... 5000 Equity IndexWorldscopeTable 1. Indices in SRI fund performance studiesMajor sustainability indicesDow Jones Sustainability Index STOXXFTSE4Good GlobalDow Jones Sustainability Index WorldEthical ... sustainability indices, and five (12%) incorporate regional sustainability indices. For a complete list of indices used in the studies, we refer to Table 1.0 5 10 15 20Major IndexMajor Sustainability ... responsibility information translates into actions by the fund.Survivorship bias 4. Incorporate dead funds into the analysis or explain how refraining from dead funds and stocks might in uence the...
... Initialing Local Variablesin T-SQL To initialize the variables, you will use the SET command, shown in these two lines of code: SET @Cust_Id = 'ANTON' ... setting the initial values, you are then ready to use the variables within the rest of your procedure, any way that you need them, again, by using the @varname syntax. Utilizing Built -In Functions ... However, when you're creating multiple steps in your routines that are getting more complex, you'll use variables more often. 2. Add the code in Listing 6.2 to the Load event of the...
... situationEcological Footprint and biocapacityNon-renewable natural resourcesUsing Input-Output analysis to analyse resource use in the economyBetter integration of ores and minerals in the analysis Country’s ... cannot renew within its own boundaries, and how are these costs changing over time?Using Input-Output analysis to analyse resource intensiveness in different industriesSystematise analysis of environmental ... from Footprint of production, incorporate additional measures of degradationIncrease sophistication of analysis regarding carbon pricing, trading, or taxing.Systematise and refine analysis of...
... signed but insignificant. This finding underlines the influence that the institution protection schemes have on lowering the propensity for bank runs by institutions in Germany. Closer examination ... for the training sample with 500 institutions as 15 problem banks had to be deleted from the initial sample due to data availability constraints regarding independent variables of six institutions ... described by a vector of independent variables ix . In order to obtain a binary outcome, the function ().G has to lie in the interval []1,0 only. This can be achieved by using a distribution...
... cost-cutting in thehealth sector remained.10Finally, expenditure on interest payments increased by 5.2 percent in 1998, which was solely due to the increase in public debt, since the average interest ... pensions and invalidity pensions. In the original cross-section, averagepension receipts of natives decline with the age of pensioners, reflecting past differences in working careers. In order to ... share of taxes in GDP increased significantly from 24.8 percentof GDP in 1997 to 25.6 percent in 1998. In particular, revenue from the corporate, incomeand labour tax increased, mainly due to the...
... rigiddomains [domain 1 (residues 1–119) and domain 2(residues 151–245)] linked by an interdomain hinge(residues 120–150). Interestingly, the connectionbetween the two domains and the hinge appears ... (1990) Could domain movements be involved in the mechanism of trypsin-like serine proteases? FEBSLett 271, 9–13.22 Chen SC & Bahar I (2004) Mining frequent patterns in protein structures: ... the calcium (II) binding site in trypsin, chymotrypsin, and subtilisin. Biochemistry 28,7524–7531.83 Krieger E, Darden T, Nabuurs SB, Finkelstein A &Vriend G (2004) Making optimal use of...
... Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9HEPrinted in Singapore.ADVANCES IN QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF FINANCE AND ACCOUNTINGVOLUME 3Essays in Microstructure in Honor of David K WhitcombMarch 9, 2006 ... This, in turn, implies liquidity clustering in an environment in which informed tradingfurther exaggerates the clustering effect. In Scharfstein and Stein (1990), largeorder flows, observable ... trading days.Figures in the row marked “average” are computed based on the computationsat 15-minute intervals over the trading day, averaged over intervals and tradingdays. Panel A contains...
... N-terminal region of DEC1, including thebHLH domain, interacted with the C-terminal r egion o fBMAL1 in a mammalian two-hybrid assay. Accordingly, aFig. 5. Analysis of DEC1 mutants for bindingto ... by DEC1 coincidedwith that for interaction with BMAL1 and binding to theE-boxes, indicating the importance of t his region in DEC1for its suppressive activity against CLOCK/BMAL1-induced transcription.Materials ... Arg65, is responsible for t heE-box binding.Determination of the region in BMAL1 for bindingto DEC1To identify the region in BMAL1 required for the binding toDEC1, w e constructed e xpression...
... frames representing separate intervals.Work presented in [CGL00] further improves visual performance by arranging drawableobjects into a binary tree of bounding boxes, which also eliminates the ... by helping identifymacro-patterns that put primitive pattern instance into a larger context covering the en-tire topology.Holistic analysis. In order to assess single-node performance in addition ... parallel computing, performance analysis, event tracing, scalability.1 IntroductionEvent tracing is a powerful and widely-used method for analyzing the performance ofparallel programs. In the context...
... hybridproteins. We deleted or exchanged their N- and ⁄ orC-terminal domains, exchanged the central Smdomains or, in the case of Lsm8p, made point muta-tions in putative RNA-binding residues.We investigated ... mutations in Lsm8p on its nuclear localization. (A) Lsm8p C-terminal domain mutations. (B) Lsm8p N-terminal domain muta-tions and recombinant Lsm1p containing the Lsm8p N-terminal 10 amino acids. ... accumulation for thelatter, indicating that in the absence of an N-terminaldomain distinct localization is lacking. Finally, theLsm1p Sm domain by itself (LsmDN1DCp) accumu-lates in both the nucleus...
... made; in the last wash, theresin containing the recombinant proteins was loaded intoa gravity-flow column. The column was washed once withlysis buffer containing 10 mm imidazole. The proteins ... buffer containing 100 mm imidazole. Thepurified proteins were stored in 50% (v ⁄ v) glycerol at)20 °Cor4°C, or in 3.2 m ammonium sulfate at 4 °C.Protein determination was carried out according to ... were 95 °C for 5 min; 40 cycles of1 min denaturation at 95 °C, 1 min annealing at 45–60 °C,and 1.5 min of extension at 72 °C; followed by a finalincubation at 72 °C for 10 min. The PCR products...
... In another exa~ole, in English, "-ing" is used to indicate a participle, or "-ed" can be used to distinguish passive mode from active. In Chinese, there is nothing to indicate ... "~,\~", (800 Mandarin Chinese Words), Bejing, (1980) 5. PREPROCESSING EFFICIENCY The preprocessing system for chinese language mentioned in the paper is in the course of development ... the main sentence, so there may be many ambiguities in deciding the structure it occurs in. If we attempt Chinese language analysis using a conputer, and try to perform the syntactic analysis...
... fluorescent protein;GlcNAc, 2-amino-2-N-acetylamino-D-glucose; GNA, Galanthus nivalis agglutinin; HHA, Hippeastrum hybrid agglutinin; JRL, jacalin relatedlectin; Morniga M, mannose binding Morus ... legumelectin Phaseolus vulgaris agglutinin (PHA) and theGNA-related lectin from snowdrop (Galanthus nivalisagglutinin, GNA) in P. pastoris. A glucose-mannose-binding legume lectin from the ... simi-larly docked into the saccharide-binding site of Calsepa(RCSB Protein Data Bank code 1OUW) [28]. Cartoonsshowing the docking of Man ⁄ MeMan in the mannose-bind-ing sites of the lectins were drawn...
... DNA-binding proteinof the ferritin family563 nt20 052 DaContains domains typical of the ferritin-likesuperfamily, such as: DNA-binding ferritin-like protein, ferritins and bacterioferritinsPutative ... shows anincreased level in the dmdR1 mutant, is a DNA-bindingprotein with domains typical of the ferritin superfamily.This protein might be involved in a cascade of iron regu-lation in response ... availableregarding ferritin regulation in Streptomyces species. In addition to the 11 proteins listed in Tables 1 and2, minor changes in other proteins were observed.These proteins may be involved in other...