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... distinguish between demand and supply effects While we find an overall decrease in demand for consumer loans after the beginning of the financial crisis, we not find significant differences in ... Giroverband Rheinland-Pfalz (S) Landesbank Berlin Holding AG Sparkassen- und Giroverband Hessen-Thüringen (S) Land Hessen Freistaat Thüringen Landesbank Baden-Württemberg Land Niedersachsen Land ... according to their ownership stakes, including the savings banks in North Rhine-Westphalia In particular, as shown in Table 1, the two savings banks associations in North Rhine-Westphalia (Rheinischer...
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... Determination of cathepsin E and D activity inhibitor, which inhibits pepsins and CatE [33], but does not affect other types of aspartic proteinases including CatD [31,34] This inhibitor was originally ... processing MHC II-associated invariant chain [24] in antigen processing and presentation [25,26] CatE is also reported to be involved in antigen processing by B cells [27,28] microglia [29] and murine ... distinguishes between the activities of the enzymatically similar proteinases, CatE and CatD, and can therefore be used to investigate the involvement of these enzymes in antigen processing and...
... through the binding of RNA-binding proteins to target mRNAs that prevent their cleavage by endonucleases [45] Vigilin, or high density lipoprotein-binding protein, is an ubiquitous protein in vertebrate ... Zr-protein (D), vigilin (E) and 20S proteasome subunit (F) mRNA in primary culture of salmon hepatocytes exposed for 48 h to μM NP and PCB-77 at 0.001, 0.01 and μM, singly andin combination ... h to μM NP (D), vigilin (E) 0.001, 0.01 and μM, singly (F) in combination salmon hepatocytes exposed forVtg (C), Zr-proteinand PCB-77 at and 20S proteasome subunit andmRNA in primary culture of...
... observed a single cell that appeared to stop growing for a few minutes This result was, and remains singular, and is reminiscent of the duplicate points in the individual human growth curves in Figure ... variations up and down to alternate exponential points shows that the lines for exponential and linear growth are very similar (c) Removing the connecting line and looking at only the data for the ... minimization of deviation of points from the straight line A straight line on semi-logarithmic coordinates indicates exponential growth ducible result andin fact is eliminated in the smoothing...
... Continuous internal integrity monitoring and annual external integrity testing Monitoring Analyze injectant; continuously monitor annular pressure; monitor for fluid movement into USDWs within ... (VSP), along with hydrologic testing and surface water and gas monitoring Monitoring was periodically repeated during injection and is continuing Data gathered during this test will enable researchers ... geomechanical information; and maps and cross sections of the regional geology Demonstrate the presence and adequacy of injection and confining zones by presenting information on geologic formations;...
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... meet in Lam Dong in November 2006, in Binh Thuan in 2007 andin Ninh Thuan in 2008 It is hoped that this Board will provide and official forum for interaction between CARD and DARD staff in the ... and characterisation of target farms Training and Information Dissemination Provision of improved housing and health care for goats Improve the availability and quality of feeds and forages for ... survey, and Appendix shows some preliminary recommendations for action Objective Training and Information Dissemination Output 2.1 Train provincial DARD officers at GRRC Activities 2.1.1 and 2.1.2...
... and characterisation of target farms Training and Information Dissemination Provision of improved housing and health care for goats Improve the availability and quality of feeds and forages for ... the technological innovations on the productivity and well-being of Vietnamese goat farmers in these areas Objective Training and Information Dissemination Output 2.1 (Train provincial DARD officers ... 1 Institute Information Project Name The development and implementation of new appropriate technologies for improving goat production and increasing small-holder income in the central...
... and characterisation of target farms Training and Information Dissemination Provision of improved housing and health care for goats Improve the availability and quality of feeds and forages for ... the findings from The bbb project activities, including analysis and interpretation of farming system surveys carried out in 2006 and 2008, and of the biology and productivity of goats following ... workers and research to define and refine goat production in these provinces For example, training courses have been conducted on housing design and hygiene, selection, breeding and management, disease...
... fixed points of in nitely family nonexpansive mappings, and the set of solutions of variational inequality 1.1 for a β-inverse-strongly monotone mapping in Hilbert spaces The results obtained in this ... I C, B For finding a common element of the set of fixed points of a nonexpansive mapping and Fixed Point Theory and Applications the set of solution of variational inequalities for β-inverse-strongly ... Fixed Point Theory and Applications 27 where { n }, {αn }, and {βn } are three sequences in 0, , and {rn } is a real sequence in 0, ∞ satisfying the following conditions: n and ii limn → ∞ αn and...
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... articles for inclusion in the review We standardized presentation of the randomized trial results using relative risk, and calculated 95% confidence intervals using the log transformation method Since ... feeding formulae and their relation to lung infection The first compared modular tube feeds (a high protein, low fat, linoleic acid-restricted formulation enhanced with arginine, cysteine, vitamin ... difference in pneumonia between trauma patients fed Immun-Aid (containing glutamine, arginine, omega-3-polyunsaturated fatty acids, nucleotides, and branched chain aminoacids) vs Vivonex (standard...
... criteria or urine output criteria We used the change in serum creatinine level and urine output to classify patients according to the RIFLE criteria Patients who met any of the criteria of the ... output criteria Glomerular filtration criteria are calculated as an increase of serum creatinine above the baseline serum creatinine level Acute kidney injury should be both abrupt (within 1–7 ... creatinine using the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease equation for assessment of kidney function, assuming a glomerular filtration rate of 75 ml/min/1.73 m2 When the baseline serum creatinine...
... hard surfaces in Singapore are not involved in the greening programme More efforts are still necessary to make the island green Figure 11 Increasing population and housing estates in Singapore (Source ... reflected by the increasing population and increasing demands for housing (see Figure 11) Together with the concentrated commercial buildings and the scattered industrial 22 CHAPTER INTRODUCTION ... by rainfall, frost and ice formation, wind, and sunshine Climate can influence the pattern of energy consumption in buildings Heating energy consumption predominates in buildings under cold weather...
... simultaneously incline toward increasing the reserves of random indetermination as well as the capacity for coding and overcoding or, in other words, for control and self-regulation Such competition between ... subvert that structurality and “incline toward increasing the reserves of random indetermination,” allowing multiple meanings to coexist and providing alternative ways of reading (a text) Kafka is ... stories, In the Penal Colony” and “The Metamorphosis,” were included in the dossier for the course In addition, we were given handouts in class containing excerpts from his letters and diaries,...
... as insulin growth factor-binding proteins and osteopontin [25], and is unlike the complete modification reported for phosphoproteins secreted from mammary and salivary glands [25] Interestingly, ... et al endogenous inhibitor, a catalytic domain characteristic of serine proteases and a C-terminal Cys- and His-rich domain implicated in enzyme stability and protein– protein interaction [3] ... promoting proteolysis [32,33], (b) activating or inactivating enzymes [35], (c) subcellular localization and transport [36,37], and (d) protein–protein interactions and ⁄ or protein conformation...