... 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.
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using 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 China
Statistics Quarterly bulletin.
B. Developmentof direct financing and indirect financing markets
providing 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 ... to
explore 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 United
States 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 Business
Finance: The Roles of Private Equity and Debt Markets inthe Financial
Growth Cycle,” Journal of Banking and Finance, August, ... Bank of New York, Current
Issues 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 dimer
interface 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 ... (rotation
angle ‘r’) and variation ofthe inclination (inclination angle ‘i’) with
respect 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 been
reported that a variety of molecular chaperones and
folding enzymes assist the folding of newly synthesized
proteins in ... N-linked oligosaccharide side-chains
are important for the GABA transport activity.
1-Deoxymannojirimycin inhibits the GABA-uptake
of GAT1
In order to gain further insight into theroleof the
terminal ... clarify
whether N-glycans are directly involved inthe GABA-
uptake process and whether the modulation of N-gly-
cosylation in uences the biochemical properties of this
protein, 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 increasing
debt 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 revealed
annual 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 various
models 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 an
analogue 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 immitis
was found to be inthe ÔdownÕ position inthe apoenzyme
and inthe ÔupÕ position inthe complex with allosamidin ... for the position of residue 142 [34].
The pK
a
calculations indicate that the only candidate for
a residue determining the basic arm ofthe pH-activity
profile ofthe D142N mutant is Glu144. The...
... properties of the
document containing the sentence and properties
of the sentence itself. Regarding the former type,
two features come into play: the relevance score
of the document (from the IR engine) ... in
the case of Indri. These results are consistent with
the findings of Monz (2003), who made the same
observation inthe factoid QA task.
There are a few caveats to consider when in-
terpreting ... acquiring nuclear weapons?”, which are the
focus ofthe AQUAINT program inthe U.S., and
opinion questions such as “How does the Chilean
government view attempts at having Pinochet tried
in Spanish...
... obtained using linings of stone and
marble. During the first year ofthe study, when the lining served only as mulch due to
lack of rainfall, an increase of 33.3 percent and 25.0 percent in ... harvesting; increasing crop yields in rainfed areas through
agricultural research; and reforming policies and increasing investments in rainfed areas.
WATER HARVESTING
Water harvesting involves ... aeration and
infiltration of water, it may also result in soil degradation inthe form of increased erosion
(Fall and Faye 1999). Thedevelopmentof new farming techniques may be useful in
combating...
... business case for thedevelopmentof cashless payments
systems.
The Roleof Post Offices in International Remittances
In view ofthe growing numbers of Africans migrating to work abroad (to the ... happened in India, and essentially in Pakistan,
Bangladesh, and Nepal.
The other model emerged inthe 1970s featuring the consolidation ofthe postal office savings bank into a
national savings ... look at the reform and private-sector participation options. The main findings
pointed out that there was no investor appetite in view ofthe micro-scale of operation
and small size ofthe market. ...