... which bonds should be included in our universe. Examples Include biofuels, hydro, waste and water. More transparency from issuers could bring some of these into the climate-themed bond universe. ... issued the largest amount of climate-themed bonds, with 23% ofthe global total. France comes in second with 17%. Together, Europe accounts for 67% ofthe global market, followed by the USA ... issuanceEurope’s leading position in climate-themed bonds is explained by the large volume of outstanding issuance for rail infrastructure. But large utilities are now starting to tap the bond market...
... Methodology: Data from the baseline survey of participants inthe Singapore Longitudinal Ageing Studies (SLAS) Thesis: The present trend of functional disability is increasing It should be ... Managing Health Care and End of Life Decisions in Singapore, 29 May 2009, SingaporeNg Tze Pin, Gerontological Research Programme, Department of Psychological Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of ... reported poor quality of life Inthe face of impaired physical and mental functioning, perceived social handicap stands inthe way of realizing quality of life Smoking rates are dramatically...
... been found toincrease the amount of complex containing MT1-MMP and furin, and the expression of a catalyticallyinactive dominant negative furin construct affected the processing of pro-MT1-MMP. ... identified the EWV614motif in MT5-MMP ICD as comprising animportant sequence for the interaction with the PDZproteins: Mint-3, AMPA binding protein and gluta-mate receptor interacting protein (GRIP). ... as inthe Golgi retention of p24a, a mem-ber ofthe p24 family of cargo receptors [39]. In the present study, we report in detail on the inter-action between the MT1-MMP ICD and GRASP55using...
... 3 indicates that there is a monotonous increase in f-score on the WSJ test set if NANC text is added to our training data in both cases, independent of whether the sentences come from the ... sentences, resulting in a total training set of 4,040k sentences. We believe that our result is quite promising for the future of unsupervised parsing. In putting our best f-score in table 4 into perspective, ... and UML-DOP against the f-scores for U-DOP reported in Bod (2006), the CCM model in Klein and Manning (2002), the DMV dependency model in Klein and Manning (2004) and their combined model DMV+CCM....
... receivable, the cost of administering the accounts and the cost of bad debts on one side, and on the other, the benefits expressed inthe increase in profits and the return received from the trade ... source of financing, as the company is using its own short term assets to obtain financing instead of pledging some other collateral (Zekkar, 2009). Inventory financing is the case where inventory ... pertains to the ability ofthe firm to renew or increase the loan, after it has been paid off, as well as to the ease of securing or increasing the financing on short notice. With factoring,...
... widespread pain at the outset. During the 12-year period ofthe study, 23 out of 214 individuals died (or 10.7%): 5 from the 73 individuals without chronic pain at the start ofthestudy (or 6.8%), ... individuals out of 23 were females. Only one ofthe deceased individuals inthe group with widespread pain had a known malignancy at the time ofthe initial survey. However the causes of the ... Cousins, 2004). Some ofthe changes in nerve functions thought to explain the abnormal sensations and sensitisation found in neuropathic pain include reduced descending inhibition inthe CNS (the...
... poliomyelitis. These vaccines have been integrated into the public health program of many developing countries including India. Usually, the date and type of vaccination of a child are recorded in a ... Nagaland had a value of three and more indicating higher inequality in the state of health care. All other states had a value between two and three indicating the degree of inequality in maternal health ... services by the mother were significant factors inthe reduction of infant and child mortality inthe 1990s (Rutstein 2000; Hatt L.E and Waters H.R 2006). Inthe Indian context, improvement in the...
... analyzed to gain insight into the “complexity” ofthe plan, including the plan sponsor’s number of business locations, the number of payrolls and the method of submitting payrolls. This information ... by their primary line of business and their platforms of investment options may include investment products from other business lines within the company or from other companies.Recordkeeping ... observed inthe 2009 Fee Study, which was 0.86% of assets (Exhibit 2). There are a number of factors that may contribute to the decline in the ‘all -in fee between the 2009 Fee Study and the study...
... Even though 83.5% of wine drunk inthe UK comes from the off-trade, in terms of price, only 60% ofthe total expenditure on wine is inthe off-trade. This reflects the difference in average price ... in wine consumption inthe British market, supply and demand for wine according to the country of origin, supply and demand for wine according to the type/taste of wine, sales analysis ofthe ... most ofthe profit from the increased wine sales, which is due to the rewards derived from economies of scale. The average price of wine has fallen as a result of “systematic discounting” in the...
... harness aesthetic considerations inthe service ofthe moral, rather than simply ignoring the role ofthe aesthetic in motivating action or seeing morally charged situations in terms of bald conflict ... it. The relative neglect ofthe domain ofthe everyday within the discipline of aesthetics is unfortunate, for this domain offers the prospect of significant satisfactions that are different in ... Discussions ofthe role ofthe aesthetic in everyday life are not entirely unheard of: in a recent article in this Journal ( In Search ofthe Aesthetic’, British Journal of Aesthetics, vol....
... will be in- terpreted here as a string, the structure of which can be expressed in terms of a string of ordered i-singlets. The internal grouping ofthe locative elements within the string results ... to which i-singlet? The ordering ofthe i-singlets obtained from the recursive process of i-substitution mirrors the internal hierarchy of the locative string. We attach the following signifi- ... within the given locative string. Description ofthe structure of locative strings in terms of i-singlets within the context of a single func- tional form-class is best accomplished within the...
... in financial deci-sion making includes participation in determining both individualsalaries and institutional priorities. In American society, talking aboutindividual salaries and incomeinequality ... Most of the institutions included in the sample belong to the NationalAssociation of State Universitiesand Land Grant Colleges; many are the “flagship” doctoral-grantinguniversities of their ... Cheryl Hill of Hampden-Sydney College for theirassistance in obtaining other dataused to prepare this report. Currentmembers ofthe AAUP’s Committeeon the Economic Status of the Profession also...
... examine the status ofthe dissenters there. Of these there were four classes, the Quakers or Society of Friends, the Episcopalians, the Baptists, and the Rogerines. Of these, the Quakers and the ... patterned. In the Heads of Agreement, the composition ofthe church is defined according to Congregational standards,as is also the election of its officers. The definition ofthe powers ofthe church ... of conservatism is more often met with as reflecting the opinions of those within the former boundaries of that of New Haven.It was inthe year following the union ofthe two colonies that the...
... residue for the configuration of the secondary structure ofthe protein. The replacement of P179 with Ala could alter the distance between the N-terminus and the C-terminus of eLP2, which couldthen ... iloprost-bind-ing activity [25]. On the basis of this information, the profile ofthe residue functions ofthe C-terminalsegment is important for understanding the ligand selec-tivity of IP determined ... functional residue in the studies – might be of more interest. To investigate the chemical properties ofthe side chains ofthe aminoacids important for ligand-binding activity in receptor–ligand...
... Membranetranslocation of toxin peptides in cell-free endosomes containing in vivo internalized DT. The EN was isolated 15 min after the administration of native DT and then suspended in 0.15M KCl containing 5 ... min (DT-B subunit). In response to the in vivo administration of mDT, which displays a singlesubstitution of Glu52 for Gly inthe A-chain, the kinetics of association with hepatic endosomes of T. ... containing 6 mm CaCl2, inthe presence orabsence of protease inhibitors. To determine the integrity of DT, the proteolytic reaction was stopped by the addition of reducing or nonreducing SDS...