... are indeed a part of “non-capital fixed costs.” Finally, consolidation may improve efficiency by lowering costs, and thus increase price- cost margin Price- cost margin will increase when price ... price- costmargins (PCMs) in the pulp and paper industry have modestly increased Measured by 10-year averages, the price- cost margin in the pulp sector averaged 31% in 1970s, slightly increased ... Industry Consolidation and Price- CostMargins Evidence from the Pulp and Paper Industry Abstract In recent years, the U.S pulp and paper industry has experienced an increasing degree...
... classifiers in bootstrapping not overlap Thus, bilingual bootstrapping is different from co-training Because the notion of agreement is not involved in bootstrapping in (Nigam & Ghani 2000) and bilingual ... their main contents were binary codes, encoding errors, etc We randomly separated the data and performed co-training with random feature split and cotraining with natural feature split in five ... trials in the experimentation In each trial we randomly split the data into labelled training, unlabeled training and test data sets We used texts per class as labelled instances for training,...
... the mediastinal contour and laterally followed the inner rib margins Humeral head shielding throughout the RT course, as well as anterior laryngeal and posterior spinal cord shielding introduced ... survivors are known to be at increased risk of radiation-induced SC [1,5,7,29] and car- Figure Proportional reductionin integral dose to normal tissues Proportional reductionin integral dose to normal ... obtained for breast and for lung, using a cell initiation/inactivation/proliferation model [19], which had previously been validated using recent radiationinduced second-cancer data in Hodgkin's...
... b-actin and actin-capping proteins (CAPG and CAPBZ) were increased Similar to their expression levels found in the contused spinal cord within one week post SCI [16], Hsp27 and LEG3 were also increased ... apoptotic cells in the injured spinal cord compared to those found in the injured spinal cord without any treatment (Figure 2B) Extensive inflammation in the injured spinal cord in the subacute ... b-actin (spot 33) and b-tubulin (spot 22) was biostatistically increasedin the LC at day 14, when compared to that detected at day (Figure 1B and Table 2) The intensity of actin filament capping...
... directly and indirectly by induction of immunomodulatory cytokines (e.g IL-10) IL-10 also deactivates T cells, in particular type cytokine-secreting T cells This interaction between immune and central ... transforming growth factor (quantitative flow cytometry, allowing counting of molecules per cell), and T-cell cytokine profiling (differentiation of type 1/2 cytokine patterns by intracellular cytokine ... in immunodepression induced by brain injury Nat Med 1998, 4: 808-813 Reinke P, Docke WD, Kox W, Zuckermann H, Volk HD: New developments in the immunodiagnosis of patients in intensive care [in...
... Energy CostReductionin the Pulp and Paper Industry Energy CostReductionin the Pulp and Paper Industry Color profile: Generic CMYK printer profile Composite Default screen and paper industry: ... R., “Developing, Implementing and Maintaining an Energy Efficiency Program,” Energy CostReductionin the Pulp and Paper Industry, Browne, T.C tech ed., Paprican (1999) Energy Monitoring Report, ... deregulated Ranking and selecting projects is a standard task for mill engineering staff and involves calculating estimated payback, return on investment or some other standard corporate economic indicator...
... extracellular water, intracellular http://www.medsci.org Int J Med Sci 2011, water and body mass index were determined for each participant before dieting intervention and each six days following intervention ... decrease in their body mass index in an average of 8.1%±2.0% Changes in total body water had inverse correlation with changes in fat mass (r=0.86) and positive correlation with an increase in fat ... Int J Med Sci 2011, with changes in lipid profiles and increases in circulating progenitor cell numbers For participants who represented weight loss and fat mass loss, the maximum reduction in...
... Planning language, planning inequality: language policy in the community, London, Longman Rachal J R (1989), ‘The social context of adult and continuing education,’ in Merriam S B and Cunningham ... enables it to disseminate information, encourage participation in the education and economy of the communities To achieve its goal of disseminating useful information and eradicating poverty the ... vital in fighting poverty The adult education program can thus harness the local languages and indigenous knowledge of the minority and poor people and use them to mobilize the poor and minorities...
... system In most of the cases, the wastewater at sampling point (inside of inlet chamber), point (inside of hydraulic chamber) and point (inside of soak pit), were found to be in solidified states In ... educational intervention The local people were using pit latrines and hand pumps which were installed at the beginning of the establishment of Bauniabad area The main activities included; (i) a baseline ... 30% of the installation costin 1998, and 40% in 2001 and 2002 Before testing period of biogas plant in 1995, according to willingness-to-pay survey, the people did not want to pay anything for...
... IEEE 802.3 and ANSI/TIA/EIA 568-B Following is a table of IEEE GbE and 10GbE standards with related fiber types and bandwidths/distances (see Table 1) As shown in Table 1, standard 62.5µm and 50µm ... thus increasing Page Laser-Optimized Fiber: Built for Price, Bandwidth, and Distance to Make the Most of Your Investment Fiber Type Gigabit Link @ 850nm Laser IEEE 802.3z 1000BASE-SX Gigabit Link ... important to carefully examine your network and evaluate the distances and bandwidths required now andin the future To maximize your investment, you must choose the correct type and grade of fiber to...
... glucose, leptin and insulin, and insulin sensitivity, in TG mice After weeks of normal or HF diet, serum levels of triglyceride, glucose, leptin and insulin were deter- 1 Duration (week) 0 mined (Fig ... ligand mediates increased expression of cytosolic phospholipase A2, prostaglandin endoperoxide synthase-1, and hematopoietic prostaglandin D2 synthase andincreased IgE-dependent prostaglandin ... were increased after treatment with thiazolidinediones in diabetic mice through regulation of insulin production in pancreatic islet cells [39–41] Thus, the increased insulin level seen in H-PGDS...
... productivity initiatives has continued to deliver significant benefits, improving underlying costefficiencyand creating greater headroom for investment in the business," with net cost reductions in 2007 ... activities—a main source of savings—had to be realized in a quick and sustainable manner without disrupting ongoing business Accenture was engaged to help drive the reorganization andcostreduction initiative ... opportunities, particularly in emerging markets such as Brazil, Russia, India and China Therefore, global banks with a presence in emerging markets must be judicious in their costreduction initiatives, so...
... state and financed by: • redirecting existing investment; • restructuring corporate tax in order to increase the tax collected; • introducing progressive taxes such as land and wealth taxes; and ... Press Brook, P.J and Locussol, A (2002) “Easing Tariff Increases: Financing the Transition to Cost- Covering Water Tariffs in Guinea,” in Brook, P.J and Smith, S.M (eds.) Contracting for Public ... commercial, industrial and high-income areas Consider the following The Durban Chamber of Commerce and Industry “has in recent years expressed the concern of its members regarding the increasing cost...
... follow: - No.1 printing firm: Including printing facility, books and documents storage, and guillotine facility - No2 Printing firm: Including printing facility and facilities of finished products ... Product costing The objective of determining the cost of products is of prime importance incost accounting The total product costandcost per unit of product are important in making inventory ... Relationship between costandprice - Objectives and method of cost accounting in generally - The company method to determine production costandprice - How to estimate the costandprice of uncompleted...
... represents a fall in cost, as in the bridge example, the value (P0 - P1)Q0 is a net benefit which is included in the efficiency net benefits When the fall inprice does not represent a fall in cost, one ... fall in product price is not matched by a fall in production cost. What is the effect on aggregate referent group benefits of allowing for the change in output price, compared to the case in which ... from (paid to) a gainer (loser) so as to maintain their original level of utility Hence we measure compensating variation under utility constant demand curves For a fall inprice from P0 to P1...
... it is called the f.o.b price (‘free on board’); • the import price is the price when the good is landed in the country - it is called the c.i.f price (cost, insurance and freight) A good or ... the set of relative prices in the domestic economy is different from the relative prices in international markets When we value traded and non-traded commodities in a benefitcost analysis, we need ... the input (labour) is 1000 rupees at domestic prices However, labour needs to be valued at border prices This is done by converting the labour cost to dollars using the OER and then converting...
... state and financed by: • redirecting existing investment; • restructuring corporate tax in order to increase the tax collected; • introducing progressive taxes such as land and wealth taxes; and ... Press Brook, P.J and Locussol, A (2002) “Easing Tariff Increases: Financing the Transition to Cost- Covering Water Tariffs in Guinea,” in Brook, P.J and Smith, S.M (eds.) Contracting for Public ... commercial, industrial and high-income areas Consider the following The Durban Chamber of Commerce and Industry “has in recent years expressed the concern of its members regarding the increasing cost...
... between 1986 and 1996 He was previously a deputy head of two schools in inner London On graduating, his first post was in publishing and he has maintained a strong interest in writing ever since He ... discussed in the final chapters In producing these Janet Ouston in 'Pathways to headship and principalship', Viv Garrett in 'Principals and headteachers as leading professionals' and Hugh Busher in ... Maintained General National Voluntary Qualifications Her Majesty's Inspector Head of Department Investors in People Inner London Education Authority in- service training information technology Intermediate...