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UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT AND ECONOMICS RESEARCH PROJECT Microcredit of TYM Fund in Hanoi – Efficiency Assessment and Recommendations for improvement Instructor: (MSc.) Mai Xuan Thuy Research group: 28 Hanoi, June 2012 2 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We would like to address our deepest gratitude to our supervisor – (Msc.) Mai Xuan Thuy, whose constructive comments and orientation from the initial to final phase has made it possible for our project to be both clearer and deeper in
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ARTICLE IN PRESS Experimental and Toxicologic Pathology 59 (2007) 105–114 www.elsevier.de/etp Comparative ultrastructural analyses of platelets and fibrin networks using the murine model of asthma E. PretoriusÃ, O.E. Ekpo, E. Smit Department of Anatomy, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, BMW Building, P.O. Box 2034, Pretoria 0001, South Africa Received 10 October 2006; accepted 13 February 2007 Abstract The murine Balb/c asthma model has been
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