... typically also involve some form of credit insurance creditworthiness ofthe borrower s customers whose accounts the factor will purchase Factors typically base this assessment on a combination of their ... apply for credit, business ethics, marketing, and strategy 17 SMEs are also offered discounts at affiliated university classes About 70% of SMEs participated in some form of training The forth service ... factor s exposure to the credit risk ofthe seller s customers, since in the case of a customer s default, the seller may not have sufficient capital reserves to repay the factor One solution to these...
... refolding process in terms of assembly of fragments is discussed Results CD spectra Secondary structure of SNase and its mutants was determined by CD with spectrapolorimetry measurements The approximate ... the SNase fragments SNase(1–110), SNase(1–121) and SNase(1–135) and used them in NMR spectroscopy experiments to study the folding process They concluded that the conformation of these fragments ... nucleation sites of SNase may start from the N-terminus [25] However, we used the C-terminal fragments SNase(1–140) and SNase(1–142) to show that SNase(1–140) plays a role in the assembly ofthe protein...
... session the stimuli were presented for seconds, while the masking screen was presented for seconds In the third and last session, we obtained participants’ aesthetic judgments ofthe stimuli Several ... null-trace stimuli for each group of participants, classified by rating dimension and stimulus-type using paired-samples Student s t tests Results of these analyses are presented in Tables and for participants ... statement summarizes the main hypothesis we set out to test: The stimuli that leave stronger memory traces are those that receive greater scores in the aesthetic judgment scales, regardless of...
... trials Half ofthe trials consisted of words spoken with sad prosody; the other half consisted of words spoken with neutral prosody The sequence of words presented was pseudorandomized such that ... earphones Study phase During the study phase, participants listened to a series of words spoken with either a neutral or sad prosody They were instructed to study the words for a subsequent memory ... the existing work raises the possibility that the storage of such a message depends on whether prosody is emotional or neutral Two aspects ofmemory storage have been investigated in this respect...
... for persons who have been vaccinated with BCG, and the skin-test results of such persons are used to support or exclude the diagnosis of M tuberculosis infection A diagnosis of M tuberculosis ... With High Risk for M tuberculosis Transmission In some geographic areas ofthe United States, the likelihood for transmission of M tuberculosis in health-care facilities is high because of a high ... virus because ofthe potential adverse reactions associated with the use ofthe vaccine in these persons In the United States, the use of BCG vaccination is rarely indicated BCG vaccination is...
... particular settings of care Each ofthe conditionspecific chapters addresses the strength ofthe evidence forthe efficacy oftheroleof nutrition, makes recommendations regarding the provision of services ... many studies did not describe who specifically provided the intervention The final question to be answered was—What are the costs and possible offsets forthe provision of such services? The Lewin ... policy and its statutory limitations Forthe purposes of this report, the committee considered the term “nutrition services” to consist of two tiers The first tier of services is basic nutrition...
... that the Tris molecule is located where the xylose molecule is observed in the b-xylosidase These observations suggest that the histidine residue is also involved in substrate recognition and stabilization ... residue was also found in an equivalent position in the structure of a b-xylosidase from the GH43 family For this b-xylosidase from G stearothermophilus, it was suggested that the histidine residue ... less stable when incubated with EGTA As EGTA is a strong calcium chelator, it can be postulated that the loss of stability is associated with loss ofthe calcium cluster As described above, the...
... contract wage shocks that we will use for stochastic simulations is based on the estimated rules Thus, in the final section ofthe paper we report a sensitivity study that makes use ofthe estimated ... success The paper proceeds as follows Section reviews the estimated three-country macro model In section we discuss the consequences ofthe zero-interest-rate bound, first in case of a severe recession ... approval ofthe main trading partners for their success The implied decline in output in the United States appears smallest when we implement Svensson s proposal for a devaluation ofthe Yen Sensitivity...
... consultees were depression, although the number of patients given a final diagnosis of depressive disorder was lower Consultees might not further assess other mental conditions such as psychosis, ... consultation.(14) The second most frequent diagnosis was schizophrenia and other psychoses, which is similar to the results from Tsai and colleagues.(14) These results differed from those of studies in Western ... be investigated in the future studies There were some limitations of our study First, the results of a single hospital survey might not be readily generalized Second, the study was a retrospective...
... large role in economics Certainly the insights ofthe great classical economists, such as Adam Smith, focused on the allocation and distribution mechanisms ofthe economy, as well as the roles of ... trade shows, industry conferences, and the scores of seminars, talks, and social activities organized by local business organizations and trade associations In these forums, relationships are easily ... organizations ofthe first economy, either because of their charter to research as in the case of universities and R&D laboratories, or as a byproduct of their normal activities as in the case of firms,...
... subject s grasp forces were outside the linear range Page of 12 of our force sensor For consistency, we retained the grasp force measure in our analyses The remaining metrics were still sufficient ... This suggests that, after training, either modality was sufficient to enable task performance (see discussion) Discussion The purpose of our first experiment was to quantify the benefits of tactile ... the presence of both sources of feedback, suggesting that visual and tactile cues play complementary roles in facilitating successful grasps in the presence of uncertainty In this study we used...
... data for detecting trends in the astronauts’ status during actual missions This process includes a projection of their capacity to perform missionrelated tasks as well as their temporary sense of ... convection, sedimentation, and hydrostatic pressure in the processing of a range of materials, including metals, alloys, glasses, ceramics, polymers, semiconductors, and composites These are processes ... status Data from individual Skylab missions show that length of mission is a factor in vitamin D status; the longer the mission, the more depressed the vitamin D status Because astronauts are...
... drugs for diseases of bone loss, but rather that these results focus attention on the pathway of cholesterol biosynthesis and its relationship to BMP-2 expression and bone formation This has been ... biodistribution to peripheral tissues These may be ideal drugs for use as bone-active agents Conclusion Perhaps the most important consequence of these findings is not that the statins themselves ... show these effects [26–28] There are major issues with all of these studies: they are retrospective; the compliance of patients taking is statins unknown; and the dose of statin used varied considerably...
... expression in cv “Long” follows a different developmental profile: the highest expression is exhibited before anthesis, in the buds of 4-5 DBA and falls sharply afterwards Thus at the stages of ... differences; only a SNP was spotted in pos -1526 upstream ofthe start codon The comparison of both cultivars sequences to the sequence ofthe C frutescens BAC clone, demonstrated SNPs in a region ... developmental expression patterns in the two cultivars: in cv “Round” the expression reaches is highest after anthesis while in cv “Long” the highest expression is demonstrated before anthesis (data derive...
... ambiguity of data presentation, attempts were made to contact the study author (s) to resolve these issues Search strategy and quality assessment An extensive computerized literature search was performed ... trials, Cochrane database of systematic reviews, American College of Physicians Journal Club, Health Technology Assessment Database and Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects We restricted the ... complications were assessed using Bayesian random-effects models [21], via WinBUGS software [22] using three simultaneous runs ofthe program with disparate starting values The first 10,000 iterations...