... a diploid cell The sizes of the X chromosomes reflect their activity state (see text) The arrows represent the activating and repressive factors that determine the activity of the corresponding ... overcome the reduced gene dose - that is, dosagecompensation systems - increased the fitness of the organisms These dosage -compensation systems are likely to originate in the male sex (XY or X0 in the ... dosage compensationand to ensure the selective binding of the dosagecompensation complex to the X chromosome [41-43] The male X polytene chromosome bloats when Su(var)3-7 levels are reduced and...
... studies of thecrisis rhetoric of the leaders of the United Kingdom, France, Ireland andthe European Commission andthe European Central Bank Thecrisis hit hard and fast in the United Kingdom and ... support for their claims about the severity and causes of the crisis, for their own handling of thecrisisand for their proposed policy stances going into the future? In each case study, the author: ... discrediting and deconstructing the status quo and proposing an alternative set of ideas and commitments Reformers have to decide whether they feel thecrisis of the day offers them the opportunity,...
... conservative propaganda, and with the break up of the radical associations andthe consequent erosion of the links between these organisations and other intellectual currents and circles, the conditions ... of the age The complex intersection of these two histories – the political turmoil of the 1790s andthe broader hegemonic shift towards the meritocratic bias of the professional classes – demands ... Wordsworth’s observation gathers together fears about the French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, and 10 TheCrisis of Literature in the 1790s the information revolution ( the rapid communication...
... the study’s hypotheses are presented in the null and alternative forms Statistical analysis allows the researcher to either accept or reject the null hypotheses The null and alternative hypotheses ... shareholders, in the media and academia, and has experienced pressure in the legislature and economic arenas The literature suggests there are many and varied reasons for the interest in executive compensation ... the strategic plans and policies established by the board of directors As the leader of the firm, the CEO has an astounding impact on the performance of the firm and many believe this to be the...
... accepted the severance of virtue and patriotic pride and thus the shattering of the essential myth The clash on the streets, in universities and in homes, between the forces of the establishment and ... to the Cold War andthe actions of previous presidents in the light of it The pivotal moral, political and symbolical role of the presidency made it the natural focus of thecrisis of faith and ... victorious and virtuous Part of the legacy of Vietnam, then, was simple damage to pride, but the essential moral legacy was the radical severing of pride and virtue andthe problem of how to put them...
... closed economy and then in an open economy, and explores financing and intermediation patterns in the run-up to, and during, thecrisisThe discussion focuses largely on identities and on the risk ... contributed to the credit boom andthe transmission of the turmoil, and diverts attention away from the monetary and financial factors that sowed the seeds of thecrisis We have argued that the fundamental ... between the current account andthe 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...
... advance, thereby earning interest for the service provider in the process They also not allow the consumer to go into default and, theoretically, they require no overt punitive The Theory and Practice ... 1994, andthe linkages between South Africa andthe process of globalisation Therefore apart from the case studies andthe survey material, we have included chapters which consider the theoretical ... practical and theoretical terms, and prepares readers for the empirical case studies in the rest of the book It begins with an overview of what cost recovery means in practice and then reviews the...
... the stability of the euro area and, therefore, not least for the monetary policy of the European Central Bank Jürgen Stark Member of the Executive Board andthe Governing Council of the ECB There ... vital condition for the stability and smooth functioning of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) Chapter discusses the exit from thecrisis mode andthe crisis- related challenges for the EU fiscal framework ... processes and their economic impact adjusts automatically to the cycle Given the size of the public sector, their stabilising impact on the economy is relatively large in the euro area Girouard and André...
... haircuts and spreads are reported for three dates: May 2007 (prior to the crisis) , May 2008 (in the midst of the crisis) , and May 2009 Both haircuts and spreads rose substantially during thecrisis ... relationship between the shadow banking system andthe core commercial banking system was the nexus of thecrisis Understanding this nexus better, and monitoring the relationship between the commercial ... maximizing the return on equity The borrower then has a leverage of 50 If a shock raises the haircut, then the borrower must either sell assets or raise equity Suppose that the haircut rises to 4% Then...
... immediate depreciation the next day by per cent and by 20 per cent by the turn of the year The interaction between the currency crisisandthe banking crisis is complex During the 1980s the Swedish private ... losses and deepening the banking crisis Further, there was a clear interaction between the two crises, with the banking crisis reinforcing the currency crisis As the precarious situation of the ... and initiating the crisis? Did the bubble burst ‘by itself’ or did it take exogenous shocks? (iii) What was the relation between the banking crisisandthe currency crisis? Would having let the...
... positive and significant bank fixed effects in the period after the end of 2008, with markups in the range of 1.42 per cent to 1.7 per cent The inclusion of the arrears andthe tracker rate in the second ... Figure the average tracker and variable rate for the Irish mortgage market is plotted in the left-hand side panel The average difference between variable rates across the Irish market, shown in the ... negative and signficant The third and fourth columns add additional controls incrementally, such as income, LTV and other loans The results from the regression analysis indicate that the higher...
... advance, thereby earning interest for the service provider in the process They also not allow the consumer to go into default and, theoretically, they require no overt punitive The Theory and Practice ... 1994, andthe linkages between South Africa andthe process of globalisation Therefore apart from the case studies andthe survey material, we have included chapters which consider the theoretical ... practical and theoretical terms, and prepares readers for the empirical case studies in the rest of the book It begins with an overview of what cost recovery means in practice and then reviews the...
... with the secondary effects of the crisis, andthe interface between domestic and international financial institutions The length and breadth of the list indicates the extent that the financial crisis ... Mexico, the Netherlands, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom, andthe United States The following institutions, standard-setting bodies and ... interest rates and expanding the money supply Currency exchange rates serve both as a conduit of crisis conditions and an indicator of the severity of thecrisis As the financial crisis hit, investors...
... of the crisis, and in particular the conditionality imposed by the IMF as the quid pro quo for financial assistance, left a bitter memory As Figure shows, the developing Asian countries andthe ... Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan, some of them with much weaker currencies than before the crisis, went into surplus afterward As the recessionary effects of thecrisis dissipated andthe dot-com boom ... 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...
... strokes to write the word 'crisis' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity In a crisis, be aware of the danger-but recognize the opportunity.” John F Kennedy The Change President ... the White House, amidst the beginning of the worse economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930’s There are fundamental differences between the crash of 1929, andthe crash of 2009 People ... should accept these principles, and face the liability of their mistakes and mismanagement Otherwise Mainstream will turn its back on big business, andthe affect could be disastrous for the future...
... banks, andthe extraordinary governmental assistance they have received, they are clearly the epicenter of the global financial crisis They were also the main private-sector catalysts for the credit ... they are the clearly the epicenter of the global financial crisis This Article argues that they were also the principal private-sector catalysts for the enormous credit boom that led to thecrisis ... before the current financial crisis, there was “little doubt that, in practice, the full faith and credit of the United States stands behind the FDIC.” Joe Peek & James A Wilcox, The Fall and Rise...
... define and explain to Congress andthe people the nature of thecrisis implies the continued constitutional status of both Congress andthe presidency But once we suspend the Constitution, the status ... Congress andthe people the nature of this threat; the perception of the emergency, the judgment that the life of the nation is truly at stake, must be broadly shared by Congress and by the people; ... Among them are requirements that both parties possess the mental capacity necessary to ensure that they understand the significance of the agreement (the capacity to understand the nature of the...
... Japan, and fifthly -and especially-from under threat from the "others," andthe "others" accumulate in the cities; they accumulate around the margins; they accumulate in Wales and in Scotland; they ... students they were getting to read and write; and it had to with that typical figure, a stereotype of the 1960s, called in England "the The Emergence of Cultural Studies andtheCrisis of the Humanities ... but whether these new theoretical techniques andthe new positions opened up by feminism and by Black struggles, as well as the new theoretical positions opened up by the postmodernist andthe poststructuralist...
... the managers and their compensation committees to posit that firms maximize the managers’ utility rather than the investors’ utility I model the situation where the entrepreneur (who is also the ... DeAngelo (1981) On the other hand the insurance role is related to the compensatory aspects of the audit Thus the latter role is merely a function of the level of financial endowments of the auditor ... auditors I further examine the impact of different attributes of the auditor andthe audit on the cost of capital of the client firm I find that the cost of capital is inversely proportional to the length...