... that the pinged device should also know how to send the reply back to the source of the ping Cisco − Understandingthe Ping and Traceroute Commands The Traceroute Command The traceroute command ... Cisco − Understandingthe Ping and Traceroute Commands Table of Contents Understandingthe Ping and Traceroute Commands Introduction The Ping Command ... with the host The ping command first sends an echo request packet to an address, then waits for a reply The ping is Cisco − Understandingthe Ping and Traceroute Commands successful only if: • the...
... basic knowledge and state of the art on the biology andthe mechanics of blood and air flows The cardiovascular and respiratory systems are tightly coupled, as their primary function is the supply ... (e.g., fatty and bile acids and sterols), and xenobiotics M Thiriet, Signaling at the Cell Surface in the Circulatory and Ventilatory Systems, Biomathematical and Biomechanical Modeling of the Circulatory ... compartment, and whether the transmission path is the nerve or blood stream In addition, exocytosis from and possible recycling for further molecule processing within the sending cell on the one hand,...
... the resulting plasmin [25,26] The molecule no longer has the PAN domain and therefore adopts a relaxed conformation [27] because of the lack of intermolecular binding between the PAN domain and ... difference between complestatin and chloropeptin I is only at the position of the C–C bond that connects the indole ring of the tryptophan residue andthe aromatic ring of the 3,4-dihydroxyphenylglycine ... may govern the two effects The fact that the activation of Glu-plasminogen is a conformationally regulated process is the key to understanding this mechanism The effect of staplabin on the activation...
... by the use of other substances, nutrition, truthfulness of the woman's recall and report of the amount of use, changes in use during pregnancy andthe trimester when these changes occurred, and ... in the field and to administrators, planners, instructors, and other interested persons; Provide a feedback mechanism to NIDA staff and planners so that the administration and monitoring of the ... Maryland 20857 Marijuana Effects on the Endocrine and Reproductive Systems ACKNOWLEDGMENT This monograph is based upon papers and discussion from the RAUS Review Conference on the Endocrine and...
... markers in the promoter region andthe other by SNPs rs5182 and rs5186 in the 3' region [37,38] A resequencing of the AT1R in patients carrying the Callele should be necessary to identify other variants ... of 48 AT1R C carriers, in the MYH7 and 39 in the MYBPC3 groups, andthe mean LVWT was higher among these AT1R C carriers compared to AT1R AA in the two groups, although the difference did not reach ... measured, andthe left ventricular wall thickness (LVWT) calculated as the sum of IVS and PWT Table summarizes the main characteristics of patients All them fulfilled the next inclusion criteria: they...
... through the CSR lens and handled by CSR departments tend to stay limited because they lack the full weight of the company behind them Scale becomes possible when these projects move into the mainstream ... important than in the BOP market There are extreme cases, like the Ugandan coffee farmers mentioned in Chapter who put their lives at risk on the long road between the bank and their village, or ... in the same currency as the MFIs they invest in, avoiding foreign exchange risk that hits MFIs borrowing in hard currency They understand the market context and have firsthand exposure to the...
... community The women paid close attention as the Swadhaar official filled out the account-opening paperwork and explained the system Then they moved to the ATM to register their fingerprints When I saw the ... to the established Visa and MasterCard payment networks, or whether Visa and MasterCard will extend their systems to incorporate mobile wallets 13 THE TECHNOLOGICAL BASE: PAYMENT SYSTEMSAND ... volumes The IFC is also supporting Experian in the creation of credit bureaus andthe provision of services such as scoring and fraud detection in several countries in southeastern Europe and the...
... benchmarks, and individual MFIs now comes from the MIX But mainstream investors not routinely query the MIX, and when they do, they not find the earnings multiples and stock price histories they are ... verification.1 When these loans predictably began to sour, the collapse of the subprime market unraveled the housing market, the broader financial sector, and even the world economy The effect on the families ... Microfinanza (Italy), and M-CRIL (India) MFIs, however, often failed to understand the significance of third-party ratings and were reluctant to pay the full cost, so MicroRate andthe others required...
... tell whether loans are reaching the poor, and even whether the poor are becoming richer But they cannot attribute changes to the use of financial services What if the economy was growing, and as ... champion in the bank, and other strong supporters From the beginning, one of the bank directors led the project, and three key executives were on the board of Credifé A general manager from the bank’s ... (MFIs) across the country, andthe resulting interactions between the bank and MFIs changed the sector significantly, helping it grow and develop • 167 • 168 • Microfinance for Bankers and Investors...
... receiving the SMS, the son goes to his closest Safaricom dealer He sends an SMS to the Safaricom dealer with the secret code (verifying that he is the correct recipient), andthe dealer hands over the ... manage, expensive, and inefficient Often, the wrong people got the deliveries andthe right people went hungry The Dominican Social Subsidies Administration (ADESS), together with and other Dominican ... established the country’s first credit bureau, to the entry of Creditinfo, a small Icelandic credit reporting agency as the owner and operator of the new bureau, and finally to the issuing of the first...
... that the Australia New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) launched the program Banking the Unbanked in 2004 ANZ is the third largest bank in Australia andthe largest in the Pacific and New Zealand As ... expanding rapidly.16 They decided to hold an international tender for a technological partner They were less concerned about the price than the quality and usefulness of the software andthe ... law together with the Financial Institutions Association of Kazakhstan, the National Bank, andthe Agency for Regulation and Supervision of Financial Markets and Financial Organizations.10 The group...
... Table 2004 11 GRI and Triodos Bank, Key Indicators Today, the GRI is headquartered in the Netherlands and works in cooperation with the United Nations Environmental Program andthe United Nations ... Chapters 4, 5, 9, 11, and 13 She wrote the Creditinfo case and provided input for the BRAC and Sequoia cases • Rachna Handa prepared early drafts of Chapter andthe BRAC, Sequoia, and Credit Suisse ... Chapters and 12 and wrote the cases on Vodafone and Banco Bradesco • Dandan Wang drafted the Equity Bank case Colleagues at ACCION assisted in providing information and reviewing sections These...
... Survey,” The Economist, November 3, 2005 The Microfinance Information Exchange, www.themix.org “Microfinance: Taking Root in the Global Capital Markets,” Standard & Poor’s, June 2007 “Microfix: The Micro ... www.iciciprulife.com “Rural and Agri Banking,” ICICI Bank—Banking Services, ebusiness.icicibank.com Sriram, M S., “Expanding Financial Services Access for the Poor: The Transformation of Spandana,” Indian ... Produced for the Donors’ Local Consultative Group on Finance, March 2004 Zuidberg, Joost (FMO), and Andhaje Schütte (KfW), “BRAC Bangladesh: Tackling the Barriers Through Securitisation and Structured...
... foot pain is not the noxious-stimuli-induced activity in the nociceptive pathways [20,21], but rather the perception of these processes andthe consequent effects on suffering and pain-related ... diabetic neuropathy, fibromyalgia and complex regional pain syndrome type I) andunderstandingthe complexities of the placebo effect The placebo effect – impact of the psychosocial context on treatment ... and Ankle Research 2009, 2:1 the administration of intervention For example, the placebo effect can encompass the Hawthorne effect, where a person modifies their behaviour because they know they...
... to postprandial glucose levels! ♦ MAGE = both the UPS andthe DOWNS of blood glucose I Hirsch So What Is The Significance of theUnderstanding of GV? ♦ “…it suggests that different therapeutic ... the CGM era I Hirsch What We Need Data comparing these tools to markers of oxidative stress! I Hirsch Conclusions • Although there is no definitive proof from a randomized controlled trial, the ... Mary: HbA1c = 6.5%; on HS glargine and prandial lispro Mean = 123 mg% SD = 63 Standard Deviation ♦ A measurement of glycemic variability ♦ Can determine both overall and time specific SD ♦ Need sufficient...
... to the commentary, it is the sole work of the authors and reflects our understanding of the controversies discussed at the workshop The commentary identifies major points about which we andthe ... inherit – along with their parents' genes – their parents, their peers, andthe communities they live in" [34] When these WPs think of depression, they think first of research on the role of environmental ... "therapeutic humility" – being clear about the limits of understanding – is called for, as is more research on both the causes of behavioral and emotional disturbances andthe most effective and...
... depends on the depth and coarseness of vegetation root systems: the deeper the root can reach, the higher the percolation rate; the vegetation roots with the coarser size generate the larger ... wetland, and green roof They function as various temporal storages of rainwater and then channel the water to the drainage system gradually Due to the detention and retention functions, they ... affects the infiltration rate andthe soil moisture losses though the thickness of the active soil as described in Equation 1.3 Within this layer, the existence of the root changes the compaction and...
... recognized by the CPU, it must be assigned an address The address assigned to a given device must be unique The CPU puts the address on the address bus, andthe decoding circuitry finds the device ... from memory In general, the more and bigger the registers, the better the CPU Registers can be 8-, 16-, 32-, or 64-bit The disadvantage of more and bigger registers is the increased cost of such ... ports, and timers externally to make them functional Make the system bulkier and much more expensive Have the advantage of versatility on the amount of RAM, ROM, and I/O ports Microcontroller The...
... style-sheets and then reformatted for the handheld device that made the request initially This process can become complex very quickly, depending on the number of the handheld devices supported andthe ... format the data for the handheld device, and deliver the data requested XSL is used for data transformation definitions, where the API will exchange the messages between the backend system andthe ... solution It goes from the backend system, where the data source resides, to the API connection, to the application server, to the WSP gateways, and then to the handheld units The Future of Wireless...