... not in factsupposed to be the main thrust of the Act. It drafters intended the CDA to introduce newcriminal offences of knowingly creating, sending, transmitting or displaying obscene orindecent ... role in publishing on the Internet, the law of libel applies just as it does to the print medium. The application of the law to an Internet web archive suggests the following points:ã the display ... Plaintiff maintained that ISP was negligent in permitting anonymous postings by a subscriber accusing plaintiff of publishingmaterials "glorifying" the Oklahoma City bombing. The superior...
... is the largest ethnic minority inthe UK? 13. Where would you find the single biggest concentration (45%) of ethnic minorities inthe UK? 14. What percentage of people intheUK say that they ... ______________ The Ashes Boxing Day Canterbury Cathedral Easter Monday Edinburgh Castle The FA Cup Final The first Monday in May The Grand National The Guardian Guy Fawkes Night The Independent Mothering ... against the English in Scotland. He was finally defeated at the ________ in 1745.10. The ________ began inthe middle of the 18th century, bringing enormous social and economicchanges to the...
... cannot be linked back to the source. best inthe business inthe private sector. This type of The main issue then in is inthe feeling of anonymity. If benchmarking implies comparing customer ... important given the track record for customer surveys inthe literature thus farand the expansion of their use inthe Federal Government.Given the costs involved in designing and conducting thesesurveys ... consider them to be customers.assuming that the instrument is well designed and able to After all, someone (the taxpayer) is paying the agency tomeasure what was intended, there are still several issues...
... defined in (19.10). The excess MSE is the power of the additional error in the filter output due to the errors inthe filter coefficients. An equivalent measure of the excess MSE in steady-state is the ... Performance Issues When using the LMS adaptive filter, one must select the filter length L and the step size µ(n) toobtain the desired performance from the system. In this section, we explore theissues ... generalized expression forthese stability bounds in (19.41), the upper bound for the step size is inversely proportional to the input signal power σ2x in general. In practice, the input signal power...
... inundated, mainly the Northern parts of the MD known as the Long Xuyen Quadrangle and the Plain of Reeds. Along the 600 km-coast, the sea tide strongly influences the water quality due to the ... salinity during the dry season from December to May. Saline intrusion is one of the principal limiting factors in crop production, especially for rice, as crops are intolerant of salinity inthe ... clean water is finite in general and the demand is increasing. Therefore a sustainable water management should be incorporated inthe targets of the country development as meaning water resources...
... Academyof Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communi-ties. The Council is administered jointly by both Academies and the Institute ... developing and maintaining a credible integrated climate observing system.” The “Post-2002” report (NRC,1999b) determined that “ensuring continuity of operational data, evaluating the readiness ... of the candidate sensors. There have been final selections of the winning contractors in 1999 and 2000. The Ozone Mapping and Profiling Suite (OMPS) contractor was selected in early 1999. The...
... following stages:ã Denition of the roots of the problemã Ordering rootsã Creating and lling inthe tables of individual range selectionã Creating and lling inthe collective tableã Ranking the ... If the (i, j) entry inthe SSIM is A, then the (i, j) entry inthe reachability matrixbecomes 0 and the (j, i) entry becomes 1.ã If the (i, j) entry inthe SSIM is X, then the (i, j) entry in ... responsibility’.There are a number of enablers affecting the implementation of sustainability in the Supply Chain. In this research, an interpretation of sustainability inthe SupplyChain enablers in terms...
... action, the speaker and he=rer mutually believe that executing plan P will result in the hearer acquiring the required information, but, since only the hearer is actually executing the plan, the ... result in identification of the intended referent, and in the case of the S[ action, the plan is simply to do nothing, because the referent of the term is already mutually known. This is not the ... knowledge. Since there are two dimensions relevant to ,:haracteriz- ing concept activation actions, it is possible to define four 199 Some Pragmatic Issuesinthe Planning of Definite and Indefinite...
... million, advancing the loan one hour earlier inthe day increases the interest payment by anestimated £2,778 inthe crisis period. We also observe an increase inthe implied loan rate during the last ... muchstronger at the beginning of the day.12This calculation is made by assuming a linear intraday pattern between 6am and 3pm and continuous compounding over the nine-hourinterval.Working Paper ... all settlements taking place in the evening. In contrast, a positive intraday interest rate can be socially desirable if some agents havean intrinsic need to settle inthe morning.But empirical...
... significantly in three; firstly, by the auditors having a financial interest inthe company; secondly, by the auditors being controlled inthe broadest sense by the company; and thirdly, if the work ... Jurisdiction of Accounting intheUK In the UK, the emergence of sellers of specialist labour who described themselves as ‘accountants’ (amongst other things) was initially stimulated by ... publicised collapse of the Grays Building Society once again reminded small investors of the assumed role of auditing in safeguarding their deposits. The resulting investigation (Registry of Friendly...
... Pygmies draw drinking water directly from natural springs in Ituri forest 47Water Issuesinthe Democratic Republic of the CongoWork in progress: construction of a retaining headwall inthe village ... Precambrian crystalline basement rocks (including basalt and granite) cropping out in the mountainous terrain along the Albertine Rift from Lake Tanganyika to Lake Edward, as well as in the lower Congo ... to the long-term sustainability of major infrastructure investments inthe water sector. The immediate challenge on the ground is the non-application of basic zoning principles and land delineation...
... sovereignty, inthe words of Schelling, ‘includes the inalienableright of the consumer to make his own mistakes’.126We may wish totake the chance of a washing-machinebeing faulty in return for gettingit ... definition of the consumer. It is concerned to examine the way in which criminal law isused inthe context of consumer protection inthe UK, but theUK hasno agreed definition of the consumer. ... Prefacelargely inthe regulatory field that the increase in criminalisation has beenwitnessed. It will be argued that while there is merit in these concerns,criminal law should retain its central...
... right at the top of the distribution that there have been the fastest increases in earnings inthe last 30 years. The figure shows Atkinson and Voitchovsky’s (2004) analysis of earnings at the top ... those marching past had been adjusted in proportion to their incomes, making the point that in such a parade, the majority has incomes below the average (mean), but a few giants have incomes that ... in distributional terms), it is in some ways better that we use data that were collected before the recent turmoil. This timing issue should be borne in mind in interpreting our findings. In...
... divide’ in outcomes and their inequality. However, inequality in any dimension is wider in London than in any other region, and inequality in earnings and incomes has increased faster in London ... as having Traveller or Gypsy backgrounds inthe data for the cohort examined. 21An anatomy of economic inequality inthe UK (e) Sexual orientationThere is very little information on the economic ... shows the range between the 10th and the 90th percentiles. The thicker bar shows the range between the 30th and the 70th percentiles. The three vertical lines running from the top of the...