... populations is an emerging field of interest and one of intense study In studies of acute responses in humans, however, there are difficulties in separating the effects due to peaks in particulate matter ... concentrations of air pollutants, including ozone, independently from the direct effect of high temperatures Chronic effects in humans Ideally, an assessment of long- term effects of ozone in humans would include ... observation in such studies, thus increasing the power of detecting a significant effect The vast majority of the epidemiological studies considered in the 2005 global update of the guidelines (2) obtained...
... number of its long- range regulatory inputs However, after WGD, breaking off of a part of one GRB may be tolerated as long as the other copy of these disconnected regulatory inputs is still in cis ... parameters of their fate with respect to the ancestral GRB they were part of Since each target gene is, by definition, retained in the same number of copies as its GRB, and is still contained within ... arrangement requires a breakage/rearrangement of one copy of the zebrafish GRB, and this breakage can only occur in a 'window of opportunity' in which the corresponding part of the other copy of...
... associated with the type of hospital, the number of family members living together and the severity of the disease at admission Our findings suggest that Bulgarian male inpatients and individuals living ... or negative changes in satisfaction with particular aspects of inpatient care could influence overall satisfaction in the same direction Comparable to findings of several international studies ... towards patient opinion and patients' participation in decision making Overall, our findings must be interpreted in light of the functionality of the Bulgarian health care system First of all, Bulgarian...
... explanation Happiness of people with and without mental disorders turn out to be associated in the same way with other indicators of wellbeing People with mental disorders who feel happy most of the time ... nevertheless experience high wellbeing Aspects of well-being, such as satisfaction with life, positive moods, happiness and meaning in life, appear to be closely linked and seem to have a common ... sources of unhappiness, such as hunger, oppression and sexual abstinence The better the external living conditions in society, the more the remaining differences in happiness depend on inner life ability...
... represents the increase in the index The rate of return of the index equals the rate of return that would be earned by an investor holding a portfolio of all 500 firms in the index in proportion ... 2003 Global Financial Instruments 43 Global Financial Instruments Stock Initial Price Final Price Shares (millions) Initial Value of Outstanding Stock ($ million) Final Value of Outstanding Stock ... advances in computer and communications technology, and in part to continuing advances in the theory of investments Of necessity, our text has evolved along with the financial markets In this...
... specificity A continuum version of such a modeling construct has successfully predicted non-native interactions in the unfolded and folding transition states of the SH3 domain of the protein kinase Fyn ... the amino-terminal domain of ribosomal protein L9 (see [5] and references therein) Long- range coupling in proteins can have multiple physical origins Simple lattice protein models are an effective ... The main point of the study of Noivirt-Brik et al [1] - that non-native interactions are the origin of some long- range coupling - is thus on a firm physical and molecular biological footing A...
... 18, 20] obtained a huge variety of results on the number of subsequences with prescribed properties However, for any arbitrary g of G, the lower bound of Ng (S) remains undetermined In this paper, ... is in another Ti , say Tr+2 and so not in any of T3 , T4 , , Tr+1 Again Sc−1 contains exactly r disjoint minimal zero-sum subsequences, which are just T2 , T3 , , Tr+1 If r ≥ 2, noticing ... problem of determining the smallest positive integer ℓ such that every sequence S of length at least ℓ has a nonempty zero-sum subsequence Such an integer ℓ is called the Davenport constant [4] of...
... represents the increase in the index The rate of return of the index equals the rate of return that would be earned by an investor holding a portfolio of all 500 firms in the index in proportion ... 2003 Global Financial Instruments 43 Global Financial Instruments Stock Initial Price Final Price Shares (millions) Initial Value of Outstanding Stock ($ million) Final Value of Outstanding Stock ... ever-increasing role of international trade and investments has made indexes of foreign financial markets part of the general news Thus, foreign stock exchange indexes such as the Nikkei Average of...
... source of debt financing called broker’s call loans The act of taking advantage of broker’s call loans is called buying on margin Purchasing stocks on margin means the investor borrows part of the ... in question Insider trading rules also prohibit traders from attempting to profit from inside information • In addition to providing the basic services of executing buy and sell orders, holding ... outstanding equity Investment in an index fund is a low-cost way for small investors to pursue a passive investment strategy—that is, to invest without engaging in security analysis Of course, index...
... idea of investing in a mix of stocks, bonds and other financial assets meant missing out on some of the soaring gains of tech stocks But with the collapse of the tech bubble and now the fall of ... interest rates increased, decreased, or remained the same over the last two years? Examine the information comparing recent U.S inflation and long- term interest rates with the inflation and long- term ... a kinked capital allocation line is a result of the: a Reward-to-variability ratio increasing b Borrowing rate exceeding the lending rate c Investor’s risk tolerance decreasing d Increase in...
... turning points of each series indicate the length of the lead time or lag time (in months) from the turning point to the designated peak or trough of the corresponding business cycle While the index ... Rapidly rising GDP, increasing inflation and interest rates Healthy expansion: Rising GDP, mild inflation, low unemployment Stagflation: Falling GDP, high inflation In which stage of the industry ... one of the following series is not included in the index of leading economic indicators? (1) New building permits; private housing units (2) Net business formulation (3) Stock prices (4) Inventories...
... outstanding, with a par value of $100, and liquidation value of $110 • Meyer has 20,000 shares of common stock outstanding, with a par value of $20 • Meyer had retained earnings at the beginning of ... value of the remaining inventory in an inflationary environment In contrast, under FIFO accounting, the cost of goods sold would be $1 million, and the end -of- year balance sheet value of the inventory ... out of the flexibility of GAAP guidelines in accounting for inventories and depreciation and in adjusting for the effects of inflation Other important potential sources of noncomparability include...
... futures price, F0 Profit per unit of the underlying asset rises or falls one-for-one with changes in the final spot price Unlike the payoff of a call option, the payoff of the long futures position ... recent innovation, for which trading was introduced in 1975 Innovation in financial futures has been rapid and is ongoing Table 16.1 lists various contracts trading in the United States in 2002 ... over-thecounter stocks Index of 2,000 smaller firms Nikkei 225 stock average Financial Times-Share Exchange Index of 100 U.K firms Index of 40 of the largest French firms Index of 30 of the largest German...
... advancing/Number declining Volume advancing/Volume declining This expression can be rearranged as Trin ϭ Volume declining/Number declining Volume advancing/Number advancing Therefore, trin is the ratio of average ... associated with higher volume The trin statistic is the ratio of the number of advancing to declining issues divided by the ratio of volume in advancing versus declining issues Trin ϭ Number advancing/Number ... during retirement of a 1% increase in the rate of inflation to a 1% increase in the tax rate With a progressive tax (Spreadsheet 18.6), compare an increase of 1% in the lower tax bracket to an increase...
... Despite a continuous increase in cross-border investing, home-country bias still dominates investor portfolios 21.2 RISK FACTORS IN INTERNATIONAL INVESTING Opportunities in international investments ... risk of holding another asset The U.S investor can lock in a riskless dollar-denominated return either by investing in the United Kingdom and hedging exchange rate risk or by investing in riskless ... two-year investment of $2,000 results in a return of $150 at the end of the first year and a return of $150 at the end of the second year, in addition to the return of the original investment The internal...
... intervention is in increasing the coverage of the offer of testing to 100% of new STI patients More than one-quarter of patients offered testing in the intervention group declined to test (twice ... The increase in testing rate was achieved even though only 76% of all STI patients in the intervention clinics were offered testing One area for increasing the effectiveness of the PITC intervention ... could influence the size of the impact of the intervention in other settings Limitations of the study The lack of randomization of clinics to intervention and control groups introduces the risk of...
... intervention is in increasing the coverage of the offer of testing to 100% of new STI patients More than one-quarter of patients offered testing in the intervention group declined to test (twice ... The increase in testing rate was achieved even though only 76% of all STI patients in the intervention clinics were offered testing One area for increasing the effectiveness of the PITC intervention ... could influence the size of the impact of the intervention in other settings Limitations of the study The lack of randomization of clinics to intervention and control groups introduces the risk of...
... respectively, includes nine phylogenetic footprintings in a definite order, and it is extended beyond the start codon of RhGMYuV cp gene including a block of 8-nt of coding sequence that is conserved in ... consistent with the known genome localization of the Rep-binding sites and the coding sequence of the Rep domain that contains the putative DNA-binding specificity determinants of this protein, which ... 12 of 15 Figure Potential internal promoter in the DNA-B intergenic region of EuMV Alignment of a domain of the DNA-B intergenic region of EuMV-Jal with the coat protein (CP) gene promoter of...
... predictive value of 6-MWD might have been contained in the SRI Of course, HRQL can be no more than one factor in the multivariate panel determining the clinical state and prognosis of patients with CHRF ... factors [3] Instead of CRP we evaluated leukocyte number which was similarly associated with mortality, suggesting a link to systemic inflammation, as in cardiovascular diseases [15,29] Surprisingly, ... to increased mortality Accordingly, in COPD mortality was high and HRQL low In this respect there was as link between HRQL and mortality in all diseases associated with CHRF and HMV although in...