their contacts and ties in the home country give them access to information about business opportunities the ability to identify reliable partners and resources to enforce contracts even in settings where civil law enforcement is weak
... concern for the disadvantaged, is underestimated today; they had a genuine concern for their needs Training the children in a trade enabled them, in later life, to earn their own living and not be ... Doctors endeavoured to prevent disability by warning against perceived, causative behaviours This placed the disability within the child, the responsibility for disability inthe family arena and ... perspectives and shared meanings leading to insights into situations (Wellington 1996) These methods involve looking at the effects of human intervention and interaction Perspectives and instincts are...
... of the text As mentioned in chapter 2, the theme isthe starting point of the message A part of the meaning of any clause lies in 19 which element is chosen as its Theme Examining the theme to ... 19 and 20, then in clauses 21, 22, 23, it is transferred into the theme, and then settles down again inthe rheme in clauses 24 and 25 So, we can have the “thematic progression” as follows: Theme ... Theme Rheme Theme Rheme Theme Rheme Theme Rheme Theme Rheme 28 This isthe method of text development to carry the story toward and it is what Halliday (1994: 2) calls the text with a stepwise...
... (1996) and many others Accoding to Halliday (1994: 34), Theme is “what the message is concerned with, the point of departure for what the speaker is going to say” The Theme is what I, the speaker, ... metafunctions and cohesion in chapter two In chapter three, I will analyze the themerheme patterns andthe main cohesive tiesinthe story 1.3 Scope of the Study As a minor thesis, not all aspects ... text and what the purpose is Cohesive ties of the text are also of great concern to me in this study Cohesion relates tothe “semantic ties within text whereby a tie is made when there is some...
... activators of mitogenactivated protein kinase and transcription factors involved in type I IFN and inflammatory cytokine signalling [20,22,23,35-37] Our previous study indicated that the NS1 protein ... mRNA export machinery [29-34] The N-terminal RNA binding domain binds to both single- and double-stranded RNA that might inhibit the activation and/ or signalling of antiviral proteins, such as RIG-I, ... contributed tothe interpretation of the findings and revised the manuscript GM , contributed toand revised the manuscript SB contributed to conception, interpretation of data, and revised the manuscript...
... In Japan, there are many heavy storm events and storm runoff events which bring increases in pollutant loads during flooding-stages in large river catchments As the traverse water mixing inthe ... during one of the five flooding events The data reflected the differences in traveling time of river water from their main pollutant sources andthe lack of uniformity of rainfall distribution in ... observation point and bringing the samples back to our laboratory, we - 94 - Journal of Water and Environment Technology, Vol 6, No.2, 2008 combined them into a composite sample and analyzed inorganic...
... same stream, and sampling point St.3 isinthe other stream The two streams flow together to be one stream andthe sampling point St.4 is situated inthe joined stream, which isthe only stream ... and periphery of the Seto Inland Sea The location of the research area andthe distribution of the citrus groves in Matsuyama region are shown in Fig Matsuyama is situated in Shikoku Island in ... flows into a collecting reservoir at the foot of the hill The surface area of the reservoir isabout 7300 m2 andthe average depth isabout m The reservoir catchment area is estimated to be 0.23...
... quantities involved in stocking andthe repeated nature of the operation considerably raises the following risks The Impacts of Introductions and Stocking of Exotic Species inthe Mekong Basin and ... present in stocking material spreading into the Mekong Basin in Northern Lao PDR from China 25 The Impacts of Introductions and Stocking of Exotic Species inthe Mekong Basin and Policies for Their ... stretches into China and a small area in Myanmar The Impacts of Introductions and Stocking of Exotic Species inthe Mekong Basin and Policies for Their Control REASONS FOR INTRODUCTIONS AND STOCKING...
... residues for binding the coenzyme The C-terminal domain has a largely a-helical structure, and serves mainly in substrate binding The active site is located inthe interdomain cleft, and contains a highly ... oxidation and ketose reduction; KiNADH and KiNAD are dissociation constants for NADH and NAD+; and KmRO and KmROH are Michaelis constants for ketose and polyol Note: inthe random bisubstrate mechanism, ... bisubstrate reaction where KiA isthe dissociation constant for A Equation (4) is used for random bisubstrate kinetics, where KA and KB are dissociation constants for A and B, and a is a factor...
... with the opportunity to interact directly with the artery wall toin uence atheroma development, little is known about how the incorporation of antioxidants into the remnant particles in uences their ... antioxidants, and deliver themtothe liver for processing [12] There is now a large and growing body of evidence indicating that chylomicron remnants are strongly atherogenic They have been shown to be ... antioxidants, are absorbed inthe intestine and secreted into lymph in chylomicrons, large triacylglycerol-rich lipoproteins which pass into the blood via the thoracic duct and are then rapidly metabolized...
... Commissioner to rescind theircontracts once they establish their reputations 112 In addition to ignoring this reality, the regulatory scheme also turns a blind eye tothe problems created when today’s ... of commissions 111 This is doubly troubling because many artists use this situation totheir advantage: They retain managers intheir early years to procure employment, and then they get the Labor ... Managers, in other words, rightfully have a strong stake in maintain ing extended agreements in order to protect theirabilityto receive returns on the time and money they have invested in their...
... immigrants into thecountry on work visas.For someone living inthecountrywhere English is not the native language,they will need to master this language in order to find a good job in United ... English language on informationaccess English is now the dominated language of information world About 80% of internet web pages are in this language Main informationresources are mostly published ... presenting some commonly used English terms inthe interface of business websites Identifying the formation and meaning of English terms used in interface of business websites Giving some...
... the blue band As increasing the concentration of Cu, the intensity of the blue band decreases while the intensity of the green band increases and reaches to maximum at xCu = 3.5.10-4 mol% This ... ions and ions of the lattice and between Cu2+ each other make the intensity of the green band decrease Hence, at xCu = 5.10-4 mol% the intensities of these two bands are equal to each other and they ... Mathematics - Physics 24 (2008) 181-187 When doping Cu, Mn in ZnS and Co in ZnO, the self-activated luminescence bands characterized by vacancies of zinc and oxygen are extinguished or their intensities...
... between the mutated andthe wild-type strains relied solely on the disruption of the Rv2951c gene Together, these results established that Rv2951c is involved inthe biosynthesis of DIM A and that ... are involved inthe resistance of the tubercle bacillus to detergent, a feature related tothe cell envelope permeability [4] To determine the contribution of DIM A and DIM B to this resistance, ... DIMs inthe cell envelope raises the possibility that these compounds act in vivo by interacting with some component of the host cell and by modulating the host immune response to contain the infection...
... planning agendas This greater diversity, and a health landscape that is increasingly crowded in terms of actors and issues, have increased the challenge of maintaining the profile of SRH in sectoral ... of revenue for the sector – each site experienced this dilemma to varying degrees The findings of the case-study in Malawi show increases in development assistance tothe health sector occurring ... national and global forums is a critical contribution Country offices are recognizing theopportunities that the MDG5 focus brings, and seeking to map out the remaining elements of SRH into the matrix...
... national legislation has gone far in enabling thebusiness world inthe United States to prevent panics, and farther yet in providing the means to cope with them when, in spite of precautions, they ... had tried to ignore the laws of demand and supply, and had forgotten that it is also artificial to attempt preventing purchases inthe cheapest, and selling inthe highest markets; andto help ... extending to anything like the length it attained This may be ascribed tothe immense development and consequent speculation, andtothe inflation of the currency coming after the period about the...
... NdeI and HindIII sites (underlined) The 550bp TBP fragments andthe 1040-bp TFB fragment were cloned into the NdeI and HindIII sites of the expression vector pET28a This resulted in fusing six histidine ... operators was quantified andis depicted in Fig 3B To determine whether 2-oxoglutarate affects the bind- ing affinity of NrpRI tothe operator, promoter-binding assays were performed inthe presence of ... lanes 1–4; and Fig 3D), indicating that binding of NrpRI tothe operator is significantly decreased, whereas no binding at all was obtained inthe presence of 10 mm 2-oxoglutarate (Fig 3C bottom panel,...
... S-domain (residues T168 and K169) (Fig 1B) Toidentifythe contact residues involved inthe initial binding of Glc tothe super-open state (Fig 1C) of this two domain hinge-bending enzyme, all the ... Glc binding (Fig 8B,C) The changes inthe interhelical interactions point to a major contribution inthe dynamic communication between the L- and S-domains and thus inthe transition from the ... free polyubiquitin chains assigned totheir equilibrium binding tothe ubiquitin-interacting motif (UIM) at helix 17, andthe approximately 1.4-fold increase in Vmax and slightly increased affinity...
... people spending all of their time inthe region and would be inclined or compelled to transport materials and finished artifacts with themtothe mountains Evaluating the distance and direction of ... current understanding of this time and region in prehistory The list of problems yet to be resolved is long, and various issues hinder attempts to refine the big picture Key among these problems ... termed the Mountain Tradition.” He added another dimension to his interpretation, suggesting that the origins for the Mountain Tradition lay tothe west, inthe Great Basin Like Husted and Frison,...
... exercise, allowing the data to be summarised by theme The next step inthe data analysis was a charting exercise The original research questions and emerging themes from the data provided headings that ... used to rearrange data andto summarise it according to thematic content This process allowed the researcher to start toidentifythe range and relationships between concepts, leading to a mapping ... inthe literature review [5,15-18] and inductive, bottom-up coding based on key themes emerging from the raw data These codes were systematically applied tothe data set in an indexing exercise,...
... PLHIV andtheir DICGs in order to lessen the financial toll of this illness Furthermore, income-generating activities must be developed in order to allow PLHIV andtheir DICGs to produce income ... of informal and formal counselling and support must be accessible to PLHIV andtheir DICGs through the community, as well as through clinic- and home- based services, in order to assist themin ... examining: the current state of accessible health care intheir communities; the health conditions of PLHIV; and mitigating social factors The purpose of this paper isto describe the major findings...