... in a school in Ghana or Peru would gain the same amount of knowledge in any year of schooling as the average student in a school in Finland or Korea? Still, using the quantitative measure of ... impact of school attainment on earnings. 29using the mathematics component ofthe transformed and extended tests shown in Figure 4.1, replicating and strengthening the previous results by using ... plots the average annual rate ofgrowthin GDP per capita over the 40-year period against years of schooling at the beginning ofthe period for a sample of 92 countries. Both growthand education...
... expectation of a strengthening ofthe rand) or by raising interest rates. Under either of these options, it would probably be both difficult and undesirable for the SARB to maintain the higher rates of ... buying inflows to reduce the NOFP. Nonetheless, in certain cases involving large one-off inflows of FDI, the SARB may have sufficient prior information to make an assessment as to whether the ... approach. By stepping into the market to purchase foreign exchange, irrespective of prevailing market conditions, the SARB would be adding to pressure on the rand at times of weak investor sentiment....
... the dominance ofthe banking sector inthe financial system. At the same time, opening of markets and reforms have contributed to the strengthening of intermediation function of financial markets, ... China Statistics Yearbook, China Financial Yearbook and People’s Bank of ChinaStatistics Quarterly bulletin.B. Developmentof direct financing and indirect financing marketsproviding financing ... andthe central bank in bond marketdevelopment The government andthe central bank played significant roles in establishing and developing bond marketin China.Since 1998, inter-bank bond market...
... ). The renewed interest in examining the indications for BCG vaccination in the United States included consideration ofthe wide range of vaccine efficacies deter-mined by clinical trials and ... toexplore the sources ofthe heterogeneity inthe efficacy ofthe BCG vaccine reported in the individual studies. Using a model that included the geographic latitude of the study site andthe data ... resurgence inthe incidence of TB occurred inthe UnitedStates and included increases inthe number of TB cases among adults and children and outbreaks of multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) involving...
... Allen N., and Gregory F. Udell. 1998. The Economics of Small BusinessFinance: The Roles of Private Equity and Debt Markets inthe Financial Growth Cycle,” Journal of Banking and Finance, August, ... Bank of New York, CurrentIssues in Economics and Finance, August. Strahan, Philip, and James Weston. 1998. “Small Business Lending and the Changing Structure ofthe Banking Industry,” Journal of ... understanding issues facing community banks. I. THE CURRENT ROLEOF COMMUNITY BANKS The banking system inthe United States has always been unique in the sense of containing large numbers of small...
... the dimerinterface ofthe models or inthe surroundings of the mutated residues. The models of RNase A covalent dimers in the exchanging conformation were prepared using the 7RSA structure and ... at the dimer interface ofthe models or inthe surroundings of the hinge loop residues. Likewise, the models of nonex-changing and exchanging HHP-RNase were prepared start-ing from 1Z7X. The ... (rotationangle ‘r’) and variation ofthe inclination (inclination angle ‘i’) withrespect to the plane ofthe membrane (parallel to the xy plane).Cter and Nter are the C-terminal and N-terminal structural...
... involved inthe regulation of the stability and trafficking of GAT1. It has beenreported that a variety of molecular chaperones and folding enzymes assist the folding of newly synthesizedproteins in ... N-linked oligosaccharide side-chainsare important for the GABA transport activity.1-Deoxymannojirimycin inhibits the GABA-uptake of GAT1 In order to gain further insight into theroleof the terminal ... clarifywhether N-glycans are directly involved inthe GABA-uptake process and whether the modulation of N-gly-cosylation in uences the biochemical properties of thisprotein, quantitative and kinetic...
... disambiguated word meaning. It is thein interaction ofthe results of these asynchronous processes that the process of comprehension is defined. The processes are independent ofthe know- ledge ... affected. The study includes off-line picture naming which forces use of articles in all ofthe above contexts, as well as on-line production of these morphemes in an attempt to determine in which ... but are often generic and mark masculine, feminine, or plural (Gross, 1977; Goffic and McBride, 1975). And furthermore, these same articles often are not translated into meaning preserving sentences...
... most of them and access-to-input for the worst in this sub-pool. Conversely, the overbearing influence ofthe financial constraints in the lower half is statistically associated with a rather ... book, index of current production, the lower the supply of credit. Finally, the higher the co-ordinate on the f2 axis, e.g. the more the enterprise is faced with financial limit, the higher the ... The probability of increasingdebt raises with the fact that the enterprise was indebted inthe past (in all the groups).Nodebt thus appears as a strong inertial component inthe credit-demand...
... microfinance stands unrivalled in scale, and outreach continues to grow in terms ofthe number of microborrowers.Institutions providing microfinance in Asia play a critical rolein increasing the ... for the same year. In terms of growth, the survey revealedannual growth rates of 35% in terms ofthe number of clients and 46% in terms ofthe size ofthe portfolio. This confirms that the Latin ... identify the variousmodels and understand the existing distinct approaches to microfinance.There is significant diversity among the type of players in the microfinance industry. This includes...
... music), taking into account the director’s – and, therefore, the composer’s – intentions, the narrative content ofthe film, andthe overall strategy ofthe director in constructing the multifaceted ... theoretical – of film music perception andtherole of music in film, referencing some ofthe most significant research investigating the relationship between sound and image inthe cinematic context. ... other-worldly. In this capacity, the role of music is significantly enhanced by the level of ambiguity inherent inthe visual scene. Specifically, the more ambiguous the meaning ofthe visual image, the...
... affinity of ChiB for allosamidin, which is ananalogue ofthe proposed oxazolinium ion intermediate [32]. The minor (or even positive) effects of Y214F on substrate and intermediate binding andthe ... conformations. The Asp142 equiv-alent inthe family 18 chitinase from Coccidioides immitiswas found to be inthe ÔdownÕ position inthe apoenzyme and inthe ÔupÕ position inthe complex with allosamidin ... for the position of residue 142 [34]. The pKacalculations indicate that the only candidate fora residue determining the basic arm ofthe pH-activityprofile ofthe D142N mutant is Glu144. The...