... Zealand, Ireland, Australia, and Canada were the countries in the black, with a surplus of 5.5%, 1.4%, 1% and 0.7% of GDP, respectively But the U.S and the U.K were in the red, with a deficit of ... geography or other characteristics beyond the control of the country’s government, by the method used to aggregate individual indicators, by the comparability of the data, and by the purpose of the evaluation ... the haves from the life of the community and the exclusion of the have-nots; and, generally, inequality diminishes the richness and flourishing of a society Moreover, extreme levels of inequality...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 19:20
... understand why they are doing what they are doing and the consequences of their actions, and if they are to appreciate the limits and possibilities of their practice, it is useful for them to ... social situations in order to improve the rationality and justice of their own social or educational practices, as well as their understanding of these practices and the situations in which these ... the English public (read private) schools, were introduced to the masses in the UK, and the colonies, at the end of the nineteenth century as a way of ‘civilising the bodies of the children of...
Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 00:21
Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: "Soil environment and nutrient status of Norway spruce (Picea abies [L.] Karst.) underplantings in conditions of the 8th FAZ in the Hrubý Jeseník Mts" potx
... the limit of the lower optimum of 130 mg·kg–1 In the subsequent organomineral horizon (Ae/Ep) the values of Ca indicate the lower optimum reserves in the range of 80–160 mg·kg–1, and in 15% of ... underplantings and to verify whether the soil environment is a part of predisposition factors influencing their poor health status MATERIAL AND METHODS Description of the area concerned and research plots The ... (Table 3) and fluctuate in the range of 0.17–0.28% In 50% of the studied plots they are above the limit value (0.2%) and can be an excessive load for the forest ecosystem The content of this element...
Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 10:21
The Social-cultural and Economic Implications of the Presence of Mobile Phones Among Overseas Migrant Worker Families in Kecopokan Hamlet, East Java, Indonesia
... mobile phone adoption The purpose of the study is to better understand the social- cultural and economic phenomena that occur in the OMW families as the result of the presence of mobile phones A ... finance the industrialization of Holland and the expansion of Dutch power in their colonies including Indonesia During the colonial period, using the profits from their cultuurstelsel, the Dutch ... improve the condition of their houses, the quality of their food and clothing and even education can be categorized as human capital investment that can impact the economic development of the family...
Ngày tải lên: 14/05/2015, 10:07
chap22 evaluating the social ethical and economic aspects of advertising and promotion 0408
... ¾Elderly Advertising and the Media Arguments supporting advertiser control of the media ¾Advertising pays the bills therefore they exert influence on the character,content, and coverage of certain issues ... buttons…they are just producing an especially visible manifestation, good and bad, of the American way of life.” Stephen Fox The Mirror Makers: A History of American Advertising and Its Creators Social ... regarding the appropriateness of their actions Companies are scrutinized for their ethics Social and Ethical Criticisms of Advertising ¾ Advertising as untruthful or deceptive ¾ Advertising as offensive...
Ngày tải lên: 01/12/2016, 14:33
Báo cáo y học: "Patients, their doctors, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and the perception of risk" docx
... part of physicians and the public in understanding the inevitable competing risks and benefits of medical therapy and the inherent uncertainties in the current paradigm of drug development For the ... further confusion regarding the understanding of the overall relative risk to benefit of these therapies This ‘yo-yo’ reflects evolving science, diminished public tolerance of uncertainty and risk, ... treatment of arthritis and other causes of pain for the foreseeable future The past decades have witnessed multiple changes in the public’s risk perception of these drugs: a low risk of nonselective...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:20
das - extreme money; masters of the universe and the cult of risk (2011)
... loan product— the pick and pay mortgage loan The borrowers pick the amount of the loan, the term of the loan, and what they want to pay each month The repayments selected stay at the agreed level ... as one of Time’s 100 most influential figures of the twentieth century, John Maynard Keynes was the author of General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money and one of the fathers of modern ... Government mandarins and academics vouchsafe the contribution of finance to society at large Bankers talk of innovation and the golden age of finance, the money to be made, and the money they are...
Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2014, 18:42
Bank documentation the standard terms governing current accounts in singapore the customers duty of care, the unauthorised debit and the allocation of risk
... and customer is that of debtor and creditor But quoad the drawing and payment of the customer’s cheques as against the money of the customer’s in the banker’s hands the relationship is that of ... 1.2 Thesis Structure 1.3 Overview of the Singapore Legal System 1.4 Overview of the Customer’s Duty of Care 1.5 Overview of the Bank’s Duty of Care 1.6 Interaction of the Two Duties 1.7 The Express ... Court and the Court of Appeal The Court of Appeal is the highest court in the country since the abolition of rights of appeal to the Privy Council This was achieved in stages,20 culminating in the...
Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 09:11
The impact of risk factors to production and businesss performance in vietnam
... framework and hypotheses: The impact of risk factors to production and business performance in Vietnam 2.6.1 Conceptual framework and hypotheses: The impact of risk factors to production and business ... lager number of type of outcomes and the greater variation among them, the greater level of risk Risk is objective concept and measured” 2.1.4 Suggested concept in this research: Risk is occurrence ... damage, losses, and negative effects of risks, and make them to be opportunities” (Vân, D.T.H, et al., 2013, page 66) The suggested definition of risk management in this research is Risk management...
Ngày tải lên: 10/06/2016, 10:39
Tài liệu Guideline on Best Practice for the Audit of Risk in Public/Private Partnership (PPP) docx
... The data include information on the price paid, the profits attributable to the net assets being bought and the effect of the transaction on the profit and loss account and balance sheet of the ... realistically and to contribute to the success of the partnership • Good contract management calls for a comprehensive understanding of the key stages and the risks associated in handling them, regular ... Examining the process and the results, continued Risk Managing the risk 30) Either due to a lack of expertise or a desire not to interfere with the commercial freedom of the partnership, the public...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 05:20
THE ATTRACTIONS OF RISK-BASED REGULATION: ACCOUNTING FOR THE EMERGENCE OF RISK IDEAS IN REGULATION docx
... piecemeal adoption of risk based tools and an uneven use of the language and rhetoric of risk The elements of risk- based approaches are various At a minimum they entail the use of technical risk- based ... regulatory role All of these initiatives have furthered the prominence of risk discourses and the promotion of riskbased thinking in government However, the emergence of ideas about risk in the regulatory ... gained currency and the related issue of their merits and limitations The Emergence of Risk- based Regulation: setting the scene Central to our understanding of the popularity of risk based regulation...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 00:20
finance the handbook of risk
... the first group The interesting feature of this experiment was the handling of the “none of the above” option by the second group of doctors Assuming that the average competence of the doctors in ... expectation of a loss of $3,200 was once again larger than the certain loss of $3,000 When the choice involves losses, we are risk seekers and not risk averse Kahneman and Tversky and many of their ... permission 17 18 THE NATURE OF RISK necessity, long when prices are at the top and short or out of the market at the bottom The very fact that they are long at the top shows that they have been...
Ngày tải lên: 08/05/2014, 09:51
Finance The Handbook of Risk doc
... the first group The interesting feature of this experiment was the handling of the “none of the above” option by the second group of doctors Assuming that the average competence of the doctors in ... expectation of a loss of $3,200 was once again larger than the certain loss of $3,000 When the choice involves losses, we are risk seekers and not risk averse Kahneman and Tversky and many of their ... permission 17 18 THE NATURE OF RISK necessity, long when prices are at the top and short or out of the market at the bottom The very fact that they are long at the top shows that they have been...
Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 22:20
The Analytics of Risk Model Validation docx
... research are those of the authors and not represent the policies or positions of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, of any offices, agencies, or instrumentalities of the United States ... determines the ex post risk characteristics of the owner and the business A higher loan amount implies that both the business and/ or the owner are lower risk, and thereby should reduce the risk of default ... credit risk, market risk and the interaction of risks He has been a member of various working groups of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Risk...
Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 00:20
advancing the science of risk
... (2.10) Thus, in the case of the paid claims data, the triangles (which have the same dimensions) containing the residuals of the observed paid link ratios and the residuals of the ratios of incurred ... those of CL The GDFs will not be the same, however, as the fitted values are not the same for the two models The CL fitted value is the product of the factor and the previous cumulative, whereas the ... derivative is the product of its previous cumulative and the derivative of the factor with 140 respect to the cell value But that derivative is just the reciprocal of the sum of the previous cumulatives,...
Ngày tải lên: 22/11/2014, 15:28
Social dynamics and space utility of domestic cats felis silverstris catus) in animal shelters
... examine the quality of rest in the cats, “measured” in terms of the amount of time they spent engaged in short, medium or long bouts of rest, and also in the number of times they moved about in the ... dominance over others In the same chapter, I also explore the affiliation and agonistic patterns among the cats and report that weight and sex of the cat has no effect on this aspect of their social behavior ... stools and other removable “furniture” were then removed from the room and the cats were observed in the same manner for another five days At the end of each day, the furniture was returned to the...
Ngày tải lên: 13/10/2015, 16:42
Water Quality Guidelines, Standards and Health: Assessment of risk and risk management for water-related infectious disease docx
... microbiological hazards, the health risk is the risk of disease, which in turn translates into the risk of infection The group recommended that the guidelines utilise a best estimate of risk and not overlay ... the context of the now 'classic' conception of risk assessment and risk management applied to chemical hazards Delimiting the position of the guidelines to the rational scientific component of ... Assessment of risk in the overall framework In this framework, the assessment of risk is not a goal in its own right but rather a basis for decision-making and in the first iteration of the process...
Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 23:20
scenario logic and probabilistic management of risk in business and engineering
... be mentioned The calculus of statements is the essence of mathematical logic and the new step in development of the formal logic One of the fathers of the mathematical theory of the information ... coefficient of recognition of the risk LP-model contribution of the sign (grades of the sign) in the risk of object 10 E.D.Solojentsev contribution of the sign in the mean risk of objects contribution of ... role and place of the nonlinear mechanics methods, of the theory of probabilities and of the logic and probabilistic risk theory in modelling and risk management of catastrophes, non-success and...
Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 02:00
Báo cáo khoa học: "Incidence of Reinfections with Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae and Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae in Pig Farms Located in Respiratory-Disease-Free Regions of Switzerland – Identification and Quantification of Risk Factors" ppsx
... overview of the location of the Cantons and the ratio of case and control farms per district A total of 103 farms were infected with EP and farms with APP This resulted in an annual incidence of the ... Switzerland The hatched areas in the total view of Switzerland represent the Cantons of Berne, Lucerne and Solothurn The number in each district in the enlarged view shows the ratio of case farms ... health status of the farm, the distances involved and the number of pigs transported, existed in 70% of the companies A visual hygiene check of their vehicles was conducted in 58% of the companies...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:20