... indebtedness provide an indication of the scales of the
international aspects of the two banking crises, international banking is only part of the
totality of banking. Total bank deposits therefore ...
The timing of thebanking crisis in relation to the downturn inthe real economy was different
in the two episodes. Almunia, Bénétrix, Eichengreen, O’Rourke and Rua (ABEOR), in an
interesting ... decline in
manufacturing globally inthe twelve months following the global peak in industrial production,
which we place in early 2008, was as severe as inthe twelve months following the...
... Vp
−
−
,
in which
I
it
is the sectoral indicator number i in
the year
t; Vo is the value of the indicator i in
the beginning (starting) year of the plan, selecting
from the poorest target community ... is the value of the indicator i inthe
year
t; Vp is the prospective value of the
indicator
i of the last year of the plan (minimum
value).
The UNDP
’
s HPI is an indicator of poverty
in ... is the primary factor from
the rest. As the former, it can count all those
poor people who live in places where the
environment is the main factor inthe poverty of
their area generally. The...
... We interpret the choice of the immediate reward in the
near-term frame combined with the choice of the delayed reward
in the distance frame as “hyperbolic,” since the implied discount
rate inthe ... test whether
such individuals save more as a result of opening the account.
We partnered with the Green Bank of Caraga, a rural bank
in Mindanao inthe Philippines. First, independently of the Green
Bank, ... indicated if the coefficient on the
commitment treatment indicator inthe non-SEED regression
were the negative of the coefficient inthe primary ITT analysis. If
all SEED savings lead to new institutional...
... dissecting the role of the endocannabi-
noid systemin physiology as well as in pathological
processes. Thesystem incorporates the endocannabi-
noids, their synthetic and degradative enzymes, the
endocannabinoid ... ischemia. The results of
these studies have been rather conflicting in supporting either a beneficial
or a detrimental role for the endocannabinoid systemin post-ischemic neu-
ronal death, in that ... exacerbated the detrimental
effects of OGD in vitro by releasing glutamate in
excess, indicating that the increase in 2-AG levels
that was observed by these authors following OGD
may protect dopaminergic...
... have the
same syntax as the one commonly used in search
engines, quoted text meaning a phrase pattern.
Then, these patterns are searched inthe Web
(using Google at the moment) and thesystem ...
existent inthe web to find its answers. In addi-
tion it has an interface on the web where every-
one can pose questions to thesystem
(http://www.linguateca.pt/Esfinge/).
Esfinge is based on the ...
Altavista index 34,900,000 and 60,500,000 pages
in Portuguese respectively.
The system is described in detail in (Costa,
2005a, 2005b).
2 System Architecture
The inputs to thesystem are...
... major public health concern
in the country. TB inthePhilippines ranked fifth inthe 10
leading causes of death and fifth inthe 10 leading causes
of illness, with an incidence reported to be 6.3 ... commonly infecting the pulmonary sys-
tem, it can also manifest as extra-pulmonary TB (EPTB)
affecting the gastrointestinal, skeletal, cardiac, genitouri-
nary, and nervous systems including the eye. ... especially in immunocompromised indi-
viduals and the elderly.
TB inthe eye can manifest in a myriad of ways, and
the definitive diagnosis can be daunting due to the dif-
ficulty of getting ocular...
... record, thesystem needs to check
its stored version against the current version maintained inthe in-
dexes to determine whether the record contains the latest data. Such
cost of accessing indexes ... key is the primary key of the
record and ptr is the offset that points to the location of that record
in the log. The index of each tablet can be maintained in memory
since the size of an index ... compar-
ing the versions of the records in T ’s write set that T has read be-
fore (there is no blind write) with the current version of the records
maintained inthe in- memory indexes. If there...
... card interest rates inthePhilippines are currently among the highest inthe world. The
regulations for non-bank financial institutions do not impose any ceilings on the rate of
interest, including ... the
leading government financial institutions inthePhilippines and the biggest financier of the
government’s housing programs, granted a total of PHP 23.5 billion worth of housing loans in ... on the role of consumer credit inthe
development of thePhilippines and in elevating the well-being of its people.
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At the same time, the BSP also ensures that the...
... negative inthe beginning of the 7
th
month.
Towards
the end of
the 3
rd
mo.
Towards the
end of the
5
th
mo.
In the beginning of the 7
th
month
Towards the end of the
7
th
... remains a major public health inthe Philippines. In 1998,
TB ranked fifth inthe 10 leading cause of death and fifth inthe 10 leading causes of
illness. Our country ranks second to Cambodia in ... of infection inthe community, that is to find the persons
discharging the tubercle bacilli and put them to treatment to render non-infectious
initially and ultimately cure them.
Definition...
... fine-tuning inthesystem is
achieved by small changes inthe luciferase emission
spectrum or by shifting light wavelengths during their
passage through the organic coupling system to the
spicular ... of
retinal to the protein. An analogous photocycle system
was studied in plants with the light-responsive protein.
This comprises the mononucleotide light-binding fla-
vin, oxygen and voltage domain ... sequencing [55]. In mammals, the protein
cryptochrome is one regulator inthe complex molecu-
lar system of the circadian clock [56].
Focusing on the phylum Porifera, the closest relative
of the...
... Nearly all the individual works in the
collection are inthe public domain inthe United States. If an individual work is inthe public domain in the
United States and you are located inthe United ... This convinced me, and I let them wash mine as they did
their own, by pouring water on each dish separately, rinsing and setting to dry on the porch inthe sun, the
only place where the vermin would ... possibly
going into some sort of a fit. With a twang on the strings of the flattened out little instrument, we subsided,
concluding that the concert had begun. Then when the others joined in, the mingled...
... This indicates that serotonin degrada-
tion inthe skin includes its oxidative deamination. The
H
2
O
2
produced during this reaction may also be used for
the oxidation of serotonin and other indoleamines, ... have tested the expression of dif-
ferent elements of the serotoninergic systeminthe C57BL/
6 mouse and related their activity inthe skin to the
phase of the hair cycle and to the cutaneous ... of NAS in skin physiology.
In summary, we present the molecular and biochemical
characterization of the apparatus producing and metabo-
lizing serotonin and N-acetylserotonin inthe skin of
C57BL/6...