... raised the possibility of win-win situation for the environment but further research is needed The thesis is inspired by the idea of further research on the linkages that should be made on the ... insights into the environmental legal regulation in Vietnam and the impacts they have on the industry I.1 Research questions The thesis aims to answer the following questions, from the macro level ... (UNDP 1995) By the 1992 Constitution, the Politburo of the Communist Party of Viet Nam is the highest policy-making body The President, the Prime Minister, and the Secretary-General of the Communist...
Ngày tải lên: 24/08/2013, 18:48
... decomposes The swelling is due to the degradation of the cross-linking structure of the membrane in the H2O2 solution [33] The decomposition rate is larger than the swelling effect after 60 h The result ... transport channel with the membranes separated between them The methanol flux was established across the membrane driven by the concentration difference between the two reservoirs The change of methanol ... Figure for the investigation of the thermal stability of the PVDF membrane, PVDF-PS membrane, and the PVDF-SPS composite membrane For the pristine PVDF membrane (curve Figure 1a), the PVDF polymer...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:11
China’s banking reform: Issues and prospects for the future
... issue – Particularly for capital adequacy! – The spirit of the low probably more important than the letter of the law Better corporate governance: Strengthened functions and accountability of board ... economic development – For the rest of the world given China’s size & interlinkages Restricted An assessment of the reform so far a Restructuring Organized in three waves, each of them with: Recapitalization ... injections up to the required solvency ratio to comply with Basel I and with precise timetable • Necessary for soundness but also to improve its profitability • Clarify how AMCs will pay against NPLs...
Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2013, 16:15
Notes on the TOEFL Exam - Registration, the Computer-Based Test, Scores, and Tips for Test Day
... TOEFL® Bulletin and at the end of this chapter How Much Does the TOEFL Exam Cost? THE fee for both the computer-based and the paper-based TOEFL exam in the United States is $110 The fee may be higher ... to the ones you will view on the day of the test POWERPREP: Software Preparation for the Computer-Based TOEFL® includes two practice computer-based TOEFL exams To order these products from the ... you plan to take the Test of Written English (TWE) exam There are no breaks during the paper-based exam The table below shows how many questions each section of the computer-based test contains...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 15:20
Tài liệu Sample Questions for the Computer-Based Test pptx
... perhaps at the core In the core only as a gas, except perhaps at the core In the core of the sun, the pressures are so great that, despite of the Sun, the pressures are so great that, despite the high ... paragraph mainly reading the concerned? passage click on the How the Sun evolved icon below The structure of the Sun Why scientists study the Sun The distance of the Sun Proceed from the planets Paragraph ... 27,000,000° at the center ■ The Sun is so much hotter than the Earth that matter can exist only as a gas, except perhaps at the core In the core of the Sun, the pressures are so great that, despite the...
Ngày tải lên: 24/01/2014, 04:20
Tài liệu Nature’s Numbers Expanding the National Economic Accounts to Include the Environment doc
... research, dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare Upon the authority of the charter granted to it by the Congress in 1863, the Academy has a ... expand the analytical capacity of the national accounts without overburdening them or interfering with their general orientation Because they supplement rather than replace the core accounts, they ... secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health of the public The Institute acts under the responsibility given to the...
Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 23:20
Tài liệu THE EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE pdf
... regard to the caliber of the contributing authors and the quality of their work herein I wish to personally thank the contributing authors for their scholarship, their work, and for their commitment ... of the Baltimore Orioles) prior to the start of baseball season During this visit, he was hired on the spot as a member of the janitorial crew, and continues to work for the ballpark over the baseball ... applicants for the award is either in applying evidence-based treatments or collecting evidence on their own treatment protocols to determine their effectiveness These agencies, as well as other treatment...
Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 02:20
Tài liệu The Tax Credit (New Category of Child Care Provider) Regulations 1999 pptx
... taken into account for the purposes of determining the appropriate amount of working families’ tax credit or disabled person’s tax credit for the purposes of section 15 of the Tax Credits Act 1999 ... relation to the services it provides, to the quality assurance scheme and to the training of assessors Requirements of the system The system shall include the matters set out in the First Schedule ... effective 28 days after the date on which the organisation is informed of the decision, but otherwise the decision shall take effect when it is made (6) If the Secretary of State is of the opinion that...
Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 14:20
Tài liệu Social and Economic Control of Alcohol The 21st Amendment in the 21st Century docx
... in the following section The Effects of Taxation Goals of Taxation To evaluate what a good tax on alcohol might look like, we need to consider what the goal of a tax is Should the government tax ... that such taxes may be proper Given that taxation is deemed proper, we can then ask what the right type of tax might look like Today, taxes on alcohol are based on the volume of ethanol in the product, ... household, the poor and rich will pay roughly the same amount in alcohol taxes This then implies that the poor are paying a higher proportion of their income in alcohol taxes, making it a regressive tax...
Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 19:20
Tài liệu CHEAP POSTAGE REMARKS AND STATISTICS ON THE SUBJECT OF CHEAP POSTAGE AND POSTAL REFORM IN GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES ppt
... make another change That is to say, the partial reduction has failed to meet the wishes of the people, or the wants of the public interest, or the duty of the government in discharging the trust ... treasury, which has not been the case heretofore The post-office tax was the only one in which the North and the East bore their share equally with the South and the West We would all like to ... for the general defence by means of the army and navy It imposes no other restrictions in the one case than the other, as to the extent to which provision shall be made the reasonable wants of the...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 02:20
Tài liệu THE FIVE-YEAR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA (2012) doc
... depriving the District of tax revenue and employment opportunities Without growth in these sectors, the District must diversify in order to generate jobs and expand its tax base Fortunately, the District’s ... Partner with OCFO to adjust the policy of counting successful tax increment financing (TIF) projects against the debt cap The District currently counts all TIF projects against the debt cap, even though ... tourists from other countries 34 The Five-Year Economic Development Strategy for the District of Columbia Hotel tax Restaurant meal tax Retail sales tax Secondary personal income tax NET SECTION...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 05:20
Tài liệu Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base ppt
... review of the science base regarding the mechanism of action of marijuana, an examination of the peerreviewed scientific literature on the efficacy of therapeutic uses of marijuana, and the costs ... syndrome).9,12 When it was removed from the market shortly thereafter, there was little protest, despite the fact that it was safe for the vast majority of the population The 1,536 cases and 27 deaths ... epidermal glands on the leaves (especially the upper ones), stems, and the bracts that support the flowers of the marijuana plant Although the flower itself has no epidermal glands, it has the highest...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 14:20
Tài liệu THE KNOWLEDGE-BASED ECONOMY ppt
... regarding the implications of the knowledge-based economy for employment and the role of governments in the development and maintenance of the knowledge base Identifying “best practices” for the knowledge-based ... systems of innovation” These are the agents and structures which support the advance and use of knowledge in the economy and the linkages between them They are crucial to the capacity of a country ... in the traditional sense Although the knowledge-based economy is affected by the increasing use of information technologies, it is not synonymous with the information society The knowledge-based...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 16:20
Tài liệu DEVELOPMENTS KEY ECONOMIC AND PROSPECTS IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION 2008 pdf
... cent for the Philippines Countries in the region therefore have lost competitiveness in their exports not only to the United States but also to their other trading partners Since 2006, the countries ... vis-à-vis the rest of the world Currency appreciation in the region has however not been restricted to rises against the United States dollar Currencies have risen in many cases against the currencies ... currencies, except the Indonesian rupiah, remain up from their values at the start of the year (see figure 6), although they did experience substantial depreciation against the dollar between...
Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 01:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "Extending the Entity-based Coherence Model with Multiple Ranks" pot
... these two aspects are crucial, depending on the characteristics of the dataset 2.1 Entity-based Coherence Model Document Representation The original entity-based coherence model is based on the ... score is assigned the same (zero, the highest) rank as the source document, and the one with the largest score is assigned the lowest (C−1) rank; then ranks of other permutations are uniformly ... tested on their data, we found it a promising direction for further exploration Cheung and Penn (2010) adapted the standard entity-based coherence model to the same German corpus, but replaced the...
Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 02:20
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN: The Health Sector Responds ppt
... of their path, either because they were unaware of the support these institutions could provide, or because they had received inefficient or humiliating treatment by these groups in the past The ... experience Many times the women go to the police in tears, and the police tell them not to be irresponsible and waste their time, as if they didn’t have anything else to Then they tell them: ‘So be it ... first book preface, I have the opportunity to place on record my commitment to turning the tide against gender-based violence in the Region of the Americas The voices of the women you will hear...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 00:22
Operational Risk: Supporting Document to the New Basel Capital Accord doc
... event impact and the other on event frequency for the next (one) year Based on the two estimated distributions, the bank then computes the probability distribution function of the cumulative operational ... required capital cannot fall The Committee will review the need for the existence and level of the floor, two years after the implementation of the New Basel Capital Accord 46 There are two possible ... UL As shown in the chart, by definition, the RPI of the industry loss distribution is 1.0, as the γ term is determined using the industry loss distribution On the other hand, the RPI for a bank...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 09:20
Chinese Economic Coercion Against Taiwan docx
... with economic coercion, they must weigh the economic pain they suffer against the importance of the concessions that the initiating country is demanding of them The nature of the initiating country’s ... Against Taiwan: A Tricky Weapon to Use center sponsored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, the Unified Combatant Commands, the Department of the Navy, the Marine Corps, the ... unfairly bearing the whole burden of the sanctions for the rest of the country In addition to the direct loss of income from the sanctions, Chinese firms may also resent the damage that the sudden cutoff...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 21:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Interference with the citrulline-based nitric oxide synthase assay by argininosuccinate lyase activity in Arabidopsis extracts docx
... methanol ⁄ acetic acid (2 : : 4) The plate was then autoradiographed The markers were visualized by ninhydrin staining, and then marked as dashed lines on the autoradiogram The origin was marked with ... value of the test reaction minus the c.p.m value from the control reaction (reaction terminated immediately after the addition of [14C]arginine) The average c.p.m for the control reaction was approximately ... autoradiographed observed as the major reaction product (Fig 3B) Together, these results showed that the reaction had no requirement for known NOS cofactors and did not produce the NOS coproduct citrulline,...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 05:20
The Conscience of the Game: Baseball''''s Commissioners from Landis to Selig pdf
... to think of the office of the commissioner of baseball as the conscience of the game Not the man in office as conscience, but the office itself as the embodiment of conscience Does the office carry ... agency sends the stars from one team to another almost before they can warm their places in the dugout The major argument for using taxpayers’ funds to build new stadiums has been the economic ... members of the committee, of the term baseball At the very least it seems a merciful gesture on their part, a gracious reminder that given their drubaseball’s peculiar institution, pa rt 19 thers—and...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 11:20