... are subject to sources of nonsampling error These could include misunderstanding of questions on the part of the interviewer or respondent, nonuniformity in asking the questions, and possible ... nonintercourse (last years), method use each month (last years), method use with partners in past 12 months, wantedness and other circumstances surrounding each pregnancy, consistency of condom use, ... and weight, numbers of pregnancies, substance use, sex with males (including nonvoluntary sex and STD/HIV risking behaviors), sex with females, condom use at last sex of any type, sexual orientation...
Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 10:20
... as measured by equity to assets was associated with a higher probability of failure, as was worse asset quality as measured by NPAs to assets, lower earnings as measured by ROA, and worse liquidity ... liquidity as measured by Cash & Due to assets, Investment Securities to assets, and Brokered Deposits to assets These results closely follow the univariate results presented in Panel A of Table ... years prior to failure but loses its significance during the two years prior to failure Robustness Checks and Extensions In this section, we provide a set of robustness checks on our basic results,...
Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 03:20
Tài liệu China’s Holdings of U.S. Securities: Implications for the U.S. Economy pptx
... portfolio holdings of U. S securities by country and reports data for the previous year as of the end of June 19 The latest Treasury survey of portfolio holdings of U. S securities was issued on April ... liquidate such assets or significantly cut back on purchases of new securities, a move some contend could damage the U. S economy Still others contend that China s purchases of U. S securities was ... flows to the United States Thus, Chinese purchases of all types of U. S securities (not just Treasury securities) should be considered when attempting to understand the impact China s investment...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 20:20
The Geographic Distribution and Characteristics of U.S. Bank Failures, 2007-2010: Do Bank Failures Still Reflect Local Economic Conditions? pptx
... Association Bureau of Labor Statistics Bureau of Economic Analysis Bureau of Economic Analysis Administrative Office of the United States Courts; Bureau of Labor Statistics Quarterly Census of Employment ... (Kentucky, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Tennessee), and two Great Plains states (Montana and North Dakota) Figure shows the distribution of the depositsbased failure rate measure across states ... consolidation of the U. S banking industry and the advent of banks with interstate branches The largest U. S banks operate thousands of branch offices across several states For example, as of June...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 10:20
Publicly Funded Agricultural Research and the Changing Structure of U.S. Agriculture doc
... Research Service, based on U. S Bureau of the Census, 1900–1992 Censuses of Agriculture; U. S Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Service, 1997 Census of Agriculture INTRODUCTION ... Research Service, U. S Department of Agriculture; USDA, 2001f, based on U. S Bureau of the Census, 1900–1992 Censuses of Agriculture; U. S Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics ... Changes in Extension Process, 67 Summary, 68 STRUCTURAL IMPACTS OF PUBLIC INVESTMENT IN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH Public-Sector Responses to Structural Issues, 69 Agricultural Research Investments,...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 15:20
The State of U.S. Railroads docx
... related social assets of safety and security of individuals in transit and in their workplaces and communities The TST research portfolio encompasses policy areas including transportation systems, space ... Infrastructure, Safety, and Environment (ISE) The mission of ISE is to improve the development, operation, use, and protection of society s essential physical assets and natural resources and ... decisions based on what modes of transportation best satisfy their firm s logistics supply chain Their decisions, however, have consequences that affect other users of the transportation system, communities...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 21:20
A Description Of U.s. Enlisted Personnel Promotion Systems ppt
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 08:20
Taxation of U.S. Investment Partnerships and Hedge Funds ppt
... Investors in Offshore Funds U. S Investors in Swiss Bank Accounts U. S Investors in Madoff-Like Managed U. S Trading Accounts Size of the Global Hedge Fund Industry Fund -of- Funds Incentives of the ... investors and shareholders in an untested offshore non -U. S jurisdiction Just as the U. S has a vibrant supply of SEC regulated mutual funds, there is an equally healthy supply of foreign mutual funds ... tax regulations for the purposes of admitting U. S investors is not a PFIC-rule triggering entity U. S Investors in Swiss Bank Accounts For comprehensiveness, we discuss the issue of U. S taxable...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 14:20
Who Regulates Whom? An Overview of U.S. Financial Supervision pdf
... needs without incurring excessive losses, which might occur if assets had to be sold at a steep discount in a time-pressure situation (or “fire sale”) Liquidity also includes assessments of specific ... companies generally lack any of these cushions against loss Financial businesses—In discussions about financial services modernization, usually refers to commercial banks and savings institutions, securities ... receivables, student loans, small business loans, and car loans Self-regulatory organizations (SROs)—National securities or futures exchanges, national securities or futures associations, clearing...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20
Air and Noise Pollution Abatement Services: An Examination of U.S. and Foreign Markets ppt
... hexaflouride SO2 Sulfur dioxide SO3 Sulfur trioxide SOx Sulfur oxides STPS Ministry of Labor and Social Security, The (Mexico) TRI U. S Toxic Release Inventory UK United Kingdom xii UK-ETS United ... first step, as the means to ascertain the extent of air pollutant emissions, the degree of exposure to various risks from these pollutants, and the consequences of such exposure Monitoring of ... D D SD SD SD SD SD SA SA SA SA A A A A N N N N D D D D SD SD SD SD Other preferred source of information on this subject: Specify chapters, sections, or topics in report that are most useful:...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 00:20
FUTURE ROLES OF U.S. NUCLEAR FORCES docx
... members, limited assets Leaders, bank accounts, linkages Variation of the usual Usual Usual Usual Usual Usual Usual Societal/ Organizational Vulnerabilities R aThe nature of the nuclear threats and ... Five looks at future U. S strategic choices and addresses a number of specific issues that affect those choices Chapter Six summarizes our conclusions Chapter Two NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND U. S SECURITY— ... States has used its nuclear forces for most of those purposes Even more significant, it has not used them in combat since Nagasaki Most notably, of course, the United States used nuclear weapons...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 01:20
Đề tài " A proof of Kirillov’s conjecture " potx
... lies the heart of the proof The main difficulty is to study P conjugacy classes of nilpotent elements, their tangent spaces and the transversals to these tangent spaces We recall some of the results: ... the proof that H is determined uniquely by these properties in most cases The proof of this theorem requires a careful analysis of nilpotent P conjugacy classes including a parametrization of ... algebra case) As in HarishChandra s proof we can define an open set H in H such that the conjugates of H in G produce an open set around s and such that it is possible to use the submersion principle...
Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 22:20
Governance and the Success of U.S. Community Banks, 1790-2010: Mutual Savings Banks, Local Commercial Banks, and the Merchants (National) Bank of New Bedford, Massachusetts doc
... directors, officers, major stockholders and their friends, families, and business associates, because it could be used to expropriate resources from outsiders, including minority stockholders, depositors, ... Bank of Albany served as the correspondent of the Albany Savings Bank That savings bank, as was common, conducted its business within its correspondent s offices, just as the New Haven Savings Bank ... Patterson, “Ten and One-Half Years,” 45-46, and Caleb Cushing, Speeches Delivered in the House of Representatives of Massachusetts, on the Subject of the Currency and Public Deposites (Salem, Mass.,...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 08:20
Derivative Exposure and the Interest Rate and Exchange Rate Risks of U.S. Banks ppt
... adjust for possible bias due to crossequation dependencies, the return equations in each group are estimated as a simultaneous equation system, using a modified Seemingly Unrelated Technique (SUR) ... subsequent discussion addresses the sources of these exposures Moreover, they also reveal that the interest rate and exchange rate betas are interdependent, which suggests that some sort of simultaneous ... method is subject to survivorship bias, but ensures the consistency of data throughout the period The survivorship bias indicates a possibility that the risk coefficients for a group are underestimated...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 13:20
The Exchange Rate Exposure of U.S. and Japanese Banking Institutions potx
... examine more closely the sensitivity of the U. S firms by linking the U. S estimates cross-sectionally to accounting-based measures of currency risk We suggest that the sensitivity estimates can provide ... Nishinippon Northpacific Ogakikyoritsu Oita Saitama Sakura Saningodo Sanwa Senshu Seventyseven Shiga Shikoku Shimizu Shinwa Shizuoka Sumitomo Sumitomotrustin Suruga Taiheiyo Taiyokobe Tochigi 30 ... exposure on various combinations of accounting measures Column and Column report the results from univariate regressions of estimated exposure on asset size and on Net, while Column reports the...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 13:20
Outcome Evaluation of U.S. Department of State Support for the Global Methane Initiative doc
... assess funding and strategic support (inputs), activities (outputs), and emissions reductions, institutional changes, and policy effects (outcomes) The final panel shows the primary sources of ... agriculture, coal mines, landfills, and oil and gas systems.2 USG funding supports activities across these four sectors, including feasibility studies, training workshops, demonstration projects, ... activities had recorded actual emissions, but as Table 2.11 shows, this figure understates the share of activities that could lead to emissions reductions Many types of activities, such as meetings...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 19:20
the role of u s engineering schools in development assistance doc
Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 14:20
Báo cáo toán học: " A Bijective Proof of Garsia’s q-Lagrange Inversion Theorem" pdf
... (1.3) We next show that f (u) is unique Suppose a (u) is a delta series which satisfies ∞ Fk a (u) a(uq) · · · a(uq k−1 ) = u k=1 We will prove a (u) |up = w(T ) = f (u) |up T ∈Cp by induction on p We ... {f (u) f (uq) · · · f (uq k−1 )} and {F (u) F (u/ q) · · · F (u/ q k−1 )} are inverse sequences, that is ∞ F (u) F (u/ q) · · · F (u/ q k−1 ) ui f (u) f (uq) · · · f (uq i−1 ) = uk (1.4) f (u) f (uq) ... f (uq k−1 ) ui F (u) F (u/ q) · · · F (u/ q i−1 ) = uk (1.5) i=k and ∞ i=k for all k ≥ Our proof of Theorem 1.1 is organized as follows We will assume ∞ Fk uk F (u) = (1.6) k=1 is given to us with...
Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 06:22
Báo cáo toán học: "A Bijective Proof of Borchardt’s Identity" docx
... preserve row and column sums If two of the row sums are the same, or if two of the column sums are the same, there is no problem We prove this formally in the next lemma the electronic journal of ... Cayley, Note sur les normales d’une conique, Crelle s Journal 56 (1859), 182–185 [5] A G Izergin, Partition function of a six-vertex model in a finite volume (Russian), Dokl Akad Nauk SSSR 297 (1987), ... setting a = in the Izergin-Korepin formula [5][6] quoted in Theorem 1.5 below This determinant evaluation, expressed as a sum of weights of n × n alternating sign matrices, formed the basis of...
Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 08:20