... prices for these countries IV EXCHANGERATEThe Special Drawing Right (SDR) has been chosen as the numeraire currency in the construction of REER/ NEER indices since theexchange value ofthe SDR ... form V BASE YEAR The monthly average ofthe REER and NEER for the base year is benchmarked to the level of 100 As against the practice of having three base years in the case of existing five-country ... monthly exchange rates and prices for 36 currencies is the IFS ofthe International Monetary Fund2 With the IFS providing data on exchangerate and prices with a lag of at least three months, the...
... by taking the square roots of ˆ the diagonal elements ofthe covariance matrix Σn GLS The values ofthe weights involved in the GLS estimation depend on the values ofthe fitted model These values ... proportional to the square ofthe predicted incidence: wj = 1/[z(tj ; θ)]2 On the other hand, if ρ = 1/2, then the weights are proportional to the reciprocal ofthe predicted incidence; these correspond ... reported by the CDC in the US during the 1999–00 season [12] The number of H3N2 cases (isolates) is displayed as a function of time Time is measured as the number of weeks since the start ofthe year’s...
... clarify whether or not there is an association between the tax rates ofthe highest income taxpayers and economic growth Data is analyzed to illustrate the association between the tax rates ofthe highest ... concepts of tax rates The first is the marginal tax rate or the tax rate on the last dollar of income If a taxpayer’s income were to increase by $1, the marginal tax rate indicates what proportion of ... concept of tax rates is the average tax rate, which is the proportion of all income that is paid in taxes An examination ofthe trend in the average tax rate provides information on how the tax...
... slowdown ofthe reaction rate but, so far, no mechanistic explanation ofthe slowdown has been validated The substrate characteristics often implied in the slowdown ofthe reaction rate include ... processivity are often cited as causes ofthe slowdown [14,29,30] One ofthe most controversial theories concerns the influence of crystallinity and the change ofthe degree of crystallinity during ... complex substrates because the presence of lignin or hemicellulose may interfere with the action of cellulase and reduce accessibility, and therefore the hydrolysis rates [29,40,41] Another important...
... depreciation ofthe domestic currency, and for the country risk premium In turn, the expected nominal rateof depreciation is given by therateof depreciation ofthe real exchange rate, , and the domestic-international ... following system of equations: where is the nominal short-run (90-day paper) interest rate, the neutral nominal interest rate, stands for therateof inflation, is the inflation target ofthe central ... between the level ofthe policy ratethe SELIC—and the level of public debt, given that about half ofthe domestic public debt is indexed to the SELIC This restricts the degrees of freedom for monetary...
... at the last day ofthe RMP This implies that the interbank rate jumps to the marginal lending rate Since the interest rate on a given day is a function ofthe expected rate at the last day ofthe ... amount of underbidding does not push the expected interbank rate to the marginal lending rate It does increase the expected rate and therefore also the current interbank rate, but the amount ofthe ... both the size of underbidding and the slope ofthe demand curve There is then an equilibrium amount of underbidding, equalizing the current minimum bid rate with the expected interest rate at the...
... presentation ofthe results ofthe analysis; The discussion ofthe results including a brief discussion on the sensitivity ofthe forecast to the assumptions in the model Linkages between disease and the ... indication of model sensitivity rather than the sensitivity to the assumptions on the variables The results were robust to even large changes in the majority ofthe assumptions, including the costs of ... computed by the model and the GBD projected estimates The impact on the estimates is subtracted out ofthe estimates of lost income Model assumptions The characteristic model assumptions for the simple...
... The correlation ofthe change in the growth ofthe monetary base with the top statutory tax rate is 0.031 and with the top capital gains tax rate is 0.003 The correlation ofthe average tax rate ... capital gains The second concept of tax rates is the average or effective tax rate, which is the proportion of all income that is paid in taxes An examination ofthe trend in the average tax rate provides ... statutory capital gains tax rate there seems to be a positive relationship the higher the tax rate, the higher the saving ratio The observed correlation between the tax rates and the saving ratio, however,...
... could be due to a number of factors, either the presence ofthe MNPs both intracellular and on the membrane ofthe cells or the nanoparticles themselves interfere with the reagents In our experiments, ... understanding ofthe degree of cytotoxicity ofthe MNPs, we also investigated the effect the polymer-coated nanoparticles had on the integrity ofthe cell membrane and oxidative stress the MNPs elicited ... of one further centrifugation step at the end ofthe MTT assay in order to lyse the cells and discard the cellular components and CNT particles could reduce interferences caused by the CNTs They...
... denotes the number of rows in the parity check matrix ofthe code, uk is the number of nonzero elements in the kth row ofthe parity check matrix and niter is the number of iterations ofthe optimization ... the phase offset ofthe channel The proposed method of blind estimationofthe phase offset is based on a MAP approach in the sense of maximizing the probability that a phase θ corresponds to the ... achieve theestimation After having estimated the CFO using the method proposed in Section 2.1, we correct the rotation ofthe received samples then apply the proposed algorithm of phase offset estimation...
... could be due to a number of factors, either the presence ofthe MNPs both intracellular and on the membrane ofthe cells or the nanoparticles themselves interfere with the reagents In our experiments, ... understanding ofthe degree of cytotoxicity ofthe MNPs, we also investigated the effect the polymer-coated nanoparticles had on the integrity ofthe cell membrane and oxidative stress the MNPs elicited ... attached to either the cell membrane or the bottom ofthe plate, appearing as a brown colour in the well (even after five washes with fresh culture media) (data not shown) The presence of these MNPs...
... discuss the available techniques for identifying the DOA of sources The main body ofthe work concentrates on the application ofthe TSI finders for identifying the physical location ofthe source of ... additional processing to extract all ofthe information of interest The rest ofthe paper assumes the receiver processing has clearly identified the direction of arrival ofthe offending source Under this ... SOURCE LOCATION The diagram in Figure illustrates the geometry ofthe scenario related to the selected TSI path ofthe mainlobe interference only The unit vector pointing from the array to source...
... decreasing The following theorem asserts the convergence ofthe computation, in all cases, to the desired value Theorem Assume the use of (11) for the calculation ofthe successive values of λh (k) ... in the proof of Theorem immediately, leads to the following two corollaries The technique of showing that the successive iterations of λh (k) produce calculated values for the handoff arrival rate ... have the following: λh (1) = λ∗ =⇒ either λh (1) > λh (0) or λh (1) < λh (0) h (30) Here are the theorems on monotonic convergence ofthe proposed algorithm Theorem Assume the use of (11) for the...
... both ofthe evaluated methods, the biomass estimates ofthe intermediate age-classes of forests were more accurate than those ofthe youngest and oldest age-classes Ofthe tree species, the errors ... especially for the possible presence of bias, before they can be used in the national inventories Furthermore, it is evident that the time series ofthe inventory, i.e the biomass estimates ofthe earlier ... pine The uncertainty in the biomass estimates of birch was high, since the number of birch stands was low in both the material used for formulation ofthe BEFs, and in the Swedish data on which the...
... both in the phloem and the sapwood in response to bark inoculation They may therefore, together with the development ofthe fungus, have a negative impact on the water conducting ability ofthe sapwood, ... Impact ofthe density of inoculations with Ophiostoma brunneo-ciliatum into bark of young Scots pine trees on: (a) the length ofthe induced reaction zones in the bark tissues; (b) the fraction of ... potential The most striking result was the significant but nonlinear relationship between the amount of damage and the loss of conductivity; the latter increasing much faster then the former Loss of...
... 2.2 Analysis The analysis model was: where yZ!k is the performance ofthe jth animal from the kth dam, reared in the ith hatch, a the direct genetic effect ofthe jth animal, m! the maternal ... from the kth dam, ez!! the residual ofthe jth animal from the kth dam, reared in the ith hatch and cov(a, m) the covariance matrix between the vector of direct genetic effects (a) and the vector ... dimorphism and the other traits were computed between sexual correlations a similar in way The heritability ofthe ratio ofthe male trait to the female trait (R) was approximated using Sutherland’s...
... the proportion of genes ibd at thethe expectation of Y is: j QTL (!r!t), Elston (1990) shows that where is the additive genetic variance due to the QTL and aethe variance ofthe difference of ... simulation were: (i) the distance between the markers (0 ) t (ii) the position ofthe QTL between the markers as expressed by and (iii) the size ofthe QTL effect The distance between the markers was ... loci contribute little or nothing to theestimationof t r In theestimationofthe QTL variance, Method I is characterized by the overestimation of if the true value is small In practice, this...
... however, the high cost of this new generation of treatment The main objective ofthe present study is to provide an evaluation ofthe total cost of chemotherapy in the early stages of breast ... alleviate the disease burden in general and the cost of breast cancer in particular Methods The first step was theestimationofthe individual cost according to the therapeutic sub-groups of breast ... evaluate the cost of individual treatment, we need the following information: 1) the unit price of different drugs used in adjuvant treatment of breast cancer, 2) the kind of therapy according to the...
... when the advantage of right over left IJV cannulation was discussed [1] The aim of this prospective study was to validate the hypothesis that the diameter ofthe right IJV is greater than the ... USA) during the study period The primary goal of this study was to validate the hypothesis that the diameter ofthe right IJV is greater than the left one, and secondary to determine the cross-sectional ... measured at the level ofthe cricoid cartilage (Figure 1) The level ofthe cricoid cartilage was chosen because this corresponds to the central approach (apex ofthe triangle formed by the medial...
... venous end of pulmonary capillaries minus the diastolic pressure in the left atrium (denoted PLA) The output of oxygen by the left ventricle ofthe heart into the aorta is equal to the input of oxygen ... Therefore, the scaling of Fmax with body size depends largely on the scaling of Ip The impedance ofthe pulmonary venous network is a consequence of its physical structure and the viscosity of ... 56005 24225 a measured value ofthe uptake rate minus the logarithm ofthe uptake rate predicted by the model for a mammal ofthe experimentally measured weight M The technique is termed least...