some outstanding questions and emerging areas for investigation

... framework (Dimitri and Oberholtzer, 2005) including: • conversion and support payments for organic lands (62% of organic lands received some level of support in 2001), • targets for land under organic ... were handled through supermarkets and grocery stores, mass merchandisers, and club stores Meanwhile, independent natural product and health food stores and natural grocery chains accounted for ... understanding and management of soil fertility, pest management, livestock production and health, development and evaluation of adapted cultivars and breeds, and improved post-harvest handling...

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... waste landfills are not subject to federal standards New source performance standards and emission guidelines require some municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills to capture and control landfill ... development and screening tools; technical assistance and training; information regarding issues related to permitting, utilities, and siting; and case studies The configuration, economics, and performance ... National Council for Air and Stream Improvement (NCASI) for the International Council of Forest and Paper Associations (ICFPA) and accepted by the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the World Business...

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... standard for the diagnosis and management of PH and RV dysfunction in the ICU setting is considered by some to be through pulmonary artery catheterization (PAC), even though most of the information ... Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary hypertension: the task force for the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary hypertension of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and the ... worsening RV performance [105] In patients with sepsis, PH, and associated RV dysfunction, NE increases SVR and improves the RV oxygen supply/demand ratio, although it does not increase RVEF and does...

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... 2012 Benford's Law: Applications for Forensic Accounting, Auditing, and Fraud Detection John Wiley and Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (350 pages) Park, Y.W., Shin, H.H., 2004 Board composition and earnings ... between a developed market and an emerging market? Using Benford's law, this study investigates the difference of cosmetic earnings management between developed and emerging markets by observing ... Shleifer and Wolfenzon, 2002) Developed markets tend to have more extensive disclosure requirements, stronger private and public enforcement of security regulations, and stronger shareholder and creditor...

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... haemoglobin and glaciers) and only some theistically (e.g., blood clotting) There was no two-tier Creation for Buckland; God had created (and thus designed – whatever that means) “all things, visible and ... Lyell; Sedgwick, who elucidated the Cambrian and taught Darwin; Buckland for the first Mesozoic mammal and for introducing the Ice Ages to Britain; and Conybeare on the ichthyosaur Cannon, in a ... Design 279 of “creationist” geologists and then, and only then, argued for evolution and the virtual absence of creative acts to explain the progression of life forms This was a bold step, as there...

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... focus on the roles of ANGPTL2 and ANGPTL6 ⁄ AGF in obesity and related metabolic diseases, and discuss whether these ANGPTLs could be targets for the prevention and treatment of these conditions ... receptors and promotes monocyte chemotaxis through a4 and b2 integrin receptors [15] Angiopoietin signaling is regulated by two independent receptors; Tie2 receptor and integrins [22] Therefore, ... ANGPTL2 and ANGPTL6 ⁄ AGF in obesity and related metabolic diseases The expression of ANGPTL2 and ANGPTL6 ⁄ AGF is induced in obese conditions ANGPTL2 induces chronic adipose tissue inflammation and...

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... 2000 and ISO 14001: 2004 certified by BVQI and QUACERT in all production processes, emission and waste of the company are handled thoroughly and closely monitored for chemicals escaping and not ... government for the companies to formally issue CSR reporting 1.2.2 International Accounting Standard (IAS) and Vietnamese Accounting Standards (VAS) In February 12, 1999, the Vietnam Accounting Standards ... attentions and actions from the government and companies This paper aims to discover how the companies to implement CSR in Vietnam then show some theoretical problems and the demand for managing...

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... social platforms for 2012: blogs, forums and YouTube The social platforms that will catch marketers’ interest and see increased investment in 2012 include: 30 28% 25 19% 20 Blogs Forums Youtube ... 2012, presence and frequency of content will remain a top priority, especially for the novices and dabblers The leaders will venture into new platforms and move beyond presence and frequency to ... MEDIA PLATFORMS STATE OF SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING Forums Similar to blogs and YouTube, forums are gaining momentum as a viable social marketing platform The leaders report the highest level of forum...

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... providing DV and DV K for both substrates as presented in Table The DV value for PTDH-E175A A176R was 2.21 0.03 with NAD and 1.7 0.1 with NADP Therefore, the hydride transfer step for the PTDHE175A ... regeneration enzyme for its cofactor substrate and product is an important parameter Therefore, the dissociation constants (KD) for the cofactor substrates and products were determined WT and PTDH-E175A ... concentration of the titrant, and KD is the dissociation constant for the given titrant Each experiment was performed at least three times for which the average values and standard deviation were obtained...

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... iPhone and iOS Forensics This page intentionally left blank iPhone and iOS Forensics Investigation, Analysis and Mobile Security for Apple iPhone, iPad, and iOS Devices Andrew Hoog Katie ... Technology Prior to working for viaForensics, she worked for years in Information Security for a Fortune 500 company, handling firewall administration and assisting with internal and external network ... and mobile forensics firm She performs forensic investigations, security audits and research, and has trained investigators around the world in mobile forensics She is also a co-author for a white...

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... exchange of location in rural areas for foreign doctors) Loan repayment schemes (paid studies in exchange of services in rural areas for 4-6 years) Increased opportunities for recruitment to civil ... workforce shortages – can also be used to finance policy interventions For example, user-fees in Uganda contributed to the funding of financial incentives for health workers in rural areas and ... cost interventions Dissemination would help inform and reinforce the debate on policies to improve attraction and retention in rural and remote areas Cross-country cost comparisons of similar...

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... 2.2 of Kikkawa and Suzuki [3], and therefore of the Kannan fixed point theorem [4] for generalized Kannan mappings Also, it is the generalization of the Theorem 2.1 of Damjanović and Đorić [13] ... http://www.fixedpointtheoryandapplications.com/content/2011/1/40 Page of where x and y represent the state and decision vectors, respectively, τ : W ×D ® W represents the transformation of the process and p(x) ... doi:10.1186/1687-1812-2011-40 Cite this article as: Đorić and Lazović: Some Suzuki-type fixed point theorems for generalized multivalued mappings and applications Fixed Point Theory and Applications 2011 2011:40 ...

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... (1992); Lumsdaine and Papell (1997); Perron (1989); and Zivot and Andrews (1992)] Fortunately, for most financial time-series data such as share prices, nominal money supply, and gross domestic ... forecasting and empirical research relating to financial engineering 2.9 Conclusion This chapter has presented a variety of networks for forecasting, for dimensionality reduction, and for discrete ... simply cut and paste the derivative formulae from this Toolbox to your own programs Simply type in the command funtool.m, and in the box beside “f=” type in the standard normal Gaussian formula,...

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... particular point forecasts Granger and Jeon (2002) have suggested “thick modeling” as a strategy for neural networks, particularly for forecasting The idea is simple and straightforward We should ... overall network forecast They call this forecast a thick model forecast We can also use this method for obtaining intervals for our forecasts of the network Granger and Jeon have pointed out an intriguing ... in emerging market countries Table 3.3 gives the results for the goodness of fit or R2 statistics for this base set of realizations, as well as the mean and standard deviations of this measure for...

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... predictions each period and to use a trimmed mean of the multiple network forecasts for a thick model network forecast For comparing the linear and thick model network forecasts, the root mean ... also forecast out-of-sample well and make sense and add to our understanding of economic and financial markets 4.5.1 MATLAB Program Notes Many of the programs are available for web searches and ... different speeds and show different volatilities for the same sets of shocks and same laws of motion For values y0 = or y0 = 1, of course, the process remains at zero, and for y0 < and y0 > 1, the...

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... option, τ ; and the annualized volatility or standard deviation of the underlying returns, σ The maturity parameter τ is set at unity for annual, 25 for quarterly, 125 for monthly, and 004 for daily ... chaos model), forecast onevar svjdmodel new1.m (for the stochastic volatility jump diffusion model), forecast onevar markovmodel new1.m (for the Markov regime switching model), and forecast onevar ... performance of alternative neural network models relative to the standard linear model for forecasting relatively complex artificially generated time series We see that relatively simple feedforward...

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... draw upon the standard Phillips curve framework used by Stock and Watson (1999) for forecasting inflation in the United States They define the inflation as an h-period ahead forecast For our quarterly ... equivalent to a 12-month lag for monthly data, used by Stock and Watson (1999) for forecasting inflation To make the model operational for estimation, we specify the following linear and neural network ... statistics and the corresponding P-values for a Granger test of causality We see that the results are somewhat stronger for a causal effect from land prices to loan growth However, the P-value for causality...

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... networks for further exploration 8.3.1 MATLAB Program Notes The programs for these two country experiences are germandefault prog.m for German credit card default rates, and texasfinance prog.m for ... and apply the linear and nonlinear dimensionality reduction methods for in-sample as well as for out-of-sample performance 212 Dimensionality Reduction and Implied Volatility Forecasting 70 60 ... and nonlinear functions for extracting one component, brought in the next observation, and applied these coefficients and functions for estimating the new principal component We used this new forecast...

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