... to their improvement of their environmental performance; and (3) their responses to the current environmental standards and policies andthe impacts on their economic competitiveness 25 With the ... regulations, like the US and EU markets, have to meet and anticipate these high standards But once satisfying these standards, they are more likely to have higher penetration rate andthe companies’ ... impacts The thesis would bring some insights into the environmental legal regulation in Vietnam andthe impacts they have on the industry I.1 Research questions The thesis aims to answer the following...
... rows in the race ought to live till the age of 60; and if all the members of the Oxford 1829 crew had lived till the 10th of June, 1869, the 40th anniversary of the race, and then died, their lives ... learning from them what has been their personal experience, whether as years come round they feel themselves more and more exhausted and decrepit, in a word, prematurely used up; or whether they ... next consider the cases of six old Oars who have died since their rowing days—five of them from consumption, and one from heart disease How far they suffered from their labours on the river it...
... represents the yields on 3- 6- and 12-month bills, 2- 5- and 10-year notes, and 30-year bonds The results appear in Table Two main conclusions emerge fromthe table The first is that the coefficient on the ... change too much from one day to the next The only contamination is the day τ targeting error, andthe revision in the expectation of future targeting errors.5 The expected component of the change ... (1990) These the December 19 move is treated as if it occurred on the 18th, andthe difference between closing futures rate on the 18th andthe opening rate on the 19th is used to measure the surprise...
... recoveries from 1880 to the present Figure shows the quarterly path of GDP fromthe preceding peak to the trough of each business cycle and then the quarterly path of GDP fromthe trough for the same ... pattern: the recovery fromthe Great Contraction in the 1930s; the recovery after the recession of the early 1990s andthe present recovery The present recovery is strikingly more tepid than the 1990s ... pattern: the recovery fromthe Great Contraction in the 1930s; the recovery after the recession of the early 1990s andthe present recovery The present recovery is strikingly more tepid than the 1990s...
... grandmothers as the appropriate source for the intervention The grandmothers who participated in formative research developed the chitterlings cleaning method for their peers Having the grandmothers ... Carolina, and Virginia) and two national organizations: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) andthe Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) The mission of the ... who enjoyed their work were featured in various media, focusing on what they liked about the work andthe conditions, andthe importance of their role Although paid advertisements and public service...
... words, the basis, defined as the difference between the CDS spread andthe corresponding bond spread, should be zero If the basis differs from zero, the differences should be purely random and unrelated ... points (bp) for Germany andthe highest one was 23 bp points for Greece For the same period, the lowest average bond spread was bp for both France andThe Netherlands, andthe highest average was ... average andthe volatility of CDS and bond spreads over the subsequent years (from 2009 on) in most of the countries and especially in the peripheral ones (Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, and Italy)...
... receptors, andthe stimulation of catecholamine release fromthe adrenal gland and subsequent activation of a-adrenoceptors involves in the hyperglycemic response to choline [41] The observed ... experiments The animals were fed a standard pellet diet and tap water ad libitum and were exposed to a 12-h light-dark cycle The experimental protocol was approved by the Animal Care and Use Committee ... USA) and 20 mM MgCl2 and incubated for 30 to remove excess choline After the incubation period, mL of 0.001 M HCl was added to the tube andthe column procedure was repeated once again The recovery...
... bare tree to the left The Rockies sit in the background, extending about a sixth of the way fromthe bottom of the frame Parts of the sky are the same shade of black and white as the snow-covered ... During the spring and summer, as the northern hemisphere warms, a shallow layer of cool air sits under it fromthe upwelling of the ocean At night, as the land cools, the cool air drifts inland, ... in Dorothea Lange’s The Road West, the starkness along with the light hitting the road makes it look as if you are right in the picture She obviously took the picture fromthe center of the road...
... exposure to the war) and temporal (within a given region, the timing of whether a child was born during the war period) These variables are binary and indicate whether a child was born before the war ... for boys and girls born during the war in the war regions of Eritrea and Ethiopia, andthe magnitude of the negative impacts appears comparable for boys and girls Additionally, both boys and girls ... for the rest of their life (Thomas, Lavy, and Strauss, 1996) We compute Z-scores for each child’s heightfor-age, where the Z-score is defined as the difference between the child’s height and the...
... sharing the correction workload with them For example, the teacher can let students the peer correction, which sensitizes students to the problems in their own paper, and gives them the sense ... contexts, and meaning is instantiated through language use Grabe and Kaplan [5] also emphasize that only teachers who understand theory and make a transition from theory to practice can make the most ... progress in the writing process, what they can achieve at each stage and how they evaluate their own and their peer’s work Portfolio assessment is also reliable because it has specific and clear...
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... correlations between the PIPP and WOMAC (see Table 3) The pain and physical function subscales of the WOMAC correlated strongly with the Mobility and Participation subscales of the PIPP These results ... assess the psychometric properties of the PIPP scales using Rasch analysis and to investigate the impact and distress of OA fromthe patients' perspective The PIPP subscales showed good fit to the ... mentally and physically unhealthy [5] and they represent a considerable burden on health care expenditure [6-8] While OA of the hip and knee account for the largest component of the burden of the...
... implications of these for HIV risk, prevention and care? This paper seeks to move beyond the epidemiology andthe measurement of behaviours and associations and enable us to understand these empirical ... and this is proved by being able to “win” desirable women, keep them (and thus prevent them from being seduced by others), and show evidence of being a man in control (of others) [33] While the ... when they call, and to have them willing to free themselves from whatever they are engaged in and be ready for sex on demand [33] It is hardly surprising Page of 11 that women with violent and...
... Research, andthe National Stroke Foundation None of the funders contributed to the study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript; and in the ... formulated the lifetable model template used in this study and helped to draft the manuscript RC participated in the design of the study and interpretation of the data and helped to draft the manuscript ... to the development of the lifetable models, analysed and interpreted the data and drafted the manuscript HD participated in the design of the study and helped to draft the manuscript TV provided...
... expectations and horizon) and would they all follow the mean-variance criteria, they would all hold combinations of and M andthe tangent portfolio M would necessarily coincide with the market ... [S(t)+dS(t)] with the ịrst term in the right hand side of the equation being the period gain dG(t) andthe second term the net inòow at t + dt Again, in a self-ịnancing strategy: dX(t) = dG(t), and X(t) ... Asset Prices Deịnitions and Notations There are N + assets traded in the market, one being the locally risk-free asset, denoted by 0, andthe remaining N being the risky assets The prices of those...
... inferred to be due to a change in the regulatory environment of the hybrid, compared to that of either parent, and can be thought of as regulation in trans On the other hand, a downregulation or upregulation ... present on the homologous D parent allele (Figure 2) Expression of the cognate repressor, perhaps from D-contributed genes, could selectively shut off the A and not the D allele In summary, the observation ... and Comai 43.3 Additive and non-additive gene expression When the expression of a gene in a hybrid is equal to the average of the two parents, the gene (but maybe not the individual alleles,...
... gain the highest speed between November and March and can cause great damage to stands The spatial distribution of rain and snowfall in the Beskid Śląski Mts and in the western part of the Beskid ... of the degree of threat to spruce stands and of soil degradation The analysis of soils on the sample plots showed that under the stands of the RS-1 plot there are acid brown soils, relatively the ... According to the standards set by Cape et al (1990), the content of calcium in the second year of needles in all the analyzed groups of stands is on the decrease for the growth of trees and, in the first...
... contributed to the design of the study, andthe interpretation and writing of the manuscript HK performed a major part of the biostatistics work and contributed to the interpretation of results andthe ... Council, fromthe Swedish Council for Working life and Social Research, fromthe King Gustaf V's 80-year foundation, fromthe Swedish Rheumatism Foundation, from Stockholm County Council, fromthe ... pathogenesis and treatment of relevant subgroups of the human disease uted to the design of the study and to the interpretation of the results LP had the main responsibility for the genetic analyses and...
... the data analyses, and drafted the paper; LG conducted the statistical analyses and contributed to the interpretation of findings and writing of the paper; VMM collaborated on the design of the ... controlling for the presence of either type of disorder and other predisposing and enabling characteristics Indeed, more than half of the lesbians and bisexual women in the study indicated that they had ... study and contributed to the interpretation of findings and writing of the paper; SDC conceived and directed the original survey study and contributed to the interpretation of findings and writing...
... fromthe bonds furnished by the collectors-general of the departments, and destined by the law of the sixth Frimaire preceding to the paying off of the public debt, and also to guarantee the payments ... obligations of the collectors-general taken at per cent, and which the Bank would not have been able to rediscount, even a t per cent On the other hand, fromthe year V111 to the year XIII, the Bank ... of these Comptoirs.-Their disappearance. -The Bank o Prance from I808 to the fall of the Empire.-Industry in France at the end o the eighteenth century andthe f beginning of the nineteenth-National...