... crimes; • enact and enforce laws prohibiting all forms of violence against women, including unwanted or forced sex; and • reform laws and practices that discriminate against women In Africa, some of ... domestic laws discriminating against women carry greater weight than international instruments protecting women from discrimination.16 And in considering whether a woman could inherit her father’s ... comments to aid all member states in interpreting the broad provisions of international human rights treaties These increasingly February 2006 An Instrument for Advancing Reproductive and Sexual...
... expressed concern regarding the possible broad interpretation of “clear information”, and have urged alternative wording such as “convincing evidence” that would be more in line with international standards ... without Prince Ranariddh became an insignificant force in the communal elections, the result being a high level of abstention in the elections International observers reported improvements in the ... focused on maintaining power at all costs The government has been slow to make reforms – such as fighting corruption and improving the judiciary – which would have brought tangible benefits for...
... functions of the Internet become increasingly important for people in general and adolescents in particular, it is vital to think in terms of construction and co-construction processes In teen chat, ... When considering the role of the Internet in identity development, it is important to remember that participants in online environments can be relatively anonymous and not have information about ... independently Training continued until acceptable levels of reliability were obtained for all categories of the coding system Table shows the excellent kappa coefficients that were obtained for...
... declining inflation, allowing real interest rates to fall gradually A formal inflation-targeting policy was adopted in June 1999 and succeeded in meeting the stringent targets of and per cent for ... Seigniorage increases with inflation but as inflation continues to increase, the demand for real money, including interest free demand deposits, declines more than proportionally with the increase in inflation ... banks Bank seigniorage revenue (or inflationary revenue) is the increase in non-interest bearing demand deposits (∆DD) minus the increase in non-interest bearing required reserves (∆RR).5 Figure...
... development walked their dogs in the fields, trampling down seedlings and ruining crops In the face of rising conflict between residents of the housing development and members of Ukrainka, the district leadership ... private allotment in center, Kharkiv, 2006 View from main street in village adjoining Chayanovskoe former collective farm, 1998 Courtyard in village adjoining Chayanovskoe former collective farm, ... the Nikitin Regional Public Library in Voronezh was particularly helpful in locating and obtaining local press materials published in the early 1990s In Ukraine, many people provided intellectual...
... selected for NS-RP All patients treated with a NS-RP used several ED treatments (including vacuum device, penile injections, and recently PDE-5 inhibitors), used subsequently or in combined therapies, ... were involved in the acquisition of data LM and VV have made significant assistance in the interpretation of data JLG has been involved in drafting the manuscript or revising it critically for ... with validated instruments such as the Medical Outcomes Study Short Form-12 or the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer QOL-30 Finally, our findings have the inherent limitations...
... Lower Sesan dam will beusedin Cambodia The main reason being that the capacity for transmission of the power beyond the northeast is not yet in existence, and demand for power in the sparsely populated ... discussed in more detail below As men oned above, an ini al MOU for conduc ng a feasibility study for the dam was signed between Cambodia’s Ministry of Mines and Energy and EVN in June 2007 Following ... KTC also has interests in the banking sector, and holds shares in Kookmin Bank Cambodia Kookmin Bank Cambodia is a joint venture between KB Kookmin Bank and Khmer Union Bank KB Kookmin Bank owns...
... lobes were fixed in buffered 10% formalin, embedded in paraffin, and usedfor hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) staining Other portions of ischemic and non-ischemic liver lobes were snap frozen in ... using a Vectastain avidin-biotin complex reagent and 3,3'diaminobenzidine chromogen kits (Vector Lab, Inc., Burlingame, CA) The tissue sections were examined using a Nikon light microscope interfaced ... such as α-4 integrin, independent of the selectins, and finally, within the liver sinusoids, no known selectin molecules or α-4 integrin molecules appear to play a dominant role in leukocyte...
... Neuberger used a yeast two-hybrid screen and identified CTNNBL1 (beta catenin-like protein 1) as an AID-interacting protein Interestingly, he found that an AID mutant deficient in CTNNBL1 binding ... arginine 2, in both mouse and human systems While dispensable forin vitro VDJ recombination, the PHD finger was essential in vivo for recruiting Rag2 to its target genes Moreover, recombination ... talks focused on the role of asymmetric division in cell-fate determination, and provided compelling evidence suggesting that the cell fate determinant Numb is critical in determining lineage commitment...
... of total financing Informal sources can be important for working capital finance Leasing, credit card finance, and equity play a minor role as financing sources.14 Looking at financing patterns ... invest (apply for a loan) should consider the cost of alternative sources of financing, including internal sources of financing 26 In the first model (demand for credit) overdraft is capturing the ... explanation for an industry effect is that some industries are more likely to depend on external financing than others, depending upon initial project scale, cash flows and requirements for continuing investment...
... preventing and treating sexually transmitted infections, including HIV and AIDS In addition, reproductive health care can bring patients into the healthcare system, encouraging diagnosis and treatment ... and an increased burden on government expenditures • What is the unmet need for family planning services and information for adolescents in the Pacific? The unmet need for family planning refers ... condoms Studies indicate that providing SRH information early on in life can have long-term protective benefits Adolescents are less likely to have heard family planning messages in the media,...
... schools The intervention also helped in improving confidence After participating in the initiative, students reported feeling more confident in protesting and registering complaints against unwanted ... living in New Zealand 20 10 Physical RRI Kiribati 32 32 20 used against them For many women, the abuse was repetitive and resulted in injuries The data also provide information about the link between ... are being measured in an increasing number of countries.13 Gathering rigorous data and sharing that data to inform prevention activities and service delivery is an important priority Appreciating...
... therefore better maintain their competitiveness The mining industries, for instance, are used to emphasize technology as a main competition tool, with a “virtuous” cycle between efficiency, innovative ... reportedly leading to the shrink of inspection force, by cutting down the technical staff in the Inspectorate, formerly belonging to VEPA The inspector’s responsibilities concerning industrial pollution ... establishment in Vietnam when the French created it as an industrial complex of textile in 1889 It used to be the leading textile company for decades before the collapse due to ailing business performance...
... of cyclin protein levels or by inducing members of the INK4A and/or CIP/KIP family of cyclin dependent kinase inhibitors (CKI), resulting in the down-regulation of cyclin/Cdk activity and inhibition ... subdomains A and B and the spacer region) the highest homology between the pRb protein family is found in the A and B subdomains The pocket-domain is responsible for binding to proteins containing ... promoters containing paired-like homeodomain protein binding sites The observation that pRb can bind simultaneous Pax-5 and the TATA-binding protein TBP, suggested a mechanism for inhibition of...
... all, only ‘‘single men in barracks.’’ Honor and masculinity went hand -in- hand in Kipling But masculine honor is not Gender, race, and the writing of empire sexual restraint in Kipling, as any ... crowd-theorists, blaming middle-class figures of in uence for not doing their job in guiding in the right direction the easily -in uenced, in this case the soldier rather than the jingo crowd at home ... the fighting in Egypt, but things were different a few years later, when he met up again with many of his military acquaintances from Egypt, in the thick of the war in South Africa Even before he...
... causes irregular bleeding and pain during intercourse in women, burning during urination in men, and discharge in both men and women If left untreated, chlamydia can lead to pelvic inflammatory disease ... equipment with an infected person —Receiving a blood transfusion that contains HIVinfected blood or receiving a medical injection using equipment that has not been properly cleaned —Being exposed ... will continue •• EC is intended for use in exceptional circumstances, such as when a contraceptive method was not used or failed, or when sex was forced It is not intended to beusedin place...
... provide YFS It shouldbe noted that YFS is not included in the pre-service training that health staff receive at training institutions Although the Tanzanian National Policy Guidelines for Reproductive ... AYA began its efforts by providing services to youth attending MCH clinics for antenatal care or family planning, and as a result of both the training and experience of service providers in youth ... its RCHS, the Ministry of Health has developed YFS training manuals for health providers, peer service providers and paramedical counselors, including a training of trainers guide In collaboration...
... appear a strange concept in most African settings, various forms of ‘harm reduction’ programmes are already being implemented in the prevention of HIV For instance, in many cultures and religions, ... MSM Interventions programmes would have to take these differences in consideration in approach in order to be sufficiently effective In conclusion, HIV intervention programmes may not be reaching ... prevention interventions targeting MSM in this country, where MSM is illegal Simooya et al (2001) in a study in Zambia have reported the difficulty in providing condoms in prisons for MSM when...
... proteolysis of ubiquitin-tagged proteins [41] Ubiquitination of proteins is catalysed by three enzymes: ubiquitin-activating enzyme (E1), ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme (E2) and ubiquitin protein ligase (E3) ... measure these rates for all the individual proteins involved For medium- or high-throughput experiments of protein turnover stable-isotope-labelled amino acids or ammonium are commonly used [27–30] ... interaction with the yeast E3 ubiquitin ligase RSP5 in a binding assay using protein chips [44] For PFK, GPM, PDC and ADH this is in agreement with the results for enzyme capacity It is not known...
... that code for a single protein Interestingly, during the initial process of identifying the NR family members in the A aegypti genome, we predicted two isoforms of AaFTZ-F1, differing only in their ... the longest amino acid sequences that included the DNA binding, hinge and ligand-binding domains were usedfor this analysis, except for the Knirps family members that lack the LBD In D melanogaster, ... PV fat bodies were incubated in CM for 30 and established as initial time point (0 h); then were incubated in CM or with 20E for and 16 h, or with a pulse treatment of 20E for h then removal...