2—concrete breakout strength of anchor in shear

... longitudinal reinforcement, in s1 = spacing of vertical reinforcement in wall, in s2 = spacing of shear or torsion reinforcement in direction perpendicular to longitudinal reinforcement or spacing of ... nominal shear strength provided by shear reinforcement in accordance with 11.5.6 11.1.1.1 In determining shear strength Vn, effect of any openings in members shall be considered 11.1.1.2 In determining ... tension reinforcement, in = nominal diameter of bar, wire, or prestressing strand, in = stress in reinforcing steel, psi = specified tensile strength of concrete, psi = specified yield strength of nonprestressed...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2014, 15:45

... provided in ‘‘Appendix I.’’ Nonsampling errors were minimized by stringent quality-control procedures that included thorough interviewer training, checking the consistency of answers during and ... percentages of women who are exposed to the risk of pregnancy, this table provides information on the initiation of first sexual intercourse, in and of itself The initiation of sexual intercourse ... bringing the population closer to the HP2010 goals of 75 percent In virtually all subgroups, breastfeeding was initiated more often in 2002 than in 1995 For example, 43 percent of women with incomes...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 10:20

... clear negative influence The remaining three are realestate loan portfolio variables that neatly summarize the underpinnings of not only this banking crisis but also the underpinnings of the previous ... magnitude of the assets (cet par.) in that category in later years Thus, if (say) investments in construction loans in 2006 lead to large losses in 2008 and the eventual failure of banks in 2009, ... CAMEL ratings system, was introduced by U.S regulators in November 1979 to assess the health of individual banks Following an onsite bank examination, bank examiners assign a score on a scale of one...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 03:20

... low return on Chinese investment of its FX reserves Many analysts (including some in China) have questioned the wisdom of China’s policy of investing a large level of FX reserves in U.S government ... government officials have increasingly sought to offer assurances to Chinese officials regarding the safety of China’s holdings of U.S government debt securities and to encourage China to continue ... area of concern in the U.S is Chinese financial influence As noted, Chinese investment is largely involuntary, a function of having a great deal of money and no place else to put it This refines...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 20:20

... by participating in loans made in other markets, investing in securities, and using other means, the large number of banks that operate predominantly in a single market and serve mainly a local ... and savings institution failures and compare failing and nonfailing banks in terms of size and branching characteristics We similarly compare failing and non-failing commercial banks during 1987-92 ... that of 1987-92 The final section summarizes our findings and conclusions PROFILE OF BANKS THAT FAILED DURING 2007-10 Large Financial Institution Failures and Near-Failures The recent financial...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 10:20

... president of the National Academy of Engineering The Institute of Medicine was established in 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences to secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions ... the changing role of knowledge and information Market forces, including changes in the availability of financial capital, changes in international capital flows, and the increasing price of labor ... Universities: A Profile (1995); Investing in the National Research Initiative: An Update of the Competitive Grants Program in the U.S Department of Agriculture (1994); and Investing in Research: A...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 15:20

... are inspecting or maintaining a section of track, it cannot carry trains Increasing the frequency of either reduces track capacity As well, as track volumes increase, the ability to perform maintenance ... routinely announces changes in operating speeds See, for example, Union Pacific (2007) 13 A unit train is a train consisting of cars all traveling to the same single destination These trains are often ... as shown in Table 2.5 Since the length of track requiring maintenance has been declining, this was expected It is also interesting to note that real expenditures per mile of track have increased...

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Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 08:20

... U.S Investors in Swiss Bank Accounts U.S Investors in Madoff-Like Managed U.S Trading Accounts Size of the Global Hedge Fund Industry Fund -of- Funds Incentives of the Hedge Fund Manager and Investors ... Swiss bank holdings into hedge funds Some of the Swiss banks invest in offshore hedge funds in the bank’s beneficial name, while maintaining a record of 16 This was widely reported in the global ... limited partnership interest or nonvoting shareholder interest in a foreign entity by U.S investors as any kind of controlling interest However, neither U.S investors nor offshore hedge funds...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 14:20

... National Credit Union Administration OCC Office of the Comptroller of the Currency OFHEO Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight OFR Office of Financial Research OTS Office of Thrift Supervision ... those of other financial instruments) Hedge funds are limited to qualified investors with high net worth Hedging—Investing with the intention of reducing the impact of adverse movements in interest ... and remain solvent Financial regulators require the institutions they supervise to maintain specified minimum levels of capital—defined in various ways in order to reduce the number of failing firms...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20

... monitoring includes both inspections and testing Nadeau examines 277 instances of noncompliance involving 175 plants He finds that a 10percent increase in monitoring activity reduces the duration of ... effectiveness of these services in reducing air pollution.1 Researchers have studied monitoring and testing, permit trading (a type of financial service), and design and engineering of abatement ... content in gasoline to 10 percent of its previous level In 1985, banking of credits was introduced Stavins (2003a) notes that this was done in part to give small refineries more flexibility, since...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 00:20

... “withering away” of its nuclear capability over time may be inevitable That would certainly be the most likely effect of continuing its current nuclear policies In sum, nuclear weapons remain the final ... provided China with detailed information on all U.S nuclear weapon designs • the U.S bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade during NATO’s operations in Kosovo, and the Chinese insistence—apparently ... restraining Pakistan’s nuclear program.11 Others went further and accused the United States of actual connivance in assisting Pakistan in developing nuclear weapons.1 These kinds of competing pressures...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 01:20

... Great Industries,” Bankers’ Magazine (Oct 1925), 532 82 Samuel String and James Van Ingen, A View of Certain Proceedings in the Two Houses of the Legislature, Respecting the Incorporation of the ... entertainments served as a sort of bribe offered in the form of fine wine, music, and women.88) The potentially most pernicious form of favoritism was insider lending, the practice of lending primarily ... Americans Savings banks were eager to obtain the poor’s deposits but few were interested in helping the poor to Minutes of the Board of Directors of the Farmers Bank of Virginia, 1820-1827, Virginia...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 08:20

... examine the nature of these covariances in more detail To this end, suppose beginning of the period The bank’s net asset at the end of the period in dollar terms is (6) where q and q* are interest ... Institutions, Journal of Finance 39 (4), 1141-1153 Fortune, 1995 Untangling the Derivatives Mess, March 20 21 Giliberto, M, 1985, Interest Rate Sensitivity in the Common Stocks of Financial Intermediaries: ... Interest-Rate Risk and the Pricing of Depository Financial Intermediary Common Stock: Empirical Evidence, Journal of Banking and Finance 14, 803-820 23 Description of Table Variables in Asset Return Equation...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 13:20

... research examining these differences will offer insight into the riskiness of firms in both countries Using cross-sectional analysis, we find that reported accounting indicators of foreign exchange ... dollars of the value of assets and liabilities of a foreign business unit 21 Examining the link between foreign loan charge-offs and foreign exchange exposure gives an indication of the importance of ... a number of factors, such as differences in the structure of ownership, in securities and derivatives laws, in supervision, in the extent of foreign ownership, or in hedging policies Of particular...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 13:20

... USG funding with 1,095 of those activities.4 According to EPA, many of the remaining 900 activities were also supported by DoS and EPA funding, but the funding information is missing or incomplete ... secretariat, the main organizing and coordinating body for GMI It is responsible for managing GMI meetings and events, producing outreach materials, processing new members, maintaining the GMI website, ... fuel In India, respondents working in both the landfill and coal sectors mentioned that GMI had resulted in increased initiatives to reduce methane emissions In the Philippines, capacity-building...

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Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 14:20

... figure of $7,500 million Since the wealth of the Mellons is invested mainly in aluminium and oil, there is nothing extraordinary in such a growth of their wealth in 40 years Although they are not included ... behalf of the corporation "Transformation of the actually functioning capitalist into a mere manager, administrator of other people's capital,"1 such, in the opinion of Marx, is one of the main distinctive ... the head of gigantic industrial-banking complexes He is interested not only in the price of the securities he owns, but also in the proper functioning of the companies which bring him a profit He...

Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2014, 00:12

... extent of investor protection accorded in the home country of the firm cross-listing in the U.S Therefore, in line with the bonding hypothesis, crosslisted firms facing more skepticism from U.S investors ... 13 2.2.2 Benefits of hiring a reputable underwriter In the context of the Bonding Hypothesis of Stulz (1999) and Coffee (1999; 2002) explained above, the main benefit of hiring a reputable underwriter ... year after the offering) controls for firm growth “Need for external equity financing” is computed as of the fiscal year-end before the offering, using the definition of Rajan and Zingales (1998):...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2014, 00:47