... to the traditional banking sector. Some of the challenges inthe sector are developing a common definition of the terms used inthe microfinance sector and involving all the actors inthe ... as the JEREMIE and the JASMINE programmes. Savings banks have a particular role to play inthe development of microfinance, since they finance the local economy inthe communities where they ... subsidies. In addition, there has 3been a shift within the European Commission, moving away from grant provision and introducing financial engineering instruments. In 2007, the...
... examining the books inthe public library, he found a Latin Bible a rare book unknown in those days. Till then he imaginedthat the fragments selected by the Church to be read to the people during ... nor the other visiting priests. Of the lastone heartily agreed with them, and the others boldly acknowledged that there was a great deal of truth in whatthey said. Gaining confidence, nine ... those who found their way into the great hall where the Emperor and the chief princes,bishops, and nobles of the land were sitting, when Dr Martin Luther, replied to the chancellor of Treves, the orator...
... Lancisius's Opinion; and believes that theseWorms are not the Cause of the Fever; but being lodged inthe Intestines, before the Fever comes on, they areannoyed by the Increase of the Heat, and the Corruption ... Monro 14 Inthe Year 1761, we tried the Bark in various Forms in many Cases, where the Patient had been blooded andpurged inthe Beginning, and used the cooling Medicines; and where the Remissions ... Suppression of Urine,especially towards the Decline of the Fever; and others, of a Scalding and Pain in making Water, though theyhad no venereal Complaint. These Symptoms appeared in other Places,...
... savings banks inGermany – as well as the streamlining of distressed private banks – will be decisive for the question whether Germany is able to eliminate the prevailing structural risks inthe ... of the savings banks to integrate the latter into an SRI. There are various solutions to choose from, including those already implemented in other HEINZ HILGERT JAN PIETER KRAHNEN GÜNTHER ... abroad. The previous competitive edge in wholesale banking derived from the comparatively very favourable refinancing terms via the state guarantees, the abolition of which resulted in margins...
... Importance of Informal Investment inGermany The term Business Angel has only been used inGermany since the early 1990s. According to the German Business Angel network BAND, German Business Angel ... syndicate, who invests their own money directly in an unquoted business in which there is no family connection, and who, after making the investment, takes an active involvement inthe business, for ... First we introduce the concept of BA financing. In a second step we analyse the BA market in Germany. We conclude that there is a significant excess demand for early stage financing. Inthe third...
... and who will not be tried by the ICC, including high-ranking officers inthe army. The War Crimes Chamber in Bosnia and Herzegovina is an example as to how international involvement inthe ... abuse, including sexual violence; o Ensure that all soldiers of all ranks—including those recently integrated into the army—receive regular, mandatory training on civilian protection, including ... have been the task of the judicial authorities to use the leads given—such as complaints by locals—to fully investigate individual criminal responsibility. The inaction on the part of the South...
... shut behind it. The sphere hung inert inthe darkness. When at last the atomic clock signalled the beginning of the great Awakening, no current flowed. The circuits remained dead, the systems ... 'Doctor, there's something there,' he whispered, pointing to the spot. The gallery stretched in a graceful arc, the bright stars gliding slowly across the observation panels. The Doctor ... grille set into the base of the inner wall, into which the trail disappeared. The Doctor grunted, tracing the silver track across the gallery and up the outer wall where it disappeared into a...
... con-founders were included inthe final logistic regressionmodel if they changed the odds ratio of kneeling andsquatting by more than 10% in at least one category. In the final model, the following confounders ... 1.1–6.1Kneeling/squatting and lifting/carrying combinedcBoth no kneeling/squatting and no lifting/carrying 65 22.0 137 41.9 1.0 - 1.0 -Kneeling/squatting >0 – <870 hrs. or lifting/carrying >0 ... kneelingcombined with heavy lifting [8,17,21,22], this study is the first to investigate the dose-response relationship for the combination of kneeling and heavy lifting. According toour study the...
... questionnaire together then there is a lower change of underestimating the quality of life inthe sectors ‘Self-esteem’, ‘Friends’ and inthe ‘Total’ score than if the mother answers the questions ... URS were the principal investigators of the study and have advised the writing of the manuscript and have revised the paper. ME has assisted in the statistical analyses and has revised the manuscript. ... With increasing age of the children, the likelihood of parental overestimation of their child’s quality of life sinks for the ‘School’ dimension, whereas the likelihood of overestimating the...
... designed the study, analyzed the data, interpreted the results and wrote the manuscript. MK, CB and GDB wereinvolved inthe planning of the design, the interpretationof the results and the writing ... various theoretical and conceptualapproaches and its inter-individual variability. Therefore the "Schedule for Meaning in LifeEvaluation" (SMiLE), an individualized instrument for the ... and assessed their most impor-tant needs: 40% of the patients indicated a need for help in discovering meaning in their life. Meier et al. [2] foundthat 47% of the physicians who had granted...
... endorsed inthe present study(Figure 4). In summary, the polar fraction 3 exhibited, in comparison with the other remaining wastewaterfractions, the highest inhibiti on values inthe influent of the ... in general, an increase of CBZ inthe effluentwithin the whole treatment process. Similar findings forCBZ are mentioned inthe literature [6]. At this point,there is no information about the ... qualityassurance. The negativ e controls documented the altera-tions inthe bioluminescence intensity of the tested bac-teria inthe absence of any toxicant during incubation. The inhibition of the p osit...
... depositions. The objective of the article at hand is on the improvement of the spatial resolution of the EMEP maps by combining them with data on the N concentration in mosses provided by the International ... werden in die statistischen Analysen einbezogen.Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests.Authors‘ contributionsWS wrote the text. MH and RP conducted the ... of the N concentration in mosses. The respective residuals were projected onto the centres of the EMEP grid cells and were mapped using variogram analysis and kriging procedures. Finally, the...