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Environmental regulation and economic competitiveness: Evidence from the textile industry in Vietnam

Environmental regulation and economic competitiveness: Evidence from the textile industry in Vietnam

... regulations have imposed some costs on textile firms, they were too insignificant to compromise their competitiveness, regardless of ownership Nevertheless, the suggestion that Porter hypothesis should ... Impacts The environmental impacts from these textile companies under investigation take various forms from wastewater, emissions, solid water, noise, heat among others Of course the most obvious ... by the President and Assembly) issues: - Resolutions (Nghị Quyết) The Prime Minister and the Ministries can each issue: - Rulings, Decisions (Quyết Định) - Directives (Chỉ Thị) [The Prime Minister...

Ngày tải lên: 24/08/2013, 18:48

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Tài liệu Báo cáo " Late Eocene metamorphism and ductile deformation age of Con Voi range, the Red River shear zone: evidence from the garnet Sm/Nd dating" docx

Tài liệu Báo cáo " Late Eocene metamorphism and ductile deformation age of Con Voi range, the Red River shear zone: evidence from the garnet Sm/Nd dating" docx

... facies (Fig 1) The second one developed mostly within the pressure shadow of porphyroblast of the first paragenesis In some other cases, it was crystallized within fractures This paragenesis was ... the pressure shadow of the main minerals of the first paragenesis also indicated a sinistral shears The rotation of garnet in some cases was also compatible with the left lateral shear Consequently, ... Tectonic setting and structural characteristics Analysis of thin section of gneiss samples taken from the Con Voi range evidenced the existence of two parageneses which developed during the deformation...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 12:20

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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "Automatic Collection of Related Terms from the Web" pptx

Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "Automatic Collection of Related Terms from the Web" pptx

... too Sentence extraction The system decomposes each page into sentences, and extracts the sentences that contain the seed term s The reason why we use the additional three queries is that they ... Filtering The filtering step is necessary because the obtained candidates are noisy due to the small corpus size This step consists of two tests: technical-term test and relation test 2.3.1 Technical-term ... indidates that the term passed the test Twenty terms out of the thrity candidate terms passed the first techinical-term test (Tech.) and sixteen terms out of the twenty terms passed the second...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 16:20

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Monetary Policy Surprises and Interest Rates: Evidence from the Fed Funds Futures Market doc

Monetary Policy Surprises and Interest Rates: Evidence from the Fed Funds Futures Market doc

... of the observed persistence of target rate changes Another is that the surprise is associated with increases in bill rates on subsequent days This implausibly says that financial markets respond ... hard to use successive days’ futures rates to measure the true surprise And as discussed above, using the scaled-up difference between the funds rate and the previous month s futures rate will ... policy actions is minimal, consistent with the efficient markets hypothesis The response of Fed funds futures rates themselves to unexpected policy actions is fairly uniform across the one- to...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 02:21

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COMBINING EVIDENCE ON AIR POLLUTION AND DAILY MORTALITY FROM THE 20 LARGEST US CITIES: A HIERARCHICAL MODELLING STRATEGY potx

COMBINING EVIDENCE ON AIR POLLUTION AND DAILY MORTALITY FROM THE 20 LARGEST US CITIES: A HIERARCHICAL MODELLING STRATEGY potx

... for estimating parameters of the spatial model Section summarizes the results, compares between the posterior inferences under the two models and assesses the sensitivity of the results to the ... measurement error biases the results towards the null hypothesis of no e€ect and estimated the loss of precision in the estimated health e€ects due to indirectly estimating personal exposures from ... Critics of these studies have questioned the validity of the data sets used and the statistical techniques applied to them; the critics have noted inconsistencies in ®ndings between studies and...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 16:20

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Deep Recessions, Fast Recoveries, and Financial Crises: Evidence from the American Record ppt

Deep Recessions, Fast Recoveries, and Financial Crises: Evidence from the American Record ppt

... concerns their shape One obvious measure of shape is steepness, or change in output divided by duration Tables and report the results of regressing the steepness of the recovery against the steepness ... Quarters since peak of business cycle 10 11 12 Quarters since peak of business cycle 10 11 12 DEEP RECESSIONS, FAST RECOVERIES Business Cycle Peak: September 1902 Business Cycle Peak: May 1907 Gross ... DEEP RECESSIONS, FAST RECOVERIES Business Cycle Peak: July 1953 106 Business Cycle Peak: August 1957 Gross Domestic Product (Business Cycle Peak=100) 104 105 Gross Domestic Product (Business Cycle...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 19:20

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Credit-risk valuation in the sovereign CDS and bonds markets: Evidence from the euro area crisis ppt

Credit-risk valuation in the sovereign CDS and bonds markets: Evidence from the euro area crisis ppt

... intersection of several sub-hypotheses To maximise the power of the test, instead of testing whether the previous hypotheses are simultaneously satisfied, we redefine the null hypothesis as the absence ... literature Section describes the data Section presents the methodology and the results based on the analysis of persistent deviations between CDS and bond spreads Section analyses the determinants of the ... least one of the last four hypotheses above is satisfied, we conclude that no persistent deviations exist To test these hypotheses we need to estimate the p-values for the previous restrictions...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 07:20

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Báo cáo khoa học: Structural and mutational analysis of TenA protein (HP1287) from the Helicobacter pylori thiamin salvage pathway – evidence of a different substrate specificity doc

Báo cáo khoa học: Structural and mutational analysis of TenA protein (HP1287) from the Helicobacter pylori thiamin salvage pathway – evidence of a different substrate specificity doc

... a-helix E is distorted and the histidine points to the exterior of the proteins, towards the solvent All these previous observations suggest that the active site of TenA has been slightly modified ... Nevertheless, the catalytic activity remains very low A careful comparison of the active sites of the enzymes from the two species shows that, despite a complete conservation of the residues Structure ... genomes has shown that some of the enzymes in the thiamin biosynthetic pathway are not present in some organisms, suggesting that alternative enzymes may complement them [2] This is the case for...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 00:20

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Báo cáo Y học: Identification of mammalian-type transglutaminase in Physarum polycephalum Evidence from the cDNA sequence and involvement of GTP in the regulation of transamidating activity potx

Báo cáo Y học: Identification of mammalian-type transglutaminase in Physarum polycephalum Evidence from the cDNA sequence and involvement of GTP in the regulation of transamidating activity potx

... TGase or TGase A recent study has shown that the enzymatic activity of TGase was inhibited by the presence of GTP or ATP, as in the case of PpTGase [51] These results suggest that the mechanism ... Rho A [35] The results of those studies suggest that the lower eukaryotes and bacterial enzymes evolved as a separate lineage from the mammalian TGases The physiological roles of these invertebrate ... reaction, respectively The numbers represent the amino acid residue numbers of the TGases: human TGase 2, red sea bream (Pagrus major), ascidians (Ciona intestinalis), grasshopper (Schistocerca...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 23:20

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Wars and Child Health: Evidence from the Eritrean-Ethiopian Conflict pdf

Wars and Child Health: Evidence from the Eritrean-Ethiopian Conflict pdf

... on both sides of the border due to the war Because of this displacement, many households were worse off since they lost their harvests and assets, were forced to disrupt their businesses, and ... conflict sites We use the distance to the nearest war site (even if it crosses region boundaries) to classify intensity of war exposure Since the mean distance to the closest conflict site within the ... Effects Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Region-Specific Time Trends Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Notes: Robust standard errors in brackets, clustered at the enumeration level * significant at 10%, ** significant...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 09:20

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The Determinants of Bank Net Interest Margin: Evidence from the Lebanese Banking Sector ppt

The Determinants of Bank Net Interest Margin: Evidence from the Lebanese Banking Sector ppt

... extracted from the IMF database 5.2 Descriptive Statistics Table presents the descriptive statistics for domestic banks and Table presents the descriptive statistics for foreign banks From Table ... rates in response to exogenous changes in interest rates is similar to the decisions by firms to change prices in response to exogenous changes in costs (Hannan and Berger, 1991) These authors ... increases Central bank discount rate also boosts banks margins This is shown by the significant association between DISCOUNT and NIM Thus, whenever the central bank increases (decreases) its discount...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 17:20

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Interest Rate Risk and Bank Common Stock Returns: Evidence from the Greek Banking Sector pot

Interest Rate Risk and Bank Common Stock Returns: Evidence from the Greek Banking Sector pot

... as a system (across banks) produces nine equations whose parameters are simultaneously estimated by the SURE method Table summarises the results for the weekly returns [Table 3] The fit of the ... based only on significant parameters) * DW stands for the Durbin-Watson statistic The numbers in the parentheses below the point estimates stand for the t-ratios Adj R2 stands for the adjusted ... and also in a systems framework The second contribution of the paper is that it tests whether bank sensitivity to interest rates is uniform across banks Additionally, it investigates the possible...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 17:20

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Bank Funding Structures and Risk: Evidence from the Global Financial Crisis pptx

Bank Funding Structures and Risk: Evidence from the Global Financial Crisis pptx

... positive skewness and excess kurtosis, with normality tests rejecting the null in all cases Comparing across subsamples, the most striking result is the evidence of substantially lower EQUITY in the ... banks in the run up to the crisis The next section explores for this possibility D Are There Differences Across Bank Types? To assess the extent of differences across bank types, we compute separate ... paper is as follows Section II places the paper in the context of the literature Section III presents the dataset, discusses the criteria for the partition of the sample, and describes some stylized...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20

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Evidence for God from the Design ppt

Evidence for God from the Design ppt

... acids These acids have to come together in a specific way and if they do, then they begin to fold up onto themselves to for the specific shapes and clusters that we call proteins But ask yourself ... exists alongside the acids and proteins! The DNA directs the assembly of the acids and provides a blueprint for the operation! And DNA is the most densely packed molecule in the known universe ... the pyramids, the ancient goddess statues, the hieroglyphic carvings; none of these things could come about as the result of natural processes We look at them and we recognize that they are the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 23:20

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WORKING PAPER SERIES NO. 303 / FEBRUARY 2004: FISCAL POLICY EVENTS AND INTEREST RATE SWAP SPREADS: EVIDENCE FROM THE EU pdf

WORKING PAPER SERIES NO. 303 / FEBRUARY 2004: FISCAL POLICY EVENTS AND INTEREST RATE SWAP SPREADS: EVIDENCE FROM THE EU pdf

... is organised as follows Section selects and discusses the relevant fiscal policy events of 2002 Section addresses the measurement of default risk and examines the stylised facts of some of the ... when the SGP is put under stress We address this issue by analysing whether the long-term bond segment reacts to the worsening of fiscal positions in some countries and/or to the criticisms made ... proposed fiscal events Section presents the parametric analysis and discusses the several results Section concludes the paper Fiscal policy events in 2002 In 2002 the SGP was put to a test Due...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 23:20

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DETERMINANTS OF COMMERCIAL BANKS INTEREST RATE SPREADS: SOME EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM THE EASTERN CARIBBEAN CURRENCY UNION pdf

DETERMINANTS OF COMMERCIAL BANKS INTEREST RATE SPREADS: SOME EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM THE EASTERN CARIBBEAN CURRENCY UNION pdf

... the study period Section describes the data while section deals with the estimation techniques Section presents the empirical results, section discusses the policy implications of the results ... Section Specific Estimates – Foreign Banks Table presents the results when the operating cost, provision for loan losses and the GDP variables are estimated as cross section specific variables using ... Cross Section Specific Estimates – Indigenous Banks Table reports the estimation results when operating cost, provision for loan losses and the GDP variables are estimated as cross section specific...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 23:20

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Decentralization and Water Pollution Spillovers: Evidence from the Re-drawing of County Boundaries in Brazil ppt

Decentralization and Water Pollution Spillovers: Evidence from the Re-drawing of County Boundaries in Brazil ppt

... density are likely to explain splits at least as well as the other potential causes of county splits 31 Table 10 presents a summary of the bias estimate results Both variables measuring distance ... observations (i.e 20%) are for those 32 station pairs (see table 4) The river segments defined by station pairs cross counties on average Results Our regressions use each upstream-downstream station ... the full sample) Close-to-border is also where spillovers are larger, so this further buttresses the case that there appears to be a spillovers-budgets tradeoff inherent in this process of decentralization...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 14:20

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Báo cáo Y học: The a1b1 contact of human hemoglobin plays a key role in stabilizing the bound dioxygen Further evidence from the iron valency hybrids potx

Báo cáo Y học: The a1b1 contact of human hemoglobin plays a key role in stabilizing the bound dioxygen Further evidence from the iron valency hybrids potx

... less so than for kf Rather, the ks value showed a rate saturation behavior with pKa ˆ 5.1 on the acidic side This pH-pro®le was therefore explained as a single dissociation process for the distal ... however, the reaction was monophasic The bu€er used was Mes for pH 6.2 and Caps for pH 9.2 these computations, the initial value for each of the rate constants was taken from the corresponding slope ... In these equations, k0 is the rate constant for the basal displacement by H2O, kH is the rate constant for the protoncatalyzed displacement by H2O, and kOH is the rate constant for the displacement...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 15:20

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Industry Consolidation and Price-Cost Margins --Evidence from the Pulp and Paper Industry ppt

Industry Consolidation and Price-Cost Margins --Evidence from the Pulp and Paper Industry ppt

... Expenditures are counted as part of fixed costs, the positive sign suggests that firms increase prices to pass at least part of these costs forward to customers in the form of higher prices, which ... similar to the OLS estimates in Column I This finding is consistent with the literature that the results using OLS and 2SLS techniques are similar (Weiss 1989 and Schmalensee 1989) Based on the above ... Notes Heteroskedasticity-robust t-statistics are in parentheses In Column V, FPL CR4 is used as a regressor and lagged FPL CR4 is used as an instrument In Column VI, FPL CR4 is used as a regressor...

Ngày tải lên: 01/04/2014, 00:20

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