... XII OfThe Explanation Of Laws Of Nature Chapter XIII Miscellaneous Examples OfThe Explanation Of Laws Of Nature Chapter XIV OfThe Limits To The Explanation Of Laws Of Nature; AndOf Hypotheses ... occupations The business ofthe magistrate, ofthe military commander, ofthe navigator, ofthe physician, ofthe agriculturist, is merely to judge of evidence, and to act accordingly They all have ... at the mouth ofthe Dart But it is no part ofthe signification ofthe word John, that the father ofthe person so called bore the same name; nor even ofthe word Dartmouth, to be situated at the...
... time and space, the thesis has focused on thedebate that came out ofthe publication of NEP, the important issues within thedebateandthe impact ofthepolicy on Balochistan province 1.2 The ... in their mother tongue One ofthe goals ofthe Education Reforms (2001) and later NEP 2009 was, to lower the gender gap and improve the level of literacy across the country, while the quality of ... colonial domination on the one hand rapidly increase the use of English, while on the other hand the concerns about the preservation, promotion and future ofthe minority and regional languages...
... zero even at the 95% level in Canada, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK andthe US Moreover, while in some countries, (including Finland, the UK andthe US) residential ... confidence bands in all graphs Given the large 16 To identify the monetary policy shock it is sufficient to determine the position ofthe monetary policy instrument; the ordering ofthe variables in the ... also for these countries the existence of cointegration could not be rejected We therefore specify the VAR models in the level ofthe variables Nevertheless, we neither impose the number of cointegrating...
... example, the administration and management of policy, the delivery of services, the development, analysis and evaluation of policy, the involvement of political and democratic processes and interacting ... employment and our experience of work, andthe operation ofthe modern state The advent ofthe internet has generated new and heightened interest in the governmental operations ofthe state, ... intention in the use of tools and reflect on the way in which instruments can transform the way in which we understand and see the world In a very literal way, the invention ofthe telescope and microscope...
... became the C-portion ofthe syllogism andthe main evidence that contributed to the awarding ofthe contract Statistics are another form of logical evidence, and their power varies widely At the ... some of which are shown in Figure 2-1a, the presenters ofthe proposal used referenced facts andthe opinions of experts to assign a cut-off value The establishment of these criteria formed the ... classics of literature and philosophy.”4 The 13 14 THE CRAFT OFSCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS combination of these two problems caused many ofthe students to complain to the head ofthe department However,...
... support for the expectations theory ofthe term structure (see references in Cook and Hahn (1989)) The standard test ofthe expectations theory in these papers is to regress the change in the 3-month ... downward The greater the proportion ofthe variance ofthe yield curve slope due to the expected term premium andthe less due to the expected change in the 3-month rate, the greater will be the downward ... conventional tests ofthe expectations theory ofthe term structure that are discussed briefly V.l The Founding ofthe Fed The Federal Reserve radically altered the character of short-term rate...
... ING Barings is also the fifty per cent owner ofthe Netherlands Post With the Postbank andthe Netherlands Post under the same ownership, the two institutions can again tap the synergies possible ... Savings andthe Provision of Financial Services widely seen as part ofthe agenda of Germany’s commercial banks to force the privatization and then take over the Landesbanks Even though the Sparkassen ... corporation, and several to privatized systems Europe has had the most occurrences of privatization of postal operations, andthe entire systems ofthe Netherlands and Germany have been privatized The...
... debt financing The greater the cost of external debt financing andthe greater the volatility in the supply of demand deposits, the greater the demand for securities as an inventory of liquidity ... ignoring the differing responses of constrained and unconstrained banks potentially can affect the size ofthe impact of monetary policy on the economy andthe ability to find evidence of an operational ... data, andthe 1986:IV and 1987:I observations because ofthe effects on the timing of investment and loans associated with the Tax Reform Act of 1986 For the entire unconstrained bank sample, the...
... CALCULATIONS OF INDICATORS ANDOF A COMPOSITE INDEX FOR THE NETHERLANDS Climate Change Depletion ofthe Ozone Layer Acidification ofthe Environment Eutrophication ofthe Environment Dispersion of Toxic ... environmental issue on the basis ofthe gap between the current value ofthe indicator andthe long-term policy target for sustainability: the greater the gap, the larger the weight assigned Figure ... indicator tracks the magnitude and rate of change ofthe atmospheric reservoir ofthe most abundant ozone-depleting substances Because ofthe long lifetimes of these chemicals andthe quantities...
... envisioned in the Programme of action Olsen and Zeckhauser (1966) were the first to check whether there exist in the practice ofthe NATO some form of ‘exploitation’ by the small countries ofthe large ... consisting ofthe level of literacy, life expectancy and GDP per capita To get a clear picture of what might be at stake the gap variable is split up by the HDI of both the donor andthe HDI ofthe ... programs and can therefore not neglect the efforts of others if they want to achieve goals that are in line with the agenda set by the participants ofthe Cairo conference They are dependent on others...
... procyclical in its operations. Essentially this is because the value of available collateral reflects three components; the market value ofthe collateral, the haircut imposed on the borrower andthe velocity of turnover (rehypothecation )of the ... This is not to deny successful efforts by a number of countries, including China, to expand markets in other EME’s. Of course this still leaves the broader question ofthe robustness ofthe totality of those markets in the event of a serious downturn in the AME’s. ... than the underlying loan itself. Now many of these deals need to be restructured, but low policy rates have raised the cost of breaking the swap to prohibitive levels. This is another example of how low policy rates can impede the purging of malinvestments in the downswing ofthe credit cycle. ...
... Prasad (1997) studied the effect of an appreciation Orphanides and Wieland (1998) provided a first study ofthe effect ofthe zero bound on the distributions of output and inflation in the U.S economy ... indicate the upward bias in the standard deviation of output and inflation as a function ofthe equilibrium nominal interest rate For example, for an i∗ of 1% the standard deviation ofthe output ... above, the distortion of output and inflation distributions is driven by a distortion ofthe real interest rate The left-hand panels of Figure report the upward bias in the mean real rate and the...
... for loans The market rate increases as the PBC raises the RRR, which means the higher the RRR, the less the funding available from the banks andthe higher the demand for funding in the nonregulated ... has no impact on the market rate The market rate increases as the PBC raises the RRR and issues more bills The impact ofthe credit quota on the market rate is ambiguous Theproofof Result 2.3 ... He and Honglin Wang Dual-track Interest Rates andthe Conduct of Monetary Policy in China All opinions expressed are those ofthe authors and not necessarily reflect the views ofthe Bank of...
... andthe questioning ofthe long-term viability ofthe Eurozone as the prospect of a breakup ofthe euro is increasingly viewed as possible.” While the potential fiscal and political causes ofthe ... Finland, France, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, andthe UK are explored in more detail It should be noted that due to the concerns about the accuracy ofthe HP filter towards the end of ... policy stress in the euro area declined gradually in the first two years ofthe ECB operation and hovered around 2% over the rest ofthe observation period The pattern in the early years of the...
... key issues of domestic policy; in the second case, the factors determining the ratio ofthe value ofthe goods and services foregone by the two countries because ofthe disruption to their respective ... understand them better Since the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe, the sources of security threats, the composition and cohesion of alliances, andthe shape of regional orders have been in flux The ... under the rubric of instrumental relevance But an appreciation ofthe range ofthe possible andthe consequences of various policies also requires a grasp ofthe circumstances under which the policy...
... demanded the specification ofthe probability of any hypothesis in the light ofthe available empirical evidence The honesty of na¨ve falsificationism demanded the testing ofthe falsifiable andthe ... favour of science in England The simultaneous combination ofthe decline in the fortunes of religion andthe increase in the fortunes of science has often encouraged the assumption that the abandonment ... in terms ofthe reform ofthe natural philosopher (Ch 6), and in terms of its general implications for understanding ofthe aims of natural-philosophical enquiry (Ch 7) In the course ofthe sixteenth...
... understanding the impact of PE from the perspective of males with PE andof female partners of men with PE A key strength of this qualitative research study is the large number of male and female ... control in understanding the impact of PE on men and their partners Latency time andthe perception of control over ejaculation affect the men's satisfaction with sexual intercourse and their distress ... definitions of PE persist and there is debate about the role of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) in determining the diagnosis of PE [4-6] The current study focused on examining patient perceptions of the...
... perceived life satisfaction ofthe dyads, the perceived level of impact ofthe stroke in everyday life for the persons with stroke andthe perceived level ofburdenof care for the caregiver Life Satisfaction ... contributed to the design ofthe study, data analysis and to the revision ofthe manuscript KT was responsible for initiating and planning the study, contributed to the design ofthe study and was instrumental ... satisfaction andthe impact of stroke The results ofthe impact of stroke in everyday life andthe association with the dyads combined life satisfaction are presented in Table These results show that the...
... in the decisions throughout the process of development and finalisation ofthe questionnaire They gave their approval at each ofthe milestones ofthe development and finalisation process The ... between some ofthe IDEEL dimensions andthe SF-36 (such as “impact on work” of IDEEL and “role physical” of SF-36; “emotional impact” of IDEEL andthe mental component (or some ofthe related ... correlated with the items ofthe DEQ (range: -0.05-0.83), indicating the concurrent validity ofthe IDEEL (Table 3) The strength ofthe associations between the IDEEL dimensions and DEQ items was...