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... around the world The immediate trigger of the crisis was the end of the housing booms in the United States and other countries and the associated problems in mortgage markets, notably the 206 ... the current financial crisis, there was “little doubt that, in practice, the full faith and credit of the United States stands behind the FDIC.” Joe Peek & James A Wilcox, The Fall and Rise of ... possible pieces of those loans on their balance sheets.62 Lead banks negotiate the terms of a syndicated loan with the borrower and then sell portions of the loan to banks and other institutional...

Ngày tải lên: 25/03/2014, 10:26

... access the dark side of the lung, in other words, the lung interior, and define the architecture of parenchyma that is not Page of (page number not for citation purposes) anchored to the pleural ... Oeckler and Hubmayr colleagues equate the presence of alveolar deformation in the pleural plane with alveolar instability and injury The authors defend this assumption with the observation that in the ... tests of mechanistic hypothesis concerning the spatial and temporal evolutions of VALI will suffer from a blind spot Competing interests Grant support by the National Institute of Health and service...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... They took the form of golden calves, of which we didn’t have many in Toronto at that time, and also the form of money, the love of which was the root of all evil But on the other hand stood the ... each Alas, they had only forty-eight cents between the two of them, but they offered the forty-eight cents and two of the chocolates — fluttering their eyelashes, said my aunt — and their offer was ... century, in the mining villages of northern Europe, the company store supplied the place of the slave owner: the miners had to buy their food and the necessities of life from the store, where these...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2014, 17:19

... forth a single theme, crisply expressed in a sentence or two, and then tell the entire story of that theme: the history of salt; the fragility of democracy; the use and misuse of punctuation ... agents themselves and the houses they sold on behalf of clients Using the data from the sales of those 100,000 Chicago homes, and controlling for any number of variables—location, age and quality of ... about the wonderful opportunities of the global economy; they’ll be trying to keep body and soul together for people on the streets of these cities.” The smart money was plainly on the criminals And...

Ngày tải lên: 17/10/2013, 18:20

... appear on the right side (and sometimes at the top) of Google search pages Advertisers pay for their ad only when a Google Chapter 1: Meeting the Business Side of Google user clicks on it The AdWords ... site, the passive-revenue lifestyle lets the site the work, not you 19 20 Part I: Meeting the Other Side of Google Google and Your Product E-tailers whose catalogs range from one product to thousands ... Google and the consumer Without satisfied searchers, the business side has no value Consumers may freely focus on the search experience, with no awareness of the business forces competing in the...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 08:20

... form reflect the rule -of- law value of the accessibility of law The norms that handle cases of failed law reflect both the rule -of- law value of accessibility and the more substantive value of consistent ... as to ban the cute and gentle panda?”) A and B did not clarify whether pandas were within the rule before voting The results of this disagreement are these The rule “no bears” admits of two relevant ... the rule they enact In other words, over the range of real or hypothetical applications of the rule, felicitous and infelicitous, if asked how the rule was intended to apply, each member of the...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... discussion of the rise of the concept of fetal rights and fetal protectionism can be found in Daniels, 1993.) After a brief discussion of the social construction of maternity and paternity, I analyse the ... Studies of male reproductive health and toxicity have Between fathers and fetuses concentrated primarily on the eVects of occupational and environmental exposures of men and less on the eVects of ... fathers and fetuses ‘Crack babies’ and ‘pregnant addicts’ By now, the images of the crack baby and addicted mother are familiar to anyone who has read news reports of pregnancy and addiction In the...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... case of let’s sit back and hope for the best Then there are others who deliberately not want to know anything about the activities of the company They want to study the “pure” movement of the ... features of the growth in sales and earnings: the rate of growth and the stability of the growth Conscious Investor provides proprietary tools to measure both of these for thousands of companies ... put the two charts together, we see how they track each other Sometimes the price moves ahead of the earnings per share and sometimes it is the other way around But over time they move together...

Ngày tải lên: 09/12/2013, 20:15

... MARGINAL EFFICIENCY OF CAPITAL 12 THE STATE OF LONG-TERM EXPECTATION 13 THE GENERAL THEORY OF THE RATE OF INTEREST 14 THE CLASSICAL THEORY OF THE RATE OF INTEREST o APPENDIX ON THE RATE OF INTEREST IN ... the demand for it, and that the rate of interest was, so to speak, the equilibrating price-factor determined by the point of intersection of the supply curve of savings and the demand curve of ... function of the rate of interest to preserve equilibrium, not between the demand and the supply of new capital goods, but between the demand and the supply of money, that is to say between the demand...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 21:15

... call the user cost of the employment in question.[1] The excess of the value of the resulting output over the sum of its factor cost and its user cost is the profit or, it we shall call it, the ... fall to the appropriate level, which will occupy Book IV Thus the analysis of the Propensity to Consume, the definition of the Marginal Efficiency of Capital and the theory of the Rate of Interest ... of them in connection with production, and the other in connection with consumption Let us consider them in turn (i) The actual value G of the capital equipment at the end of the period is the...

Ngày tải lên: 31/12/2013, 23:30

... be increasing, and there is evidence that the rate of infection is proportional to both the amount of time swimmers are exposed and the levels of pollution in the waters where they swim.60 According ... percent over land areas of the Northern Hemisphere during the 20th century,155 and global warming is predicted to further increase the intensity of rainfall events for parts of the United States.156 ... nearby residences increased 40 percent, nearly twice the rate at Fall’s Creek (an average of 23 percent) On the basis of these findings, IKE urges the State of Indiana and/ or the City of Indianapolis...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 10:20

... affinity of Fpg for the THF:C ligand was 1.6-fold higher than for the THF:A ligand The presence of Mg2+ had little effect on the binding of Fpg to the THF:C ligand and slightly improved binding to the ... evaluate the effects of ionic strength and Mg2+ on the activity and specificity of OGG1, we measured the apparent values of k2 and k3 under conditions of low salt (KPi only) and no Mg2+, low salt and ... strength, the concentration of divalent cations such as Mg2+, the nature of the buffering agents, the presence of competing polyamines and other small molecules, and crowding by other macromolecules Their...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 18:20

... that the oxidant-promoted alteration of the Ki of elafin and trappin is caused by the oxidation of their P1¢ methionine residue Fig Mass spectra of native and oxidized elafin (A) and trappin (B) The ... correspond to a half-life of dissociation of 36–105 [15] The oxidation of elafin and trappin down-shifts the half-life of there complexes with NE to % 1.3– 1.8 On the other hand, the oxidized inhibitor–Pr3 ... binding of the methionine sulfoxide residue at the S1¢ subsite of the active centers of NE and Pr3 The fact that the S1¢ subsite of Pr3 is significantly smaller than that of NE [21] might then explain...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 07:20

... makes them either supervised or unsupervised algorithms The purpose of this paper is an analysis of the underlying probabilistic models and the types of errors committed by each one Furthermore, ... describe the process of word generation from the left to the right by alternately using two dice, the first for deciding whether to place a morpheme boundary in the current word position and the second ... nonboundaries in 0.9472 of the times correctly as TN and in 0.0528 of the times falsely as boundaries (FP) The algorithm correctly labels 0.3045 of the positions as boundaries (TP) and 0.6955 falsely...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 04:20

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 13:20

... away these random visitors or to repair their ravages Mr Enfield and the lawyer were on the other side of the by-street; but when they came abreast of the entry, the former lifted up his cane and ... nausea and distaste of life; and in the gloom of his spirits, he seemed to read a menace in the flickering of the firelight on the polished cabinets and the uneasy starting of the shadow on the roof ... far; domestic sounds out of the houses were clearly audible on either side of the roadway; and the ru16 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde mour of the approach of any passenger preceded...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 14:20

Ngày tải lên: 28/02/2014, 20:18

... Initial appointment of the members of the Executive Board When the Executive Board of the ECB is being established, the President, the Vice-President and the other members of the Executive Board ... 17 of the Act concerning the conditions of Accession of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of ... annual report on the activities of the ESCB and on the monetary policy of both the previous and the current year to the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission, and also to the European...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 10:20

... Terrorists and insurgents share important features (e.g., their status as nonstate actors, their use of violence, and the clandestine nature of many of their activities), but these are outweighed by their ... definition has the advantage of parsimony, but fails to capture essential aspects of the phenomenon, such as the fundamentally political nature of the insurgency movement, and the centrality of the local ... and other initiatives that would convince the people that the government is worthy of their allegiance Given these constraints on outside intervention, this monograph emphasizes the role of the...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 20:20

... Thus the rigid dichotomy often presumed between forest and plantation is irrelevant to the understanding and management of such land-use systems The recent changes of status of the Ministry of ... sell the land to migrants or share it with them against labour for the upkeep of the plantations15; The independent migrants lack the skills to clear the forest16 and they are well aware of the ... The agro-industry is another major acquirer and converter of land outside the control of local farmers Up to the end of the eighties smallholder land acquisition increased rapidly but since then...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 10:20