... irrespective ofthe amount ofthe loan. However, the larger the loan, the larger the amount ofthe repayment installment, and a large installment may strain the repayment capacity ofthe borrower ... b) There has, therefore, to be a linkage between the amount ofthe loan and the tenure ofthe loan. It is, therefore, suggested that for loans not exceeding Rs. 15,000, the tenure ofthe loan ... this may be specified by the MFI. This will ensure that the privacy ofthe group is respected and that there is sufficient peer pressure on the borrower to make the repayments. 11.7 It is...
... to the periplasmic space. The formedH+gradient isthe driving force for synth esis of A TP that is used to powerthe metabolic reactions in the cell [2].In Rb. sphaeroides the ability ofthe ... is related to the presence ofthe LH2 which could influence the shorteningprocesses ofthe assembled PufX protein. The exchange of ubiquinone between the RCand the cytbc1in the presence of ... linear dicroism studies have demonstrated the role of PufX in the orientation ofthe RC inside the LH1Fig. 4. Isolation ofthe PMCs on a sucrose gradient. The final detergentextracts from the ICM...
... abuse their office andinfluence to the injury ofthe laws and peace ofthe country. The elimination ofthe Christian teachers of the Negro race, and the prevention ofthe immigration of workers ... subversive of the institutions ofthe aristocratic settlements.Their experience in the colony of Virginia is a good example of how this worked out. Seeing the unchristianattitude ofthe preachers ... despite the fact that the fear of servile insurrectioncaused the State to exercise due vigilance in the execution ofthe laws. The father of Richard De Baptiste of Fredericksburg made his own...
... wait for the rains ofthe summer monsoon to sweep up from the Bay of Bengal. But in fact there is activity here even at this time ofthe year. For Ghazipur is one ofthe few places in the world ... staff ofthe several libraries, archives, and missions on which I have drawn, among them Father Guennou ofthe Missions Etrangères, Father Combaluzier ofthe Congrégation de la Mission, and the ... SomniferumOn the banks ofthe Ganges some distance east of Benares, in the most wretched and neglected part of the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, lies the little town of Ghazipur. It is not much of...
... computed as the sum ofthe items divided by the number of items answered (this accounts for missingdata). If more than 50% ofthe items in the scale aremissing, the Scale Score is not computed ... (8%) of unknown gender.It was the mother who answered the questionnaire in89.5% ofthe sample, it was the father in 4.57% of the sample, and it was someone else in 6.28% ofthe sample.Distribution ... selection from the general Hun-garian population through the Population RegisterOffice ofthe Ministry ofthe Interior, with distributionalmatching to the populatio n treated at the pediatric...
... DQOL consists of 46 itemsmeasuring the domains of satisfaction with treatment,impact of treatment, worry about future effects of diabe-tes, and worry about social/vocational issues [11]. The DQOL ... diabetesduration, the impact, worry, and overall HRQOL domains of the DQOL demonstrated better discrimination than the satisfaction domain. This is especially evident for the known groups of retinopathy, ... correlation coeffi-cients ofthe satisfaction domain ofthe DQOL with diabe-tes control and energy/ mobility ofthe D-39S were all0.57, which were larger than with the other D-39 domains(0.30...
... utilized for the analysis of thishypothesis.Construct validity was assessed by means of correlationanalysis between the subscale scores ofthe PedsQL™ 3.0Cancer Module and the scores ofthe PedsQL™ ... toxicity of chemotherapy or the isolation to which the individual is subjected [9,15]. The analysis ofthe correlation between the scores the chil-dren/adolescents obtained and those obtained by the guardians ... C, D, E), for which A isthe highest and E the lowest. The goal of this classification system is to estimate the buying powerof each family, as measured by the quantity of products each family...
... from the per-centage of missing values for each item and distribution of item responses [20,21]. Range of measurement was fur-ther tested based on the percentage of scores at the extremes ofthe ... Chi-square is a test of exact fit. With large samples, there is considerable power to reject the null hypotheses, even though the model mayfit the data well. Therefore, other goodness of fit indicesshould ... children. Comparisons to the mean scores of the other subscales within the present study to those of the previous PedsQL™ school study [3], the mean scoreson the social functioning scale of both healthy...
... analysis software program (ADI, Power- lab). The phrenic nerve was isolated in the neck at the level of C5 rootlet. The nerve was cut and placed on abipolar electrode for neuronal recording. The ... gasping for the first week of postnatal age in piglets. After the first week of postnatalage, the duration ofthe phrenic neurogram burst significantly increases and the patterns during the early ... maturation. The dominant burst type activ-ities disappeared during the early phase ofthe phrenicneurogram although the burst activity and the continuousactivity remained, but both them appear at the...
... analysis. The most interest-ing characteristic of this instrument isthe availability of a"utility index score" which for the decision makers follow-ing the principles of utilitarism ... applicability. The primary goal of our study was to assess the applicabil-ity, internal consistency, and construct validity ofthe Ital-ian version ofthe EQ-5D in a random sample of the citizens of Bologna ... adults, randomlyselected from the Registry ofthe Health Authorities ofthe city of Bologna, Italy. The primary carephysician of each subject was contacted to report on the subject's health...
... analysis wasdone (Table 2). None ofthe comparisons were statist i-cally significant for the total score ofthe PedsQL CancerModule, so that we considered the 3 treatment groupsto have the ... low in the validation study ofthe Chi-nese version [17]. The German and the Brazil ian ver-sions ofthe PedsQL Cancer Module did not report the analysis for separate age groups. However, the ... status. The child’s physician answered questions about the patient’s sex, date of birth, age, tumor pathology, date of diagnosis, date of completion of therap y (chemotherapy,radiation therapy,...
... supply of sunlight is limitless, and most ofthe poor countries of the world are in the tropics, where there is plenty of sunlight. The photovoltaic cell has another very important advantage. It is ... the photovoltaic cell offers a solution to the problem of a futureenergy shortage. This cell is already an important sourceof energy. In fact, it seems almost like magic. The photovoltaic cell ... cell is simple. It has transparent metallic film at the top. Below this is a layer of silicon. A metal base is at the bottom. The sunlight falls on the boundary between the two different types of...
... possesses the samecharacteristics ofthe interior ofthe protein matrix. The script a isthe peak–peak distance between the maximumat %287 nm and the minimum at %283 nm, and the script b isthe peak–peak ... are the fluorescence intensities in the presence and absence ofthe quencher Q, Ksv is the collisional quenching constant, and V isthe staticconstant, which is related to the probability of ... a clear distribution of amphipathic residues is shown, with the non-polarresidues forming one ofthe faces ofthe helices (Fig. 4B).This distribution favours a parallel packing ofthe foura-helices,...