corollaries and the structure of the proposition

... Risk and Term Structure of Interest Rates • The risk structure of interest rates looks at bonds with the same term to maturity and different interest rates • The term structure of interest ... n The n-period interest rate equals the average of the one-period interest rates expected to occur over the n-period life of the bond Expectations Theory • Explains why the term structure of ... over the life of the long-term bond • Buyers of bonds not prefer bonds of one maturity over another; they will not hold any quantity of a bond if its expected return is less than that of another...

Ngày tải lên: 05/01/2014, 16:56

... Figs and 20 It is clear that the width of the necks determines the height of the potential barrier for current carriers, while the length of the necks determines the depletion-layer width of the ... However, the process of cracking is hard to control, because the magnitude of the sensor parameters change is dependent on the depth and length of the cracks Probably therefore the authors of [113], ... become noticeable The width of spillover zone depends on the material and the nature of the detected gas The influence of the contacts on sensor response with decreased length of the sensitive layer...

Ngày tải lên: 20/03/2014, 13:11

... FUNCTION The Office shall, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Financial Regulations and Rules of the United Nations examine, review and appraise the use of financial resources of the ... segregation of duties in order to assume the proposed delegation of authority The capacity and the structure needs to be developed based on the analysis of the needs, bottlenecks and strengths of the ... component B of the humanitarian affairs programme of work, better reflecting the relationship of this work to the other components of the programme OIOS is also of the view that the ISDR secretariat...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 02:20

... growth of the CEE countries This chapter of the thesis has the following structure The following section provides the characteristics of the transition in the CEE countries, and the implications of ... strand of theory, the credit line at the CEE subsidiaries may decline if the financial situation of the parent bank and/ or the macroeconomic conditions in the home country worsens On the other ... investigation of the impact of the parent banks on the credit growth pattern of the CEE countries The interest for the fourth chapter of this thesis is based on the following factors First, the credit...

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 02:21

... northern Japan (43◦ 15’ N, 141◦ 50’ E; 200-210 m a.s.l.) The topography was gently sloping, and the basement geology consisted of alternating beds of sedimentary sandstone and mudstone of the ... important, and the maintenance of foliage by short shoots becomes increasingly important Therefore, as the stand develops, the proportion of long shoots in the canopy decreases while that of short ... changed with thinning and insect outbreaks We also inferred the morphological structure of the canopy from LB1 and LB2 using another premise based on the shoot morphology of Betula species Betula...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 16:20

... stem profile model Profile and structure of Atlas cedar tree stem 75 Figure Application of the stem profile model (models IIa and IIb) and the ring profile model to the ring profiles of the trees ... behaviour of the ring profile model worsens both in terms of bias and accuracy to the point of performing worse at the top of the tree than the stem profile models Similarly, the stem profile model ... depending on the part of the tree being dealt with: the ring profile 77 model gives better results for the butt and the lower part of the stem both for the stem profiles and ring profiles (but...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:20

... alter the model structure and produces a near-constant variance of the residuals The weighting factor was the inverse of the variance Two thirds of the data (47 plots, after removing sandy plots) ... establishment of new seedlings in the stands may be caused by the loss of vitality and death of shrubs, grasses and other tree seedlings due to the effect of drought in dry years The variation ... 0.98) and main crop density (Shapiro-Wilk’s test = 0.93) models The means of the residuals were 0.69 and 0.78 in the total Figure Box -and- Whisker Plots of the total height by age-class and stand...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:21

... During the dry season, the quantity of transported sediment was lower and the major input of sediment into the system came from the coastal area The estuarine domain was silting up whatever the ... học biển the dry season at each station The budget indicated a water loss by leakage though channels, mangroves and wetlands, which accounts for 20% and 42% of the liquid contributions of the total ... significant between ebb and flood Due to their shape, large with shallow lateral shoals and a deep narrow channel, as it moves landward toward the Cam and Bach Dag stations; the rise of the tide becoming...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:20

... those of the Olg population while some plants of the Spa population were with the Dgor and Drech populations The plants of the Nad population were partially mixed with those of the Part and Pozh ... Moreover, the plants of the Chu population were mixed with those of the Uss, Drech and Dgor populations The arrangement of the populations on the MS-tree did not always correspond to their geographical ... ISSR [20] The present study aims to investigate the patterns and levels of genetic polymorphism and population structures of wild P ginseng with the AFLP method to (1) estimate the level of genetic...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 15:21

... (Figs and 6) and assignment of all signals (Table 2) revealed that the carbohydrate structure of the major component of C trachomatis E LPS consisted of three Kdo- and two GlcpNresidues The 1H-NMR ... frequencies and 3J1,2 coupling constants of signals belonging to the anomeric protons of GlcpN-residues revealed that one was a- and the other was b-configured These residues Ó FEBS 2003 Structure and ... serotype L2 and Chl psittaci strain 6BC, the chemical structures of which are already known [12,13] The negative ion MALDI-TOF mass spectrum of the native LPS (Fig 1) exhibited a complex pattern of several...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 23:20

... 0.164 The geometry of the model was analyzed by procheck [14] In the Ramachandran plot [15], 91.5% of the residues (glycine and proline residues excluded) lie in the core region, and 7.1% lie in the ... expected to be in the region of the gap between Ser98 and Gly102 In the N-terminal domain, there is also an additional two-stranded b-sheet (strands and 3, Figs and 5), which lies opposite the C-terminal ... Figs and 5), which is less conserved among the RIPs, and a two-stranded b-sheet and 10 (Figs and 5) In charybdin there exists an additional 310 helix (J, Figs and close to the C-terminus of the...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 14:20

... data of one of the phases, a mono- Results and Discussion The title compound is initially isolated from the hydrothermal reaction of WO , en, NaOH and H O in polycrystalline form Replacement of ... indicating the release of en molecules Ž calc, 8.0% The infrared spectra of present the following information: strong absorption bands at 935 and 975 cmy1 are ascribed to Õ ŽW s O., and the features ... occupy interstrand regions 4y of the W6 O 20 chains and exhibit strong hydrogen bond network to terminal and bridging oxo groups of the anionic 4y chains of W6 O 20 X Crystal data for the monoclinic...

Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2014, 16:48

... curves and 3), allowed the simultaneous computation of koff, k*on and k*off The kon value was assumed by analogy with soybean BBI [26] The two dissociation constants (Kd ẳ koff kon and K*d ẳ k*off ... NMR and MS spectrometry at acidic pH in the absence of trypsin, might be the result of a concomitant series of factors They include the nature of the amino acid at position P2Â (Gln instead of ... graphics and rendering were made with the aid of vmd v 1.8 [62] The best 20 structures, selected on the basis of lowest total energy, NMR R-factors and Ramachandran Inhibitory properties and NMR structure...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 10:21

... diameter of the nano-objects and the distances between them, i.e with the thickness of the material of the matrix, which separates the inclusions Our NWs and A-NWs are directed along the [001] axis and ... are of {110} and {001} type The same two types of planes and the {111} planes form the interfaces of the A-QD As shown already in Ref [12], the energies of all these interfaces are comparable, and ... study the PbTe/CdTe systems, the knowledge of the band offsets between these two materials is needed Since the valence band maxima of PbTe and CdTe are located at different positions in k-space, the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 05:20

... slightly and then decreased after 11 d All seedlings recovered 18 d after the onset of the experiment The patterns of g evolution at the constant temperature of 8.7°C and at a were throughout the ... at constant 12°C during the first 11 d and then declined sharply (Fig 2) At constant 8.7°C, the transpiration rate remained at the same level for 11 d and then declined The transpiration rate ... included in the measurements The photosynthetic capacity of the developing current yr needles is fairly low (Troeng and Linder, 1982) Enclosing them in a cuvette causes errors in A, E and g Soil...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:20

... Lenin wrote: "The figures we have quoted on the growth of bank capital, on the increase in the number of the branches and offices of the bigger banks, the increase in the number of their accounts, ... Loyalty of the managers to the financial tycoons is boundless and the atmosphere of secrecy enables the owners of the biggest fortunes to escape the limelight of the press.1 "The role of the manager ... aristocracy and the royal family are represented on the boards of most of the biggest monopoly companies But the actual function of managing these monopolies is in the hands of a special group of professional...

Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2014, 00:12

... calculate the average constant of wires a (along the axis x), b (along the axis y), c (along the axis z) With nanowires of A1 and B1, then a = b by symmetric properties of the system Characterize the ... along the length of Ti wire of type B1 distortions is always downward in the wire type B1 Like wire type A1, magnitude of the deviation the Ti atoms are minimum at center Deviation of the Ti ... nanowire When we consider the wire of type A1, type B1 and type B2, we not find capsize of the surface Ti This matter only occurs in the wire type A2, indicating of the influence of size effects in...

Ngày tải lên: 30/10/2015, 20:53

... zero even at the 95% level in Canada, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the US Moreover, while in some countries, (including Finland, the UK and the US) residential ... also for these countries the existence of cointegration could not be rejected We therefore specify the VAR models in the level of the variables Nevertheless, we neither impose the number of cointegrating ... to offset the macro economic effects of the collapse of the bubble).2 Of course, it is by no means clear that central banks are better able to judge the appropriate level of asset prices and the...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2012, 09:40

... structure in the leaves and stems differ from those of the roots and rhizomes because the content of the fatty acid 18:3n3 in the leaves and stems differ from that of the roots and rhizomes Therefore, ... amounts in the roots and rhizomes than in the leaves and stems The content of 18:2n6c, 18:3n3 and LCFAs in the leaves and stems was compared with that in the roots and rhizomes The roots and rhizomes ... leaves and stems If we can separate the leaves and stems from the roots and rhizomes, we might be able to study the deciduous effect of the respective parts of Z japonica The δ13C in the roots and...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:17

... called Theme and Rheme The Theme served as the point of departure of the message (Halliday 1994:37), which in English coincides with the initial element(s) of the clause; and the Rheme is the remainder ... which is one of the typical features of a narrative 3.4.3 The Theme - Rheme Pattern The analysis shows that most of the themes in the text belong to topical theme Of 33 clauses and clause complexes ... of the text are taken into consideration 1.4 Methods of the Study The aim of this paper is to analyze the meanings and structures of a text The result should be useful for language teaching and...

Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:48