... useful in determining a) the efficacy of BCG vaccine in HCWs or b) the effects on efficacy ofthe vaccine strain administered6 MMWR April 26, 1996not a factor in determining whether thereaction ... beenvaccinated as adolescents or adults (39 ). The renewed interest in examining the indications for BCG vaccination in the United States included consideration ofthe wide range of vaccine ... because ofthe potential ad-verse reactions associated with the use ofthe vaccine in these persons. In the United States, the use of BCG vaccination is rarely indicated. BCGvaccination is...
... would have to take into account the evolution of real wages as well as of wage arrears. However, a remarkable point is that a substantial proportion of firms (31.5% ofthe sub-sample) has increased ... enterprises,as well as the actual constraints exerted by the structure ofa balance sheet are still limited, a qualitative survey may actually offer a stronger appraisal of their actual behaviors.Section ... the end ofthe high inflation periodwhich characterised the first phase of Russian reforms (1992-1996), the overall capacity of the financial system to drain domestic savings and allocate financial...
... along thereaction pathway of cyclodextrin glycosyl-transferase elucidate catalysis inthe alpha-amylase family. Nat.Struct. Biol. 6, 432–436.16. Terwisscha van Scheltinga, A. C., Armand, S., Kalk, ... However, the mechanistic roles of several of these residues are not described well and there is no example of mutational analysis of all of these residues inthe sameenzyme.To obtain an insight into ... significant speed-up of the calculations was achieved by calculating pK a values foronly a subset ofthe titratable groups inthe protein. The subset of titratable groups was selected by applying a two-step...
... capital flow, monetarysystem, financial markets, financial institution, and financial coordination andsupervision. In China, institution building inthe financial sector takes place against the backdrop ... China Statistics Yearbook, China Financial Yearbook and People’s Bank of ChinaStatistics Quarterly bulletin.B. Development of direct financing and indirect financing marketsproviding financing ... 67.8Sources: Almanac of China’s Finance and Banking and China Statistical Year BookV. An Outlook of Institutional Reforms inthe Coming Years In light ofthe opportunities and challenges posed by China’s...
... loans. Loan officers at small banks cantake into account a wide variety of factors in reviewing applications forsmall business loans, including the character ofthe borrower and specialfeatures ... McNulty, and James A. Verbrugge. 2002. “Do SmallBanks Have an Advantage in Lending? An Examination of Risk-AdjustedYields in Small Business Lending at Large and Small Banks,” unpublishedworking paper, ... earnedapproximately the same average ROA.6 Some analysts have expressedconcern that community banks as a group have earned a lower averageROA than large banks during each ofthe last four years. However, the difference...
... Renata Piccoli, forcritical reading the manuscript and helpful suggestions;and to Dr Valeria Cafaro, Aurora Bracale, AntonellaAntignani and Sonia Di Gaetano for preparing some of the RNase variants ... through rotation ofthe RNase around its major axis (rotationangle ‘r’) and variation ofthe inclination (inclination angle ‘i’) withrespect to the plane ofthe membrane (parallel to the xy plane).Cter ... procedurewhich included the following steps: (a) the model ofthe membrane was oriented with eachlayer parallel to the xy plane so that all the phosphorusatoms of each layer had the same z coordinate and...
... This indicates thatN-glycans, in particular their terminal trimming, are important for the GABA-uptake activity of GAT1. They play a regulatory roleinthe GABAtranslocation by affecting the affinity ... oligosaccharide side-chainsare important for the GABA transport activity.1-Deoxymannojirimycin inhibits the GABA-uptake of GAT1 In order to gain further insight into theroleof the terminal structures ... areinvolved in regulating the GABA translocation of GAT1, but not in binding of GAT1 to GABA.Transport of GABA by GAT1 across the cell mem-brane is driven by an electrochemical gradient of Na+and...
... addition of information to the model. This interaction ofthe evaluation ofa formula and the expansion ofthe model produces several linguistically interesting side-effects, and these have ... information that is needed to determine the meanings ofthe sentences actually presented to the system. Dynamic model-theoretic semantics allows the evaluation ofa formula to cause the addition ... ABSTRACT Model-theoretic semantics provides a computationally attractive means of representing the semantics of natural language. However, the models used in this formalism are static and are...
... French Because ofthe parallel activationof all meanings of each recognized word in HOPE, the determination ofthe phonetic representation ofa recognized word determines the breadth of active ... MEANING-PROPAGATION: Fixed-time spreading activation to the distributed parts of recognized words ' meanings. 6. FIRING-INFORMATION-PROPAGATION: Asynchronous activation propagation that ... morphemes has also been associated with certain types of aphasic behavior in English speaking patients, speci- fically in agrammatics and Broca's aphasics. French neurolinguistic studies have...
... presenting lower loan average values than in other regions(USD 151 in Asia in 2006 versus USD 183 in Africa and USD 671 in Latin America) and lower savings account balances than in Latin America(USD ... up campaigns that are innovative and add value to the bank in addition to the marketing aspect. This pedagogical engagement and supportto initiatives aimed at achieving social and financial inclusion ... microfinance industry. As of today, 7 out of 15 Latin American members are active in microfinance. These membersare involved in different ways inthe microfinance sector as can be seen in Table...
... he was a member ofthe Imperial War Cabinet during the First World War, played a significant roleinthe foundation ofthe League of Nations,and was made Chancellor ofthe University of Cambridge. ... within a common law legal order which they make sense ofin accordance with the rigid doctrine of theseparation of powers; and, finally, functionalism, a theory ofthe administrative state that ... the claim that it is either dismal or atbest ambiguous. Indeed, I will show that there is a plausible argument thatwhen judges assert that they are maintaining the rule of law in exceptionalsituations,...
... differfrom each other, sometimes quite dramatically, inthe way they arrange the institutions that are principally involved in bringing the principles of the rule of law to realization. In fact, the ... that they are maintaining the rule of law in exceptionalsituations, they make things worse not better from the perspective of a substantive conception ofthe rule of law. For they maintain that ... role ofthe executive in maintaining the rule of law. Chapter 4,‘Theunityofpublic law’, weaves the threads ofthe entire argument ofthe book togetherviaadiscussion ofthe relationship between international...