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... ability to understand verbal and written materials, and health literacy is defined as “the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and ... is important to note that decisions to act need not wait for evidence of the effectiveness of health policies and programs.61 Although there is a paucity of understanding as to how and where the ... truly blessed to have the wholehearted backing of Dr Mingguang He, vice director of the Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center He encouraged me to pursue my Ph.D and inspired me to devote my career to public...
... Juanhui and many more, for their suggestions, help and concern Many of them also helped to proofread this thesis, which was a considerably tough job Thanks to Prof John Endler for his suggestions and ... believed to contribute to concealment For example, Schaefer and Stobbe (2006), Stobbe and Schaefer (2008) use “stripes” or “spots” to describe Lepidopteran patterns, Merilaita (1998) and Todd et ... et al 2006; Schaefer and Stobbe 2006; Stobbe and Schaefer 2008; Cuthill and Székeley 2009), and (3) those using computer simulations of prey and environment with human predators (e.g Sheratt et...
... as part of their risk management and often ignores behavior of competitors, whereas macro stress testing refers to a range of techniques used to assess the vulnerability of a system to exceptional ... factors could be chosen, and a random number of hypothetical changes in these factors are generated in order to set up the distribution of possible portfolio profits and losses (Linsmeier and ... approach and co-integration techniques to identify that investment, government consumptions, growth rate of exports, and degree of openness of the economy to trade are main explanatory factors for...
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... the E-Mini and SPY to that of a basket of large-cap stocks To so, an aggregate order book was re-created for the 500 stocks comprising the S&P 500 Index To account for the wide range of price levels ... relative to the liquidity of large-cap stocks, much more of the liquidity in ETFs is provided by market professionals, such as market makers and HFTs, who tend to quote much closer to the inside of ... systems to monitor market data and submit large numbers of orders to the markets HFTs utilize quantitative and algorithmic methodologies to maximize the speed of their market access and trading...
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... stands for payment of the amount due on the account to the Commanding Officer or the Committee of Adjustment; and the Officer incharge of the Post Office Savings Bank shall be bound to comply with ... the name of an adult may be converted into a joint account in the name of the original depositor and another adult and a joint account in the names of two depositors may be converted into a single ... name of one of the joint depositors (2) In the case of a savings account(i) a joint account in the names of three adults may be converted into a single account in the name of one of the depositors...
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