... of institutional and infrastructural factors in this market failure. There hasbeen such a sharp deterioration in transport infrastructure that it is difficult for traders to reach areas that are ... far larger shocksthan a trade reform. A further question under this heading is whether tradeliberalization restricts a government's ability to managespending and taxation ina way that ... historical basis, but itwould be mistaken to assume that the association is immutable. It is clear, however, that governments mustdisplay care and maintain a clear focus if they are toensure that...
... consequence was partially blind anddeaf. The allegation was made that one doctor had acted negligently in failingto treat rubella infection. Also it was claimed that another doctor had eithernegligently ... 17.) Again, whilebehaviour during pregnancy is not explicitly regulated in English law (Re F,1988) in the way in which it has been in many US states, leading to criminalsanctions being placed ... screening during pregnancy that we have today, far more information is now available as to the health/viability of the fetus. It is inevitably the casethat the volume of such information will increase...
... heterogeneity within that cinema thereby acknowledging the dynamism within that cinema. Andrew Higson raises the point that thereis no single accepted discourse on national cinema and that instead of ... Caribbean cinema. However, this cinema isina state of infancy. What then is needed to bring this Caribbean filmmaking out of the basement of cinema and into the mainstream of society, particularly ... films one can begin to give shape and form to Caribbean cinema or any such cinema that is emerging and ina state of infancy. From there one can then begin to look at the variation and heterogeneity...
... journalist Chris Mooney made the case that, again and again, even overwhelming scientifi c consensus has met immovable political obstacles. And, again and again, those obstacles have arisen ... trying to deny the facts about global warming, still less in pretending that DDT (a commodity chemical) isa panacea for malaria and as far as I can see none at all in “intelligent design”. In- telligent ... that was never really therein the originals. But I think that the answer to the second is also yes it is. Thereisa lot of anti-sci-ence thinking in Europe (and I’m sure thereisin Asia, too,...
... Data are drawn from Statistical Return. Loans and Bad Loans. Data are drawn from Statistical Return. Average Loan Life. This information is the average length (in years) of customer relationship ... Salas and Saurina (2006), argue that larger banks should have a comparative advantage in terms of borrower risk 8 Market concentration is measured by the Herfindhal index at the national ... This paper uses aggregated and individual Italian bank and firm data drawn from several sources. Aggregated time series on interest rates are drawn from harmonized MIR (Monetary Financial Institution...
... Acad Sci USA 2006; 103(39): 14584-14589. 16. Yamaguchi H, Sasaki K, Satomi Y, Shimbara T, Kageyama H, Mondal MS, Toshinai K, Date Y, Gonzalez LJ, Shioda S, Takao T, Nakazato M, Minamino N. Peptidomic ... by incubation with a reporter antibody (HRP–conjugated anti–rabbit IgG, Santa Cruz Biotech, CA). The assay was developed using a stabilized HRP substrate. All samples were analyzed in the linear ... spinal cord tissue sections were treated with an antibody against Vgf (rabbit anti rat monoclonal D20, 1:1000, Santa Cruz, CA) or against SMI-32 (rabbit polyclonal, 1:200 dilution; Santa...
... UnitedStates: Similar dynamics also characterize, forinstance, Canada and Australia.24 In particular,the Australian saving rate has been negative since2002. Furthermore, the Canadian personal savingrate ... description that abstracts from manyimportant practical details. For instance, it is clear that capitalgains may be taxed at a rate different from labor income; in reality,only realized capital gains ... cumulate savings that go to finance negativesaving rates (dis-saving) after retirement. As a result, as the overallpopulation ages, the aggregate saving rate is likely to decline.6Garner...
... users' and adviser's plans and goals. BOUNDARY MARKERS The analysis of boundary markers revealed reliable indicators at the opening of subdialogues in adviser-user dialogues. This is ... DISTRIBUTION OF NON-PRONOMINAL AND PRONOMINAL NOUN PHRASES Non-pronominal noun phrases play a role in indicating and realizing topic shifts ina dialogue. Since new subdialogues are assumed ... in linguistics and psychology. Because this analysis was performed independently of the dialogue segmentation and subordination, it is a converging analysis and it supports the derived dialogue...
... Tokuzawa Y, Itoh H, Segawa K, MurakamiM, Takahashi K, Maruyama M, Maeda M & Yama-naka S (2003) The homeoprotein Nanog is required formaintenance of pluripotency in mouse epiblast and EScells. ... followingthe manufacturer’s instuctions. Total RNA was digestedwith RNAase-free DNase I (TaKaRa Carlsbad, CA, USA)at 37°C for 30 min and inactivated at 60°C for 10 min.With total RNA (2 lg) as the ... and gently shakenfor 10 min. The absorbance was determined at 492 nm withplate reader (Sunrise, Tecan, Gr¨odig, Austria).Data analysisData were analyzed by Student’s t-test. A value ofP <...
... probability thatviolaxanthin remains violaxanthin; AA, probability that anthera-xanthin remains antheraxanthin; ZZ, probability that zeaxanthinremains zeaxanthin; SVA, the constant rate ... of violaxanthin into antheraxanthin (V A) with a probability VA and antheraxanthin into zeaxanthin (A Z) with a probability AZ. It is known fromexperimental data that these two steps reach equilibrium.It ... epoxi-dation of zeaxanthin to anteraxanthin and violaxanthin [2].The conversion of violaxanthin to zeaxanthin is catalysed byviolaxanthin de-epoxidase (VDE) and the reverse reactionof violaxanthin...
... lipidmetabolism is biased against its extra-hepatic functions. In this study, I examined the PPARa agonist-inducedproteins in the intestine, another important organ for lipidmetabolism e xpressing a fairly ... theirmRNAs in intestine slowly increase during a few days offeeding a diet containing Wy14 643. This slow time courseof induction is also the case for the intestine-specificPPARa-target gene I-FABP ... moreoutstanding than those o f two typical PPAR a- target genetranscripts, liver-type fatty acid binding protein (L-FABP)and intestine-type fatty acid binding protein (I-FABP)mRNAs [3,21]....
... chain in Chl is of centralimportance. Bleaching of the tetrayrrol moiety in Chlmaintained the Cyt b6f complex ina functional state[4]; however, a chlorophyll-less Clamydomonasmutant lacked ... Casano LM, Zapata JM, Martin M & Sabater B (2000)Chlororespiration and poising of cyclic electron trans-port. Plastoquinone as electron transporter between thy-lakoid NADH dehydrogenase ... etioplast are shown in red; proteins originating from the chloroplast are shown in green;proteins present in both membranes in equal amounts are shown in yellow. Complex subunits are labelled according...