... time Because the agent can always underreport and steal at rate γR until termination, any incentive compatible strategy yields the agent at least R In contrast, this constraint may bind ina discrete -time ... Cadenillas, Abel, Jaksa Cvitanic, and Fernando Zapatero, 2003, Dynamic principal-agent problems with perfect information, Working paper, USC Clementi, Gian Luca, and Hugo A Hopenhayn, 2002, A ... principal randomizes when the agent defaults) Second, because cash flows may be arbitrarily negative ina continuous -time setting, the contract may involve a compensating balance requirement as...
... Tezuka K, Nakazawa N, Kawamoto T, Katou K, Kodama I, Sakurai K, Takahashi H et al: OsHMA3, a P1B-type of ATPase affects root-to-shoot cadmium translocation in rice by mediating efflux into vacuoles ... Koshihikari, and Sasanishiki are of the japonica type, showing low Cdaccumulating cultivars Choko-koku, Jarjan, and Anjana Dhan are of the indica type, showing high Cd-accumulating cultivars (b) Serial ... beam at a current of A from a cyclotron at Takasaki Ion Accelerators for Advanced Radiation Application (Japan Atomic Energy Agency) The 107Cd in the irradiated target was purified by an AgCl2...
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... Textile and Apparel Barriers and Rules of Origin ina Post-ATC World Alan Fox U.S International Trade Commission, Washington, DC William Powers U.S International Trade Commission, Washington, DC Ashley ... real and financial stocks and inter-temporal optimization by economic agents USAGE-ITC distinguishes 523 commodities, 521 industries, 23 foreign regions, anda detailed handling of margins and ... land is fixed in all periods, but the rental price can change according to changes in demand 3.2.3 Balance of payments and trade Changes in the balance of payments are also driven by trends in...
... build the data adapter and fill the data table Dim odaResults As New OleDb.OleDbDataAdapter(Me.lblSQLString.Text, BuildCnnStr("(local)", "Northwind")) Dim dtResults As New DataTable() Try odaResults.Fill(dtResults) ... System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load GenerateData() End Sub In the class module for the form, add the code in Listing 6.7 to create the GenerateData routine After creating the ... statement, this routine assigns it to the Text property of lblSQLString Then the string is used ina data adapter that was created to fill the dtResults data table Last, the data table is set as...
... political and legal structures of North America and Western Europe, and recently also of South America and Eastern Europe, with growing influence in Asia and Africa, but the theoretical coherence and ... judiciary, anda general system of checks and balances, to protect public liberty against corruption and to safeguard the equal individual rights of all citizens against each other and against the state ... senate to propose the laws, and elected magistrates to administer them Inadequate balance led to despotisms – to Caesar in Rome, to Cromwell in England, to Bonaparte in France and to Jackson in...
... development in general and sustainable consumption in particular Contemporary Studies of Sustainable Consumption A vast number of articles focusing on sustainable consumption have appeared in sustainability-oriented ... is associated with goods consumed, but that the accumulation and proliferation of cultural capital is more becoming a matter of practice: eating at particular restaurants, staying at particular ... myriad of tools and concepts embracing presented as tools for achieving sustainability (including initiatives such as LCA, dematerialization, factor four and factor 10, ecological footprints, natural...
... averages In addition, we examined mean maternal PM10 and NO2 exposure levels during total pregnancy according to maternal characteristics and infant characteristics Information on these characteristics ... resulting in an averaged spatially resolved concentration pattern for each wind class Various input data was taken into account in the calculations as described earlier [18,19], including annual data ... home address, using a combination of continuous monitoring data and GIS based dispersion modelling techniques, taking into account both the spatial and temporal variation in air pollution In addition,...
... Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems in Germany, an International Fellow of the Yale Law School Information Society Project and has been an International Scholar at the Information Law ... Vandana Shiva and Radha Holla-Bhar, Piracy by Patent: The Case of the Neem Tree in Jerry Mander and Edward Goldsmith (eds), The Case of the Global Economy: And for a Turn Toward the Local, San ... environmental rationality against trade rationality, human rights rationality against the rationality of diplomatic intercourse Thus described, fragmentation of international law would articulate a rather...
... a great deal of training data available, and the statistical methods used are simple and unsophisticated However, we still get a significant improvement on rules alone by adding a trainable component ... word error rate of approximately 19% on unseen in- domain test data using our normal software and hardware configuration Use of a grammar-based language model implies that all utterances recognised ... transcribed and annotated the data using a simple Java-based tool, randomly selecting 75% of it for use in training and keeping the rest for testing During the course of the project, we routinely...
... there are not many researchers on the CSR field Many recent years, taking part in many organizations and political economy in the world WTO, ASEAN has attracted many investors and business organizations ... packing materials) In the area of making quality assurance of staff's living standard, a web search “Google" which treats their staff as golden is a best example More than that is many corporations ... organization According to Lacy and Salazar, one survey showed that among corporate managers, there are only ten percent of all companies integrate CSR in their core operation (Lacy and 18 Salazar,...
... and Mullineaux, 1987) as the formative reason for the commercial-bank clearinghouses in the U.S., and eventually for the Federal Reserve Chari and Jagannathan (1988), Jacklin and Bhattacharya ... playing a coordination game For example, suppose that there are two possible industries in which banks can invest, denoted as and Bank A (B) can lend to firms A1 and A2 (B1 and B2 ) in industries and ... Working Paper No 144, Bank of England, London, UK [29] Jacklin, C and S Bhattacharya (1988) “Distinguishing Panics and Information-based Bank Runs: Welfare and Policy Implications,” Journal of...
... amplifying the 4-1BB and TRAF1 cDNAs were: 5¢-GAATTCAAGCTTATGGGA AACAGCTGTTACAACATA-3¢ and 5¢-GAATTCAAG CTTCACAGTTCACATCCTCCTTCTTCT-3¢ for 4-1BB, 5¢-CCCGGGATATCATGGCCTCCAGCTCAGGCAG CAGTC-3¢ and ... 5¢-CCCGGGAAGCTTCGGACCATGG AACAGAAGCCAAGCAAGGTG-3¢ and 5¢-CCCGGG GTCGACGACTTCCTGATCCTCAAAGACCTC-3¢ In order to overexpress 4-1BB and TRAF1 in the HeLaTR cells, the entire coding regions of the 4-1BB and ... protein was fractionated on a polyacrylamide gel and visualized by an image analyzer The arrow indicates the band of human TRa1 protein (C) Reporter luciferase activities induced by T3 HeLaTR and...
... the treated animals to measure the biochemistry markers including alanine transaminase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), blood urea nitrogen (BUN) and creatine (Cr) using commercial kits ... liver and kidney and the histological examination of hematoxylin and eosin stained major organs (Figure 5) Taking all these data into consideration, it appears that combination therapy of AdhTERTHRP/IAA ... of infection; ELISA: enzyme-linked immunosorbant assay; TUNEL: terminal deoxynecleotidyl transferasemediated dUTP nick-end labeling; ALT: alanine transaminase; AST: aspartate aminotransferase;...
... UK and US weights for all known groups including HbA1c level (above and below 7%) and diabetic complications (presence and absence) namely neuropathy, retinopathy, nephropathy and cardiovascular ... analyzing and collecting the data All authors have read and approved the final manuscript Acknowledgements This research was supported by a grant from Chulalongkorn University The authors thank diabetic ... Sintonen H, Tsuchiya A, Williams A, Yfantopoulos J, De Charro F: A comparison of EQ-5D time trade-off values obtained in Germany, United Kingdom, Spain In The measurement and valuation of health...
... in cerebral vasculature by anandamide provides a new mechanism that may explain the therapeutic action of increased anandamide tone in neuroinflammatory diseases like MS Additional material Additional ... 41 Maccarrone M, Fiori A, Bari M, Granata F, Gasperi V, De Stefano ME, FinazziAgrò A, Strom R: Regulation by cannabinoid receptors of anandamide transport across the blood-brain barrier and through ... 10% heat inactivated fetal bovine serum (FBS); 1% nonessential aminoacid, 1% sodium pyruvate and 1% antibiotic penicillin and streptomycin (all from Gibco, Scotland, UK) and were maintained under...
... the treated animals to measure the biochemistry markers including alanine transaminase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), blood urea nitrogen (BUN) and creatine (Cr) using commercial kits ... liver and kidney and the histological examination of hematoxylin and eosin stained major organs (Figure 5) Taking all these data into consideration, it appears that combination therapy of AdhTERTHRP/IAA ... of infection; ELISA: enzyme-linked immunosorbant assay; TUNEL: terminal deoxynecleotidyl transferasemediated dUTP nick-end labeling; ALT: alanine transaminase; AST: aspartate aminotransferase;...
... Research Unit, IMIM-Institut de Recerca Hospital del Mar, Parc de Salut Mar, Barcelona, Spain 3Agency for Health Information, Assessment and Quality, Barcelona, Spain 4NIHR School for Primary Care ... health-related quality of life in adolescents at 13 years J Paediatr Child Health 2004, 40:102-109 19 Honkalampi K, Hintikka J, Haatainen K, Koivumaa-Honkanen H, Tanskanen A, Viinamaki H: Adverse childhood ... (UPF), Barcelona, Spain Authors’ contributions JMV, LR, and JA participated in the conception and design of the study EVO, SRF, GV and JAPV analyzed the data EVO, JMV, MH, MF, LR and JA participated...