... inflation and inflation target Standard deviation of cost-push, demand andmoney demand shocks Standard deviation of noise of aggregate demand and cost-push shocks Standard deviation ofmoney demand ... elasticity ofmoney demand (in line with Andres et al (2006) and Ireland (2004)) Interest rate elasticity ofmoney demand (in line with Andres et al (2006) and Ireland (2004)) Weighting parameter of ... sticks to the original estimate ofthe intercept, γ0 , in themoney demand equation and never considers the possibility of a structural shift The lower three panels plot the same series for the case...
... to ensure the value of investments abroad andthe liquidity of profits The first is the maintenance ofthe value ofthe currency in which the investments are made and denominated, andthe convertibility ... into the form of leadership chosen is the relative Social Construction andthe Logic ofMoney domestic political strength of those who benefit from leadership, andthe policy demands of other ... constructs of domestic politics, and are integrated with the policy demands of other interest groups Both the constructs ofandthe conflicting interests within the domestic polity ofthe state...
... generation of real-time, insight driven, shopping and financial tools End ofthe days of consumers being “dumb” at point of sale Consumer empowerment to the max 19 There are a variety of hurdles ... point for both the Retail and Financial Services sectors But what’s the real story here? MOBILE PAYMENTS? A real-time, two-way, powerful and flexible, digitization ofmoney 10 FUTURE OFMONEY 11 First, ... phones Financial inclusion 24 Mobile Payments andthe Digitization ofMoney will Change Everything…Or will it? 25 From Theory to Action: The work of SapientNitro 26 Q&A 27 Thanks Donald Chesnut,...
... THE DEGENERACY OFALCHEMY PARACELSUS, AND SOME OTHER ALCHEMISTS SUMMARY OFTHE ALCHEMICAL DOCTRINE THE REPLACEMENT OFTHE THREE PRINCIPLES OFTHE ALCHEMISTS BY THE SINGLE PRINCIPLE OF 58 79 96 ... is formed, the process is not a destruction of matter, it is a rearrangement of atoms Only fragments ofthe writings ofthe founders ofthe atomic theory have come to us The views of these philosophers ... on the whole, and as far as they went, andthe theory they formed was based on no trivial or accidental features ofthe facts, but on what has proved to be the very essence ofthe phenomena they...
... TEMPLESAND TEMPLATES: ASTRONOMY, ASTROLOGY, ANDTHEALCHEMYOFMONEY C CONCLUSIONS Five - MONEY, MONOTHEISM, MONARCHIES AND MILITARIES A THE STATE OF EVIDENCE ANDTHE NEED FOR SPECULATION B THE ... come Andthe merchants ofthe earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more: The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, andof pearls, and fine ... cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men Andthe fruits that...
... the food stocks, andthe mood ofthe garrison The tactics ofthe Daily Mail captured the attention ofthe nation; the newspaper dramatized the situation ofthe town by emphasizing the danger that ... examine both the role ofthe press in the formation of public opinion about imperialism andthe role ofthe press in the formation ofthe concept of public opinion itself Mafeking Night marks the powerful ... powerful beginning ofthe New Journalism at the same time as it marks the beginning ofthe end ofthe New Imperialism The coincidence of these occasions arises from the nature ofthe South African...
... of individual, hand-to-hand combat Grand strategy, on the other hand, remained the preserve of Tiw.11 In India, too, much the same phenomenon was apparent in the role of Indra, the chief ofthe ... the mainstream of legal analysis, largely as a result ofthe crumbling of older conceptions of legitimacy andthe rise of new aspirations for democracy andthe self-determination of peoples The ... testimony both to the warlike character ofthe Greeks and to their feeling of cultural unity, the cities ofthe Amphictyonic League of Delphi agreed that, in the event of war, the combatant states...
... creating and advancing liquidity to producers; along the circuit, the financial system governs the supply and demand of funds and, at the end ofthe process, it determines the condition for the closure ... affected by the creation and use of fiat -money Crucial to this purpose is the functional separation that the theory operates between banks and firms The macroeconomic focus ofthe theory, however, ... them unnecessary to further assess the riskiness ofthe bank Finally, the inadequacy ofthe static accounting framework, underpinning the capital ratios approach, in tracing the dynamics of the...
... zero even at the 95% level in Canada, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK andthe US Moreover, while in some countries, (including Finland, the UK andthe US) residential ... also for these countries the existence of cointegration could not be rejected We therefore specify the VAR models in the level ofthe variables Nevertheless, we neither impose the number of cointegrating ... to offset the macro economic effects ofthe collapse ofthe bubble).2 Of course, it is by no means clear that central banks are better able to judge the appropriate level of asset prices and the...
... kinds: + The change of consumer-demand modal, market andthe attitude to the availability and diversity of goods + The pressure of reducing cost + The development of Information technology + The pressure ... learning and expanding With their experiences, they have learned the value of offering quality services In the way of growing, they have also open branches to establish a worldwide presence These ... The Association has the role of coordinating the activities ofthe members in order to protect the interests ofthe members and improve the position of Vietnam in the international freight forwarding...
... the amount consumed in lians (50g/lian) per unit of time A lian is the unit of weight in China equivalent to 50 g The reproducibility and validity ofthe FFQ was assessed in a random sample of ... For other participants the average ofthe baseline and follow-up FFQ data were used in the analyses The average daily intake of individual food items (g/day) was combined to compute intake of red ... knowledge there are no other reports of a direct link between poultry consumption and risk of diabetes or of interactions between poultry consumption and BMI andthe risk of type DM Red meat consumption...
... than the level of HLA-DR in the cell lysates (5ul of a in 10 dilution, from x 106 PBMC) The shed HLA-DR therefore seemed to represent a small fraction ofthe total HLA-DR ofthe cell, however the ... expression of both the percentage of monocytes expressing HLA-DR andthe density of HLA-DR expression have been observed as a feature of sepsis [4;5;7;8;22-25] Only recently have the possible ... express HLA-DR on their surface [3] To assess the relative contribution of shed to total HLA-DR, the sHLA-DR in the plasma was compared to the total HLA-DR present in cell The level in the plasma (40ul...
... where the consequences of infection can be very severe, while the risk of living with one’s beloved cat is practically nill References Angulo FJ, Glaser CA, Juranek DD et al Caring for pets of immunocompromised ... with the human immunodeficiency virus Clin Infect Dis.1994;18:14-24 Han K, Shin DW, Lee TY, et al Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii infection and risk factors associated with seropositivity of ... women in Korea J Parasitol 2008; 94: 963-965 Grant S and Olsen CW Preventing zoonotic diseases in immunocompromised persons: the role of physicians and veterinarians Emerg Infect Dis 1999; 5: 159-163...
... well as the decentralization of power to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment in the land allocation under Decree 99 The goal of phase ... The participation ofthe private sector is not strong enough especially the companies working in the field of fisheries, agriculture related to conversion of agricultural land The awareness of ... governments of Vietnam and Norway on the implementation of phase II, Norwegian Government has also agreed to further sponsor Vietnam an amount of US$30 million What is the progress of implementing...
... types of students in other university, NEU students are the perfect entity to take the research The study illustrates the effects of music cover and NEU students’ behaviors towards the spread ofthe ... understand the lyrics ofthe original song and they make comparison, they mainly recognize that major of covered songs are not as good as the original ones Hence, they may look down on the musicians, ... newer, brings the song back to the listener with the whole new style andthe performance is completely like remaining the life for the song The cover music in Vietnam is the kind of music, which...
... his masterful handling of logistics for the Persian Gulf War, is another indicator ofthe robustness ofthe true military model The Six Principles andthe Plan of This Book To make the transition ... Harbor and by the Allies to mislead the Germans about the exact location of their invasion of France The use of intelligence was critical to American success in the Cuban missile crisis The Viet ... and society to function effectively and prosperously Therefore, ethical use ofthe principles put forth here is required Thejourney When you come to understand the principles of Sun Tzu and the...
... know the benefit of having the connection of their latrines to biogas plants At the installation, the community agreed to share the 20% ofthe installation cost andthe 100% of cleaning cost of ... because the people were involved from the beginning ofthe installation and they understood the benefit ofthe option from the combination of hygiene education and their experience from the test ... according to the baseline and follow-up surveys, 98% ofthe sampled households used only one ofthe pits ofthe alternate pit latrine The other pit was no more used andthe people extended their house...
... proposed the necessity of city-wide recycling system and other measures The fluctuation of water consumption in this period reflects the people’s consideration on the WCP introduced The people ... relocation of large-scale factories in Tokyo such as Toyosu Gas, Ebisu Brewery, Kirin Beer and others to the outskirts of Tokyo Another major factor was the reduction of water use in the factory ... conservation They also continuously make efforts to promote the utilization of SWT devices including the distribution of free SWT-tap developed by them as shown in Fig.7 On the other hand, for triggering...