... altering the industry characteristics, strategies, and products The third and fourth sections address the behavior of the major players in the industry The third section focuses on the responses of the ... responsibilities in the design and manufacturing of the car On the other hand, mergers and acquisitions between Western and Japanese or Korean automakers are breaking the traditional parochialism of the Asian ... the number and qualification of the workers involved in development, the number of CAD stations and their software, the characteristics of the testing and prototyping facilities, as well as the...
Ngày tải lên: 25/01/2014, 21:20
... closed economy and then in an open economy, and explores financing and intermediation patterns in the run-up to, and during, the crisis The discussion focuses largely on identities and on the risk ... between the current account and the accumulation of reserves is more likely to run the other way: the accumulation may reflect the wish to resist the appreciation of the currency, when the authorities ... of global intermediation that contributed to the credit boom and the transmission of the turmoil, and diverts attention away from the monetary and financial factors that sowed the seeds of the...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 03:20
Tài liệu Central Bank Announcements of Asset Purchases and the Impact on Global Financial and Commodity Markets docx
... use the ten-year government yields for the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Japan, and the euro area We study the movements in the U.S dollar against the euro, the yen, the ... percent and then used purchases of different assets as an additional policy tool Following the failure of Lehmann Brothers and the financial turmoil that ensued, the Federal Reserve announced the ... clearly depended on these expectations Understanding the surprise component of these announcements is important in order to understand how much of their effect on the day of the announcement was...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 03:20
Tài liệu THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRISIS: Regional Impacts, Responses and Solutions doc
... America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA)) The report was prepared under the overall ... impacting the member states of the five Regional Commissions of the United Nations, and examines the type and adequacy of responses at the national and regional levels It suggests ways in which the ... in the ESCWA region but also in North and Central Asia (IMF, 2009b) On the other hand, many non-oil producing countries and regions will benefit from the relatively low prices of oil and other...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 21:20
Tài liệu Global Change and the Function and Distribution of Wetlands ppt
... demonstrates the inter-connectedness of the low and high latitudes, and the global nature of the Earth’s hydrologic cycle Our case studies provide glimpses of wetland ecosystems, which expanded and ultimately ... mudstone block These trees grew in a bottomland forest (Fig 20) and given the preservation quality of the leaves and the fine-grained nature of the sediment, there was little transport of the leaves ... between 23.5°N and 23.5°S latitudes over the course of the year, there is little variance in the mean annual temperatures of the tropical lowlands Nevertheless, variation in the position of the solar...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 20:20
SAFETY AND JUSTICE PROGRAM and the GLOBAL RISK AND SECURITY CENTER docx
... organized, and it outlines the global reach of the ills both cause It outlines the similarities and the differences in the motivations of the two groups, and it looks at the variety of ways they find ... in, whom they partner with, and how they manage their product lines and respond to market demands The logic of the market, then, explains much criminal behavior and provides insights into the intersection ... SAFETY AND JUSTICE PROGRAM and the GLOBAL RISK AND SECURITY CENTER This research was conducted jointly under the auspices of the Safety and Justice Program within R AND Infrastructure, Safety, and...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 14:21
Báo cáo khoa học: Global shape and pH stability of ovorubin, an oligomeric protein from the eggs of Pomacea canaliculata pot
... giving the best fit to the scattering intensity The resulting dummy atom model represents the shape of the scattering particle To increase the reliability of the results, the final model for the dummy ... w [32] The crude homogenates were then sonicated for 15 s and centrifuged at 10 000 g for 30 min, and then at 100 000 g for 60 The pellet was discarded, and the supernatant was stored at )70 ... ovorubin is within the pH range of vertebrate digestive tract fluids [30,31], and the present results indicate that the protein can withstand the combined effect of low pH values and enzymatic attack...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 06:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Local changes in the catalytic site of mammalian histidine decarboxylase can affect its global conformation and stability pptx
... to locate the catalytic center and predict the shape of the dimeric protein The model reinforced our hypothesis proposed above To further address this hypothesis, we have characterized the protein ... is the final product of the reaction with HisOMe In fact, after min, the spectra of the HisOMe-treated samples had stabilized with the 390-nm peak as the major and final one In the reaction in the ... histidine and the histidineanalogs HisOMe and a-FMH This scheme was built from the major forms for each step mentioned in the text deduced from the previous information ([18,19] and the present...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 08:20
Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping--Updated and Revised for the Internet, the Global Consumer, and Beyond
... in it, where they go and don't go, and by what path they go there; what they see and fail to see, or read and decline to read; and how they deal with the objects they come upon, how they shop, ... where they stopped, what signs they read, whether they noticed the video monitors, and how they handled 14 WHY WE BUY the merchandise, including if they took anything to the dressing rooms If they ... shelves and picks up a bottle of Pantene brand, reads the front label, then picks up a bottle of the store brand and reads the front label, then reads the price tag On the Pantene, then reads the...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 15:16
Global Production and Trade in the Knowledge Economy pdf
... a Southern a¢ liate and all the remaining bP intermediates are produced in the home country by the parent Now consider the sourcing decision of the multinational’ a¢ liate in the other Northern ... input, the parent can either produce the intermediate itself or procure it from an a¢ liate in the South.10 If the parent …rm produces the intermediate z locally, it pays the northern wage wN and ... is bP the same as in the Southern a¢ liate but strictly higher for the a¢ liate in the other Northern country Hence, the a¢ liate will strictly prefer to import that intermediate from a Southern...
Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 02:20
ON THE TRANSFORMATION PROCESSES OF THE GLOBAL PULP AND PAPER INDUSTRY AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR CORPORATE STRATEGIES – A European perspective pot
... Objectives and research questions The main objective of the study is the analysis of the key structural and fundamental changes underway in the global pulp and paper industry and to find out their ... non-recurring items The size of the sample was deemed to be sufficient for the pulp and paper companies and their suppliers The 23 pulp and paper companies represent over 50 % of the global production ... The reliability and validity of the results are discussed further in chapter 12 14 KEY THEORETICAL CONCEPTS The key theoretical concepts that the study is based on and previous research on the...
Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 02:20
Global Imbalances and the Financial Crisis: Products of Common Causes pdf
... the rise in world saving and the expanding global imbalances that emerged later in the decade Indeed, it is only around 2004 that the 26 A curious and so far unresolved aspect of the saving and ... innovation created the toxic mix of conditions making the U.S the epicenter of the global financial crisis Given the regulatory weaknesses outside the U.S and competitive pressures in the banking industry, ... partial explanation of the high U.S external deficit over the 2000s See Chinn and Ito (2007) and Gruber and Kamin (2007) 12 2000, and other industrial country rates other than the United Kingdom’s...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 02:20
Understanding Tuberculosis – Global Experiences and Innovative Approaches to the Diagnosis Edited by Pere-Joan Cardona potx
... gene (WT 1-8) and four mutations (MUT 1, 2A, 2B and 3) For katG gene there was one WT and mutations (MUT 1and 2) and for inhA gene WT (1 and 2) and mutations (MUT 1, 2, 3A and 3B) The isolate was ... addition of the Superoxol, the strength of the catalase reaction is determined by measuring the height of the bubbles, characteristic of the catalase reaction, in the tube If the height of the bubbles ... °C and observed for the appearance of the pink band If the test is still negative after hours, the second tube will be tested on day to finalize the test 5.2.4 Urease The presence of urease, the...
Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 00:20
the mit press global justice and transnational politics apr 2002
... Critical Theory and Public Life Jürgen Habermas, Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy Jürgen Habermas, The Inclusion of the Other: Studies in Political Theory ... Transition: The East European and East German Experience Kirk Pillow, Sublime Understanding: Aesthetic Reflection in Kant and Hegel William E Scheuerman, Between the Norm and the Exception: The Frankfurt ... Frankfurt School and the Rule of Law Global Justice and Transnational Politics Essays on the Moral and Political Challenges of Globalization edited by Pablo De Greiff and Ciaran Cronin The MIT Press...
Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:46
báo cáo hóa học:" Global discourses and experiential speculation: Secondary and tertiary graduate Malawians dissect the HIV/AIDS epidemic" doc
... confirm a hypothesis may have been constricting Two of the main themes, global discourses” and “experiential knowledge of HIV/AIDS”, and their respective subthemes emerged in data coding and will ... when they’re going for the antenatals [prenatal treatment], they’re asked to come along with their husbands so they go for an HIV test They’re supposed to test them before delivery because they ... tied to dominant global institutions and discourses Since the educated elites’ lives frequently intersect with the demands of the rest of the world (especially as “development” and HIV/AIDS projects...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20
báo cáo hóa học:" Global existence and asymptotic behavior of smooth solutions for a bipolar Euler-Poisson system in the quarter plane" doc
... place in the fields of applied and computational mathematics They can be derived from kinetic models by the moment method For more details on the semiconductor applications, see [1, 2] and on the applications ... [6], and Hsiao and Zhang [7, 8] established the global entropic weak solutions in the framework of compensated compactness on the whole real line and spatial bounded domain respectively Zhu and ... energy methods Then, we can establish the algebraical decay rate of the perturbed densities ϕ1 and ϕ2 Finally, from the estimates of the wave equation with damping in [20] and using the idea of...
Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 20:20
Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article Global Existence and Uniqueness of Strong Solutions for the Magnetohydrodynamic Equations" potx
... Problems p p ρ, θ the pressure, and e e ρ, θ the internal energy; λ and μ are the bulk and shear viscosity coefficients, υ is the magnetic viscosity, κ is the heat conductivity Notice that the longitudinal ... on the studies of MHD by many physicists and mathematicians because of its physical importance, complexity, rich phenomena, and mathematical challenges, see 1–14 and the references cited therein ... 1.7 mean that the boundary is nonslip and impermeable The purpose of the present paper is to study the global existence and uniqueness of strong solutions of problem 1.2 – 1.7 The important...
Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 06:20
Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article Global Existence and Uniqueness of Strong Solutions for the Magnetohydrodynamic Equations Jianwen Zhang" pptx
... Problems p p ρ, θ the pressure, and e e ρ, θ the internal energy; λ and μ are the bulk and shear viscosity coefficients, υ is the magnetic viscosity, κ is the heat conductivity Notice that the longitudinal ... on the studies of MHD by many physicists and mathematicians because of its physical importance, complexity, rich phenomena, and mathematical challenges, see 1–14 and the references cited therein ... 1.7 mean that the boundary is nonslip and impermeable The purpose of the present paper is to study the global existence and uniqueness of strong solutions of problem 1.2 – 1.7 The important...
Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20
Combining global genome and transcriptome approaches to identify the candidate genes of small-effect quantitative trait loci in collagen-induced arthritis pptx
... data variability The CV for each gene on the chip and the mean CV for the entire probe set were calculated The mean CV ranged between 18.4% and 25.8% for all experimental groups, and this relatively ... LNs were stronger in the PI and CA phases than in the OA phase, and the responses at different phases were different When comparing the susceptible to the resistant strain, the biggest difference ... DK performed the bioinformatic analysis SI conceived and designed the experiment XY and SI drafted the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Additional files The following...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE DISCORDANCE BETWEEN THE GLOBAL TRANSCRIPTIONAL AND PROTEOMIC RESPONSE OF THE YEAST SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE TO DELETION OF THE F-BOX PROTEIN, GRR1
... mother and bud The end of M phase and the beginning of G1 of the next cell cycle is marked by cytokinesis and cell separation C Progression through the cell cycle is regulated by modulating the ... Figure 1.2 The SCFGrr1 Complex, Substrates, and Regulated Processes The SCFGrr1 E3 ubiquitin ligase consists of the cullin, Cdc53, Skp1, the Ring Finger, Rbx1, the E2, Cdc34, and the F-box protein, ... protein, Grr1 Together these proteins recognize and catalyze the covalent Grr1 and has been shown to mediate the ubiquitylation and attachment of ubiquitin to a protein substrate Grr1 is the substrate...
Ngày tải lên: 24/08/2014, 13:29