... In addition, conventional methods have the advantage of being investment evaluation settings. Their major drawback of evaluation is that they focus on the estimation of cash flows and accounting ... measures and financial indicators such as profitability (Banker and Mashruwala, 2000, Banker, Potter and Srinivasan, 2001; Ittner and Larcker 199 8a and 1998b, Nagar and Rajan, 2001).3. PERFORMANCE ... financial and non-financial measures and gives the adequate importance to human relationships and intangible assets.This cross-functional approach should establish linkages among the metrics, shaping...
... teaching him French with a map, a 'Matin,' and a dictionary. A great deal of nodding and shaking of heads is going on. Sunday, August 23rd The same dazzling blue sky, boiling sun, and ... men andN.C.O.'s are just the same, and always awfully grateful if you can help them out with the language in any way.This was a conversation I heard in my ward to-day. Brother of Captain ... operating day and night. A great many deaths from tetanus.Seen General French's 2nd despatch (of September) to-day in 'Daily Mail.' No mail in, alas! Had a regulardebauch in cathedrals...
... NRG-5¢_forNRG -a_ revTCTCCGGCGAGATGTCCGAGCTCCAGTGAATCCAGGTTG668b NRG-5¢_forNRG-Beta_revTCTCCGGCGAGATGTCCGAGGCAGCGATCACCAGTAAAC677GAPDH GAPDH_forGAPDH_revGAAGGGCTCATGACCACAGTCCATTCATTGTCGTACCAGGAAATGAGCTT450Fig. ... Universita¨t Darmstadt, Germany) was applied at a concentration of 2 lm . GM6001 (Calbiochem, San Diego,CA, USA) was used at a final concentration of 10 lm andphorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (Sigma, ... II)NRG-IG_forNRG-TM_revGCCAGGGAAGTCAGAACTTCGTTTTGCAGTAGGCCACCAC543Glycosylation sites (type I) NRG-Glyc_forNRG-TM_revCCACAGAAGGAGCAAATACTTCGTTTTGCAGTAGGCCACCAC339Kringle (type II) NRG-Kringle_forNRG-Kringle_revAGGAGGAGGAGTGGTGCTGGTCCCCAGCAGCAGCAGTA239Cysteine...
... were takenwith a 5-nm excitation and emission bandwidth, a 0.5-sresponse time, and a scan speed of 40 nmÆs)1. All samplescontained 8 lMpeptide or the same concentration of NATA for control ... the GGN4 analogues, including the native GGN4,showed a strong negative band near 200 nm and a weak andbroad band around 222 nm, indicating a predominantlyrandom-coil conformation with a slight ... Thedirection of view is approximately perpen-diculartothehelicalaxisinpanelsAandB,and is parallel to the helical axis in panels Cand D.Ó FEBS 2002 Structure–activity relationships of GGN4 analogues...
... laser ablationtechnique, which is a fast, clean and cost-effective processcomparing to traditional silicon microfabrication techniques.The mechanisms of UV laser ablation of polymer have beenextensively ... to machine polymers. A laser fluence of 1.6 J/cm2and a pulse repetition rate of 5 Hzare used. At this laser fluence, the ablation rate is about0.9m/pulse. The laser beam irradiates onto ... Development ofa biosensor based on laser-fabricatedpolymer microcantileversX. Richard Zhang and Xianfan Xu a) School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907(Received...
... (rotation: varimax with Kaiser normali-sation). We used the self-regulation questionnaire as a main convergence criterion because it's two dimensionalscale is measuring the adaptive capacitiy. ... controlgroup), alongside questions on autonomic regulation (aR), the Hospital Anxiety and DepressionScale (HADS), self-regulation (SRQ) and Karnofsky the Performance-Index (KPI). A retest of 65participants ... the demographic, table 2 the clinical andtreatment characteristics of the participants. Participantswith malignancies had a broad range of tumour localisa-tions (table 3). At the time of being...
... this article as: Bae and Park: A fixed-point approach to the stability ofa functional equation on quadraticforms. Journal of Inequalities and Applications 2011 2011:82.Bae and Park Journal of ... a functional equation on quadratic formsJae-Hyeong Bae1and Won-Gil Park2** Correspondence:wgpark@mokwon.ac.kr2Department of MathematicsEducation, College of Education,Mokwon University, Daejeon, ... n variables. Nonlinear Anal TMA. 64, 856–868 (2006).doi:10.1016/j.na.2005.06.0284. Bae, J-H, Park, W-G: Ona cubic equation and a Jensen-quadratic equation. Abstr Appl Anal 2007 (2007). Article...
... NANO EXPRESSThe Influence ofa Continuum Background on Carrier Relaxationin InAs/InGaAs Quantum DotGabriele Raino`Æ Giuseppe Visimberga Æ Abdelmajid Salhi Æ Maria T. Todaro ÆMassimo ... telecommunication devices, has already beenachieved by means of InAs QDs capped with an InGaAsquantum well (QW) in a GaAs barrier, providing low-threshold, high modal gain and high characteristic ... a quartz wafer with a photolitho-graphically defined Ti/Au layer containing an array of widely spaced holes of 200 lm which could be placedmetal layer down on sample. Than we pump through onehole...
... ch as UVradiation and physiological stress such as starvation mayaffect this supraorganization are also presented.MATERIALS AND METHODSChemicalsReagent-grade phosphoric acid, magnesium chloride,sodium ... with an electrospray ionsource (ESI-MS). An advantage of this approach is thatinformation can be collected on the initial events, which takeplace as this organism adapts to environmental ch anges.Ultracentrifugation ... phycobilisomes beforeand after illumination reve aled the d isappearance of theb-phycocyanin already after 1 h of illumination (Fig. 4). Incontrast, SDS/PAGE analysis of the total mixture of phycobilisomes...
... decreasedreaction rate of the Na+/K+-ATPasewithanincreasein pressure can be rationalized based ona decrease in ¯uidity of the lipid bilayer with a concomitant decrease in proteinconformational ... pressure- induced changes of biological membraneStudy on the membrane-bound Na+/K+-ATPase as a model systemMichiko Kato1, Rikimaru Hayashi1, Takeo Tsuda2and Kazuya Taniguchi21Division of Applied ... bilayer a nd a reversible conformationalchange in transmembrane protein is induced, leading to thefunctional disorder o f membrane-associated ATPase activ-ity. Apressureof 100±220 M Pa causes...