the question of global control versus local efficiency
the future of global currency; the euro versus the dollar (2011)
... laureate Robert Mundell, often hailed as the father of the euro, who boldly asserted that Europe’s money “will challenge the status of the dollar and alter the power configuration of the system.” As Mundell’s ... success is largely a matter of survival of the fittest The result of this phenomenon has been a fundamental transformation of the geography of money, the broad configuration of global currency space ... currency use I then explore the way in which the future of the top currencies may be influenced by the logic of market competition, the strategic 10 The global currency system preferences of national...
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The Lure of Global Branding
... that reflects the goal of building and protecting brand The Lure of Global Branding 103 equity At Smirnoff, the global brand manager is given the title of president of the Pierre Smirnoff Company, ... In another example, the global brand manager at Smirnoff has signoff authority on the selection of advertising agencies and themes While companies are spelling out the authority of the global ... implement the strategy Thus local bias cannot get in the way of the company’s global brand leadership The 11 teams strive to create global brands without weakening brand strength locally They define the...
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The ‘‘self’’ of self-control
... group of 209 210 the ‘‘self ’’ of self -control subjects would eat the cookies and another would eat radishes They, they were told, were the radish group They were then presented with plates of ... about why these actions feel voluntary, and whether the feeling is veridical One possibility is that the depletion of the resources of self -control operates upon the desires of the agent: rather than ... finding themselves in these circumstances: they can ensure that they not have easy access to the drug, and they can avoid the cues that trigger cravings and therefore the depletion of their self-control...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Final steps in the catabolism of nicotine Deamination versus demethylation of c-N-methylaminobutyrate doc
... expression of these genes depends on the presence of nicotine in the growth medium and we have determined the enzyme activities of the proteins Our results demonstrate the presence of two pathways of ... representation of the pAO1 gene and ORF cluster flanked by Tn554 and DTn The cluster consists of the pmfR gene, encoding the regulator of the purU-mabO-folD operon, a permease-like ORF, the genes of the ... The results presented in Fig 2B confirmed the expectation that these genes are transcribed only in the presence of nicotine, as was the case for the mabO gene The mao-like gene encodes an AO The...
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The Role of Rainfed Agriculture in the Future of Global Food Production doc
... for an area include the soil quality and depth in the wadi and the ratio of catchment area of the wadi and the size of the area to be cultivated in relation to the rainfall runoff (Bruins, Evenari ... cultivated area When the slope along which the runoff must travel is very long, the velocity of the flow is often rather slow, which makes it quite possible that a significant amount of the water may ... storage in the 1:1 and 2:1 trials increased by 55 and 43 percent respectively over the control, the yields were not always higher than the control Averaged over the three years of the study, the 1:1...
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THE LAW OF ARMS CONTROL pptx
... 4.3 The impact of WW I on arms control 4.4 The legality of war and the emergence of substantive arms control law 11 11 PART I THE LAW OF ARMS CONTROL Chapter system - The place of the law of arms ... (Art 22 of the Hague Conferences on the Laws of Land Warfare) In the period between the Peace Conferences and the conclusion of the Covenant of the League of Nations, the idea of arms control ... TO THE BEHAVIOUR OF STATES WITH REGARD TO THEIR NATIONAL ARMAMENTS OUTSIDE THE LAW OF ARMS CONTROL 5.1 The applicability of rules of international law to the law of arms control 5.2 The law of...
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The Future of Oil: Geology versus Technology doc
... far better than the historical track record of official energy agencies on the one hand, and of advocates of pure versions of the geological view on the other hand We also use the model to identify ... both the advocates of the economic/technological view and the advocates of the geological view have had to significantly revise their projections over the last decade, the former downwards and the ... of oil See Simmons (2005) The units of the coefficients are affected by the fact that in our data qt and Qt are expressed in different units 9 The effect of β > and β > is to flatten the line of the...
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Knowledge and Skill Chains in Engineering and Manufacturing: Information Infrastructure in the Era of Global Communications docx
... without the help and hard work of many volunteers First, we thank the members of the Organizing Committee Further thanks go to the authors, the members of the International Program Committee and the ... (PIM) in the sense of MDA The platform specific models (PSM) are part of the physical view: the ICT platforms need them to carry out their share of the work Assume now that there is an existing ... INTRODUCTION The context of engineering and manufacturing has witnessed a striking expansion: from the product at the workshop during the workday of the craftsman, towards the portfolio of products...
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Economics and the Challenge of Global Warming pdf
... and the Challenge of Global Warming Economics and the Challenge of Global Warming is a balanced, rigorous, and comprehensive analysis of the role of economics in confronting global warming, the ... idea to rest In the seventeenth century, Grotius, the father of the freedom -of -the- seas doctrine, asserted that the vagrant waters of the sea should necessarily be free as neither navigation ... Indeed, the larger the fraction of damages borne by poor countries, the lower the monetized damages, the weaker the abatement policy, and the more damages they will suffer The root problem is, of...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "On the Applicability of Global Index Grammars" ppt
... orems of GILs in terms of the LR-2PDA and GIGs The family of GILs is an Abstract Family of Language The goal of this paper is to show the relevance of GIGs for NL modeling and ... and IGs the stack of indices is independent of non-terminals in the GIG case GIGs can have rules where the right-hand side of the rule is composed only of terminals and affect the stack of indices ... in T ∗ } The main difference between, IGs, LIGs and GIGs, corresponds to the interpretation of the derives relation relative to the behavior of the stack of indices In IGs the stacks of indices...
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Multilateral Enviromental Agreements and the Future of Global Biodiversity pdf
... build the capacity of staff to better protect the natural resources of the park The declaration of the park as a World Heritage Site has raised awareness among stakeholders of the significance of the ... and controlling the mother sources of wild orchids There is a need to focus only on the required species, to promote sustainable harvesting and to control the transportation of mother sources The ... At the centre of the Ramsar philosophy is the “wise use” concept The wise use of wetlands is defined as the maintenance of their ecological character, achieved through the implementation of ecosystem...
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Internet Banking and the question of Bank Run: lesson from the Northern Rock Bank case pdf
... decline of the shares’ price during the first part of the year, there had not been any sign of depositors’ massive withdrawals before September This is a further proof that despite the existence of ... as a lender of last resort The first section will relate the story of the Northern Rock bank In light of those facts, the second section will discuss the impact of the changes introduced by internet ... branches formed, the length of the queue being aggravated by the break down of the bank website and its call center The reason for the initial panic has to be found in the type of deposit insurance...
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Remedying Hyperopia: The Effects of Self- Control Regret on Consumer Behavior pptx
... to local nightlife and entertainment].” The description of the utilitarian prize depicted the logo of the drug chain, and the description of the indulgence prize depicted two recent covers of the ... extant theories of self -control is that the anticipated regret of future lapses of control motivates the use of various precommitment devices (Ainslie 1975; Schelling 1984) Similar to the manner ... hyperopia is mediated by the decay of guilt and the persistence of feelings of missing out on the pleasures of life In one of their studies, Kivetz and Keinan (2006) explore the regrets experienced...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Non-enzymatic developmental functions of acetylcholinesterase – the question of redundancy docx
... virtue of their heparan sulfate chains The lack of comprehensive information on the developmental expression and interactions of HSPGs makes it difficult to narrow the field of possibilities The neuroligins ... mimic functions of the syndecans, glypicans, Mer or the LDL receptor on the cell membrane, or of perlecan in the BM This could result in functional redundancy in the strict sense of the word, with ... the two motifs in the perlecan sequence that they may be situated far apart Unfortunately, the structure of perlecan has not been solved, so this cannot be verified Although the structure of the...
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fixed broadband wireless system design the creation of global mobile communications
... ORGANIZATION OF THIS BOOK 21 in this chapter, the accuracy of the propagation model is often limited by the accuracy of the physical databases rather than the engineering methods in the model itself ... simplifies the mathematical analysis The vector in the direction of travel of the wave is called the Poynting vector The EM wave is shown as sinusoidal in Figure 2.1, although the wave can consist of ... (wavelength) of a wave can all be modified to represent the information On the other end of the link, the receiving antenna and receiver detect these amplitude, phase, or frequency variations of the wave...
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the future of arms control
... control as a way of promoting the general spread of global governance By constraining the power of the state, including that of the United States, they hope to transform the nature of sovereignty, ... that would dominate the arms control consensus for the duration of the cold war In their seminal book, Strategy and Arms Control, they defined arms control as “all the forms of military cooperation ... principles of the business of arms control, and the priorities of policymakers, need a fresh focus for the age of terror chapter Traditional Strategic Arms Control B ecause they have been at the center...
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ON THE EXISTENCE OR THE ABSENCE OF GLOBAL SOLUTIONS OF THE CAUCHY CHARACTERISTIC PROBLEM FOR SOME pdf
... note that by virtue of (3.10), the function u is the solution of (3.12), and according to the unique solvability of that equation, u = v ≥ in the domain DT Thus the proof of Lemma 3.3 is complete ... ), and F ≥ Then if u ∈ C (DT ) is the classical solution of problem (2.1)-(2.2), then u ≥ in the domain DT ◦ Proof If u ∈ C (DT ) is the classical solution of problem (2.1)-(2.2), then u ∈ C ... C(DT ) (3.19) Therefore the series v = limm→ ∞ vm = v0 + ∞=0 wm converges in the class C(DT ) and its m sum is the solution of (3.12) The uniqueness of the solution (3.12) in the space C(DT...
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Báo cáo toán học: "The Model of Stochastic Control and Applications" pdf
... μn+1 is called controlling parameter at the (n + 1)-th step U = un = u(μn )|n = 1, 2, is called a controlling strategy 1.2 Definition of the Cost If at the n-th step, the state of elementary ... ξn+1,j is the sequence of the exponentially distributed independent random variables with the parameter μn+1 (μn+1 > 0), and νμn+1 (ξn+1 ) is random variable defined by The Model of Stochastic Control ... < ξ1,j a.s j=1 The values μ1 are called controlling parameter at the first step By induction, suppose that at the n-th step (n ≥ 1) if controlled process is at the state xn and controlling variables...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Genetics of oak species and the spectre of global climate change" doc
... survive in the northern United States after global warming of 2.5 °C are not beech trees adapted to the current environment, but beech that presently grow at the southern limit of their range Therefore,I ... for the maintenance of seedbanks and provenance tests past the tenure of the scientists who initiated them Howard Kriebel provided cases in point With the exception of his provenance test of red ... species can adjust to the longer, northern photoperiods However, the situation may be even than the ecologists have projected None of them has taken genetic variation into account Their models suggest...
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