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... accordingly. The chart below illustrates the structure of a hypothetical inflation-linked bond issued with a principal of $100 million, a coupon rate of 3% and a maturity of three years. The example ... bonds. The UK was the first major market to issue these bonds in 1981, and they now represent approximately 23% ofthe UK’s totaloutstanding debt. US TIPS assets have grown to $560 billion sincethey ... retroactively applying a model with the benefit of hindsight. The results reflect the reinvestment of dividends and other earnings, but do not reflect fees, transaction costs, and other expenses, which would...
... solutions of the analytes andthe internal standards were prepared bothin methanol and hexane and stored at 7°C. The workingstandard solutions were prepared by further diluting the stock standard ... withregard to their acute toxicity in the standardized biolu-minescence inhibition assay. The aim of this study wasto clarify the contribution ofthe different fractions to the total toxicity of organic ... efficiency ofthe STP by inhibiting the meta-bolic processes ofthe microorganisms in the biologicaltreatment step [5]. Toxicity in the influent can there-fore affect the quality of treated...
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... children. Yet the Gross National Product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength ... the activities themselves and through the consumption ofthe output produced during the activities.Dow and Juster (1985) and Juster, Courant, and Dow (1985) emphasize the notion of “process benefi ... is a senior scholar and professor of psychology and public affairs emeritus at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, andthe Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology Emeritus,...
... clean. The policy rates each segmentaccording to the benefit of cleaning the segment and the cost of cleaning the segment and chooses the segments with the highest ratio of benefit to cost. The benefit ... shows the relative importance ofthe variouskinds of data written to disk, both in terms of how much of the live blocks they occupy on disk and in terms of howmuch ofthe data written to the ... sequen-tially, then writes 100 Mbytes randomly to the existing file, thenreads 100 Mbytes randomly from the file, and finally reads the filesequentially again. The bandwidth of each ofthe five phases...
... specialized audience.State -of -the- art researchers need this kind of detailed mathematics tounderstand the theoretical implications ofthe work. A basic premise of this book is that most practical ... with radio waves to probe the interior of the human body. Properly adjusting the strength and frequency ofthe fields cause the atomic nuclei in a localized region ofthe body to resonate between ... word in the incoming audio signal is isolated and then analyzed toidentify the type of excitation and resonate frequencies. These parameters arethen compared with previous examples of spoken...
... contempt and ridiculeinstead, further diminishing their rather uncertain standing within the group. Concerned both about losing and winning À thereby stoking the resentment of other competitors À they ... ofthe notion of socialphobia and its equivalents (mostly from the end of nineteenth centuryFrance) in the context of a rising interest in anxiety-related phenomena and the desire to give them ... thisend, they make themselves agreeable, smiling and nodding with interest and approval with those they know. When not preoccupied with them-selves, they can be well attuned to the needs of others and...
... referral) maydepend on the nature ofthe condition, whether the refer-ral is for reasons of diagnosis and/ or treatment, the pref-erence ofthe provider, andthe relationship between the providers. ... composed of both chiropractic and medical professionals. The goals ofthe focus group wereto explore the attitudes and experiences of medical and chiropractic clinicians regarding their patients ... situation, that the point of referral maydepend on the familiarity or relationship between the providers, and that the nature ofthe referral (e.g., amount and type of information accompanying the referral)...