... sudden and precipitous— and the effect on consumer demand has been and will continue ■ 21 ■ ACCELERATING OUT OF THE GREAT RECESSION to be significant Between the summer of 2007 and the summer of ... approaches—with the exception of the third—involve the transfer of taxpayer money to the shareholders and bondholders of the failing institutions Only in the case of receivership share 13 ■ ACCELERATING ... inflated the bubble further The impact of this bubble on the profitability of the financial sector was impressive: if discretionary bonuses are added back, the financial sector’s share of total profits...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2014, 13:32
... developed and emerging—collectively accounted for nearly three-quarters of world GDP and nearly two-thirds of world merchandise imports Each of these economies is a member of the G20 and the WTO, and ... of these concerns by constructing flow and stock measures of imported products and the share of a country’s imports that are affected by its use of TTBs The merits of such an approach include the ... i THE GREAT RECESSION AND IMPORT PROTECTION The Role of Temporary Trade Barriers i i i i i i “trade_barriers” — 2011/7/5 — 10:57 — page ii — #2 i i The Great Recession and Import Protection: The...
Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2014, 12:58
rosenberg - the concise encyclopedia of the great recession, 2007-2000 (2010)
... more of the voting shares of at least two banks, or otherwise controlling the election of a majority of the directors of two or more banks The law formulated standards for the formation of bank ... fascinated by the ever-changing rainbow in their lives READER’S NOTE The Concise Encyclopedia of the Great Recession 2007–2010 has been prepared with the hope that the reader’s understanding of the entries ... bills from the House of Representatives and the Senate, reconciliation negotiations were successful and the bill received the president’s endorsement The House of Representatives and the Senate...
Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2014, 19:22
THE EVOLUTION OF THE RUSSIAN SAVING BANK SECTOR DURING THE TRANSITION ERA docx
... Note: The table shows the mean, standard deviation and the coefficient of variation (CV) of the deposit interest rates The coefficient of variation (CV) is the ratio of the standard deviation and ... extension of the familiar Gibrat process See also Davies and Geroski (1997, p 385) depending upon the extent of the persistence of market shares The sum of the effects on the future market shares (the ... effect on A) There is no significant effect of the age of the firm It is clear that the size of the firm in total assets is the key determinant of the amount of advertising Large firms have the financial...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 10:20
Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: "Evolution of the mineral fertility of an acidic soil during a period of ten years in the Vosges mountains (France). Impact of humus mineralisation" pps
... future We therefore calculated the evolution of Ca, Mg and K from 1986 to 1996 considering the sum of total forms in the organic layers and exchangeable forms in the mineral horizons at depth of to ... shows the results of the 1986 and 1996 analyses of the 1986 samples Finally, the results used for the 1986 samples in the statistical analysis were those obtained in 1996 for total contents and ... an OF layer ranging from to cm and an OH layer of to cm, depending on the location C/N ratio was 20.4 in the OH layer, and decreased to 17.8 in the A horizon and 15.8 in the mineral horizons The...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:21
Evolution of the Earth and its Atmosphere and its Atmosphere
... grew much warmer, thereby preventing freezing and accelerating surface “weathering” Except for Oxygen, almost all of the Earth’s atmosphere today Evolution of the Earth Process and Equation” its ... created the “ozone layer” high in the atmosphere, which blocked solar uv from reaching the ground and made it possible for plants and animals to survive above the ocean surface.) Evolution of the ... about 1% (by volume) Evolution of the Earth and its Atmosphere 2.5 billion years ago – 600 million years ago: ♦ Slowly but steadily, the evolutionary process and photosynthesis continued ♦ Multi-celled...
Ngày tải lên: 04/04/2013, 10:51
Tài liệu NEW AND ORIGINAL THEORIES OF THE GREAT PHYSICAL FORCES doc
... position at the present day The present theories of the transmission of light and sound; of the production of winds, and sun-spots, and of the method of development and dissemination of heat, are ... except in the direction of other spheres These theories throw new light upon the character and extent of the atmosphere of the moon and planets, and the consequent availability of those and other ... movements On the 20th of June the flood of summer heat overspreads the northern portions of the earth; the sun thence apparently turns southward, and with its departure the relations of the line of heat...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 01:20
Tài liệu On the Fringe of the Great Fight ppt
... exploded the Captain, and in the instant he seized the dinner-plate in one hand and the fellow's head in the other and brought them quickly together, rubbing the man's chin and nose briskly round and ... appeared; and the cortege of one of the greatest British generals passed on to St Paul's, the last resting place of the great soldiers and sailors of the Empire One felt that Lord Roberts was greater ... source of wonder and pleasure to me to see the ivy covered banks, the ivy clad trees and the rhododendrons and holly trees in green leaf in the middle of the winter In the garden at the back of the...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 22:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Topology, tinkering and evolution of the human transcription factor network doc
... compares the studied network with randomized versions of it with the same size and degree distribution The so-called Z-score quantifies the difference between the studied network and an ensemble of randomized ... functions, and topological features retain functionality and phylogeny However, the nature of the connections between these factors needs to be understood at the level of the protein domain The global ... constrain derived from the evolution of this family Evolution based on domain reusing might explain the abundance of certain protein domains and is a way of easily increasing the number of TFs, as appears...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 07:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: cN-crystallin and the evolution of the bc-crystallin superfamily in vertebrates pdf
... which encodes the first two structural motifs, and hence the N-terminal domain of the protein, just as in the genes for cS and cA–F However, the second half of the gene has the structure of a b-crystallin ... particularly during mammalian evolution These changes illustrate the way in which gene families may expand, contract and adapt They may also help us understand the functions of the c-crystallin ... encoding the two motifs of the C-terminal domain The crygn gene is thus a hybrid of b and c crystallin gene structures, apparently an intermediate in the evolution of the c-crystallins from the b-crystallins...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 17:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Complete subunit sequences, structure and evolution of the 6 · 6-mer hemocyanin from the common house centipede, Scutigera coleoptrata pptx
... SDS/PAGE and in 2D PAGE (Figs and 2; Table 1) The N-terminal amino acid sequences (see above) allow the assignment of the HcA clone to the major sequence of the upper hemocyanin band in the SDS/PAGE ... regions and the entire 3¢ untranslated regions The standard polyadenylation signals (AATAAA) and the poly(A)-tails of different lengths are present in each clone The open reading frames of the five ... comparison of the patterns of the SDS, native and 2D electrophoresis, we assign HcA and HcB to the a and b polypeptides (that could not be separated in [14]), respectively, HcC to the c subunit, and...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 11:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo Y học: Evolution of the enzymes of the citric acid cycle and the glyoxylate cycle of higher plants pdf
... structure, and that some of the subunits of PDH, OGDH and OADH are related The functional and evolutionary relationships between the subunits of these enzymes are somewhat complicated In a nutshell, the ... consists of 11 different enzymes [3,6]), the glycolytic/ gluconeogenic pathway [3,6], and the two different pathways of isoprenoid biosynthesis [7] Recently, the evolution of the biosynthetic pathway ... compartmentalized in the glyoxysomes of plants [31], the single exception being aconitase, which is localized in the cytosol [32,33] Here we investigate the evolution of the enzymes of the pyruvate dehydrogenase...
Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 04:20
The Internet of Things - How the Next Evolution of the Internet Is Changing Everything doc
... fulfilling, and comfortable lives for themselves, their families, and those they care about By combining the ability of the next evolution of the Internet (IoT) to sense, collect, transmit, analyze, and ... however, have the potential to slow the development of IoT The three largest are the deployment of IPv6, power for sensors, and agreement on standards Deployment of IPv6 The world ran out of IPv4 addresses ... White Paper The Internet of Things How the Next Evolution of the Internet Is Changing Everything The Internet of Things (IoT), sometimes referred to as the Internet of Objects, will change...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 21:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Analysis of the NADH-dependent retinaldehyde reductase activity of amphioxus retinol dehydrogenase enzymes enhances our understanding of the evolution of the retinol dehydrogenase family pot
... vertebrate enzymes The most significant difference between the amphioxus and the other retinal reductases was, nevertheless, their preference for the NADH cofactor To our knowledge, these are the first SDR ... acids at the N-terminus of the signaling sequence, but rather contained the L24ERGR motif at the C-terminus of the hydrophobic sequence, thereby resembling the R19ERQV, R19ERKV, R19VRQV and R19DRQ(S ... centrifugations (lanes and 3, microsomal fractions) of homogenates of COS cells transfected with HA-RDH1 (lanes and 2) and HA-RDH2 (lanes and 4) (E–L) In vivo localization of RDH2 in the ER of the cells COS-7...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 09:20
American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime docx
... ship and cargo for each leg of the voyage, and for leakage of ten per cent of the rum and five per cent of the molasses, and after charging off the whole cost of the ship's outfit and one-third of ... another and often separated the several fields on the same estate; but the cause of this was not so much the paucity of population as the character of the land and the prevalent industry The sandy ... company on the one hand and the colonists and their legislatures on the other over the rating of colonial moneys and the obstructions placed by law about the collection of debts; and the colonists...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 00:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Subunit sequences of the 4 · 6-mer hemocyanin from the golden orb-web spider, Nephila inaurata Intramolecular evolution of the chelicerate hemocyanin subunits pot
... of chelicerate hemocyanin evolution was inferred assuming that the LpoHc2 and the a-subunits of N inaurata and E californicum on the one hand, and TtrHcA and the arachnid g-subunits on the other ... types d and f, and e and g The C salei hemocyanins group with the g-subunit of N inaurata, while the hemocyanin subunit of the scorpion Androctonus australis (AauHc6) and subunit A of the horseshoe ... was due to the limited number of available sequences and on the other hand to the restrictions of the phylogenetic methods With the inclusion of the N inaurata hemocyanin sequences, the resolution...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 08:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Evolution of the teleostean zona pellucida gene inferred from the egg envelope protein genes of the Japanese eel, Anguilla japonica potx
... synthesized in the liver and in the granulosa cells of the ovary, respectively [9] The C-terminal regions of the ZP proteins contain a TMD The TMD is thought to anchor the ZP proteins into the ... the sequence from the eSRS4 cDNA These results suggest that eSRS3 and eSRS4 are the components of the egg envelope that correspond to the 37 and 53 kDa proteins, respectively For the three other ... similarities of the ZP domains according to the nomenclature of Spargo and Hope [10] The amino acid sequence of the ZP domain of the 37 kDa protein (eSRS3) indicated a higher degree of similarity...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 23:20
Wit’s End: Making Sense of the Great Movies
... social group, and the cycles of life the cycle of birth, maturity, and death, the cycle of the day and the seasons, the wonder if we somehow live after death, and whether the values and habits our ... outside, and insured their understanding of and mastery of their environs Such magical actions ritualized the anxieties of the individual and the group, situating their lives in the hope of heroic ... lines of action following the aesthetics of warfare or of peacemaking Their 40 Introduction respective “arts of living” have consequences, on the one hand in the theater of war and on the other...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 11:00
The origin and evolution of the solar system woolfson
... The spin axes of the Sun and the planets 7.4.1 Spin axes and the Solar Nebula Theory 7.4.2 Spin axes and the Modern Laplacian Theory 7.4.3 Spin axes and the Accretion Theory 7.4.4 Spin axes and ... between the ascending node and the rst point of Aires The second angle is the argument of the perihelion, , which is the angle between the ascending node and the perihelion in the direction of the ... interpretation of their densities is in terms of the relative size of the core to that of the whole body and also the total mass of the planet that will determine the degree of compression The relative...
Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 13:35
A review of the environmental fate and effects of hazardous substances released from electrical and electronic equipments during recycling: Examples fromChina and India doc
... Besides the direct impact of dioxins and furans on the human population and the environment of Guiyu, there is evidence of transport of PCDD/Fs and PBDD/Fs from the WEEE recycling site of Guiyu to the ... pollution and your health EPA-452/F-03-001: Ofce of Air and Radiation; 2003b pp VROM Intervention values and target values: soil quality standards The Hague, Netherlands: Netherlands Ministry of Housing, ... RoHS The methods of the Chinese RoHS shall apply control and reduction of pollution and other public hazards to the environment caused during the production, sale, and import of information technology...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 04:20