556 research outputs found
Hepatosellüler karsinoma hücre dizilerinde, hipoksi ve radyasyon stresine karşı hücrenin direnç geliştirmesinde HGF sinyal iletimi sisteminin rolünün belirlenmesi
No full textThe development of financial services and financial regulation in Angola
No full textThis dissertation examines developments in financial services in Angola, looking particularly at the role of the Banco Nacional de Angola (BNA) in achieving greater competence in the banking division, growth, and well organized financial regulation and corporate governance. The author considers the work of BNA, the government of Angola (GOA), and investors in providing more financial services and increased competence of the banking service, with reference to international models
Regulatory tradeoffs in designing concession contracts for infrastructure networks
No full textNetwork activities typically involve collecting a good or service (such as electric utilities, phone services, and rail transportation) from many producers or distributing them to many users. Producers and users are often widely scattered, geographically. Close financial integration of networks is justified on the basis of economies of scope and scale and the benefits from pooling and coordinating. In many countries, network operators are completely integrated publicly-owned firms (private firms being deemed insufficiently efficient or equitable). Challengers of this practice contend that the inefficiency resulting from lack of competition outweighs the gain from economic integration. With reform, some competitive mechanisms can be introduced even when monopoly seems the best option for delivering a service. But conflicts between policymakers'objectives -including efficiency, equity, speed, speed of reform, and signaling- influence the design of concession contracts for infrastructure network services (including communications and transportation services). Competition begins with the unbundling of various stages of delivery. Then competitive bidding is popular, with the public authority keeping property rights on productive assets but conceding their operation to a private firm. The winner gets the right to maximize profits, within limits (having to provide universal services, for example, and avoid price discrimination). In liberalizing the delivery of a service, policymakers must consider not only efficiency but also social and fiscal feasibility. The authors discuss how relevant information asymmetry is in contract design and the award and regulatory processes. They also discuss how to design pricing to accommodate the obligation to provide universal service. To illustrate, they describe Argentina's experiment in liberalization, which is increasingly viewed as a model for changing private sector and government involvement in infrastructure services. Beginning in 1989, Argentina began privatizing utilities and transport services, because the government had decided that it could no longer afford to subsidize those services or finance the investments needed for their effective operation. To introduce competition, the government unbundled services and introduced competitive bidding. It also created sector-specific regulatory agencies to protect consumers from private monopolies and to protect the private concessionaires from government micromanagement. Making concession-based reform and contracted-based regulation of private monopolists sustainable will require strengthening regulatory agencies, clarifying their terms of reference and accountability, and better separating the responsibilities of sector ministers and regulators.Health Economics&Finance,Environmental Economics&Policies,Economic Theory&Research,Labor Policies,International Terrorism&Counterterrorism,Environmental Economics&Policies,Health Economics&Finance,Education for the Knowledge Economy,Knowledge Economy,Economic Theory&Research
Order and disorder in proteins
No full textIn contrast to the general view that proteins should have a specific 3D structure in solution for their activity, there are many proteins which do not have a folded “native” structure for a big portion of their sequence. While these intrinsically disordered regions are essential for protein function, they cause problems in efforts for determining the 3D structures for the folded domains. It has been shown that the removal of the disordered domains improved the structure determination success both by X-ray crystallography and by NMR. As part of Northeast Structural Genomics (NESG) effort I worked on identifying the disordered and flexible parts of the protein using Hydrogen/Deuterium Exchange with Mass Spectroscopy (HDX-MS) analysis for construct optimization for high-throughput structure determination. Using this method I also studied human Smad3, which is an important part of the TGF-β-signaling pathway; and provided the first experimental data on structural features of the linker domain. During my training, I also studied human Deleted in Oral Cancer (DOC-1) protein, which was one of the proteins I studied by HDX-MS for construct optimization. We determined the solution structure of the folded region of DOC-1, which was shown to be important in cell-cycle regulation and cancer biology; and I also studied structure-function relations. Additionally, we studied the solution structure of Methionine Sulfoxide Reductase B from Bacillus subtilis, an important protein for reversing oxidative damage in cells, by NMR as a part of methods development studies for NMR for large proteins.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Asli Erteki
Mobile payments for remittances in Africa: Benchmarking with Latin America
No full textIn this article the author seeks to explain the reasons backing the success of mobile technology in money transfers comparing Africa and Latin America.Remittances, Africa, Latin America, mobile phones
Living Conditions in Orang Asli Resettlement Project (PROSDET) of Pantos, Pahang, Malaysia
No full textAbstractThis paper examines the living conditions of 183 Orang Asli (aborigines) of six villages who were resettled at Program Bersepadu Daerah Terpencil (PROSDET), Pantos in Kuala Medang, Pahang, Malaysia. The research aims to analyze the resettlement project and to determine if it has improved affected Orang Asli's livelihood and quality of life. Household survey, descriptive analysis, observations and physical analysis of the settlements were used in this research. The findings disclosed dissatisfactions among Orang Asli for reasons which mainly related to their livelihood, traditional lifestyle and culture. The paper provides recommendations to ensure better future resettlement programs for Orang Asli
The organological study of the rebana asli and musical analysis on joget music / Shukri Nordin
No full textThis study explores how the rebana asli was made from the organology aspect and identified the musical analysis on joget music. It is important to recorded and transcribed all the information about rebana asli to connect continuation of the techniques of making a rebana asli and music itself to young generation. This research also provides a musical analysis to guide people who are interested about joget music and generally explained about the Malay music in various genre. Focusing in joget music because it is very popular through a joget song called "Jinkly Nona". The joget music experienced a long journey and still active until today. Combining observations and interviews with his own experiences of learning how to made a rebana asli, the author received a lot of knowledges in different perspectives
Voucher privatization with investment funds : an institutional analysis
No full textCommon wisdom among post-socialist reformers has beento use voucher investment funds to provide the corporate governance needed to restructure newly privatized enterprises after mass privatization efforts. The idea has been that mass privatization would spread the ownership too wide and make corporate governance difficult. The author examines the likely institutional behavior of voucher funds and the possible effects of their development on a transition economy. Since most policy advice has been in favor of voucher privatization with investment funds, the author can be seen as playing the devil's advocate, but his argument is institutional, not statistical. Policymaking requires insight and foresight into how institutions will tend to function. He concludes that voucher funds will introduce a bias in the economy away from the real industrial sector toward an ersatz"financial sector"that will have little if any positive financial role but will be well-protected by friendly regulators. One long-term consequence of voucher privatization with investment funds, according to this view, is a de facto"industrial policy"of real sector decapitalization in favor of short-term rent-seeking by fund managers through board sinecures and lucrative side deals with portfolio companies and through financial market manipulation and paper entrepreneurship in the"financial sector."Without strong corporate governance from the funds and without stable ownership of their own, many enterprise managers will exploit the post-socialist version of the"separation of ownership and control"to grab what they can in the form of salaries, bonuses, perquisites, and side deals. The most likely results of the strategy of voucher privatization with investment funds may be a two-sided grab fest by fund managers and enterprise managers -- together with the accompanying drift, stagnation, and decapitalization of the privatized industrial sector.Economic Adjustment and Lending,Payment Systems&Infrastructure,International Terrorism&Counterterrorism,Economic Theory&Research,Banks&Banking Reform,International Terrorism&Counterterrorism,Banks&Banking Reform,Economic Adjustment and Lending,Environmental Economics&Policies,Economic Theory&Research
Konribusi Pajak Hotel terhadap Pendapatan Asli Daerah Kabupaten Karo
No full textPajak merupakan peranan yang sangat penting karena merupakan sumber utama pendapatan negara. Pajak hotel merupakan salah satu sumber pendapatan negara yang berasal dari sektor Pajak Daerah yang memiliki peran yang cukup besar terhadap peningkatan Pendapatan Asli Daerah (PAD).
Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui konstribusi Pajak Hotel, Target dan Realisasi Penerimaan Pajak Hotel, kendala dan upaya yang dilakukan oleh Dinas Pendapatan Daerah Kabupaten Karo dalam rangka meningkatkan pendapatan asli daerah. Metode penelitian yang digunakan penulis dalam penyuunan Laporan Tugas Akhir ini adalah metode Deskriptif. Sedangkan teknik pengumpulan data yang digunakan adalah studi kepustakaan dan studi lapangan.
Dari hasil penelitian yang penulis lakukan dapat disimpulkan bahwa Dinas Pendapatan Daerah Kabupaten Karo telah melaksanakan pemungutan pajak hotel sesuai Undang-Undang Nomor 28 Tahun 2009. Telah sepenuhnya berhasil merealisasikan pendapatan pajaknya dari target yang telah di tetapkan sehingga setiap tahunnya Pendapatan Asli Daerah Kabupaten Karo terus meningkat. Daerah kabupaten Karo tidaklah selalu berjalan lancar, masih ada kendala yang menjadi sebuah tantangan bagi Dinas Pendapatan Daerah Kabupaten Karo dalam upaya meningkatkan Pendapatan Asli Daerah (PAD). Tetapi kendala tersebut dapat diatasi dengan upaya yang dilakukan oleh Dinas Pendapatan Daerah Kabupatn Karo.Tax hold important roles in nation incomes. Hotel tax is one of nation’s earings come from local taxessector which also an important roles towards district own source revenue’s improvement
The purpose of the thesis are to find out the hotel tax contribution, the target and realizatin of hotel tax collection, the problems occured aswell as the solution to overcome the problems. The author uses descriptive methode on this thesis and as for the data collection technique, the author uses the literature study and observation study.
From the research, the author conludes that the tax service office of karo hotel tax collection is approprite with the constitution number 28 year 2009 as well as imroving the taxes earnings which cause the gradual improvement in local taxes of karo eranings. In the process, the tax service office of karo found out several problems, fortunately the problems ovecame smoothly.56 HalamanKertas Karya Diplom
Konribusi Pajak Hotel terhadap Pendapatan Asli Daerah Kabupaten Karo
No full textPajak merupakan peranan yang sangat penting karena merupakan sumber utama pendapatan negara. Pajak hotel merupakan salah satu sumber pendapatan negara yang berasal dari sektor Pajak Daerah yang memiliki peran yang cukup besar terhadap peningkatan Pendapatan Asli Daerah (PAD).
Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui konstribusi Pajak Hotel, Target dan Realisasi Penerimaan Pajak Hotel, kendala dan upaya yang dilakukan oleh Dinas Pendapatan Daerah Kabupaten Karo dalam rangka meningkatkan pendapatan asli daerah. Metode penelitian yang digunakan penulis dalam penyuunan Laporan Tugas Akhir ini adalah metode Deskriptif. Sedangkan teknik pengumpulan data yang digunakan adalah studi kepustakaan dan studi lapangan.
Dari hasil penelitian yang penulis lakukan dapat disimpulkan bahwa Dinas Pendapatan Daerah Kabupaten Karo telah melaksanakan pemungutan pajak hotel sesuai Undang-Undang Nomor 28 Tahun 2009. Telah sepenuhnya berhasil merealisasikan pendapatan pajaknya dari target yang telah di tetapkan sehingga setiap tahunnya Pendapatan Asli Daerah Kabupaten Karo terus meningkat. Daerah kabupaten Karo tidaklah selalu berjalan lancar, masih ada kendala yang menjadi sebuah tantangan bagi Dinas Pendapatan Daerah Kabupaten Karo dalam upaya meningkatkan Pendapatan Asli Daerah (PAD). Tetapi kendala tersebut dapat diatasi dengan upaya yang dilakukan oleh Dinas Pendapatan Daerah Kabupatn Karo.Tax hold important roles in nation incomes. Hotel tax is one of nation’s earings come from local taxessector which also an important roles towards district own source revenue’s improvement
The purpose of the thesis are to find out the hotel tax contribution, the target and realizatin of hotel tax collection, the problems occured aswell as the solution to overcome the problems. The author uses descriptive methode on this thesis and as for the data collection technique, the author uses the literature study and observation study.
From the research, the author conludes that the tax service office of karo hotel tax collection is approprite with the constitution number 28 year 2009 as well as imroving the taxes earnings which cause the gradual improvement in local taxes of karo eranings. In the process, the tax service office of karo found out several problems, fortunately the problems ovecame smoothly.56 HalamanKertas Karya Diplom
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