... on a long -term bond will equal an average of the short -term interest rates that people expect to occur over the life of the long -term bond. ã Buyers of bonds do not prefer bonds of one maturity ... Pearson Canada Inc. 6 - 1 Chapter 6 The Risk and Term Structure of Interest Rates Copyright 2011 Pearson Canada Inc. 6 - 8 Term Structure of Interest Rates ã Bonds with identical risk, liquidity, ... rates – Flat short- and long -term rates are the same – Inverted long -term rates are below short -term rates Copyright 2011 Pearson Canada Inc. 6 - 11 Term Structure of Interest Rates – Fact 1 ...
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Báo cáo toán học: "On the Structure of Sets with Few Three-Term Arithmetic Progressions" pptx
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Characterization of the Carbon Stable Isotope Ratio and Fatty Acid Structure of Zostera japonica in Coastal Areas
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the meaning and structure of a narrative a systemic functional analysis
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STRUCTURE OF POLYSACCHARIDES
... Chemical structure of alginate 2.1 Structural Features 9 Fig. 2.4. Structure of pullulan The polysaccharide possesses hydroxyl groups at position 2, 3 and 4 of different reactivity (Fig. 2.4). The structure ... permission from [27], copyright Wiley VCH) 10 2 Structure of Polysaccharides Fig. 2.5. Structures of amylopectin (left) and amylose (right) and schematic representation of the branching pattern extractable ... solution of acetic acid. Chitin containing about 40% of GlcNAc moieties is insoluble while the soluble polysaccharide is named chitosan [38]. Fig. 2.10. Structure of chitin consisting of N-acetylglucosamin...
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Structure of vibrated powders – numerical results
... for times of observation of up to t ∼ 2.10 5 cycles. For large shaking amplitudes 7 The amplitude of shaking A is also parametrised in terms of free volume, as the intensity was. 46 Structure of ... extension b is the projection of the radius of gyration of the bridge on the x-y plane. A colour version of this figure may be found in the colour plates section. terms of its arc length s. (For complex ... dependence of the variance 2 (s). The numerical data are found to agree well with a common fit to the first (stationary) term of (4.10) – the ‘transient’ effects of the second term of (4.10)...
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the structure of central banking and the bank of canada
... 15 The Structure of Central Banking and the Bank of Canada Copyright 2011 Pearson Canada Inc. 15 - 4 Formal Structure of the Bank of Canada I ã Responsibility for the operation of the ... rests with a Board of Directors, which consists of fifteen members: ã the governor (currently Mark Carney, who is the chief executive officer and chairman of the Board of Directors) ã the ... approval, for a renewable term of 7 years. ã The outside directors are appointed by the minister of finance, with cabinet approval, for a 3-year term. ã In 1994 the Board of directors established...
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Tài liệu Gravitational Physics: Exploring the Structure of Space and Time pdf
... Small-Scale Structure of Space and Time. The union of the two most significant developments of 20th-century physics—general relativity and quan- tum theory—is one of the greatest challenges of contemporary ... properties of the geometry of space in the vicinity of black holes that are predicted by general relativity. ã The measurement of the dragging of inertial frames due to the rotation of Earth at ... some of the important achievements of the past decade illustrates this point: ã The confirmation of the existence of gravitational waves by the observed shortening of the orbital period of a...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo " The meaning and structure of a science fiction story: a sysyemic functional analysis " doc
... the cohesive harmony of the text; to a summary of the context of situation of the text in terms of the three contextual parameters: field, tenor and mode. 2. The Context of the Chosen Text ... 33). Of 36 clauses, 35 are in the declarative mood, which is one of the typical features of a narrative. The mood pattern of the text is represented in Table 3. The meaning and structure of ... chain relation in terms of the address of all the preceding members in the chain. Tables 6 and 7 summarise the total number of references, the number of clauses, the number of cohesive ties...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Crystal structure of an ascomycete fungal laccase from Thielavia arenaria – common structural features of asco-laccases ppt
... crystal structure of TaLcc1 does not have a chloride attached to the T2 copper, as observed in the crystal structure of MaL. The unique fea- ture of TaLcc1 and MaL as compared with other laccases structures ... other laccases. The stabilization of both the N-termini and C-termini of TaLcc1 and MaL might be a reason for the higher thermal stability. The extended C-terminus of asco-laccases is buried inside ... FEBS 2283 crystal structures. In our near-atomic crystal structure of rMaL, His98 exists in its oxidized form, possibly because of the oxidative stress [33]. The oxidation of the His residues...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Crystal structure of importin-a bound to a peptide bearing the nuclear localisation signal from chloride intracellular channel protein 4 ppt
... complex (observed structure factors F pep o ) with an apo structure of importin-a (70–529) (observed structure factors F apo o ). This structure is described in ref. [42]. The structure factors ... reservoir consisted of 500 lL of 0.7 m sodium citrate, 10 mm dithiothreitol and 70 mm Hepes at pH 7.4. Drops consisted of 0.75 l L of importin-a (70-529) at 18 mgặmL )1 , 0.75 lL of CLIC4 NLS peptide ... CLIC4 [2,3]. The structure of a soluble form of CLIC4 shows that it adopts the canonical glutathione S-transferase fold with an N-terminal thioredoxin-like domain and an a-helical C-terminal domain...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Crystal structure of the cambialistic superoxide dismutase from Aeropyrum pernix K1 – insights into the enzyme mechanism and stability pdf
... conformation around the active site of ApeSOD is independent of the presence of a metal cofactor. Figure 3D shows the superimposition of the active site structures of apo, Mn-bound and Fe-bound Ape- SODs. ... the presence of either of Mn or Fe. The crystal structures of the superoxide dismutase from A. per- nix in the apo, Mn-bound and Fe-bound forms were determined at resolu- tions of 1.56, 1.35 ... (Fig. 3A). Three of the ligands, OD2 of Asp165, NE2 of His79 and NE2 of His169, formed an equatorial plane. The other protein ligand, NE2 of His31, bound to the metal, in the company of a water oxygen,...
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Tài liệu Inequalities in Higher Education and the Structure of the Labour Market pdf
... proportion of whiteandAsiangraduateswithineachcategory of number of yearsworkedwasnotashigh asthat of otherracegroupsatthetime of thesurvey(Table8). Table8:Number of yearsworkedbythoseinmanagement,byrace Number of yearsworked Asian ... employers aboutthequality of educationinvariousinstitutionsalsoplayanimportantrolein employability.Effortsmustbemadetochangetheseperceptions.Althoughthedivide betweeninstitutions of highereducationisnolongeralongraciallinesasthenumber of Africansinhistoricallywhiteinstitutionshasrisen,thehistoricallypredominantly blackinstitutionsarestillpredominantlyblackdespitethemergers.Itremainstobe seenifthemergerswilldoanythingtochangeprevailingperceptions. Clearly,highereducationhasamajorroletoplayinlabourmarketre-adjustment, particularly in terms of countering and averting segmentation of the labour force. Because of theever-growingdemandforhighlyskilledpeople,particularlyinthefields of scienceandtechnology,apolicyinterventionisrequiredthatwillradicallyimprove thequality of thedelivery of theeducationsystem.Enhancingeducation’sproductive anddistributivefunctionsshouldbeapriority of the ... labour marketbasedonraceastheyprimarilyaddressthedemand-sidesources of inequities. Thecontinuingdisparitiespointtoaneedtolookintotherole of supplyfactorsin thephenomenon.Differencesinhumancapitalacquiredaregainingprominencein accountingfortheracialdisparitiesinthelabourmarket. Field of study is the major determinant of employability for those with higher education qualifications. Those in fields of study that lead to a profession and those...
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Tài liệu Đề tài " The causal structure of microlocalized rough Einstein metrics " pptx
... of Sections 6 and 7 we provide a detailed proof of the Asymptotics Theorem. ROUGH EINSTEIN METRICS 1205 Proof. For simplicity we only provide the proof of the identity (42). The derivation of ... the derivation of the decay estimates needed in the first paper. 1. Introduction This is the second in a series of three papers in which we initiate the study of very rough solutions of the Einstein ... a corresponding derivative of π plus terms of type E. Consider the term R 1 = e α a e β b e γ c e δ d ∂ 2 αδ H βγ . We show that it can be ex- pressed in the form D a π bcd plus terms of type E. Indeed, D a π bcd =...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Crystal structure of Klebsiella sp. ASR1 phytase suggests substrate binding to a preformed active site that meets the requirements of a plant rhizosphere enzyme doc
... 24.30 Content of the asymmetric unit Number of nonhydrogen atoms 7081 12 516 Number of protein molecules 2 4 Number of water molecules 804 181 Number of glycerol molecules 2 – Number of sodium ions ... of radiation damage [33]. In order to determine the structure of the complex of an inactive PhyK mutant with its substrate phytase, the refined structure of the wild-type enzyme was used for molecular replacement ... the superposition of the structures was improved by con- sidering only pairs of C a atoms < 2.5 A ˚ apart. Because of the different length of a helix A, the C a atoms N-terminal to or inside...
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Tài liệu High-level Expert Group on reforming the structure of the EU banking sector docx
... "Short term interest rates are determinants of the cost of leverage and are found to be important in influencing the size of financial intermediary balance sheets". The introduction of the ... of banks; and so on. Moreover, the level of competition and contestability of the sector to the benefit of consumers can be deemed suboptimal, given the barriers to entry (and exit), lack of ... the scope of bank regulation. A variety of instruments contributed to the intermediation of credit outside the regulated banking system, ranging from ABCP to CDOs and many other types of ABS....
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Neuronal growth-inhibitory factor (metallothionein-3): reactivity and structure of metal–thiolate clusters* doc
... determination of the spatial structure of the N-terminal domain con- taining the Cd(II) 3 -CysS 9 cluster was thus precluded. For a more detailed discussion of the dynamics of the protein structure ... release of two Cd(II) ions from the a-domain, without a significant change in the poly- peptide structure. Further addition of NO resulted in a complete loss of protein structure. DTNB has often ... the N-terminal domain [33]. The structure of this Cu(I) 4 - CysS 8-9 cluster is not known, but extended X-ray absorption spectroscopy data yield a Cu-Cu distance of 2.67 A ˚ and a Cu-S distance of...
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