... device to crossthe BBB because it may overcome the biological barrier and increase the bioavailability ofthe drug in the brain and CNS The aim of this thesis is to develop nanoparticles of biodegradable ... process The biodegradation rate ofthe PLGA copolymers are dependent on the molar ratio ofthe lactic and glycolic acids in the polymer chain, molecular weight ofthe polymer, the degree ofthe crystallinity, ... membranes ofthe brain capillary endothelial cell Fig The BBB as a selective sieve With these two functions ofthe blood brain barrier, the brain capillaries allow the passage of oxygen and other...
... with the terms ofthe obligation Nature and provisions ofthe obligation Protection afforded by, and relative position of, the obligation in the event ofthe bankruptcy, reorganization, or other ... analysis ofthe effectiveness ofthe firm’s management team, the competitive environment of its industry, the regulatory environment, andthe effectiveness ofthe firm’s corporate governance The financial ... considered or the quantitative definition ofthe rating, greater benefit can be provided to the market andthe users of ratings via further enhancements to the transparency and clarity ofthe rating...
... for the resolution of cross- border financial groups However, the development of mechanisms for the sharing of financial burdens for the resolution of future Report and Recommendations ofthe Cross- border ... Mauritius, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom andthe United States The European Commission andthe European Central Bank also participated in the survey The Basel ... jurisdictions andthe law and policy in those jurisdictions In the EU/EEA, the European Directives on the Reorganisation and Winding-up of Credit Institutions of April 2001 andof Insurance Undertakings of...
... scores and hundreds of times during the day's round ofthe individual The cook spreads his saliva on the muffins and rolls, the waitress infects the glasses and spoons, the moistened fingers ofthe ... the air cling to the moist surfaces ofthe air-passages and never reach the lungs Mucous membranes lining the mouth and other cavities ofthe body would prove favorable sites for the growth of ... DEVELOPMENT OF PARASITES CHAPTER I 21 The group of parasites consists of two general classes, the vegetable, andthe animal In the former class belong the bacteria, and in the latter the protozoa The...
... for the accommodation of Congress andofthe President andofthe public offices ofthe Government have made a report ofthe state ofthe buildings designed for those purposes in the city of Washington, ... Congress a report ofthe Secretary of State, with a copy of an act ofthe legislature ofthe State of Kentucky consenting to the ratification ofthe amendment ofthe Constitution ofthe United States ... Gentlemen ofthe Senate and Gentlemen ofthe House of Representatives: The personal inconveniences to the members ofthe Senate andofthe House of Representatives in leaving their families and private...
... section; thence northerly to the northwest corner ofthe northeast quarter of said section; thence easterly to the northeast corner of said section; thence northerly to the southeast corner ofsection ... west; thence northerly to the northeast corner ofthe southeast quarter ofsection twelve (12), said township; thence westerly along the quarter -section line to the northeast corner ofthe southeast ... along the quarter -section lines to the southeast corner ofthe northeast quarter ofsection three (3), said township; thence northerly along thesection lines to the northeast corner of section...
... swords, andthe colors ofthe Battalion of Engineers, ofthe several regiments, andofthe United States Corps of Cadets will be put in mourning for the period of six months The date and hour ofthe ... Secretary ofthe Navy In the exercise ofthe power vested in the President by the Constitution, and by virtue ofthe seventeen hundred and fifty-third sectionofthe Revised Statutes andofthe civil-service ... salute of thirty-eight guns The usual badge of mourning will be worn by officers ofthe Army, andthe colors ofthe several regiments, ofthe United States Corps of Cadets, andofthe Battalion of...
... at IAS and RIFAV The objective of these two trials is to investigate the effect of growing media on crop development, yield and quality of greenhouse grown tomato and cucumber • Planning and resource ... of Agriculture and Forestry andthe Institute of Agricultural Sciences for South Vietnam the major Vietnamese project partners NSW Department of Primary Industries is the Australian partner The ... established at IAS and RIFAV The objective of these two trials is to investigate the effect of growing media on crop development, yield and quality of greenhouse grown tomato and cucumber Publication...
... horticulturists and 50 vegetable traders and growers Workshop participants came from 35 provinces throughout North and South Vietnam One ofthe highlights ofthe workshops was the discussion forums and it ... with these farmers will be fostered throughout the life ofthe project to facilitate rapid adoption of project outputs 5.3 Capacity Building Capacity building has been the focus of much ofthe ... with further research and development This project addresses the issues of food safety and food quality from production to market to encourage the economic viability and sustainability ofthe Vietnamese...
... production practices and supply chains The project is led by the Research Institute of Fruit and Vegetables with Hue University of Agriculture and Forestry andthe Institute of Agricultural Sciences ... with further research and development This project addresses the issues of food safety and food quality from production to market to encourage the economic viability and sustainability ofthe Vietnamese ... determine the daily water use of plants growing in a greenhouse Water wicks up into the substrate from the base ofthe pot fed by an individual tank As the plant uses water the level in the tank...
... Vietnamese and English Inclusion of several institutes in the project, supported by MARD andthe training of officers from 64 provinces/cities in Vietnam, andthe inclusion of growers and traders ... potential options, down the track they may look to pursue some of these opportunities 2) Indirectly – much ofthe focus of this project has been on building the capacity of scientific and extension personnel ... Vietnam with the uptake of these systems over the next few years 6.2 Gender and Social Issues Gender and social issues have been addressed as they have come up during the life ofthe project Both...
... perpendicular to the floor (force of gravity) The precession rate (the number of rotations around the direction of B0 over the unit of time) depends on the type of nucleus andthe intensity of B0 The precession ... images: from the management ofthe RF wave shapes andthe switching on and off of RF pulses, to the management ofthe gradients and data acquisition, processing, memorization, andthe search and presentation ... 1.7): the higher the proton density, the higher the amplitude ofthe signal 1.4.2 Relaxation The relaxation ofthe spin is caused by the exchange of energy between spins and between spins and the...
... analysis Volume ofthe Handbook of Econometrics and Volume 11 ofthe Handbook of Statistics contain nice surveys of these topics (Hajivassilou and Ruud, 1994; Hall, 1994; Hajivassilou, 1993; and Keane, ... available in Volume ofthe Handbook of Econometrics—see Powell (1994) and Hardle and Linton (1994)—as well as in ¨ Volume 11 ofthe Handbook of Statistics—see Horowitz (1993) and Ullah and Vinod (1993) ... refer to sections throughout the book first by chapter number followed by section number and, sometimes, subsection number Therefore, Section 6.3 refers to Section in Chapter 6, andSection 13.8.3...
... presence of within-cluster correlation Another important issue is that crosssection samples often are, either intentionally or unintentionally, chosen so that they are not random samples from the ... cover—although the estimation methods we cover can be usually used—is seen when thecrosssection dimension and time series dimensions are roughly ofthe same magnitude, such as when the sample consists of ... the post–World War II period In this case it makes little sense to fix the time series dimension and let thecrosssection dimension grow The research on asymptotic analysis with these kinds of...
... expectation operator, and several additional properties that are consequences ofthe randomness of mðxÞ Some ofthe statements we make are proven in the appendix, but general proofs of other assertions ... shows that the elasticity is a function of x When y and x are random, it makes sense to use the right-hand side of equation (2.8), but where f ðxÞ is the conditional mean, mðxÞ Therefore, the (partial) ... know the outcome of w, then we know the outcome of x The most general statement ofthe LIE that we will need is Eðy j xÞ ¼ E½Eð y j wÞ j x ð2:19Þ In other words, if we write m1 ðwÞ Eð y j wÞ and...
... is the square root ofthe appropriate diagonal ele^N ment of V =N The asymptotic standard errors can be loosely thought of as estimating ^ the standard deviations ofthe elements of yN , and they ... ð3:2Þ ^ for any value of y, then we say yN is a consistent estimator of y Because there are other notions of convergence, in the theoretical literature condition (3.2) is often referred to as ... p ^ ^N jth diagonal vjj , and V ! V, then the asymptotic standard error of yNj , denoted ^Nj Þ, is ð^Njj =NÞ 1=2 seðy v In other words, the asymptotic standard error of an estimator, which is...
... a1 denote the average partial e¤ect (across the distribution ofthe explanatory variables) of x1 on Eð y j x1 ; x2 Þ, and let a2 be the same for x2 Find a1 and a2 in terms ofthe bj and mj b ... (Consistency of OLS): Under Assumptions OLS.1 and OLS.2, the ^ OLS estimator b obtained from a random sample following the population model (4.5) is consistent for b The simplicity ofthe proof of Theorem ... simple way ^ to determine the sign, and perhaps the magnitude, ofthe inconsistency in bK If g > and xK and q are positively correlated, the asymptotic bias is positive The other combinations are...
... Þ=ðx1 À x0 Þ where y0 and x0 are the sample averages of yi and xi over the part ofthe sample with zi ¼ 0, and y1 and x1 are the sample averages of yi and xi over the part ofthe sample with zi ... define the linear combination of interest, say y a1 b1 þ a2 b2 þ Á Á Á þ aK bK , and then to write one ofthe bj in terms of y andthe other elements of b Then, substitute into the equation of interest ... 500,000 observations! The problem is that the instruments— representing quarters of birth and various interactions of these with year of birth and state of birth—are very weak, and they are too numerous...
... elements of x i and xi0 x i : the levels, squares, andcross products ofthe regressors in the conditional mean The Breusch-Pagan and White tests have degrees of freedom that depend on the number of ... Rather than comparing the OLS and 2SLS estimates of a particular linear combination ofthe parameters—as the original Hausman test does—it often makes sense to compare just the estimates ofthe ... instruments The tools needed to make the proof rigorous are introduced in Chapter 12, but the key components ofthe proof can be given here in the context ofthe linear model Write the model as...
... infinity In the household demand example, we are interested in a set of three demand functions, andthe unit of obser- Estimating Systems of Equations by OLS and GLS 145 vation is the family Therefore, ... will often need to indicate the equation for a generic crosssection unit i When we study the asymptotic properties of various estimators ofthe bg , the asymptotics is done with G fixed and N ... parameter vector of interest and ui is a G Â vector of unobservables Equation (7.9) explains the G variables yi1 ; ; yiG in terms of Xi andthe unobservables ui Because ofthe random sampling...