impact on refined product prices and refinery margins

... Pulmonary function tests Specifics of pulmonary function testing in an older population The application of conventional quality control standards to objective assessment of pulmonary function ... describes the relationship between force of contraction (Pdi/Pdimax) and duration of contraction (ratio of inspiratory time to total respiratory cycle duration [TI/TTOT]) and is related inversely ... Brierley E, Johnson M, James O, et al Effects of physical activity and age on mitochondrial function Q J Med 1996;89:251 – Wilson DO, Rogers RM, Hoffman RM Nutrition and chronic lung disease...

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... of credit policy, and the impact of a payment reporting system on operations, systems, and staffing 20 During the education process, Nicor found confusion among employees and consumers Many of ... communications, relations with regulators, public relations, implementation processes, and implementation costs and benefits Section 11 offers a summary and concluding thoughts on credit reporting ... Experian, one of the three large national credit bureaus, finds that consumers tend to choose to be late on some obligations and not on others rather than being late on all.7 The study was based on...

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... Thessaloniki, an observation confirming this conclusion, since Athens is located southern and evidently the temperatures observed are higher This conclusion is further confirmed by the comparison ... cooling demands is 28.5% and for Thessaloniki 13.2% Obviously, directly proportional to the energy demand for heating and cooling is the fuel (diesel oil) and electricity consumption and hence ... climate and consequently the estimation of energy demands and CO2 emissions In the case the above mentioned trends are confirmed, the climate input data used in energy behavior calculations and for...

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... introduction of flexible working practices to meet flexible production requirements; an agile production approach, focusing on minimizing buffers and concentrating on a just-in-time supply approach; and ... of organizational learning The moves we have outlined above towards a new balance between innovation, trust, and learning on the one hand and new forms of discipline and control on the other ... therefore focuses on the consequences of Web-based B2B transactions in medium-sized and large, old-economy companies, and discusses the implications for HRM and HR professionals However, before...

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... land, livestock, farm and nonfarm productive equipment, and other nonproductive assets Assets classified as nonproductive consist of noncultivable land, buildings, furniture, and household utensils ... information collected in the survey included data on household demographics, land tenure, agricultural production, and livestock ownership; asset ownership and transactions; food and nonfood consumption; ... institutions in Malawi covered in this study not offer financial products, such as consumption credit and precautionary savings options, that could eventually have a direct effect on consumption or on...

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... there were few synergies on either the production or the consumption side (Ferguson) Another reason for doubting that financial integration will have a big impact on consumers is that, thanks ... such information only have to be incurred once, allowing the consumer to be charged lower prices Consumption synergies arise when it is less time consuming or more convenient for the consumer to ... organization (1999 dollars) Source: Reports of Condition and Income, National Information Center Database deposit share has come at the expense of regional and super-regional banking organizations,...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 11:20

... the impact of one such policy, the purchases of longer-term assets, by the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England on long-term interest rate, exchange rates, and commodity prices We find that on ... daily changes in long-term interest rates, exchange rates, or commodity prices on a constant and our measure of U.S and U.K monetary surprises, as reported in Tables and 2, while controlling for ... reaction of long-term interest rates, exchange rates, and commodity prices Commodity prices are forward-looking variables that in principal respond rapidly to worldwide economic news In conjunction...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 03:20

... (source-to-target and vice versa) with default configurations The combined alignments that are used in this paper are as follows: Union of both directions (SU ), Intersection of both directions (SI ), ... translation probabilities and lexical weights in two directions and a phrase penalty score We also use a language model, a distortion model and a word penalty feature for MT We measure the impact ... Banerjee and Alon Lavie 2005 Meteor: An automatic metric for MT evaluation with improved correlation with human judgments In Proceedings of Workshop on Intrinsic and Extrinsic Evaluation Measures...

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... occurring mutations are the deletion of exon 18 and the delT525 mutation in 12 Introduction exon among Caucasian patients,19,21 Asp645Glu in Chinese patients,22,23 and Arg854X among African and African ... collection of informed consent forms, and the distribution and collection of the questionnaires takes place in close cooperation between Erasmus MC and the national patient organizations affiliated ... These considerations led us to set up a questionnaire survey among children and adults with Pompe disease, with the aim of gathering as much information as possible on current condition and medical...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 10:20

... medical conditions (with the option to list up to additional conditions), and assesses if the patient is treated for the comorbid condition and the perceived impact on the patients’ functioning ... situation The paper SCP is extracted from the online registration system ‘ROGY’ (Registrationsystem Oncological GYnecology) and provides tailored information based on personal patient and disease ... physical, cognitive and emotional functioning, fatigue and sleep problems, and overall health and quality of life This core instrument is supplemented by a condition-specific questionnaire module...

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... lax oversight of non-profit corporations by the states and the Internal Revenue Service, and consumer demand for contact with agencies via the telephone and Internet have contributed to the rise ... are focused on increasing the affordability and range of options that are available to consumers and the quality of credit counseling For example, conditioning creditor contributions on agencies’ ... demonstrate the benefits of education and counseling, not only to consumers, but also to creditors To this end, NFCC commissioned a study on the longer-term benefits of credit counseling on consumer...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 08:20

... Savings and Bank Credits in Nigeria: Determinants and Impact on Economic Growth 367 significant in impacting on savings mobilization in Nigeria Reduction in inflation rate and proper sensitisation ... commercial bank credits and economic growth is not a new discovery Its debate has a long pedigree and is marked with conflicting conclusions The difference in conclusion is due not only to differences ... being complementary to the consumption function In its simplest form, the savings function is derived from the linear consumption function when the autonomous consumption expenditure is separated...

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... (rit ) is the conditionally expected return (conditioned on information up to t-1) on the ith currency position in excess of the return on the equivalent U.S asset βt-1 is the conditional beta, measured ... the return on the one-month Treasury bill, and the U.S market portfolio All instruments are lagged one month All standard errors in Panel A are based on a QML estimation robust to non-normality ... 122-150 Fama, E., and K French, 1993, “Common Risk Factors in the Returns on Stocks and Bonds,” Journal of Financial Economics 53, 427-465 Ferson, W E., and C R Harvey, 1993, “The Risk and Predictability...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 14:20

... creation, the adoption of cloud computing is going to enhance competition in each sector and to increase production and lower mark ups This will have a positive impact on consumption so as to contribute ... Etro and expand new business, on the market structure and on the level of competition in their sectors, and ultimately the induced effects for aggregate production, employment and other macroeconomic ... medium and long run the positive impact on output leads to an increase in consumption toward a higher steady state level Of course, a faster adoption exerts a large impact on business creation and...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 21:20

... results not consistent with our conclusion about the level of disproportionate impact For example, one might assume that the aggregate relationship between minority concentration and poorer average ... combination), multiple regression was used to determine whether any residual relationship between minority concentration and credit scores remained after controlling for additional socioeconomic ... Contents Description Abstract Executive Summary Introduction, Methodology, and Limitations of Study Area Demographics and Credit Scores Individual Characteristics and Credit Scores Conclusion...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 07:20

... Macroeconomic and Development Policies Branch (MDPB), Division on Globalization and Development Strategies (DGDS), United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Palais des Nations, ... regime and monetary goals; • Institutional factors such as central bank independence; and • Range and efficiency of monetary goals External liquidity • Impact of fiscal and monetary policies on external ... response to IOSCO's Code of Professional Conduct, Moody's and Standard and Poor's published their own Code of Professional conduct in the second half of 2005, thus aligning their policies and...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 07:20

... medical conditions, and 11% with no medical conditions (Figure 19) Figure 19: Prevalence of High Out-of-Pocket Burdens Among the Nonelderly, by Chronic Condition Status, 2001, 2006, and 2008 ... prescription drugs, and educating patients about the benefits of a healthy life-style and treatment options HEALTH CARE COSTS: KEY INFORMATION ON HEALTH CARE COSTS AND THEIR IMPACT 31 Conclusion Policymakers ... INFORMATION ON HEALTH CARE COSTS AND THEIR IMPACT The ACA also has a number of provisions that address the costs and efficiency of the health care system, including provisions to demonstrate and implement...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 05:20

... occupational health laws In Contributions to the history of occupational and environmental prevention: First International Conference on the History of Occupational and Environmental Prevention, ... C., and R R Monson 1997 Introduction: Cancer in relation to occupational and environmental exposures Cancer Causes and Control 8: 269–70 Colditz, G., W Dejong, D Hunter, D Trichopoulos, and W ... United Kingdom, South Africa, Finland, Sweden, Thailand, Singapore, and Hong Kong, only two listed courses that examined the impact of working conditions on levels beyond the individual.1 Examining...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 12:20

... DICK IMMIGRATION: ECONOMIC IMPACT ON AMERICAN WORKERS AND THEIR WAGES Monday, August 14, 2006 U.S House of Representatives Subcommittee on Workforce Protections Committee on Education and the Workforce ... Subcommittee on Workforce Protections will now come to order We are meeting today to hear testimony on Immigration: Economic Impact on American Workers and their Wages Without objection, the record ... my opening statement on the issue at hand, which is the issue of illegal immigration and its economic impact on American workers and their wages The economy of every nation is greatly affected...

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