermining subject.31 Having stressed the ongoing centrality of Enlightenment thought inthe 1790s, I want to insist that I am not interested in rethinking our ... implications ofthe institutional history of English literature I want to outline my points of intersection with eachof these debates, but I also want to emphasize that their ongoing separation ... supposed to generate these values, could be contained The emotional intensity ofthe backlash against the intrusions of these subaltern groups suggests the importance of reading these developments in...
... Rationale Aims ofthe study Scope ofthe study Methods ofthe study Design ofthe study Research questions: What is the present situation of teaching and learning vocabulary at Pre – Intermediate ... 1.2.3 The status of vocabulary in current language teaching and learning 1.3 Approaches to language teaching and their relevance to vocabulary 1.4 Recent research about teaching and learning second ... reaction, their progress and expectation 1 .What you think ofthe games your teachers used in your vocabulary lesson? a b c d Very interesting and useful Rather interesting and useful Interesting and...
... technologies influence quality We are interested in trying to quantify the impact ofeachofthe many inputs and steps used in producing wine in one ofthe most renowned wine producing regions of France, ... describing perfumes and the harmony of a wine The influence of weather has been the subject of several studies, which consistently show that rain is needed during the winter season, while dry weather ... reference tothe character that they inherit from the place where the wine is produced Consumers who visit producers are particularly sensitive tothe beauty ofthe landscape, tothe architecture of the...
... preparation Of particular importance is the finding that exogenous cADPR failed to increase the spontaneous release of ATP inthe absence of CD38 In other words, the presence of CD38 is mandatory for the ... suggesting that prejunctional P2 receptors were not involved inthe facilitating effects of cADPR In contrast, the inhibitors of intracellular cADPR receptors 8-Br-cADPR (80 lm) and ryanodine (50 ... tachykinin receptors inthe gut, with special reference to NK2 receptors in human Auton Neurosci 126–127, 232–249 32 Burnstock G (2008) The journey to establish purinergic signalling inthe gut Neurogastroenterol...
... pencil inside the outline ofthe letter, retouch it, closing it up tothe inked line The straight lines ofthe outline are all to be ruled,[5] 15 but the curved lines are to be drawn by the eye and ... all the others The use of turning the paper upside down is to neutralize the increase of darkness towards the bottom ofthe squares, which would otherwise take place from the ponding ofthe color ... darkness of ground there is the light ofthe little pebbles or dust; inthe darkness of foliage, the glitter ofthe leaves; inthe darkness of flesh, transparency; inthatof a stone, granulation: in...
... systems to use their assessments to identify teacher strengths and weaknesses to determine what professional development and supports they need to improve their teaching If teachers continue to have ... outlined above to raise the average quality of their teachers could deploy these teachers in such a way as to put more good teachers to work in schools that serve predominantly poor and minority ... provide the incentive and part ofthe financing for selected schools to implement creative plans for improving HASKINS & LOEB | A PLAN TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF TEACHING IN AMERICAN SCHOOLS the quality...
... reduce the saving interest of U.S dollar Instead of 6% to 7% per year, the State Bank of Vietnam decided to reduce saving interest of USD to 2% per year Therefore, Vietnamese people will not saving ... high inflation, the purchasing power of currency declining, people must find storage engines other values, including the prestigious foreign currency Parallel to function as a means of storing ... General Statistics Office Last but not least, income in U.S dollarsinthe strata ofthe population is increasingly expanding and growing It is the income of Vietnamese people who working for foreign...
... excited at the prospect of having to register the thousands of suppliers tothe automotive industry Within the automotive industry, the business of regulating suppliers is not likely to end and ... all ofthe necessary information required to reach an informed decision nor did they know thatinthe 1960s, Detroit did not really care about what they (the customer) desired in a car As Theodore ... versus Japan The business of achieving the right image of quality is very important for automotive assemblers Within the automotive industry, the trend of hiring consultants to either pass an...
... shown inthe arctic problem inthe CC condition; more inthe Forest Ranger problem inthe FTF condition We will take eachofthe categories, describing more fully what is included in them, and then ... words This includes statements that are meant to secure the attention ofthe other, (such as "There are two points I'd like to make "), restating or reporting the essential content ofwhatthe group ... investigators, since apparently ~he training for coding interpreted many more statements as representing some sort of analysis or opinion than "should" be there, according tothe distributions obtained...
... the Institute of Public Health ofthe Republic of Slovenia, where he holds the post of Adviser tothe Director He is involved in teaching at the Department of Public Health He trained at the ... interests include cancer screening and the health effects of radiation He is the principal investigator ofthe Finnish randomized trial on prostate cancer screening and is one ofthe coordinators ofthe ... reducing or eliminating the risk of developing the disease One ofthe most important medical discoveries ofthe twentieth century was the role of tobacco smoking as a cause of cancers ofthe lung...
... difference inthe C-terminal domain of TAp73c is that, owing tothe excision of exon 11 during alternative splicing, it lacks most ofthe Glu ⁄ Pro-rich domain and the Pro-rich domain, which are ... region )233 to )204 bp upstream ofthe TSS ofthe human p73 P1 promoter containing conserved, functional Sp1-binding sites Reduction ofthe endogenous Sp1 levels or inhibition of Sp1 binding to this ... treatment of A549 cells with increasing concentrations ofthe Sp1 inhibitor mithramycin A (Fig 3B), which not only interferes with the transcription of genes containing GC-rich regions in their promoters,...
... period of transcription inhibition to explain the decay of an mRNA that fluctuates 10-fold inthe cycle At present it is unclear what triggers the decrease inthe level ofthe 2.5-kb cyclin B1 ... the cell cycle [11–15] Certain transacting proteins such as HuR were proposed as regulators of changes in mRNA stability during the cell cycle [15] In this context it is of interest that during ... thymidine ⁄ amphidicolin block, the half-life of cyclin B1 mRNA measured after actinomycin D addition increased from 1.2 h in early G1 to 12 h in G2 ⁄ M phase [11] With the same method the cyclin...
... resection of hepatic lesions None ofthe patients had undergone either chemotherapy or radiotherapy before the collection ofthe samples The histopathologic characteristics ofthe colon carcinoma ... grading The study was conducted in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration and approved by the Ethics Committee of our institution Patients were informed ofthe investigational nature ofthe ... Evaluation of risk of liver metastasis in colorectal adenocarcinoma based on the combination of risk factors including CD10 expression: multivariate analysis of clinicopathological and immunohistochemical...
... of direct financial assistance, the foundation financed the visit of two professors from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health to assist with the teaching ofthe disciplines of ... states In 1938 the course was also offered for the first time in Recife inthe North East of Brazil Inthe 1940s, twelve professors with their assistants ministered the disciplines ofthe course The ... from the official faculties of medicine or who held the diploma ofthe famous application course ofthe Oswaldo Cruz Institute The choice ofthe disciplines demonstrated the preoccupation of the...
... for pars stress injury, it is highly suggestive of some type of derangement ofthe posterior elements ofthe spine [16] Imaging studies used to evaluate patients with low back pain include: radiographs, ... scintigraphy and SPECT [16,25] This may be explained by the fact that tracer uptake inthe region ofthe pars interarticularis on scintigraphic studies corresponds to B Figure Radiographic findings ... therapy emphasizing hamstring stretching and core strengthening The length of activity restriction, use of bracing and type of rehabilitation programs varies, reflecting a lack of consensus among...