... carbon, and economic comparisons between first and second-generation biofuels; and (d) finally, to speculate on the implicationsfortradeand development of future expansion in global production and ... salient energy, carbon and economic comparisons among biofuels; and (d) speculating on the implicationsfortradeand development of future expansion in global production and use of biofuels Second-generation ... countries before 2015–2020 for thermochemical biofuels and before 2020–2030 for biochemical biofuels Trade • Any sustainable global biofuel industry requires strong international biofuel and/ or feedstock...
... (2003), European Unilateralism-Environmental Trade Barriers and the Rising Threat to Prosperity through Trade Website 16 http://www.census.gov/foreign -trade/ statistics/index.html 17 http://vietnamese.vietnam.usembassy.gov/ambassador.html ... http://environment-safety.com/courses/EnvManagement/envStandards.htm 44.http://vea.gov.vn/vn/khoahoccongnghe/nhanxanh/gioithieunhansinthai/Pages 45 http://www.census.gov/foreign -trade 46.http://www.customs.gov.vn/Lists/TinHoatDong ... quốc tế hàng hóa dịch vụ Mỹ từ tháng năm 2010 đến tháng năm 2012 Nguồn: http://www.census.gov/foreign -trade Nhìn vào biểu đồ ta thấy đường nhập nằm phía trên, có xu hướng lên có độ dốc so với đường...
... Data for China for years 1998 and 2001 are taken from Zhang and Liang (2006); Data for Vietnam are adapted from Nguyen Thi Kim Anh and Pham Thi Hoang Oanh (2007) for 1998, 2001 and 2004, and are ... forward rate allowed and the forward rate that would equate supply and demand Currency options were first introduced by Eximbank into Vietnam’s forex market in 2003 However, trading in this form ... Institutional and Structural Problems of China's Foreign Exchange andImplicationsfor the New Exchange Rate Regime', China: an Internatinal Journal, Vol 4, No 1, p 26 30 NOTES The data for NEER and REER...
... Specialist in Industry and Trade, Foreign Affairs, Defense, andTrade Division Congressional Research Service Economics and National Security: Issues andImplicationsfor U.S Policy the growing presence ... Specialist in Industry and Trade, Foreign Affairs, Defense, andTrade Division Congressional Research Service Economics and National Security: Issues andImplicationsfor U.S Policy “rich man’s” ... Service Economics and National Security: Issues andImplicationsfor U.S Policy overhead, gaining efficiency, and closing the Joint Forces Command in Norfolk, Virginia.19 (For further discussion,...
... dimensions of long-term care policy financing, delivery, and workforce and identifies some of the major demographic andpolicy trends that will affect the demand for, and supply of, long-term care ... services and settings, the populations that need care, and the providers who comprise the formal and informal workforce Next I review the major issues that affect financing, delivery, and workforce ... program for the poor, is the major public program covering long-term care for the elderly andfor disabled people of all ages Despite the public’s tremendous interest in, and demand for, care...
... campaigns in low and middle income countries are needed and can increase demand for health and wellness policies The lack of data describing nutrient intake from both the formal and informal sectors ... high amounts of salt and fat as well as refined flour and added sugar The packaged food and soft drink markets include a wide range of players including the formal and informal sector Keith Hard ... informal food sector The informal food sector accounts for a significant portion of food purchases and energy intake in some populations: 60% of Brazil’s mini and midsize supermarkets are informal...
... services, andpolicy dialogue and advocacy School and livelihood opportunities complement and reinforce these approaches Table Effective YRH Program andPolicy Actions Program andPolicy Action ... into Efforts to Improve YRH By providing students with information and skills, sexuality education complements other efforts to provide quality reproductive health information and services and to ... nontreatment or delayed treatment; the need for early and effective treatment; the need to inform sexual partners and to treat them for STIs; and the effective methods for preventing STIs, especially correct...
... Economic Rise: History, Trends, Challenges, andImplicationsfor the U.S Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in China China’s tradeand investment reforms and incentives led to a surge in FDI beginning ... maintaining that system; and (2) that further economic andtrade reforms are the surest way for China to grow and modernize its economy For example, by boosting domestic spending and allowing its currency ... credit and liquidity, and merchandise tradeand current account surpluses “Unbalanced development” was described as economic disparities between rural and urban areas, regions of the country, and...
... and Doctrine Command, Army Capability Integration Center, and was conducted within RAND Arroyo Center’s Force Development and Technology Program RAND Arroyo Center, part of the RAND Corporation, ... Szayna, and Derek Eaton for substantial feedback on interim ideas and products, and Lauren Caston for input into regular meetings Critical reviews of this document by Karl Mueller (of RAND) and Douglas ... rigorous peer review to ensure high standards for research quality and objectivity Unfolding the Future of the Long War Motivations, Prospects, andImplicationsfor the U.S Army Christopher G Pernin,...
... T time slices, and N and are computed for each slice t Figure illustrates why such a modication is useful It depicts the frequency of the terms neural networks and expert system for each year ... categorization performance with TFM, using the best parameter combinations for each corpus making relatively few modications: the left side of Figure shows a rapid performance increase, particularly for SIGCHI, ... words and phrases are coined or take on new meanings (Bauer, 1994; Jeffers and Lehiste, 1979) Below we describe an application in document clustering and point toward a theoretical framework for...
... production inputs and lack of information on dairy and beef production and marketing and also the dairy and beef market are localized Therefore, improvements of dairy and meat productions in Fogera ... from the adjacent lowlands pastoral areas, use them for several years, and then fatten and sell them before they become old and emaciated The system is largely based on cut -and carry feeding of ... working capital and lower demand for dairy and beef products due to long fasting periods and lower purchasing power of the consumers ix INTRODUCTION The agricultural sector account for 46% of the...
... gender-focused determinants- of-health model that can be used by researchers andpolicy makers is described This new, expanded health -determinants model highlights the modifiability of some determinants ... Psychosocial influences on the development and course of coronary heart disease: Current status andimplicationsfor research and practice Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 70, 548-568 ... multidetermined construct and needs to be conceptualized and measured as such At the theoretical level, the possible causal relations among the determinants of gender and health are examined, and the differing...
... outdated trades, and 44% had missing information, such as balance or payment information Among the RMCRs: 19% had trades added based on information from the loan application, 11% had trades added ... not given useful and timely information about their credit 41 Standardized, generic explanations not provide sufficient information for consumers to address inconsistencies and contradictions, ... requirements for complete and accurate reporting of account information to credit repositories, and maintenance of consumer data by the repositories, with adequate oversight and penalties for non-compliance...
... that to be the case for most list and newsbrief documents andfor many transcripts Beyond news data, this holds for case law documents, many types of financial documents, and others matic Condensation ... acceptability rate for magazine LEADs climbed to 92.50/0, still lower than for any other source Document length was a factor for LEAD acceptability for the entire test corpus, but list, newsbrief and transcript ... rating and assigning attributes to the 2,727 test corpus documents and LEADs I would also like to thank Breck Baldwin, Afsar Parhizgar, David Schmeer and Paul Zhang for their comments and suggestions...
... changed? Evidence and lessons for public policy Abstract1 New Zealand’s recent rate of economic growth has remained strong despite a worldwide recession Policymakers, the press, and the public have ... technology for New Zealand, but not in the measure for the United States.12 2.3 Data sources For the United States, the industry-level data are based on the dataset by Dale Jorgensen and associates and ... output for New Zealand means that certain adjustments calculated by Basu, Fernald, and Shapiro (2001) are not calculated for New Zealand An important difference in measurement between the US and...
... published for prokaryotic ABC exporters are summarized in Table Resolution is highest for the ADP-bound form of Sav1866, and ˚ decreases to < A for the MsbA structures in the unliganded state (unliganded ... between TM helices andand between TM helices and provide noncovalent interactions with sites on the NBD These latter two linker regions, called intracellular loops and (ICL1 and ICL2) can both ... distances, residue accessibility and conformational transitions [38] For MsbA, several studies have attempted to determine the likelihood of the extreme conformations observed, and to verify the structures...
... dataset used for structure determination and refinement was collected at the Diamond Light Source, UK Integration and scaling were performed using denzo and scalepack [37] Subsequent data handling ... in ball and stick representation, as are the methionine and histidine side chains that coordinate the heme iron, and the cysteine side chain that forms a thioether bond between heme and protein ... organisms and organelles Some eukaryotes (land plants and various protists) use the multicomponent System I [also called the cytochrome c maturation (Ccm) system], and others (animals, fungi, and many...
... close to zero Results for Canada are reported by Lavoie and Pioro (2007); Babineau, Lavoie, and Moreau (2001); Black, Coletti, and Monnier (1998); and Cozier and Lavoie (1994) For an average inflation ... F V Vanthoor and J Mooij De Nederlandsche Bank NV Cozier, B and C Lavoie 1994 “Is There a Floor to Nominal Interest Rates? Evidence andImplicationsfor the Conduct of Monetary Policy. ” Paper ... when such a policy is adopted Policy Options at the Zero Bound There are various alternatives to stabilize output and inflation when the interest rate reaches zero and the standard policy tool...
... include, for example, investment in education, change to the national legal andpolicy framework related to gender equity, policy support for women’s economic empowerment and property and inheritance ... changes and service strengthening are needed to effectively enforce legislation that protects women and girls from gender-based violence and enables effective care and legal redress and protection for ... edifice and constructing a new legal andpolicy framework for a non-racial democracy This period has seen greater public diversity and fluidity in gender identities The most obvious Jewkes and Morrell...
... (ΔP) and to the fourth power of the capillary radius (r), and inversely proportional to capillary length (L) and blood viscosity (h): Capillary flow = π r4 P/8Lη Because capillary length and viscosity ... surface and in which various substances, such as superoxide dismutase and antithrombin, are embedded The glycocalyx facilitates the flow of red blood cells and limits adhesion of white blood cells and ... manuscript was revised for important intellectual content by KD, FST, GOT, DS, and JLV All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests Daniel De Backer and Jean-Louis Vincent...