... constant-maturity in ation-indexed and nominal yields both in the US andin the UK In ation-indexed bonds have been available in the UK since 1983 andin the US since 1997 In ation-indexed bonds ... segmentation hypothesis in the US andin the UK, and section considers time-varying real interest rate riskandin ation risk premia Finally, section offers some concluding remarks Estimating the Liquidity ... liquidity, real interest rate riskandin ation risk It would be interesting to understand the implications for portfolio management and pension investing and how these implications vary by investment...
... properties and especially during working time not creating hazards which might affect working regime of wrappers Of course, it is impossible to determine all hazards in a circuit by incomplex ... simulate ANDand OR gates In order to analyze properties of Deadlock andHazardin Petrinets of wrappers, for each gate type, there will be a petrinetsample This type ensures all necessary information ... asynchronous circuits during design process and changes of hazards, deadlocks and signal race Achieved results will be included in circuit design Wrapper will be restructured and verification for...
... properties and especially during working time not creating hazards which might affect working regime of wrappers Of course, it is impossible to determine all hazards in a circuit by incomplex ... simulate ANDand OR gates In order to analyze properties of Deadlock andHazardin Petrinets of wrappers, for each gate type, there will be a petrinetsample This type ensures all necessary information ... asynchronous circuits during design process and changes of hazards, deadlocks and signal race Achieved results will be included in circuit design Wrapper will be restructured and verification for...
... noted in previous major incidents [19,21] Broadband access to the Internet and satellite-linked devices (which not depend on telephone landline integrity) have become valuable in receiving information ... Lavery and Horan Table The system’s response to bombing: strengths and weaknesses Strengths in system’s response Weaknesses in system’s response Clinical staff going to Omagh to help initial response ... worked since the staff concerned were mainly medical trainees in anaesthesia (who are used to working in the ED and frequently move from one hospital to another as part of their training) and ED...
... atomoxetine on core symptoms, especially when taking into account that atomoxetine showed the highest effect sizes in improving HR-QoL in the Risk Avoidance domain and subdomains Our findings regarding ... behavioral, and achievement aspects [6] Similarly, in our meta-analysis clinically relevant impairments were found in the Risk Avoidance and Achievement domains (and in their subdomains), in the Emotional ... analysis, atomoxetine was effective in improving certain HR-QoL dimensions in both age groups This finding is in line with several previous Wehmeier et al Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental...
... specifying relationships in setting and maintaining standards of indebtedness Central banks stand ‘somewhere’ between government and the private sector, said a Deputy-Governor of the Bank of England ... is in ating or disinflating), money always involves unequal relations between creditors and debtors In ation most hurts consumers with no debts living on fixed savings or unindexed pensions, and ... economic views on interest, riskanduncertainty with my views on the essential role emotions play in financial decisions All following chapters examine emotions in finance using the interview evidence...
... capture travel time uncertainty, and travelers’ attitudes towards risk (see Mirchandani and Soroush 1987; Yin and Ieda 2001; Chen et al 2002; Nagurney and Dong 2002; and Yin et al 2004) The second ... riskand ambiguity in three operational problems It is a collection of interrelated essays, including the traffic equilibrium problem and vehicle routing problem in the transportation system, and ... not in effect an uncertainty at all We shall accordingly restrict the term uncertainty to cases of the non-quantitative type Since then, riskand ambiguity have been extensively studied in economics...
... protein in interfering with the systemic signaling of RNA silencing Interestingly, although p25 arrested systemic RNA silencing induced by either inducer, it inhibited localized RNA silencing induced ... (RdRP) on singlestranded RNA templates In C elegans, dsRNAs can be injected or introduced simply by soaking the worms in a solution containing dsRNA or feeding them bacteria expressing sense and antisense ... antiviral responsein cultured Drosophila cells (Li et al., 2004) The vaccinia and influenza viral suppressors, E3L and NS1, are distinct dsRNA-binding proteins and essential for pathogenesis by inhibiting...
... rain and seasonal focus Tornado 29 Tornado and Lightning Hazard 30 Lightning Exposure to Natural Hazards (1) Thailand vs Indonesia Thailand 31 Indonesia 32 Exposure to Natural Hazards (3) China ... vs India Exposure to Natural Hazards (2) Japan vs USA China USA Japan India 33 34 Introduction GIS and RS inDisaster Management 1.2 Applications of GIS and RS to Disaster Mitigation Cycle of Disasters ... http://spaceboy.nasda.go.jp/lib/index_e.html Wind Hazard Wind Effects Wind loading effects Building/facility response models Structure/Physical Damage HAZUS (hazard US) Risk Assessment and Loss Analysis 49...
... science And if physics involves uncertainty, how much more uncertainty is there in medicine? Human beings are much more uncertain than atoms and electrons The practical results of statistics in medicine ... medicine are undeniable If nothing else had been achieved but two things – in the nineteenth century, the end of bleeding, purging, and leeching as a result of Louis’ studies (Louis, 1835); andin ... handling measurement bias Randomization is the best means of addressing confounding bias, and blinding the means for measurement bias While blinding is important, it is not as important as randomization...
... 5year experience indisaster medicine and had participated in previous disasters The selection of participants was determined using a purposeful sampling method The participants were included until ... regarding disasterresponse The preparedness of the Ministry of Health in Pakistan was far from sufficient regarding the earthquake in 2005 [18] Since there was no disaster management plan during ... Tsunami in Thailand and Indonesia [27,43], the Chi-Chi earthquake in Taiwan [16,39] and the Gujarat earthquake in India [44] As demonstrated, the army plays an important part in the early response...
... antihistamines In fact, the risk point estimates for hypospadias were higher with maternal exposure to other antihistamines compared with loratadine Thus, our risk estimates not corroborate the findings ... conception and first trimester : Loratadine Other antihistamines Exposure first and second trimester : Loratadine Other antihistamines Exposure during pregnancy : Loratadine Other antihistamines Crude ... collected by midwives and doctors attending deliveries, contains information on all births in Denmark since January 1973 [24,25] The main data constitute maternal age, self-reported smoking status at...
... right deep vein thrombosis, affecting the femoral and external iliac veins, and anti-coagulation with heparin and warfarin was required Spontaneous rupture of the membranes, leading to premature ... twins were delivered vaginally andin good condition three hours later The twin girls were small for dates (at 1.48 and 1.19 kg) but were otherwise well, requiring only minimal resuscitation and ... disease and pregnancy In Advances in Nephrology Year Book, ed J Grunfeld, M Maxwell, J Bach et al., vol 14, pp 103–41 Linn, MO: Mosby, Inc Lindheimer, M.D and Katz, A.I (1992) Pregnancy in the...
... seedlings on normal Murashige and Skoog (MS) plates andin a medium containing 100 lM K+ (LK) The steady-state flux profile of K+ was examined by continuous flux recording (5–10 min) Each point indicates ... be expressed in roots and involved directly in the mineral nutrition of Arabidopsis [29,30,41] Two calcineurin B-like proteins, CBL1 and CBL9, were then identified as calcium sensors in the differential ... AtHELPS in Arabidopsis were affected by multiple treatments, including low K+, zeatin, and cold By using wild-type, helps mutant and overexpression lines of Arabidopsis, we demonstrated that, in the...
... attempts to quantify and explain risktaking behaviour of financial intermediaries This topic is central in economics and finance since controlling the risk- taking in banking relates directly ... significant, indicating that there are no size-related differences in risk- taking in Savings sanks Examination of the interactions reveals no differences in the determinants of risk- taking in different ... business in each type of institution In Savings banks, which are generally oriented towards small investors, an increase in this ratio is indicative of an increase in business volume, whereas in Commercial...
... with increasing grain size, and fine-graining transferring information with decreasing grain size Sometimes, upscaling and downscaling refer specifically to coarse-graining and fine-graining, ... done, finding the indefinite integrals of nonlinear models, in general, is a formidable task If the closed-form indefinite integrals cannot be found, approximating the double definite integral ... basic scaling operations: changing extent, changing grain size, and changing coverage Extrapolation is transferring information from smaller to larger extents, coarse-graining transferring information...
... Structures and Adjoining "- ~ v J A a m ~ p mat • Figure 1: Elementary Trees in a TAG We will now define the operation of adjoining Consider the adjoining of/~ at the node marked with * in a ... tree Thus, on adjoining, we unify t , with troot, and b, with b/oot In fact, this adjoining-is permissible only if t.oo~ and t are compatible and so are b/oot and b~ If we not adjoin at the node, ... to adjoining, but becomes specified upon adjoining Thus, the bottom feature structure associated with the foot node, which "is bfoot before adjoining, is instantiated on adjoining by unifying it...
... overexpressing SMO cells further confirmed the increased SMO activity, with decreases in intracellular spermine pools and increased spermidine levels in SMO1 and SMO5 cells These changes in spermine and ... oxidation of spermine to spermidine diminishes nuclear spermine pools Because spermine has essential roles in the the protection of DNA, including free radical scavenging and DNA shielding, this reduction ... media (Mediatech, Inc., Herndon, VA, USA) containing 9% iron-supplemented fetal bovine serum (Hyclone, Logan, UT, USA) and 1% penicillin and streptomycin Beas2B cells were maintained in LHC-9 serum-free...