... largest drop inreserves was in China, where foreigncurrencyreservespeaked at close to US$4 trillion inJune 2014, and subsequently recorded sustained declines, cumulating to US$436 billion as ... levels in2014 (Figure I.A.31) Nonresident investors have been sellers of Thai portfolio assets on a sustained basis since mid2013, and became net sellers of Malaysian securities as well in 2015, ... 2015 as of August In contrast, reserves fell only slightly in Thailand, and were stable in the Philippines The general decline in gross reservesin developing Asia s large economies was attributable...
... Economics Research The persistent increases in housing sales and starts have been surprising In 2012 to date, sales of new and existing single-family homes were 8.1% higher than in 2011 Prices also ... 2014 Source: Bureau of Economics Analysis, RBC Economics Research tion of fiscal restraint persists, business investment is likely to remain tepid; however, once the issue is resolved, US business ... anticipated increase in expenses such as unfunded pension liabilities The Bank of Canada s quarterly Business Outlook survey showed that the majority of companies intend to increase investment in machinery...
... TVs in their rooms by pointing their tablets at the TV Consumers’ behavioral changes are also driving change in business-to-business (B2B) publishing Most consumers are members of the business ... lives and are incorporating social behaviors into their business behaviors Tablets are also enabling print publishers to present consumers with a value proposition previously lacking in those ... investment, especially if integrated across media In China, PepsiCo s Bringing Happiness Home campaign— featuring Pepsi, Lay s, and Tropicana— was delivered simultaneously on TV, online, in store,...
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... systems or modules such as an ABS, where it is assumed that the supplier is able to spread its development cost across several clients (assemblers) Given the importance of the systems being subcontracted ... suppliers They also wish to reduce asset intensity of their operations to boost shareholder return on assets, while improving responsiveness and quality As seen in Figure 5, the increase in supplier ... competitiveness in this fast moving industry, focusing on automotive suppliers, particularly the smaller ones that make up most of the local autoparts industry in Asia Besides this initial introduction,...
... world In the USA alone, 337,000 foreign students were registered in 1983 Crystal [1] Cited in Pennycook [2] “English is used as the main discourse in fields such as science, economics, politics and ... training there One of the main languages used in United Nations conferences is English, also, the language in world summits or conferences or seminars is English Culpepper (1997), cited in Russell ... other in the process Vietnam is a clear illustration of the replacement process, since Vietnam War, Russian was used as the main language and it was taught as compulsory subject in schools and...
... opportunities in these countries and the associated shortage of financial assets as the main source Similarly, the IMF (2005) stresses low investment rates, rather than an increase in savings, following ... obviously not true The allocation of savings simply represents a gross transfer of assets across individuals: the increase in deposits of income receivers is matched by the decline in deposits of ... incomes (assumed here to coincide with a corresponding cash flow), and it is this very spending that creates the corresponding saving in the surplus sector another Typically, increases in assets...
... Notes: Table reports coefficient estimates of OLS regressions of basis point change in interest rates on Fed LSAP1 and LSAP2 surprises Standard errors in parentheses below Significance levels: ... Notes: Table reports coefficient estimates of OLS regressions of basis point change in interest rates on Fed and BOE LSAP surprises Standard errors in parentheses below Significance levels: * ... Events Distinguished by Surprise Direction LSAP Positive Surprise LSAP Negative Surprise BOE LSAP Positive Surprise BOE LSAP Negative Surprise VIX Constant Adjusted R2 Hyp: LSAP Pos Surp = Neg Surp...
... as to threaten systemic failures in banking systems, governments have been assembling rescue plans – unloading the toxic assets from bank balance sheets as well as recapitalizing the banks so ... opportunities; an increase in social spending; and assistance to the private sector Morocco s stimulus plan includes measures to improve access to credit, offer tax incentives, increase vocational training ... FINANCIAL CRISIS: REGIONAL IMPACTS, RESPONSES AND SOLUTIONS Regional responses • Official development assistance – Across the region, governments are faced with shrinking domestic resource bases...
... sediments such sandstones, siltstones, mudstones, and volcanic ash, which accumulated in small depressions, floodplains, lakes, swamps, and streams Depending on the type of deposit, the plant fossils ... environments In most cases the alluvial (loose and unconsolidated) sediment deposited in floodplains and swamps is transported by streams and rivers (fluvial) and the information contained in these sediments ... extraordinarily preserved (mummified) plant macrofossils In situ stumps and stems are also preserved in many of these fossil layers Insights from Paleohistory Illuminate Future Climate Change Effects...
... correspond to the chosen synset, we first construct a set of related words of the chosen synset, including hypernyms, hyponyms, holonyms, meronyms and attributes Using this set of related words, ... dataset that addresses this issue The dataset has three interesting characteristics: 1) human judgments are on pairs of words presented in sentential context, 2) word pairs and their contexts are ... overseas, banned market, firms, businesses U .S. , Canadian, African harmful, prohibited, convicted Table 1: Nearest neighbors of words based on cosine similarity Our model is less constrained by syntax...
... robberies of bystanders, including families at bus stops; and assassinations of rival gang leaders In Britain, 21 illegal Chinese immigrants drowned in the rising tide of Morecambe Bay while harvesting ... as our case studies also show, it is not surprising that Asian organized-crime groups in Britain can compel persons they smuggled in from China, for example, to sell counterfeit DVDs in pubs ... To be sure, the MPA, like other industries afflicted by counterfeiting, has powerful interests in the assessments presented in this report Those evident stakes required that the authors be especially...
... (SAXS) Ovorubin stability with regard to pH was also studied using SAXS, CD, intrinsic tryptophan fluorescence and absorption spectroscopy, in an attempt to further test its structural features ... ovorubin spot in the 2D gel was visualized by Coomassie Brilliant Blue R-250 stain (Sigma Chemicals) Pepsin resistance To analyze pepsin resistance, 20 lg of ovorubin was incubated for 150 in 0.02 ... carotenoprotein Regarding the 3D structure, analysis of the SAXS scattering spectral data reveals that lobster crustacyanin has a cylindrical shape [21], whereas ovorubin is an anisometric protein Another...
... also consistent with this proposal As the inhibitor is in excess with respect to the enzyme, successive decarboxylations would accumulate the covalent adduct in the assay period, thus becoming ... histidine analogs An increase in W fluorescence intensity is most commonly associated with reduced exposure of the W residues to the solvent, i.e a transition from a predominantly solvent-exposed ... consisting of clusters of conserved residues is present in decarboxylases belonging to groups I, II and III [2] The PLP-binding site of Morganella morganii AM-15 HDC was experimentally located in...
... premiums in asset markets including inflation risk premiums would rise The combination of - 17 increased uncertainty for households and businesses, higher risk premiums in financial markets, and ... yields on those securities and also pushed investors into holding other assets with similar characteristics, such as credit risk and duration For example, some investors who sold MBS to the Fed ... update existing equipment, strong corporate balance sheets, and the low cost of financing, at least for those firms with access to public capital markets Rising sales and increased business confidence...
... (FDA), “increases in adoption of herbicide-tolerant soybeans were associated with small increases in yields and variable profits but significant decreases in herbicide use” (our italics) Benefits for ... large-scale adoption of Bt crops will result in rapid build-up of resistance in pest populations Insects possess a remarkable capacity to adapt to selec tive pressures, but to date, despite widespread ... nontransgenic alternatives for which growers also typically purchase seeds annually Despite these mitigating circumstances, this is seri ous issue among organic growers and in developing countries,...
... singleS 45 rpm records-were still big sellers The store, wisely, displayed the Billboard magazine ch~rt of bestselling singles near the racks of records, as a stimulus to sales But our film showed ... of minutes a shopper spends in a store (assuming he or she is shopping, not waiting in a line) is again an importantfactor in determining how much she or he will buy Over and over again, our studies ... its product was sold in department ,stores, so in one weekend we descended on four sites, two in Massachusetts and two in the Los Angeles area Each department was similar-the jeans section was...
... Almost all the droughts that occurred in the region are associated with late starts of rainy season and early cessation of the rains, resulting in drastic reductions in the length of rainy season ... and Cessation (bottom) Dates of Rainy Season (Nigeria) Number of studies in the Niger basin have shown significant trends towards a false onset (a situation where the rainy season starts normally ... enormous (900 miles long) Aleution island s ecosystem of orcas (killer whales), sea lions, sea otters, sea urchins, kelp beds, and fish populations, appears to have collapsed due to loss of plankton,...
... transfer costs make technologically complex intermediates hard to o¤shore, intra-…rm trade in these intermediates is less sensitive to increases in transport costs than intra-…rm trade in less ... has nothing to say on the factor price e¤ects of changes in o¤shoring costs, the main focus of Grossman and Rossi-Hansberg (2006) At the same time, by including both costs of o¤shoring tasks— ... production workers As transport costs increase, the average skill intensity of U .S related party trade is increasing These results strikingly support the mechanism present in our model: because technology...