... writings also assign a crucial role to what they call 'aggregate demand externalities' as a source of sluggish price adjustment According to Ball and Mankiw (1994, p 18), 'The private and social gains ... output and employment from their 'natural' levels In so far as it suggests that a variable inflation rate can actually help achieve a full-information ideal for resource allocation, my argument also ... contradicts the claim that a variable inflation rate is the worst kind as well as the claim that an uncertain price level 'causes agents to make more [sic] mistakes they would otherwise have avoided,...
... visit thereafter was defined as the injection of any drug in the months before that visit Clinical and laboratory data on viral load, CD4 T-cell counts and data on HIV clinical stage, with stage ... and SDC All authors read and approved the final manuscript Acknowledgments This research was supported by The French National Agency for Aids Research (ANRS, France), the charity organization ECS-SIDACTION ... questionnaire, and medical records The face-to-face interview was based on a standardized protocol, administered by trained nurses, which gathered psychosocial information and patients’ personal experience...
... whereas the Keynesians wanted a dollar standard cloaked in a fig-leaf of gold, the monetarists wanted to discard such camouflage, abandon any international money, and simply have national fiat paper ... that they applauded the Jacksonians for their alleged anti-capitalist stand The most recent Bray Hammond-Thomas Govan school have again shifted their praise to the Whigs andthe Bank of the United ... saw Jackson as an ignorant agrarian trying to destroy capitalism and calling for inflation against the central bank The progressives of the Beard school took much the same approach, except that...
... that right, and with considerable enthusiasm Forthe power to create money is a heady and profitable privilege indeed The essential meaning of a fiat paper standard is that the currency unit the ... proposal to separate money from the state is that of F .A Hayek and his followers.5 Hayek's "denationalization of money" would eliminate legal tender laws, and allow every individual and organization ... not and cannot That could occur only if the same number of dollars andthe same quantities of goods of all kinds and in every kind were always in existence and in exchange and always in exactly...
... the amendment by the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 (“PATRIOT Act”), the CFAA defined damage as “any impairment to the integrity or availability of data, a program, a system, or information that (A) ... and accompanying text 37 See parts C and E in the Appendix for discussions regarding war dialing and Trojan 31 horses 38 See 18 U.S.C § 1030 (a) (5) (A) (i) Therefore, a Trojan horse (and also other ... supra for information about the CFAA exceptions for software manufacturers 161 See supra Part III.B 158 28 backlash because the general public views computer intrusions as an anomaly rather than...
... fabricate a surgical template with the Straumann gonyX Surgical and restorative procedure The patient was premedicated and prepared for surgery in the same fashion as caseThe surgical template ... of the opposing arch was made anda cast was fabricated Maximum intercuspation was chosen as the maxillomandibular relationship of treatment A cementretained single implant prosthesis was planned ... the normal contour of the ridge A radiograph was taken to evaluate inal implant position A polyetheretherketone temporary abutment was customized and connected to the implant anda provisional...
... and Agricultural Innovation in Africa 21 but in many areas, such as sub-Saharan Africa, innovation remains largely a public enterprise anda public good With the advent of biotechnology andthe ... in the usual sources of prior art, and alternative databases and information systems may not be in place to make prior art readily available to the examiner The examiner necessarily relies heavily ... Casefor Change 47 Impacts of U.S Patents and Patent Policy 47 TheCasefor Policy Change 51 chapter six: Analyzing and Changing American Patent Policy 56 Framework for Analyzing Alternative...
... “[T]here are at least companies in the UK using a predominantly nitrogen based gas mixture for killing chickens and turkeys.” In Canada, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency has also approved the use ... costs: Raj and others (1997) found that controlledatmosphere killing causes amore rapid pH fall in the carcasses than electrical stunning, resulting in faster carcass-maturation times and enabling ... improving carcass quality and meat yield, and lowering costs by reducing the need for refrigeration, storage, labor, and environmental cleanup Raj (1998b) explains that there are also intangible...
... green) and TAA (in black) The superimpositioning was guided by the catalytic acids (D179AMY2, E204AMY2, and D289AMY2 and D206TAA, E230TAA, and D297TAA) The invariant Y51AMY2 and Y82TAA are at subsite ... Superpositioning of AMY2 and TAA guided by the catalytic acids was excellent for Tyr51AMY2 and Tyr82TAA (Fig 1A) and mutation in Saccharomycopsis buligera a- amylase (closely related to TAA) conrmed the corresponding ... substrate analogues derived from acarbose and barley a- amylase (AMY2 [16]); and Taka-amylase A (TAA [17]) (A) Stereo view of interactions involving segments of ba loops and (i.e domain B) from AMY2...
... certain aspects of x’s character, or character and location, in a way that makes them immediately available for cognitive scrutiny—though, once again, S’s capacity to take advantage of this availability ... only because ordinary usage does not always aim to describe things as they strictly are All this also applies, mutatis mutandis, to thecase of the ambulance andthe siren There remain the cases ... in the two cases are of exactly the same type, the chances are that the way in which O sensibly appears to Ralph at t andthe way in which O sensibly appears to him at t will be exactly the same...
... 266 A Suez Canal connects the Mediterranean Sea andthe Gulf of Suez and separates the continents of Africa and Asia aA b connects c separates d of > a 267 Ships sailing in Europe to Asia once ... because they also came from England many years ago a In b much c because d also > b 240 Jim gets up at half past seven everyday, has breakfast at eight o'clock, and starts works at half past ... is nearly a crowd at the door of the theatre asking for returned tickets a always b crowd c at d asking > a 215 China teams are famous for their skill in table tennis a China b are c for d...
... efficient unimpaired performance Figure displays a graphic representation synthesized from the Levin, Kleim and Wolf approach Kwakkel takes a related approachand notes that rehabilitation therapies should ... of an Adaptive Mixed Reality Rehabilitation (AMRR) system fora reach and grasp action Preliminary data from a study employing the AMRR system has demonstrated the system’s ability to facilitate ... that without awareness of the advantages and limitations associated with each measure, the potential exists for inconsistent selection, application, and evaluation among practitioners using these...
... we attach β leaves to its candidate leaf and erase the color of the candidate leaf (now an internal vertex) Thus we obtain a β-ary tree with n − i + internal vertices and i − colored leaves the ... (2) and refine the formula for k-ary trees andthe GouldVandermonde’s convolution through Riordan array theory The Riordan array theory is an effective tool to prove and invert combinatorial identities ... in a very recent paper of Bajunaid et al [1, 2005] They claimed that they did not find their result in the literature and they did not know any obvious combinatorial proof for their special case, ...
... Sanchez-Lozada LG, Tapia E, Bautista-Garcia P, Soto V, AvilaCasado C, Vega-Campos IP, Nakagawa T, Zhao L, Franco M, Johnson RJ: Effects of febuxostat on metabolic and renal alterations in rats ... causative factor for cardiovascular disease? Or is serum urate a cause for factors that are in the causal pathway for cardiovascular disease (such as hypertension, atherosclerosis, metabolic syndrome)? ... after adjustment for cardiovascular risk factors and diuretic use These results raised the question of an association of serum urate with cardiovascular disease and cardiovascular death probably...
... confused Having consistent terminology and sufficient information for replication appears to be more problematic for behavioural and organisational interventions than for pharmacological ones Twenty-six ... designs for PDSA quality improvement research Qual Manag Health Care 2004, 13(1):17-32 Wolf MM, Kirigin KA, Fixsen DL, Blase KA, Braukmann CJ: The Teaching-Family Model: Acase study in data-based ... research activity Copyright and intellectual property rights are put forward as reasons for not publishing details of their intervention protocols and manuals This is an ethical and political...
... based on secondary analysis, using information from two available databases, of which UNAIDS endorses one and UNFPA the other [47,48] We did not gather new data, but categorise, compare and analyse ... contributions AJTPP coordinated and conducted the study and drafted the manuscript MMS performed the tailor-made data-analysis of the UNFPA/NIDI project “Financial Resource Flows for Population and HIV activities” ... Programme of Action, in 1994, and at the UNGASS on HIV/AIDS in 2001, as described earlier On an annual basis, UNFPA/NIDI report and present their data to the UN Secretary-General [48] The UNFPA/NIDI...
... confused Having consistent terminology and sufficient information for replication appears to be more problematic for behavioural and organisational interventions than for pharmacological ones Twenty-six ... designs for PDSA quality improvement research Qual Manag Health Care 2004, 13(1):17-32 Wolf MM, Kirigin KA, Fixsen DL, Blase KA, Braukmann CJ: The Teaching-Family Model: Acase study in data-based ... research activity Copyright and intellectual property rights are put forward as reasons for not publishing details of their intervention protocols and manuals This is an ethical and political...
... codons are 1-, 2-, 3-, 4- or 6-fold degenerate andthe differing probabilities of transitions and transversions There was a striking, and highly statistically significant (p < 10-17 forthe total ... provides the most obvious explanation forthe high conservation seen here (An alternative explanation In Breda virus (NC_007447), the annotated ORF 1a AUG initiation codon is at nucleotide coordinates ... initiation codon in mammalian systems (reviewed in [16]), and this particular CUG codon is conserved, and has a strong Kozak context ( 'A' at -3, 'G' at +4; [17]), in both Breda and Berne viruses The...