Principles of Microeconomics 2013
... Stay in Business If They Make Zero Profit? 292 14-3d A Shift in Demand in the Short Run and Long Run 293 14-3e Why the Long -Run Supply Curve Might Slope Upward 293 14-4 Conclusion: Behind the ... 13-3a Fixed and Variable Costs 266 13-3b Average and Marginal Cost 267 13-3c Cost Curves and Their Shapes 268 13-3d Typical Cost Curves 270 13-4 Costs in the Short Run and in the Long Run 271 ... forces and trends that affect the economy as a whole, including the growth in average income, the fraction of the population that cannot find work, and the rate at which prices are rising The study...
Ngày tải lên: 06/04/2016, 18:10
... constraint on the executive at independence and the date of independence According to the authors this is the case for trade reforms in the Republic of Korea and Taiwan in the 1960s, in Chile in the ... longer span, dating back to the 1960s, democracy declined in particular in Latin America in the 1970s Substantial increases of the POLITY2 indicator began in the 1980s in all areas The new EU members ... measure inequality we use the Gini index Figures 3.7a and 3.7b show the correlations between the Gini index and, respectively, the POLITY2 and the FREEDOM1 (civil liberties) indexes of democracy The...
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... Outline The Economics of Taxation • The role of taxation • The main types of taxation Outline The Economics of Taxation • The role of taxation • The main types of taxation The Efficiency ... on all the tax increase to the consumers, then: Why Does this Happen? Suppose the firms tried to raise their prices and pass on all the tax increase to the consumers, then: (1) The higher price ... • Marginal cost of public funds Tax Incidence • Formal and effective incidence • Tax capitalisation Outline The Economics of Taxation • The role of taxation • The main types of taxation The Efficiency...
Ngày tải lên: 05/12/2016, 17:49
The UN Model Double Taxation Convention in the context of Financing for Sustainable Development
... countries in drafting and negotiating bilateral tax treaties, with a view to maintaining the desired balance What isobtaining more tax revenue from foreign investment and special about the UN Model Convention? ... taxpayers against double taxation of the same income; - promote the flow of international trade and investment; - provide a framework of legal and fiscal certainty to investors; - prevent discrimination ... Developed and Developing Countries Income and on Capital UN and OECD Model Convention Residence Country Taxing Rights Taxing Rights Investor Taxing Rights Source Country Taxing Rights Investment...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 14:19
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: TEC family kinases in health and disease – loss-of-function of BTK and ITK and the gain-of-function fusions ITK–SYK and BTK–SYK pptx
... involved in ligand binding, presumably abolishing the interaction with signaling partners The remaining mutations alter amino acids located outside the ligand-binding pocket and reduce protein ... lymphoproliferative disease Arginine 335 is found in the ‘BG loop’ not involved in phosphotyrosine binding and mutation to tryptophan most probably causes instability of the SH2 domain Thus, these patients had ... the linker B kinase region of SYK The PH domain of TFKs usually binds to phosphatidylinositol-3,4,5-trisphosphate, thereby bringing them in close proximity to other membrane-tethered signaling...
Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 18:20
Tài liệu The Social Benefits and Economic Costs of Taxation doc
... emulate: Finland Our findings show Americans bear incredibly severe social costs for living in one of the lowesttaxed countries in the world For a strikingly large number of social indicators, the ... particular children and the elderly, live in poverty in the United States than in any other industrialized country in the world • The income of vulnerable citizens, such as the elderly and those with ... pattern, with the United States ranking about the lowest among industrialized countries and Finland near the top, is evident on most of the remaining social indicators we examine — relating to social...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 19:20
The Effects of Taxation on Multinational Corporations pdf
... manufacturing in most of the world’s economies is declining, and that of services is increasing The net result of these two forces, and of the opposite directions of changes in the United States and in ... preventing or slowing a decline in that share The inadequacy of the fixed-market assumption is obvious in any attempt to examine the impact of direct investment in service industries since the nature ... to the members of the NBER staff for their assistance with all of the details involved in the planning and execution of this research and of the many meetings that took place along the way In...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 13:20
Báo cáo Y học: Loss-of-function variants of the human melanocortin-1 receptor gene in melanoma cells define structural determinants of receptor function doc
... for binding a negatively charged surface of the Gs protein In many GPCRs, the third intracellular loop and the cytoplasmic C-terminal extension are the main regions involved in coupling to the ... on the left, and the molecular weight of the specific bands is shown on the right (expressed in kDa) The specificity of the bands is clearly demonstrated by their absence in the lane corresponding ... present in the sample and was not the result of a PCR artifact was ascertained by repeated amplification and sequencing reactions, and by the observation that the same allele was found in the IC8 and...
Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 10:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Loss of sense transgene-induced post-transcriptional gene silencing by sequential introduction of the same transgene sequences in tobacco pot
... was fused to the N-terminus of the GUS gene and inserted into pTF1SIIn to replace the NtFAD3 sequence Then, a cassette containing a nopaline synthase (Nos) promoter and hygromycin phosphotransferase ... using aberrant transcripts as a template, and the resulting dsRNAs are processed into the 21–25-nucleotide -long, small interfering RNAs (called siRNAs) by DICER-like protein4 The single-stranded ... point (TSP); Fig S1B], and was introduced into a homozygous S44 plant The resulting six independent lines, namely S44-head-1 to S44-head-6, were obtained (Fig S2, see Supporting information) The...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Sulfated polysaccharides inhibit the catabolism and loss of both large and small proteoglycans in explant cultures of tendon doc
... catabolism in tendon maintained in DMEM alone However, in cultures maintained in DMEM containing 100 and 1000 lgÆmL)1 CaPPS, the percentage of 35S-labeled proteoglycans remaining in the matrix ... levels present in the matrix of tendon cultures maintained in the Table Incorporation of [3H]serine into macromolecules of bovine tendon explants maintained in DMEM containing varying concentrations ... proteoglycans remained in the matrix that had been maintained in DMEM alone, but in cultures maintained in DMEM containing 1000 lgÆmL)1 of either CaPPS (Fig 2A) or heparin (Fig 2B), the percentage...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 10:21
The Economics of Taxation ppt
... 1927 in Germany, in 1931 in France, and in 1936 in the United States, pension systems in 1909 in the United Kingdom and in 1935 in the United States The famous Beveridge report consolidated the ... is indeed the case when demand has constant elasticity, since then the right-hand sides of both Lerner formulas coincide.19 On the other hand, if demand is linear as in DðpÞ ¼ d À p, then the ... ceilings for rents Then an increase in taxes on rents cannot raise rents; in the long run when supply of apartments is elastic, it must result in an increase of demand rationing on the market The...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 11:20
Báo cáo hóa học: " Prevalence of the GJB2 IVS1+1G A mutation in Chinese hearing loss patients with monoallelic pathogenic mutation in the coding region of GJB2" pot
... age of onset, family history, mother’s health during pregnancy, and patient’s clinical history, including infection, possible head or brain injury, and the use of aminoglycoside antibiotics All ... confirmed the result by the analysis of the proband’s parents’ two alleles We found that the father carried both IVS1 +1G>A and c.11G>A(G4D) in one allele and the mother carried c.9G>A(W3X) in one ... mutation in the promoter region or other noncoding regions of GJB2 To evaluate the impact of the IVS1+1G>A splice-site mutation and the basal promoter region in the noncoding part of the GJB2...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20
Báo cáo sinh học: " Relationship between the loss of neutralizing antibody binding and fusion activity of the F protein of human respiratory syncytial virus" doc
... of the F protein and characterized these mutations with respect to expression, neutralizing mAb binding, and fusion activity as previously described [21] in an attempt to better understand the ... neutralizing antibodies and the impact of resistance to these antibodies upon the fusion activity of the F protein A summary of these results is presented in Table The HRSV neutralizing mAbs ... only a single change in lysine residue 433 to threonine suggesting that there are additional constraints on this region of the protein that limit which amino acids changes are tolerated in this...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20
Báo cáo sinh học: " Progressive loss of CD3 expression after HTLV-I infection results from chromatin remodeling affecting all the CD3 genes and persists despite early viral genes silencing" pot
... below the minimum fluorescence intensity defined by the positive control but not lie within the region defined by the negative control TCR/CD3hi cells fall within the region defined by mock-infected ... to study the in vivo binding to the sequence surrounding the Spγ1/CD3γInr motif in TCR/CD3+uninfected and in CD3γ-δ- HTLV-I infected WE17/10 cells obvious at several stages post-infection Quantification ... and for 18 hours with 500 nM of TSA) and uninfected untreated WE17/10 cells B, ChIP assay using antiAc-H4 and anti-HDAC to study the in vivo binding to the sequence surrounding the Spγ1/CD3γInr...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20
Báo cáo sinh học: "Molecular and cellular correlates of the CIITA-mediated inhibition of HTLV-2 Tax-2 transactivator function resulting in loss of viral replication" pot
... participated in the design and coordination of the study and in the discussion of the results RSA conceived the study, and participated in its design and coordination and drafted the manuscript ... residues included in the 253-410 region, themselves very weakly interacting with Tax2, may participate in generating the correct conformation for the critical binding site of the strongly interacting ... CIITA in redirecting, upon binding, Tax-2 molecules mostly in the cytoplasm These results are discussed within the present knowledge of cell host-pathogen interaction and the identification of the...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20
báo cáo hóa học: " Effects of furosemide on the hearing loss induced by impulse noise" potx
... (and not continuous as is broadband noise); and even during these transient bursts of noise, the intensity is high at the onset of each such burst and then rapidly declines Each explosive firing ... firings (each click of the mouse of the computer provided a single firing), their sound intensity and the mode of their delivery to the experimental animals which would provide a TS when recording ... dB in the saline group and 25.0 ± 15.1 dB in the furosemide group, again with no significant difference between them (two-tailed, p = 0.2) The results of these experiments (group, intensity and...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20
Báo cáo hóa học: " Relationship between the loss of neutralizing antibody binding and fusion activity of the F protein of human respiratory syncytial virus" doc
... of the F protein and characterized these mutations with respect to expression, neutralizing mAb binding, and fusion activity as previously described [21] in an attempt to better understand the ... neutralizing antibodies and the impact of resistance to these antibodies upon the fusion activity of the F protein A summary of these results is presented in Table The HRSV neutralizing mAbs ... only a single change in lysine residue 433 to threonine suggesting that there are additional constraints on this region of the protein that limit which amino acids changes are tolerated in this...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 01:20
Báo cáo hóa học: " Progressive loss of CD3 expression after HTLV-I infection results from chromatin remodeling affecting all the CD3 genes and persists despite early viral genes silencing" docx
... below the minimum fluorescence intensity defined by the positive control but not lie within the region defined by the negative control TCR/CD3hi cells fall within the region defined by mock-infected ... to study the in vivo binding to the sequence surrounding the Spγ1/CD3γInr motif in TCR/CD3+uninfected and in CD3γ-δ- HTLV-I infected WE17/10 cells obvious at several stages post-infection Quantification ... and for 18 hours with 500 nM of TSA) and uninfected untreated WE17/10 cells B, ChIP assay using antiAc-H4 and anti-HDAC to study the in vivo binding to the sequence surrounding the Spγ1/CD3γInr...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 01:20
o cáo hóa học:" Molecular and cellular correlates of the CIITA-mediated inhibition of HTLV-2 Tax-2 transactivator function resulting in loss of viral replication" potx
... participated in the design and coordination of the study and in the discussion of the results RSA conceived the study, and participated in its design and coordination and drafted the manuscript ... residues included in the 253-410 region, themselves very weakly interacting with Tax2, may participate in generating the correct conformation for the critical binding site of the strongly interacting ... CIITA in redirecting, upon binding, Tax-2 molecules mostly in the cytoplasm These results are discussed within the present knowledge of cell host-pathogen interaction and the identification of the...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20
Báo cáo khoa học: " Associations between the clinical signs of chronic endometritis with ovarian cysts and body condition loss in German Holstein Friesian cows" docx
... activity and consequently an early increase in the progesterone levels could result in an increased susceptibility to uterine infections [20] or in a prolonged calving to conception interval [28] In ... PARITY and ML100 All two-way interactions between the clinical characteristics, parity and treatment were tested and only significant effects among the different effects were included in the final ... means were estimated on the logit scale and then back-transformed using the inverse link function π = eχp (χβ)/ [1+eχp (χβ)] to the original scale (probability) by applying the LSMEANS statement...
Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 23:22