... inthe sphere of Microloans In 2000-2002: banks increased the intensiveness and volumes of the small business financing; reduced a minimal loan sum; began to use flexible credit interest ... incubators and SME support institutions 65 active members in 2003 Russian Microfinance System and Microfinancial Institutions Commercial BanksMicrofinancing InstitutesCredit UnionsAgriculture/country ... mutuality of start-up enterprises inthe acquisition of getting profits and a capital accumulation experience Last achievements inthe sphere of Microloans (continued) November 1999: Informal...
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... notinto the incubation medium as this would have required the use of a modified incubation medium containing either ablocker of endocannabinoid uptake or BSA [22]. Further-more, detection of these ... amplification of cDNA of thesecells shows a single band ofthe expected molecular size(Fig. 2A). We also determined the presence ofthe FAAHprotein by Western blot analysis (Fig. 3C). An intensestaining ... against asequence between the N-terminal and the first trans-membrane domain ofthe protein ofthe human and ratCB2receptor. The specificity ofthe CB1and CB2antibodieswas described in...
... would mainly be 19 Funding arrangements Another component ofthe SWAp is the pooling of funds to support implementation of the POW. Currently, six ofthe fifteen official donors inthe health ... are included in the list of priority health interventions defined inthe POW. The specific role of each level of health services inthe provision of reproductive health services is further ... planning. Each district then develops its plan in line with the guidelines from the Ministry of Health and after taking account ofthe district’s own peculiarities. The district plans are then...
... 14PercyMoleke15Inequalities in HigherEducationand theStructureofthe LabourMarket in educationor inthe labourmarket,havedonelittletoaddress the inequalities of the past. The lack of labour ... labourmarketbasedonraceastheyprimarilyaddress the demand-sidesources of inequities. The continuingdisparitiespointtoaneedtolookinto the role of supplyfactors in the phenomenon.Differences in humancapitalacquiredaregainingprominence in accountingfor the racialdisparities inthe labourmarket.Field of study is the major determinant of ... disparities inthe labourmarketbasedonraceastheyprimarilyaddress the demand-sidesources of inequities. The continuingdisparitiespointtoaneedtolookinto the role of supplyfactors in the phenomenon.Differences in humancapitalacquiredaregainingprominence in accountingfor the racialdisparities inthe labourmarket.Field...
... productive binding of steroid substrates: in the first, a (small) sub population of enzyme bindsdirectly the steroid inthe reactive conformation, with the remainder ofthe enzyme binding the unreactiveconformation. ... unusual in havingtwo histidine residues (rather than the His-Asn pairseen in OYE, MR and some ofthe other memberproteins; Fig. 1B) inthe active site for ligand andsubstrate binding. For ... contain aHis-His pair, there has been no report of a systematicanalysis ofthe contribution of each histidine residue tobinding and catalysis. Thus, to ascertain the role of each histidine...
... has the Dconfiguration.On the basis ofthe data obtained, it was concluded that the O-polysaccharide P. mirabilis G1 has the structure shown in Fig. 3. This structure is similar to that of the O-polysaccharide ... serum againstP. mirabilis G1 was tested in immunohemolysis with LPSfrom the complete s et of Proteus stra ins, including 37 strains of P. mirabilis and 28 strains of P. vulgaris belonging to ... and lysine. The Dconfiguration of GalA and GalN was determined by GLC of the acetylated (S)-2-butyl glycosides and the Lconfiguration of lysine by GLC ofthe acetylated (S)-2-butyl ester. The Dconfiguration...
... ∞ THE FINANCIAL CRISISINQUIRY REPORTFINAL REPORT OFTHE NATIONAL COMMISSION ON THE CAUSES OFTHEFINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC CRISIS INTHE UNITED STATESOFFICIAL GOVERNMENT EDITION THE FINANCIAL ... of their loans. FINANCIAL C RISIS INQUIRY COMMISSION REPORT CONCLUSIONS OFTHE FINANCIAL CRISIS INQUIRY COMMISSION The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission has been called upon to examine ... It was the failures out-lined above—including the failure to effectively rein in excesses inthe mortgage andnancial markets—that were the principal causes of this crisis. Indeed, the availabil-ity...
... dissecting the role ofthe endocannabi-noid systemin physiology as well as in pathologicalprocesses. Thesystem incorporates the endocannabi-noids, their synthetic and degradative enzymes, the endocannabinoid ... endothelial isoform of this enzymeare beneficial by, among other mechanisms, sustainingblood flow inthe periphery ofthe ischemic brain. On the other hand, under normal circumstances, stimula-tion of ... haveexamined the putative protective or toxic effects of drugs interacting withcannabinoid receptors or have measured the brain levels of endocannabi-noids inin vitro and in vivo models of cerebral...
... presentation ofthe movement ofthe juxta-membrane domains in response to ANP binding. Looking down-wards toward the cell membrane, ANP binding causes a translation of the juxtamembrane domains from the ... containing an extracellular ANP-binding domain (ECD), a transmembrane domain, andan intracellular domain consisting of an ATP-bindingregulatory domain and a GCase catalytic domain [8].ANP binding ... expected inthe Trp environment in responseto ANP binding. On the basis ofthe above structure analyses, we utilized Trp fluorescence to examine the solution structures of apoECD and ANP–ECD. The fluorescence...
... beenproposed for this structure [37].TheoverallshapeofAb-(1–42) is strongly reminiscent of thestructureofthe fusion domain ofin uenza hemagglu-tinin (HA_fd), recently determined in detergent micelles ... The surprising similarity of this structure, aswell as the sequence ofthe C-terminal moiety, with those of the fusion domain ofin uenza hemagglutinin suggests adirect mechanism of neurotoxicity.Keywords: ... is the finding that the sequences ofthe C-terminal part of Ab-(1–42) and that of HA_fd share indeed a high similarity (Fig. 6C) dictatedessentially by the presence of similarly spaced glycineresidues,...