... markets, and one model employing the combined dataset of both countries Chapter and Chapter in turn examine the relationship between corporate governance structures and financial performance of listed ... mainly focuses on the role of key internal governance mechanisms, such as board characteristics and ownership structure, in determining the performance of firms and maximising the benefit of ... which very likely arises in the board structureand performance relationship in general (Wintoki et al., 2012); andin the board gender diversity and performance relationship in particular (Adams...
... time, of a clostripain homologue in the Archaea (M acetivorans) is particularly interesting in view of the interest in understanding the curious phyletic distributions of clostripains and related ... ball -and- stick and coloured pink (catalytic) or light grey (specicity-determining, experimentally determined for caspase and gingipain, predicted for clostripain) The caspase and gingipain structures ... However, examination of conserved residues (Fig 3) in the context of the model (Figs and 6), and comparison of the model with caspase and gingipain crystal structures (where specicity-determining residues...
... study of diurnal regulation of the water status in Acer pseudoplatanus and Fraxinus excelsior trees growing in well-watered floodplains (site 1) The experiments were carried out in June 1999 and ... characteristics in F excelsior, A pseudoplatanus and A opalus trees 3.2 Regulation of water status in Fraxinus excelsior and Acer opalus trees growing in lowwatered floodplains (site 2) During these ... summer drough in a mesoxerophilic mountain stand In an attempt to find a relationship between the hydraulic architecture and the general ecological behaviour of Quercus species, Nardini and Tyree...
... a contributing factor in the number of turns taken and the distribution of speaking time; and Individuals from collectivistic cultures (e.g., Hong Kong, China, Japan, Indonesia) and individualistic ... turn-taking and speaking time in intercultural groups, the use of language and the second-language proficiency of the interlocutors are also likely to be relevant factors that influence the number of ... of turn taking and speaking time in group decisionmaking meetings As for Research Question 3, it first examines the impact of cultures on the distribution of turn-takings and speaking time Second,...
... extracted and processed, and where it is sold This section investigates the impact of the varying global distribution of the Chinese and U.S (NewPage) coated paper supply chains In the case of fully integrated ... difference in distances traveled by pulp and paper in the supply chain for China’s industry, and for the U.S (NewPage) supply chain turned out to be striking Pulp in the Chinese supply chain takes ... make up the bulk of the supply In the case of BSKP, the Yunan Yunjing Forestry & Paper facility in Jingu, China, and also the Guangxi Naning Phoenix Pulp facility in Naning, China are estimated...
... cleaning of pollution sources, such as limiting the exploration of high-sulfur coal and high-smoke coal, and promoting the selection, handling, and washing of coal The law changes the type of coal ... Law of the People’s Republic of China (adopted on Dec 26, 1989, at the 11th Sess of the Standing Comm of the 7th Nat’l People’s Congress), reprinted in China Law for Foreign Business (CCH), Business ... combustion), and it requires the planting of trees to improve the atmosphere in cities To handle the increasingly serious situation of acid rain and SO2, the law institutes “two zones,” the acid rain controlling...
... constitute the basis of my criteria for a successful hypothesis COMBINING User modeling factors affect the expression of instructions, including the way clauses are combined In the following examples ... P.O Box 5678, Portland, OR 97228 Cumming, Susanna (1991) Nominalization in English and the organization of grammars In Proceedings of the IJCAI-91 Workshop on Decision Making Throughout the Generation ... Vander Linden, Keith, Cumming, Susanna, and Martin, James (1992a) The expression of local rhetorical relationsin instructional text Technical Report CU-CS-585-92, the University of Colorado Vander...
... possibility of low cost storage of biomass and the ease of extracting protein from grains [34] has led us to initiate the engineering of maize N-glycosylation Acknowledgements This work was supported in ... obtained after deglycosylation of the fractions H1, M1 and T1 show the disappearance of peaks between 3800 and 4600 Da for hLf, and between 3000 and 3700 Da for the two recombinant lactoferrins In ... of native Lf andof recombinant Lf produced in other systems including mammalian cells [24], lepidopteran cells [25], and transgenic mice [26] N-glycosylation of milk derived human lactoferrin...
... provide meaningful responses because of their psychosis were excluded Over the same period of time, a total of 69 consecutive and consenting attendees of the outpatient endocrinology clinic of the ... screening instrument for psychiatric morbidity and validated in a number of studies in Nigeria.[12,13] Fifty-six of the subjects whose scores indicated no psychiatric morbidity were included in ... to the interview (P = 029) The level of usage was not considered in the questionnaire None of the patients in the groups had ever used cocaine or heroin None of the patients was injecting psychoactive...
... for (dominant) oscillations in BP and corresponding oscillations in BFV (3) calculation of instantaneous phases of extracted BP and BFV oscillations, and (4) calculation of biomarker(s) of CA based ... absence of linear relationship between BP and BFV is usually assumed to reflect the nonlinear in uence of CA Average coherence, gain, and phase are calculated in the frequency range below 0.07 Hz in ... shift (horizontal dashed lines in bottom panels of (a) and (b)) was obtained as the average of instantaneous BFV-BPV phase shifts during the entire 5-min supine baseline (c) Phase shifts between...
... matrix-containing center In general, the lobules containing cartilage were larger than the osteoid-containing ones The lobules of the cartilagecontaining tumors were well organised and clearly defined ... lobules of these foci were smaller and more uniform in size, contained mainly chondroid tissue in the center and had thinner fibrous septae (Fig 2D) The mitotic index of these foci was low and small ... affecting the caudal cranium and causing severe cerebralandcerebellar compression In the only large series to date describing the clinical features of 39 cases [2], none of the cases concerned the...
... ATP-binding component of spermidine/putrescine transport and for some reason its amplification has been selected in this species Proteins involved in the transport of spermidine and putrescine ... of assigned functions among genes belonging to families and singletons in B subtilis and E coli K12 Figure Proportions of assigned functions among genes belonging to families and singletons in ... more recent incomplete xenologous replacements Gene family size in intraspecific and interspecific comparisons The sequencing of several strains of a single species is now common in bacterial...
... stress and target genes were predicted for five of them For instance, vun_cand030 was downregulated by drought and putatively targets a zinc finger protein Zinc finger proteins are known to be involved ... study and comparison of plant genotypes differing in sensitivity to drought is a promising approach to discover natural tolerance mechanisms [35] In order to gain insight into the role of miRNAs in ... identified in cowpea Detailed information of the predicted cowpea miRNAs and their targets Additional file 2: Predicted hairpin structures of nine genotypespecific miRNAs Predicted structures of nine...
... be involved in the induction of apoptosis, including the 7a and 7b proteins [18,46,47] To analyze whether the deletion in ORF 7b had any influence on its Amino acid variability in ORF 7b and ... genetics Effects of the deletion on interferon induction and response, on induction of apoptosis, and on in- vivo replication in Syrian Golden hamsters were determined Results Origin of the ORF 7b ... deletion in ORF 7b as shown in Figure (B) Plaque assay using crystal violet stain and immunofocus assay using a polyclonal protein patient serum reacting predominantly against the N protein (anti-N)...
... be involved in the induction of apoptosis, including the 7a and 7b proteins [18,46,47] To analyze whether the deletion in ORF 7b had any influence on its Amino acid variability in ORF 7b and ... genetics Effects of the deletion on interferon induction and response, on induction of apoptosis, and on in- vivo replication in Syrian Golden hamsters were determined Results Origin of the ORF 7b ... deletion in ORF 7b as shown in Figure (B) Plaque assay using crystal violet stain and immunofocus assay using a polyclonal protein patient serum reacting predominantly against the N protein (anti-N)...
... Characterization of hHK-1- and endokinins-induced responses in guinea pig airways Contractile effects of hHK-1 and endokinins in isolated guinea pig airways Human hemokinin-1 induced concentration-dependent ... tachykinin antagonists and the role of hemokinin in T lymphopoiesis Blood 2003, 102(6):2165-2172 16 Weinstock JV: The role of substance P, hemokinin and their receptor in governing mucosal inflammation ... Pinto FM, Hernandez M, Martin JD, Candenas ML: Tachykinins and tachykinin receptors: structureand activity relationships Curr Med Chem 2004, 11(15):2045-2081 Maggi CA: The mammalian tachykinin...
... calculated, including C-reactive protein [37] Joints were examined for swelling and tenderness by a single trained examiner The extent of radiographic joint damage was assessed at the baseline visit ... detailed questions investigating the amount and intensity of intentional exercise and was calculated in minutes/week and metabolic equivalents/week Functional levels were assessed using the Stanford ... Professionals in Rheumatology Standards, Guidelines and Audit Working Group: British society for rheumatology and british health professionals in rheumatology guideline for the management of...
... showed that gene functionand expression influence insertion and fixation of distinct transposon families in mammalian introns [19] The origin of spliceosomal introns is a longstanding unresolved ... both in human and mouse have the lowest percentage of copies within introns (58% in human and 56% in mouse for L1, 44% in human and 52% in mouse for LTR) L1 and LTR exhibit a biased insertion in ... out of 1,452,916 TEs in introns) and 0.18% of the TEs exonized within non-protein-coding genes (1,653 out of 896,471) In contrast, we found a 0.06% rate of exonization within protein coding genes...