The State of U S Railroads docx

... than trucks and do not impose costs on other highway users. 7 e public costs of railroads are not always lower than those for trucks. Railroads impose other social costs, such as accidents at ... strategy should balance the private interests of the shippers and railroads t with the public interest associated with the public costs of different modes of transportation. B...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 21:20

... liquidity as measured by Cash & Due to assets, Investment Securities to assets, and Brokered Deposits to assets. These results closely follow the univariate results presented in Panel A of ... capital as measured by equity to assets was associated with a higher probability of failure, as was worse asset quality as measured by NPAs to assets, lower earnings as measured by ROA, an...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 03:20

... infections, and the viruses that cause them perish within a few hours outside the human body. Health experts distinguish between colds and u on the basis of the viruses that cause them and the distinctions ... contact, such as through kissing, also spreads the virus. Though the strain of herpes simplex virus that causes cold sores, HSV-1, is different from the strain HSV...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 21:20

... Forces: Implications for U. S. Strategy “Business as Usual, Only Smaller” “Business as usual, only smaller” best characterizes the current offi- cial U. S. nuclear posture and strategy as described ... States did care about the quarrel, the Russians would have to consider the consequences of even a Russian “victory” (e.g., sanctions of various sorts, undermining whatever remai...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 11:20

... improvements in the provision of basic services to the population. In the “Sustained Sunni-Shia Conflict” trajectory, the United States would work to build the institutional capacities of at- risk Muslim ... contribution Support RAND xviii Unfolding the Future of the Long War forces, thus giving the United States a better chance of crushing them decisively. is strate...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 20:20

... sexual intercourse and percentage who used the specified contraceptive method at first intercourse, by selected characteristics: United States, 2002 Characteristic Number in thousands Used ... consistency of condom use, according to selected characteristics: United States, 2002 How often a condom was used Number in None of Some of Every Characteristic thousands Total the t...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 10:20

... 2010. Comprehensive knowledge of HIV – AIDS Indicator Surveys (AIS), Behavioural Surveillance Surveys (BSS), Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS), Reproductive ... Health Surveys (RHS) and other national household surveys, 2005–2009; ‘HIV/AIDS Survey Indicators Database’, <www.measuredhs.com/hivdata>. Condom use at last higher-risk sex –...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 00:20

... interval for the forecasted values, the line represents the fitted values, and the points are the actual observations. Table E.2 shows the full regression diagnostics. Passenger Ship Price Escalation ... products have. However, these increases in price can be explained mostly in the changes in the size of the ships being produced. Over the time frame of the data,...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 22:20

... industry leaders so that their insights and data could further inform our analysis. Below is a list of seed questions used to jumpstart these meetings. e list was a starting point only. Other ... required that we use vary- ing subsets of aircraft systems for different parts of the analysis. ese subsets are “chunks” (not random samples) that were selected on the basis of (1)...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 23:20

... infectious diseases and strengthening health systems. 9 Disease-specific funds, such as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the GAVI vaccine initiative and the US govern- ment s ... on the Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA). The list of fragile states is updated annual- ly, based on the computation of the countries’ indi- vidual CPIAs. F...

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