... recruiting large enterprises with tax breaks, financial incentives, and other induce-ments. Instead, they are relying on building businesses from the groundup and supporting the growth of existing ... well. They include constraints on the supply of labor and otherinputs, upward pressure on wages and rents, congestion of infrastruc-ture, and (if fiscal incentives are provided to the locating ... to long chains of command and subsequent communication inefficiency, inflexibility, and loss of managerial coordination. Further, small firms, to the extent thatthey operate in more competitive...
... & Lynch, K. (1999).Offeringahand to pragmatic understanding: Theroleof speech and gesture in comprehension and memory. Journal of Memory and Language, 40,577–592.Lansing, C. R., & McConkie, ... gestures and facial cues seeking the most infor-mative cue according to the content ofthe lecture. The results of the questionnaire revealed that the majority of those whoreported they paid ... minimal reference to the outline duringrecording. The first part ofthe lecture covered definitions of terms and a brief history of ceramics, which tended to be done in narrative form. Most of...
... mainly individuals and small businesses, the traditional target client group of savings banks. By capturing and channelling more of the remittances into the financial system and intermediating ... out of the savings banks movement, have done a Bringing the Hidden Giants to the Footlight: theRoleof Savings and Retail Banks in Increasing the Level of Access to Financial ServicesChris ... for disbursing of loans and collecting loan repayments. Another promising track for savings banks is to invest their savings deposits in microfinance institutions by specialising in wholesale...
... be built, maintained and accessed using these techniques.8.1. Emulating Operating System EnvironmentsDuring the 1960’s the notion of a virtual machine base for operating systems development ... outperform 4.3bsd in several benchmarks of overall system performance [1].A key and unusual element inthe design of Mach is the notion that communication (in the form of messagepassing) and virtual ... validation - Finally, the kernel informs the hardware physical map module ofthe new virtualto physical mapping.With the exception ofthe hardware validation, all of these steps are implemented in a...
... 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 sameobservation 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 Chileangovernment view attempts at having Pinochet tried in Spanish...
... of GSK3 (using Li or SB-415286)appears to be sufficient for inducing activation of GS in muscle and fat cells, and that inhibition ofthe kinasepotentiates insulin action in muscle of insulin-resistant ... increases in glucose uptake and glycogen synthesisallowing for more effective ÔchannellingÕ of glucose intoglycogen in response to insulin. However, one of the potential difficulties in interpreting ... phosphatidylinositol3-kinase, p70, S6 kinase and glycogen synthase kinase-3 activity in L6 muscle cells: evidence for the involvement ofthe mammaliantarget of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway in the L-leucine-inducedup-regulation...
... economies. This book includes indicators covering the economic and social context, the structure oftheinformationandcommunicationtechnology sector, sector efficiency and capacity, and sector performance ... 2012 The Little Data Book on InformationandCommunication Technology High incomeBelgium2005 2010 2010High-incomegroupCountry datavThe Little Data Book on InformationandCommunicationTechnology ... creation, innovation, and increased trade. ICTs also help provide better services in health and education, and strengthen social cohesion. The Little Data Book on InformationandCommunication Technology...
... accumulating school savings may have effects apart from financing school. Conley (2001) finds that a doubling of net worth results in an 8.3% increase inthe probability of attending college. Further, ... for their youth. Youth savings. Youth were asked in 2002 whether they had a savings or bank account in their name. If they had an account, they were also asked whether they were saving some of ... None ofthe existing research examines the effect of youth savings on college attendance, and only one study examines the relationship between parent school savings and college attendance. Theoretical...
... The graphs below show the numbers of male and female workers in 1975 and 1995 in several employment sectors ofthe republic of Freedonia. Write a report for a university teacher describing ... Write a report for a university teacher describing theinformation shown.You should write at least 150 words. You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. ...
... create signiÞcant changes in the genetic makeup of plants and animals due to the random recombination and sorting of thousands of genes. As a result of intervention by people, the hybrid seed corn ... throughout the world bears little resem-blance to teosinte, the original ancestor of corn. The newer techniques involv-ing genetic engineering, on the other hand, allow for the transfer of a fewgenes ... commercially introduced in the U.S. in 1996 and have been rapidly adopted by farmers. It has been estimatedthat 24% ofthe corn and almost 70% ofthe soybeans and cotton grown in the U.S. in 2001...
... treatment induces apoptosis appears to depend on the overall balance ofthe above activities.Comparing phosphatase and kinase inhibitors The protein phosphatase inhibitor OA andthe proteinkinase inhibitor, ... protein, the degree of activation and the in uence of other proteins. Phosphorylation signaling pathways are intri-cately interrelated; it was previously shown that either induction or inhibi-tion ... is under the direct control of kinases and phosphatases, and the indirect control of phosphorylation through the regula-tion of other apoptotic proteins. Furthermore, manykinases and phosphatases...