extremes in economics and the economics of extremes

... state and low back pain (LBP) However, the degree of the association between mental health and chronic low back pain (CLBP) in the general population is poorly understood The objective of this ... this study was to analyze the incidence of CLBP in Chinese college students and to examine the association between students’ unhealthy mental states and the prevalence of CLBP Methods:  This is ... quality of life at their university, study-related stress and interpersonal relationships The evaluation of students’ mental states in the survey was divided into two major parts: direct and indirect

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... however there is insufficient data on the uptake of these health interventions and the factors which affect them According to UNICEF the main causes of childhood malnutrition can be categorized into ... exposure of these children and their mothers to selected health interventions that prevent the malnutrition and the sociodemographic and health outcomes affecting them Study setting Princess Marie ... antenatal and postnatal care and interventions contained in the Under Fives Child Health Programme The latter includes promotion of breast feeding, appropriate complementary feeding, growth monitoring,

Ngày tải lên: 27/02/2020, 13:19

... Implementation and Enforcement of Rules in Singapore and the Case of China Aviation Oil Mak Yuen Teen Director Corporate Governance and Financial Reporting Centre National University of Singapore Singapore ... range of offences   Singapore’s Legal System Making false statements, falsifying documents, insider trading, corruption, cheating Few directors faced breach of duties offences Overview of Recent ... Criminal Actions  Punishment   Jail of 18 weeks to years Fines of $10,000 to $1.6 million  Time taken:   From first sign of scandal to filing of charges: months to 19 months From filing of

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2022, 18:52

... Modeling in Terms of Optimization 2.3.1 The Model of FITs in Terms of Optimization 2.3.2 The Model of RPS in Terms of Optimization 2.4 Modeling in Terms of Linear Programming ... modify the attributes of the facility or the service by investing in an innovation without violating the contract In this sense, the contract is considered incomplete There are two types of investment, ... investment i, incurring cost i, at the beginning of the facility construction stage Investment i improves the quality of the facility, resulting in increased benefit to society However, the increased

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... Market indicators: banking and housekeeping in Bleak House 1847 The bleakness of the house: the novel’s systems and metaphors Home of coin: Dickens in the Bank of England More market metaphysics The ... Bigelow’s argument stands out by showing how the discussion of capitalism in these works had significant influence not just on public opinion, but on the rise of economic theory itself g ordon ... Assistant Professor of English at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee His work has appeared in the journals ELH, New Orleans Review, and Research in African Literatures, and in the volume Reclaiming

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... headquarters at the country level, supervising and coordinating the operations of the various Inditex brands Zara's headquarter in Spain consists of three spacious halls for each of these centers There ... owns 20 other factories for internal manufacturing that apply just in time.8 Inditex is purchasing raw materials through the company’s regional offices in the UK, China, Holland and other offices ... will be their motive to work hard instead of shrinking? For Zara’s shareholders, CEO and etc, their goal is to increase the sales and profits Working hard raises the probability of making more

Ngày tải lên: 03/02/2023, 20:31

... research of the 1970s In the early 1980s, Kahneman and Tversky’s research was incorporated into financial economics, resulting in the new field of behavioral finance In the 1990s, behavioral finance ... at the same university Since 2007, he has been working as an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Radboud University Nijmegen Kahneman and Tversky and the Making of Behavioral Economics In the ... Kahneman and Tversky and the Making of Behavioral Economics will defend his doctoral thesis Floris Heukelom Kahneman and Tversky and the Making of Behavioral Economics You are invited to attend the

Ngày tải lên: 11/12/2016, 20:35

... “Something to Steer By.” London Review of Books 18, no 12: 7–8 Rucker, Rudy 2005 Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite Princeton Science Library Princeton, NJ: Princeton ... Turing, Alan: and David Hilbert’s program, 54 (see also halting problem); and the halting problem, 31, 55; and the printing problem, 55; and Turing test, 196; and the universal Turing machine (UTM), ... Jevons and the Rise of Mathematical Economics Princeton Legacy Library Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press Schivelbusch, Wolfgang 2014 The Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Time and

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2018, 11:31

... reflection on the character of obligation, the making of markets and the character of affect in the entanglements of debt today Bill Maurer, Dean of the School of Social Sciences and Professor of Anthropology, ... Including the Twelve Tables, the Institutes of Gaius, the Rules of Ulipan, the Opinions of Paulus, the Enactments of Justinian, and the Constitutions of Leo, Union, NJ: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd ... Conclusion 40 In the fold of default: living with market attachments Markets, attachments, folding 45 Enfolding the market: living in anticipation 51 Unfolding the life of default: calculation and the

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2018, 13:12

... Trade-off between safety and returns to equity holders: – Benefits the owners of a bank by making their investment safe – Costly to owners of a bank because the higher the bank capital, the lower the ... selling liabilities with one set of characteristics and using the proceeds to buy assets with a different set of characteristics • The bank borrows short and lends long and make profits from the ... economy, and had to tighten their lending standards and reduce lending 1-25 © 2016 Pearson Education Ltd All rights reserved Managing Credit Risk • Screening and Monitoring: – Screening – Specialization

Ngày tải lên: 30/06/2018, 08:45

... discipline does not simplistically contrast the global versus the local, but instead addresses the challenge of ensuring a thriving cultural and economic integration of the global into the local and reversed Research in the area of business studies has made use of the concept of ‘embeddedness’ to ... mythical accounts of ‘big business’ versus ? ?the people’ By doing so, they often misrepresent the demand for inclusive growth that has mobilized local people in the first place In other words, they deprive local people of their voices while claiming to represent their concerns ... structures, but may well contribute to economic empowerment and cultural renewal These insights are, however, hardly discussed in the CSR literature on business and human rights, as pointed out in Chaps 7 and 8 The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGP) as well as the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises are

Ngày tải lên: 06/01/2020, 08:29

... disparities in life standard of the rich and the poor of the UDCs, there also exist the pockets of great wealth co-existing with spreading slums The case of exalted buildings and Increasing Katchi ... termed, rather they are chronic As the Standard of living enjoyed by an average Trang 6 (ll) These differences go on Increasing, rather decreasing As the growth rates of GNP and that of GNP per ... regarding social and economic aspects between the rich countries and poor countries The same like Trang 13 (1) The standards of living vary greatly between the top 20% and the bottom 40% of the

Ngày tải lên: 04/02/2020, 08:05

... payforagoodminustheamounttheyactually payforit ã Consumersurplusmeasuresthebenefitbuyers getfromparticipatinginamarket ã Consumersurpluscanbecomputedbyfinding theareabelowthedemandcurveandabovethe price ... WelfareEconomics ã Welfare? ?economics? ?is? ?the? ?study? ?of? ?how? ?the? ? allocation? ?of? ?resources affects economic well­ being • Buyers? ?and? ?sellers receive benefits from taking  part? ?in? ?the? ?market.  • The? ?equilibrium? ?in? ?a market maximizes? ?the? ? ... Policymakersareoftenconcernedwiththe efficiency,aswellastheequity,ofeconomic outcomes Copyright â 2004 South-Western Summary • The? ?equilibrium? ?of? ?demand? ?and? ?supply  maximizes? ?the? ?sum? ?of? ?consumer? ?and? ?producer 

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... BusinessesandtheCostsof Production McGrawưHill/Irwin Copyrightâ2012byTheMcGrawưHillCompanies,Inc.Allrightsreserved EconomicCosts The payment that must be made to • • LO1 obtain and retain the ... Total Product, TP The? ?Law? ?of? ?Diminishing Returns 30 TP 20 10 Marginal Product, MP LO2 20 Increasing Marginal Returns Negative Marginal Returns Diminishing Marginal Returns 10 AP MP 7-7 Short­Run Production Costs ... of output where longrun average costs are minimized • Can determine the structure of the industry LO4 7-18 Average Total Costs MES? ?and? ?Industry Structure Constant Returns To Scale Economies Of

Ngày tải lên: 04/02/2020, 21:54

... culled No information is available on the costs of culling, diagnostic testing of samples, cleaning and disinfection, and other administrative costs (Obi, Oparinde, and Maina 2008) Regarding the impacts ... et al 2008; Aning, Turkson, and Asuming-Brempong 2008; Obi, Oparinde, and Maina 2008; Omiti and Okuthe 2008) Therefore, information regarding the role of poultry in the livelihoods of small-scale ... detail the role of poultry (both as a source of income and as an asset) in the entirety of the households’ income and asset portfolios Regarding the sources of data used in this study, for the West...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 01:20

... of them involve the modes starting from adenine obtained in the first simulation and include methyltransferase and SAHH2 in addition Some others involve the modes starting from adenosine obtained ... is involved in these pathways Since adenine is a substrate of ADPRT, the elevation of ATP in the absence of adenosine kinase shows that adenine must be released in the process before being incorporated ... starting from S-adenosylmethionine involving the standard functionality of SAHH (here denoted as SAHH1) and another 10 pathways starting from adenosine (rather than S-adenosylmethionine) and involving...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 20:20

... and both exogenous application of betaine and the introduction via transgenes of the betaine-biosynthetic pathway into plants that not naturally accumulate betaine increase the tolerance of these ... impairment in order to understand the mechanism of action of betaine in the central nervous system In this study, we investigated the effects of betaine on LPS-induced memory impairment using the Y-maze ... levels of glial markers and the betaine transporter Glial activation is also involved in the pathogenesis of LPS-induced memory impairment; therefore, to understand the effects of betaine on these...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... samples The number of individuals sampled from each Indian population is shown (b) The number of SNPs found in HapMap non-Indian and Indian populations (c) The number of SNPs found in south Indian, ... separated into distinct clusters Next, we examined the divergence between Indian and non-Indian populations using pairwise FST estimates In comparing major continental groups, India and Europe have the ... crossed the mouth of the Red Sea into the Arabian Peninsula, and subsequently migrated into India, Southeast Asia, and Australia Later, populations migrated out of Africa along a ‘northern route’...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 22:23

... Jointly, the rise in baseline rice production and the decline in baseline rice consumption accounts for the increase in the baseline value of the rice surplus index (row 1) Removal of the land ... Region-specific land use modeling Within each of the seven agro-ecological regions of our model, we distinguish modeling of the demand- and supply-sides of the land market Beginning with the demand side, ... in the policy simulation values for these indexes away from their baseline values To aid in the interpretation of these deviations, we also report the levels of the indexes in both the baseline...

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... page intentionally left blank Economics and the Challenge of Global Warming Economics and the Challenge of Global Warming is a balanced, rigorous, and comprehensive analysis of the role of economics ... global warming will affect existing de facto property rights and create winners and losers And the distribution of the tens of billions of dollars in gains and losses depends on the specifics of policy – ... that the oceans may be slowing their uptake of CO2, further increasing the atmospheric burden (Schuster and Watson 2007) The main sources of methane are solid-waste landfills, coal mining and...

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