... dis-charge can contain a wide range of contaminants and originate from a myriad of sources. Some of the biggest generators of toxic industrial waste include mining, pulp mills, tanneries, sugar ... from mining operations can contain silt and rock particles and sur-factants. Depending on the type of ore deposit being mined, tailings can also contain heavy metals like copper, lead, zinc, ... examples of persistent environmental damage caused by the discharge of toxic mine waste. In Papua New Guinea for ex-ample, companies discharge millions of tons of contaminated mine waste into...
... and Patrinos (2004)), which are frequently interpreted as indicating diminishing marginal returns to schooling. There are some reasons for caution in interpreting the precise magnitude of estimates. ... school in Ghana or Peru would gain the same amount of knowledge in any year of schooling as the average student in a school in Finland or Korea? Still, using the quantitative measure of years of ... This work, following the innovative analyses of human capital by Jacob Mincer (1970, 1974), considers how investing in differing amounts of schooling affects individual earnings. Over the past...
... The Roleof Higher Education inEconomicDevelopment Page 6 of 12 Identifying Needs of Business and Industry Higher education connects workforce development to the economicdevelopmentof the ... 2004). The focus of this report is the roleof higher education in the economicdevelopmentof Illinois’ Rock River Region. A brief summary ofeconomicdevelopment issues in this region is ... housing, mental health, wellness, and drug prevention efforts. The Roleof Higher Education inEconomicDevelopment Page 8 of 12 Examples of P-20 initiatives of the Alliance institutions include...
... Stiroh K. Raising the Speed Limit: U.S. Economic Growth in the Information Age. Brooking Papers on Economic Activity, 2000 18. King E. M. and Smith J. P. Computing Economic Loss in Cases of Wrongful ... the Mechanics ofEconomic Development. Journal of Monetary Economics, 1988, No. 22, pp.3-42 21. Machin S. Wage Inequality in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. The State of Working Britain. P. Gregg ... understanding of the demand side of expansion in education, it is of little help in terms of supply for it considers education and training to be like any other goods with supply adjusting to...
... obesityb) Insulin resistancec) Glucose intolerance123Fat cells4ApoELipid-richmealIntestineFig. 2. Model for the roleof ApoE in the developmentof diet-induced obesity in mice. Dietary ... School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USAIntroductionApolipoprotein E (ApoE) is a major protein of thelipid and lipoprotein transport system mainlyinvolved in the metabolism of dietary ... deposition of excess fatty acids into fat cells in the form of triglycerides, leads to the development of obesity. Despite the pivotal roleof obesity and dyslipide-mia in the developmentof the...
... in exploring on-line banking business as well as in promotingnon-bank financial institutions. Efforts should be made in upgrading financial operations and financial services, and in conducting ... China Statistics Yearbook, China Financial Yearbook and People’s Bank of ChinaStatistics Quarterly bulletin.B. Developmentof direct financing and indirect financing marketsproviding financing ... Impact ofFinancialSector Developments on Economic GrowthA. Rapid growth offinancial assets resulted in a higher financial assets/ GDPratio In the past 20 years, with the deepening of the financial...
... growth from the second quarter of 2000 into jobclasses using beginning size of firm, mean size of firm over the period,and end size of firm. If the beginning size of the firm is used to classifyfirms, ... greatest weight in the net economic impact.Experience suggests that because of these typically large indirect effects The Roleof Small and Large Businesses in Economic Development By Kelly ... EdmistonIncreasingly, economicdevelopment experts are abandoning traditional approaches to economicdevelopment that rely on recruiting large enterprises with tax breaks, financial incentives,...
... NICs. Finally, upgrading financial and taxinstitutions was an important element in explaining intercountry differences in rates of economic growth at all levels ofeconomicdevelopmentin contemporary ... institutions. Infinancial institutions furtherinstitutional development entails reducing the degree offinancial repression; raising grossdomestic savings rates above 13%; and improving the capacity of ... investment in infrastructure and industry explained: 50% of the varianceamong countries in patterns of industrialization; 28% in intercountry differences in theextent of expansion of market institutions;...
... important rolein the financial system of the U.S. economy. They complement the roleof large banks by special-izing in relationship banking and providing credit to smallbusinesses—a sector that ... Gregory F. Udell. 1998. “The Economics of Small BusinessFinance: The Roles of Private Equity and Debt Markets in the Financial Growth Cycle,” Journal of Banking and Finance, August, pp. 657-59.Carter, ... “Small Business Lending and theChanging Structure of the Banking Industry,” Journal of Banking andFinance, August.Sullivan, Richard J. 2000. “How Has the Adoption of Internet Banking AffectedPerformance...
... during photoreceptor development when compared with the patterns of binding of Nrl tothe rhodopsin promoter (Fig. 4C,D). The mRNA tran-script levels of Ppp2r5c and rhodopsin in mouse retinacorresponded ... analyzedwith a motif searching program to identifybinding sites of transcription factors.Consensus binding sites are underlined, theNrl-binding site is printed in bold, and thetranscription ... cells, to further examine thebinding of Nrl to the Ppp2r5c promoter in vivo. Nrlbinding to the Ppp2r5c and rhodopsin promoters wasexamined by quantitative real-time of ChIP sampleswith appropriate...
... decreasing for 53% of the sample, it has been increasingfor 36%, and has been stable for the remaining 11%. An increase in indebtedness (of 80% in average) is associated with a 14% decrease in production, ... striking feature is indeed that, the probability of declaring profit appears graphically as a function of both real growth and financial discipline- or limited financial and liquidity constraints, ... current level of production is limited by demand-side (lim-dde), financial (lim-fin), or access-to-input constraints (lim-input). The list of questions taken intoaccount in this paper is in Annex...
... an institutional point of view, there appear two main directions in development. One is the continuation of the postal office savings bank operating under the agency agreement of a ministry of ... rooted in that nation's culture. Established in 1874, it remained the main source of indigenous mobilization offinancial resources. At the beginning of the twentieth century, influenced ... it from financialsectordevelopment programs agreed between the ministries of finance, the IMF, and World Bank. In the recent past in Africa, no distinction was made of the roles of the post...
... biocon-version of chitin into valuable oligosaccharide deriva-tives for various industrial applications.Pf-ChiA has a unique multidomain structure con-taining two chitin-binding domains (ChBD1 ... crystal-line chitin hydrolyzing activity at high temperature. In order to investigatethe structure–function relationship of this chitinase, we analyzed one of thecatalytic domains (AD2) using mutational ... number of amino acid residues contribute to the binding of thesubstrate by hydrogen bonding and ⁄ or hydrophobicinteractions. Using the ligplot program [31], weinvestigated the specific interactions...