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... illustrations, a timeline, a glossary, a list of suggested research and activity ideas, and an index providing easy access to subjects discussed throughout the volume Development of the Industrial ... his first and best-known book, The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) The Theory of the Leisure Class presented a complex economic and social theory as well as a sometimes humorous study of the ... share of the value of the crop, minus the deductions taken out of his share for his rent, supplies, and living costs shuttle: A device that carries threads across a loom in the weaving process...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 02:20

... aimed squarely at discrediting revisionist arguments and assumptions, and in some cases tried to attack the integrity of some of the revisionist scholars themselves Rejectionists in the Japanese ... Japanese government of cials, at times as part of an effort to discredit revisionist ideas by discrediting the revisionists themselves 24 Traditionalist Views and the Emergence of Revisionism Japanese ... 53 The Japan Problem’: The Coalescence of the Revisionist Paradigm 60 America s Economic Crisis The Coalescence of Revisionist Thinking Revisionism and the Policy Process in the Bush Administration...

Ngày tải lên: 10/06/2014, 21:37

... concepts and the discussions of related studies Chapter 2: The study – describes the procedures to conduct the research, presents, analyze the results and discusses the findings the researcher ... to the two research questions Conclusion summarized the major issues discussed in the paper, provides some implications and points out the limitations of the research as well as proposes several ... least, raising American or Vietnamese people s awareness of the impacts of culture on these differences is also the main objective of this study Research questions This paper aims to investigate...

Ngày tải lên: 19/08/2014, 07:27

... money crises 34 This analysis, though, is still at the level of the possibility of crisis The actual cause of the crisis in the real sector, the reason for the unsaleability of the commodity, is to ... crisis occurs whenever there is a crisis in the "real" sector The possibility of the latter type of crisis is present whenever the purchase and sale of commodities become separated: "If the crisis ... elaborate statistical analysis of the movements of economic variables over the course of the business cycle Although Mitchell studied business cycles his entire life, his main theoretical results were...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2014, 13:37

... issues and questions frequently raised by decision makers Preface The U. S Climate Change Science Program this assessment focuses on the possible changes of past and future statistics of weather ... results The NCDC Billion Dollar Weather Disasters loss data (Lott and Ross, 2006) assesses a subset of the largest events covered in the SHELDUS (Cutter and Emrich, 2005) loss data SHELDUS is often ... losses caused by impacts are based on insured loss data or on total loss (insured plus non-insured losses) estimates developed by insurers Unfortunately, the details behind most of the insured...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2016, 00:07

... thickness, are strong predictors of cardiovascular risk in various cardiovascular conditions We and others have previously shown that endothelial function, assessed noninvasively by high resolution ... the atherosclerotic process, as well as its reversibility, have been confirmed in various clinical settings, including systemic vasculitis, rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosous ... normal distribution curve In the crosssectional study analysis of variance (ANOVA), provided by the general linear model, was applied to the comparison of mean values between subgroups Analysis by...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:21

... comprehensively the political discourses Scope of the study The linguistic features of the inaugural address made by President G.W Bush in the U. S election 2004 will be the focus of this study Of the ... assumptions underlying the event Figure 1.2: Types of context The first of these is the linguistic context - the language that surrounds or accompanies the piece of discourse under analysis The ... we may summarize as: (1) The addressor is a person who produces a piece of discourse (2) The addressee is a person who is the recipient of the discourse, thus possibly including the audience...

Ngày tải lên: 18/12/2013, 10:08

... data considered for this report because they are typically buried structures Therefore, the database of structures used for this report contains a total of 474,515 structures This subset of the total ... “Year Built” for each structure Where applicable, the “Year Reconstructed” is also given If the superstructure of a bridge is replaced, but the substructure is reused, “Year Built” remains the year ... timber based on the superstructure material for the main span Values shown in the “Total” columns include bridges constructed using other materials such as masonry, aluminum, cast iron and wrought...

Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 20:15

... birth rates (3–4) This section also includes data on the circumstances of first intercourse, characteristics of the first partners, as well as numbers of sexual partners These measures are important ... error—Since the NSFG is a cross-sectional survey, some questions rely on respondents’ ability to recall events that occurred in the past, such as dates of first sexual intercourse and marriage For some ... Bureau of the ACF + The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (OASPE) NCHS gratefully acknowledges the contributions of these programs and agencies, and all others who assisted...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 10:20

... earnings as measured by ROA, and worse liquidity as measured by Cash & Due to assets, Investment Securities to assets, and Brokered Deposits to assets These results closely follow the univariate results ... relatively modest Logit Regression Results In Table are the results of a set of logistic regression models that provide the main results of our study In these models, the dependent variable is equal ... whether the simple comparisons of means that are discussed here or the multivariate logit results that are discussed in Section – should be stressed: To the extent that a 12 category of assets...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 03:20

... LOANS: ASSUMPTIONS UNDERLYING THE 2013 SUBSIDY ESTIMATES—Continued (In percentages, unless noted otherwise) Composition of Subsidy Agency, Bureau, Program and Risk Category Subsidy rate Defaults, ... LOAN GUARANTEES: ASSUMPTIONS UNDERLYING THE 2012 SUBSIDY ESTIMATES—Continued (In percentages, unless noted otherwise) Composition of Subsidy Agency, Bureau, Program and Risk Category Subsidy rate ... UNDERLYING THE 2013 SUBSIDY ESTIMATES (In percentages, unless noted otherwise) Composition of Subsidy Agency, Bureau, Program and Risk Category Subsidy rate Defaults, net of recoveries Interest Fees Loan...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 03:20

... banks and their customers In the area of supervision and regulation, the Federal Reserve has a legal mandate to supervise state member banks and bank holding companies This supervision ensures the ... bifurcated banking system has served the needs of a diverse U. S economy composed of businesses of all shapes and sizes and consumers with diverse needs and preferences While community banks have ... Annual Lender Issue,” www.ers.usda.gov, p 11, March 11 U. S Small Business Administration, Office of Advocacy 2002 “Small Business by the Numbers,” www.sba.gov.advo, May _ 1998 “Small Business...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 11:20

... limited assets Leaders, bank accounts, linkages Variation of the usual Usual Usual Usual Usual Usual Usual Societal/ Organizational Vulnerabilities R aThe nature of the nuclear threats and the likely ... risks of accidental use of nuclear weapons, incidents, false alarms, mistakes, miscalculations, and unauthorized use of nuclear weapons have long been the subject of discussion and scrutiny The ... Obviously, such a posture would be very dangerous for both the United States and Russia because of the inherent risks of accidents or mistakes Such accidental nuclear war has been a long-standing...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 11:20

... economy-driven and customer-driven Chapter Four discusses the issue of cost escalation from the perspective of shipbuilders Following this analysis, we discuss, in Chapter Five, potential approaches to mitigate ... predominantly serves one customer: the U. S government The products are fully tailored (i.e., customized) for the mission of the vessel In other words, few existing designs can serve as a basis for modification ... interest to the Navy and the Office of the Secretary of Defense, as well as congressional planners involved in ship acquisition This research was sponsored by the Assessment Division, Office of the...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 22:20

... radar) Equipment comprises all systems such as avionics (electronics to control the aircraft), sensors (such as radar), other mission systems (such as electronic countermeasures, communications, targeting ... from the development of the F/A-22 and F/A-18E/F programs to derive lessons for the Air Force and other Services to improve the acquisition of future systems In Price-Based Acquisition: Issues and ... complexity analysis is based on a further reduced set of aircraft Appendix A lists all systems assessed in each part of our analysis Measuring Cost Escalation We focus on long-term changes in price,10...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 23:20

... Policy Sensitive But Unclassified (SBU) Sensitive But Unclassified (SBU) Sensitive But Unclassified (SBU) [DHS] Sensitive But Unclassified (SBU) [DHS] For Official Use Only (FOUO) [DOD] Computer Security ... officers should have been relatively simple in comparison to the numerous topic-specific or sensitive issue-related FOIA requests received in most offices The policies at issue are themselves ... / Select Agent Sensitive Information HHS* CDC* SBU / Sensitive But Unclassified [CDC] SBU / Sensitive But Unclassified [State] SBU / Sensitive But Unclassified Building Info [GSA] SGI / Safeguards...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 05:20

... presentations and discussions that took place at this symposium Needless to say, the battery industry has evolved very substantially since the conference was held, and indeed some of the caveats raised ... the people to this,” Dr Sastry said Scientists and engineers are “an absolute requirement for a sustainable business,” she said Even if there is an influx of new engineering students, universities ... Sperling is founding director of the Institute of Transportation Studies, which has studied such questions for decades One important finding of the institute s research is that U. S consumers appear...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 21:20

... U. S CIVS U. S CIVs may be structured for securities law purposes in various forms The most common type of U. S CIV that is registered under the Investment Company Act is the mutual fund (also known ... shares and establishes antifraud standards governing such trading; the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, which regulates the conduct of mutual fund investment advisers and requires them to register ... against the assets of the fund, and gains or losses of the fund cannot be used to offset losses or gains in any other fund or portfolio 11 As a result, the failure of the mutual fund s custodian...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 14:20

... of the Treasury issues an annual survey of foreign portfolio holdings of U. S securities by country and reports data for the previous year as of the end of June 19 The latest Treasury survey of ... suddenly shift their capital elsewhere.58 Some economists view China s purchases of U. S securities as a type of subsidy that is transferred from Chinese savers to U. S consumers in the form of lower-cost ... debt as unsustainable or more risky, or they may no longer view U. S securities as offering the best return on their investment, and shift investment funds away from U. S assets, thus forcing U. S interest...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 20:20

... expenses, other farm expenses, and the value of agricultural production stays the same.10 To assess the impacts of HR 2454 beyond 2018, we assume the underlying structure of the agricultural ... foreign industries These assumptions are consistent with the treatment of EITE industries, including nitrogen fertilizer manufactures, in the EPA analysis of HR 2454 Assessing the Impacts of Higher ... industries Based on these considerations, the USDA analysis assumes HR 2454 imposes no uncompensated costs on nitrogen fertilizer manufacturers related to increases in the price of natural gas...

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