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... Kallimachos andthe Anthology It was the outcome of Hellenism, of which sentimental introspection, the freeing ofthe ego from the bonds ofraceand position, andthe discovery ofthe individual ... hath stretched the line upon it? 'Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof? 'When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted ... catch and devour the moon The German, like the Greek, dreaded nothing more than the eclipse of sun or moon, and connected it with the destruction of all things andthe end ofthe world In the moon...
... code of good conduct to provide standards to European MFIs in the provision of microcredit The Commission sees the role ofthe savings banks as a complementary to non-banking financial institutions, ... in the microfinance sector and involving all the actors in thedevelopmentof this sector in Europe The financial crisis has had a “positive” impacton microfinance institutions, in that they ... ofthe Commission initiatives to promote social inclusion and employment, encouraging access to credit to vulnerable groups Microfinance is one ofthe key tools to support these initiatives The...
... economic changes and for the ongoing debate onthe role of economic factors in the mortality decline The second objective ofthe paper is to measure the contribution of economic development, represented ... estimates, the average contribution of income growth tothe decline of diseases sensitive to nutrition is 45% CONCLUSIONS Over the course ofthe last 300 years, the world has experienced the most pronounced ... related to factors considered exogenous The specific contribution varied according tothe sample used and especially with the period of consideration For example, according to Preston (1980), economic...
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... institutionalize and put environmental policy into action programs of each locality’s socio-economic development, andto build specific sanctions for implementation - To plan and set environmental zoning ... generated from the sale of products in the region will be redistributed to benefit communities andthe rotation of investment andto carry out development conservation activities The Andes region countries ... economic development goals was to increase the risk of environmental damage and depletion of natural resources [Vu Thi Thanh Minh, 2014] Expansion anddevelopmentof organic agriculture need to...
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... with iκB, andthe phosphorylation of iκBα would cause the release andthe activation of NF-κB The activated NF-κB can then translocate into the nucleus and trigger gene expression Due tothe limited ... expression profile in human BM-MSCs was tested in passage 7, passage 8, and passage 9, andthe cell surface marker expression profile in human AD-MSCs was tested in passage 5, passage 6, and passage ... receptors onthe cell surface and trigger downstream signaling pathways; and part of it will penetrate into the cells and directly act as an intracellular second messenger Both functions of S1P contributed...
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... aims The study ofthe first stage emphasized the inductive derivation of a theoretical model, while in the second stage, the study emphasized the improvement and validation ofthe emergent model ... (Section 3.3) andthe refined model, I prepared an interview protocol to guide the data collection ofthe second-stage The interview protocol included an introduction ofthe research goal, the ... the “game industry”, which facilitated the modification ofthe structure ofthemodelandthe abstraction of theoretical constructs from empirical data However, the model, existing theories and...