the origins of the states in fiscal crisis

... List of figures List of tables ix List of contributors xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: The Perennial Crisis for the American States Peter Conti-Brown part I.  The Origins of the States in Fiscal ... understand the basic structure of this perennial problem, and, hopefully, point toward mechanisms that would mitigate the problems when they arise part I The Origins of the States in Fiscal Crisis Fiscal ... couple of occasions since the 1930s, and states in general are in much better shape now than they were in the 1840s or the 1930s, or the southern states were after the Civil War Over the last...

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... (DnaA) The AAA+ domains of both proteins are shown in cyan with ADP indicated in red The helix-turn-helix (HTH)-containing DNA binding domain of DnaA is in green and the winged helix (WH)-containing ... DNA binding domains (DBDs) In DnaA, the DBD contains a helix-turn-helix; in the archaeal proteins, the DBD has a winged helix domain (reviewed in [62]) Interestingly, the relative position of the ... confirmed the position of the origin of replication in Pyrococcus, providing the first experimental proof of a localized origin of replication in the archaea [52] Interestingly, in a situation reminiscent...

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... within the quantum dot In a certain sense one may say that belonging of the vector h to one of these sectors fixes one of the states (13) to be the ground As is seen in the figure, the splitting of ... enough The energy of the splitting turns out to be of the same order as the unperturbed energies Es and Ep However, in spite of such the strong splitting, the double degeneracy of all the levels ... perturbation in this case, but not the Coulomb interaction V ðr; hÞ on the whole An introduction of an asymmetry in the system leads to the total splitting of the energy levels In particular, the lowest...

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... constraint in the definition of remission leads to less ‘false-positive’ findings of remission in patient management Therefore, in our opinion, the presence of a time condition in the definition of ... the absence of fatigue 9%, of the absence of joint tenderness 13%, of the absence of joint swelling 16% and of the absence of joint pain by anamnesis 28% [23] The FDA has formulated the most rigorous ... resembles the FDA definition of remission and might be regarded as ‘cure’ of the disease In other words, since a small amount of RA patients (about 10%) remits naturally in the absence of treatment, the...

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... FINANCIAL CRISIS INQUIRY REPORT ∞ FINAL REPORT OF THE NATIONAL COMMISSION ON THE CAUSES OF THE FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC CRISIS IN THE UNITED STATES Submitted by THE FINANCIAL CRISIS INQUIRY COMMISSION ... a crisis It was the failures outlined above—including the failure to effectively rein in excesses in the mortgage and financial markets—that were the principal causes of this crisis Indeed, the ... PREFACE The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission was created to “examine the causes of the current financial and economic crisis in the United States. ” In this report, the Commission presents to the...

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... Board of the Indiana University School of Medicine (Indianapolis, Indiana) Informed consent was obtained for key informant interviews, and all clinical investigation was conducted according to the ... Manager in the Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine PB is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicines and Co-Field Director of Research ... notes and in confirming or disconfirming the codes and the subsequent themes Data triangulation was used by comparing the information reported in the interview dialogue with clinic information...

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... individual works in the collection are in the public domain in the United States If an individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are located in the United States, we not ... to the study of the physical characteristics of man, the other to the investigation of the products of his industry The former will be more especially related to the branch of Somatology; the ... Negrillos or Pigmies The true Negroes The Negroids The race in other continents Negro slavery c The Asian Race. The Sinitic branch (Chinese, Thibetans, Indo-Chinese) The Sibiric branch (the Tungusic,...

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... adults (39 ) The renewed interest in examining the indications for BCG vaccination in the United States included consideration of the wide range of vaccine efficacies determined by clinical trials ... explore the sources of the heterogeneity in the efficacy of the BCG vaccine reported in the individual studies Using a model that included the geographic latitude of the study site and the data ... efficacy of BCG vaccine in HCWs or b) the effects on efficacy of the vaccine strain administered Vol 45 / No RR-4 MMWR and the vaccinee’s age at the time of vaccination The protective efficacy of BCG...

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... banking in the financial world The bill prevented institutions that were “engaged principally” in banking activities from underwriting or dealing in securities of any kind, and vice versa The ... http://www.fdic.gov/bank/analytical/banking/2000dec/brv13n2_2.pdf 15 CEPR A Short History of Financial Deregulation in the United States taking in the combination of banking and securities dealing The structure of regulation ... allowing for the formation of “mega-banks.” The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act was the crowning achievement of decades and millions of dollars worth of lobbying efforts on behalf of the finance industry The...

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... losses in the early nineties, from small business lending and real-estate lending in the second half of the eighties, eating these buffers up; moreover, the intensification of competition in the financial ... see the repercussions of the defensive behaviour of financial institutions for the financing of the real sector of the economy To the extent that firms in the real sector are unable to obtain financing ... systemic linkages and repercussions In the stock market decline of the early 2000’s, the brunt of the burden was borne by final investors, either directly, or through the values of their holdings in...

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... core of the examination of any interference in the exercise of freedom of opinion is therefore a balancing of interests in which the Court takes account of the significance of freedom of opinion ... by the InterParliamentary Assembly of Member Nations of the Commonwealth of Independent States – Model Law on the Principles of Internet Regulation, adopted at the 36th plenary meeting of the InterParliamentary ... might be contradictory to the conclusions of the Final Document of the Moscow Meeting of the Conference on the Human Dimension of the CSCE and in breach of Article 19 of the International Covenant...

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... to elimination of perinatal transmission in the United States include the continued increase in HIV infection in women of childbearing age;12 absent or delayed prenatal care, particularly in women ... receiving endorsement from a consensus of members are included in the guidelines as official Panel recommendations Other guidelines These guidelines focus on HIV-infected pregnant women and their infants ... regarding use of lopinavir/ritonavir in neonates o Addition of new pharmacokinetic data on nevirapine in preterm infants • Initial Postnatal Management of the HIV-Exposed Neonate: o Because of the...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 13:20

... high-income areas Consider the following The Durban Chamber of Commerce and Industry “has in recent years expressed the concern of its members regarding the increasing cost of doing business in the ... direct – in the form of infrastructure developments and public housing in the 1960s and 1970s – but the bulk of it was indirect, extracted unwittingly from the apartheid state in the form of payment ... boundaries, or the national mobility of goods, services, capital or labour The Minister, with the concurrence of the Minister of Finance, may by notice in the Gazette, set a limit on the amount of the rate...

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... 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 ... discipline in terms of the number of researchers and the number of topics 30 In other subareas, the dominance of the United States is not as evident, but the United States is certainly among the ... strong in areas at the interface with other disciplines In these areas, which include bioengineering, design, and mechanics of materials, the United States will maintain the leadership position in...

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... abbey of Obazine, in the Limousin 50 Obazine (19) – Transept window The transition to Gothic By the second half of the XII century the use of the interlace motif was marginal except in Northern ... of window 24 The Visigoth Kingdom had survived in most of Spain from early in the VI century through until the invasion of the Moors in the early VIII century For the next two hundred years the ... Duchy born from Viking invasions, there were further influxes of settlers of Viking origin in the XI and XII centuries, especially in the Cotentin peninsula Across Normandie there are some 30...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 13:20

... particular, the paper assesses the implications of the international financial crisis on the funding costs of Irish institutions The approach also takes into account the implications of the continued ... of the variable interest rates in the post-2008 period 4.1 Data Table summarises the data used in the modelling The price lenders have to pay for their funding is a key variable of interest in ... details of the liabilities of within -the- state offices or branches of the Irish-owned institutions, including IBRC The data are unconsolidated, however for the purpose of this analysis they have...

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... paper, we examinewhetherthe patternof responseto the bankingcrisis differed in countriesthat increasedthe real interestrate in the year of the crisis In Table 6, a positive sign for the interactionterm ... each of the two years followingthe crisis The coefficientof eachtime dummyis the mean differencebetweenthe valueof the variablein the year and the country-specific averageof the value of the variablein ... re-estimatedthe regressionsof the precedingsectiondividingthe sample banks in five subsamnples based on their profitability in the year of the crisis Accordingly ,the first subsampleincludesbanks that, in...

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... are: the murder of Wilson Pinheiro and Francisco “Chico” Mendes in the Amazon rain forest, the massacre of Father Nery Lito Satur and several others in the Philippines, and the public hanging of ... waste dumping, natural resource exploitation, and the consequent degradation of the means of subsistence of indigenous people The roles of the state and MNCs in suppressing the rights of communal ... non-core countries Basically, institutionalized discrimination refers to the policies of the dominant institutions in the core and the behavior of individuals who control these institutions and implement...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 23:20

... high-income areas Consider the following The Durban Chamber of Commerce and Industry “has in recent years expressed the concern of its members regarding the increasing cost of doing business in the ... direct – in the form of infrastructure developments and public housing in the 1960s and 1970s – but the bulk of it was indirect, extracted unwittingly from the apartheid state in the form of payment ... boundaries, or the national mobility of goods, services, capital or labour The Minister, with the concurrence of the Minister of Finance, may by notice in the Gazette, set a limit on the amount of the rate...

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... derived by subtracting the number of people counted in the census from the number of people measured in the survey and then dividing by the estimate of the total population according to the survey A ... million in savings is targeted for FY 2013 for a total savings in FY 2013 of $.44 million For additional information see the Administrative Savings section of the Introduction to the Budget in Brief ... million in savings is targeted for FY 2013 for a total savings in FY 2013 of $22.55 million For additional information see the Administrative Savings section of the Introduction to the Budget in Brief...

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