theory s empire—wrestling the fog bank sean mccann

Tài liệu The Proposer''''s Guide for the Green Bank Telescope: GBT Support Staff pdf

Tài liệu The Proposer''''s Guide for the Green Bank Telescope: GBT Support Sta ff pdf

Ngày tải lên : 16/02/2014, 10:20
... • Sources in a session should be visible at the same time for at least to hours • Sources with Declinations less than the latitude of the GBT should not be in the same session as sources with ... is possible to have longer sessions but the consequence is that the session becomes more difficult to schedule Shorter sessions may also be justified but the proposer must be fully aware of the amount ... dual-beam systems (i.e., two feeds); hence there are always two beams on the sky Nodding is usually used for these systems (see § 4.2) The continuum point-source sensitivity depends on three factors These...
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Framing Theory’s Empire pot

Framing Theory’s Empire pot

Ngày tải lên : 16/03/2014, 01:20
... that theory s value is heading south, and the anthologies mask this fact; the second tells us that the masking itself gives us the right impression, and the third that theory s prestige is as strong ... two decades ago, and many years have passed since anybody except the theorists themselves took the latest versions seriously And as for disciplinary competence, the humanities are so splintered ... professional prestige that is as strong as ever This is the paradox of its success, and failure Reread this passage slowly if you want to figure out what s going on The first sentence tells us that...
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A User’s Guide for the Uniform Bank Performance Report potx

A User’s Guide for the Uniform Bank Performance Report potx

Ngày tải lên : 29/03/2014, 13:20
... loans and leases If gross recoveries exceed gross losses, NA is shown at this caption Gross Loss to Average Total Loans & Leases Gross loan and lease losses divided by average total loans and ... or losses, and extraor­ dinary items, plus the provision for possible loan and lease losses divided by net loan and lease losses If gross recoveries exceed gross losses, NA is shown at this caption ... purchase & repos (cost of) Other borrowings (cost of) Federal funds sold & resold (to average assets) Premises, fixed assets (to average assets) Securities (AFS + HTM) (to average assets) Interest-bearing...
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Tài liệu THE WORLD BANK’S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH ACTION PLAN 2010-2015 pdf

Tài liệu THE WORLD BANK’S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH ACTION PLAN 2010-2015 pdf

Ngày tải lên : 13/02/2014, 10:20
... convincing results Using the health systems strengthening platform  Health systems strengthening (HSS) has developed out of the tensions between vertical/disease-specific programs and horizontal/system-wide ... HSS as a core framework It is possible to lose some focus on the immediate needs and requirements of strong reproductive health interventions in the push towards systems strengthening And as ... commitments for HSS, RH issues are not fully addressed within the current emphasis on health systems strengthening 50 A recent IEG evaluation found that substantive analysis of population issues rarely...
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Tài liệu Which Bank Is the “Central” Bank? An Application of Markov Theory to the Canadian Large Value Transfer System doc

Tài liệu Which Bank Is the “Central” Bank? An Application of Markov Theory to the Canadian Large Value Transfer System doc

Ngày tải lên : 16/02/2014, 12:20
... Data The data set used in the study consists of all Tranche transactions in the LVTS from October 1st 2005 to October 31st 2006 This data set consists of 272 days in which the LVTS was running The ... + SSE where SSE is the sum of squared errors (i.e the sum of squared differences between the cash distribution and the stationary distribution) The second block is a random walk Metropolis-Hastings ... useful comments and suggestions The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and not necessarily reflect the position of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York or the Federal Reserve...
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To Cut or Not to Cut? That is the (Central Bank’s) Question In Search of the Neutral Interest Rate in Latin America pdf

To Cut or Not to Cut? That is the (Central Bank’s) Question In Search of the Neutral Interest Rate in Latin America pdf

Ngày tải lên : 15/03/2014, 14:20
... different currencies 23 Evidence on these issues is still to be presented But a deeper discussion of the role of MaPPs as complement or substitute to standard interest rate polices deserves better attention ... large banks to use the non-remunerated part of the required reserves on time deposits to acquire small bank assets Cut the "additional" bank- fshort reserve requirements on cash deposits to percent ... (2011) 24 The analysis on MaPP seems to be symmetric, except for its fiscal cost If capital inflows are sterilized (purchasing reserves with domestic paper) the quasi-fiscal cost increases Capital...
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WORKING PAPER SERIES NO 1471 / SEPTEMBER 2012: FEEDBACK TO THE ECB’S MONETARY ANALYSIS THE BANK OF RUSSIA’S EXPERIENCE WITH SOME KEY TOOLS pdf

WORKING PAPER SERIES NO 1471 / SEPTEMBER 2012: FEEDBACK TO THE ECB’S MONETARY ANALYSIS THE BANK OF RUSSIA’S EXPERIENCE WITH SOME KEY TOOLS pdf

Ngày tải lên : 22/03/2014, 21:20
... present state Until the end of 198 0s the banking system consisted of the Gosbank (the State Bank) of the Soviet Union which main objectives were monetary emission, loans provision to enterprises, ... components: currency outside banking system, transferable deposits and other deposits Currency outside banking system includes currency issued by the Bank of Russia into circulation less currency ... aggregates The loss of access to foreign borrowing, the contraction of deposits, interest rates increases as well as the decline of the demand for loans during the severe recession caused decreasing...
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Integrating Gender into the World Bank’s Work: A Strategy for Action potx

Integrating Gender into the World Bank’s Work: A Strategy for Action potx

Ngày tải lên : 22/03/2014, 21:20
... Reduction Support Credits); • the criteria used to assess the poverty reduction focus of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) in Joint Staff Assessments (JSAs); • the criteria used to assess the ... gender dimension into the criteria now used to assess the quality of PRSPs in the Joint Staff Assessment (JSA).37 This will assist countries in understanding where the gender dimension is critical ... dimension into the criteria used to assess the poverty reduction focus of CASs and sector strategy papers For purposes of monitoring and quality assurance, it is important that the CAS discusses the...
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The World Bank’s Genuine Savings Indicator: a Useful Measure of Sustainability? pptx

The World Bank’s Genuine Savings Indicator: a Useful Measure of Sustainability? pptx

Ngày tải lên : 29/03/2014, 09:20
... other services it is also important to assess how equitable is the service delivery and outcomes Environmental thresholds The Bank assumes that the four types of capital it identifies are substitutable, ... in other words that the economy is a self-sufficient system, rather than a subsystem of a finite ecosystem, dependent upon the latter for inputs, sinks and life-support functions The “weak sustainability” ... rights of future generations to have a range of assets, species, landscapes etc to enjoy Tackling these questions may be both important in themselves, and essential if a political consensus is to...
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An update to the World Bank’s estimates of consumption poverty in the developing world* pot

An update to the World Bank’s estimates of consumption poverty in the developing world* pot

Ngày tải lên : 29/03/2014, 09:20
... across regions Uneven progress across the Bank s regions, but (for the first time) progress in all regions  Dramatic progress in East Asia Looking back to the early 198 0s, East Asia was the ... However, the poor survey coverage for MENA creates uncertainty about the estimated poverty rates  For the first time since 1981 we have seen less than half the population of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) ... substantially revised and updated version of the Bank s website PovcalNet will be released, which will allow public access to the primary data, to replicate these estimates and to make estimates for selected...
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Báo cáo hóa học: " Editorial Impact of Kirk’s Results on the Development of Fixed Point Theory" docx

Báo cáo hóa học: " Editorial Impact of Kirk’s Results on the Development of Fixed Point Theory" docx

Ngày tải lên : 21/06/2014, 05:20
... Point Theory and Applications The special issue contains 38 papers accepted Most of the papers touched on all applications of Kirk s fixed point theorem Mohamed A Khamsi Tomas Dominguez-Benavides...
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Project Gutenberg’s Essays on the Theory of Numbers, by Richard Dedekind pptx

Project Gutenberg’s Essays on the Theory of Numbers, by Richard Dedekind pptx

Ngày tải lên : 28/06/2014, 19:20
... the first class or to the second, and it is respectively the greatest of the first or the least of the second class In each case the separation of the system R into the two classes A1 , A2 is such ... element t of the system T there corresponds the same transform φ(t), which t possesses as element of S; at the same time the system consisting of all transforms φ(t) shall be called the transform of ... be associated in the mind, and we say that they form a system S; we call the things a, b, c, elements of the system S, they are contained in S; conversely, S consists of these elements Such...
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 Circuit theory of finance and the role of incentives in financial sector reform

Circuit theory of finance and the role of incentives in financial sector reform

Ngày tải lên : 24/10/2012, 09:33
... be unnecessary to further improve the bank risk position s and counterparties, on their side, might consider for them unnecessary to further assess the riskiness of the bank Finally, the inadequacy ... non-banks; it should also limit the ways banks can use links with their non -bank affiliates and subsidiaries Banks, for instance, should not be allowed to transfer risks from these entities upon ... (1996a) show the s substantial fiscal costs and the costs of foregone output associated with banking crises in several countries over a twenty-year period since the mid-seventies Times of crisis are...
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Vietnam’s exports to the eu Situation and recommendations.doc

Vietnam’s exports to the eu Situation and recommendations.doc

Ngày tải lên : 27/10/2012, 16:55
... demands Meanwhile, most of these products are made in establishments in the countryside, so they are very simple Beside the monotonousness, these products have other important weak point that is ... control system); and HACCP and HACCP (the analysis and control system for essential foodstuff processing steps) 3.1.3 To set up applying e-commerce in business Vietnam enterprises should step up the ... diversify their sales In other words, they can offset slow sales in one national market (perhaps due to recession) with increased sales in other Diversified sales can level off a company s cash flow-marking...
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Cynthia's Revels (or The Fountain of Self-Love)

Cynthia's Revels (or The Fountain of Self-Love)

Ngày tải lên : 06/11/2012, 14:12
... criticism who most potently of all the men of his time affected the subsequent course of English letters: such was Ben Jonson, and as such his strong personality assumes an interest to us almost unparalleled, ... is Gabriel [Spencer], for he is slain in Hogsden fields by the hands of Benjamin Jonson, bricklayer." The last word is perhaps Henslowe 's thrust at Jonson in his displeasure rather than a designation ... this is contained in the list of actors prefixed to the comedy in the folio of Jonson 's works, 1616 But it is a mistake to infer, because Shakespeare 's name stands first in the list of actors...
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Journal of Business Case Studies – November/December 2009  Volume 5, Number 6 13 An Apparel Brand‘s Channel Strategy: The Case of Oliver in Korea

Journal of Business Case Studies – November/December 2009 Volume 5, Number 6 13 An Apparel Brand‘s Channel Strategy: The Case of Oliver in Korea

Ngày tải lên : 17/04/2013, 20:23
... sharing the labor costs of the sales staff, and various types of promotion costs In addition to sales commissions, the discount store requests brand suppliers to pay logistics costs and to share the ... discount stores Discount stores also charge 15-20% sales commissions to apparel brands for renting fees As discount stores request lower sales commissions than department stores, apparel brands ... Discount stores tend to charge high sales commissions, as department stores They also engage in the chronic unjust practices associated with department stores, including high sales commissions, sharing...
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the book of css3 - a developer's guide to the future of web design - by peter gasston

the book of css3 - a developer's guide to the future of web design - by peter gasston

Ngày tải lên : 20/09/2013, 09:09
... has such varied implementation across different browsers A Brief History of CSS3 The version of CSS in current use is CSS2.1, a revision of the CSS2 specification that was originally published ... Process As I move through this book and discuss each of the different modules, I’ll also refer to that module s status Status is set by the W3C, and it indicates the module s progress through the ... through the rest of the chapters Browser-Specific Prefixes In the previous section, I briefly discussed using browser-specific prefixes on the box-sizing property As CSS3 is still in a state of change...
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Nature''s templates - identifying the patterns that control events

Nature''s templates - identifying the patterns that control events

Ngày tải lên : 17/10/2013, 18:20
... can possibly respond to Over time, the workload continues to build, the stress returns, and the pressure to drink increases What makes the shifting the burden structure insidious is the subtle ... individuals Shifting the burden structures tend to produce periodic crises, when the symptoms of stress surface The crises are usually resolved with more of the symptomatic solution, causing the symptoms ... processes: stress builds, which leads to more alcohol, which relieves stress, which leads to less perceived need to adjust workload, which leads to more workload, which leads to more stress These...
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