... Crawling band Crisis Yes Moderate, 6.16 Low, 2.0 Moderate, 27.9 Low, 0.24 Table 6.6 Asia and Latin America: addedpowerofThaicrisisinexplainingprobabilityofcontagioninbank cluster, July ... certainly not the main culprit inexplaining the vulnerability of Argentina and Brazil following the Mexican devaluation or of Indonesia following the ThaicrisisCONTAGION 81 Institute for International ... of the larger emerging markets in Asia and in Latin America at the onset of the Thaicrisis (July 1997 ) based on how much added explanatory power a crisis elsewhere added to the probability of...
... was Professor Emeritus of Economics at Texas A & M University He died in 1999 J Harold Mulherin is Professor of Banking and Finance at the University of Georgia Michael C Munger is Professor of ... is exceedingly simple when compared, for instance, to the making of an automobile or a calculating machine or a grain combine or a milling machine or to tens of thousands of other things Delivery? ... gear used in harvesting and carting the cedar logs to the railroad siding Think of all the persons and the numberless skills that went into their fabrication: the mining of ore, the making of steel...
... thinking?” when it seems that too many of them were thinking alike And the leverage was often hidden in derivatives positions, in off-balance-sheet entities, and through “window dressing” of financial ... cause a crisis It was the failures outlined above—including the failure to effectively rein in excesses in the mortgage and financial markets—that were the principal causes of this crisis Indeed, ... bonuses packaging and selling new kinds of loans, offered by new kinds of lenders, into new kinds of investment products that were deemed safe but possessed complex and hidden risks Federal officials...
... of independence essential to this work" (page 271) In 1978, the highly publicised collapse of the G rays Building Society once again reminded small investors of the assumed role of auditing in ... at these meetings and for the constructive criticisms of two anonymous referees The Powerof ‘ Independence’: Defending and E xtending the Jurisdiction of Accounting in the United Kingdom Abstract ... aura of independence, the profession has developed and deployed a variety of tactics These include revising its ethical guidelines, refining its disciplinary arrangements, as well as by mobilising...
... agency of interest and are not being taught by a teacher in the population of interest Again, this situation is somewhat unique to the setting of VAM and its implications for the estimation of the ... teachers of grade during the 1997 1998 school year, grade during the 1998 – 1999 school year, grade during the 1999 –2000 school year, grade during the 2000–2001 school year and grade during the 2001–2002 ... 1.2 Missing test score data in value -added modeling Longitudinal test score data commonly are incomplete for a large percentage of the students represented in any given data set For instance,...
... http://www.thepowerofhabit.com.) It focuses on habits as they are technically defined: the choices that all of us deliberately make at some point, and then stop thinking about but continue doing, often ... suffering from amnesia His mental image of himself didn’t include memory loss, and since he couldn’t remember the injury, he couldn’t conceive of anything being wrong In the months after meeting ... different wing of the hospital Within a week, he was swallowing easily Another week, and he started talking normally, asking for Jell-O and salt, flipping through television channels and complaining...
... Theater of the Profane V -Power: The Feminine Form and Pop Culture 31 Logo -Power: The Role of Branding and Advertising in Pop Culture 59 i -Power: Pop Culture in the Age of the Internet 83 N -Power: ... grandmothers took it in, finding it “interesting,” as newspaper headlines of the era blurted out In effect, the movie seemed to make “porn flicks” part of ordinary movie-watching fare, coming right after ... case in point, which originated as an Egyptian pictograph of an ox Instead of drawing the full head of the animal, only its bare outline was at first drawn—probably in the marketplaces of the...
... 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 ... is the value of this shared language in building a common professional language of teaching The problem of defining “good” teaching is extremely complex, but the difficulty of finding words to ... videotapes made in all three countries This method produced understanding of some very interesting findings, including, for example: Japanese teachers’ tendency to hold back from intervening in children’s...
... who stand on the thin line of survival For the people standing on that thin line of survival between living and becoming a casualty of war, the impact of these actions is of existential PROLOGUE ... are flying in arms and they’re bringing in food and Bibles But a whole lot of them are flying in arms and flying out with war booty You can buy anything out here if you know what you are doing: from ... what professional discipline can condone understanding only a part of the scope of its field of inquiry? The consequences of this practice are visible in myriad ways, which the chapters of this...
... think of anything to say So she just sat there Blinking All eyes on her Her clients shifting uneasily in their seats Her thoughts running in a familiar loop: I’m too quiet for this kind of thing, ... without much variation in his vocal in ections or facial expressions He was more interested in listening and gathering information than in asserting his opinion or dominating a conversation He ... erences, shyness and introversion have in common something profound The mental state of a shy extrovert sitting quietly in a business meeting may be very di erent from that of a calm introvert—the shy...
... Director of the Technical Division in the Food and Drug Administration of Thailand in 1991 -1994 This was followed by a series of appointments to other senior positions within the Ministry of Public ... the coordination and synergy of the three points of the triangles, windows of opportunity and timing can often be critical factors for positive outcomes A number of developments in Thailand and ... scale-up of HIV treatment programmes in many developing countries, including Thailand Increasing concerns about drug resistance to existing treatments, the prohibitive cost of second- and third-line...
... to continuing debate It is possible that the health of individuals in a society also depends on the degree of income inequality in that society and that the effect of distribution of income on ... average income of its inhabitants, the cost of a one minute outgoing call on a mobile network in most non-European/U.S countries is arguably quite expensive, ranging from $0.50 in Brazil, to $1.00 in ... to use of text messaging to convey health information For example, in the UK, the ratio of the number of outgoing voice calls made to the number of outgoing SMS messages sent is 0.6:1 In South...
... to the left of the horizontal lines Gaps on the lines indicate amino acid deletions Numbers above each horizontal line indicate positions of expected amino acid deletions Numbers in parenthesis ... horizontal line indicate size of deletions Numbers in parenthesis next to the horizontal lines indicate total size of amino acid deletions in the aa 299 - aa 375 region also showed no (or minor) genetic ... data suggested that the atypical PRRSV having emerged in China in 2006 had not yet been introduced into Thailand, or at least into central Thailand since neither Type PRRSV with the 30-aa-deletion...
... levels in pigs, the objective of this study is to investigate the pathogenesis of SIV (Thai isolates) subtype H1N1 (A/swine/ Thailand/HF6/05) and H3N2 (A/swine/Thailand/S1/05) in weanling SPF ... the Thai SIV subtypes, H1N1 and H3N2, are still circulating in the pig population in Thailand since the first report in 1990 Our studied viruses were able to induce flu-like lesions in weanling ... viruses used in the studies may yield different results due to the origin of those isolates Interestingly, the antigenic site of the H1N1 used in this study contained the changed in the amino acid...
... resulted in an even larger Wald statistic of 3.69 (P = 0.0002), indicating a 2.56-fold increase in information density Discussion Analysis of the MRC CRASH trial data showed that ordinal analysis of ... analysis’, instead of emphasizing the formal assumptions of this model Both approaches to ordinal outcome analysis that were investigated in the present study resulted in substantial power increase ... approaches are often used in the analysis of trials conducted for other indications For example, in stroke the modified Rankin scale, which is also an ordinal scale, consisting of six categories,...
... 200 in our designs It was a consequence of the lack of accuracy of the covariance matrix estimation by FDA when nps was low, and again the small number of sires which maintained the powerof PDA ... an increase in the number of parameters to be estimated due to an increase in the number of sires in the design, the (co)variance matrix being estimated within half-sib families For example, in ... detection of QTL As for PCA, a univariate analysis of a linear combination of the traits was conducted, but the calculation of the linear combination was specific to the putative effect of the tested...
... allelic frequency the powerof intercrossing still increased with increasing dominance ratio (fig 1b) There was no evidence of effect of allelic frequency on the powerof both designs when gene ... al (1976, 1978) suggested excluding the offspring with heterozygous marker genotypes in the power analyses of the intercross design in order to increase the powerof the designs This has also avoided ... attempted to work out the powerof these designs However, because of the varying sizes of each of the nested groups, the numerator of the final test statistic used in the analysis of variance to detect...
... Global Forum 2011 Reporting and Information Visualization Unveiling the Powerof Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in ODS, continued A more restrictive type of descendant combination is to force the ... Determining what attributes are available is discussed in the section “Finding Element Names and Contexts.” 12 SAS Global Forum 2011 Reporting and Information Visualization Unveiling the Powerof ... http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/ for more information 22 SAS Global Forum 2011 Reporting and Information Visualization Unveiling the Powerof Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in ODS, continued CONTACT INFORMATION Your comments...
... crises must take into account this possibility The crises in Finland and Sweden are alike in their initial timing, both starting in 1991 and ending in 1994 Finland’s crisis was deeper in both absolute ... trace in detail the process of deregulation of banking and financial markets that occurred in both countries in the 1980s As a result of financial liberalization, instead of being forced to invest ... Following the insights of Irving Fisher, we may classify the crisisof the 1990 s as a real interest rate crisis, since the significant rise in real rate of interest constituted a central feature of...
... think of anything to say So she just sat there Blinking All eyes on her Her clients shifting uneasily in their seats Her thoughts running in a familiar loop: I’m too quiet for this kind of thing, ... without much variation in his vocal in ections or facial expressions He was more interested in listening and gathering information than in asserting his opinion or dominating a conversation He ... charged, acoustically noisy nes of an open-plan o ce Instead of distinguishing between online and in- person interaction, we used the lessons of one to inform our thinking about the other That’s why,...