... where carbonate rocks are exposed Moreover, the soil itself is not homogeneous Soil horizons are differently developed, and the thicknesses of layers of organic matter are also very different ... the Gorski Kotar area The terrain is a carbonate one, and the soil thickness ranges from a few centimeters up to several meters or more, with soil completely missing in significant areas where carbonate ... highest contaminated areas, while the Adriatic shore and Eastern Slavonija were significantly less contaminated The ratio between the highest (near Grac ˇac) and the least contaminated area of Croatia...
... are introduced in the Chapter of the thesis By applying economic theories, the roles and mechanisms of international agreements in conservation of global environmental assets will become clearer ... factor represented as „a‟ for the arbitration system The games that are assumed to be supported by this factor in the thesis are found to be more successful than normal cases (2) New findings ... rightly confirms that the policy dialogue with information transparency and the proper system of arbitration or dispute settlement are crucially important E stands for Environmental Amenity Likewise,...
... CPRs are also sometimes called open access goods or common property resources General definition of public goods is that theyare the goods that can be consumed by other people even if theyare ... few Under the present legal system, theyare not generally considered as private goods Therefore, access and exploitation of these goods are free to everyone They can be consumed as first comes ... for the arbitration system The games that are assumed to be supported by this factor in the thesis are found to be more successful than normal cases It is truly innovative to introduce these two...
... which are mirrored in other western countries, are alarming as they indicate that despite the fact that women are moving into management roles more readily, and more importantly, that they appear ... more talented employees and these are increasingly found to be women (Burke and Cooper, 2004) In addition, the styles of leadership that are required are those that are more ‘‘relational-oriented, ... levels of success in the workplace as compared to transactional leaders, and are promoted more often, according to Bass (1997) More significantly, theyare believed to produce better financial...
... disadvantage of domestic banks in competition with foreign banks Compared with large international banks, domestic banks are generally in an apparently disadvantaged competitive position The restructuring ... Chinese enterprises, but also facilitate the development of the domestic capital market while theyare engaged in investment and securities business Also, entry of foreign banks urges the Chinese ... authorities tend to set various restrictive measures in the areas of market entry and business licensing Therefore, foreign financial institutions, compared with their domestic counterparts, face more strict...
... BCG-vaccinated persons who are infected with HIV and who are at risk for M tuberculosis infection if they have a tuberculin skin-test reaction of ≥5 mm induration or if theyare nonreactive to tuberculin ... with HIV (51,52 ) Persons who are infected with HIV are possibly at greater risk for lymphadenitis and other complications from BCG vaccine than are persons who are not infected with HIV (53 ... geographic areas of the United States are associated with both an increased risk for M tuberculosis transmission in health-care facilities and a high percentage of TB patients who are infected...
... of community banks as having two key characteristics— theyare small in size, and they most of their business in the community in which theyare located Because these two characteristics tend to ... entrants The smallest community banks are likely to face continued difficulties, either because theyare below the minimum efficient scale or because theyare located in economically declining ... banks serve customers in rural areas and small metropolitan areas that are not served by large banks Community banks are important lenders in the farm economy, and they serve the retail deposit...
... this study are described in Table Theyare cationic proteins with cytotoxic activity: BS-RNase [10] is a natural dimeric RNase; RNaseAA [21], RNase-AA-G [21], and RNase-AA-GG [22] are dimeric ... membrane the RNases dipoles are perpendicular to the negatively charged membrane In Table the EIEmax values of the RNases investigated in this study are tabulated and compared to the RNases’ net ... Electrostatic interactions and antitumor RNases E Notomista et al cells when theyare engineered into cRI-resistant RNases [6,11–14] These results led to the description of the...
... and Asn184) It has been demonstrated that all three N-glycosylation sites are used in vivo and that no additional sites are present [10] N-glycosylation is a major post-translational modification ... N-glycosylation sites are absent in DDQ, this mutant was also detected on the plasma membrane of CHO cells, suggesting that N-glycosylation or N-linked oligosaccharides are important, but not ... type All bands of the mutants had reduced molecular mass, compared with that of wild type NNN The reduced molecular masses of mutants are compatible with the absence of N-glycans at the two eliminated...
... which are very often spoken in such context In addition, these same articles not have the same meaning as they in English "Le, la, les" not always mean "the" in the d e f i n i t e sense, but are ... production of these morphemes in an attempt to determine in which way these morphemes are related to the words Arethey unified with the word in a l l instances or only in certain contexts? REFERENCES ... serial order processes The serial-order processes that occur at any moment of the process are context dependent; they depend on the "current state" of the system The system presents an i n i t i a...
... a set of questions provide only for a 0-1 answers, when theyare being asked whether they have bank debt or not (no-debt); similarly, they also provide an assessment on whether their current ... past) Then it turns out that in 1996, two third of the enterprises declare theyare indebted These indebted enterprises are much bigger: the number of employees is twice as big as in the non-indebted ... of Russian industrial enterprises, in relationship with the constraints theyare facing and the adjustment strategies they show We focus on their relationship with banks, because of its strategic...
... reliable clients The clients of microfinance institutions are typically low-income individuals, who are self-employed or salaried In rural areas, they may generate income from farming, food processing ... is why their microfinance activities are at the core of their retail business Theyare heavily involved in the mobilization of savings and their clients are typically households, microenterprises ... customers not normally well served by purely shareholder-driven, commercial banks 19 WSBI members are large stakeholders in the microfinance market Theyare ideally equipped to be the leading providers...
... that are understood to be heard by characters in the narrative – including music – are referred to as diegetic, while those that are not part of the diegesis (e.g., the orchestral score) are referred ... via both the auditory and visual modalities?” To use Cook’s terminology, we are asking whether the music and image are consistent or merely coherent, i.e., providing a variant meaning or differential ... complementation – neither consistency nor contradiction – in which the various media are generally aligned with one another and share the same narrative structure, but each medium elaborates the underlying...
... apparent pKa values are likely to reflect pKa values in the enzyme–substrate complex [43]) and pH-kcat/Km profiles (where apparent pKa values are likely to reflect pKa values in the apo-enzyme), are ... chitinases has shown for the majority that theyare important for catalysis [20,26–31] However, the mechanistic roles of several of these residues are not described well and there is no example ... complexities, it is not appropriate to compare the calculated pKa values (some of which are quite extreme in the present study) directly with the apparent pKa values that can, in principle, be...
... Although this work represents the first formal study of relationship questions that we are aware of, by no means are we claiming a solution—we see this as merely the first step in addressing a complex ... expected answer type (e.g., person, organization, etc.) Relationship questions are more difficult to process: for one, theyare often not phrased as direct wh-questions, but rather as indirect requests ... the 0.99 level, or Differences not statistically significant are marked with ◦ Although the differences between Lucene and Indri are not significant, blind relevance feedback was found to hurt...
... These things are readily observed and measured They appear in administrative data, and theyare published on a consistent basis in virtually all countries of the world And, theyare very misleading ... influence on economic growth In both areas, there is credible evidence that these aretruly causal relationships To be sure, none of this says that schools per se are the answer Even though it is ... student outcomes These findings are, however, often misinterpreted First, they not imply that schools have no effect They say simply that common measures of school quality are in reality not closely...
... control area in which the entire area was cropped, an area with a 1:1 ratio between catchment area and cropped area, and an area with a 2:1 ratio between the catchment area and cropped area Results ... compared wheat yields for three experimental fields: a control area in which the entire area was planted, a water harvesting area with a ratio of 1:1 between the catchment area and cropped area, ... environments are approaching those in irrigated areas Although adoption rates of modern varieties in rainfed areas are catching up with irrigated areas, the yield gains in rainfed areas remain...
... competitive in India, Pakistan, and China, compared to deposits with banks, and initial deposit requirements are very low The deposits are presumed safe, as theyare implicitly or explicitly guaranteed ... general, bank branches are driven by commercial motives and are concentrated in urban and developed areas Postal networks are more equally dispersed throughout the countries, as they were originally ... bank cards Theyare often not part of an overall comprehensive strategy to reposition the postal financial service entity Postal financial entities are all state-owned Half of these are not supervised...
... entrepreneurial projects are publicly observable Different projects are available to the entrepreneurs: although they all produce the same public return R when successful, they differ in their probability ... Households, banks -Returns are realized (public) and entrepreneurs -Returns are shared between agree to finance projects the agents Figure Timing of Events Period t 29 Aggregate shocks are realized Households ... exiting are replaced by new agents with zero assets.12 Entrepreneurs and bankers solve similar optimization problems: in the first part of each period, they accumulate net worth, which they invest...
... ligand-bound forms are shown as yellow and cyan carbon atoms, respectively Ligand structures are shown as green carbon atoms Hydrogen bond interactions are indicated by broken lines, which are the same ... [6–8], whereas viral chitinases are involved in the pathogenesis of host cells Animal chitinases are involved in dietary uptake processes [9] Human chitinases are particularly associated with ... Saccharomyces cerevisiae (ScCTS1) are shown The overall conserved amino acid residues are highlighted in black boxes Conserved secondary structure elements are indicated above the sequence alignment...