... financially This report is a valuable step in the ascending path towards changing existing mindsets ’ Professor Mervyn King Chairman of the Global Reporting Initiative Sustainability in emerging ... setting sectors www.integratedreporting.org The Equator Principles: A financial industry benchmark established in 2003 for determining, assessing and managing social and environmental risk in ... Country Briefing China, 25-34 10 | Sustainability in emerging markets South Africa South Africa continues to be singled out in comparative studies on CSR/sustainability in emerging markets as...
... by being packaged in F-MuLV-encoded particles produced in cells co-infected by both viruses FV infection induces lethal erythroleukemia in susceptible strains of mice [65] Recovery from FV-induced ... of HIV infected individuals [36,55,130] Moreover, increased expression of aEb7 integrin (CD103) on CD4 + Foxp3 + Tregs suggests a role of integrins in compartmentalization of Tregs in FV infection ... genes Vaccination with recombinant vaccinia viruses using different combinations of FV protein fragments identified protective epitopes in the F-MuLV Gag and Env proteins, although vaccination...
... Table Styles Applying Shading and Borders Shading a Table Working with Borders Inserting Images Inserting a Picture Inserting Clip Art ... Creating Lists Linking Text to a Web Page Checking Your Spelling Turning Text into WordArt Embedding Other Files in Slides Embedding an Existing File in a ... from Wow! eBook xi www.it-ebooks.info Keeping Track of Who’s Attending Canceling a Meeting Editing Events Turning an Appointment into a Meeting...
... 143.4 COIN win COIN loss COIN loss COIN win Ongoing Ongoing SOURCE: Data collected by Martin Libicki based on coding by RAND researchers 2.9 Money in the Bank: Lessons Learned from Past Counterinsurgency ... 143.4 COIN win COIN loss COIN loss COIN win Ongoing Ongoing SOURCE: Data collected by Martin Libicki based on coding by RAND researchers Money in the Bank: Lessons Learned from Past Counterinsurgency ... forces who were instrumental in capturing the insurgent leader, gathering intelligence, and protecting the population from insurgent retribution Algeria (1954–1962) In Algeria, the insurgent goal...
... On Line: Reading and Using Digital Information, explains how PISA measures and reports student performance in digital reading, and analyses what students in the 20 countries participating in this ... makers in the education arena can benefit from benchmarking research in the same way as heads of firms, learning about the range of factors that lead to success, taking inspiration from the lessons ... reading scale Tasks at this level that involve retrieving information require the reader to locate and organise several pieces of deeply embedded information, inferring which information in the...
... elements that we will explore include undertaking continuing efforts to keep costs low, minimizing product proliferation, maintaining high market share in served markets, constantly offering customers ... www.wowebook.com 32 COMPETING IN TOUGH TIMES Undertaking Continuing Efforts to Keep Costs Low Minimizing Product Proliferation Maintaining High Market Share in Served Markets Constantly Offering Customers ... significantly increases inventory ordering and holding costs Product proliferation has three detrimental issues One, it increases such inventory holding costs as interest, insurance, inventory Download...
... 143.4 COIN win COIN loss COIN loss COIN win Ongoing Ongoing SOURCE: Data collected by Martin Libicki based on coding by RAND researchers 2.9 Money in the Bank: Lessons Learned from Past Counterinsurgency ... 143.4 COIN win COIN loss COIN loss COIN win Ongoing Ongoing SOURCE: Data collected by Martin Libicki based on coding by RAND researchers Money in the Bank: Lessons Learned from Past Counterinsurgency ... forces who were instrumental in capturing the insurgent leader, gathering intelligence, and protecting the population from insurgent retribution Algeria (1954–1962) In Algeria, the insurgent goal...
... Ala72 in Nedd8, and Arg72 in ubiquitin (highlighted in yellow in Fig 2C) Matching E1 residues are Thr149 in uba2, Arg190 in uba3 and Gln608 in uba1 (highlighted in purple in Fig 3E) Interestingly, ... enzymatic machinery that adds and removes SUMO to and from substrate proteins resembles that involved in ubiquitination [1,4] Like ubiquitin, SUMO Table Protein structures referred to in the review ... domain [1,42,44,45] Except for the SP-RING domain, no homology has been found between PIAS proteins and single-chain ubiquitin E3 ligases NSE2a and TOPORS, two other proteins that contain RING...
... has from the start focused on long term capacity building, training individuals to strengthen the informatics workforce and building capacity at the institutional system level Individual training ... discipline of informatics in Peru Our experience agrees with recent findings that capacity building is an important strategy in improving health systems in developing countries [1,11] In addition, ... fact that former AMAUTA trainees continue to compete successfully as principal investigators for independent funding from several sources of funding, both nationally and internationally (e.g from...
... Policies in relation to HRH in Brazil POLICY BEGINNING/ END DESCRIPTION Program Larga Escala 80’s In service training program that aimed at qualifying middle and elementary cadres working in the ... was influential, both in supporting the establishment of SUS and in ensuring that HRH elements were considered as central to that establishment Until that time the Ministry of Health focused mainly ... attracting and retaining health staff in remote and/or rural areas, tackling staff mal-distribution and over-specialisation, particularly in the physician workforce, retaining and motivating health...
... resulted in elevated levels of IL-1β protein in the synovium [41] Intriguingly, blocking of IL-1α/β with neutralizing antibodies had no effect on the IL-17-induced synovial inflammation and joint ... enhances tumor necrosis factor alpha-induced synthesis of interleukin 1, 6, and in skin and synovial fibroblasts: a possible role as a ‘fine-tuning cytokine’ in inflammation processes Arthritis Rheum ... interleukin 17 in inflammatory bowel disease Gut 2003, 52:65-70 Katz Y, Nadiv O, Beer Y: Interleukin-17 enhances tumor necrosis factor alpha-induced synthesis of interleukin 1, 6, and in skin and...
... role in pain transmission Results fromin vitro studies and animal models of OA support the dominant role of IL-1β early in the disease process Moreover, intra-articular delivery of anakinra ... D, Kiefer P, Zhou L, et al.: Results from a double blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter trial of a single intra-articular injection of Anakinra (Kineret®) in patients with osteoarthritis of the ... anakinra treatment compared to placebo at the main endpoint (month 1) A tendency for improvement was noticed in the 150 mg group at day (in keeping with the short half-life of IL-1ra), suggesting...
... targets, or clinical guidelines can become a barrier to successful collaboration by legitimising interprofessional differences, reinforcing existing power structures, and maintaining occupational ... ’Bridges’ that could be used by the CLAHRCs to cross the boundaries between CoPs Type Examples Knowledge brokers Clinical managers Clinicians involved in management Clinicians involved in research Clinicians ... three key interlinked functions: conducting high quality applied health research; implementing the findings from research in clinical practice; and increasing the capacity of NHS organisations...
... sense-making, a phenomenon that involves a capacity for 'structuring the unknown' and interacting with others in the pursuit of developing a shared meaning According to agency theory this has distinct ... expertise in relation to selecting samples for audit, applying definitional criteria, interpreting data, and providing feedback Medical knowledge was also critical to synthesizing clinical information ... in shaping an organisational vision for what could be achieved through investing in quality improvement and in articulating how ABCD would build capacity for achieving that They also masterminded...
... collected in EDTA using a Vacutainer system (Becton Dickinson, NJ, USA) were drawn from patients before, and 72 hours after a single day or five days of being infused with iloprost for eight hours In ... kDa interacting protein 210621_s_at RAS p21 protein activator (GTPase activating protein) 214917_at protein kinase, AMP-activated, alpha catalytic subunit Response to stress 202906_s_at nibrin ... material Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Additional file 1: Gene expression profile in healthy subjects Raw intensity signal values obtained from the sample...
... short term training, maintenance, running the cold chain, amortization for buildings, ‘rolling stock’, and refrigerators) were obtained by interview, direct surface measurements of buildings, estimation ... diseases This involves the introduction of new vaccines and combinations which are generally more expensive In this light, the Pentavalent vaccine, DPT-HB-Hib was introduced (in place of DPT) into the ... transportation of vaccines, reporting (immunization and disease surveillance), coordination meetings, supervision, and cold chain temperature monitoring and maintenance It was estimated that vaccination sessions...
... adapted accordingly [7,8]? This brings into question not only the quality of the survey methodology, but also the difficulties epidemiologists face in interpreting results and selecting the most ... appraisal and interpretation The Standardized Monitoring and Assessment of Relief and Transitions (SMART) initiative aims to ensure standardization of planning, training, analysis and reporting [13], ... findings For example, measles vaccination coverage was uniformly low, in all three surveys - one survey documented that 3.3% of children were vaccinated with card confirmation, with 89% vaccinated...
... inevitable even when they knew that going out to these places was risky, some times involving rape and defilement Findings from FGDs and key informants confirmed this vulnerability embedded in ... obtaining on ground including increasing access to food, income generation and health care services among returnee populations Opportunities for HIV and AIDS Page of 10 mainstreaming within livelihood ... vulnerabilities to HIV infection For instance, interventions should include components in areas of protection for women and girls from sexual violence, vocational skills training and income generating projects...
... therefore been calling for a massive re-training of engineers and managers in irrigation agencies, consulting firms and Irrigation Service Providers in Asia (FAO, 2002)2, inorder to introduce and ... establishment of continuous in- service training focused on operational management: a Training of today’s graduates who are tomorrow’s managers b Training at all professional levels within irrigation ... trained with support from the Program THE RAPID APPRAISAL PROCEDURE, THE TRAINING PROGRAM AND BENCHMARKING The Rapid Appraisal Procedure (RAP) was originally developed by the Irrigation Training...