... Iceland, India, Israel, Japan, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad, the United Kingdom, Australia, and ... Onset and Severity of Genocides and Politicides.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 41(3):331-360 La Porta, Rafael, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, Andrei Sheifer, and Robert W Vishny 1998 Lawand Finance” ... scores: trade (exports and imports) and invisibles (payments and receipts for financial and other services) We transformed each measure into a to 100 scale taking 100*(CAPITAL/4) and 100*(CURRENT/8)...
... in regards to the relationship, if any, between inflation and growth, and any causal relationshipbetween the two variables As a first step of investigating the relationshipbetween the two variables, ... there are times when the output decreases and the inflation rate increases, for example, between E2 and E3 This negative relationshipbetween inflation and growth is important, as it quite often ... market growth and structural reforms and tries to ascertain the relationshipbetween output and inflation as well as the impact of disinflation These issues according to Christoffersen and Doyle...
... ,S, X2,ε2; ω2) (1b) G SG OG G The variables ε1 and ε1 are random disturbances, f1 describes the relationshipbetween true health and its instruments and f2 represents reporting behaviour Those out ... correlation between δi and f (HitOG;ωOG) and f (Sit;ωS) in equation (4) (and (5)) So we could specify the dependence as follows: δiSG = η γi + ψi,, and substitite 10 11 this into (4) and estimate ... health In Bound (1991) and Stern (1990) reporting errors are SG modelled as a relationshipbetween H and the wage rate rather than the labour market status S In the Netherlands the unemployment...
... relationshipbetween a banker and a customer depends on the type of transaction Thus the relationship is based on contract, and on certain terms and conditions These relationships confer certain rights and ... value demand draft as a single transaction Banker-Customer Relationship: Banking is a trust-based relationship There are numerous kinds of relationshipbetween the bank and the customer The relationship ... third party Classification of Relationship: The relationshipbetween a bank and its customers can be broadly categorized in to General Relationshipand Special Relationship If we look at Sec...
... with and without nM AnCOBDP9 pre-RNA and with KCl at 50, 100 and 150 mM Note that increasing KCl concentration slows the cleavage of the DNA substrate in the absence of RNA (see also Fig 2D) and ... consist of two RNA and two protein molecules with each RNA using two separate domains to bind to a different region on the two protein subunits Relationshipbetween endonuclease and maturase activities ... provides the first step in the study of the relationshipbetween these two distinct activities Experimental procedures Expression of I-AniI I-AniI was expressed and purified as described previously [30]...
... considered assume that the relationships between bank and market rates are symmetric and linear Several studies (Kleimeier and Sander, 2006; Payne and Waters, 2008; Wang and Thi, 2010; Rocha, 2011) ... financial structures (Cottarelli and Kourelis 1994; Cechetti, 1999; Mojon, 2001; Lago-González and Salas-Fumás 2005) or to the legal and cultural differences (Sander and Kleimeier, 2004) The transmission ... loans and overdrafts, convenience and extended credit card debt, Up to and including EUR million; original maturity: total Loans other than revolving loans and overdrafts, convenience and extended...
... tuberculosis H37Rv, and the PMM74 and the PMM56 mutant strains, and incubated for 20 h with continuous shaking Lipids were then extracted, and separated by TLC as described before, and labeled compounds ... digested with PacI and HindIII endonuclease restriction enzymes, and cloned between the PacI and HindIII sites of pMV361eHyg, a pMV361 derivative lacking the pHsp60 promoter and carrying a hyg ... tuberculosis H37Rv flanked by 760 and 843 bp at the 5¢- and 3¢-end, respectively, was amplified by PCR from genomic DNA using oligonucleotides 2951A and 2951B (Table 1), and cloned into pGEM-T to give...
... of operation and stage of relationshipbetween the middleman and the exporter Based on the work by Bello and Gilliland (1997) it investigates the effects on performance of single and combined ... business relationships between German firms and their trading partners in their home market and nine other countries: Sweden, Poland, Italy, France, USA, Brazil, South Africa, Japan and the People’s ... models, Andersen (1993) distinguishes between the U-model (Uppsala) by Johanson and Vahlne (1977) and the I-models (Innovation) by Bilkey and Tesar (1977), Cavusgil (1980, 1984), Czinkota (1982), and...
... of the imperative for companies that properly integrate demand and supply to understand this flow from demand to supply and back to demand from a service dominant logic, to explore the drive for ... guidance to scholars and practitioners interested in examining and applying these processes to achieve enhanced integration of supply and demand management In both marketing and SCM, thought pertaining ... and supply chain management and related disciplines who provided expertise and input during the editorial process We are also grateful to Editor David Stewart and the Editorial Review Board and...
... link between upper and lower airways and the concept of united airway disease They include genetic factors, an anatomic link between upper and lower airways, neural interaction between the nose and ... asthma and rhinitis.21 Gaga and colleagues found eosinophilic infiltration in the nasal mucosa of asthmatic patients even in the absence of rhinitis.22 The relationshipbetween nasal allergy and ... Increased levels of IL-3, IL-4, IL-5, Relationshipbetween Asthma and Rhinitis — Bergeron and Hamid 83 granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF), and eosinophils were found in endobronchial...
... antibody therapy in rheumatoid arthritis and the risk of serious infections and malignancies: systematic review and meta-analysis of rare harmful effects in randomized controlled trials JAMA 2006, ... we learn to subtype RA, it would be important to look at the relationshipbetween anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide antibody status and malignancy Is the risk of lymphoma primarily seen in certain ... by Smitten and colleagues pushes our understanding of malignancy in RA forward but raises many important questions for future research First, as much of the literature they cite (and most of...
... All MRI and x-ray examinations were conducted using the same standardised protocol, as recently reported [4,13,24] Quantification of inflammatory and chronic spinal lesions Depiction and quantification ... analysis of the relationshipbetween spinal inflammation at BL and radiographic progression after years, all individual VEs were examined by MRI for signs of inflammation at BL and the same VEs ... radiographs at BL and 2yFU Statistical analysis The Fisher exact test was used for comparison between different subgroups such as those with VEs and without spinal inflammation or with and without...
... and men’s (M) and women’s (W) suicide mortality Area Selected Days Astronomical season Winter M Finland All Table Accelerating and decelerating periods of the equation of time and men’s (M) and ... number of suicides(S), and suicide mortality for men in Oulu, Helsinki, and Finland from 1969 to 2003 15 th to June 13 th (A1) and from September st to December 25th (A2), and constantly behind ... suicide mortality and confidence interval of the mean in aggregate over the years from 1969 to 2003 for men and women, during astronomical seasons in Finland, Helsinki and Oulu, and according to...
... distance, motion pattern, specifics of the design and manufacturing of the polyethylene component, implantation techniques, type of wear and amount and type of use of the joint We know that component-size ... complained of minimal pain and swelling at the anteromedial aspect of the knee His symptoms progressed and, at months, the patient underwent an arthroscopic exploration with washout and samples were sent ... The osteophyte was excised Tibial and femoral components were stable and hence not revised At years post-osteophyte excision (Figure 3), the patient was pain-free and asymptomatic Throughout this...
... and drafted the manuscript AM and AC collected bacterial isolates, performed on admission susceptibility tests and laboratory experiments VR, LS, AS and CP carried out clinical examinations and ... recruitment of patients AR and AG collected strains and performed on admission susceptibility tests AS and RP analysed the data GS and FB revised the manuscript All authors read and approved the final ... 58:1107-1117 16 Clinical and Laboratory Standard Institute: Performance Standards for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing; 18th Informational Supplement M100-S18 Clinical and Laboratory Standard Institute,...
... quadratic and cubic terms, though not higher polynomials, increased the fit of the modelled association between adjusted BMI and SDQ total score, reflecting a curvilinear relationshipbetween weight and ... internalising (emotional) and externalising (behavioural) symptoms and adjusted BMI were observed After adjusting for potential confounders the relationships between obesity and psychological adjustment ... disorder compared to non-obese young people No cross-level interactions between household income and the relationships between obesity and internalising or externalising symptoms were observed Conclusions:...
... Objective ………………………………………………………… Relationshipbetween lean archetypes and operations financial performance …………………………………………… Relationshipbetween individual lean practices and operations financial performance……………………………………………… ... performance……………………………………………… Relationshipbetween lean archetypes and business financial Performance ……………………………………………………… Relationshipbetween individual lean practices and business financial performance ... sample frame and calculating the difference between the median 5-year performance for the sample firm and that of its matched comparison portfolio The relationships between lean and non-lean...
... reveal a significant relationshipbetween current values of the ratio between the market value and the book value of company equity and governance indices (the GIM Index and the BCF Index) in ... Epps and Cereola (2008) identified the lack of a significant relationshipbetween the corporate governance rating and operational performance represented by the rate of return on assets and the ... positive relationshipbetween the corporate governance index ROB (reported by The Globe and Mail) and the Tobin’s Q ratio when there is a separation between voting rights and cash-flow rights...