... list ofthe manifestations ofthe syndrome over the past century is as follows: The buildup to the emerging market defaults ofthe 1930s Why was this time different? The thinking at the time: There ... crises is endemic across much ofthe spectrum of time and regions Periods of prosperity (many of them long) often end in tears -2DEBT INTOLERANCE: THEGENESISOFSERIALDEFAULT Debt intolerance is ... employed two other qualitative variables aimed at encompassing the core crisis period surrounding thedefaultThe first of these records only the year ofdefault as a crisis, while the second creates...
... concentrations ofthe indicated toxins Nonspecific binding, determined in the presence of lM Bj-xtrIT, was subtracted The amount of bound [125I]toxin is provided as the percentage of maximal specific ... competitor The competition curves were analyzed using the nonlinear fit ofthe Hill equation (with a Hill coefficient of 1) for determining ofthe IC50 values (see Experimental procedures) The data ... in blowfly larvae, and the ability to compete for the binding site ofthe excitatory toxin, Bj-xtrIT, in insect NaChs [19,22] Therefore, the electrophysiological effects of Lqhb1 and LqhIT2 were...
... based on the destination ofthe packet Within the context of VPLS, this means that the network makes a forwarding decision based on the destination MAC address ofthe Ethernet frame From the end ... support the aggregate requirements ofthe powered devices While the 802.3af standard calls for up to 15.4 Watts of power per port, many ofthe PDs connected to the network will not require the full ... connectivity Since the purpose ofthe probes is to test the primary path, the probes are never sent via the secondary path If they were, the test might falsely succeed, even though the primary path...
... Convention stem from the 1924 Geneva Declaration ofthe Rights ofthe Child, the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the 1959 Declaration ofthe Rights ofthe Child The Convention applies ... advance the state of all the world’s children Children’s rights in urban settings 15 The Convention on the Rights ofthe Child The Convention on the Rights ofthe Child, adopted in 1989, was the ... One ofthe targets of MDG – to ensure environmental sustainability – focuses specifically on improving the lives of at least 100 million ofthe 14 THE STATE OFTHE WORLD’S CHILDREN 2012 A mother...
... excitation ofthe infrared fields (6) in the whole space they occupy In the light of this fact the attempts to got the confinement propagator by analytical calculation in the framework oftheofthe convention ... is the potential ofthe infrared fields (6), induced by all interactions in the whole volume V The quantization ofthe infrared fields in the limit ofthe infinite volume V can be reduced to the ... by the nonlinearity ofthe theory and the strong coupling of fields in the infrared limit (that leads as a role to collective excitation of infrared gluons correlated in the whole volume of the...
... silence, the rescuers could hear the trapped men pounding on the drill bit with their hammers The miners had been located Now the challenge was to get them out ofthe mine before hypothermia set in The ... was hundreds of yards away The men scrambled to reach the exit, but the rising water blocked the way out Their only option was to seek out the highest point in the mine Word ofthe accident spread ... while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more When people first read the manifesto they immediately agree with the stated values or they hesitate The hesitation...
... This competition favours the strong, and excludes the weak; and the success ofthe former and the failure ofthe latter widen the gap between them still further, driving the weakest into a never-ending ... shift towards the use of biofuels in the United States and the EU as a means of reducing carbon emissions in these regions (although the overall environmental impact of biofuels in their current ... Distribution ofthe benefits of growth among the non-rich 99 per cent ofthe population was also highly unequal, so that the poorest 20 per cent ofthe population received only 1.2 per cent ofthe benefits...
... Convention stem from the 1924 Geneva Declaration ofthe Rights ofthe Child, the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the 1959 Declaration ofthe Rights ofthe Child The Convention applies ... advance the state of all the world’s children Children’s rights in urban settings 15 The Convention on the Rights ofthe Child The Convention on the Rights ofthe Child, adopted in 1989, was the ... One ofthe targets of MDG – to ensure environmental sustainability – focuses specifically on improving the lives of at least 100 million ofthe 14 THE STATE OFTHE WORLD’S CHILDREN 2012 A mother...
... aspect is the nature and role of metadata in the humanities In the next section the role of metadata in the humanities and thethe ways in which they can facilitate and enhance the application of text ... agendas for the role of NLP in other disciplines Examples are the role of NLP in the study of recorded meeting content, in the field of social studies, or the organisation and support of tagging ... for their role in thegenesisof ideas and insights Evaluation frameworks that will trigger contributions to the enhancement en tuning of what NLP has to offer to the needs ofthe humanities These...
... provides further evidence ofthe unidimensionality ofthe 15 DEMMI items and therefore does not explain the misfit ofthe data to the Rasch model No evidence of local item Page 10 of 15 (page ... lower ability than the easiest item (to the left ofthe scale), or with a higher ability than the hardest item (to the right ofthe scale) None ofthe items showed misfit to the model and χ2 and ... interpretation ofthe data, has been involved in the drafting ofthe manuscript and given approval for the version to be published JK contributed to the conception and design ofthe study, the analysis...
... in the CNS, although the sites of extraneural viral infection and the possible cells that could be involved in such a passage remain elusive The dissemination of foci of infection within the ... Strains of WNV isolated in the United States were found to be highly neuroinvasive in adult mice following intraperitoneal (i.p.) inoculation[6] In contrast ofthe investigations ofthe North-American ... birds[5,17] Although some of these studies support the infection of neural cells by WNV within the CNS, none used double immunocytochemistry for WNV antigen and cell typing cation of viral factors that...
... were the diameter ofthe projected crown area and the crown height) representing the unbranched area at the center ofthe tree canopy; and Vcor which is a further correction to simulate the regularly ... Figure Scheme ofthe geometrical model of an olive tree crown composed ofthe cylinder volume, from which the volume of overturned cone (opened by regular pruning) and volume ofthe core (opened ... homogeneous over the whole foliated crown volume Then we divided the amount of foliage in the tangential image of a particular section Ltg_i by the volume of corresponding crown part, the sphere layer...
... events (above 50% ofthe value ofthe boundary line) and 184 of which were moderate releases (between 20% and 50% ofthe value ofthe boundary line) (Fig 2) The average number of release events ... over the past several hundred years The relative number of disturbance events was much higher in the 19th century compared to the first half ofthe 20th century Furthermore, the older part ofthe ... throughout much ofthe understory, which is primarily the result of increased understory light levels caused by the gradual decline of A alba in the reserve over the second half ofthe 20th century...
... without the arcs ofthe inner rings, the length of missing radii was calculated as the difference between the bole geometric radius and the total core length The number of missing rings was then ... method based on the convergence of xylem rays at the pith [44] The number of missing rings was then estimated by extrapolating the radial growth rate from the innermost five rings in the cores In ... was estimated as the number of crossdated rings In partial cores, which contained the arcs ofthe Dendrochronology of oak: the management history 15 inner rings, the length of missing radii was...
... were plotted against the correlation coefficients for the chronology For illustrative purposes only, the slope ofthe linear regression, and the significance ofthe deviation of this slope from ... north-west ofthe study site The climate in the area is Atlantic, with temperate and wet winters, and periods of summer drought in occasional years Rainfall records at the weather station of Gijón ... The slope ofthe linear trend in the case ofthe June-July precipitation of year t also significantly differed from zero, indicating a positive climate-growth relationship in the case of this variable...