... China Statistics Yearbook, China Financial Yearbook and People’s Bank of ChinaStatistics Quarterly bulletin.B. Development of direct financing and indirect financing marketsproviding financing ... capital flow, monetarysystem, financial markets, financial institution, and financial coordination andsupervision. In China, institution building inthe financial sector takes place against the backdrop ... 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...
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... 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 ... residuesAsp38 and Glu111. In RNase-AA-GG the ‘basic sur-face’ is more similar to that of BS-RNase because of the removal ofthe four carboxylates. The ‘basic sur-face’ ofthe mutant HHP-RNase is...
... 1631 The roleof N-glycosylation inthe stability, trafficking andGABA-uptake of GABA-transporter 1Terminal N-glycans facilitate efficient GABA-uptake activity of the GABA transporterGuoqiang Cai1,2, ... 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 ... 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...
... from the WSJ domain or the LA Times domain. Although the effect of adding LA Times data is weaker than adding WSJ data, it is noteworthy that the unsupervised induction of trees from the LA Times ... nonterminal labeling that node. A new nonterminal is created for each node in the training data. This nonterminal is called A k. Let a j represent the number of subtrees headed by the node A@ j, ... developed a statistically consistent estimator for DOP which is based on the assumption that maximizing the joint probability ofthe parses ina treebank can be approximated by maximizing the joint...
... linguistic analysis. The remainder of the paper focuses on our initial work inthe adaptation (Gigley, 1984). As the research is currently underway, the discussion will raise several unanswered ... 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 ... warranted. What we claim instead is that the processing is similar, indeed universal and that we must begin to make cross-linguistic studies that assume this underlying commonality and at...
... Choice Analysis and identifies the determinants ofthe probability of an enterprise declaring itself profitable, on the basis of a projection of discriminating variables along two orthogonal axis: ... into the statistical information included inthe database; that is, some cluesfor further, more focused analysis. First, this graph demonstrates that whatever the occasionally missing answers, the ... appears as a strong inertial component inthe credit-demand equation. This canbe interpreted as an indication that a disproportionate share ofthe demand for bank credit is coming from already indebted...
... 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 ... serving women: 98% of borrowerswere women in Asia in 2006, as compared to 66% in Africa and 61.8% in Latin America. Microfinance in Asia is also associated with some of the lowest average loan ... of “Average Loan Balance perBorrower” for Latin America, Asia and Africa for the year 2005.121.1. The context: Microfinance in Latin America In Latin America, microfinance has experienced...
... meaning (i.e., it is equally valid to say that the music projects the meaning ofthe image or the image projects the meaning ofthe music), then the multimedia example has passed the similarity ... the music alters meaning ofa particular aspect of the film” (1988, p. 109). Marshall and Cohen also acknowledge the important role played by temporal characteristics ofthe sound and image, ... relationships inherent inthe association of one musical tone with another. Patterns of tension and release provide a sense of organization and meaning to the musical sound, apart from any extramusical...
... 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 ... along the reaction 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, ... Mutation of this residue to aspartate in other family18 chitinases also reduced activity dramatically [26,29]. The pK a calculations indicate that Glu144 has a slightlyelevated pK a in the...
... plans and whatrole he may play after Fidel Castro’s death.vital Raul Castro was formally designated his brother’s successorvital Raul isthe head ofthe Armed Forcesokay Raul is five years younger ... Relevance(c) − λ maxs A sim(s, c)This model isthe baseline variant ofthe Maxi-mal Marginal Relevance method for summariza-tion (Goldstein et al., 2000). Each candidate is compared to all ... are able to pin-point the exact span of text that directly satisfiesan information need.Nevertheless, IR engines remain integral com-ponents of question answering systems, primar-ily as a...
... specific approaches, but the basic underlying analysis involves estimating a standard “Mincer” earnings function and adding a measure ofindividual cognitive skills. This approach relates the logarithm ... estimation approaches can have an impact on the precise value ofthe rate of return, it is clear that there isa strong causal impact of school attainment on earnings. 29using the mathematics component ... sensibly assume that the average student ina school in Ghana or Peru would gain the same amount of knowledge in any year of schooling as the average student ina school in Finland or Korea? Still,...
... gain of about 15-25 percent compared to local materials in tropical areas. Applying these data to the estimated area planted to MVs in Africa, the overall yield gain due to adoption of MVs alone ... increasing crop yields in rainfed areas through agricultural research; and reforming policies and increasing investments in rainfed areas. WATER HARVESTING Water harvesting involves concentrating ... relationships among water availability and demand, food supply and demand, international food prices, and trade at regional and global levels. Globally, 69 percent of all cereal area is rainfed, including...