... Program CAA CleanAirAct of 1970 CAAA CleanAirAct Amendments of 1990 CAIR CleanAir Interstate Rule CAMR CleanAir Mercury Rule CARB California Air Resources Board CAVR CleanAir Visibility ... and Costs of theCleanAirAct fron 1990 to 2020 Additional EGU regulations, such as theCleanAir Interstate Rule (CAIR), theCleanAir Mercury Rule (CAMR), and theCleanAir Visibility Rule ... E S TheCleanAirAct Amendments of 1990 augmented the significant progress made in improving the nation's air quality through the original CleanAirAct of 1970 and its 1977 amendments The amendments...
... vehiclerelated air pollution problems than the rest of the country and because it already had a history of regulating mobile sources at the time the relevant provisions of theCleanAirAct were enacted Other ... percent of the total, including stationary, area and mobile sources Also like the emissions from trucks and buses, almost all of the PM fromthe nonroad category is PM2.5 Although theCleanAirAct ... cannot adopt their own standards for existing nonroad equipment (which is different fromtheCleanAirAct provisions for trucks and buses and light-duty vehicles) theCleanAirAct confines states...
... were added at the concentration of 500 lM These mixtures were preincubated at °C for h in the absence of CaCl2 and added to the reaction mixture The TGase activity was measured by the microtiter ... Although the predicted aminoacid sequence had similarity with the sequences of mammalian TGase, the length of the cDNA was smaller than the length deduced fromthe molecular size of the purified ... 6B shows the relative enzymatic activity in the presence of the nucleotides GTP and ATP clearly inhibited the activity, while GDP showed weak inhibition GMP did not block the enzymatic activity...
... exposure factors to be evaluated The Regulatory Impact Assessment: The Numbers Behind the Proposal The Water Office’s Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) estimated that the proposed BAT for the pulp ... under the Toxic Substances Control Act Control of Dioxins (and other Organochlorines) from Pulp & Paper effluents under theClean Water Act (as part of the combined air/ water “cluster rule” proposed ... could be fairly characterized as routine or pedestrian As a group, the cases tend toward the “high-profile” end of the distribution of EPA decisions Nevertheless, among the case studies, there is...
... avoid the potential negative outcome In other words, the motivation is related to the health and aesthetic benefits that a physical activity could provide Thus, the positive social interaction ... an activity and the belief in their enhanced ability to perform the activity could be related to maintenance of the activity and the time spent performing it [36] In addition, the maintenance ... two different types of activity (basketball and running) was allocated to “group activity”, and the times spent performing these activities were added together to generate the time variable Based...
... contrast to the northern states, in southern states of the US where the summer months are hot and humid, children have lower physical activity in summer than in winter [20] The impact of season ... in the regions of the Midwest and Northeast, active transportation peaks during summer whereas regions of the South have relatively warm weather during the spring and autumn and hot humid weather ... physical activity Pleasant weather provides safer, more aesthetic conditions for active transportation At the same time, pleasant weather might also encourage people to engage in other physical activities,...
... 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, fromthe macro level ... capture the current situation Sector focus: In order to see the exact environmental impacts of the industry, the research addresses the textile sector that is known for its pollution rather than the ... and they may tend to evade the rules in order keep their production cost low, at least in the short run Apart from firms’ characteristics, the products themselves also have potential impact by...
... relation of the samples and country rocks and also on the thermal history in which the rock itself experienced All other radioactive dating methods applied for any mineral extracted fromthe first ... shear sense at various scale from regional to thin section one Tectonic setting and structural characteristics Analysis of thin section of gneiss samples taken fromthe Con Voi range evidenced the ... contamination with the mantle materials The model age TDM=1880 m.y calculated fromthe isochron suggested that the provenance of metamorphic rocks of Con Voi range might derive fromthe Proterozoic...
... Interest Rates: Evidencefromthe Fed Funds Futures Market Abstract This paper estimates the impact of monetary policy actions on bill, note, and bond yields, using data fromthe futures market ... consistent with the efficient markets hypothesis The response of Fed funds futures rates themselves to unexpected policy actions is fairly uniform across the one- to five-month horizon, supporting the view ... yields fromthe Federal Reserve H.15 release The note and bond data are the end-of-day yields of on -the- run Treasuries, obtained from Bloomberg The coefficients describing interest rates’ reaction...
... pattern: the recovery fromthe Great Contraction in the 1930s; the recovery after the recession of the early 1990s and the 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 and the present recovery The present recovery is strikingly more tepid than the 1990s ... with the peak in 1882 and ending with the recovery fromthe 2007 recession We measure the amplitude of the contraction by the percentage drop (from the peak) of quarterly RGDP We measure the recovery...
... leveraged positions The operations of the ECB seem to impair the informational content of bond prices as they relate to the actual credit risk of these assets The remainder of the paper is organised ... evaluate, among other factors, the effect of the purchases of sovereign debt by the ECB and the potential haircut on the banks’ holdings of Greek bonds Finally, the most frequent analysis of the CDS-bond ... risk on the side of CDS dealers, we employ the CDS spreads of the 14 banks most active as dealers in the CDS market These CDS spreads are obtained from CMA The information regarding the European...
... directly fromthe author IZA Discussion Paper No 5558 March 2011 ABSTRACT Wars and Child Health: Evidencefromthe Eritrean-Ethiopian Conflict* This is the first paper using household survey data from ... term The coefficient 1 measures the war’s impact on children’s height-for-age Z-scores for children born before the war in war-affected regions, while the coefficient 2 measures the impact of the ... similar to the war’s impact on children born before the war started in the war regions Table (boys only) and Table (girls only) explore the heterogeneity of the war impact by gender Unlike the literature...
... that the main determinants of net interest margins are bank-specific factors, whereas others claim that the industry-specific factors are more important On the other hand, others believe that the ... during the past decade Secondly, beside the bankspecific factors, industry-specific factors, and macroeconomic factors, this paper will test the effect of two additional factors, namely the gross ... proportion of their activities are in fact located outside the host market The economic conditions of the host market (represented by GDPG and INF) also have much lower impact on foreign banks Therefore,...
... -11.7* * The mean and standard deviation correspond to the sample values The numbers in the parentheses stand for the t-ratios The Sharpe ratio is calculated by diving the sample mean by the sample ... stands for the Durbin-Watson statistic The numbers in the parentheses below the point estimates stand for the t-ratios Adj R2 stands for the adjusted coefficient of determination The hypotheses tests ... estimated by the SURE method Table summarises the results for the weekly returns [Table 3] The fit of the model is satisfactory ranging from 72% to 80% What is encouraging is that the results...
... declining trend in the pre-crisis period, which reverts from 2007 for the Domestic banks, and from 2008 for the Global banks In the latter group, there is a sudden drop at the peak of the crisis, followed ... places the paper in the context of the literature Section III presents the dataset, discusses the criteria for the partition of the sample, and describes some stylized facts on the evolution of ... the expansion of their balance sheets in the run-up to the crisis, together with excessive leverage, have been highlighted as key factors in the buildup of systemic risks and the propagation mechanism.6...
... for the specific regulations of the Pact and the decisions taken by the Council varies considerably The main reason for diverging assessments of the virtues of the Stability and Growth Pact is the ... of the SGP would be a “stupid” avenue, there is no evidence of significant reactions fromthe markets Indeed, the markets may have interpreted the announcement as not raising the risk of the ... strengthening of the Pact in November to the stability of inflation expectations But the comparison with the implied break-even inflation rate in the US and the UK reveals, the overall shape of the curve...
... concentration Two factors go into the construction of the index, the number of firms in the industry and each firm’s market share The fewer the number of firms in the industry the easier it is for them to ... ex- post approach The ex-ante interest rate spread is the difference between the contractual rates charged on loans and the rates paid on deposits These are the rates that the public sees and ... to support the hypothesis that interest rate spreads are positively related to market power That is, the more concentrated the banking industry (i.e the less competitive) the higher the banks’...
... following the passage of theClean Water Act She uses variation in the time at which states were authorized to enforce theClean Water Act within their boundaries in order to determine the impact of the ... models are then left with the simpler task of explaining the change in pollution fromthe upstream point to the downstream point as a function of the characteristics of counties in between the two ... environmental damage even as they perceive the benefits of increased economic activity in their region The policy-making community has noted the relative paucity of empirical evidence for the various arguments...
... can enter the heme pocket fromthe surrounding solvent The latter case may be in the b chains of the HbO2 tetramer To investigate more exactly the effect of the a1b1 or a2b2 contact on the stability ... against the acidic autoxidation must have been produced by the formation of the a1b1 or a2b2 contact To see more quantitatively the effect of the a1b1 or a2b2 contact on the autoxidation reaction, ... attributed to the a chains and a slow rate constant ks is for the b chains in the HbO2 tetramer P is the molar fraction of the rapidly reacting hemes This conclusion is based on the rapid chain...
... activities TheCleanAirAct (Air Quality Act of 1967, CAA) requires pulp and paper companies to install the best available technology to preserve the quality of air resources TheClean Water Act (Federal ... been on the rise since the 1980’s and continued throughout the 1990s The pace of change, measured by the number of mergers per year, picked up in the late 1990’s.12 From 1970 to 1979, the average ... in the pulp, paper, and paperboard sectors was 4; from 1980 to 1989, this increased to And during the 1990s, there averaged mergers per year The most active merger activity was observed in the...