... recruiting large enterprises with tax breaks, financial incentives, and other induce-ments. Instead, they are relying on building businesses from the groundup and supporting the growth of existing ... well. They include constraints on the supply of labor and otherinputs, upward pressure on wages and rents, congestion of infrastruc-ture, and (if fiscal incentives are provided to the locating ... to long chains of command and subsequent communication inefficiency, inflexibility, and loss of managerial coordination. Further, small firms, to the extent thatthey operate in more competitive...
... & Lynch, K. (1999).Offeringahand to pragmatic understanding: Theroleof speech and gesture in comprehension and memory. Journal of Memory and Language, 40,577–592.Lansing, C. R., & McConkie, ... gestures and facial cues seeking the most infor-mative cue according to the content ofthe lecture. The results of the questionnaire revealed that the majority of those whoreported they paid ... minimal reference to the outline duringrecording. The first part ofthe lecture covered definitions of terms and a brief history of ceramics, which tended to be done in narrative form. Most of...
... mainly individuals and small businesses, the traditional target client group of savings banks. By capturing and channelling more of the remittances into the financial system and intermediating ... out of the savings banks movement, have done a Bringing the Hidden Giants to the Footlight: theRoleof Savings and Retail Banks in Increasing the Level of Access to Financial ServicesChris ... for disbursing of loans and collecting loan repayments. Another promising track for savings banks is to invest their savings deposits in microfinance institutions by specialising in wholesale...
... be built, maintained and accessed using these techniques.8.1. Emulating Operating System EnvironmentsDuring the 1960’s the notion of a virtual machine base for operating systems development ... outperform 4.3bsd in several benchmarks of overall system performance [1].A key and unusual element inthe design of Mach is the notion that communication (in the form of messagepassing) and virtual ... validation - Finally, the kernel informs the hardware physical map module ofthe new virtualto physical mapping.With the exception ofthe hardware validation, all of these steps are implemented in a...
... properties of the document containing the sentence and properties of the sentence itself. Regarding the former type,two features come into play: the relevance score of the document (from the IR engine) ... in the case of Indri. These results are consistent with the findings of Monz (2003), who made the sameobservation inthe factoid QA task.There are a few caveats to consider when in- terpreting ... Association for Computational Linguistics The RoleofInformation Retrieval in Answering Complex QuestionsJimmy LinCollege ofInformation StudiesDepartment of Computer ScienceInstitute for Advanced...
... of GSK3 (using Li or SB-415286)appears to be sufficient for inducing activation of GS in muscle and fat cells, and that inhibition ofthe kinasepotentiates insulin action in muscle of insulin-resistant ... increases in glucose uptake and glycogen synthesisallowing for more effective ÔchannellingÕ of glucose intoglycogen in response to insulin. However, one of the potential difficulties in interpreting ... phosphatidylinositol3-kinase, p70, S6 kinase and glycogen synthase kinase-3 activity in L6 muscle cells: evidence for the involvement ofthe mammaliantarget of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway in the L-leucine-inducedup-regulation...
... 10.1596/978-0-8213-8996-6SKU: 18996 The Little Data Book on InformationandCommunicationTechnology 2012 is a joint publication between the World Bank andthe International Telecommunication Union. Design by Communications ... includes indicators covering the economic and social context, the structure oftheinformationandcommunicationtechnology sector, sector efficiency and capacity, and sector performance related ... data.worldbank.org or the Web site oftheInformation and Communication Technologies Department at www.worldbank.org/ict.For more statistics on informationandcommunicationtechnology infra-str uc...
... accumulating school savings may have effects apart from financing school. Conley (2001) finds that a doubling of net worth results in an 8.3% increase inthe probability of attending college. Further, ... for their youth. Youth savings. Youth were asked in 2002 whether they had a savings or bank account in their name. If they had an account, they were also asked whether they were saving some of ... None ofthe existing research examines the effect of youth savings on college attendance, and only one study examines the relationship between parent school savings and college attendance. Theoretical...
... phenylalanine was thereforemutated to Ala, Leu, Trp or Tyr. These mutations may in uence the shape and volume ofthe acyl binding pocket and thereby alter the binding mode and affinity of the enzyme ... PAA and derivatives thereof, while maintaining the hydrophobicity ofthe binding site.To test the effect ofthe mutations on the specificity forphenylacetylated substrates, the steady-state kinetic ... kcatrepresents the rate of acylation and Kmequals the binding constant of the substrate to the free enzyme. The results then indicateÓ FEBS 2002 Roleof active-site phenylalanines in penicillin acylase...
... suggested by the lack of coincidence of the changes in relative fluorescence intensity and in k and by the hysteresis ofthe reversibility process(Fig. 4). At the end ofthe transition, the intrinsic ... that of the wild-type; however, the integrity ofthe calcium bind-ing site formed by Asp287 and Glu53 is essential forinteraction with the cation in 7.9 m GdmCl.An interesting finding ofthe ... observed for the wild-type,indicating the involvement of Glu53 and Asp287 in the interaction with the cation (Fig. 1E,F). The regain of aromatic chirality at 295 nm andinthe 260–270 nmregion for...
... critically involved in blood pressure regulation due to its action in generatingangiotensin II andin inactivating bradykinin [1]. The enzyme also has a roleinthedevelopmentof vascularpathology and ... for the central roleof ADAM10 and confirming thatTACE has a minor roleinthe a-secretase cleavage of APP in human cells.During the course ofthe present study it was reportedusing an RNA interference ... acid-basedmetalloprotease inhibitors [14] inthe presence or absence of APMA. Inthe majority of cases there was little differencebetween the effect of inhibitors on the constitutive shedding of ACE andthe APMA-induced...
... monitoring and evaluation) andthe same proportion was involved in AFPsurveillance. On the other hand, in Zambia, nurses and midwives were involved inthe full range of functions forSIAs and AFP ... general information on EPI and sup-plementary vaccination activities inthe district; (2) over-all numbers and categories of health workers in the district; (3) theroleof nurses and midwives in ... managers of health programmes. The finding that the nurses in Sudan were less involved in planning of activities (15.2% in polio andin measles)compared to 72.7% for polio and 90.9% for measles in Zambia,...
... ts and HRQoL on the Psychological Well-being and School Environmentdimensions andthe Overall score in boys, and on the School Environment and Physical Well-b eing dimen-sions in girls. Inthe ... measures of LEs in order to take intoaccount also their effect in previous HRQoL.Conclusions The experience of LEs did impact the HRQoL of adoles-cents and youths in this sample, although the effect ... Spain.Authors’ contributionsJMV, LR, and JA participated inthe conception and design ofthe study.EVO, SRF, GV and JAPV analyzed the data. EVO, JMV, MH, MF, LR and JAparticipated in the...
... president oftheNational Academy of Engineering. The Institute of Medicine was established in 1970 by theNational Academy of Sci-ences to secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions ... of Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, andthe scientic and engineering communities. The Council is administered jointly by both Academies andthe Institute of Medicine. ... president oftheNational Academy of Sciences. The National Academy of Engineering was established in 1964, under the charter of the National Academy of Sciences, as a parallel organization of outstanding...
... that the use ofthe content contained in the work will not infringe on the rights of third parties. The risk of claims resulting from such infringement rests solely with you. The findings, interpretations, ... team, the work was the result of close collaboration between the staff oftheDevelopment Data Group oftheDevelopment Economics Vice Presidency andthe Transport, Water, andInformation Communication ... Book on InformationandCommunicationTechnology 2013 is a joint publication between the World Bank andthe International Telecommunication Union.Design by Communications Development Incorporated,...