... accumulation, and (iv) have higher saving rates To evaluate the impact of banks on growth and the sourcesof growth, we seek an indicator of the ability of banks to research and identify profitable ... terms of econometric technique and data First, while King and Levine (1993a) and Levine and Zervos (1998) empirically assess the connection between banking sector development and the sourcesof ... Loayza, and Montiel 1997) We use the inflation rate and the ratio of government expenditure to GDP as indicators of macroeconomic stability We use the sum of exports and imports as share of GDP and...
... inconsistencies in the annotations of nouns in SemCor or the very fine granularity of the nouns in WN We know that 72% of the nouns, 74% of the verbs, 68.9% of the adjectives, and 81.9% of the adverbs directly ... combines orthogonal sourcesof evidence to create a state- of- the-art system for the task of WSD disambiguation for AW Our approach yields an overall global F measure of 64.58 for the standard SV2AW ... SENSEVAL data as a tuning set We found that a cut-off threshold of 40 was also useful We will refer to this variant of Expand-Lesk with a cut off threshold of 40 as Lesk3 For JCN, similar to SM07, the...
... and the continuity for local solutions The paper is original, the generality of the operators considered is appealing and the method of proof, which cannot make any use of Moser’s iteration technique, ... paper, Bonforte and Vazquez study localand global properties of positive solutions to the so-called fast diffusion equation, namely ut − Δum = (4) when m < The paper collects and expands in a well-organized ... comments on the geometric and probabilistic significance of Harnack’s inequalities as well The attention is mainly on classical results and an extensive and thorough list of references is given In...
... Given the existence of information asymmetries and the potential for conflicts of interest between company management and outside users of financial information, an audit of financial reports by a third ... conclusions, and recommendations New York: AICPA American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) SEC Practice Section 1992 Statement of position regarding mandatory rotation of audit firms of ... Research Arrunada, B., and C Paz-Ares 1997 Mandatory rotation of company auditors: A critical examination International Review of Law and Economics 17 (1): 31–61 Balachandran, B., and N Nagarajan 1987...
... (ABSA Capital and Development Bank of South Africa) and the local affiliate of South Africa’s Standard Bank, along with four local banks, a Mauritian bank (Mauritius Commercial Bank), and international ... predominance of state- controlled pension funds/systems in a number of countries and a lack or small number of private pension funds, underdeveloped capital markets and a narrow range of alternative ... transport and communication, construction and manufacturing, electricity, water supply, and housing For Tanzania: Cost of financing Feasibility Study of Kigamboni Bridge In Uganda, 1.8 percent of total...
... Office of Law Enforcement Standards of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and produced as part of the Law Enforcement and Corrections Standards and Testing Program, these standards ... United States The Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement provides a comprehensive, critical, and descriptive examination of all facets of law enforcement on the stateand local, federal and national, and ... of Police Evaluation of Officers xii—᪑—Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement: StateandLocal Fraternal Organizations Hiring Standards for Police Morale Patrol Shifts Patrol Work Physical Fitness and...
... comprising one-fourth of the cases The second most common type of cancer was malignant tumors of the central nervous system for younger than and 5-9 years of age, and lymphoma for 10-14 and leukemia for ... incidence rates for each of the four calendar periods of observation show similar and much higher cancer rates for the youngest (younger than years of age) and oldest (15-19 years of age) age groups ... children younger than 20 years of age in the whole United States Twentytwo percent of the US population is younger than 15 years of age and an additional 7% are 15-19 years of age Annual population...
... were found to closely link to local wind speeds and directions (relative to local emission sources) and regional synoptic meteorology suggesting that both localsourcesand LRT contributed to the ... information) The PM samplers and meteorology equipment were placed on the rooftop of a building (15 m above the ground) of the Hanoi University of Science (HUS) and about 100 m from the heavily ... at night and early morning (22:00e02:00 and 2:00e6:00) were still lowest in a day which confirmed the predominant influence of diurnal variations of the local emission Sample-wise PM mass and EC/OC...
... hundreds of new bureaucratic agencies and elected offices at the local level New districts, competitive elections and the discretionary powers oflocal government have generated a great deal of scholarly ... that local ‘mafias’, ‘networks’, and ‘clans,’” which are “loosely defined, somewhat shadowy, and rather fluid clusters and cliques of businessman, politicians, and officials” govern at the local ... Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Home Affairs monitor local legislation and strike down local laws judged to contravene national ones As of April 2010, for example, the Ministry of Finance...
... the area The research team consisted of a staff from RIA No 1, DOFI and CSSH and officers of People's Committee of the District (PCD) and People's Committee of the Commune (PCC) The fieldwork was ... pollution by nutrients and organic wastes from effluents and wastes, chemicals and medicinal residues to water and soil, salinisation of agricultural land and introductions of non-native species ... the feasibility of aquaculture planning and building capacity for local authorities and lagoon resource users v List of Abbreviations and Acronyms CRES Centre for Natural Resources and Environmental...
... Overlay of sewered area Overlay of sewered area and households Separation of unsewered households Fig - Separation of unsewered households of Minasebashi basin of Mizunashi River - 147 - Journal of ... calculation of pollution load of the individual basin, on the basis of the results of the river flow survey (Fig 17) In the case of Mizunashi River and the upstream basins of Kuzuha River, because of ... Journal of Water and Environment Technology, Vol 9, No.2, 2011 data of Japan and the data of each drainage basin were prepared in GIS and were calculated based on area proportion (Fig 4) Land use...
... postal and Total 80% 60% 40% 20% Federal StateLocal 2002 1977 1952 1927 0% 1902 Share of Total Government Spending 100% FISCAL FEDERALISM IN THE U.S AND ABROAD The largest element ofstateandlocal ... care and public safety For federal spending, the largest elements are health care, Social Security, and national defense Spending and Revenue ofStateandLocal Governments The major source of ... laws mandate redistribution across communities in a state to ensure more equal financing of schools Local districts receive about 45% of the funding from local sources, primarily from local property...
... writing of ‘the state , of itself, as in ‘to preserve the state so that it shall not perish’ (ad statum conservandum ne pereat).1 By 1300, Accursius’ idea of the state was gaining acceptance and ... 1995), pp 5–6 Aquinas used the word state similarly in the sense of the stateof the people of the Jews’: Alan Harding, Medieval Law and the Foundations of the State (Oxford: Oxford University ... Science and Diffusion of Law’ (2005) 32 Journal of Law and Society 203–40, 208–13 119 Territorial law and the rise of the state political dimension Space constraints prevent investigation of, for...
... Phương pháp nghiên cứu khoa học “User’s perceptions and uses of financial reportsof small and medium companies (SMCs) in transitional economies” thật cần thiết Đọc nghiên...
... any future study and/ or development Number, emission profile (i.e the chemical composition of the pollutants emitted by a specific source) and impact of the major pollution sources in each study ... At the conclusion of the monitoring period hundreds of samples have been collected and analyzed in each study area, thus producing an extremely large and complete data base which ... Comparative analysis in five port cities - Report.pdf Third technical meeting in Venice The third technicaland scientific meeting of the APICE project will be held in Venice on 24th 26th January...
... 205 of the Act and Proposed Section 610.4 of the Free Reports Rule Despite the Commission’s efforts, the aggressive advertising for “free credit reports tied to the purchase of products and ... Reduction Act should additionally be submitted to: Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”), Attention: Desk Officer for Federal Trade Commission Comments ... source, in violation of section 610.2(g) of the current Rule B Statement of the Objectives of, and Legal Basis for, the Proposed Rule Amendments The proposed amendments to the Free Reports Rule implement...