... capital flow, monetary
system, financial markets, financial institution, and financial coordination and
supervision.
In China, institution building inthe financial sector takes place against the
backdrop ... Structure of Financial Assets
Year Mo Deposits
with FIs
Loans of FIs Borrowin
g by the
Ministr
y
of
Finance
Bonds Capitalizat
ion of
A
Share and
B Share
Markets
Insurance
Premium
s
Total
Financial
Assets
1980 ... 67.8
Sources: Almanac of China’s Finance and Banking and China Statistical Year Book
V. An Outlook of Institutional Reforms inthe Coming Years
In light ofthe opportunities and challenges posed by China’s...
... wonderful monetization," the old man said. "Maintaining a blog isa lot of work, and
the blogger has the right to earn some income. The ads aren't too distracting, and they
actually complement ... nothing to say. I stared deep into
the old man's eyes as I awaited certain death.
And then I found that the events ofthe previous days were flashing before my eyes, as in a
dream. A vivid, ... you."
The old man then booted up a laptop that was running Windows Vista. He opened Internet
Explorer 7, and then opened many blogs in different tabs without it crashing. What a
magical place this...
... in determining a) the efficacy of
BCG vaccine in HCWs or b) the effects on efficacy ofthe vaccine strain administered
6 MMWR April 26, 1996
not a factor in determining whether thereactionis ... because ofthe potential ad-
verse reactions associated with the use ofthe vaccine in these persons.
In the United States, the use of BCG vaccination is rarely indicated. BCG
vaccination is not ... techniques. The vaccine currently available for im-
munization inthe United States, the Tice strain, was developed at the University of
Illinois (Chicago, Illinois) from a strain originated at the Pasteur...
... larger
banks in making small business loans. Loan officers at small banks can
take into account a wide variety of factors in reviewing applications for
small business loans, including the character of ... future using more recent data.
5
In Charts 3 -5, the size categories are not adjusted for inflation and are based
on the size ofthe bank rather than the size ofthe banking organization.
6
An alternative ... Small
Banks Have an Advantage in Lending? An Examination of Risk-Adjusted
Yields in Small Business Lending at Large and Small Banks,” unpublished
working paper, January.
Cole, Robert A. , Lawrence...
... Aurora Bracale, Antonella
Antignani and Sonia Di Gaetano for preparing some
of the RNase variants used in this study.
This work was supported by the Italian Association
for Cancer Research, the Ministry ... ‘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 regions,
respectively, ... for
destabilizing and eventually permeating membranes,
and that intracellular membranes play a decisive role
in defining the antitumor action of an RNase.
Experimental procedures
Assays with membranes
Synthetic...
... are
involved in regulating the GABA translocation of
GAT1, but not in binding of GAT1 to GABA.
Transport of GABA by GAT1 across the cell mem-
brane is driven by an electrochemical gradient of Na
+
and ... 1631
The roleof N-glycosylation inthe stability, trafficking and
GABA-uptake of GABA-transporter 1
Terminal N-glycans facilitate efficient GABA-uptake activity
of the GABA transporter
Guoqiang Cai
1,2
, ... 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 structures...
...
address. The notation A@ k denotes the node at
address k where Aisthe nonterminal labeling that
node. A new nonterminal is created for each node
in the training data. This nonterminal is called A
k
. ...
non-constituents and that inthe field of
syntax-based language modeling the end of
supervised parsing has come in sight.
1 Introduction
A major challenge in natural language parsing is
the unsupervised ... from
the WSJ domain or the LA Times domain.
Although the effect of adding LA Times data is
weaker than adding WSJ data, it is noteworthy that
the unsupervised induction of trees from the LA
Times...
... linguistic analysis. The remainder of
the paper focuses on our initial work inthe
adaptation (Gigley, 1984). As the research is
currently underway, the discussion will raise
several unanswered ... 5. MEANING-PROPAGATION: Fixed-time spreading
activation to the distributed parts of
recognized words ' meanings.
6. FIRING-INFORMATION-PROPAGATION: Asynchronous
activation propagation ... French
Because ofthe parallel activationof all
meanings of each recognized word in HOPE, the
determination ofthe phonetic representation ofa
recognized word determines the breadth of active...
... Choice Analysis and identifies the
determinants ofthe probability of an enterprise declaring itself profitable, on the basis of a
projection of discriminating variables along two orthogonal axis: ... would have to take into account the
evolution of real wages as well as of wage arrears. However, a remarkable point is that a
substantial proportion of firms (31 .5% ofthe sub-sample) has increased ... into the statistical information included inthe database; that is, some clues
for further, more focused analysis. First, this graph demonstrates that whatever the
occasionally missing answers, the...
... them have been
pioneers inthe Latin American microfinance industry. As of today, 7 out
of 15 Latin American members are active in microfinance. These members
are involved in different ways in ... of “Average Loan Balance per
Borrower” for Latin America, Asia and Africa for the year 20 05.
12
1.1. The context: Microfinance in Latin America
In Latin America, microfinance has experienced ... serving women: 98% of borrowers
were women in Asia in 2006, as compared to 66% in Africa and 61.8%
in Latin America. Microfinance in Asia is also associated with some of the
lowest average loan...
... of ambiguity
inherent inthe visual scene. Specifically, the more ambiguous the
meaning ofthe visual image, the more influence is exerted by the
musical score inthe process of interpreting ... the music alters meaning ofa particular aspect
of the film” (1988, p. 109).
Marshall and Cohen also acknowledge the important role played by
temporal characteristics ofthe sound and image, ... 1989). There is,
however, certain music that is intended to be heard by the audience as
part ofthe cinematic diegesis, i.e., the narratively implied
spatiotemporal world ofthe actions and characters”...
... in fact is one ofthe least active
mutants described in this report.
The acidic shift inthe pH-optimum ofthe D215N mutant
shows that Asp2 15 has a second major rolein catalysis,
namely to increase ... enzyme that, at least in part,
results from the vicinity of Asp2 15 (Table 3, rows 1 and
4). The calculations indicate that the pK
a
of Glu144 is
further, and somewhat drastically, increased upon ... Mutation of this residue to aspartate in other family
18 chitinases also reduced activity dramatically [26,29].
The pK
a
calculations indicate that Glu144 has a slightly
elevated pK
a
in the...
... plans and whatrole he may play after Fidel Castro’s death.
vital Raul Castro was formally designated his brother’s successor
vital Raul isthe head ofthe Armed Forces
okay Raul is five years younger ... ques-
tion answering. The decreases in performance at-
52 7
Qid 25: The analyst is interested inthe status of Fidel Castro’s brother. Specifically, the analyst would like
information on his current plans ... Relevance(c) − λ max
s A
sim(s, c)
This model isthe baseline variant ofthe Maxi-
mal Marginal Relevance method for summariza-
tion (Goldstein et al., 2000). Each candidate is
compared to all...