... m.
Because half the deaths have occurred by mid-year, the size e ofthe population at the start ofthe year was
e = m + d / 2
The probability s of surviving to the end ofthe year (conditional ... OF HEALTH. AD-HOC GROUP ON THE ECONOMIC APPRAISAL OFTHE HEALTH
EFFECTS OF AIR POLLUTION: Economic appraisal ofthe health effectsof air pollution. The
Stationery Office, London, United Kingdom, ... Institute of Public Health andthe Environment (RIVM),
Bilthoven, Netherlands
Bert Brunekreef
Chairman ofthe Working Group
Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
Aaron Cohen
Rapporteur of the...
... at the end ofthe month prior to the start ofthe maintenance period that the
operation falls under. Write-offs and provisions and return on assets are measured at the
end ofthe year before the ... studies the data cross-sectionally. Section 5 presents
the panel analysis and provides the main results ofthe paper. Section 6 concludes. The
Appendix contains an overview ofthe structure ofthe ... mean of 1,144% and a standard
deviation of 3,331%. It is highly skewed. The minimum is 86%, the median is 400%,
and the maximum is 26,997%. Imbalance×nex has a mean of -208,065%
2
and a standard
deviation...
... depreciation.
2
The sudden stop episodes studied include the Latin American debt crises ofthe 1980s, the Mexican crisis
of the first half ofthe 1990s andthe East Asian and Russian crises ofthe late ... κp
M
t
M
t
(8)
using the value of final goods, the sum of all value added andthe total income in the economy
respectively. The last term in equation (8) is the income ofthe intermediary in the current
period and ... market.
We calculate the cost of credit for the median firm as the ratio ofthe real value of interest
payments to the real value ofthe stock of bank debt. As observed in the figure, this real
implict...
... client was the owner ofthe land, but the Objections Committee
found the Custodian acted in “good faith”, and thus the long-term lease ofthe land to the Jewish Agency
was allowed to stand.
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... purposes from their use to expand and protect
settlement activity andthe relatively unhindered movement of settlers and other
Israelis in and out ofthe West Bank.”
Since the writing of that ... access to land in Area C will only be resolved with the final resolution ofthe
peace process andthe end ofthe occupation. In the meantime, those concerned with the
development ofthe Palestinian...
... question is whether the sum ofthe discounted net social benefits
during the life ofthe infrastructure justifies the investment cost.
The description ofthe costs andbenefitsofthe HSR lines ... intermodal effects measured in the primary market consist ofthe cost savings in the
conventional mode andthe product ofthe value of time, the average time savings andthe number of
passengers ... In any
case, the cost ofthe HSR is not the point. The economic problem is whether the social benefits are
high enough to compensate the infrastructure and operating costs ofthe new transport...
... municipalities in the West Bank and five in
Gaza by the Ministry of Planning as part ofthe Land Administration Project funded by the World Bank and
the Government of Finland. It is part ofthe larger ...
reserve land under the mandate regional plans. The main element of these plans, and those
produced by the Civil Administration before and since, is the line demarcating their
boundaries.
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These ... registry.
The IPA gives the holder powers of act on behalf of
the land owner in the use and transaction ofthe property andthe facility to legalize the transaction. The
IPA is valid for 15...
... terms ofthe types of cells andthe overall structure ofthe alveolar region.
Figure 1 shows a magnified view ofthe
structure ofthe normal gas-exchange region
of the lung. It is called the ... studies of its health effects find other pollutants present that may
account for some ofthe effects.
Part ofthe problem is due to the nature ofthe data being collected. The levels of
particulate ... susceptible to theeffectsof air pollution than adults?
2. Which air pollutants have the greatest impact on the health of children and adults?
3. What can be done to reduce theeffectsof air pollution...
...
with the client andthe desire to retain the client. Concerns about the
p
otential effectsof mandatory audit firm rotation include whether its
intended benefits would outweigh the costs andthe ... tenure andthe auditors’ desire to retain the
clients. About 55 percent ofthe other Tier 1 firms
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and 65 percent ofthe
other Fortune 1000 public companies
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were uncertain whether the risk ... incurred by both the public accounting firms andthe
public companies. They believe the increased risk of an audit failure and
the added costs of audit firm rotation outweigh the value of a periodic...
... replacement of lysine and
arginine in these motifs by histidine abrogates the antibacterial effects of
these peptides. Antibacterial activity ofthe histidine-rich peptides against
the Gram-positive ... (Fig. 1A, upper). In contrast, the
AKK24 and ARK24 peptides bound heparin in the
absence and presence of Zn
2+
(Fig. 1A, lower). Next,
we investigated theeffectsof these peptides on bac-
teria; ... Zn
2+
potentiated
the antimicrobial activity of a set of peptides from
the heparin- and Zn
2+
-binding regions of HMWK
domain 5 further substantiates findings obtained with
the prototypic AHH peptides. Whether...
... dissociation may be facilitated in the female genital
tract because of dilution ofthe protein in the intraluminal fluids ofthe cervix
and the uterus, andthe acidic fluid ofthe uterotubal junction. Such ... [24], andthe C1s
protease ofthe C1 complex of complement [25]. Thus,
the Trp band can be regarded as a characteristic
fingerprint ofthe native fold of PSP-I and PSP-II.
The near-UV CD spectra of ... spectrum of PSP-I ⁄ PSP-II reflects
the specific environment of chiral aromatic side chains
in the tertiary structure ofthe folded protein, and the
band intensities decrease in a sigmoidal way as ther-
mal...
... carboxy-terminal part
of the reactive center loop of PAI-1 in the small cleft formed
by the 60-loop and VR1 loop can be envisioned. The
kinetics ofthe interaction of thrombin and TM were shown
to ... can explain part
of the effect of thrombin on the proliferation and
migration of vascular SMC [4,34]. In the context of the
vessel wall, TM might therefore function as a regulator of
PAI-1 inactivation ... numerical
integration ofthe rate equations that describe the mechan-
isminFig.4wasperformedtoobtaintheoreticalinsight
into the effect ofthe second-order rate constants and
concentrations of TM and PAI-1 on the...
... 2011
The Effectsof Funding Costs and Risk on
Banks’ Lending Rates
Introduction
There are a number of factors that influence the
way banks set lending rates. Among these, the
costs of debt and ... middle ofthe range, as a result of some repricing of lending rates
relative to these costs. In addition to the increase in the cost of debt funding, there have been
other drivers ofthe rise ... wholesale debt (domestic
and foreign). The share of securitisation has also
fallen since the onset ofthe financial crisis, as the
amortisation ofthe outstanding stock of residential
mortgage-backed...
... distributional effectsof QE, drawing out the parallels with the
distributional effectsof a low level of Bank Rate. The first section of this paper discusses the
aims of QE and how it affects the economy. ... impact on the net value ofthe scheme. The fall in gilt yields raised the value of
the pension fund’s liabilities. But the associated increase in bond and equity prices raised the
value of their ... In order to illustrate the importance ofthe asset and liability structure ofthe pension scheme
when assessing the effect of QE, both in terms of underfunding and asset and liabilities
mismatch,...
... that there are no health
benets from further reductions of ozone once
the standard is achieved. However, attaining the
ozone standard requires reducing ozone below the
standard on the worst ... tradeos between
the health benets ofthe regulation and
the harm from the regulation’s income-re-
ducing costs. The costs of attaining EPA’s
current ozone and PM
2.5
standards will
likely ... underdeveloped and
will likely never recover.”
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The National
Institutes of Health also misled the public
about the study’s ndings and relevance. In
the NIH press release, the director ofthe
National...
... parameters for the lipid layer
before and after binding of peptide and subsequent
aggregation, andofthe layer composed of peptide (or
a portion ofthe peptide) that extends beyondthe lipid
surface. ... like) and
bound with their long axis perpendicular to the plane
of the lipid membrane. Furthermore, the 4.7 nm thick-
ness ofthe peptide layer indicates that the hydropho-
bic tail ofthe peptide ... that the binding
interaction ofthe peptide with the three membranes
creates different effects within the lipid layer and in
the peptide layer. Although the peptide layers in both
the DOPC and...