... under the framework of financial globalization.II. Review of Institution Building inthe Financial SectorA. Main driving forces of institution buildingA review ofthe developments of China’s financial ... performance.2. Roleofthe central bank The central bank has played a roleof policy designing and implementation in the process of institution building inthe financial sector. The promulgation ofThe ... source of financing for enterprises, if their owncapital is excluded. In summary, the deepening process ofthe financial markets has rendered the dominance ofthe banking sector inthe financial...
... (39 ). The renewed interest in examining the indications for BCG vaccination in the United States included consideration ofthe wide range of vaccine efficacies deter-mined by clinical trials ... toexplore the sources ofthe heterogeneity inthe efficacy ofthe BCG vaccine reported in the individual studies. Using a model that included the geographic latitude of the study site and the data ... <5 mm indurationafter skin testing with 5 TU of PPD tuberculin. The Tice strain of BCG is administeredpercutaneously; 0.3 mL ofthe reconstituted vaccine is usually placed on the skin in the lower...
... determinations: in terms of producing information about possible invest-ments and allocating capital, the financial (a) developing and analyzing measures ofthe functioning of financial institutions ... interesting insights into views about financial development and theroleof the state in finance.Despite the crisis experience, 90 percent ofthe country officials and experts surveyed inthe ... of state-owned financial institutions, and theroleof the state in promoting information sharing—all top-ics that are examined inthe current Global Finan-cial Development Report. Note: The...
... an important roleinthe financial system of the U.S. economy. They complement theroleof large banks by special-izing in relationship banking and providing credit to smallbusinesses—a sector ... “Small Business Lending and the Changing Structure ofthe Banking Industry,” Journal of Banking andFinance, August.Sullivan, Richard J. 2000. “How Has the Adoption of Internet Banking AffectedPerformance ... understanding issues facing community banks. I. THE CURRENT ROLEOF COMMUNITY BANKS The banking system inthe United States has always been unique in the sense of containing large numbers of small...
... detected at the dimerinterface ofthe models or inthe surroundings of the mutated residues. The models of RNase A covalent dimers in the exchanging conformation were prepared using the 7RSA structure ... at the dimer interface ofthe models or inthe surroundings of the hinge loop residues. Likewise, the models of nonex-changing and exchanging HHP-RNase were prepared start-ing from 1Z7X. The ... through the exchange between subunits of either their N-ter-minal, or their C-terminal ends [33–35]. We foundthat the behavior with the model membrane of the dimer in which the C-terminal ends...
... proposed X-linkage.Sequence analyses ofthe ESSS cDNA in these mutantsrevealed chain termination mutations. In two of thesemutants the protein i s truncated at the C-terminus of the targeting sequence; ... likely that the N-terminal domain is involved in protein–protein interactions with other hydrophilic domains of neighboring integral membrane subunits, and interspeciesinteractions are incompatible.From ... as a nother identification of the complex at the position o f the histochemical stain in the left panel. Antisera against the SDHC subunit of complex IIand against the Rieske protein of complex...
... N-linked 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 ... results in reduction of the stability of GAT1 In order to study thein uence ofthe N-glycosylationand N-linked oligosaccharides on protein stability, the intracellular decay time ofthe GAT1, ... for the stability of this protein,but the terminal structure ofthe N-glycans is not.Defective N-glycosylation reduces the trafficking of GAT1 to the plasma membrane In order to study thein uence...
... frag-ments were then cloned into the SpeI ⁄ XhoI sites of the polylinker in MUC1FDTR. The remaining portions of the polylinker introduced leucine and valine residues N-ter-minal to the MUC3 and ... according to the intensity of M2-reactivespecies inthe corresponding whole cell lysate.Molecular modeling of SEA domain of MUC1 The composer and biopolymer modules ofthe sybyl 6.91software ... and the cytoplasmic tail. These two parts of the protein remain associated by noncovalent interac-tion, probably involving sequences within the SEAdomain. The contribution of five different aminoacids...
... whendissecting the effect of GTP on glutamine-dependent CTPsynthesis.As mentioned inthe Introduction, the GTP activation of the E.coli enzyme is proposed to be due mainly to anincrease inthe rate of ... showing the recording of steady-state rates for the hydrolysis of glutamine at increasing substrateconcentrations measured as the displacement ofthe baseline. The peaksobserved at each injection ... Table 2). In another experiment similar to that in Fig. 4C, the GTPactivation ofthe glutaminase reaction and CTP synthesiswas compared (Fig. 5). Inthe absence of GTP, the rate of glutamine hydrolysis...
... disambiguated word meaning. It is thein interaction ofthe results of these asynchronous processes that the process of comprehension is defined. The processes are independent ofthe know- ledge ... affected. The study includes off-line picture naming which forces use of articles in all ofthe above contexts, as well as on-line production of these morphemes in an attempt to determine in which ... HOPE, the determination ofthe phonetic representation of a recognized word determines the breadth of active competition amon 9 meanings for subsequent time intervals ofthe process. Depending...
... secondhand smoke, questioning the accuracy of tobacco industry communications, and the declining social acceptability of smoking. Other forms of smoking-relevant advertising include advertisements ... what it was inthe 1970s and 1980s. In contrast, smoking inthe general population has declined since the 1970s. Smokers in movies differ from smokers in the general population: the former ... better in affecting target audience appraisals and indicators of message processing (such as recall ofthe advertisement, thinking more about it, discussing it) compared with other forms of...
... most of them and access-to-input for the worst in this sub-pool. Conversely, the overbearing influence ofthe financial constraints in the lower half is statistically associated with a rather ... expected-debt. The probability of increasingdebt raises with the fact that the enterprise was indebted inthe past (in all the groups).Nodebt thus appears as a strong inertial component inthe credit-demand ... decreasing for 53% ofthe 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,...
... microfinance stands unrivalled in scale, andoutreach continues to grow in terms ofthe number of microborrowers.Institutions providing microfinance in Asia play a critical rolein increasing the ... very helpful in bringing microfinance into the spotlight not only in developing countries but also inthe developedworld. The awareness by policy makers about theroleof microfinance asa major ... positions as savings mobilizersranking ahead of most other financial institutions in their regions.19They also play an important role investing in their regions. From the USD 154 million savings collected...
... trains a broad spectrum ofthe planning and engineering community inthe effective implementation of WSUD. The Partnership is proactively securing the implementation ofthe State Planning Policy ... carried out on the research side ofthe project, in terms of identifying the key Managing diffuse water pollution in SEQ: an analysis oftheroleofthe Healthy Waterways Partnership – Cottingham, ... factors in maintaining healthy habitats for many of these species. There are multiple sites of international significance including Moreton Bay (Ramsar site) and the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia...
... traf-ficking properties. The binding experiments alsopointed to a decrease inthe density ofthe D2R vari-ants inthe cellular membrane; the number of D2receptor binding sites decreased with the ... sub-unit ofthe G protein and not inthe other case.Although there is discussion inthe literature concern-ing the possibilities of photoconversion of YFP into aCFP-like species during acceptor ... localization of these proteins inthe cell rather thanfrom the possible roleofthe D2R basic domain inthe mechanism of D1–D2receptor heterodimerization. However, we find that the acidicepitope...