... 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 ... in the process of indoctrination and in the formation of these new communist people (Shorish, 1994, Trang 15industries and defense (claimed to be 25 percent of the GDP), at the expense of other ... returns to 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
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 11:20
... (including duplicates) A review of these abstracts (JLM, PLG) identified 115 papers of potential interest including review papers The published text of 31 ‘randomized’ clinical trials, including ... representation of the effect The vertical straight line denotes null effect (odds ratio (OR) = 1) The individual points denote the OR for each study and the lines on either side the 95% Bayesian credible intervals ... competing risks, the probability of an event is more appropriately estimated by the cumulative incidence function, which, for the particular event of interest, is a function of the hazards of all the
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 21:21
the role of uncertainty in transaction cost and resource-based theories of the firm
... strategic management has used the concepts of uncertainty from these disciplines and applied them to the issues of the firm, including the existence and the boundary of the firm Transaction cost ... 1THE ROLE OF UNCERTAINTY IN TRANSACTION COST AND RESOURCE-BASED THEORIES OF THE FIRM DISSERTATION Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the ... exists in the market in the form of opportunism On the other hand, this study argues that uncertainty in resource-based theory can be found within the firm as well as in the market First of all,
Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2014, 00:48
Evaluation of the role of autophagy in fungal development and pathogenesis 2
... suitable inoculum for the pathogen and determines the severity of the disease However, the genetic and biochemical control of the onset of conidiation, and the regulation of ... protein involved in the Cvt pathway (Scott et al., 2001). Atg20 and Atg24 bind PtdIns(3)P and belong to the sorting nexin family that functions in protein trafficking from the Golgi to the endosome ... promotes the degradation of. .. compartments and their resident proteins in eukaryotic cells Endosomes also play a role in cellular signaling The G protein signaling occurring on the
Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 10:01
Evaluation of the role of autophagy in fungal development and pathogenesis 3
... OP-2 strains. The indicated strains were initially grown in the dark for days and then subjected to constant illumination to induce conidiation. At the specified time-points post induction, the fungal ... from the wild type in terms of its capacity to breach the host surface and cause disease (Fig. 6A and B). Interestingly, and unlike the atg8Δ, the gph1Δ atg8Δ strain elicited a slight induction of ... tips of conidiophores (Fig. 2D). Upon initiation of the first incipient conidium, the RFP-Atg8 puncta were located prominently in the developing conidium, and remained highly enriched in these
Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 10:01
An exploratory study on the role of emotions in service satisfaction and loyalty behaviours
... review of the main definitions proposed in the literature They tried to analyse in the literature the common elements that appeared in the miscellaneous definitions of satisfaction and in the consumers’ ... gives a description of our research methodology and of the elaboration of the survey instrument Chapter 5 consists in the presentation of the results of the statistical analysis of the data we collected ... on satisfaction and loyalty than in the case of a short service encounter In the hospitality industry and in a package holiday in a resort especially, the length of the stay and the different experience
Ngày tải lên: 28/09/2015, 13:28
The-Role-of-Mentoring-in-College-Access-and-Success
... Defined Because of the prevalence of mentoring in various settings and the wide range of issues mentors address, scholars have struggled to develop a common definition of the term In fact, there ... Recruit and involve key stakeholders and organizations in planning Securing the support of schools and other key partners is critical to securing resources such as referrals of students in need of ... includes the following findings: School-based mentoring increases grade promotion and decreases unexcused absences, tardiness, and bullying or fighting in school, while community-based mentoring improves
Ngày tải lên: 30/10/2022, 15:25
Báo cáo y học: "The role of leptin in innate and adaptive immune responses" doc
... potential role of leptin in RA Role of leptin in other immune-mediated inflammatory conditions Several studies suggest a potential implication of leptin in the pathogenesis of other autoimmune inflammatory ... of inflammatory conditions (reviewed in [27]) and, in particular, the role of leptin in immune responses and inflammation has lately become increasingly evident Altered leptin production during ... play a major role in the regulation of the inflammatory process in experimental models of hepatitis and colitis in mice, emphasizing the critical role of adipose tissue-derived leptin in immune
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:22
Báo cáo y học: "DNA transposons and the role of recombination in mutation accumulation in Daphnia pulex" pdf
... such lineages were included in this survey. Other than hatching (and the conditions immediatel y preceding hatching), sexual sub- lines were maintained in the same manner over the course of the ... survey the relative abundance of each TE family in MA lines with and without sex, and discuss the implications of the patterns observed for the role of DNA transpo- sons in shaping the genomes of ... Fourth, the observation of putative somatic insertions in all six families suggests these families are capable of activity and could mobilize in the germline as well. The role of recombination in
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 20:21
báo cáo khoa học: "Bridging the gap between basic science and clinical practice: The role of organizations in addressing clinician barriers" pps
... state-ment of Investigator (Form FDA 1572)] will never do the third trial But they get into it thinking they were going to start a research business They walk in and anoint their office nurse ... that interest in their participa-tion in research might not be based upon their potential intellectual and professional contributions Information-gathering If clinicians were aware of and interested ... over them The size of an organization can indicate its capacity to run multi-ple studies over time, reflecting the number of clinicians and patients involved in the organization and how much of the
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23
Báo cáo y học: "The role of conversation in health care interventions: enabling sensemaking and learning" pptx
... failure of overlooking the role of conversation in intervention success, and to develop a theoretical argument for the importance of paying attention to the role of conversation in health care interventions ... ranging from the reinforcement of old beliefs or strengthening existing relationships and power structures to completely innovative ideas existing in the mind of nei-ther individual prior to the ... sensemaking and learning by their propen-sity to colonize and overpower diverse ways of thinking, acting, and conversing; and thereby decreasing flexibility, adaptability, and the ability of organizations
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21
báo cáo khoa học: " The role of conversation in health care interventions: enabling sensemaking and learning" ppt
... failure of overlooking the role of conversation in intervention success, and to develop a theoretical argument for the importance of paying attention to the role of conversation in health care interventions. ... greatly in its novelty, ranging from the reinforcement of old beliefs or strengthening existing relationships and power structures to completely innovative ideas existing in the mind of nei- ther individual ... locally-occurring, informal conversation as one aspect of communication and discuss conversa- tion's role in improving and inhibiting the sensemaking and learning required for successful interventions
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20
Báo cáo y học: " The role of IFN-γ in regulation of IFN-γ-inducible protein 10 (IP-10) expression in lung epithelial cell and peripheral blood mononuclear cell co-cultures" potx
... cells and produced IFN-γ [23] The present study focuses on the regulation of the IP-10 secretion The aim was to investigate the pathways of IP-10 secretion in a in vitro system including the cell ... interferon, since previous studies have shown an inducible expres-sion of IP-10 in a wide variety of tissues and cells under the influence of stimuli including interferons, inter-leukins, lipopolysaccharide, ... as increasing the risk of bacterial infec-tion, is of particular concern Inhibition of IFN-γ signaling may provide another approach [1] As shown in the present study, basal IP-10 secretion in
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:21
Báo cáo y học: " The role of polymorphisms in ADAM33, a disintegrin and metalloprotease 33, in childhood asthma and lung function in two German populations" doc
... Allergy in Childhood (ISAAC II) in a case control setting and further 824 children from the longitudinal cohort Multicentre Study of Allergy (MAS) In both populations the effects of single SNPs and ... of the genotyped polymorphisms (SNPs) in the ADAM33 gene in respect to the 22 exons (blue) and untranslated regions (red) of the gene Figure 1 Position of the genotyped polymorphisms (SNPs) in ... subtraction of the negative con-trol [9] In the Munich and Dresden population, standard baseline lung function was measured and bronchial reactivity was assessed in a random 50% sub-sample of the study
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 16:20
Báo cáo y học: " The role of recombination in the emergence of a complex and dynamic HIV epidemic" pptx
... (IDUs) in Guangxi and the east part of the Yunnan province in China [26,29] Both CRFs presumably originated in Yun-nan where subtypes B and C were co-circulating in the early 1990s [30-33], or in ... recombinants indicate that the HIV-1 epidemics in Argentina and Brazil are not independent Therefore, the contemporary HIV-1 epidemic has recombinant lineages of both ancient and more recent origins ... Background: Inter-subtype recombinants dominate the HIV epidemics in three geographical regions To better understand the role of HIV recombinants in shaping the current HIV epidemic, we here present the
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:23
Báo cáo y học: "Clinical review: The role of biomarkers in the diagnosis and management of communityacquired pneumonia" potx
... diagnosis and appropriate ther- apy, and use of the procedure will probably become the standard of care in the next few years. Indicators of prognosis CAP is the leading cause of death from infection ... response of the adrenals [57]. In a cohort of 373 patients with CAP, copeptin increased with increasing severity of the PSI and was an independent predictor of outcome, in contrast to other clinical ... substantial number of biomarker assays are in the devel- opment process, and some of these assays are likely to assume an increasingly important role in clinical manage- ment of CAP in the future.
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 19:20
A transmembrane mutation in FcgRIIb reveals the role of ceramide in phagocytosis and autoimmunity
... extension and actin polymerization resulting in the internalization of the target bound to the Fc receptor into the cell Trang 25! )!The target particle is surrounded by the extending of pseudopods of ... contain the signaling ITAM domains The activating receptors are switched on when the Fc portion of IgG binds to FcγRs resulting in receptor cross-linking and subsequent phosphorylation of the ... cross-linking of the activatory receptors with FcγIIb leads to the phosphorylation of the ITIM in the cytoplasmic tail of FcγRIIb by Lyn This results in the recruitment of SHIP,which inhibits the
Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:01
Development of sphingosine kinase (SPHK) inhibitors and the role of sphingolipids in adult stem cell proliferation and differentiation 2
... aldehyde 1, and using the synthetic route shown in Scheme 1, six analogues of sphingosine were synthesized In the first step, acetylides of various chain lengths, obtained from the treatment of alkynes ... change Within the linear range of the assay (~5-25μg/mL), the more protein present, the more the Coomassie Blue binds changing the absorbance of the sample After getting cell lysates from the CHO ... requirement of Graduate Program in BioEngineering, investigations of the synthetic compounds were more on their applications in tissue engineering, which is in stem cells differentiation, in this
Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 16:06
Development of sphingosine kinase (SPHK) inhibitors and the role of sphingolipids in adult stem cell proliferation and differentiation 3
... inhibitor candidate, in terms of the ability to penetrate into the cells and inhibit the endogenous SPHK1 and the good yield obtained from the chemical synthesis procedure Therefore, in this chapter, ... Staining 3.1.3.1 Alizarin Red S Staining Alizarin Red S staining is widely used to evaluate the calcium-rich deposits generated by cells In this study, the staining was used to detect the mineralization ... staining in each sample was quantified by dissolving the staining with 100% of isopropanol and detecting the absorbance at 500nm 3.1.3.3 Fluorescence Immunostaining Fluorescence immunostaining
Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 16:06
Circuit theory of finance and the role of incentives in financial sector reform
... further assess the riskiness of the bank. Finally, the inadequacy of the static accounting framework, underpinning the capital ratios approach, in tracing the dynamics of the bank’s trading strategy; ... placing money with investment financial institutions in the capital market, and hold the remaining share in non- interest bearing, short-term bank deposits (eq. 7). The share of savings going ... and illustrates the main structural, theoretical and incentive-related policy implications of circuit theory of finance. Section I.2 discusses the special role of the financial system as the core of the circuit...
Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2012, 09:33