... Working Paper Monetary and Capital Markets Department Central Bank Credit to the Government: WhatCanWeLearn from International Practices? Prepared by Luis I Jácome, Marcela Matamoros-Indorf, Mrinalini ... information, we first focus on the possible beneficiaries of central bank financing Second, we ascertain who decides about the interest rates charged on these loans Third, we examine what limits ... When we increased the lag for average GDP growth and when we extended the period of analysis backwards, the basic results remained the same, although the level of statistical significance weakened...
... fact that transfused patients were sicker to start with Indeed, there is some evidence that this was the case In the ABC study transfused patients were older, had a lower baseline hemoglobin, had ... Blajchman MA, Marshall J, Martin C, Pagliarello G, Tweeddale M, Schweitzer I, Yetisir E, the Transfusion Requirements in Critical Care Investigators for the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group: A multicenter, ... Blajchman MA, Wells GA, Kmetic A, Coyle D, Heddle N, Germain M, Goldman M, Toye B, Schweitzer I, vanWalraven C, Devine D, Sher GD: Clinical outcomes following institution of the Canadian universal...
... that global CBF was normal at the time of measurement does not add to our understanding of SAD Whatcan CO2 reactivity tell us? CO2 reactivity is a relatively robust mechanism and in adults is ... remain a challenge A second question that is prompted by the work of Thees and colleagues is whether we should expect global CBF and CO2 reactivity to be disturbed in SAD Or if disturbed cerebral perfusion ... consecutive ischaemia play an important role in the development of SAD In that study [1], the patients were carefully stabilized and CBF was in the normal range CBF values are expected to vary considerably...
... EC accuse Vietnam of dumping leather footwear in the EU market? - What were the arguments used by Vietnam in the footwear lawsuit? - What are the lessons learnt for Vietnam for future dumping and ... between WTO and EU anti-dumping laws 22 Chapter .25 THE FOOTWEAR CASE 25 2.1 Overview of the Vietnam footwear industry 25 2.1.1 The importance of Vietnam’s footwear ... K41 24 Website: http://www.docs.vn Email : lienhe@docs.vn Tel (: 0918.775.368 Chapter THE FOOTWEAR CASE 2.1 Overview of the Vietnam footwear industry 2.1.1 The importance of Vietnam’s footwear...
... differences between antidumping law of WTO and that of the EU? - How did the EC accuse Vietnam of dumping leather footwear in the EU market? - What were the arguments used by Vietnam in the footwear lawsuit? ... "How can Vietnamese exporters prove that Vietnam leather footwear is not being dumped into the EU market?" To seek answer to the question, the following sub-questions will be addressed: - What ... between WTO and EU anti-dumping laws 28 Chapter .32 THE FOOTWEAR CASE 32 2.1 Overview of the Vietnam footwear industry 32 2.1.1 The importance of Vietnam’s footwear...
... (print) ISSN 1682-7678 (online) The financial cycle and macroeconomics: What have we learnt? Claudio Borio Abstract It is high time we rediscovered the role of the financial cycle in macroeconomics ... not proceed cumulatively We not necessarily know more today than we did yesterday, tempting as it may be to believe otherwise So-called “lessons” are learnt, forgotten, re-learnt and forgotten again ... Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) paradigm The purpose of this essay is to summarise whatwe think we have learnt about the financial cycle over the last ten years or so in order to identify the...
... gay men in an African context Until recently MSM were not counted and ignored by African and international policy-makers AIDES has recently supported the mobilization of gay Africans, and has found ... most at risk Nonetheless, the empowerment of communities remains a global imperative and challenge It requires real empowerment of PLWHA as well as the empowerment of marginalized and stigmatized ... with partners who were not already infected In rural Zimbabwe, women who tested positive subsequently reported increased consistent condom use in their regular partnerships [47] However, in many...
... the last twenty years curcumin has been discovered by modern science, in particular molecular biology, as a substance with a potential role in the treatment of cancer Almost 1700 papers were published, ... the anti-inflammatory effect of turmeric and curcumin, however, their bioavailability is different [2] Chronic inflammation can predispose to cancer and non-toxic anti-inflammatory compounds could ... comes, however, at a price: immunosuppression The immune system also forms an important element in cancer prevention Any decision to treat with curcumin must therefore take the balance between limiting...
... birds, but have not to date been transmitted between humans What determines whether new animal virus variants that can pass from animals to humans can also be transmitted from human to human? The ... pandemics [5] but we don’t yet know enough about what determines infectivity and virulence to predict the key correlates of transmissibility just from the viral RNA sequence What determines the ... conserved pocket in the HA stem region [8] Analogous mAbs have been found for HIV Whatwe don’t yet know, however, is how to make a vaccine that induces the human immune system to make these...
... situated between and thermocouples of the radial sensor Two small nails were fastened at the smooth surface 30 mm apart as reference points 2.2 Infra-red imaging Infrared images were taken by ... position 3) has contracted from an elongated ellipse to a contracted one approaching a circle Whatcan be learned from the analysis of such ellipses? 3.2.1 Evaluation of sap flow from infrared heat ... can be assumed that the heat flux at the heat probe is increasing proportional to the provided electrical heating power PH and to the concentration of passing water, the sap flux JS The heat can...
... one cannot infer from the results that one medication of the same class or a certain delivery device is superior to another We are clearly in a phase of understanding asthma in which wecan begin ... more quickly with the combination, the study does not confirm that the more expensive GOAL: What Have We Learned? — Vander Leek combination inhaled corticosteroid/long-acting  agonist devices are ... creates confidence that high levels of control not only can be achieved but can be maintained for up to a year, with the association of significant improvements in quality of life Bateman and colleagues,...
... whether ideas were being tried out that required further testing We anticipated that infection control measures were likely to be implemented within wider health system activities, so we did not ... facilities We searched for literature which described infection control measures Evidence of effectiveness was of interest, but we did not restrict our review to these studies as we wished to ... reviewed elsewhere [6,16-18] Specific interventions necessary to prevent and treat infections are well known and include good hand hygiene, antisepsis, surgical sepsis and antibiotics However,...
... sedimentation rate, no significant changes in immunological parameters were noted No repeat biopsies were performed to demonstrate an effect on glandular tissue Ten out of the 16 patients were treated with ... performed on 103 patients with pSS [15] Patients received mg/kg infliximab at weeks 0, 2, and 6, and were followed for 22 weeks This trial did not show any effect of infliximab compared with placebo ... whom showed an increased salivary flow rate following treatment, parotid biopsies were performed before and 12 weeks after treatment [37] Histopathological analysis of the biopsies showed a strong...
... data were extracted for each separate intervention Data abstraction was performed by one reviewer (KD) with checking of key variables by a second reviewer (LS) The following types of variables were ... treatment effect were associated with similar median cost-effectiveness estimates as evaluations with limited quality evidence Those that were associated with statistically significantly lower median ... the DALY, these include both mortality and morbidity effects However, we acknowledge that this is a potential source of error We were limited in that study resources only permitted one person...
... into Rhodococcus RHA1 The tick-borne bacterial pathogen of cattle, Anaplasma marginale, can undergo significant antigenic variation During an infection, bacteria expressing variants of a major ... existing genetic material A number of short pseudogene segments were identified within the genome It is these small segments that can recombine with the functional gene to create the antigenic ... even more rapid generation of genomic data, which in turn will open more avenues of research We are, however, currently only taking snapshots, not yet making movies The challenge of the next decade...
... Robert Kisteleki 21 Conclusions - whatwe learned • IPv6/dual-stack works just fine, but make sure that – It is properly tested and monitored (like IPv4) – Your network can reach all others (like IPv4) ... representative? – – Working on this: RIPE Atlas Network partitioning, examples we encountered: – Level3 - Hurricane Electric – Cogent - Hurricane Electric (fixed as of Aug 31) – See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_IPv6_support_by_major_transit_providers ... before v6d: Deployments pushed earlier? • Lower growth after v6d: Summer-vacation? • http://v6asns.ripe.net Robert Kisteleki 20 More information • Web interface to the measurements – • Analysis...
... TCDN Some Lessons from the Financial Crisis What have we learned about market efficiency from the financial crisis? The short answer is: some things we should have known beforehand 26 TCDN A Theory ... taken to mean that prices were too high at the time, the clear implication is that by today—when we all know how inefficient the market is and how irrationally exuberant we were 13 years ago And ... then, one can predict that large market changes will occur, but one can t predict when 20 TCDN The stock market should have known we were in an asset “bubble.” Irrational exuberance Alan Greenspan...
... prices were too high at the time, the clear implication is that by today—when we all know how inefficient the market is and how irrationally exuberant we were 13 years ago, and after we have ... Crisis Một số học từ khủng hoảng tài So, what have we learned about market efficiency from the financial crisis? The Vậy, học thị short answer is: some things we should trường hiệu từ khủng hoảng ... the EMH, then, one can predict that large market changes will occur, but one can t predict when The stock market should have known Thị trường chứng khoán nên nhận biết we were in an asset “bubble.”...
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