... Primers for amplification of the MP gene The EcoRI site is indicated in bold andthe NheI site is underlined Primers for amplification of the CP gene The EcoRI site is indicated in bold andthe NdeI ... Primer for amplification of the MP ND35 gene The EcoRI site is indicated in bold andthe NdeI site is underlined Primer for amplification of the MP ND16 gene The EcoRI site is indicated in bold andthe ... Primer for amplification of the MP ND49 gene The EcoRI site is indicated in bold andthe NdeI site is underlined Primer for amplification of the MP CD3 gene The EcoRI site is indicated in bold and the...
... if the need is overwhelming and other options are inadequate may offer a balance of benefits and risks for as long as the United States chooses to retain nuclear forces Both the forces andthe ... U.S Nuclear Forces: Implicationsfor U.S Strategy Future Nuclear Threats The most important and dramatic change remains the dissolution of the Soviet Union andthe Warsaw Pact andthe ratcheting ... powers, the United States andthe Soviet Union • Being on opposite sides of the world, the United States andthe Soviet Union were separated by time and space That time and space would help reduce the...
... observed in the epithelial cells of the tongue and esophagus, in the gastric glands and at the base of the villi in jejunum The apparent signal in the outer keratinized layer of the tongue and esophagus ... colon and rectum In duodenum, the Adh1 signal was found in the outer epithelial border of the villi Expression was found to be highest at the base of the villi and in the intestinal glands, while ... towards the superficial layers In the stomach, Aldh1 mRNA was present in the epithelial cells of the gastric pits and in the neck of the gastric glands Aldh1 expression continued in duodenum with the...
... modeled the likelihood they got the condition in the next year Health Status Transition Model The FEM then predicts the health conditions and functional status of the baseline sample forthe next ... illness they had it forever and could therefore not get it and modeled transitions into the states This is consistent with the definitions in the data (“Has a doctor ever told you…”) and most of the ... necessarily reflect the views or policies of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services The contractor assumes responsibility forthe accuracy and completeness of the information contained...
... current and probably future changes in the global economy It then goes on to describe and analyse the stimulus package and other measures taken by the Thai government as a means of combating the ... to the status quo The EAEM relates to the economic basis of development of the country; the EADM includes the configuration of the political and cultural aspects that are also used to reinforce ... developmental goals on behalf of the state which, in return, smoothes the way for firms to complete their own goals There are other forms of relationship: in Taiwan, for example, 40 J Walsh / VNU...
... Structure and Performance of Rural and Micro Finance Industry This chapter analyzes the different types of RMFIs in Ghana and their financial products, from the more formal and licensed to the less formal ... accounts as they repay the loan The group handles the collection of savings and repayments, acts as the interface with the loan officer, and bears group responsibility for recovery (though the loans ... April 1996, and 42% of them were placed in the worst category” (Camara 1996) By the end of 2001, these ratings had improved to 60% and 15%, respectively, andthe share given the top rating for financial...
... designers in the optimization of their designs The 18 Knowledge andthe firm advantages forthe automaker are significant First, the market demands regular production of new models, and by avoiding the ... shaped by the firm’s assets andthe evolution path it has adopted or inherited These theories emphasize the significance of knowledge, and place the practices that surround the development and use ... transaction costs and of the resource-based theory of the firm and overcome their limitations He compares and contrasts the two theories and discusses the weaknesses of the approaches He argues that transaction...
... 2000) The blending of transaction costs economics andthe resource-based theory makes it possible to understand the constraints andthe limitations that the costs of using the hierarchies andthe ... understanding the firm A clear understanding of the role of technological and organizational knowledge in the theory of the firm is provided by the resource-based approach 32 Knowledge andthe firm ... necessary to understand the firm The understanding of the factors affecting the choice between inclusion and exclusion, including the costs of using respectively the markets andthe internal hierarchies,...
... process and activity The problem for both academics conceptualizing the process andfor firms themselves is how wide should they conceive the process to be For firms themselves, part of the reason ... teams and components can be ready when the plane arrives and problems can be solved before they create a major difficulty forthe company and its customer For companies like Rolls-Royce, therefore, ... innovation The issue of innovation and technology, if noted at all, is within the broader context of the search for new tastes or in the desire for novelty The search for novelty andthe development...
... month The charge forthe basic Internet bank service is comparable to the charge the bank demands for a mailing service for paying bills through the centralized Swedish systems for paying bills The ... which can profitably be performed by a commercial provider Enabling innovations, on the other hand, provide the consumers with the tools and knowledge to perform the task themselves Internet banking ... database included information on mailings to the customer and whether the customer had responded to these, the latest transactions, andthe customer’s overall connections to the bank When this...
... competition on the one hand, with call centres, and on the other hand, with PC connections in the near future It was acknowledged that the work on the BDT platform was running late and consumed ... between the customer’s operations andthe carrying out of the transaction by the bank; and (4) a possibility to subscribe online to minitel banking, and to look and research the movements on the ... about the services forthe Internet will be reutilized forthe PC version of the minitel service because of the ergonomic proximity (both used PC as a means of connection) Nevertheless, the form...
... of the sources that contributed to the formation of a firms’ early knowledge base, which included the origin and background of the entrepreneurs andthe set of formal and informal linkages they ... although the chances of success depend very much on the nature of the 158 Innovation and firm strategy technologies, the resources available andthe background of the entrepreneurs On the other hand, ... and technological knowledge andthe markets – and we will attempt to understand the motives and strategies underlying their establishment Although, for methodological reasons, technological and...
... sources; (2) the conditions in which they searched for these sources and their ability to gain access to and establish relationships with them, as well as the capacity to absorb and use the knowledge ... all of the 23 themes lend themselves to meaningful interpretation, and a few of the meaningful themes appear quite randomly across the 180 patents, as indeed they should on the basis of their ... a variety of national and foreign databases for R&D projects and patents andthe consultation of firms’ web pages, as well as other documentation available on them The information obtained was...
... The research mandate of GRIs in this field, on the other hand, allows them to share much of the combinatorial cognitive advantages of food firms, and they orchestrate and appropriate their own R&D ... their definition and their solution has implications not only forthe analysis above but also more generally for understanding competence enhancement The literature is not always clear on whether ... than they receive assignments (j), andthe level of their participations is 13.2 times higher than their number of assignments (k) The latter ratio is 4.9 for GRI, indicating their proclivity for...
... detailed information exists for only a few countries, including the USA where the business sector itself collects the data (Larson, 2001).9 Fortunately, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and ... getting the better of sharing and exchanging information with the worldwide scientific community The correlation and causality between diminishing resources for corporate basic research andthe declining ... rewards for themselves It enables the creation of a private asset forthe ‘discoverer’ resulting from the very fact of giving up exclusive rights The need to be identified and recognized as the discoverer...
... by the linearity of the Fisher–Pry plot The ␣ is the diffusion coefficient of the product to the market If the time span between Fϭ0.1 and Fϭ0.9, is conveniently taken to express the spread of the ... is carried out in the form of a Fisher–Pry plot, the slope of the straight line corresponds to the time span in the expression of the normalized scale of the vertical axis As the logistic curve ... in the last half of 18th century This cluster forms the first and second Kondratiev waves There is the second cluster located in the last half of the 19th century, which includes steel making, the...
... of the model, analyzed the scenarios, and drafted the manuscript EH and LM provided insights into the model structure and edited the manuscript JK conceived of the model and helped to draft the ... kshed and kadh are both modulated by the values γf and γt, as described above The value for Qf, the volumetric flow rate andthe spine and brain CSF volumes are taken from Bergsneider [12] The ... the cells from the primary tumor are constantly disseminating in the CSF and forming satellite nodules that can then themselves disseminate immediately This is almost certainly not the case for...
... immune responses Provided that they are not too strong, autoimmune responses may be essential forthe normal development and function of the immune system andforthe development of immunologic ... survival, for their activation and development (including negative and positive selection of B and T cells), andfor lymphoid organ morphogenesis [21,22] Defects in NF-κB function or control permit the ... dependent on NF-κB in their development [22], andthe former at least require NF-κB both in a cell-intrinsic role and in thymic stromal cells in the form of RelB [33] κ Nuclear factor-κB and immune tolerance...
... following the links from the CViT blast results, selecting the appropriate postion on the chromosome and downloading the sequence data These were then compared with the sequence data for each ... especially those that are not in the SERK clade On the other hand, there is the likelihood of genome changes in both of the species during the past 50 million years to produce the gene compliment that ... whether or not they have undergone gene expansion [57] The authors propose that the expanded group share similarities with the NBS-LRR resistance genes in their genetic variation and evolution and...
... English and Vietnamese in term of their syntactic, semantic features and their classifications? What are the suggestions for teaching and learning vocabulary in the textbook “English forthe hotel and ... However, they belong to the types that are easy enough forthe learners to form and use Andthe meanings of these compound nouns can be guessed through their components’ meanings as most of them ... compound nouns 4.4 Implicationsfor teaching and learning vocabulary in the textbook: “English forthe hotel and tourist industry” Basing on the result of the compound nouns' analysis andthe research...