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Ghana's biofuels policy: challenges and the way forward
... introduction of subsidies and incentives to boost the production of biofuels SNEP fell short of proposing any form of subsidies and or incentives after setting the targets In order to meet the set target ... biodiesel (Also EN 14214 was developed using rapeseed oil as the feedstock for the production of biodiesel) This is significant because vegetable oils differ in most cases significantly in their ... between the cost of producing biofuels and the cost of producing petroleum derived products some authors have suggested the removal of all subsidies on petroleum derived fuels whiles others have...
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England’s opportunity, England’s character - Arnold, Mill, and the Union in the 1860s
... the mix, to bring the heterogeneous whole under firmer pressure and control: so long as this mixed constitution of our nature possesses us, we pay it tribute and serve it; so soon as we possess ... Irish, he suggests, ‘ the guilty authors of Fenianism’’ owed themselves no less Reviewing the whole corpus of Arnold s Irish writing into the s, Seamus Deane aptly remarks that it ‘‘establishe [s] ... the viability of this view and, at the same time, argue that something other than this is just as important here For as Dewey suggests, the uses to which the essentializing historicist representation...
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Bureau of the Public Debt’s Fiscal Years 2010 and 2009 Schedules of Federal Debt pot
... agencies and other Treasury entities BPD also issues other specific securities outside of the authority of 31 U .S. C §3101, such as HOPE Bonds These securities are not reported on the Schedules of ... year or less Treasury issues marketable notes and bonds as long-term securities that pay semi-annual interest based on the securities' stated interest rate These securities are issued at either par ... responsibility to issue Treasury securities to trust funds for trust fund receipts not needed for current benefits and expenses BPD issues and redeems Treasury securities for the trust funds based...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Syntactic Dependence and the Computer Generation of Coherent Discourse" pdf
... items are chosen as soon as a class name appears, regardless of subscript value This permits a hierarchical selection of English words, i.e., the heads of constructions are selected first Also, the ... form of the verb "to be" or the preposition of. ” This rule holds for the heads of both phrases linked to these forms Two-way dependency within or across sentences also exists between tokens of the ... constructions, and special rules for case are also taken into consideration Nevertheless, the style of some writers will yield constructions that not fit the rules In such cases, it is usually only the...
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Learning from My Mother’s Voice Family Legend and the Chinese American Experience pptx
... rebelliousness against feudal rulers of China is similar to the rebelliousness of Chinese immigrants against the unjust and racist policies of the United States Many immigrants defied the rules that they ... independent of one another Symbols of women merge the images of mother and wife, while those of men merge the images of father and son Sun Versus Moon Myths: Battle of the Sexes The popular sun myth ... had its own set of stories and legends that sustain its people and nurture its children As groups immigrate to other lands, they cherish these stories and legends while creating new ones of their...
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Monetary Policy in the Eurozone: Evaluating the European Central Bank’s interest rate decisions and the needs of member states using a Taylor rule ppt
... economic issues such as competitiveness and debt dynamics These issues, and the implications of the ECB s interest rate decisions, were explained with regards to the multiple crises affecting the Eurozone ... data as the data available at the time of this investigation, March 2012, are late enough to represent the revised versions of many of the numbers used The issue of the “timings” of the data is addressed ... increase.” While the convergence to stress levels of 2% does not necessarily apply to all the euro area countries, it does seem that the stress levels have increased since mid-2007 V Risks and...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Monitoring the prevention of amyloid fibril formation by a-crystallin Temperature dependence and the nature of the aggregating species pdf
... fluorescence The subsequent plateau phase is associated with a decrease in the concentration of small species, or the aggregation and precipitation of fibrils [37] The kinetics of these three stages of the ... oligomeric species, but also result in a product which is nontoxic or biodegradable The role of sHsps in amyloid fibril diseases is controversial They are upregulated in these disease states and are ... measures the mass, thickness and density of the protein layer bound to the surface of an optical sensor [35] The sensing chip used in these FEBS Journal 274 (2007) 6290–6305 ª 2007 The Authors...
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Low-Carbohydrate-Diet Score and the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in Women potx
... nurses 30 to 55 years of age completed a mailed questionnaire Since 1976, information on disease status and lifestyle factors has been collected from this same cohort every years Diet was assessed ... body-mass index increased by approximately 2.5 units from baseline to the end of followup, regardless of the score Since the participants in the Nurses’ Health Study did not necessarily subscribe ... weight loss Any assessment of the association between the low-carbohydrate-diet score and a risk of coronary heart disease must take each macronutrient into consideration Different types of fat...
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Inflammatory Markers and the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in Men and Women doc
... criterion was fasting status at the time of blood sampling assessment of coronary heart disease Study physicians who were unaware of the participant s exposure status confirmed the diagnosis of myocardial ... measure of the risk of coronary heart disease beyond that afforded by the Framingham risk score Our study has some limitations As with any observational study design, there is the possibility of ... cardiovascular risk groups and the association of biomarkers with the risk of coronary heart disease, although the association of C-reactive protein was generally stronger in low -risk subgroups For example,...
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the beginner's guide to broadband and the wireless internet (2006)
... Options Action Change the settings for Turn off hard disks as well as System standby and System hibernates (Fig 3) Set these to several hours or Never to ensure the computer doesn’t switch itself off ... The Beginner s Guide to Broadband and Wireless Internet Section 9: Switching Broadband Providers Essential Information The speed of broadband services continues to rise and the cost continues ... trademarks of the Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries Napster screenshots copyright © Napster PhotoBox screenshots copyright © PhotoBox Ltd Singingfish screenshots copyright...
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ward - the devil's casino; friendship, betrayal, and the high-stakes games played inside lehman brothers (2010)
... bond shop would never survive the Mexican peso crisis of 1994; and they did the same again through the Russian crisis of 1998 They had weathered rumor, had survived scandal, and had even ousted their ... Adam; Steve was Hoss, and Joe, for obvious reasons was Little Joe " She said Chris, "the leader always the first in, was Pa " Neporent came up with the idea because Lessing, the chubbiest of the ... hardscrabble resourcefulness exemplified by the credo "The Trader Knows Best" and a selfless embrace of the "one firm" mantra In 1980, as they looked around Wall Street and saw the excesses of the...
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aggregate supply, the price level, and the speed of adjustment
... Introducing prices and the labour market In discussing equilibrium within the IS-LM model, it has been assumed that – – prices are fixed the supply-side of the economy can be ignored These assumptions ... adjusts SAS shifts e.g to SAS' Yp Output Equilibrium is eventually reached at E3, back at Yp 26.16 An adverse supply shock: e.g an increase in the price of oil Higher oil prices force SAS' firms ... supply shifts MDS to MDS' SAS' Given wage levels, firms SAS3 adjust to E' in the short run With price at P' but wages unchanged, the real wage rises bringing involuntary MDS unemployment As the...
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Buying up the world japan’s outbound ma spree and the bid for value
... lessons have they learned from their previous successful (and not-so-successful) cross-border transactions? What pitfalls should be avoided in various stages of the deal and post-merger process? ... deals When the transaction succeeds, the owner claims all the benefits If it fails, the owner sustains all the losses Lack of control, and the negative consequences this entails, is perhaps the ... industries are alike, of course The need to seize opportunities as soon as they arise explains why some Japanese firms buy first and consider the details later “In certain industries and types of...
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East Asia’s Dynamic Development Model and the Republic of Korea’s Experiences
... conditions The paper consists of two parts The first part (Sections II and III) investigates the origins of East Asian cultural characteristics Philosophical backgrounds such as Confucianism and Taoism ... bladder, and sanjiao ) are Yang The symptoms of sickness also can be classified: chill and a slow pulse are symptoms of Yin, while fever and a fast pulse are symptoms of Yang The Five Elements The theory ... ancient East Asians combined the trigrams with a variety of images such as animals, members of the family, numbers, parts of the body, compass directions, seasons of the years, etc (see Table 4) The...
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Recommendations from the American Thoracic Society, CDC, and the Infectious Diseases Society of America docx
... investigations, analyses of the genotype of M tuberculosis strains have confirmed suspected transmission and identified unsuspected transmission of M tuberculosis These analyses have also identified risk ... LTBI They should be able to recognize the signs and symptoms of TB disease and understand how to evaluate and treat persons with suspected cases They should understand the public health aspects of ... progression to TB disease and persons in the early stages of TB disease (30,31) Contact investigations therefore serve as an important means of detecting tuberculosis cases and at the same time...
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Organic Poultry and Eggs Capture High Price Premiums and Growing Share of Specialty Markets pptx
... the prices are not weighted on the basis of quantities sold but are simple highs and lows The Market News Reports also include a “mostly” range of prices; analysis of these prices showed similar ... organic standards address the methods, practices, and substances used in producing and handling crops, livestock, and processed agricultural products Although specific practices and materials used ... larger and more anonymous, buyers and sellers may not know each other personally and, thus, the potential for cheating increases; in such cases, markets often switch from doing business on a handshake...
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The Risk of Obstructive Lung Disease by Previous Pulmonary Tuberculosis in a Country with Intermediate Burden of Tuberculosis potx
... far-advanced, based on the classification of the National Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease Association of the USA (14) Statistical analysis Comparisons between variables were tested using the chi-square ... TB lesion was an also strong risk factor in never smokers The proportions of subjects with previous TB lesion increased as the severity of obstructive lung disease, suggesting previous TB is an ... values had TB lesions (Fig 1) DISCUSSION In this study, based on a nationwide representative sampling of Korean subjects, we found that previous TB was a risk factor for obstructive lung disease and...
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The Management of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Infants and Children Older Than 3 Months of Age: Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society and the Infectious Diseases Society of America pot
... pathogen specific and as a general diagnosis, varies across published studies based on definitions used, tests performed, and the goals of the investigators CAP in children in the United States, the ... diagnostic tests, such as acute-phase reactants, that can validate a clinical impression of severity of disease and can be used to assess appropriate response to therapy Conduct more studies on the ... resistant organisms on mucosal surfaces of treated patients and may represent a source of resistant organisms to others in the community [196] For those children with a history of nonserious...
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Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article Hilbert’s Type Linear Operator and Some Extensions of Hilbert’s Inequality" docx
... when ε is sufficiently small, which contradicts the hypothesis Hence the constant factor D(A,B) in (2.6) is the best possible and T = D(A,B) This completes the proof ∞ Theorem 2.3 Suppose that ... g (2.8) Thus T ≤ D(A,B) and the inequality (2.6) holds Assume that (2.8) takes the form of the equality, then there exist constants a and b, such that they are not both zero and (see [8]) x a ... [6, 7] studied the Hilbert s inequalities by the norm of some Hilbert s type linear operators The main purpose of this article is to study the norm of a Hilbert s type linear operator with the kernel...
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