... Individuals The spending level for Medicare was adjusted by computing the static difference in spending by applying the percent difference to the GDP inthe adjusted GI long-term model baseline ... be taken to rein in spending by reforming the drivers of fiscal imbalances The period 2012 through 2021 is the opening scene inthe nation’s long struggle to fund the retirement of the most numerous ... underlying the adjusted GI long-term baseline inthe years 2022 to 2041 trend to the percentage change inthe series applied to the value of the previous quarter beginning with 2021 Quarter There...
... thing: either downloading thedata directly from the archive, or downloading it from one of the integrators This entails moving the same datasets across the network repeatedly and mirroring them ... continue to work with thedatain their accustomed way; the fact that these servers are now located inside the cloud is invisible to them Power users can continue to download the data, but they ... consequences forthe field of genome informatics In my opinion the most likely outcome is to turn the current genome analysis paradigm on its head and force the software to come to thedata rather than the...
... distinct final goods 22 In every other case, including ones in which all-around changes in productivity are combined with idiosyncratic changes involving one industry or group of industries, the ... change Such changes inthe price level are therefore not obviously superfluous The question then becomes whether, all things considered, pertinent information concerning a change in productivity ... that is, in aggregate spending or 'nominal income' A central bank might, in principle at least, manage the stock of money so as to prevent such changes in nominal income, thereby keeping the price...
... scheme The prospect of a seamless, on -the- fly protocol for shifting between execution models presents an intriguing future avenue of research THECASEFOR NONDETERMINISM Before making thecasefor ... extends the work by Jimenez-Peris et al by intercepting mutex requests invoked by threads before accessing shared data, increasing concurrency by allowing threads that not accessthe same data to ... possible We examine these cases in depth in Section 4.2 Forthe purposes of the comparisons presented inthe next section, however, we consider a very straightforward implementation of the above scheme...
... containers rather than being dumped and would, therefore, be unable to inhale inthe stun bath or defecate inthe scald tank This has significant implications for producers since, according to the ... avoid the stun bath by lifting their heads or flapping their wings, and these birds are fully conscious when they are moved to the next area Raj (1998b) explains that there is, indeed, “pain and ... Gregory and Whittington (1992) examined this tendency by including a radioisotope inthe stun bath and then looking at carcasses to determine whether internal radioactivity was detected The results...
... EADGENE, they had varying levels of experience inthe analyses of microarray data and different interests in taking part Some participants were routinely involved inthe analyses of microarrays in their ... emphasised inthe results forthe simulated data [15] as a way of making slides more comparable, especially forthe noisy datain this study The gene expression contrasts were mainly estimated using linear ... applied The joint analyses of the same data that was done during the workshop will also have added value to the original experiment Furthermore, the workshop is not an endpoint but the starting point...
... on integrating into the WTO The main content of its commitments inthe banking area is found in Vietnam’s commitments on integrating into the WTO.22 The legal foundation for Vietnam’s bringing ... it is difficult for these banks to invest in foreign countries Attracting foreign investment in Vietnam is therefore also affected In short, implementing the commitments for integration correctly ... allow foreign investment in banking not only by opening offices or branches but also by investments in domestic banks The value of FDI investing inthe financial area of developing countries increased...
... through the chapters Chapter two, the methodology, outlines the hypothesis before describing the strategy and methods forthe researching of the thesis’ data and ending with acknowledging the limitations ... chapter outlines the hypothesis of the thesis before outlining the research strategies and methods employed inthe thesis to address the questions outlined inthe previous chapter A final section ... within the blogging community) and there being unhappiness over bloggers posting ‘unverified information in their websites,’ 32 the Malaysian government has refrained from censoring the internet...
... trunk ports They carry information between the switches but include the 802.1Q tag indicating the VLAN information Now, if the workstation on port 16 wants to send information to the workstation ... switch ports to the two departments Inthe switch configuration, the administrator configures ports 1-12 forthe accounting department and ports 13-24 forthe engineering department The configuration ... VLAN is done inthe switch For example, a small business has a single switch with 24 Ethernet ports To separate the accounting department from the engineering department, the administrator allocates...
... criminal fines collected for alleged price-fixing, the Clinton trust-busters (including the FTC) dramatically expanded the number of merger investigations, initiated questionable cases addressing ... reforms will not be sufficient and that thecase against antitrust regulation is strong enough to justify the complete repeal of all the laws 'TheCasefor Repeal Thecaseforthe repeal of the ... disagree There certainly are risks in working for repeal, but there are even greater risks in not pushing the intellectual argument against antitrust to its logical conclusion I will argue that the case...
... declining over time This is reflected in Chart B, which shows a slow decline inthe average intermediation spread since 2003, in part resulting from the lower marginal spreads feeding into the ... non-related entities These deposits that were collected from banks inthe rest of the world were mainly denominated in foreign currencies In part, these funds were then reinvested in foreign assets, ... where the zero lower bound for nominal interest rates may become binding Instead, the influence of monetary policy on money supply is exerted in a more nuanced manner, as outlined inthe main text...
... of the Internet as the driving force forthe uptake in online feedback systems Because of the Internet’s bidirectionality, consumer can ‘talk-back’ to companies and provide information to other ... providing an insight into interpersonal behaviours and motives), (Yin, 1994, p 80) Interview data collection would have provided further support for findings It would have been inthe form of ... way of judging the trustworthiness of other members Whereas with LinkedIn, trust was used ultimately forthe purpose of business networking, in Tribe trust becomes useful inthe listings section...
... preprocessing (which they call “settings”) In their settings and 2, Wang et al (2011) try not to rely on punctuation and character encoding information (such as distinguishing Latin and Chinese characters) ... Pitman-Yor language modeling In Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP: Volume ... characters) However, they optimize their parameter for each setting We therefore consider that their system does take into account the level of processing which is performed on Latin characters and...
... At the beginning of that chapter I explain the reasons and costs of holding cash inthe company, and in continuance I present the basic models for quantifying the investment in cash Inthe third ... Baumol in 1952 His model is intended for determining the cash holdings kept for transaction purposes, that is, cash needed for conducting everyday business Baumol incorporates the principles of inventory ... source of financing, as the company is using its own short term assets to obtain financing instead of pledging some other collateral (Zekkar, 2009) Inventory financing is thecase where inventory is...
... shift inthe demand for a good For psychologists, the craving for drugs by seeing drug-dealers inthe neighborhood is similar to the craving for cigarettes caused by drinking coffee On the other ... the Pareto principle: help the uninformed without hurting the informed (too much) However, there is an important difference between the CILOR version of the Pareto principle and the Pareto principle ... the brain — one for guessing how likely one is to win and lose, and another for 24 evaluating the hedonic pleasure and pain of winning and losing-and another brain region which combines probability...
... responsible, inthe way it does its daily work, for balancing the interests of inventors in having patent protection against the broader interests of society in having access to useful innovation ... incentive for their investment inthe technology, and many observers see this incentive as the catalyst for important innovation in seed technology.36 The role of the patent system in fostering ... This is the pattern for products inthe semiconductor industry; it may become the pattern for operating methods inthe online services industry and for research and production methods inthe agricultural...
... contribution to the crisis facing the funding of global public goods This Globalizing Solidarity : TheCasefor Financial Levies Leading Group on Innovating Financing for Development As with the recent ... IMF and BIS Globalizing Solidarity : TheCasefor Financial Levies 13 Leading Group on Innovating Financing for Development As is shown inthe chart above, the growth in foreign exchange transactions ... set out from the outset Building support for innovative financing for a focus on achieving results, developing the information and audit trails and performance monitoring Limiting the fund to...
... if they have access to sible forthe most recent outbreaks in international markets done after determining the strain of the virus in your region to be able to give the correct sero-type vaccine ... went into rearing them Within six months, his hens were already laying eggs Maina started selling Kenbro eggs for breeding to other farmers in his area He hatched Kenbro eggs using his indigenous ... by the feed industry, to import duty free maize at the beginning of the year, is tricky: It would have threatened the profit forthe small-scale maize farmers, since they are forced to sell their...
... intervention to increase the rate of innovation inthe housing industry The committee supports this hypothesis and the need for a program like PATH However, there are insufficient data to determine the optimum ... to increase the rate of innovation inthe housing industry and (2) this can be accomplished by identifying, understanding, and removing barriers to innovation, increasing dissemination of information, ... housing performance and reduce costs and that there is a need for intervention to increase the rate of innovation inthe housing industry The committee supports this hypothesis and the need for...