... currency board is much more constrained than the central bank, and these constraints help ensure that the fixed parity is maintained. The board& apos;s main activity is to issue a local (slave) currency ... permanence of a particular peg. For some countries, such as the Central Asian Republics, the choice is made particularly difficult by the fact that they do havea predominant trading partner ... Indeed, a certain degree of ambiguity remained, and as late as the 1970s the Irish banks felt it necessary to make a special effort to advise their customers (within the State) that all deposits and...
... Richard [1987], Jagannathan and Wang [1996], and Gomes et al. [2003]. More recently,Avramov and Chordia [2006] show that allowing betas to vary with firm characteristics and macroeconomic vari-ables, ... ratioof total loans to total asset s (LNS /A) in the vector Xit, as well as for bank size measured by the log of (real) total assets (log A) .Recall that “other” assets (A OTH) and “other” liabilities ... time and across banks, treating it as a parameter to be estimated. The measured or observed component of the average maturity gap for bank i in quarter t the component that excludes the asset and...
... Demographics Survey NCAA member institutions can use this database file to enter the data in and analyze if you have access to SPSS. If you do not have access to SPSS, the data can also be converted ... it in the newspaper. Make sure the most important information is at the top. 10. If photographs accompany a press release, include a brief caption. Include names, dates and locations for EVERY ... radio ã News conference - gather media for a pre-season look at the team Don't underestimate the importance and potential impact of non-media channels. Word-of-mouth can be considerably...
... the list, sorted alphabetically by last name. Unavailable buddies (marked by red dots and visible Away messages) get shoved to the bottom. ã By First Name, By Last Name. Just what you'd ... ("Johann Deux"), it's because you haven't recorded the real-nameless people's real names. Click a buddy's name, choose Buddies Show Info, then click Address Card and ... Sorting and sizing your friends In View Sort Buddies, you can rearrange your buddies as they're listed in the Buddy lists: ã By Availability. Your available pals move to the top of the...
... the errors array because that function is able to push error messages into the array, thus affecting its length and the way the statement is evaluated. In the end, if validateName(), validateEmail(), ... 50. The next action creates a variable named matchFound and assigns it an initial value of false. The importance of this variable will become evident in a moment. Enter an invalid state name ... name (anything other than the four state names in the array) into the state_ti instance to see what the validation process turns up. Click the Clear button to reset the visual and data elements...
... Soybean 299Minobu Kasai and Wataru TakahashiChapter 15 Soybean Urease: Over a Hundred Years of Knowledge 317Rafael Real-Guerra, Fernanda Stanisỗuaski and Cộlia Regina CarliniChapter 16 Explanations ... Ramachandran, Tzi-Bun Ng, Jack Ho Wong, Arvind M. Kayastha, Alka Dwevedi, Marco Arruda, HerbertBarbosa, Lidiane Mataveli, Silvana Ruella Oliveira, Sandra Arruda, Ricardo Azevedo, Priscila Gratão, ... naturalpreservatives and as therapeutic agents against pathogenic bacteria, these antimicrobialpeptides have been a major area of scientific research [137,139].Bacteriocins are grouped into...
... consider again the databases in Figure 2. Supposewe have created the mappings, and have used themto transfer the house listings from database S and an-other database U (not shown in the figure) ... widespread adoptionof XML as a standard syntax to share data has fur-ther streamlined and eased the data sharing process. The growth of the Semantic Web will further fuel datasharing applications and ... multiple databases.This problem arises when organizations consolidatetheir databases and hence must transfer data from olddatabases to the new ones. It forms a critical step indata warehousing and...
... 4: Manual EvaluationsHere, we manually evaluate quality of summaries, a common DUC task. Human annotators are giventwo sets of summary text for each document set,generated from two approaches: ... each otherbecause they share thesame topics. Moreover, if a path includes a summary sentence, then candi-date sentences on that path are more likely to beselected for summary text. In particular, ... (recall against uni-grams), R-2 (recall against bigrams), and R-SU4(recall against skip-4 bigrams).Experiment 1: sumHLDA Parameter Analy-sis: In sumHLDA we introduce a prior differentthan the...
... for it can happen that a thing may become scarcerevery day and yet have no value at all because nobody wants it.Horse-drawn carriages have become very scarce nowadays, andyet nobody wants them. ... certain cases the entrepreneur may himself be the inventor of a technical processfor which he obtained a patent, or he may have obtained fromanother inventor such a patent ora trade-mark ora ... oversimplification.This was the talent that gave the leaders of the Renaissance theirstature. Of Professor Ballvé it could be said, as in the characteri-zation that gives a contemporary play about Sir Thomas More...
... expressed as Kifor NK-1M (major site) and NK-1m (minorsite), and EC50values for the cAMP pathway and for the inositol phosphates pathway.SP, [Ala9]SP and [Pro9]SP are almost equipotent at the major ... receptors. [HGly8]NKA(4–10) is as potent as NKA and [Ala8]NKA on rabbitpulmonary artery and rat portal vein, two NK-2 receptorbioassays [43]. More recently, thesame Ala substitution wasreported ... ofAc-HGly-NHMe, Ac-b2-HAla-NHMe and Ac-b3-HAla-NHMe have been generated and compared to the canonical structures of the corresponding a- amino acidAc-Gly-NHMe. The corresponding SP analogues...
... namely the Bahamas, Barbados, Grenada,Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, support is given to a Sector Wide Approach (SWAP) in education with one nationalsectoral plan including all education ... 1).✓✓✓✓✓✓✓NA✗✗✓✓✓✓✓✗NRNRNANANANARESULTS AND DISCUSSION 7Results and Discussion 3Table 2. Policies and strategies for SHN and HIV AnguillaAntigua The BahamasBarbadosBelizeDominicaGrenadaGuyanaJamaicaSt. ... of EducationMinistry of EducationAntigua and Barbuda The BahamasBarbadosBarbadosBelizeDominicaGrenadaGrenadaGuyanaJamaicaJoint British and Dutch overseasTerritories (Anguilla)Joint...
... carriedaway. The acreage of our model city allowsroom for three wide main streets or boulevards, which run from east to west,and which are the main thoroughfares.Beneath each of these is a railway ... similar manner. The streets of the city are pavedthroughout with thesame material. Asyet wood pavement set in asphalte hasbeen found the best. It is noiseless,cleanly, and durable. Tramways arenowhere ... few scholarsmight foresee, even as that Baeda did,that their living actual work was but the beginning of their triumphant coursethrough the ages, the momentum. But the masses of the nations,...
... schedules place gating activities at their latest start dates. During the execution phase, an attempt is made to maintain the planned start dates for these gating activities. For all other activities, ... activity may set off a cascading effect that delays the start of a critical chain activity (see Herroelen and Leus, 2001).Behavioral Issues. The planning tactics of CC assume that behaviors ... tasks later and waste safety margins, and Parkinson’s Law, meaning that humans tend not to finish their tasks ahead of time even though they havethe chance to do so. According to Goldratt, activity...
... Table 2-15 Comparison of theoretical and actual sample by gender and age 30 Table 2-16 Comparison of theoretical and actual sample by geographical area 33 Table 2-17 Comparison of theoretical ... subsection. Table 2-15 compares the planned and actual sample by country. Table 2-15 Comparison of theoretical and actual sample by gender and age FRANCE Theoretical sample (No,=500) Actual sample ... theoretical and actual sample by city size 35 Table 2-18 Comparison of theoretical and actual sample by education level 36 Table 2-19 Comparison of theoretical and actual sample by occupational...