the spatial behavior of u s serial killers
Publicly Funded Agricultural Research and the Changing Structure of U.S. Agriculture doc
... on U. S Bureau of the Census, 1900–1992 Censuses of Agriculture; U. S Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Service, 1997 Census of Agriculture FIGURE 1-1 Number of farms and ... Process, 67 Summary, 68 STRUCTURAL IMPACTS OF PUBLIC INVESTMENT IN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH Public-Sector Responses to Structural Issues, 69 Agricultural Research Investments, 72 Current Research ... the Structure of U. S Agriculture was asked to assess the role of public-sector agricultural research on changes in the size and numbers of farms, with particular emphasis on the evolution of very-large-scale...
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the reputation of underwriters, the bonding hypothesis, and the impact on the information environment of u.s cross-listed firms
... intermediaries While the act of cross-listing in a U. S stock exchange automatically subjects the firm to a number of institutional requirements, such as the mandatory disclosure requirements of the SEC, the ... cross-listings supports the segmentation hypothesis This hypothesis suggests that the main advantage of cross-listing is that it breaks down investment barriers that would otherwise exist due to segmentation ... IPOs and Foreign SEOs, I test the main hypotheses of this paper on a joint sample of these two types of issuers Throughout the paper, unless otherwise specified, I refer to this joint subsample...
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Tài liệu Fertility, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health of U.S. Women: Data From the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth doc
... 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 ... all survey data, these data are subject to sources of nonsampling error These could include misunderstanding of questions on the part of the interviewer or respondent, nonuniformity in asking the ... 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...
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Tài liệu Déjà Vu All Over Again: The Causes of U.S. Commercial Bank Failures This Time Around* docx
... 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 ... 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 to one if ... components and likely seriously misclassifies “problem banks.” For all of these reasons, we not consider Torna s study to be a close substitute for ours The second point that we wish to make in this section...
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Tài liệu China’s Holdings of U.S. Securities: Implications for the U.S. Economy pptx
... Chinese products and lower U. S interest rates That subsidy helps to boost U. S consumption of Chinese products, which supports China s export industries However, the subsidy is at the expense of ... flows to the United States Thus, Chinese purchases of all types of U. S securities (not just Treasury securities) should be considered when attempting to understand the impact China s investment ... forces Chinese workers to save a significant part of their income That savings is used to finance the Chinese government s purchases of U. S securities Chinese purchases and holdings of U. S securities...
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The Geographic Distribution and Characteristics of U.S. Bank Failures, 2007-2010: Do Bank Failures Still Reflect Local Economic Conditions? pptx
... consolidation of the U. S banking industry and the advent of banks with interstate branches The largest U. S banks operate thousands of branch offices across several states For example, as of June ... Statistics Bureau of Economic Analysis Bureau of Economic Analysis Administrative Office of the United States Courts; Bureau of Labor Statistics Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages Rice and Strahan ... four southeastern states (Kentucky, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Tennessee), and two Great Plains states (Montana and North Dakota) Figure shows the distribution of the depositsbased failure...
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The State of U.S. Railroads docx
... consequences that affect other users of the transportation system, communities through which the infrastructure passes, and the environment, because different modes of freight differ in their safety ... over highway congestion, rail freight is seen as part of the solution to increased logistics costs Many of the largest shippers optimize their logistics systems by shipping some of their inventory ... both the magnitude of the external costs of trucks and trains and the difference in their costs An examination of these costs individually shows that the magnitude of the accident-cost figure for...
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Governance and the Success of U.S. Community Banks, 1790-2010: Mutual Savings Banks, Local Commercial Banks, and the Merchants (National) Bank of New Bedford, Massachusetts doc
... the end of the 179 0s, the notes and deposits of chartered banks constituted the bulk of the U. S money supply, though specie and chits or shinplasters (the bearer liabilities of non-banks) also ... depositors, in other words, did not have to trade assets as frequently as a thousand individual investors would have to have done Mutual savings banks passed most of those savings on to depositors, thereby ... transaction of business and supplies to the enterprising, whose credit is good, the deficiency of capital, which is necessary for the successful prosecution of their plans.”79 Contemporaries also often...
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Derivative Exposure and the Interest Rate and Exchange Rate Risks of U.S. Banks ppt
... risks The results of this study provide the first formal estimates of the joint effect of derivative exposures on the systematic interest rate and exchange rate risks of U S banks The rest of the ... subsequent discussion addresses the sources of these exposures Moreover, they also reveal that the interest rate and exchange rate betas are interdependent, which suggests that some sort of simultaneous ... adjust for possible bias due to crossequation dependencies, the return equations in each group are estimated as a simultaneous equation system, using a modified Seemingly Unrelated Technique (SUR)...
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The Exchange Rate Exposure of U.S. and Japanese Banking Institutions potx
... present the results for the monthly and daily estimates for the U. S bank holding companies, and the last two columns present the results for the Japanese firms For the U. S firms, the exposure measures ... exchange contracts lowers the exchange rate exposure of the banks in our sample suggests that the banks manage some of their exposure through the use of such contracts This finding affirms the recent ... studies of other types of firms Measures of the Determinants of Foreign Exchange Exposure There are many potential sources of foreign exchange exposure The most obvious source of currency risk comes...
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Outcome Evaluation of U.S. Department of State Support for the Global Methane Initiative doc
... agriculture, coal mines, landfills, and oil and gas systems.2 USG funding supports activities across these four sectors, including feasibility studies, training workshops, demonstration projects, ... indicators, as outlined in the evaluation solicitation: • amount of GHG emissions, measured in metric tons of CO2 equivalent (MTCO2e), reduced or sequestered as a result of USG assistance • number of ... relevant to the success of GMI—outcomes that DoS and EPA staff emphasized as important features of GMI in our discussions—that we could not measure using existing quantitative data These included capacity-building,...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Assessment of the spatial distribution of light transmitted below young trees in an agroforestry system S Meloni" pptx
... Tree structure and light distribution below trees were measured in an agroforestry system consisting of wild cherries (Prunus avium) and a pasture of Festuca elatior The measurements allowed us ... the sensor Therefore this should increase the minimum of transmitted radiation measured under the trees and blur the edge of the shaded area Second, small errors in the canopy structure measurement ... clusters of leaves distributed along the branches The size of the three-dimensional cells has been chosen to fit the cluster, therefore the canopy structure description used in the model should...
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Tài liệu Characterization of the Polymorphic Behavior of an Organic Compound Using a Dynamic Thermal and X-ray Powder Diffraction Technique pptx
... Interconversions of polymorphs of dicarboxylate disodium salt Mixtures of Forms Using the DSC and XRPD profiles discussed above for the several pure polymorphic forms of this study, we were able to assign ... of the DSC results of the component pure polymorphs In some cases, however, the assignment of component polymorphs to sample mixtures depended on the XRPD results Conclusions Interconversions ... temperature range of hundreds of degrees This allows the simultaneous measurements of thermochemical and thermophysical events, while following changes in crystalline structure (polymorphism) during...
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Tài liệu THE SPATIAL DIMENSION OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN ZIMBABWE docx
... surfaces, structure of the nodal system and structure of the networks and flows This was done to clearly expose the nature of the total spatial structure of the South Africa economy A major strength ... that the core region of the South African spatial economy consists of a number of noncontiguous cores Upward transitional regions tend to occur around these core regions The rest of the system is ... the population characteristics and structure as well as in socio-economic development of the districts The census data that is used in this research is that collected during the 1992 census The...
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Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria''''s Reign pdf
... and should fine him pounds for unlawful possession of one of the knockers, and pounds for assaulting the police constable in the execution of his duty He should not fine the other two Ferguson said ... Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George of Cambridge and the Duchess of Sutherland; and on her left, the Duke of Cambridge, the Duchess of Kent, the Princess Augusta of Cambridge and the Countess ... was summoned, who stated that the Princess was in such a sweet sleep, she could not venture to disturb her Then they said, 'We come to the Queen on business of State, and even her sleep must...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "ON THE SPATIAL USES OF PREPOSITIONS" docx
... kouJt v i i i be based on the house 's own a x e s B u t when l o o k i n g from some d i s t a n c e , one M y use one 's line of sight as axis Another aspect of viewpoint, is the bounded/unbounded ... I f the addressee expects Suzy to be Just o u t s i d e the playground, ( t i t ) required i f the speaker h e r / h i m s e l f I s in the playground (an analogous c o n t r a s t exists between ... examples w i l l help understand how these co're meanings are manifest in the a c t u a l uses of the prepositions In in fremt of a r~ling st~me, the point of observation Is "vlrtual"-l.e It Is an...
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