... time are the regulatory capital requirement (CR), and the size ofthe bank (SIZE) One possible explanation of these findings is that banks set their capital ratios according to the required levels ... Panel B of Table shows our simulation ofthe impact of a counter cyclical capital requirement At the time of writing, the details of how exactly such a counter-cyclical 33 The immediate impact of ... deposits of any given individual bank If banks can compete by offering higher rates or improving the quality of their service on such deposits, then they may be able to mitigate the effect of monetary...
... e.g the MediaWiki software5 , integrated within a Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP) software bundle The architecture ofthe API consists ofthe following modules: RDBMS: at the lowest level, the ... encyclopedia page objects and compute the relatedness scores The information flow ofthe API is summarized by the sequence diagram in Figure The higher input/output layer the user interacts with is provided ... articles in the categorization graph Examples of programmatic usage ofthe API are presented in Figure In addition, the software distribution includes UNIX shell scripts to access the API interactively...
... biosynthesis of PC in HepG2 cells at the level of CT activity It interferes with the translocation process of CT from the cytosol to the membrane and finally leads to an inhibition ofthe biosynthesis ... interference of HePC on this regulatory process Thence, HePC could act on CT activity either by promoting the release ofthe enzyme from the membrane to the cytosol or by hindering the insertion ofthe ... the PC synthesis in HepG2 cells increasing the CT activity Thence, in another set of experiments we assayed the combined effect of HePC and oleate As it can be observed in Table 1, exposure of...
... separate the effects ofthe attack from the effects ofthe business cycle (although we not attempt to isolate the effects ofthe fall 2001 anthrax scares from the effects ofthe attack) Unless otherwise ... hours On the other hand, estimates ofthe labor loss may be overstated, because ofthe double counting ofthe earnings losses of some ofthe deceased workers and the assumption that the deceased ... unlikely that the pre-attack design will be duplicated.17 The remaining $4.5 billion is the estimated cost of repairing the damaged buildings The cost of replacing the contents ofthe destroyed...
... polypeptides all showed the expected electrophoretic mobility, those ofthe mutants being decreased compared with the wild-type chimera At the end ofthe 24 h chase period, most ofthe ATFSAPREDLK polypeptides ... tissue culture medium) ofthe recombinant polypeptides (ATF–SAP chimeras from the 72 h conditioned medium of protected oocytes, see below) At the end ofthe exposure period, thecells were washed ... immunostaining using the antibodies indicated The scale bar represents 20 lm of intoxication Neither the human leukemic cell line HSB-2 nor the Burkitt lymphoma Ramo cells showed any potentiation of cytotoxicity...
... widespread The emergence ofthe internet has not replaced the use of other media, particularly TV Rather than competing, these two media complement each other The internet acts as an extension to the ... order to optimise their campaign Advertising sales agencies also use these indicators to optimise the performance of their advertising slots and therefore differentiate their product offering “During ... highlight the advantage for advertisers of stepping up their investments in online marketing in order to boost the effectiveness of their traditional sales channels Measuringthe impact of online...
... 2004 at the Cancer Center of Sun Yat-Sen University All the patients underwent radical surgery, and none of them had undergone either chemotherapy or radiotherapy before the collection ofthe samples ... Committee of our institution Patients were informed ofthe investigational nature ofthe study and provided their written informed consent The count of tryptase-positive mast cells in the cancer ... MCCstroma, the count of tryptase-positive mast cells in the cancer stroma ofthe primary colon tumor; MCCadjacent, the count of tryptase-positive mast cells in the normal mucosa adjacent to the colon...
... effect of abuse on the women's health and quality of life, women reported that their own quality of life suffered from their knowledge ofthe negative effect that witnessing abuse had on their children ... ofthe significant impact of children's distress on their mother's HRQOL suggests the need for the inclusion of a new domain in the measurement of HRQOL in this context, and potentially in others ... experienced direct abuse from the intimate partner, many reported on the effect of witnessing their mother's abuse HRQOL instruments The SF-36, HUI, EQ-5D and QWB instruments are limited in their inclusion...
... that they were not able to work in the fields or participate in wage labor because of their impairment, subsequently impacting on their endorsement ofthe item The construct validity ofthe PIPP ... For the development ofthe PIPP, selection ofthe domains was guided in part by the ICF, but also by a review of existing measures and a series of qualitative interviews One ofthe concerns of ... supportive ofthe construct validity ofthe PIPP, given the expected relationship among the various aspects assessed None ofthe correlations were so high as to indicate redundancy, with the highest of...
... were gently swirled and 75% of medium was removed The same volume of fresh medium was added back, containing 40 ng/ml GM-CSF On day 4, the culture is made up of firmly attached stromal cells covered ... 6, cells were fed by removal of 75% ofthe medium and adding back the same volume containing GM-CSF For the generation of mature DCs, maturation cocktail containing a final concentration of ng/ml ... using the Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed rank test Results Expression of NgRs in human and mouse DCs As our aim was to expand on current knowledge ofthe role of NgRs in non-CNS cells, we began the...
... 2004 at the Cancer Center of Sun Yat-Sen University All the patients underwent radical surgery, and none of them had undergone either chemotherapy or radiotherapy before the collection ofthe samples ... Committee of our institution Patients were informed ofthe investigational nature ofthe study and provided their written informed consent The count of tryptase-positive mast cells in the cancer ... MCCstroma, the count of tryptase-positive mast cells in the cancer stroma ofthe primary colon tumor; MCCadjacent, the count of tryptase-positive mast cells in the normal mucosa adjacent to the colon...
... effect of abuse on the women's health and quality of life, women reported that their own quality of life suffered from their knowledge ofthe negative effect that witnessing abuse had on their children ... ofthe significant impact of children's distress on their mother's HRQOL suggests the need for the inclusion of a new domain in the measurement of HRQOL in this context, and potentially in others ... experienced direct abuse from the intimate partner, many reported on the effect of witnessing their mother's abuse HRQOL instruments The SF-36, HUI, EQ-5D and QWB instruments are limited in their inclusion...
... that they were not able to work in the fields or participate in wage labor because of their impairment, subsequently impacting on their endorsement ofthe item The construct validity ofthe PIPP ... For the development ofthe PIPP, selection ofthe domains was guided in part by the ICF, but also by a review of existing measures and a series of qualitative interviews One ofthe concerns of ... supportive ofthe construct validity ofthe PIPP, given the expected relationship among the various aspects assessed None ofthe correlations were so high as to indicate redundancy, with the highest of...
... that of a natural face r The value of Cv , however, provides a readily interpretable metric indexing the quality ofthe animated talker The value r of Cv is the visual contribution ofthe synthetic ... function ofthe reference case and test case in the first two rows of each experiment, respectively The ratio in the third row of each experiment gives the support from the test case divided by the ... for the synthetic and natural face The segment /r/, on the other hand, is actually more intelligible with the synthetic than with the natural face The parameter values also inform the outcomes of...
... Era of Collaborative Business with their customers and other businesses in the design, development, and delivery ofthe market basket of goods and services if they expect to profitably satisfy their ... terrorism; the choreographer is the entity that sees the vision for the com- ❘ The Collaboration Imperative munity and works to bring order and direction to the movements ofthe members in pursuit of their ... increased ability ofthe community to profitably satisfy customers THE CHOREOGRAPHER Let’s take a closer look at the role ofthe choreographer, whom you can think of as the entrepreneur ofthe Collaborative...
... filaments constitute the first direct demonstration ofthe myosin head recovery stroke On the other hand, the return of myosin head to their initial position after exhaustion of applied ATP is not ... Comparison ofthe myosin head position between the two IP records ofthe same filament Open and filled circles (diameter, 20nm) are drawn around the center of mass position of each particle in the first ... representing the position ofthe particle, were also taken to represent the position ofthe myosin head The position ofthe myosin head, determined by the above method, was compared between the two...
... Era of Collaborative Business with their customers and other businesses in the design, development, and delivery ofthe market basket of goods and services if they expect to profitably satisfy their ... terrorism; the choreographer is the entity that sees the vision for the com- ❘ The Collaboration Imperative munity and works to bring order and direction to the movements ofthe members in pursuit of their ... increased ability ofthe community to profitably satisfy customers THE CHOREOGRAPHER Let’s take a closer look at the role ofthe choreographer, whom you can think of as the entrepreneur ofthe Collaborative...
... throughout the year The date of sampling becomes important then when comparing readings • Sampling location Make a note of where the sample was taken from Further samples may then be taken from the ... life of about two years • If the meter has no temperature compensation take the temperature ofthe sample and use a correction table to get the right value • Read the display, and record the result ... driver or the calibration tool provided, turn the screw until the display reads the same as the known salinity ofthe calibration solution • Discard calibration solution DO NOT pour the remaining...
... future study, the knockdown study of Bcl-xL using siRNA may further confirm their role of taxol-treated DCs Although the expression of Bax was increased in TaxolDCs, the expression of Bax occurred ... increased the expression ofthe anti-apoptotic protein Bcl-xL, and increased the mobilization of p65 subunit molecules into the DC nucleus Furthermore, we found that the inhibition of NF-κB by ... rationale for the use of taxol in DC immunotherapy and insights into the development of combinational DC therapies with other anticancer drugs that not harm the viability or activity of DCs Acknowledgments...
... The vertical part ofthe cylinder was referred to as the wall and the horizontal part as the floor Cylinders were outlined by sticks marked at the level ofthe floor and placed at the level of ... Barres (Loiret) The soil consisted of a 60-90 cm layer of podzolic sand, over a layer of soft red clay in which a fairly large number of roots was present In winter the water table is close to the ... quantify the disease in the roots Therefore, we wanted to know if we could predict the infection status ofthe entire root system using a quick rating ofthe collar roots For that, we examined the...