the financialization of commodity futures trading

... financialization of commodity futures trading A primary concern often expressed with respect to the financialization of commodity trading relates to the magnitude of index trader activity combined with the ... commodities is the focus of the following sections 24 Chapter III – Managing the financialization of commodity futures trading B The growing presence of financial investors in commodity markets ... reducing the high transaction costs faced by entities along the commodity supply chains (UNCTAD, 2007b) Given that the financialization of commodity futures trading has made the functioning of commodity...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2014, 21:47

... balance of the ocean, these structures further stimulate the advances in the establishment of the hydrothermal-vent origin -of- life theory (Miller and Bada 1988) The discovery of a submarine hydrothermal ... of the “RNA world” and a summary of the various origin -of- life hypotheses in Section 1.1.2 The discovery of the hydrothermal vent system and their implications on the environmental location of ... refine the elucidation of the ribosomal chronology     27   Evolution of Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases (aaRSs) The determination of the accuracy of the protein synthesis jointly depends on the tRNA...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 10:17

... levels/categories of motivation At the level of the individual cow, the veterinarians seemed to base their treatment decisions on the cow's characteristics They focussed generally on the practical use of the ... of the data in and of itself as the basis for taking relevant action at the farm They may skip the process of systematic analysis of data and give advice based on their immediate evaluation of ... adjusting of the score to fit to the treatment decision This category of veterinarians based the treatment decision on an overall evaluation of the case, irrespective of the existence of scores...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:45

... and the motive they learn the language here is that they want to be identified as a member of the family Hence, the children tend to take on many behavioral characteristics of the parents and their ... forms of the linguistic structures It also emphasizes the importance of creating different situational contexts in the classroom for learners to practice the structures The latter version of the ... learners The speakers in dialogues can be seen and heard; other participants in the situation can be seen The language learner can readily see the ages of the participants; their sex, perhaps their...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:44

... by the observation of the main combustion chamber that the dense soot appears at almost the same time of the flame (at 380°ATDC of Conventional, in Figures 11a and 11c ) As the formation of the ... the others Because of shortage of oxygen in the charge of cylinder in the EGR case, amount of burnt fuel and consequently accumulated heat release are less than the others Figure 10 shows the ... respect to the two half of the bowl(don’t shown contours) At 420°CA, these eddies are larger than that of 400°CA and the eddy formed in right half of bowl is larger than that of left half of bowl...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:11

... contribute to the susceptibility of E coli model membranes to the action of AP1 An important determinant of the susceptibility of membranes to a-AMPs is the packing characteristics of the individual ... stable in the presence of AP1, further supporting the suggestion that this instability may contribute to the susceptibility of E coli to the antimicrobial action of the peptide Discussion The biological ... behaviour of monolayers The compressibility modulus, Cs , provides a measure of the compressional elasticity of a monolayer and can be used to characterize the phase state of the isotherm, thereby...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 12:20

... secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health of the public The Institute acts under the responsibility given to the ... president of the National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Engineering was established in 1964, under the charter of the National Academy of Sciences, as a parallel organization of outstanding ... NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences,...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 15:20

... B.1 The IOF Allocator as Part of a Suite of Analytical Tools xii Internetting of Fires Is the Dynamic Pooling of Resources Enabled by C4ISR The IOF Allocator as Part of the WMT Suite of ... s,m,i,t, j } , are the result of decisionmaker judgments The value of the targets and the future value of the munitions are on the same relative scale The mathematical program for the value maximization ... back into the situation map The process iterates until the allocation of fires provides the decisionmaker with the desired level of attrition to the targets The IOF Allocator works above the tactical...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 02:20

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 01:20

... consist of: • A signifier – the physical form of the sign • The signified – the thing it refers to other than itself; the concept it represents When both the signifier and signified exist, the result ... Wayfinding the world 47 Wayfinding on the web 55 Case Study: Guardian.co.uk 65 vii Part Using the right palette 75 The importance of colour 77 The colour of life and the web 83 Connotations of colour ... users in and show them the way It should also leave them wanting more, or at the very least let them achieve what they came to in the first place And it should be the same for their entire experience...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 21:20

... long before the water reaches our taps 13 The journey to the tap The following sections track the journey that our water takes from rainfall to the tap They outline how the safety of our water ... taste and smell of drinking water The choice of treatment depends on where the water comes from, what type of contaminants might be present and the cost of the treatment compared to the savings made ... ‘First-flush’ devices, which prevent the initial roof-cleaning wash of water (20–25 L) from entering tanks, improve the quality of the water collected from the roof These devices are highly recommended...

Ngày tải lên: 13/05/2014, 14:41

... find the average, or the mean, of a set of numbers, add all the numbers together and divide by the quantity of numbers in the set sum of values Average = ᎏᎏ number of values Example: Find the ... — Therefore the midpoint of AB is (3,6) Slope The slope of a line measures its steepness It is found by writing the change in y-coordinates of any two points on the line over the change of the ... location of a set of numeric values is defined by the value that appears most frequently (the mode), the number that represents the middle value (the median), and/or the average of all the values (the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... role in the trade off of different properties of a therapy but not all therapies may cover the patients’ preferences The obtained information is rather important as the consideration of patients’ ... diabetes Two of the four factors were related to the effects of treatment, i.e., the main treatment effect and the effect of treatment on body weight Two other factors were related to the mode of application ... initiated the study and developed the details of the study together with HJH MD and HJH completed the study All authors participated in the discussion and interpretation of the results as well as in the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... variations of suspended particulate matter (SPM) The concentration of SPM depends on the shear stress, sediment components, storage time of the sediment, and presence or absence of fish Furthermore, the ... stable environment was established for the model organism, which represented one of the major challenges of this proofof-concept study The characterization of sedimentological parameters resulted ... for the initiation of erosion and is determined from the slope of the concentration progress during the flood event [8] .The detailed results are described in detail in [8] Second, a number of...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 21:20

... To minimize the volume of data sent over the air, content coding of the HTTP message body may be employed by the HTTP client in the WAP terminal, and either at the HTTP server or in the WAP Proxy ... memory during the conversion Although the conversion happens in the memory of the gateway and is completed quickly, the concept of end-to-end security between the WAP client and the content server ... bytes The IP packets captured from the live traffic by the node are first fragmented at link layer (LL) and then transmitted to the other node The received fragments are then defragmented in the node...

Ngày tải lên: 23/06/2014, 00:20

... stocks If the company under review is equal in all respects to other comparable companies, then the P/E ratio of the stock of the company should be equal to the P/E ratio of the stocks of the comparable ... investor can then compare the intrinsic value derived with the current market price of the stock of the company and then decide whether to own or not own the stock In other words, if the return ... a little further and deeper and consider measures of performance that take into consideration the return on the assets of the firm, in particular the return on the equity of the firm The assets...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 21:20

... Ã of then Y ⊂ Ã ♠ Recall that if is a field then the prime field , È, of is the smallest nontrivial subfield of When the characteristic of is a prime p > then the prime field of is È = GF (p), the ... field of order p When the characteristic of is then the prime field is È = É , the field of rational numbers Note that the theory of fields of characteristic is not finitely axiomatizable Lemma The ... a variant of the theorem can easily be shown in a special setting, and then a double counting argument transfers the special result to the theorem We acknowledge that the proof of Theorem can...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 06:22

... weights of the rats were measured once per week at the same time during the day Measurement of the systolic blood pressure was performed once per week at the same time during the day After the stabilization ... None of the animals died All groups had an increase in body weight during the experimental period At the end of the experiment, the control group gained 74.34 ± 10.91 g from baseline, while the ... identical across all groups On the other hand, the BUN levels of the NaCl plus chitosan-treated groups were lower than that of the control group This finding on the BUN level suggested a decrease...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 23:22

... in the portal tracts The deposition of the majority of the absorbed dose is within a very tight zone immediately surrounding the microspheres Even though the maximum range of  particles in the ... gained wider acceptance to achieve the goal of increasing the volume of the FLR [2] First reported by Makuuchi et al [3], the aim of PVE is to bring about atrophy of the segments to be resected and ... contralateral lobe hypertrophy Obviously, the major advantage of SIRT is the effective control of the tumor in the target liver lobe The value of initiating chemotherapy concomitantly with Y-90 microsphere...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:21

... indirect evidence of the efficacy of the chemotherapy in these patients in eliminating the mitotic fraction It is intriguing to note that, as soon as 24 hours after chemotherapy, there was a rise ... cycle of chemotherapy Chemotherapy regimen was at discretion of the treating medical oncologist Serial core biopsies were obtained exclusively for the purpose of this study for determination of ... cycle of chemotherapy, with emphasis on patient acceptance and complications of the procedure b) Assays of apoptosis (Caspase-3 &Bcl-2) and proliferation index (Ki-67) in patients of carcinoma of...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:21