corridors—savings potential of adjusting risk corridors

Báo cáo sinh học: "Quantitative estimation of genetic risk for atypical scrapie in French sheep and potential consequences of the current breeding programme for resistance to scrapie on the risk of atypical scrapie" pptx

Báo cáo sinh học: "Quantitative estimation of genetic risk for atypical scrapie in French sheep and potential consequences of the current breeding programme for resistance to scrapie on the risk of atypical scrapie" pptx

... face a risk of being placed under inadequate control measures The assumption of a common risk of AS in farms is supported by the homogenous distribution of the disease and similarities of prevalence ... Quantitative estimation of genetic risk for atypical scrapie in French sheep and potential consequences of the current breeding programme for resistance to scrapie on the risk of atypical scrapie ... physiopathology of AS Genotype appears as a very strong component for risk of AS and possibly age too To have a better understanding of their respective impact on the development of the disease...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:21

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DETERMINANTS OF POVERTY REDUCTION POTENTIAL OF LAND IN RURAL VIETNAM

DETERMINANTS OF POVERTY REDUCTION POTENTIAL OF LAND IN RURAL VIETNAM

... Number of children Number of children ≤ Number of children 2-5 Number of children ≥ Occupation of the household head (*) White collar Sales Agriculture Production Other/no work Education of the ... period of French colonial rule, the conflict with America and the policies of the Communist Party government after re-unification of Vietnam in 1975 After a period of collectivization of agricultural ... appropriate length of tenure, ceiling levels for land holdings and restrictions on the transfer and use of land I.2 The process of land allocation Approximately 80 percent of the populations of some 80...

Ngày tải lên: 12/04/2013, 16:07

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An application of alternative risk measures to trading porfolios

An application of alternative risk measures to trading porfolios

... drivers of risk in the portfolio This tool is employed to measure the sensitivity of the overall portfolio to individual risk factors, thus allowing us to have a clear view of the risk and potentially ... the P&L of the bond mapped on the changes of two risk factors The first risk factor considered is the absolute returns of the spread of the bond with respect to the Treasury and the second risk ... for the date of 28 of February 2000 represents the VaR(99%) This is a good application of ES not just as measure of risk, but also as a measure for sensitivity of the overall P&L to risk factors...

Ngày tải lên: 27/04/2013, 11:17

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Mutagen Formation Potential of Composite Samples Prepared by Biodegradation of Agricultural Chemicals

Mutagen Formation Potential of Composite Samples Prepared by Biodegradation of Agricultural Chemicals

... Journal of Water and Environment Technology, Vol 6, No.1, 2008 Preparation of Composite Samples To prepare 10 mg-AC/L of aqueous solution, 100 mg of AC was dissolved into mL of ethanol and 400 µL of ... were assessed by means of the net number of revertant colonies per unit of mass of the added ACs [net rev./mg-AC] Composite samples are presumed to contain various kinds of AC-decompositions produced ... to discuss the effect of AC decompositions on the MFP of actual raw waters or to discuss the measuring method of the MFP of composite samples That is why, for the purpose of attaining accurate...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 09:38

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The Potential of Biofumigants as Alternatives to Methyl Bromide for the Control of Pest Infestation in Grain and Dry Food Products

The Potential of Biofumigants as Alternatives to Methyl Bromide for the Control of Pest Infestation in Grain and Dry Food Products

... of all oils tested The main component of one of the oils is pulegone The other is not yet identified and it is called SEM76 (Shaaya and Kostyukovsky, 2006) In our study of the mode of action of ... because of the pesticidal properties of these chemicals (Fenwick at al., 1983) and because of the potential use of methyl ITC as fumigant for wheat (Ducom, 1994) In our study on the rates of sorption ... and exposure time of h were enough to get 100% kill For larvae of Tribolium and Trogoderma, a higher concentration of 2.5 μL·L−1 air and exposure time of h were needed The pupae of these three insect...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 05:20

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Tài liệu The perception of time, risk and return during periods of speculation pptx

Tài liệu The perception of time, risk and return during periods of speculation pptx

... frequency-adjusted riskless rate Ri to be Ri = r νi νB (3.23) Ri is the riskless rate enhanced by the ratio of the trading frequency of the stock to that of the riskless bond In terms of these variables, ... price risk But, if large numbers of stocks are available, diversification can reduce the risk Suppose that at some instant the investor buys a portfolio V consisting of li shares of each of L different ... (2.28) Q UANTITATIVE F I N A N C E The perception of time, risk and return during periods of speculation ˜ I can eliminate all of the risk of Si with respect to market moves dZm by choosing...

Ngày tải lên: 12/12/2013, 14:15

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Tài liệu Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacological Potential of Fullerenes and Carbon Nanotubes docx

Tài liệu Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacological Potential of Fullerenes and Carbon Nanotubes docx

... 00133 Rome, Italy Professor Paolo Milani University of Milan Department of Physics Via Celoria, 26 20133, Milan, Italy Volume 1: Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacological Potential of Fullerenes and ... considered both one of the most promising applications and one of the most studied since the publication of the fundamental works of Dugan and coworkers, who analyzed fullerene capability of scavenging ... been obtained by covalent linkage of the drug to the C60 by means of an ester, the hydrolysis of which presents a favorable kinetic profile, with consequent release of paclitaxel (Zakharian et al.,...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 05:20

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Tài liệu GROUND WATER POLLUTION POTENTIAL OF MAHONING COUNTY, OHIO doc

Tài liệu GROUND WATER POLLUTION POTENTIAL OF MAHONING COUNTY, OHIO doc

... APPLICATIONS OF POLLUTION POTENTIAL MAPS The pollution potential mapping program offers a wide variety of applications in many counties The ground water pollution potential map of Mahoning County ... pollution potential The application of DRASTIC to an area requires the recognition of a set of assumptions made in the development of the system DRASTIC evaluates the pollution potential of an area ... listing of the impacts of mining on the ground water systems They are provided to illustrate the uncertainty of evaluating the pollution potential of mined areas Although the pollution potential of...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 10:20

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Tài liệu Principles for the Sound Management of Operational Risk pptx

Tài liệu Principles for the Sound Management of Operational Risk pptx

... the risk profile of a bank’s activities, the degree of formality of how these three lines of defence are implemented will vary In all cases, however, a bank’s operational risk Operational risk ... management of operational risk has always been a fundamental element of a bank’s risk management programme As a result, sound operational risk management is a reflection of the effectiveness of the ... level determination of how much risk a firm is willing to accept taking into account the risk/ return attributes; it is often taken as a forward looking view of risk acceptance Risk tolerance” is...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 11:20

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A Knowledge-Based Approach to Network Security: Applying Cyc in the Domain of Network Risk Assessment pptx

A Knowledge-Based Approach to Network Security: Applying Cyc in the Domain of Network Risk Assessment pptx

... primarily on knowledge of software faults, installed software and high-level descriptors of running computers One extension should be the inclusion of representations of configuration options ... lists of results The Network Statistics tool provides a synopsis of the network state It lists the number of machines on the network, the number of vulnerabilities on the machines, etc This view of ... Cyc’s KB underpins all of CycSecure’s capabilities Some of the most pertinent portions are the ontology of program types and their functionalities and the ontology of software faults and their...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 23:20

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Báo cáo khoa học: Concepts and tools to exploit the potential of bacterial inclusion bodies in protein science and biotechnology pdf

Báo cáo khoa học: Concepts and tools to exploit the potential of bacterial inclusion bodies in protein science and biotechnology pdf

... technique of choice also in the study of the influence of the physiology of expression (i.e temperature, induction, formation of disulfide bonds) on the kinetics of aggregation and on the structure of ... proteins [57,61] Potential of bacterial inclusion bodies Fig FTIR analysis of the aggregation of a recombinant protein in E coli (A) Second derivatives of the FTIR absorption spectra of E coli cells ... intermolecular b-sheets The use of this spectroscopic technique for the study of IB aggregates is often limited by the intrinsic insolubility of the samples, responsible for a high level of light scattering...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 00:20

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No DREAMers Left Behind - The Economic Potential of DREAM Act Beneficiaries potx

No DREAMers Left Behind - The Economic Potential of DREAM Act Beneficiaries potx

... English-language proficiency and education cost barriers Considering all of these obstacles, the study estimates that 400,000 of the 934,000 potential beneficiaries would qualify Group 4, comprised of individuals ... Passage of the DREAM Act is not only a question of individual fulfillment; it is a 11 About the Authors Dr Raul Hinojosa Ojeda is an Associate Professor of the UCLA César E Chávez Department of Chicana/o ... states that 47 percent of these individuals have family incomes below 200 percent of the federal poverty level, and 35 percent have limited English proficiency The majority of them are currently...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 06:20

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Bell & Howell Information and Learning 300 North Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1346 USA 800-521-0600UMI.The Potential of Soil Survey Data in a Quantitative Evaluation of Surficial Geology Mapping in Northern Maine by Rosalia EvansThesis submitted t pptx

Bell & Howell Information and Learning 300 North Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1346 USA 800-521-0600UMI.The Potential of Soil Survey Data in a Quantitative Evaluation of Surficial Geology Mapping in Northern Maine by Rosalia EvansThesis submitted t pptx

... percentage of area of surficial geology map units on portions of Prescott’s ground-water favorability map 30 Area and percentage of area of surficial map units on portions of Genes’s ... is known as a soil profile A welldeveloped soil profile reflects the environment under which it formed The character of the soil profile is influenced by external factors of climate (precipitation ... PURPOSE The purpose of this research is to investigate the utility of using soil survey maps to represent the surficial geology of portions of the Lower St John River Valley of Northeastern Aroostook...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 23:20

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"The Potential of Cellulosic Ethanol Production from Municipal Solid Waste: A Technical and Economic Evaluation" doc

"The Potential of Cellulosic Ethanol Production from Municipal Solid Waste: A Technical and Economic Evaluation" doc

... enzyme loading of 10 mg enzyme protein/g glucan recovered 79.1% of potential glucan and 88.2% of potential xylan in solution from ADC final, and 83.3% of potential glucan and 89.1% of potential xylan ... results of and information about energy research at the University of California campuses Any conclusions or opinions expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the Regents of ... production scale of 2000 ton of feedstock per day, at $30/ton corn stover, feedstock costs connect to 31.3% of the overall operating costs (Aden et al 2002) At a larger scale of 5,000 tons of corn stover...

Ngày tải lên: 09/03/2014, 00:20

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Báo cáo "Potential of Developing Community-based Ecotourism in Van Don District, Quang Ninh Province " potx

Báo cáo "Potential of Developing Community-based Ecotourism in Van Don District, Quang Ninh Province " potx

... the risk of a fluctuated number of travelers During the fieldwork in 2009, the number of local-owned food and beverage suppliers is limited to three households for Quan Lan commune None of them ... “Flocks” of tourists rushed to Van Don’s sandy beaches and recreational resorts every summer Leaving behind them were kilos of waste; and degradation of the natural environment Symptoms of social ... improves the well-being of local people” on its official website Depending on how it is defined, ecotourism was claimed to make an economic contribution of as much as 20% of world travel market...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 15:20

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Systematic bias in estimates of reproductive potential of an Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) stock: implications for stock–recruit theory and management pptx

Systematic bias in estimates of reproductive potential of an Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) stock: implications for stock–recruit theory and management pptx

... 1980, a majority of years (15 out of 22) have been be© 2006 NRC Canada 988 Fig (a) Time series of mean length of the spawning stock (solid line) and the estimate of the ratio of female-only spawning ... alternative indices of reproductive potential within the framework of the precautionary approach (Morgan and Brattey 2004) Thus, the continued use of a flawed estimator of stock reproductive potential ... sum of squares was selected to give a final value of δ and the associated value of α 2, indicating the level at which R plateaus for values of S that are greater than δ Results Comparison of SSB...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 16:20

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Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering docx

Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering docx

... University of Washington ALICIA CARRIQUIRY, Associate Provost and Professor of Statistics, Iowa State University FRANK DOBBIN, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University RON EHRENBERG, Professor of Industrial ... achievements of engineers Dr Wm A Wulf is president of the National Academy of Engineering The Institute of Medicine was established in 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences to secure the services of ... Hughes Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California LOTTE BAILYN, Professor of Management, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 19:20

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Illiquidity Component of Credit Risk pptx

Illiquidity Component of Credit Risk pptx

... credit risk C1 ( ) consisting of the insolvency risk and the illiquidity risk 13 Ex Ante Credit Risk We now want to characterize ex ante credit risk, i.e., probability of default, for a holder of ... e ect of shifting from risky assets to cash is to decrease illiquidity risk as long as the re sale discount of the risky asset is less than one (i.e., the rate of exchange between the risky asset ... value of assets at the terminal date of the project falls short of the notional obligations However, there is also a second e ect that works through the risk of runs As the fundamentals of the...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 07:20

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Information Contagion and Inter-Bank Correlation in a Theory of Systemic Risk potx

Information Contagion and Inter-Bank Correlation in a Theory of Systemic Risk potx

... Theory of Systemic Risk Abstract Two aspects of systemic risk, the risk that banks fail together, are modeled and their interaction examined: First, the ex-post aspect, in which the failure of a ... efficiency of herding may be overturned The regulatory assessment of systemic risk must thus take careful account of its different manifestations and delineate the social costs of systemic risk that ... decreases the individual firm’s risk However, this increased similarity introduces systemic risk They use correlations of bank stock returns as an indicator of systemic risk potential, 5 concluding their...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 09:20

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Báo cáo khoa học: Probing the catalytic potential of the hamster arylamine N-acetyltransferase 2 catalytic triad by site-directed mutagenesis of the proximal conserved residue, Tyr190 pot

Báo cáo khoa học: Probing the catalytic potential of the hamster arylamine N-acetyltransferase 2 catalytic triad by site-directed mutagenesis of the proximal conserved residue, Tyr190 pot

... elucidation of the catalytic mechanism of these enzymes would allow a more comprehensive understanding of the origin of substrate specicity and structure function relationships Previously, studies of ... effects, resulting in losses of activity of 88% and 95%, respectively, relative to wild-type enzyme Presteady-state kinetics of NAT acetylation The rate of acetylation of NATs was determined with ... the basis of the Ping Pong mechanism, the acetylation rate (k2) of NAT2 by the acetyl donor is independent of the transacetylation rate (k4) of the arylamine substrate Because the values of k4 for...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 00:20

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