... investments, projecthazardlevelandsafetyculturelevelonsafety performance, and the decision making mechanism on the desirable levelofsafety investments of building projects 1.6 Unit of analysis ... 5.3.3 Effectsof basic safety investments onsafetyperformance 219 5.3.4 Effectsof voluntary safety investments onsafetyperformance 229 5.3.5 Moderated effects (interaction effects) ofsafety ... subcontractor, consultant, insurer and the public demand and concern on occupational health and safety; and (2) on- site hazards, including the physical conditions and all on- site activities of...
... the ASR results of affirmative or negative responses following explicit confirmations are correct and that the user utterances corresponding to the content of the affirmative responses are also correct ... because users not often respond with “no” for explicit confirmations containing incorrect content and instead repeat their original utterances Consequently, we regard that the ASR results of the following ... corresponded to one individual Most of the numbers were those of mobile phones, which are usually not shared, so the assumption seems reasonable Each utterance was transcribed and its interpretation...
... commercial paper, bank bills and so on; • the impact of interest rate changes on the value of long-term financial assets and liabilities For example, the value of a bond will fall as interest rates ... institutions • Repricing profiles (graphical representation of the interest reset of assets and liabilities over time) For entities this may be a graphical representation of the interest repricing of ... out of the information in the materials Where any law prohibits the exclusion of such liability, CPA Australia limits its liability to the re-supply of the information Contents Introduction...
... as market concentration, demand growth and price collusion As one of its relevant contributions, this paper contains a thorough discussion of the relationship between market power and the price ... concentration on the adjustment speed consistent with a combination of structural (number of competitors) and behavioural (collusion) effectsof opposite direction on the relationship between market concentration ... transmission parameters over time, across products and type of bank One of the questions of interest is the evolution, if any, of pass-through and transmission parameters over time and, in particular,...
... estimations 2.3.4 The impact of EMU on the determinants of the pass-through Income and wealth effectsof monetary policy 3.1 Assets and liabilities of firms and households 3.2 Recent evidence on the ... direct bearing on the substitution, wealth and income effects which together constitute the interest rate channel of monetary policy Second, the harmonisation of these two elements of the MTM is ... implementation of the second banking directive; (5) the liberalisation of capital flows; (6) the adoption of the directive on branch establishment and head offices outside the EU; (7) the adoption of...
... accorded of cial Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland publications The views stated herein are those of the authors and are not necessarily those of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland or of the ... merging and nonmerging banks Section presents the results of the hazard function estimation, and Section concludes Data Sources and measurement issues Data Sources The empirical estimation presented ... change of the number of markets and the change of market share- on the conditional probability of a bank changing its deposit rates I start the analysis by comparing the hazard functions of changing...
... Barclays Bank, Lloyds/TSB Bank, HSBC Bank and National Westminster Bank whose rates are used to compile this series Where all the rates did not change on the same day a spread is shown Oct % 14.00 ... Feb Mar 1.5000 1.0000 0.5000 CHANGES IN BANK RATE, MINIMUM LENDING RATE, MINIMUM BAND DEALING RATE, REPO RATE AND OFFICIAL BANK RATE Date effective New rate % Bank Rate 1694 Oct 6.0000 1695 Jan ... 14.0000 13.0000 12.0000 14.0000 17.0000 1980 25 Jul Nov 16.0000 14.0000 1981 11 Mar 12.0000 Min.Band Dealing Rate 1981 25 15 12 28 25 Aug Sep Oct Oct Nov Nov Nov Dec 12.6875 14.0000 15.0000 15.1250...
... Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Economic Letter, May 17, 2010 25 Congressional Budget Office, An Update of the Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2012 to 2022, August 2012 Congressional Research ... Table Months Between the Start of a Recovery and Two Successive Declines in the Unemployment Rate Contacts Author Contact Information Congressional Research Service Economic ... cause of concern to Congress for a variety of reasons Among them are the high rate’s deleterious impact on individuals’ economic well-being and the budget deficit due to lower revenue and higher...
... effect of traditional off-balance sheet activities on bank risk and profits in general, and not focus on the effect of derivatives on systematic exchange rate and interest rate risks of banks ... description of firm-specific balance sheet and derivative exposure variables used in the second-step cross-sectional estimation The cross-sectional estimation is based on equations (4) and (5) ... Correlations between derivative contracts of similar kinds (e.g., options versus swaps, or interest rate options versus and currency options) are also high The use of one form of a derivative contract...
... the goodput and the second constituted of the LR and the throughput of a conformant TCP (transport control protocol) connection under similar loss and round-trip time (RTT) conditions We show ... pairs of discriminative variables: the first one constituted of the LR and the goodput (cf Section 4.1) and the second constituted of the LR and a TCP-compatible bandwidth share measure (cf Section ... bandwidth estimation strategies have been considered: the first approach measures the goodput of the path and the second estimates the TCP-compatible bandwidth under similar conditions of LRs and...
... contributions 17 AT – Designed the study and prepared the manuscript, statistic calculations; CSB Collection of data and preparation of data bank and preparation of manuscript DFM, SRB, and DAM Concept ... Modification of Physiological and Operative Severity Score for the enumeration of Mortality and morbidity; HOP, Head of pancreas; CBD, Common Bile Duct; SD, Standard Deviation Page of (page number ... 0.01) on the outcome, although WCC itself is one of the parameters used for calculation of the physiological score Conclusion Figure sent median, of within boxes, boxes and error bars repreHorizontal...
... proliferation of fibroblasts and the formation of periarticular enthesophytes of cartilage and bone that can result in marginal ankylosis In contrast to CIA, SIA is T-cell independent and shows ... aOne generation intercrossed C9T-DQ and littermate control females were immunized with 50 µg of CII bPure lines of C9T-BQ and B10.Q male mice were immunized with 100 µg of CII cOne generation ... male C9T-DQ and littermate controls were randomly and pooled blind dAnti-CII antibody-induced arthritis on pure line of male C9T-BQ (homozygous Ab) and male B10.Q (wild-type Ab), and controls injected...
... margin of 0.7–1 cm and received a dose of 26–30 Gy in 13–15 fractions (2-Gy per fraction) over two and half to three weeks at the discretion of the treating Radiation Oncologist None of the patients ... combination of EBRT and HDRBT on HRQoL was comparable at one year after com- Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Radiation Oncology 2008, 3:20 pletion of treatment Prospective randomized ... delivering a dose of 40 Gy at Gy per fraction over weeks Quality of life questionnaire All one hundred and seventeen patients who underwent either EBRT alone or a combination of EBRT plus HDRBT...
... regression analyses (Table 5) Further, increased odds were observed in high levels of IgA RF for one and two years of bone loss and elevated IgM and CRP levels for two- and five-year bone loss ... In addition, patients with increased age and HAQ, and DMARD and prednisolone treatment had higher odds of bone loss Anti-CCP was a consistent and independent predictor of cortical hand bone loss ... regression models with loss in cortical hand bone exceeding LSC as the dependent variable Elevated baseline levels of anti-CCP and ESR increased the odds of cortical hand bone loss at one, two and...
... detected to 43% of Arabidopsis (14,382 of 33,405), 38% of Populus (16,202 of 42,344), 40% of Ricinus (12,494 of 31,221), 55% of Vitis (13,017 of 23,493), 47% of Oryza (12,652 of 26,940), 38% of Sorghum ... ‘energy conversion and regeneration’ subcategories, while in trap PEG, this category is represented by ‘respiration’ and ‘electron transport and membrane-associated energy conservation’ subcategories ... source of genomic information to explore the structural, functional, and evolutionary diversity of the genus Vegetative shoots and traps are the most similar organs by functional classification of...
... DSM-IV diagnostic categories of 82% with = 0.77 (95% CI: 0.60-0.94) The levelof functioning was assessed by use of the split version of the Global Assessment of Functioning scale (GAF) [18] The ... analyses of frequencies, means and standard deviations (SD) Independent sample t-tests were used on between-group comparisons of means Mann-Whitney test were used when skewed distribution of data ... significantly higher on the PANSS-general symptom scale (p = 0.056) and there was no association with age (See Table and 4) Number of previous admissions in the group of patients using only one antipsychotic...
... expression of GST pi, but due to the exhaustion of biopsy material, only non-smokers, smokers and COPD-cases were included in the Western analysis for GST alpha expression and smokers, non-smokers and ... study and in the previous investigations parallels with the initial induction and consequent dysfunction of the Nrf2 pathway in COPD lungs To conclude, this study on GSTs shows the presence of GST ... inhibition of this system in turn leads to emphysema [6,7], another indicator of the importance of this mechanism and related enzymes such as GSTs in the prevention of chronic obstructive pulmonary...
... style and rates of hospitalization for chronic medical conditions Med Care 1996, 34:594–609 Targonski PV, Persky VW, Kelleher P, Addington W: Characteristics of hospitalization for asthma among ... References review Conclusion Supported by R01 HL56438, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, R01 OHO3480, National Institute for Occupational Safetyand Health, Centers ... could evaluate the effectsof gender, race, income, and asthma severity on hospitalization, independent of health care access Materials and methods Subject recruitment and retention We used data...
... instructions Samples were first diluted 1:2 in the appropriate buffer and, when chemokine concentrations of chemokines were above the upper limit of the standard curve of the assay, additional dilutions ... shock, only serum levels of IL-8 and RANTES (regulated on activation, normal T cell expressed and secreted) have been reported IL-8 levels are positively correlated with disease severity and outcome, ... Streptococcus pneumoniae or Haemophilus influenzae, showed high levels of IL8 and MCP-1 in cerebrospinal fluid and variably increased levels of GRO-α and MIP-1α [10-13] In studies of chemokines in...
... progression of patients' inflammatory reactions Conclusion Components of SIRS and the serum concentration of CRP fail to predict threatening diminishment of the PaO2/FIO2 ratio An elevated PCT level and, ... after admission to the ICU (T0) andon the first and second postoperative days (T1 and T2, respectively) The heart rate and PaCO2 were measured one-hourly and six-hourly, respectively, and the daily ... Authors' contributions LB and ZM developed the study design and coordinated the manuscript preparation PT performed data collection and manuscript preparation PK contributed to the study design and...