... Measuring Vulnerability To operationalize the concept of debt intolerance to find a way to quantitatively measure a country’s fragility as a foreign borrower—we focus on two indicators: the sovereign ... history and the broad range of countries we cover in this book, such financial crises occur all too frequently Why cannot big countries, or even the world as a whole, find a way to put a stop to ... well below those of the more recent period: 0.5 percent per annum for 1500–1799 and 0.71 percent for 1800–1913, in contrast with 5.0 percent for 1914–2006 In periods with much lower average inflation...
Ngày tải lên: 27/07/2014, 08:09
... These results indicate that Lqhb1 is similar to other b-toxins in action and specificity to mammalian sodium channel subtypes Lqhb1 is similar to the anti-insect depressant toxin, LqhIT2, in its toxic ... competes for both a and b-toxin receptor sites in rat brain synaptosomes, AahIT4, seems to be related to b-toxins because it was recognized by antibodies raised against the b-toxin, Css2, but not ... mL of toxin-containing solution was perfused over the oocyte situated in a 200-lL chamber at room temperature Results (see Experimental procedures for details) Upon injection of Lqhb1 to blowfly...
Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 01:20
Packet communicating in an IP World 30
... bills,” says Bill Ashton, the town’s director of IT “We succeeded: we’re already saving 30 percent every month and expect that to rise to 50 percent when we add the police department to the system But ... difficult to manage and slow to change Today’s trend toward data center consolidation to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) calls for close collaboration between data center and network managers to ... each of the two tracked objects, and 10 new functions to monitor the tracked objects (10 new functions to monitor the tracked objects + new functions for the tracked objects to monitor the items...
Ngày tải lên: 23/10/2013, 00:15
Tài liệu THE STATE OF THE WORLD’S CHILDREN 2012: Children in an Urban World pptx
... all children – to thrive, nations have to work together We have to share resources, adopt and adapt successful initiatives from around the globe and encourage our private sectors to engage with ... Executive Director; Rima Salah, Deputy Executive Director; Gordon Alexander, Director, Office of Research; Nicholas Alipui, Director, Programme Division; Louis-Georges Arsenault, Director, Office ... better results not only for children but also for their communities Finally, everyone must work together to achieve results for children International, national, municipal and community actors...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 15:20
Báo cáo " A NEW VIEW ON AN OLD PROBLEM IN QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS " potx
... [13] the correct transformation properties of the operator formalism [15] can be restored in terms of the functional integral if in it one explicit takes into account the time dependent axis ... hypothesis The proof of confinement has to satisfy the principle of accordance with the parton model (Any attempts to support the confinement with the quark propagator modification by removing their ... infrared − → fields k = leads to one of the version of the ”confinement propagator” Acknowledgements We are grateful to Profs B M Barbashov, Yu L Kalinovski, and V N Pervushin for useful discussions...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 14:20
Becoming Agile: ...in an imperfect world pdf
... him to build the tool they needed They faxed engineering prints to Stockdale and explained the dire situation to him Using his 95-member machine shop, Stockdale was able to reduce a 3-day job to ... competitors To reach the desired ability to respond to constant change, your software process needs to focus on what is truly important Similar to the way you pack light when you’re going to backpack ... opposed to trying to use agile to save the ship www.it-ebooks.info Licensed to Deborah Christiansen 16 1.5 CHAPTER Moving to agile Key points to remember Here are the key points to...
Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 19:20
Global health watch 3 an alternative world health report ppt
... quick to exploit the market opportunity created by extreme and increasing inequality (see above), doubling the size of the financial sector relative to the economy as a whole from per cent to per ... bundling loans together into totally opaque financial products, which they sold on to (mostly institutional) investors By obscuring the true extent of the risks, they were able to limit artificially ... apparent at the time While the debt -to- income ratio of the richest per cent of households fell from 80 per cent to 65 per cent between 1983 and 2007, for the remaining 95 per cent of the population (the...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 06:20
THE STATE OF THE WORLD’S CHILDREN 2012: Children in an Urban World doc
... all children – to thrive, nations have to work together We have to share resources, adopt and adapt successful initiatives from around the globe and encourage our private sectors to engage with ... Executive Director; Rima Salah, Deputy Executive Director; Gordon Alexander, Director, Office of Research; Nicholas Alipui, Director, Programme Division; Louis-Georges Arsenault, Director, Office ... better results not only for children but also for their communities Finally, everyone must work together to achieve results for children International, national, municipal and community actors...
Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 09:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "NLP and the humanities: the revival of an old liaison" potx
... exchange of expertise, tools, experience and guidelines Good examples hereof exist already in several domains, e.g., the field of broadcast archiving (IST project PrestoSpace; www.prestospace org/), ... underlying the mining tools and searching for ways to increase the involvement of metadata generators, both experts and ‘amateurs’, important insights are likely to emerge that could help to shape agendas ... 1998 Toward an ecology of hypertext annotation In Proceedings of the ninth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia : links, objects, time and space—structure in hypermedia systems (HYPERTEXT...
Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 20:20
báo cáo hóa học: " The de Morton Mobility Index (DEMMI): An essential health index for an ageing world" pptx
... (0.88 to 0.95), p = 0.00 0.76 (0.65 to 0.84), p = 0.00 0.91 (0.87 to 0.94), p = 0.00 0.68 (0.56 to 0.77), p = 0.00 0.36 (0.16 to 0.53), p = 0.00 -0.11 (-0.32 to 0.11), p = 0.18 -0.19 (-0.39 to 0.03), ... discharge to rehabilitation discharge to home Development study 17 items Validation study 15 items 9.5 (5.0 to 13.3), n = 21 8.90 (6.3 to 12.7), n = 35 7.8 (5.3 to 10.2) 8.0 9.43 (5.9 to 12.9) ... (0.05 to 0.41), p = 0.02 0.07 (-0.12 to 0.26), p = 0.49 -0.04 (-0.23 to 0.15), p = 0.68 37.54 (33.99 to 45.10), n = 11 59.61 (56.32 to 62.90), n = 62 Independent t test: p = 0.00 50.75 (42.39 to...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20
Báo cáo sinh học: " The Israeli strain IS-98-ST1 of West Nile virus as viral model for West Nile encephalitis in the Old World" pdf
... virus is capable to replicate in primary neuronal cultures from mouse brain cortex Mouse experiments were performed according to the European Convention 2001–486 After anesthesia, sixweek-old female ... has been widely used to address the viral pathogenesis[5] Strains of WNV isolated in the United States were found to be highly neuroinvasive in adult mice following intraperitoneal (i.p.) inoculation[6] ... different routes (15 animals per group): intraperitoneal (i.p.), intradermal (i.d.), intracerebral (i.c.), and intranasal (i.n.) At Days and of infection, three animals per group were euthanasied;...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20
Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: "Stand biometry and leaf area distribution in an old olive grove at Andria, southern Italy" pptx
... branches distributed over the canopy in two sample trees and used to verify the model and to test the validity of equations used to convert foliated volume to leaf area Leaves were counted on each ... projected crown area to stem circumference (both total and living) was poor, with r2 around 0.06 The range of top heights was rather narrow (3.8 to 5.5 m), with a mean of 4.9 m The top height was regularly ... density per projected crown area 4.1 (m2 m−2 ) Leaf density per unit of stem circumference (total) 0.66 (m2 cm−1 ) Leaf density per unit of stem circumference (live) 0.90 (m2 cm−1 ) Leaf density per...
Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 16:21
Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: " A dendroecological reconstruction of disturbance in an old-growth Fagus-Abies forest in Slovenia" docx
... larger openings were exposed to winds during the storm [27] The expansion of these larger gaps will likely lead to formation of broad cohorts of regeneration at intermediate to coarse-scales An examination ... growth up to 1.0 mm into 0.25 mm segments For these segments, only the top five values were averaged Finally, we fit a modified negative exponential function with an additional linear term to the segment ... The next step of this approach was to scale all the potential release events relative to the boundary line for each species To this, we selected the maximum percent-growth change value for each...
Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 16:21
Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: "Dendrochronology of pedunculate oak (Quercus robur L.) in an old-growth pollarded woodland in northern Spain: establishment patterns and the management history" ppt
... analysis has been used to reconstruct fire histories in woodlands [15, 51], to reproduce past forest insect infestations [21, 48], to study geomorphic processes [19, 30], and to precisely date past ... corrected to account for the global structure of age, to produce a detailed surface map of the spatial distribution of tree ages [25] To describe the spatial structure of tree ages in Tragamón, a map ... A road divide the park into two parts, here named as Northern Tragamón and Southern Tragamón (see Fig 3) Southern Tragamón has been used as a recreation park since the 1960s, while access to...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:21
Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: " Dendrochronology of pedunculate oak (Quercus robur L.) in an old-growth pollarded woodland in northern Spain: tree-ring growth responses to climate" pptx
... temperate and wet winters, and periods of summer drought in occasional years Rainfall records at the weather station of Gijón showed a minimum from June to August, and a maximum from October to ... (Fig 1) Maximum temperature values occur in July and August, while minimum temperatures are observed from December to February, with a mean annual temperature of 13.9 ºC (Fig 1) Total annual rainfall ... only one core per tree was taken, 100 cm above ground level, in order to minimise the damage to the trees Two cores were taken in a few mature trees Cores were air-dried, glued to wooden mounts...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:21