the role of androgens in respiratory function

... p 33) Another striking feature of the transition was that the fall in the official GDP coincided with the rise of an informal economy If the latter were included into the accounting of GDP that ... investment in education in these post-communist countries The first chapter analyzes the determinants of economic growth in these countries and focuses on the role of investment in education in the ... 1998b) In this model the real growth rate per capita is determined by the marginal products of the inputs (2rguments of the function) multiplied by the corresponding investments to these inputs

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 11:20

... normal inhabitant of the gut, and it must be able to adhere to the intestinal epithelium to overcome potential hurdles, such as the low pH of the stomach, the presence of bile acids in the intestines, ... increased (P<0.05) the levels of amylase after 40 d of feeding [65] This result is similar to the finding of Collington et al [81], who reported that inclusion of a probiotic (a mixture of ... strains of Lactobacillus spp and Streptococcus faecium) resulted in significantly higher carbohydrase enzyme activities in the small intestine of piglets The lactobacilli colonizing the intestine

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 09:20

... mean-ingless Readers may then use the picture to guess the intended meaning, often incorrectly, and think that they understand the message, thereby interfering with their comprehension They also ... a video tape of animated cartoons explaining the need for a polio vaccine The information contained in the videotape was the same as in the leaflet Both versions were available in English and ... of instructions about a medicine including how many pills to take at a time and when to take the pills One of the instruction sets was just words and the other was words plus a drawing that integrated

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 21:20

... even the major player, in attracting Diaspora investors Writing of investment from Taiwan into mainland China, Hsing makes the point that the partners to the overseas Chinese investors in many ... business associations of the Indian Diaspora function in the UK, including the Indian Development Group (UK) Ltd, the Indian forum for Business, and the India Group based at the London Business ... Engagement in Countries of Origin The dense web of ties between Diaspora and country of origin is, in the overwhelming majority of cases, the creation of individuals and groups acting on their own initiative,

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 09:20

... on the impact of the IFL on district instructional reformefforts and the factors influencing the effectiveness of the partner-ships The final chapter summarizes the overarching findings of thestudy ... had varyingdegrees of success in attaining the intermediate reform goals (i.e.,outcomes expected to ultimately contribute to improved teaching andlearning) Our findings in the four areas of reform ... im-In examining the IFL role in supporting district work in the fourareas of instructional reform, we found that the strongest reportedcontributions of IFL were to systemwide efforts to build the

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 23:20

... distribution of BsArb43B in the proximity of the active site Arabinotriose in the binding cleft is represented using sticks (B) Detailed view of the binding cleft with arabinotri-ose (C) Details of the ... and the C-terminal domain or between the hair-pin that joins blades IV and V and the C-terminal domain (Fig 1 and Table S1) The apolar interactions in the interface between the two domains include ... longer in the exo-ABN (CjArb43A) and blocks one of the ends of the binding cleft (Fig 5) In fact, in the structure of the exo-ABN complex with arabinohexose [15], this loop makes the reducing end of

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 23:20

... equivalent in nin-hydrin colour to 1.0 lmol of leucine in 5 h at pH 7.4 at 37 C in the presence of CaCl2 Data are expressed as the mean ± SD of three independent experiments (C) The ratio of hydrolytic ... specificity of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase and adenylate kinase has been reported recently [34,35] Moreover, the 60-loop of thrombin lining the upper rim of the active site entrance is rearranged by binding ... promote the binding of the acidic surface of collagens to the basic surface charged region of the enzyme Studies are underway using surface plasmon resonance analysis to determine the role of residue

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 00:20

... regulates the trafficking and function of ASF Phosphorylation of ASF by DYRK1A drives this factor to nuclear speckles, the site of storage of inactivated serine⁄ arginine-rich pro-teins, including ASF ... NFTs in the brains of people with DS⁄ AD [17]; phosphorylation of ASF, leading to alter-native splicing of exon 10; and the several-fold greater number of 3R-tau-positive NFTs in the brains of ... evidence of the prevalence of 3R-tau in DS⁄ AD is a several-fold increase in the number of 3R-tau-positive NFTs in the entorhinal cortex, hippocampus, amygdala and neocortex of DS⁄ AD subjects in comparison

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 16:21

... within the preceding 12 months Respondents selected from a list of settings all those settings in which they learned a specific competency or skill They then indicated the single “best” learning ... learning environment • Determine whether officers and enlisted personnel differ in their perception of learning environments We adopted the three research goals above regarding the learning ... responses of the officers differed significantly from those of the enlisted personnel For the remaining 26 competencies and skills, there was no significant difference between the pattern of officer

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 01:20

... today's development of the exhibition industry were established by the end of the last century ● The breakdown of the communist system and the resulting transformation of the former centrally ... Significance of ExhibitionsSpin-off Effect The benefit of trade fairs is not only restricted to the direct participants The spin-off effects also include the indirectly related players ● first, the authorities ... 10 Then you get the amount of money that is directly, indirectly and induced spent in the region. In this way other enterprises, private persons, the region, state or the city profit from the

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 04:21

... it should be incorporate into the National Development Plan – NDP, as well as including it in the sector investment plan of MAAIF Finally, there should be an increased investment in research and ... smallholder assets, the process of controlling them can also inflict damage The death or culling of large numbers of birds of indigenous breeds runs the risk of irrevocably losing an important genetic ... sources of livelihoods and income The study was interested in finding out the most common sources of livelihoods in the village communities where it was conducted From the interviews and the ethnographic

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 21:20

... similar to the baseline case discussed in the paper concerning the success of cross-checking in offsetting the inflationary bias due to persistent central bank misperceptions Of course, due to the response ... to maintaining the disinflationary stance implied by the policy with cross-checking for a finite number of periods, T , in the future In this case, the central bank is able to influence future inflation ... μf , for the case that the central bank sticks to the original estimate of the intercept, γ0 , in the money demand equation and never considers the possibility of a structural shift The lower

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 13:20

... favoring the influx of unskilled labor Where the country was too poorto finance the banks required to finance industry, the state promoted the establishment offinancial intermediaries, invested in ... spread of the Industrial Revolution duringthe nineteenth century; and the development of developing countries during the Goldenera of economic development between the end of World War II and the ... Governments increased the supply ofdomestic finance by promoting the establishment of investment banks, the formation offinancial intermediaries, and, where necessary, direct finance of industrial

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 05:21

... motivations of the industry and to determine the relative importance of location in the marketing strategy More specifically the research seeks to investigate the following themes: (i) the attributes ... preliminary stage of my research and for the knowledge they imparted during the coursework stage of my studies The following professionals provided invaluable guidance The insight and knowledge of ... Trang 1The Role of Location in the Marketing Strategy of Performing Arts Organizations By Christine A Lai October, 2006 A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 02:17

... of lack of relevant data They used the education of the total labor force in a state for the measurement of the quality of the labor force of individual industries within the same state But the ... number of men and e1 the proportion of the workers in the lth category of labor services, one may write the index of the total labor input in the form: L = —+—+ H N — Thus, to eliminate errors of ... L4 be the quantity of input of the Ith labor service, measured in man- hours The rate of growth of the index of total labor input, say L, is: i — —— L — where v1 is the relative share of the lth...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 21:20

... al proteins such as fibronectin and laminin, and it plays a role in wound healing [26] Decorin is the smallest dermatan sulphate containing PG The presence of decorin alters the kinetics of fibril ... microscope These findings indicate that the function of PGs and GAGs in the lung is not limited to maintenance of mechanical and fluid dynamic properties of the organ These molecules also play roles in ... endostatin The binding of endostatin by heparan sulphate is important for its antiangiogenic function [52] The interaction between heparan sulphate and laminin could be important in determining the integrity...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... volumes in COPD patients [62]) the pathophysiological significance of leptin regarding respiratory function in humans remains to be clarified The role of leptin in diseases of the lung Over the past ... dysfunction related to the event [108] The natural logarithm (LN) of leptin is inversely correlated with the dietary intake/resting energy expenditure index (indicating the role of leptin in ... receptors in the periphery is largely unknown, the existence of the functional receptor isoform indicates that the lung represents a target organ for leptin signaling The role of leptin in lung...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:23

... genotyping (table 1) These SNPs, located in the 3' half of the gene, spanned the known ADAM33 linkage structure as indicated in figure Call rates for SNPs in ADAM33 ranged from 90.9% to 93.7% in the ... because of different techniques of BHR assessment in the case-control study and in the cohort study analysis in the cohort study because of low number of cases while FEV1 was increased in carriers of ... environmental tobacco smoke (in utero and at time of survey) A Botto Khoury approach summarizing the data in a × table allowed for the evaluation of the independent and combined roles of genotype and exposure...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 16:20

... profitability is declining The internalization of information within the same institution may thus enhance intra-circuit and inter-circuit stability by reducing the incentive to overfinancing The ... Creating a stronger investor base amounts to strengthening the circuit by completing the financial market structure of the economy, thus eliminating discontinuities in the transmission of information ... including those that deal with insider trading SROs can play a significant role in ensuring the smooth functioning of vital links of the circuit The underlying rationale of SROs is to exploit the...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2012, 09:33

... categories of business-to-business advertising are industrial and professional advertising b.1 Industrial advertising Advertising targeted at individuals who buy or influence the purchase of industrial ... development of the industry also fosters the other industries in society, which contributes to the development of the economy as a whole In Vietnam, spending for advertising is rather lower than that in ... advertising industry Since the opening policy and law of foreign investment, advertising industry has seen remarkable changes The growth rate of advertising service is the highest in economy, in which...

Ngày tải lên: 16/04/2013, 11:05