... performance.2. Roleofthe central bank The central bank has played a roleofpolicy designing and implementation in the process of institution building inthe financial sector. The promulgation ofThe ... on the securities booking system of the CGSDTC andthe bond trading system ofthe inter-bank lending centre. The tradingsystem ofthe national inter-bank lending centre provides pricing information, ... under the framework of financial globalization.II. Review of Institution Building inthe Financial SectorA. Main driving forces of institution buildingA review ofthe developments of China’s financial...
... ). 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...
... following determinations: in terms of producing information about possible invest-ments and allocating capital, the financial (a) developing and analyzing measures ofthe functioning of financial ... diversification, and management of risk; (d) mobilizing and pooling savings; and (e) easing the exchange of goods, services, and financial instruments. Financial insti-tutions and markets around the world ... developed and 55 developing), provides interesting insights into views about financial development andtheroleof the state in finance.Despite the crisis experience, 90 percent ofthe country officials...
... Allen N., and Gregory F. Udell. 1998. The Economics of Small BusinessFinance: The Roles of Private Equity and Debt Markets inthe FinancialGrowth Cycle,” Journal of Banking and Finance, August, ... and James Weston. 1998. “Small Business Lending and the Changing Structure ofthe Banking Industry,” Journal of Banking and Finance, August.Sullivan, Richard J. 2000. “How Has the Adoption 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...
... likely that the N-terminal domain is involved in protein–protein interactions with other hydrophilic domains of neighboring integral membrane subunits, and interspeciesinteractions are incompatible.From ... proposed X-linkage.Sequence analyses ofthe ESSS cDNA in these mutantsrevealed chain termination mutations. In two of thesemutants the protein i s truncated at the C-terminus of the targeting sequence; ... andthe effect of the absence of intact complex I, but the results are toopreliminary in this regard.Heterologous expression ofthe ESSS-HA subunit The localization ofthe ESSS subunit in the...
... 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...
... furtherinvestigate theroleofthe SEA domain in cleavage of membrane-tethered mucins we carried out site-directedmutagenesis ofthe FRPG ⁄ SVVV site and evaluatedhybrid mucins in which the ... shown in bold.PCR conditions were as described previously. The frag-ments were then cloned into the SpeI ⁄ XhoI sites of the polylinker in MUC1FDTR. The remaining portions of the polylinker introduced ... leucine and valine residues N-ter-minal to the MUC3 and MUC12 specific sequences and aserine residue C-terminal to them.Transient expression of epitope-tagged mucinproteins in Cos-7 cells and...
... whendissecting the effect of GTP on glutamine-dependent CTPsynthesis.As mentioned inthe Introduction, the GTP activation of the E.coli enzyme is proposed to be due mainly to anincrease inthe rate of ... GTPactivation ofthe glutaminase reaction and CTP synthesiswas compared (Fig. 5). Inthe absence of GTP, the rate of glutamine hydrolysis was significantly higher than the rate of CTP synthesis so that the ... kinetics ofthe glutaminase reaction of CTP synthasefromLactococcus lactis The roleofthe allosteric activator GTP in coupling between glutamine hydrolysis and CTP synthesisMartin Willemoe¨s1and...
... 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...
... to secondhand smoke, questioning the accuracy of tobacco industry communications, andthe declining social acceptability of smoking. Other forms of smoking-relevant advertising include advertisements ... n scontrol attempt to in uence the news and entertainment media; and (3) theroleof regulation and public policyin influencing tobacco communications. Finally, at the population level, ... asponsorship and advertising, thein uence of tobacco marketing on smoking behavior, and the regulatory and constitutional issues surrounding policy interventions directed at tobacco marketing.Part...
... 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 ... very helpful in bringing microfinance into the spotlight not only in developing countries but also inthe developedworld. The awareness by policy makers about theroleof microfinance asa major ... beenpioneers inthe Latin American microfinance industry. As of today, 7 out of 15 Latin American members are active in microfinance. These membersare involved in different ways inthe microfinance sector...
... andthe office comprises of a staff of 14 professionals. The Partnership received a total of $5.7 million for the period 2008-2009 with the main contributors to the funding being DERM andthe ... by population growth andthe world demand for mineral commodities, the economic prospects ofthe mining and mineral sector in South East Queensland, and more generally inthe State, are especially ... carried out on the research side ofthe project, in terms of identifying the key Managing diffuse water pollution in SEQ: an analysis oftheroleofthe Healthy Waterways Partnership – Cottingham,...
... sub-unit ofthe G protein and not inthe other case.Although there is discussion inthe literature concern-ing the possibilities of photoconversion of YFP into aCFP-like species during acceptor ... traf-ficking properties. The binding experiments alsopointed to a decrease inthe density ofthe D2R vari-ants inthe cellular membrane; the number of D2receptor binding sites decreased with the ... GavÞ2rð4Þwhere Ri and Gi are the red and green intensities of voxelI, respectively, and Rav and Gav the average values of Ri and Gi, respectively.It is used for describing the correlation ofthe intensitydistributions...