... states in Central and Eastern Europe and the Baltic States as Central and Eastern Europe: Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia South Eastern Europe: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, ... specification error test), as suggested by Ramsey (1969) and Thursby (1981, 1985), and the Hausman test (1978), as suggested by Wu (1973) and Hausman (1978), were used as specification tests The ... Taxation and Public Finance in Transition andDevelopingEconomies Taxation and Public Finance in Transition andDevelopingEconomies Edited by Robert W McGee Editor Robert...
... motion, and retains calculation of equilibria and asset prices via simple modifications of our standard formulas These preferences are a version of those studied by Epstein and Zin ( ) and Weil ... describes economies with production and consumption externalities and also distortions due to a government’s imposing distorting flat rate taxes Equilibria of these economies has to be computed by a ... dynamic program has been solved and the equilibrium Markov process computed, the vector autoregression implied by the theory has to be computed by applying classic projection formulas to a large...
... of the database user account-sa in this example; sa is a common database user account used by the database administrator (DBA) You can use any database user account as long as it has access to ... ADO .NET classes for use with SQL Server, including the SqlConnection, SqlCommand, and SqlDataReader classes that are used later in the program You'll be introduced to these classes shortly, and ... FirstExample.cs Note A database administrator (DBA) is responsible for performing tasks such as installing the database software, backing up the databases, and so on Step 2: Create a SqlCommand Object Step...
... Visual Studio NET, " you'll see how to use VS NET to compile and run a program You run the command-line version of the compiler by entering csc in the Command Prompt tool, followed by the name of ... details on handling exceptions, I recommend the book Mastering Visual C# NET from Sybex (2002) In the next section you'll see how to compile FirstExample.cs and run it Compiling and Running FirstExample.cs ... following command in the Command Prompt tool: csc FirstExample.cs If you want to follow along with the examples, start the Command Prompt tool by selecting Start ➣ Programs ➣ Accessories ➣ Command Prompt...
... NIC= Newly Industrialized, DC =Developing and LDC= Least DevelopingCountriesAs Figure 25 illustrates, in developingeconomies (DC and LDC), food processing and simple basic consumer goods (like ... developed.The term developingeconomies used in this publication encompasses Least Developed Countries, Developingand Newly Industrializing Countries The D4S concepts of Benchmarking and Redesign ... that measures the average achievements in a country in three basic dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, as measured by life expectancy at birth; knowledge, as measured by the...
... S(P)] [29] and casein kinase II (consensus site S ⁄ TXXE ⁄ D) [30] Phosphorylation of Ser47 was confirmed by site-directed mutagenesis (Fig 2); when this residue was mutated to Ala and the construct ... that has no significant effect on plasma cholesterol levels and the R46L variation, a naturally occurring variant associated with hypocholesterolemia [31] and reduced plasma PCSK9 [22] As shown ... phosphorylation region of PCSK9 Huh7 cells untransfected (lanes and 4; endogenous-C) and transfected with cDNAs encoding untagged PCSK9 C-terminal variants (lane andand 5–8 as labeled) were...
... different countries [17] Data suggest that there are increases in prevalence of asthma in children and in older adults in developingcountriesand decreases in the prevalence of Bronchial Asthma – Emerging ... This has hampered studies of asthma epidemiology, as different investigators have used differing inclusion criteria to identify cases of disease As well as identifying the presence of disease, ... condition (such as a genetic predisposition towards disease) During this phase, disease development is not inevitable and identifying individuals at risk provides an opportunity to prevent disease emergence...
... SAFETY NET downside loss The notion that the government was subsidizing risk, and consequently that financial institutions were purposefully increasing it, was viewed as late as the early 1980s as ... reserves and, consequently, seasonal movements in the riskless money market interest rate To the extent that the Fed was to act as a lender of last resort during crises, its role was to expand the ... oil-producing areas like Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, and Venezuela as well as through the banks that had financed the oil exploration boom of the 1970s Other countries were affected by a combination...
... Sufficiency and Eco-efficiency consistency; and sufcommand and ficiency; control; moral delinkage of suasion growth and environmental impacts according to environmental norms and standards Assessment ... sustainability, on the other hand, aims at netting out the value of natural and produced (and possibly also human and social) capital loss from its measures of economic performance and growth Table 2.2 ... at least all countries, expresses this sentiment [FR 2.3] Even these anthropocentric concepts face definition and measurement problems Differing and mostly judgemental assumptions about standards...
... state and changes of the real world, as well as the major activities responsible for these changes Marking the first column of the framework as opening assets and adding a last column of closing assets ... forces and pressures) of impacts and effects from production and consumption, population dynamics, natural resource use, emission of pollutants and waste, and natural and man-made disasters The ... 0.8 °C and predicts a temperature increase between 1.8 and 4.0 °C by the end of the century (Box 4.5) Plate 4.1 dramatizes the impact and distribution of global warming by the third and last decade...
... goods such as buildings, machines and infrastructure As an environmental 6.3 Material Flow Accounting 117 pressure index NAS reflect to some extent increased land use through built-up areas However, ... production and consumption and disposed of as waste and pollutants Weighting by the weight of materials ignores different impact potentials of materials and excludes other environmental functions and ... measure material and energy inputs from the environment to the economy, their transformation in economic production and consumption processes, and their return to the environment as wastes and...
... 22.7 13.5 8.7 East Asia and Pacific 36.1 25.2 23.5 Europe and Central Asia 24.6 11.9 7.8 Latin America and the Caribbean 19.2 9.6 5.5 Middle East and North Africa 24.2 −1.3 −6.0 South Asia 18.3 8.3 ... sustainability, classifying them as weak and monetary, and strong and physical This comes close to advocating the assessment of economic and ecological sustainability 11 Unless otherwise stated ‘SEEA’ and ... physical-monetary, income-welfare and accounting-modelling dichotomies in the measurement and evaluation of sustainability There was also 10 This project was conducted by the Department of Environment and...
... and emission prevention as assets and liabilities under the EU Emission Trading Scheme (Casamento, 2004) Still, professional associations in the UK and North America elaborated the concepts and ... (Sections 2.3.1, 8.2.1) Industrialized countriesand many developing ones increased their capital base through truly net capital formation – net of produced and natural capital consumption (Section ... eco-balances also present assets and asset changes of equipment, buildings and land – the latter with environmental categories The flow accounts show material and energy inputs and residual outputs...
... behavioural and technological changes the LTG authors leave their mechanistic model and call for ‘leadership and ethics, vision and courage’, supported by a ‘networking’ civil society As hard-nosed ... structural and regional policies, one would also have to specify compatible standards at regional and sectoral levels A variety of policy instruments, including the above-described CAC measures and ... Parts II and III assessed empirically the impacts and repercussions of the environment-economy interaction In this part we used these assessments, at least in principle, for prediction and policy...
... policy include soft and hard measures (Table 13.3) High and imminent environmental risks require the use of harder and faster instruments at the cost of decreasing economic and ecological efficiency ... consumption and production They are mostly negative, i.e welfareimpairing effects, marked by a minus (−) sign in segment I Some externalities are positive such as benefits of agriculture for land and landscape ... significance of environmental and economic costs and benefits is the core issue of this book To this end, one can either look back and ask how bad it has been, or look forward and see how bad (or good)...
... Opschoor, P H (1992) The ecocapacity as a challenge to sustainable development Rijswijk, the Netherlands: Netherland Advisory Council for Research on Nature and Environment Wheeler, D (2002) Beyond ... growth and emissions: Reconsidering the empirical basis of environmental Kuznets curves Ecological Economics, 25, 161–175 De Groot, R S (1992) Functions of nature Groningen, the Netherlands: Wolters ... Importance and threat as determining factors of criticality of natural capital Ecological Economics, 44, 187–204 De Haan, M (2001) A structural decomposition analysis of pollution in the Netherlands...
... to other users as well as to the command and control center In addition to the position of the users, networked cameras on each user’s system can stream videos back to the command and control center ... and classify the AS- BUILT Fig Lineal and area measure (left); text and geometric annotations (center); as- built photo annotation (right) 26 Augmented Reality – Some Emerging Application Areas ... as a rectangle with texture The rectangle’s positionand orientation are calculated from the camera’s positionand orientation When viewing from the camera positionand using proper viewing and...