... form of the banking industry What trend in branch banking has been prominent in the U.S in recent years? Year # of Bank Main Offices # of Branch Offices Total of U.S Bank Offices Ave # of Branches/ ... Organizational Form of the Banking Industry Financial holding companies Special type of holding company Offers the broadest range of services List of activities offered may expand as ... or insurance companies 5 Organizational form of banking industry Unit banking Offer all services from one office One of the oldest kinds of banks New banks are generally unit banks until...
Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2014, 10:03
... specific type of information that involves the interpretation of spatial data 1.1.4 Applications of GIS There are many different uses of GIS, as may have become clear from our list of professionals ... placement of various sensors on the buoy Figure 1.2: Schematic overview of an ATLAS type buoy for monitoring sea water temperatures in the El Niño project Figure 1.3: The array of positions of sea ... the month of December The bottom figures also give an indication of wind speed and direction See also Figure 1.3 for an indication of the area covered by the array of buoys At the moment of writing,...
Ngày tải lên: 21/10/2014, 10:09
An overview of future sustainable nuclear power reactors
... change of geometry permits high heat transfer to the cool moderator, thus preventing the breach of the fuel channel, and the possibility of a meltdown Furthermore, because of the use of natural ... only on the construction of an enrichment plant, but also on the costs of processing the fuel However, some of this potential savings is offset by the initial, one time cost of the D2O The D2O required ... transfer of decay heat from the reactor to pools of water outside of containment These systems utilize natural circulation based on simple laws of physics to transfer the decay heat outside of containment...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 15:28
An overview of the EU Member States support schemes for the promotion of renewable energy sources
... minimum capacity limit A guarantee of origin shall be of the standard size of 1MWh No more than one guarantee of origin shall be issued in respect of each unit of energy produced In line with the ... energy systems to private investors of 25% of the purchase price of the installation, with maximum subsidy of 233€ and 50% of the purchase price with maximum subsidy of 3k€, respectively In the Netherlands, ... installed capacity of 26GW were the most developed RES-E technology, followed by hydro systems of 11GW installed capacity and PV systems of 9.8GW installed capacity out of the 50GW of the total installed...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:10
An overview of global solar radiation measurements in Ghardaïa area, south Algeria
... site, characterized by an exceptional sunshine, most often, it has a very important rate of insolation (75% on average) and the mean annual of global solar radiation measured on horizontal plane ... comparing them with corresponding data of the 22-year average of NASA's surface meteorology and solar energy-model (SSE model) Experimental setup The site of the measurement station was located ... were high during the period of 26 March to 27 September Monthly average daily and peak daily global solar radiations for the year of 2005 are given in Figure The month of June appears to have the...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:11
An overview of the clinical management of spasticity
... toxin injection) An overview of the clinical management of spasticity is worth undertaking simply to be sure of alleviating at least the neural component of the hypertonia There is often a gratifying ... soft tissue contracture In practical terms there is often a mixture of neural and biomechanical hypertonia, and it is very difficult clinically to determine the relative contribution of each of ... relief of the spasticity in the biceps may not lead to Restriction of the range of movement is not always simply due to increase of tone and spasticity in the relevant muscles The surrounding soft...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 10:20
Tài liệu An overview of the drinking water supply situation in the Mekong river delta, Vietnam pdf
... discharges, local rainfall and runoff, the tides and the depth of bars in the sea in front of the estuaries Otherwise, in early rainy season, nearly 1,6 million hectares of the delta are infected by ... house-roofs after a long period of dry season • Freshwater from river and canal is widely used in the upper parts of the delta, where the water quality isnot effected by high concentration of salinity ... abstraction capacity of 90,000 m3/day for water supply of about 2.6 million people • In accordance with a decision of Vietnam Government, from 3/2000 and depending on purpose of use, tap water prices...
Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 19:15
Tài liệu Linux Device Drivers-Chapter 1 :An Introduction to Device Drivers ppt
... code of the sample network driver A few features of device drivers depend directly on the interface bus where the peripheral fits, so Chapter 15, "Overview of Peripheral Buses" provides an overview ... the CPU, is part of process management More generally, the kernel's process management activity implements the abstraction of several processes on top of a single CPU or a few of them Memory management ... end of this book, in Chapter 16, "Physical Layout of the Kernel Source", you'll find a road map to the Linux kernel, but these few paragraphs should suffice for now One of the good features of...
Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 01:17
an overview of the financial system
... An Overview of the Financial System • Primary function of the Financial System is financial Intermediation • The channeling of funds from households, firms and ... (savers) to those who have a shortage of funds (borrowers) • Direct finance vs Indirect finance 2-2 An Overview of the Financial System II 2-3 Structure of Financial Markets I Debt Markets • ... country 2- World Stock Markets 2- Function of Financial Intermediaries I Financial Intermediaries • Engage in process of indirect finance • Are needed because of transactions costs and asymmetric information...
Ngày tải lên: 05/01/2014, 16:55
Tài liệu An overview of customer satisfaction and loyalty doc
... Quantitative Measures of: • Importance of Key Attributes • Company Performance on Key Attributes • Competitive Performance • Expectations of Specific Levels of Performance Determine Areas of Greatest Impact ... Development of New Product/ Services • Training Set Customer Driven Standards Create Detailed Plans Phase 2: Discovery Identify • Needs/Expectations • Types of Problems • Points of Customers/Company ... believe that there is no single best way to assess the relative importance of specific aspects of performance and that the choice of a method depends on your particular needs There are several approaches:...
Ngày tải lên: 18/01/2014, 15:20
Tài liệu Database Encryption – An Overview of Contemporary Challenges and Design Considerations pdf
... remainder of this paper (2) Data-in-use - An adversary can access the memory of the database software directly and extract sensitive information This attack can be prevented using a tampered proof hardware ... through the database software, by physical removal of the storage media or by access to the database backup files Different security mechanisms can be categorized based on the level of trust in the ... scenario, the server can perform all of the operations and no threat exists Obviously this scenario is not of our interest, and is ignored in the remainder of this paper (2) Fully un-trusted -...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 12:20
Tài liệu AN OVERVIEW OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN NANOTECHNOLOGY pptx
... burrow - Collection of microspacecraft making a variety of measurements Europa Submarine * Carbon Nanotubes • Growth (CVD, PECVD) • Characterization • AFM tips Metrology Imaging of Mars Analog Imaging ... than CMOS • Need high current drive; should be able to drive capacitances of interconnects of any length • High level of integration (>1010 transistors/circuit) • High reproducibility (better ... Characterization of nanoscale properties - Large scale production of materials - Application development • Opportunities and rewards are great and hence, tremendous worldwide interest • Integration of this...
Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 17:20
AN OVERVIEW OF NETWORK SECURITY ANALYSIS AND PENETRATION TESTING docx
... use, often in multiple locations within the organisation, today's computer systems may present major security problems The growth of networking, the profusion of keyboards and the friendliness of ... needs of the organisation The purchase of hardware and software represents only part of the solution to your security concerns In fact, many security products can restrict the potential of your ... of each stage This chapter of the document will briefly cover the security lifecycle way of thinking and how Penetration Testing performs an integral part of the security assessment segment of...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20
Child poverty in perspective: An overview of child well-being in rich countries pptx
... greater risk of dropping out of school, of leaving home early, of poorer health, of low skills, and of low pay Furthermore such risks appear to persist even when the substantial effect of increased ... the best of currently available data and represents a significant step towards a multi-dimensional overview of the state of childhood in a majority of the economically advanced nations of the world ... 5.0 Behaviours and risk-taking of young people, an OECD overview Any overview of children's well-being must attempt to incorporate aspects of behaviour which are of concern to both young people...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20
AN OVERVIEW OF THE SECURITY CONCERNS IN ENTERPRISE CLOUD COMPUTING pptx
... have to take possession of the hardware and all of the technical support headaches associated with it" (Smith, 2009) Table shows the pay per use competitive matrix of some of the major cloud computing ... example of the tremendous benefits of cloud computing to a company, how a startup company call Animoto that allow people to turn a series of photographs into a 33 International Journal of Network ... One of the top security concerns of enterprises are the physical location of the data that are being stored in the cloud especially if they are located in another country because the laws of the...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 23:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Natriuretic peptide system: an overview of studies using genetically engineered animal models doc
... and suggestions were of inestimable value for our study using GC-A knockout mice, to Professor Misono of the University of Nevada School of Medicine, and to the reviewers of the FEBS Journal, ... regulation of blood pressure Overall, these results show the significance of the endogenous natriuretic peptide system in the maintenance of normal blood pressure Regulation of blood volume Infusion of ... cloning of the first mammalian GC (thus called GC-A) from rats and humans [17] Expression of the cloned enzyme confirmed that GC-A is an ANP receptor Soon after the discovery of GC-A, cloning of a...
Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 23:20
An Overview of South African Human Resources Development ppt
... many of the policy proposals dealing with the supply and demand of teachers These discourses were at the heart of the framing of solutions to inequality and quality of schooling From the side of ... Redistribution would enable the removal of the backlog of teacherless classrooms, improve PTRs, reduce drop-out rates and address the root of the problem of the culture of teaching and learning (see Chisholm ... indeed, they had been ‘sites of struggle’ for over a decade – in which the ‘restoration of the culture of teaching and learning’ was one of the first priorities of post-apartheid education departments...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 04:20
Blood Cell – An Overview of Studies in Hematology pptx
... propped with serum of one of them (c) Silver stain of 2-DE of immune-precipitated hemolysate antigens (d) Silver stain of 2D electrophoresis of hemolysate (e) Western Blot of 2-DE of hemolysate propped ... importance of the components of dense granules for homeostasis is recognized when the diseases of the deficiency of dense granules was defined as Hermansky-Pudlak Blood Cell – An Overview of Studies ... 26 Blood Cell – An Overview of Studies in Hematology Figure 10 Venn diagram depicting set of abnormal protein of disease X (P' dj) b Model of Diseases caused as a result of missed tissue proteins...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 21:20
An Overview of Consumer Data and Credit Reporting ppt
... 29.9 Typeofcredit:Check30.9 1.3 credit Typeofcredit:Bankinginstitution 29.1 40.2 Typeofcredit:Financecompany 3.1 27.5 Type 10.1 17.9 of Type 1.9 34.4 of Type 4.0 36.4 of Type 43.7 69.6 of Type ... Accounts Dollar size of balance, accounts with a balance Distri bution of balances, by dollar size of b alance Dollar-weighted balances of bal Type of account Share Share of of all account open ... Distribution of accounts by dollar size of credit limit: Distribution of credit limit: Distribution of accounts by dollar size of accounts by dollar size of credit limit: Distributionofaccountsbydollarsizeofcreditlimit:...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20