science at intersections of legal and policy environments snapshot illustrations

... Government of $12.5 billion in aggregate liquidation preference of Citigroup preferred stock, and that in aggregate, approximately $58 billion in aggregate liquidation value of preferred and trust ... The Bank of England, European Central Bank, and Swiss National Bank announce that they will conduct tenders of U.S dollar funding at 7-, 28-, and 84-day maturities at fixed interest rates October ... collateral for many of the Federal Reserve's credit and liquidity programs, including the number of borrowers and borrowing amounts by type of institution, collateral by type and credit rating, and...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 21:20

... status of the Job Satisfaction of officials - To determine the impact of factors affecting Job Satisfaction of officials - To identify the main factors affecting Job Satisfaction with Organizational ... INTRODUCTION Information about the Ministry of Industry and Trade Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Government agencies, performing the function of state management of industry and trade, including ... elements of organizational commitment affect the job satisfaction of officials of the the Ministry of Industry and Trade Therefore, the research question was posed as follows: - What is the relationship...

Ngày tải lên: 05/07/2014, 10:08

... use ↓↓↓ Sources of communication and influence Uptake of innovation influenced by: • Structure and quality of social and communication networks ↓ • Similarity of sources of information to targeted ... Indeed, many of CSAT’s, National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism’s (NIAAA), and National Institute of Drug Abuse’s (NIDA) efforts to promote the use of EBTs, including CSAT’s Addiction ... adopters; e.g., in terms of socioeconomic, educational, professional, and cultural backgrounds ↓ External influences Uptake of innovation influenced by: • Policy mandates ↑↓ (attitudes), ↑↑↑ (use)...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20

... Following Pulatkonak and Sofianos (1999) and Bacidore and Sofianos (2002), we classify stocks incorporated in Bahamas, Bermudas, Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Jersey, Liberia, Puerto Rico and Netherland Antilles ... measures of legal and political risk In Table III, we present a regression model that accounts for the influence of firm characteristics on trading cost measures and isolates the impact of legal and ... level of transparency mandated by the rules governing corporate See for example, Tinic (1972), Benston and Hagerman (1974), Tinic and West (1974), Stoll (1978), Ho and Stoll (1981), Copeland and...

Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2014, 12:03

Ngày tải lên: 25/11/2014, 00:42

... review of motivation, the importance of motivation in language learning, demotivation, demotivating factors, previous studies and demotivation and ULSA 1.1 Motivation Among various factors that affect ... motivation, definition of demotivation, and factors that demotivate students in learning and demotivation in learning English, some previous studies related and the case of ULSA Chapter describes ... composed of description of methodology of the study, participants and setting of the study, data collection instruments, data collection procedure, and data analysis procedure Chapter presents data...

Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2015, 10:28

... the study of the structure and features of a language Grammar usually consists of rules and standards that are to be followed to produce acceptable writing and speaking 1.1.2 Kinds of grammar ... (Test of English for International Communication) so that educated students can communicate well in international communication working The research finds a way to combine both grammar and communicative ... long term goal of communication jobs and short term goal of grammatical exams, thus the thesis aims at developing students‟ grammatical patterns to achieve their soonest goal of passing grammar-based...

Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2015, 10:28

... definitions and types of ESP, ESP related issues, and typical features of English for Business Chapter discusses the present situation, materials, as well as the objectives of teaching and learning ... industrialization and modernization process in midland and mountainous provinces of the North of Vietnam Every year, TUEBA admits students for a course of study of years The number of students ... focus of the study is mainly on investigating some linguistic problems related to ESP reading skills of the students at Thai Nguyen University of Economics and Business Administration After that,...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2015, 09:32

... strategies 2.3 Reading strategies 2.3.1 Definition of reading strategies 2.3.2 Classification of reading strategies 2.3.3 Effect of reading strategies on reading comprehension 2.4 The strategy of ... Winograd and Hare (1988) have proposed a five-step approach, including: Explanation of the strategy How Why When and where to use the strategy and Self-evaluate the use of the strategy Bruton and ... definition of the term “reading strategies” According to Block, reading strategies indicate how readers conceive a task, what textual cues they attend to, how they make sense of what they read, and what...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2015, 10:06

Ngày tải lên: 12/06/2015, 18:40

... heard or repeated Third, learners understand the meaning of new materials and finally, short-term memory of the material must be created for later use in the lesson At the last phase of learning ... results of the survey questionnaires show that the majority of the teachers at In-Service Department, ULIS VNU have true understanding of CLT and its features However, the application of this ... is that the level of participation of second-degree freshmen at ULIS VNU 34 is still under the expectation Although most of the students are aware of the importance of speaking skills, many of...

Ngày tải lên: 15/07/2015, 13:00

... instruction at University of Economic and Technical Industries” Significance of the study In the context of English learning and teaching at UNETI also exists a problematic gap between communication ... (Test of English for International Communication) so that educated students can communicate well in international communication working The research finds a way to combine both grammar and communicative ... long term goal of communication jobs and short term goal of grammatical exams, thus the thesis aims at developing students’ grammatical patterns to achieve their soonest goal of passing grammar-based...

Ngày tải lên: 04/08/2015, 09:39

... hope that this study partially helps both teachers and students at ULSA improve the effectiveness of teaching and leaning ESP Aims of the study Firstly, the study mainly aims at describing and analyzing ... teachers’ attitude towards teaching cohesion and student’s perception of understanding cohesive devices to reading exercises Data from the interview and questionnaire will be analyzed qualitatively and ... Accounting at ULSA in order to collect and classify cohesive devices so as to point out the frequency of occurrence of cohesive devices used in the reading texts Secondly, both qualitative and quantitative...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2015, 19:50

... ecosystem impacts, and analysis of mitigation strategies, need to be based on realistic evaluation of the uncertainties of climate science This report is one of a series intended to communicate research ... results and improve public understanding of climate issues, thereby contributing to informed debate about the climate issue, the uncertainties, and the economic and social implications of policy ... chemistry and climate model indicate multiple, regionally variable and partially-offsetting, effects of BC on absorption and reflection of sunlight, reflectivity of clouds, and the strength of lower...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 22:20

... part of the vernacular of many of those providing the information and of many of the ultimate users of the study results Figure A presents a simplified model of the fate and transport of science ... the EPA Office of Water/Office of Science and Technology/Standards and Applied Science Division To conduct the assessment required estimates of several factors The factors and the sources of the ... regulation for illustrative purposes Figure A Fate and Transport of Science in Environmental Regulation Science emitted Science disseminated, transformed, and reviewed externally Sources of Science...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 05:20

... Relationship of Art and Techno-Scientific Research Historical Separations The arts and the sciences are two great engines of culture: sources of creativity, places of aspiration, and markers of ... genius, and avant-garde status are outdated, then what is the role of the intellectual, critic, or artist? What is the origin and justification of their need to create, and what is the motivation of ... Indeed, debates over the boundaries of the terms art and science regularly engage philosophers and historians of art and science What is art? What is science? What is technology? What are the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 16:32

Ngày tải lên: 28/08/2014, 15:58

... Information Technology at Yenbai Teachers’ Training College iv TABLE CONTENT Candidate’s statement i Acknowledgements ii Abstract iii Table of contents iv List of abbreviations vii List of tables ... an issue that needs a lot of discussion The aims of this study are to identify the difficulties in learning vocabulary of students of computer at Yenbai Teachers’ training college and to find ... related vocabulary in effective way The study was undertaken among all teachers and 3rd year students of computer at Yenbai teachers’ training college Statistical analysis revealed that most of...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2015, 10:41

... 2.3.2 Observation Observation was also considered a tool to get information Jo and Steven mentioned goals of observation including: Placement of students; Evaluation of efficacy of materials; Appreticeship ... College and give some solutions to improve the teaching and learning of computer- related vocabulary there Aims of the study The study is aimed at: Giving better understanding of vocabulary and ESP ... number of individuals and terms which are admitted by a restricted group of persons 1.6.2 Characteristics of terminology Terminology has at least three important features: accurate, systematic, and...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2015, 10:43