... generating hypotheses, and establishing the scope conditions of more general theories However, no matter how compelling the case studies, they cannot alone bear the weight ofthe broad theoretical ... illustrative As part of a larger litany of criticisms, they suggest, The purpose of most loans and of many grants is to generate profit for the donor country and its industries Much ofthe profit generated ... instance of a cooperative equilibrium’ (1997b: 332) From Rio to Gleneagles the likely effectiveness of these two different types of aid 23 Throughout the rest ofthe book, we will explore whether...
... quality or the safety ofthe food? • (Similar to above) In general, are people in China concerned about such matters as the nutritional value ofthe food or the contents ofthe food they buy (for ... to the food)? FQ (This question might include: the packaging and the origin ofthe food) • What are the possible results if all (or the majority of) the people were not very concerned about the ... about the contents ofthe food they eat? (假设的问题) • (Similar to above) What could happen if all (or the majority of) the people were not very concerned about the contents ofthe food they eat? Food...
... with an understandingof each ofthe seven layers, including their functions and their relationships to each other This will provide you with an overview ofthe network process, which can then act ... Protocols, or rules, can their work in either hardware or software or, as with most protocol stacks, in a combination ofthe two The nature of these stacks is that the lower layers their work in hardware ... as a framework for understandingthe details of computer networking Since the discussion of networking often includes talk of “extra layers”, this paper will address these unofficial layers as...
... non-profit that advocates for affordable housing, retained Civic Economics to analyze the economic impactofthe 2006 commitment and to consider the prospective impactof another round of bonds ... of these costs, we elected to take a conservative approach b The costs of these supportive services are here treated as positive in terms of local economic impact There exists a strong body of ... 3.6 THE ECONOMIC IMPACTOF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING MAY 2012 Map Civic Economics THE ECONOMIC IMPACTOF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING THE ECONOMIC IMPACT...
... program to offset the CO2 emitted from the production of our hybrid vehicles in the U.S The purchase price ofthe offset is applied to a project that reduces or sequesters the emission of CO2 elsewhere ... recovered in the sales price Third, the GHG footprint ofthe in-use phase of light duty vehicles must be measured on a well-to-wheels basis, that is, the total emissions from the production ofthe original ... senior management, the Office ofthe Chairman and Chief Executive (OCCE) as well as the Environmental and Public Policy Committee ofthe Board of Directors What you will read in the following pages...
... is the relevance ofthe education to the professional future of a person Universities need to strengthen the causality between an education and a professional future, and given the nature ofthe ... are “working in the trenches” of building the web Most ofthe people in this latter segment of responders came to the survey by invitation because they are on the email list ofthe Pew Internet ... other tech and science publications, said, The key challenge ofthe next five years—I say the because ofthe importance of education for the entire global labor force and the importance of...
... native ofthe same age and gender The overall fiscal effect of immigration is found positive, under the assumption that the age and fiscal characteristics of future immigrants resemble those ofthe ... over time due to the aging of populations In the following, we will apply the method of generational accounting in order to evaluate the fiscal impactof immigrants in Austria The method has been ... that is, the present value of their taxes paid less their benefits received over their lifetime For previous applications of generational accounting on the estimation of immigrants’ fiscal impacts...
... Titration of CyaY with Fe2+ and Fe3+ Addition of Fe2+ induced the displacement of several resonances in the [1H,15N]-HSQC NMR spectrum of CyaY, but the most striking consequence ofthe addition was the ... disappearance of specific resonances without the concomitant appearance of other signals in other parts ofthe spectrum This result could be a consequence ofthe paramagnetic properties of Fe(II), ... induce a line ˚ broadening of 1–100 Hz in nuclei located within A ofthe binding site, depending on the molecular mass ofthe protein and the strength ofthe magnetic field The only exceptions are...
... goal of this work is to identify the semantic labels of IMs, i.e., the attribute names they implicitly refer to We use Ac to denote the set of IM semantic labels for the intent class c Other ... models for semantic understandingof noun phrase queries Assuming that the intent class c ∈ C of a query is known, we cast the problem of extracting the semantic structure ofthe query into a joint ... name of an intent class For example, the IH ofthe query “alice in wonderland 2010 cast” is “cast”, which is an attribute name of Movie By issuing the query, the user intends to find out the values...
... sense, since in either case the economic impact on the state and, thus, the size ofthe state's economy, is the same After all, the source oftheimpact is the new job (an expansion ofthe economic ... 1) The Economic Impactofthe University of Northern Iowa on the State of Iowa Cedar Falls, IA: Department of Economics, The University of Northern Iowa Butler, T E (1980) An Estimate ofthe ... for the position: one is a graduate of a local university and the other is a lifetime resident of another state According to the skill-base approach, if the firm hired the local graduate, then the...
... burden of NCDs: • A global analysis ofthe economic impactof NCDs by the World Economic Forum and the Harvard School of Public Health • An analysis ofthe costs of scaling up a core intervention ... incurred as a result of its use The designations employed and the presentation ofthe material in this overview not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part ofthe World Health ... The content of this report stems from the work published in two separate reports, one led by the World Economic Forum and the Harvard School of Public Health, and the other developed by the...
... estimates ofthe number of cases in the category (‘n’) and the average cost for that category The product is the total cost (eg the wage rate for lost earnings multiplied by the average number of days ... (effects) of two or more courses of action Deadweight loss: is the loss of consumer and producer surplus, as a result ofthe imposition of a distortion to the equilibrium (society preferred) level of ... the first study that established the prevalence of chronic pain in a general sample ofthe Australian adult population, and one ofthe largest reported in the literature (Blyth et al, 2001) The...
... mainly on the theoretical impactof this innovation on the creation of new firms and products, on the empirical evidence about theimpactof its introduction for the European economy and on the implications ... and in the creation of new firms through the stock market The number of firms follows the equation of motion: where N E , t is the number of new firms and is the exogenous rate of exit The real ... decreasing in the number of firms The latter follows the equation of motion: Nt (1 ) Nt N E,t where N E , t is the number of new firms and is the rate of business destruction The real value of a firm...
... the location of amyloidogenic mutations and position of b-strands (A) The structure ofthe polypeptide backbone ofthe two chains (purple and blue) is shown along with the location ofthe N-terminus ... tissue and that the distribution of TTR deposition reflects the presence of these endogenous factors In the case ofthe Ab protein of Alzheimer’s disease, a number of proteins and factors (pathological ... strategy if the concentration ofthe oligomeric species were also decreased Mechanism of neurotoxicity in FAP: the lesson from other amyloidoses A number of studies have examined the mechanism of neurotoxicity...
... other profile in the data set The profiles of G can be summarized by a vector s whose dimensionality is that ofthe data, and each of whose elements contains the mean ofthe frequencies for the ... where j is the index to the jth element of s, i indexes the rows ofthe data matrix F, and n is the total number of rows in cluster G If s is interpreted in terms ofthe semantics ofthe matrix ... interpretation ofthe cluster tree, therefore, is to work through the levels ofthe tree from the top, constructing and comparing thematic profiles for the subclusters at each level as far down the tree...
... published on the responsibility ofthe Secretary-General ofthe OECD The opinions expressed and arguments employed herein not necessarily reflect the official views ofthe Organisation or ofthe governments ... and magnitude They are of concern to governments because of (i) the negative impact that they can have on innovation, (ii) the threat they pose to the welfare of consumers and (iii) the substantial ... apparent to the consumer The size ofthe secondary market depends in large part on the difference in the price ofthe counterfeit or pirated article from the genuine item There is likely to be virtually...
... quantified the direct impactof ConnectKentucky as the intervening factor in Kentucky Additionally, the paper extrapolates this impact to other states to quantify the potential national impactof pending ... ConnectKentucky impact on adoption Applying the growth rate ofthe nation to the starting point in the KY time series demonstrates that had Kentucky performed similarly to the rest ofthe country in terms of ... estimate the direct availability economic impact for Kentuckians ofthe increased growth in broadband adoption It then extrapolates from these results to estimate the potential economic impact to the...
... their mother to fix the tail v-~hveof the windmilL b In the great expanse ofthe prairie where they lived, the high tower ofthe windmill was the only real landmark (Worline, 1956:1) Given the conceptual ... events: the tail v~ne broke, mother sent the children to fix it, the children set off walking The temporal focus, Indicated by the past perfect tense, is in the middle ofthe wallri~g event; the ... work, between the event structure ofthe narrative and the hierarchy of ~receivedn time cycles such as times of day, seasons ofthe year and the stages of hum a n life.Second, there is compositional...
... structure ofthe Global Insights model, it likely understates the negative impactof military spending relative to other models The next section of this paper describes the key projections ofthe Global ... Budget Office produce its own projections ofthe economic impactof a sustained increase in defense spending The Economic Impactofthe Iraq War and Higher Military Spending Introduction The Iraq ... model Other models will show somewhat different projections, but it is unlikely that the direction ofthe long-term impact on any ofthe key variables will be different In fact, because ofthe structure...