the benefits of closeness to nonresident parents

... itself If the firm responds to the new information by redesigning the product, the cost of redesign will reduce the value of the new, substitute action Note that, whatever the case, the value of re-optimization ... process itself, the nature of the waste, and the availability of existing data on costs (i.e., landfill fees) There will also be costs associated with the integration of the data into the firm's accounting ... firm's ability to adjust the level of investment to reflect the input's price remains a source of flexibility and potential value The value of information in Case Now turn to the value of improved...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 14:20

... the Napster server resolves the IP addresses of the PCs hosting a particular song, it shifts control of the file transfers to the nodes Furthermore, the ability of the Napster nodes to host the ... want to know more about the resources being offered, such as the speed of the computer, the amount of available memory, and the bandwidth of the connection Some of the technical means used to track ... addresses? Does it give the nodes at the edges of the network significant autonomy? If the answer to both of those questions is yes, the application is peer -to- peer If the answer to either question is...

Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2014, 10:58

... in context with the other exploring the safetyefficacy balance of the addition of bevacizumab to chemotherapy for advanced breast cancer strengthen the need of a deep analysis of the correlation ... based chemotherapy, the HR in terms fir the time to progression is 0.70 [28] In the phase III trial evaluating the addition of capecitabine to docetaxel in the same setting of patients, the HR for ... compares with the benefits of other important therapeutic choices such as the addition of taxanes for the st line treatment of metastatic breast cancer, where the advantage in terms of relative...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:21

... sys-admin to manage the profiles of customers • Update products: allow sales managers to update, edit or remove products • Login: allow customers to login the system • Register: allow customers to register ... instructors and students The advantage of the client/server architecture is that the client and server machines work together to accomplish the processing of the application being used The processing capacity ... customers can add more products they want and delete the products they chose At the end, the customers confirm orderings to the manager by enter their address in box and click confirm order button...

Ngày tải lên: 14/10/2014, 01:07

... item The next is the field of vocabulary that most of the students showed their consent to learning new words through the video clips Of 85% of the students endorsed the statement, 25% of them ... expressed their strong agreement At the top of the list is intonation and pronunciation that were supported wamily by almost of the students 86% of participants appreciated the value of the lessons of ... observe the way the speaker guide them to pronounce /d3 /and /3 / Play a half of the sequence Ask the students to follow the way the speaker instmcts them to pronounce Let some students make the...

Ngày tải lên: 19/12/2015, 14:07

... INTERVIEW QUESTIONS According to the purpose of the report, we had to go out to carry out our interview with the foreigner tourists We had to spend two days in the OldQuarter to it Before carrying this ... that the percentage of independent tourist is the biggest It occupies 58% in total The numbers of tourists who travel in-group hold 33% And the business tourist market is less, 9% Seeing the result, ... finding other guests, but not much tourist, so we could interview one to two travelers Most of them seemed too closed, to be friendly and warmhearted, and welcome us They told us everything they...

Ngày tải lên: 25/04/2013, 15:42

... on behalf of its customers If there is an issue with the license application, the user is advised of the problem and is requested to manually file a registration with the FCC This further process ... Currently, Ofcom administers the e-band frequencies under an interim manual licensing and link registration processes The basic process is similar to that in the USA First the applicant has to apply to ... every week Ofcom is developing a permanent web-based tool to automate this entire process Besides the currently manual process, the main difference between the UK and US systems is that the UK licensing...

Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2013, 19:15

... depositors, in other words, would limit the amount of yield they would need to earn and hence the amount of risk they would need to bear to be competitive Without rate competition, that is, the ... the loan -to- deposit ratio, the higher the deposit rate The larger the bank, as measured by (the log of) total assets, the more it can diversify and hold a safer portfolio; thus, the greater the ... financial center of the United States Thus, if there are statistical regularities to uncover in banking, they should be reflected in the records of these banks The other reason to focus on New...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 05:20

... in parenthesis J-Stat denotes the p-value of the Jstatistic to test the null hypothesis that the overidentifying restrictions are satisfied Excess returns are expressed vis-à-vis the US The data ... J-stat The results refer to the estimation of system (14) by one stage GMM estimation with the optimal weighting matrix being the unity matrix The estimated coefficients of the system of equations ... both the domestic country and the US for bonds Standard errors are reported in parenthesis J-Stat denotes the p-value of the Jstatistic to test the null hypothesis that the overidentifying restrictions...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 02:20

... change They can choose to nothing to suffer (or enjoy the benefits from) the full impact of climate change Or they can decide to adapt to the level where the benefits from adaptation equal their ... necessarily reflect the views of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent The World Bank does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this work The boundaries, ... climate change The difference between these two worlds entails a series of actions to adapt to the new world conditions And the costs of these additional actions are the costs of adapting to climate...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 10:20

... indicator for the occurrence of the intermediate in the unfolding Calcium ions are the main contributory factor to enzyme stability The binding of calcium ions seems to be the main source of stabilization ... Reduction of autoproteolysis, in the presence of 2– mm CaCl2, by the addition of isopropanol leads to a reduction of the observed rate constants of unfolding The kobs values coincide for both of the ... Model of the 3D structure of the neutral protease from Bacillus stearothermophilus, including the position of the disulfide bridge in mutant G8C ⁄ N60C The model was created on the basis of the...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 17:20

... Kingdom rank at the top At the bottom, one finds the Democratic Republic of Congo; many other African nations rank low as well In relative change, of the countries listed here the United Kingdom ... during the period studied, especially with regard to the size of government The index enables researchers to carry out statistical analyses of the importance of economic freedom Examining the construction ... constitutional factors and economic freedom (in the form of the ScullySlottje index) affect economic convergence, and they find economic freedom, of all the variables they studied, to have the strongest...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 19:20

... used to internalise the externalities of the production of meat and dairy products – i.e including them in the price of the product This would involve the introduction of a Pigouvian Tax equal to ... taken in the field of livestock production The Dutch study referred to earlier suggests that a method to internalise the externalities of meat production – i.e including them in the price of meat ... the introduction of a Pigouvian Taxiv equal to the cost of the negative externalities.Such a tax would correct the market failure due to externalities The study states that the average rate of...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 20:20

... until the very end (Fig lb) Thus even the thematic role of the subject NP remains unresolved until the very end ASLC is too circumspect for interactive semantics HSLC on the other hand, attempts to ... attempts to attach the PP to the VP or NP even before the noun in the PP has been seen At this time, semantics cannot provide useful feedback since it has no information on the role filler for a thematic ... role to evaluate it against known selectional preferences for that role filler Thus AELC is too eager for interactive semantics ASLC, on the other hand, does not attempt to attach the VP to the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 21:20

... reach ten years of age Proximity was the strongest predictor of contact, and British grandparents see more of the children of their daughters than their sons (Clarke 2003) The benefits of an ageing ... Assessments of the value of this work to the economy vary depending upon the estimated number of volunteer hours and the method of valuing the contribution For example, the work done by volunteers in the ... attributable to the last year of life Since we all must die, the effect of an ageing population will be to postpone rather than to increase health service costs (Wanless 2001) The cost of the last year of...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 18:20

... one iron to be more loosely bound to the enzyme than the other [34] The low occupancy of the proximal iron leads to an increase of the temperature factor of its surroundings but not to a significant ... points to the di-iron center The iron closer to FMN is, in the following, referred to as proximal iron, and the other as distal iron The distance between N5 ˚ of FMN and the proximal Fe of about ... between the isoalloxazine ring of FMN and the segment between His151 and Pro153 of the switch loop, whereby the imidazole group of His151 interacts with the bottom of F420H2 and the side chain of...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 10:20

... with the difference that the phosphate group of IMP mol I is close to the position of the b-phosphate group of pdUppA-3¢-p while the inosine base passes through the ribose of the adenosine part of ... inhibitor than IMP Thus, the 5¢ phosphate group of the IMP molecule might connect to the carbonyl O6 group of another IMP molecule and then the hydroxyl groups 2¢ and 3¢ from the ribose of the ... 0.77 for the association of AMP to the active site of RNase A Comparative structural analysis Although the three IMP molecules bind to the catalytic cleft of RNase A one after the other, they not...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 21:20

... Because the molecular methods are more specific, users of these methods will be more certain about the traits they introduce into the plants.”24 14 • The Benefits of Biotechnology The Benefits of ... by factors of seven to 10 and that traditional techniques could “not deliver the food for the burgeoning population of Africa.”11  • The Benefits of Biotechnology The G8 leaders decided to increase ... for many years to using sustainable production methods to meet the needs of the present while improving the ability of future generations to meet their own needs by: Other aspects of sustainable...

Ngày tải lên: 13/03/2014, 22:08

... is at the heart of the technology XML is all about how the pieces are put together The Structure pane and the Tags panel work hand in hand to reveal the how The Structure pane gives you the big ... Tag button Figure 2.24 To create a tag, select New Tag from the Tags panel menu or click the New Tag button at the bottom of the panel Figure 2.25 Type Portrait in the New Tag dialog The tag ... comparison of the HTML and XML code displayed in Table 1.1 As you can see, XML is designed to identify the data, not to make it look good The concept of markup languages harks back to the 1960s, to IBM’s...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 23:20