... number of revolutions and coups, the number of assassination per thousand inhabitants, and a measure of ethnic diversity.24 B Finance and Economic Growth The results in Table show a statistically and ... accumulation, and (iv) have higher saving rates To evaluate the impact of banks on growth and the sourcesof growth, we seek an indicator of the ability of banks to research and identify profitable ... terms of econometric technique and data First, while King and Levine (1993a) and Levine and Zervos (1998) empirically assess the connection between banking sector development and the sources of...
... to report finegrained (P)recision and (R)ecall and (F)-measure 5.3 Baselines We consider here several baselines A random baseline (RAND) is the most appropriate baseline for an unsupervised approach.2 ... data and understand what was captured and what was not Some of the good examples that are captured in the combined system that are not tagged in RelCont is the case of ringer in Like most of the ... results as a 10 We exclude the data points that have a tag of ”U” in the gold standard for both baselines and our system 11 From an application standpoint, we not find the first sense baseline to be of...
... estimates of total accruals (AC) as the reciprocals offirm size (1/TA) and change in sales (△ Sales/TA) aswellas plant property and equipment (PPE) AC i;t ¼ αi TAi;t−1 TAi;t−1 ! ΔSalesi;t TAi;t−1 ... bias? Journal of Finance, 61, 1711–1730 Please cite this article as: Shu, P.-G., & Chiang, S.-J., Firm size, timing, and earnings management of seasoned equity offerings, International Review of ... to NT $17.5 Please cite this article as: Shu, P.-G., & Chiang, S.-J., Firm size, timing, and earnings management of seasoned equity offerings, International Review of Economics and Finance (2013),...
... infrastructure was very small: 0.93 percent Table 5.2 Local government bond markets and infrastructure financingasof end-2006 Country Amount of total outstanding government bonds as % of GDP Amount of government ... objective of this paper is to take a comprehensive inventory of local sourcesof infrastructure financing in the 24 countries of Sub-Saharan Africa included in the first phase of the Africa Infrastructure ... indicators for assessing the level of financial depth and financial intermediation are (i) the total assets of financial intermediaries (and the ratio of those assets to GDP) and (ii) bank credit...
... ligation was estimated from percentage intensity of the band of the 57-kDa protein in a total of intensities of the 57-kDa, 38-kDa and 19-kDa bands, where the intensity of the 38-kDa protein band was ... pH–activity profiles of subtilisins and other classical serine peptidases This profile was distinct from those of the wild-type and any other catalytically active mutants of kumamolisinAs Moreover, the ... dyad aswellas Asn164 of the E78H ⁄ D164N mutant precursor Thick lines indicate the polypeptide chain of the 38-kDa mature form of the mutant C172p , C173p , and C364 denote a cara a a bons of...
... Ni(II) binding at site II, aswellas on kinetics of Ni(II) bindingand substitution by Cu(II) at site I was found, but no structure activity relationships between the binding sequence and reaction ... values) of Ni(II) and Cu(II) complexes of peptides at I = 0.1 M (KNO3) and 25 C Standard deviations on the last digits are given in parentheses EPR The X-band EPR spectra of Cu(II) complexes of VIHN ... characterized the binding parameters and performed parallel kinetic studies using HSA and BSA and three simple analogues of the N-terminal binding site These were: Asp-Ala-His-NH2 (DAHam) and Asp-Ala-His-LysNH2...
... area of the rst two binding loops This may contribute to the low cation -binding afnity of site II The question may be raised as to how the sequence and structure of EF-hand proteins, classied as ... and 0.77 A for the N-terminal and C-terminal halves, respectively This may partially reect the lack of metal binding in the second loop and the longer linker region between EF-hand I and II As ... the unoccupied binding loop II, in the linker between helices F and G, aswellas in the last loop show markedly decreased order parameters both in the relaxation experiments and the simulation,...
... removed and denatured in a solution of GnHCl (4 M) and [14C]iodoacetate (12 mM and 43 BqÆ mmol)1 iodoacetate) The protein was precipitated and washed with methanol + chloroform [31] and used for measurement ... form of FNR under oxic conditions Results Redox state of the cysteinyl residues in apoFNR and in reconstituted [4Fe-4S]ÆFNR ApoFNR that was devoid of Fe and acid-labile sulfur (not shown) was obtained ... 1) The residues 4261 Disulfides of apoFNR Fig MALDI-TOF spectra of aerobically (A) and anaerobically (B) prepared and carboxymethylated apoFNR The samples of apoFNR were alkylated with 10 mM iodoacetate...
... Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 administered by the Bureau of Land Management andof lands which, on the date of approval of this Act, were part of Indian reservations and other ... cited as follows: U.S Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management and Office of the Solicitor (editors) 2001 The Federal Land Policy and Management Act, as amended U.S Department of the ... land use inventory, planning, and man agement activities of or for such lands with the land use planning and management programs of other Federal departments and agencies andof the States and...
... locus [22] The landmark Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium GWAS, published in 2007, included three autoimmune diseases (of the seven diseases studied): Crohn’s disease, T1D and RA [23] Since ... Examples of such pathways include known signaling pathways (such as the NF-κB pathway and risk of RA [33]) or catabolic pathways (such as autophagy and risk of Crohn’s disease [20]) The challenge of ... inflammatory bowel disease gene Science 2006, 314:1461-1463 Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium: Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls...
... Metastasis in more than 15 regional lymph nodes M MX M0 M1 Distant metastasis Presence of distant metastasis cannot be assessed No distant metastasis Distant metastasis Table 1.1 TNM staging classification ... that fascin expression was correlated with gastric cancer serosal invasion and lymph node metastasis In patients with welldifferentiated gastric cancer, positive expression of fascin is associated ... and metastasis Amplification of tyrosine kinase MET has been observed in certain gastric cancer (Gherardi et al., 2012) Activation of Notch signaling promoted gastric tumor growth and metastasis...
... resistance and assert their own identity In the Philippines, basketball stands both as a symbol of nationalism andas a remnant of its colonial past For instance, the Philippine basketball team’s ... close association of baseball with the American as an “occupation force”, in contrast to basketball’s general image as a representation of the “benevolent America” has resulted into the decline of ... dissertation, and in my everyday life as an aspiring scholar, I was a recipient of various forms of assistance, intellectual stimulation, and warm encouragement from colleagues, teachers, and friends...
... Bibliography 197 x List of Figures 1.1 Illustration of energy band structures of materials VB: valence band, CB: conduction band 1.2 Polaron and bipolaron structures of polythiophene ... S(2p) spectrum of ITOSASBT surfaces 124 5.9 Au(4f) spectra of (A) ITOSA and (B) ITOSASBT surfaces 125 5.10 CVs of PBT deposited on (a) ITO, (b) ITOSA and (c) ITOSASBT in 0.1 M ... glass electrode 169 8.2 AFM (A) 2D phase image and (B) 3D phase image of self-assembled SSBT stabilized Au nanoparticles on ITO glass 170 8.3 SEM image of...
... pure-SaaS firms, non-SaaS firms, and mixed-SaaS firms Companies offering only SaaS solutions, such as Salesforce.com and DealerTrack, are categorized as pure-SaaS players Companies offering both SaaS ... level of market demand and simply passed the risk of over- and under capacity costs to the end-users On-Demand Software Basically, on-demand software has the same meaning with Software -as- a-Service ... variable of this research model is the business model of software companies: a pure-SaaS firm, a non-SaaS firm, or a mixed-SaaS firm In our sample, we have 11 pure-SaaS firms, 57 mixed-SaaS firms, and...
... (Scheme 1) The control of acid strength aswellas the density of acid sites of zeolite catalysts has also led to successful catalysts and processes in the field of oil refining and petrochemistry ... with basic active sites It is also possible to generate basic sites within the pores of zeolites and in this way to take advantage of the properties of zeolites in base catalysis In the case of ... the basic sites are of Lewis type and correspond to framework oxygens, and the basicity of a given oxygen will be related to the density of negative charge Taking this into account, the basicity...
... weight of the number of respondents’ answers, like in the case of some forest operations and forest functions to which the respondents attributed low importance or in which the number of answers was ... p.m (4 weekdays – Wednesday and weekend days – Saturday) Out of them, 36% of visitors were counted in winter season, 30% in summer season, over 29% in spring season and less than 5% in autumn ... in, 30% of respondents rejected to answer the questions, the main reason being their lack of time (especially in the case of bikers and skiers) On average, for almost 16% visitors it was their...
... Minasebashi Basin Minasebashi Basin Overlay of sewered area Overlay of sewered area and households Separation of unsewered households Fig - Separation of unsewered households of Minasebashi basin ... 14 Seashore Seashore Journal of Water and Environment Technology, Vol 9, No.2, 2011 Land use data of each drainage basin was extracted in GIS and the area of each land use type was calculated ... (Tributary) Yamanokami Minasebashi Sakurabashi Shintokiwabashi Sakurazawabashi 10 Shiyamabashi 11 Kobane 12 Kuzuhaohashi 13 Kusawabashi 14 Minoge 15 Kanamegawabashi 16 Ochiaibashi River Basin No Monitoring...
... level of the most inefficient firms tend to increase This coincides with Fama and French (1995) argument that the worst firms are forced to improve in order to survive in the market Nguyen and ... opportunity for further expansion: With respect to Asset Pricing Models: Since current asset pricing models (CAPM, 4-factor and 5-factor by Pastor and Stambaugh) fail to explain the inefficiency ... 3 Nguyen and Swanson argue that the difference in performance is generated by a premium associated with investing in highly inefficient firms (much like Fama and French's value premium...