... variety of industries, in particular the forest industry. The vast majority of tugs involved in forest operations are third party contractors and are therefore included in the ocean transport sector. Data ... increases in leisure/retirement time, and with increasing awareness of the ocean amenities ofthe province. The 2010 Winter Olympic Games will highlight the province as a world class tourist destination ... underestimates.3.8 Other Ocean SectorsThere are many other sectors inthe B.C. economy that are dependent on the ocean environment. However, most of these sectors will be addressed implicitly inthe analysis...
... under the framework offinancial globalization.II. Review of Institution Building intheFinancial Sector A. Main driving forces of institution buildingA review ofthe developments of China’s financial ... monetarysystem, financial markets, financial institution, and financial coordination andsupervision. In China, institution building inthefinancialsector takes place against the backdrop offinancial ... source of financing for enterprises, if their owncapital is excluded. In summary, the deepening process ofthefinancial markets has rendered the dominance ofthe banking sectorinthe financial...
... see the repercussions ofthe defensive behaviour offinancial institutions for the financing ofthe real sectorofthe economy. To the extent that firms inthe real sector are un-able to obtain ... short ofthe claim ofthe senior tranche, the holders ofthe mezzanine tranche get nothing. If the return on the mortgage portfolio lies be-tween the claim ofthe senior tranche and the sum ofthe ... ofthe senior and mezzanine tranches, the holders ofthe mezzanine tranche get the entire excess ofthe return over the claim of the senior tranche and share it according to the shares of the...
... www.hsrcpress.ac.za14PercyMoleke15Inequalities in HigherEducationand theStructureofthe LabourMarket in educationor inthe labourmarket,havedonelittletoaddress the inequalities of the past. The lack of labour ... labourmarketbasedonraceastheyprimarilyaddress the demand-sidesources of inequities. The continuingdisparitiespointtoaneedtolookinto the role of supplyfactors in the phenomenon.Differences in humancapitalacquiredaregainingprominence in accountingfor the racialdisparities inthe labourmarket.Field of study is the major determinant of ... whoselabourmarketoutcomesarecomparativelypoor(thisisnotuniquetoSouthAfrica). The largemajority of thesegraduatesareAfrican.Hence,tosomeextent,itwouldbeexpectedthattheseinstitutionswouldshowlowerlevels of successwithregardto the employability of theirgraduates.However,thereareunexplaineddifferencesaswell.Irrespective of field of study,raceorgender,studentsfromHWUsseemtohavemoresuccess inthe labourmarket.Apossibleexplanation of thesedifferencesmaylie inthe differingquality of education in theseinstitutions,whetherperceivedorreal.Differences were also noted insectorof employment,revealing...
... Section 2.3 identifies the main banking sector developments inthe run-up to thefinancial crisis. In the decades prior to the crisis, thefinancial system, and the banking sectorin particular, expanded ... banking sector The increased role offinancial intermediation is evident from the growth inthe (relative) size ofthe European banking sectorinthe years leading up to thefinancial crisis. ... determinants ofthe cost of leverage and are found to be important in influencing the size offinancial intermediary balance sheets". The introduction ofthe Euro, as well as the build-up of...
... productive binding of steroid substrates: in the first, a (small) sub population of enzyme bindsdirectly the steroid inthe reactive conformation, with the remainder ofthe enzyme binding the unreactiveconformation. ... unusual in havingtwo histidine residues (rather than the His-Asn pairseen in OYE, MR and some ofthe other memberproteins; Fig. 1B) inthe active site for ligand andsubstrate binding. For ... form of the enzyme-steroid complex. We conjectured that the reduced form ofthe enzyme might direct binding of the steroid inthe flipped conformation, thus facilitatingcatalysis. Our structure of...
... has the Dconfiguration.On the basis ofthe data obtained, it was concluded that the O-polysaccharide P. mirabilis G1 has the structure shown in Fig. 3. This structure is similar to that of the O-polysaccharide ... serum againstP. mirabilis G1 was tested in immunohemolysis with LPSfrom the complete s et of Proteus stra ins, including 37 strains of P. mirabilis and 28 strains of P. vulgaris belonging to ... and lysine. The Dconfiguration of GalA and GalN was determined by GLC of the acetylated (S)-2-butyl glycosides and the Lconfiguration of lysine by GLC ofthe acetylated (S)-2-butyl ester. The Dconfiguration...
... ∞ THE FINANCIAL CRISISINQUIRY REPORTFINAL REPORT OFTHE NATIONAL COMMISSION ON THE CAUSES OFTHEFINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC CRISIS INTHE UNITED STATESOFFICIAL GOVERNMENT EDITION THE FINANCIAL ... Oce ofthe Comptroller ofthe Cur-rency and the Oce of Thrift Supervision, caught up in turf wars, preempted stateregulators from reining in abuses. CONCLUSIONS OFTHEFINANCIAL CRISIS INQUIRY ... of their loans. FINANCIAL C RISIS INQUIRY COMMISSION REPORTCONCLUSIONS OFTHE FINANCIAL CRISIS INQUIRY COMMISSION The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission has been called upon to examine...
... presentation ofthe movement ofthe juxta-membrane domains in response to ANP binding. Looking down-wards toward the cell membrane, ANP binding causes a translation of the juxtamembrane domains from the ... containing an extracellular ANP-binding domain (ECD), a transmembrane domain, andan intracellular domain consisting of an ATP-bindingregulatory domain and a GCase catalytic domain [8].ANP binding ... expected inthe Trp environment in responseto ANP binding. On the basis ofthe above structure analyses, we utilized Trp fluorescence to examine the solution structures of apoECD and ANP–ECD. The fluorescence...
... beenproposed for this structure [37].TheoverallshapeofAb-(1–42) is strongly reminiscent of thestructureofthe fusion domain ofin uenza hemagglu-tinin (HA_fd), recently determined in detergent micelles ... The surprising similarity of this structure, aswell as the sequence ofthe C-terminal moiety, with those of the fusion domain ofin uenza hemagglutinin suggests adirect mechanism of neurotoxicity.Keywords: ... is the finding that the sequences ofthe C-terminal part of Ab-(1–42) and that of HA_fd share indeed a high similarity (Fig. 6C) dictatedessentially by the presence of similarly spaced glycineresidues,...
... preventing binding of oxygen.We analyzed the azide inhibition and determined the inhibition constants for sodium azide, in order to see the effect ofthe mutation (L559A) on the bindingproperties ... stability ofthe trinuclear site isdecreased, the binding of azide to the trinuclear sitemay be decreased. The depletion ofthe T2 copper andchloride ion may also affect the azide binding. In fact,it ... lastamino acids inthe C-terminus of MaL. Deletion of the four last amino acids strongly reduced the expression of the protein in T. reesei and S. cerevisiae. Further-more, the deletion resulted in...
... interactions of papain with loop L6 of chagasin and loop L2 of cysta-tin B. (C) Zoom -in view ofthe interactions of papain with loop L4 of chagasin and the N-terminal segment of cystatin B. (D) Zoom -in ... angle in the chagasin–papain complex is 5.8°, indicating that the chagasin molecule is slanting towards the R domain. The angle of approach of cystatin B is )12.7°, and the inhibitor molecule is inclined ... cystatin B, respectively. This antiparallel interactionis supported by a water molecule linking the N atom of G66 of chagasin and the main-chain O atom of D158e of papain. Inthe cystatin B complex,...
... sent by their mother to fix the tail v-~hve ofthe windmilL b. Inthe great expanse ofthe prairie where they lived, the high tower ofthe windmill was the only real landmark (Worline, 1956:1). ... progression of events within the same narrative unit. The required Inferential work le relatively transparent. The event of John's entering the once results inthe state of his being inthe of- ... the memory of the other discourse participant. Removing this, rather uninformative, top level of inten- tion, reveals the %bjective ~ content structure of the narrative, whose main building...
... conditions even increased the solvation, owing to increased water-binding capacity.This may allow the protein to remain in a hydratedstate, preventing the binding of inorganic cations in the high-salt ... present in most other GGTs at the C-terminal region of the L-subunit. In E. coli GGT, upon autocatalytic cleavage of the peptide bond on the N-terminal side of Thr391, the C-terminal segment ofthe ... [8–10]. The side chain of Thr391 ofthe E. coli GGT precursor protein acts as the nucleophile for the cleavage, by which it becomes the new N-terminal residue ofthe S-subunit, and in turn acts as the...