... confronta-tion between the Soviet Union andthe United States was the centralreality in world politics. With the end ofthe Cold War andthe disso-lution ofthe Soviet Union, the world continues ... interpretation of both the crude Chinese nuclear threatsover the Taiwan crisis and Chinese views ofthe U.S. bombing of the Chinese embassy in Yugoslavia. If the strategic views of China and the United ... result of agreementswith the United States and unilateral actions in the aftermath of the Cold War, and partly because ofthe state ofthe Russian economy.Even if Russia had not ratified the Strategic...
... agencies. Even though the Department of State, the Treasury, the Council of Economic Advisers, the Trade Representative, and the Department of Labor are all part ofthe U.S. government, they report to ... what else? What would be the standards? And whohas the competence? Certainly not the IMF! The second criticism ofthe analogy between the IMF andthe Fed as the lender of last resort goes deeper. ... incomplete as they may be, are impressive. The contrastbetween the limited successes ofthe Bank andthe broader failures of the IMF may be instructive.AN AGENDA FOR REFORM OFTHE IMF The IMF has...
... story ofthe fragmentation of the ideal of literature as a public sphere. The excesses gener-ated by the French Revolution, on the one hand, and by the infor-mation revolution, on the other, ... from the super-stitions ofthe weak, andthe imposing craft ofthe subtle’ (323).Thomas Holcroft placed a similar emphasis on the art of printing’in the defence of this progressivist vision of ... rank, of everyage, andof both sexes. They are intimately acquainted withevery language, the dead as well as the living. To the culti-vation of letters they join that ofthe arts; andthe mechanicsare...
... professional colleagues on the world. The Association has the role of coordinating the activities ofthe members in order to protect the interests ofthe members and improve the position of ... to be renewed to facilitate export and import. The General Department of Customs, the Ministry of Trade and examining bodies, andthe Bureau of Standards and Measures should have consensus ... supervision and management ofthe Department of Transport and Public Works of Ho Chi Minh City. State-owned corporations under other central government ministries are also another typeof port...
... term. Therefore the coefficients of ε0log ε of Sδ[ρ − ε]dv and Vol(Ωε) agree; the former gives L(∂Ω) andthe theoremfollows.5. Proof of Proposition 3Let Am(Ω) be the subspace of A(Ω) ... from the integral ofthe coefficients ofthe expansions.We here prove that the integral ofthe coefficient ofthe logarithmic sin-gularity ofthe Szegăo kernel gives a biholomorphic invariant of ... hestated the real analyticity ofthe coefficients ofthe asymptotic expansion of the Bergman kernel, though the proof was not published. Now a proof of thistheorem and claim, based on Kashiwara’s...
... chapterdescribes the structure ofthe works, the distribution of contaminated water, the nature of the contamination ofthe water supply, water quality data on the concentrations ofthe contaminants ... deal of space at the base ofthe tank. Mixingwould have taken place at the interface between the concentrated aluminium sulphate solution and the water in the tank. 3.20 The capacity ofthe ... of the incident. An employee of SWWA at the time ofthe incident is reported as stating that the bottom of the tank was filled to the level ofthe outlet pipe with a solid, compacted deposit of...
... THREEEffects ofthe Utilization of IRS Expense Standards on the CourtsOne can attempt to assess the effects on the courts by reviewing the types and volume of issues ending up in the courts, the case ... after the date of enactment of this Act, the Director ofthe Executive Office for United States Trustees shall submit a report to the Committee on the Judiciary ofthe Senate andthe Committee on the ... instead ofthe IRS standards and compared the results. ese comparisons demonstrate the extent to which the use ofthe IRS standards affected debtors’ MDIs. We explored the relationships between the...
... cleavage of the scissile bond. This would affect FX and peptidehydrolysis similarly, supported by the similar decreasein the rate of cleavage of both types of substrates. The effect ofthe G372(223)A ... constitutes part of the oxyanion hole andthe rim ofthe S1 pocket, mayrotate 180 °C depending on thetypeof inhibitorbound. Similarly, rotation ofthe Ser363(214)–Trp364(215) peptide bond and perturbation ... 158(21) and 296(154) [14–17]. The high specific activity of theseFVIIa variants is presumably linked to a more stableburial ofthe N-terminus ofthe protease domain in the activation pocket of the...
... terminal in the sinus gland, as a result of late and progressiveisomerization ofthe Phe3 ofthe CHH during the migration ofthe secretion vesicles along the axonaltract [39,41]. The immunohistochemical ... microscopystudy ofthe neuronal endings in the sinus gland todetermine the subcellular localization ofthe differentepimers. Taken together, these results allow a discus-sion ofthe existence of enzyme(s) ... that the two VIH isomers differed by the configuration ofthe tryptophan at the fourth position of the sequence and, consequently, they were namedVIH and d-Trp4 VIH.This assumption was further...
... part ofthe reaction course and by thermodynam-ics in the late part ofthe reaction course, and therefore the epimerization product increases early and decreasesas the reaction progresses to the ... that there is no deuteration of C2Â ofthe epimerase product. The lack of deuteration of the C2Â of DHMP is not due to the lack of deute-rons, because it has been shown previously that the 6-hydroxymethyl ... substituted NP and MP (see Table 1 fortheir chemical structures) for DHNP and DHMP,respectively, and measured the binding of HP in the absence of GA. NP and MP are the oxidized forms of the pterins,...
... and quantitativereal-time RT-PCR, the locations ofthe primers DN)105 and DN)9used in ChIP assays, the locations ofthe primers DN+232 and DN+254 utilized in 5Â-RACE, andthe locations ofthe ... fragments F and I. The number at the right of each RT-PCR product represents the length ofthe prod-uct. The scheme also shows the location ofthe reverse primerDN+89 used in another starting ... numbers over the diagrams indicate the position ofthe corresponding nucleotides relative to the translation start site, andthe numbersin parentheses below the diagram show the position ofthe corresponding...
... volume of 0.2MMes/NaOH buffer (pH 5.0). The dead time of the apparatus was 3 ms, andthe noise level was indicatedin the first place as the absorbance fluctuations for the residual solution ofthe ... loss ofthe axial water ligand. The correspondingspectral changes in the Soret band were therefore followedby stopped-flow and rapid-scan techniques, and the observed rst-order rate constants of ... the autoxidation of T. akamusi hemoglobin VII below pH 6.0,as well as for the b-chain in the autoxidation ofthe humanHbO2tetramer [11]. The other role ofthe distal histidine isin the maximum...
... the t rees, and furthermore it will lead to the mutation of conserved motifsotherwise common to the sequence family to which the gene belonged at the time of endosymbiosis. The dissolution of ... of all ofthe enzymes of the pathway (Fig. 4), it is clear that only about half of the enzymes ofthe tricarboxylic acid cycle, the major pathway of carbon metabolism in mitochondria of oxygen-respiringeukaryotes, ... and that some ofthe subunits of PDH, OGDH and OADH are related. The functional and evolutionaryrelationships between the subunits of these enzymes aresomewhat complicated. In a nutshell, the...
... afternoon (that is, the first meeting day) with areview ofthe state ofthe UK and world economy. The BoE ChiefEconomist starts the meeting with a short summary of any majorevents since the Friday briefing. ... C. 2001. The Formulation of Monetary Policy at the Bank of England.” Quarterly Bulletin (Bank of England) Winter: 434–41.Clare, A., and R. Courtenay. 2001. “Assessing the Impact of Macro-economic ... hypothesis, it is rational—in the sense of being profit maximizing and reflects both the size of assetsunder management, and associated transaction costs of trading, and that a large proportion of...