... for Denmark, Switzerland, Spain, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway and the UK, a threemonth Treasury bill rate for Belgium, Sweden and the US, and a three-month commercial ... equity and residential property price data: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and ... at the 95% level in Canada, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the US Moreover, while in some countries, (including Finland, the UK and the US) residential property...
Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2012, 09:40
... different ways and about various concerns: shrimp farmers, non-shrimp 17 farmers, old and young, men and women, rich and poor in a flexible ways and an open atmosphere 2.3.3 Standard survey The ... liberalization and globalisation The environmental and social impacts of shrimp farming are strongly linked to economic reforms, aquaculture promotion policies and the management of local government and ... environmental and social issues also need to be highlighted Negative impacts included habitat degradation, pollution by nutrients and organic wastes from effluents and wastes, chemicals and medicinal...
Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2012, 10:15
Effect of Coagulant on Phosphorus Uptake and Release in EBPR Process
... biological phosphorus uptake and release during the anaerobic and aerobic phases Therefore, three key points of phosphorus behavior namely, the initial phosphorus release rate (vrel), phosphorus ... 1-3 and Run1-4, respectively In SBR2, the Fe/P molar ratio was set at and 0.2 for Run2-1 - 384 - Journal of Water and Environment Technology, Vol 8, No.4, 2010 and Run2-2, respectively, and after ... mg/L and SRT was about 30 days in each reactor Effluent SS and D-BOD were less than 20 mg/L and mg/L, respectively Effluent T-N mainly consisted of NO3-N was 13.5 mg/L and 9.50 mg/L, in SBR1 and...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:15
Changes of temperature data for energy studies over time and their impact on energy consumption and CO2 emissions. The case of Athens and Thessaloniki – Greece
... indicator and the basis for calculations of heating and cooling energy demand [1] or for estimating bin data and heating and cooling degree-days at any base [2, 10, 11] Table shows the monthly and ... 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 ... measures applied to dwellings Energy and Buildings 200, 37, 982-95 Frank Th Climate change impacts on building heating and cooling energy demand in Switzerland Energy and Buildings 2005, 37, 1175-85...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:10
A study on group discussion and its impacts on speaking ability of the non major students at the post elementary level in military science academy
... defined as “a form of backand-forth interactions, give -and- take dialogues in which participants enrich, refine and exchange their understandings, facts, opinions, experiences and the like” (Dillon, ... task-based planning and its impacts on subsequent task performance in terms of fluency, complexity and accuracy is discussed The chapter ends with the criteria to assess fluency, complexity and accuracy ... interactions (modifications and adjustments that happen in communicative interactions between native and non-native speakers (NS/ NNS) and also 17 between NNS/NNS) of Spanish and found that negotiated...
Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:02
Biogeochemical Variability of Vietnamese Coastal Waters Influenced by Natural and Anthropogenic Processes
... Brunei Indonesia Malaysia The Philippines All land and water areas km inland from MHWM and areas inundated by tides any time of the year Administrative and selected environmental units District boundaries ... for land and sea resources and space by various stake holders that result in conflicts and the degradation of coastal ecosystems Further challenges to the coasts come from: (1) erosion and siltation ... 1082 503 134 40 Nguyen Tac An and Phan Minh Thu from land to the coastal waters and affect the ecology and biogeochemistry of the coastal zones The Fluxes of Material Impact on Element Distribution...
Ngày tải lên: 27/10/2013, 14:15
Slide a study on group discussion and its impacts on speaking ability of the non major students at the post elementary level in military science academy
... performed better and more accurately than those in NP group in terms of EFVF and EFNF (in terms of tense, subject verb agreement and pronouncing morpheme-s in plurality ) Conclusions and Suggestions ... students in pre-planning groups perform more accurately and better than those in unplanning groups in terms of tenses, subject-verb agreement and pronouncing morpheme-s in plurality? Methods of the ... Nature of group work - Relationship between group work and individual presentation Objectives of the study contribute more theory to the understandings of group discussion find out the essentials...
Ngày tải lên: 29/01/2014, 10:33
Tài liệu Access to Credit and Its Impact on Welfare in Malawi ppt
... Survey a Noncultivable land, buildings, furniture, and household utensils b On-farm assets (cultivable land, farm equipment, and oxen) and livestock 21 spectively, MK 3,300 and MK 1,600 In total ... Noncultivable land, buildings, furniture, and household utensils b On-farm assets (cultivable land, farm equipment, and oxen) and livestock credit programs, the microfinance institutions, and the commercial ... institutions and their services does not take into account the constraints on and demands of their clients Developing attractive credit services requires both identifying farm and nonfarm enterprises and...
Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 03:20
Tài liệu The Transformation of Banking and Its Impact on Consumers and Small Businesses docx
... insurance and property and casualty insurance, are currently provided by insurance companies and insurance agents Other services, such as the ability to buy and sell individual stocks and shift ... Jith, and Donald P Morgan 2000 “Capital Market Frictions and Deposit Constraints on Banks,” Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, February Kashyap, Anil K., and Jeremy C Stein 1995 “The Impact ... The Changing Banking Structure and Its Impact on Small Business: A Conference Report, September Hancock, Diana, and James A Wilcox 1998 “The ‘Credit Crunch’ and the Availability of Credit to...
Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 11:20
Tài liệu Central Bank Announcements of Asset Purchases and the Impact on Global Financial and Commodity Markets docx
... demand, which have gone hand-in-hand with changes in the prices of energy and industrial metals Commodity prices declined sharply in the fall of 2008, as the financial crisis intensified and ... Federal Reserve and the Bank of England since 2008 We show that announcements about these purchases led to lower long-term interest rates and depreciations of the U.S dollar and the British pound ... financial and commodity prices differ significantly from those following LSAP2 Krishnamurthy and VissingJorgenson (2011) also compare the effects of LSAP1 and LSAP2 on the 10-year Treasury rate and...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 03:20
Tài liệu Car Fleet Renewal Schemes: Environmental and Safety Impacts docx
... Schemes: Environmental and Safety Impacts © OECD/ITF 2011 effectiveness in reducing CO2 and NOx emissions and improving traffic safety (and excluding any stimulus-related impact such as job creation/preservation) ... evaluating CO2, NOx and safety impacts and monetising these (Figure 3): Figure Task Flow Chart for this Study Impact on CO2 reduction Data and insights on vehicle fleet renewal Impact on vehicle ... safety and NOx impacts of such programmes The key conclusions and recommendations from this study are as follows Impacts on the fleet: The CARS program impacted 0.3% of light duty vehicles and roughly...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 04:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "Going Beyond AER: An Extensive Analysis of Word Alignments and Their Impact on MT" pdf
... can be found in (Ayan et al., 2005) and (Ittycheriah and Roukos, 2005) 3.1 Align SU SG SI SA SB Phrase Lengths of and Table presents the precision, recall, and AER for different alignments on ... 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 of different ... Source NIST MTEval’2002 NIST MTEval’2003 Table 1: Test and Training Data Used for Experiments as translation probabilities and lexical weights), and the decoder’s job is to choose the correct phrases...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 11:21
Tài liệu Investigating the Role of Poultry in Livelihoods and the Impact of Avian Flu on Livelihoods Outcomes in Africa docx
... poultry-producing households and the livelihoods impacts of HPAI-induced supply -and- demand shocks Such information is critical for the design of targeted, and hence effective, HPAI control and mitigation policies ... countries and the livelihoods impacts that may be caused by the supplyand-demand shocks associated with HPAI outbreaks and scares The selected SSA countries included Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, and Ethiopia, ... Pietola, Xing Liu, and Miguel Robles, 2010 995 Access, adoption, and diffusion: Understanding the long-term impacts of improved vegetable and fish technologies in Bangladesh Neha Kumar and Agnes R Quisumbing,...
Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 01:20
Tài liệu WORKING CONDITIONS AND HEALTH IMPACTS OF INDUSTRIAL TREE MONOCULTURES pptx
... Swaziland, Uganda, India, Indonesia, and Thailand are examples The answer to these questions should be plain to see, but unfortunately those who control the propaganda machine of the global pulp and ... physiological and psychological equilibrium and result in chronic fatigue and stress Accidents and injuries The setting in which tree plantation work is done makes workers particularly prone to trips and ... worker accommodation, and education and training But social and psychological factors also have an impact In the context of forestry work, these factors include job satisfaction and security, the...
Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 04:20
Tài liệu An International Comparison of Milk Supply Control Programs and Their Impacts pot
... growth in the EU and Canada and created an economic incentive for imports o Slow domestic and export growth has pushed Canadian and European processors to invest and expand in the US and other countries ... the marketplace and economic variables With the dairy industry becoming increasingly globalized and complex, higher volatility in output and input prices, and new sources of demand growth (exports, ... New Zealand A budget crisis in the mid-1980s led to a partial deregulation of the industry and the removal of price and production controls In 2001, the New Zealand Dairy Board, New Zealand Dairy...
Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 05:20
Emerging Market Liberalization and the Impact on Uncovered Interest Rate Parity potx
... integrated For instance, both Dumas and Solnik (1995) and De Santis and Gerard (1998) assume that currency and equity markets are internationally integrated and impose the same price of world ... to be larger and more persistent than in industrialized markets Recent work by Flood and Rose (2001) and Bansal and Dahlquist (2000) find that UIRP is different across developed and emerging ... rate parity (see, e.g., Kaminsky and Peruga (1990), McCurdy and Morgan (1991), Chiang (1991), Korajczyk and Viallet (1992), Malliaropulos (1997), and Morley and Pentecost (1998)) An important...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 14:20
European Large Lakes – Ecosystem changes and their ecological and socioeconomic impacts doc
... changes and their ecological and socioeconomic impacts Developments in Hydrobiology 199 Series editor K Martens European Large Lakes Ecosystem changes and their ecological and socioeconomic impacts ... (3), Poland (1), Russian Federation (28), Sweden (4), Switzerland (2), The Netherlands (6), United Kingdom (2), USA (1) The themes at ELLS were as follows: Climate change and anthropogenic impacts ... because of their size and ecological distinctiveness, as well as their economic and cultural value Optimal management of them requires a proper understanding of anthropogenic impacts, both on the...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 18:21
Business water footprint accounting: A tool to assess how production of goods and services impacts on freshwater resources worldwide pdf
... energy and material use The simplified company produces three beverage brands: two sparkling beverage brands (beverage A with cola taste and beverage B with orange taste) and one orange juice brand ... stage of quantifying, localising and describing the colour of the water footprint Based on an impact assessment and goals with respect to reducing and offsetting the impacts of the water footprint, ... The distinction between blue and green water is important because the hydrological, environmental and social impacts and the economic opportunity costs of surface and groundwater use for production...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 21:20