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... metals, petroleum oil, or flue gases Petroleum desulfurization is a process that removes sulfur and its compounds from various streams during the refining process Desulfurization processes include ... amounts of nonhydrocarbons produced from oil, such as sulfur and various metals; Drip gases, and liquid hydrocarbons produced from tar sands, oil sands, gilsonite, and oil shale Liquids produced ... diesel fuels and fuel oils Products known as No 1, No 2, and No diesel fuel are used in on-highway diesel engines, such as those in trucks and automobiles, as well as off-highway engines, such...
... ―music.‖ Music is a reflection of cultural norms, and consists of sounds that are designated as ―music‖ rather than ―noise.10‖ Defining music for the purposes of law requires imposition of rules ... allowing users to provide feedback that influences the frequency of play a song or artist receives The two most successful services in this class are Pandora.com and Last.FM Users of these stations ... webcasters sold advertising time.96 Advertising and donation revenue streams enable these businesses to survive without charging subscription fees The most successful of these companies, Pandora,...
... markets and institutions not only affect your everyday life but also involve flows of trillions ofdollarsof funds throughout our economy, which in turn affect business profits , the production of ... willingness to spend The stock market is also an imponant factor in business investment decisions , because the price of shares affects the amount of funds that can be raised by selling newly issued stock ... pearsoned.com/legaVpermissions htm Many of the designations used by manufacturers and sellers to distinguish their products are claimed as trademarks Where those designations appear in this book, and Addison-Wesley...
... categories Results and discussion The following section presents selected results from the study and provides discussion and analysis with regard to overall GHG emissions for the various building ... and on-site emissions Each is discussed further below The climate influences a building s emissions due to the required HVAC equipment size, load, and runtime ASHRAE 90.1 Standard [21] has subdivided ... buildings and many of the issues related to GHG computations, such as the proper determination (and use) of upstream emission factors and the many complexities of electricitybased emissions As...
... This finding is consistent with our results, although it emphasizes the downside of integration While integration insulates an economy from shocks to its own banks, it simultaneously exposes an ... firms in state A falls as a result These amplifying effects are absent under unit banking because bank capital is immobile across states under that regime In sum, cross-state banking amplifies ... Bank staff or third parties under the sponsorship of the Bank The purpose of the series is to contribute to the discussion of relevant issues and develop new analytical or empirical approaches in...
... this simplified model and assumption Second, this study relies on accrual quality to measure the unobservable audit quality Although we have conducted robustness tests on other measures of discretionary ... between T and AQ is not spurious and not just captures the effects of the squared terms of firm size and firm age The Fama-Macbeth regression results are similar to the pooled regression results Specifically, ... Tenure and Audit Quality – Across Firms Table presents the results for the impact of auditor tenure on audit quality across firms Column I, II, and III show results for auditor type, auditor specialization,...
... units, often through the use of conjunctions, relative pronouns, ellipsis and so on The way of analyzing the clause 17 in terms of process, participants and circumstances produces constituency structures ... responses, and thus a positive response in goods-andservices exchange may be non-verbal The grammar of interpersonal meanings puts the focus on the clause as a unit of exchange structured as Subject, ... interpreting our experience of what goes on The table below gives an illustration of some typical functions of groups and phrases classes TYPICAL FUNCTIONS OF GROUPS AND PHRASE CLASSES Types of element...
... constructs the hypotheses Section IV describes the data and empirical design Section V discusses the empirical results Section VI presents the robustness test This paper closes with some concluding ... housing/equity markets or firms’ heterogeneous exposure to the markets, increases the uncertainty of future cash flows, hence hurts firms’ credit worthiness Therefore, the risk of assets raises ... investment and financing decisions made by firms I use two measures of real estate risk The first one is a real estate industry specific risk which uses residuals from an estimation of REITs on...
... areas Drilling can introduce mud of various compositions into the subsurface and onto the surface, and may cause oil spills or drainage of produced waters The volume of wastes generated from about ... produced water and hydrocarbon releases from these sites Results are expected to guide estimates of human and ecosystem risk at such sites and the development of risk-based corrective actions (11) ... groundwater supplies Accidental releases of produced water andpetroleumand the improper disposal of produced water are national issues that concern managers of Federal, and State lands, as well...
... Petroleum projects often require large investments Thus, the analysis of investor and sources of capital must be carefully considered to ensure the timeliness and appropriateness of the project s ... the assigned targets The branch was the especially outstanding unit in Vietinbank s whole system 2.1.2 Business operating results of Vietinbank and Hanoi branch a Business operating results of ... mitigate the risks They must also be responsible for their solutions Decide a suitable interest rate Appraisers assess the sources of fund to balance the capital structure for big projects, and to predict...
... examined some of the economic and social costs that would be incurred under certain high oil and gas price scenarios The results of this analysis suggest there is cause for concern should oil and gas ... Rather more unfortunately, the modelling analysis within this report suggests that Ireland is particularly sensitive to such shocks and their outcomes, and as a result would suffer more pronounced ... analysis The purpose of this review is not to identify the most likely path for oil and gas prices Shocks, by their nature, are rarely a feature of such exercises and as a result, such an endeavour...
... emissions analysis in this study is to estimate how emissions change over time and across our scenarios, so we can estimate costs of reducing emissions and the benefits of those emissions reductions ... results of our analysis of CAAA-related emissions reductions, and in some cases, costs and emissions reductions are measured concurrently As with the emissions analysis presented in the previous chapter, ... vastly exceeded its cost As a result, EPA chose to focus resources in the Second Prospective on other areas and refinements Because Titles V and VI have been previously assessed, and because...
... hospital s gross patient revenue and thus not necessarily represent each hospital s actual unreimbursed cost of providing these services (costs of uncompensated care) As a result, the amounts shown ... that its survey of county assessors now includes a review of the exemption values contained in the county assessors’ annual statistical reports Equalization also stated that it uses a survey review ... Nevertheless, as Figure 1 shows, the unreimbursed Medi‑Cal costs account for most costs of uncompensated care for the hospitals we reviewed The categories hospitals use to compute the costs of uncompensated...
... discoveries will be pursued The full cost of resource exploitation includes the costs of unsuccessful exploration expenditures as well, and unless these are somehow treated as deductible costs for ... in terms of the design issues addressed One, however, is given particular emphasis, running through much of the discussion This is the question of whether or not resource tax regimes should incorporate ... other issues (such as the design of rent taxes), it has perhaps not fully absorbed advances, theoretical and practical, in wider understanding of the essential issues and possibilities Part of the...