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... ENERGY FORECASTS P1: IBD 87 Long-term forecasts are primarily useful for the perspectives they give to current users at the time the forecasts are freshly generated, not to future users Perhaps the ... energy forecasts In Section we present our observations for both the forecasting community and the users of these forecasts Section summarizes our conclusions 1.1 Why Do We Forecast? Forecasts ... lend themselves directly to risk analysis The consequences of the forecast (or of any actions based on the forecast), rather than the forecast itself, are the proper subject of risk and uncertainty...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 01:21

... what the rules for the 21st century look like It is therefore the claim of supremacy of legal academic expertise over political involvement of the executive and the legislative The rise of The ... In the aftermath of the financial crisis, however, the Member States agreed on a reform of the institutional architecture.56 Company law: there are two dominating perspectives at the Member States ... push the European Commission to transform the Academic DCFR into a political tool What remains, however, is the academic input from the study group and the acquis group, merged in the DCFR The...

Ngày tải lên: 13/10/2016, 11:13

... Implications for the U.S and reportedly forced the government to shut down some factories and reduce the level of official cars on the road.71 The Chinese government has sharply criticized foreign ... Implications for the U.S “indigenous innovation, leapfrogging in priority fields, enabling development, and leading the future. ”81 Some of the broad goals of the MLP state that by 2020: • The progress ... Xiaoping, the architect of China’s economic reforms, put it: “Black cat, white cat, what does it matter what color the cat is as long as it catches mice?”3 The Introduction of Economic Reforms Beginning...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 20:20

... compared the resulting performance with the performance on the entire set of PISA tasks For the United States, its relative standing remains the same, irrespective of whether all PISA items or the ... Performers and Successful Reformers in Education: Lessons from PISA for the United States  Viewing Education in the United States Through the Prism of PISA Strong Performers and Successful Reformers ... PISA for the United States  © OECD 2011 25 Viewing Education in the United States Through the Prism of PISA This chapter examines the United States’ performance in PISA compared with high-performing...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 16:22

... relationship between states and the nation on the one hand versus states and their subentities on the other complicates, perhaps irretrievably, the ways in which the solutions for municipal bankruptcy ... of occasions since the 1930s, and states in general are in much better shape now than they were in the 1840s or the 1930s, or the southern states were after the Civil War Over the last 200 years, ... that, at the beginning of the fiscal year, the state possesses cash (or other assets), and over the course of the fiscal year those assets can be drawn down or added to Whether the cash at the beginning...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 04:21

... to the NMR data [14,19] To investigate the importance of the conformational and topological features of the region between amino-acid residues 17 and 21 for hCt bioactivity and the b turn hypothesis, ... Thr(tBu)], with the exception of residues Lys21 and Asp17 of the cyclic peptides 2–4, for which the Mtt, respectively, the Pip groups were applied For the side chain-to-side chain cyclization, these groups ... to hCt Since the peptides were monomers, this finding suggested they were b turn stabilized On the other hand, the similarity of the spectra of 2–4 to the spectrum of suggested that the introduced...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 21:21

... usually not specified in the data sheet of a hearing instrument For the construction of synthetic stimuli, we therefore propose another approach for defining the modulation depth: for a given subband ... perform the tests is dependent on the chosen test design We can therefore not state a general flow of activities for this part of the procedure We rather use typical experiments to demonstrate the ... of the subsystems that contribute to the processing of the test signals in the system under test 5.1.2 Limitations of the concept The procedure is based on the uniformity hypothesis and can therefore...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 22:20

... noise Therefore, if the frequency range of interest is from f1 to f2 (where f1 > and f2 ≥ f1 + T −1 ) and the desired RMS of the synthesized signal is r, then the target values for the synthesis ... measure the attenuation in each of them separately It is therefore required that the test stimuli can stimulate each subband of the noise reduction individually and measure the impact on the system’s ... over the frequency range of interest We have therefore recently proposed synthetic test signals [9], because these can be synthesized with regard to the temporal characteristics of interest, the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 22:20

... model for each sex The smoothed weight -for- age curves for infants and for older children were combined to obtain a seamless transition between the curves Ultimately the combined weight -for- age ... obtained from the first stage of smoothing The net result is that the close fit of the smoothed curves from the first stage of smoothing to the empirical data is retained In addition, the modified ... manner The LMS values were calculated by solving equations that used the values for percentiles ranging from the 3rd to the 97th Percentiles less than the 3rd or greater than the 97th are beyond the...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:22

... stature -for- age and weight -for- age Page 40 [ Series 11, No 246 Figure 22 Clinical growth chart 5th, 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th, 90th, 95th percentiles, to 20 years: Girls stature -for- age and weight -for- age ... Smoothed percentile curves, 75–106 cm: Girls weight -for- length and weight -for- stature 102 106 Series 11, No 246 [ Page 49 Percentile 18 97 17 90 16 15 50 14 13 10 12 11 Weight (kg) 10 Smoothed ... length -for- age and weight-forage percentiles Page 36 [ Series 11, No 246 Figure 18 Clinical growth chart 5th, 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th, 90th, 95th percentiles, birth to 36 months: Girls length -for- age...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:22

... 50 10 45 40 35 30 25 20 15 Smoothed percentile curves Empirical data points 10 NOTE: When values at a given age for two or more percentile lines are identical, the values are overlaid and appear ... 25 50 45 40 35 30 25 20 15 Smoothed percentile curves Empirical data points 10 NOTE: When values at a given age for two or more percentile lines are identical, the values are overlaid and appear ... 115 110 105 100 95 90 85 Smoothed percentile curves Empirical data points 80 75 70 NOTE: When values at a given age for two or more percentile lines are identical, the values are overlaid and...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:22

... below smoothed curves Expected percent below smoothed curves 0.2 10 0.1 27 42 57 72 87 102 117 132 147 162 177 192 207 222 237 Age (months) Figure 93 Percent of empirical data below smoothed 3rd, ... mass index -for- age Page 112 [ Series 11, No 246 1.0 Percentile 95 0.9 85 0.8 75 0.7 Percent 0.6 0.5 50 0.4 0.3 25 0.2 Empirical percent below smoothed curves Expected percent below smoothed curves ... smoothed 3rd, 5th, 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th, 90th, 95th, 97th percentiles with NCHS 1977 smoothed 5th, 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th, 90th, 95th percentile curves, birth to 36 months: Boys weight -for- age...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:22

... and selected smoothed percentiles for receumbent length (in centimeters) by sex and age: Birth to 36 months—Con Table 19 L, M, and S, parameters and selected smoothed percentiles for weight (in ... selected smoothed percentiles for weight (in kilograms) by sex and recumbent length (in centimeters): Birth to 36 months—Con Table 19 L, M, and S, parameters and selected smoothed percentiles for weight ... and selected smoothed percentiles for head circumference (in centimeters) by sex and age: Birth to 36 months Table 20 L, M, and S, parameters and selected smoothed percentiles for head circumference...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:22

... data be incorporated in the revised growth charts? + What data should be used to develop charts for the age range birth to months where NHANES III data were insufficient? + What curve smoothing ... considered and used? + Should the curves be constructed only for the measures in the 1977 charts or should different measures be considered? Table I Participants in the NCHS growth chart workshops ... parameters and selected smoothed percentiles for stature (in centimeters) by sex and age: to 20 years—Con Table 23 L, M, and S parameters and selected smoothed percentiles for stature (in centimeters)...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:22

... into the blood stream from the adrenal medulla The more intense the stimuli, the more pronounced the response The levels of norepinephrine generally increase about that of epinephrine and the ... explains the importance of the elicitation of pain in the evaluation of consciousness [49] Modulated signals ultimately reach the medulla oblongata and the sympathetic outflow tracts of the spinal ... afferent pathways from the hypothalamus to the reticular activating system via the reticular formation, beginning in the medulla and extending to the midbrain This pathway links the brain with perception...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20

... from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine The members of the committee responsible for the report were chosen for their ... research, dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare Upon the authority of the charter granted to it by the Congress in 1863, the Academy has a ... in articulating their hopes for the study, helped the panel sharpen its vision of their charge The panel is grateful also to Dan Melnick who served as liaison to the panel for the Yale Program...

Ngày tải lên: 04/11/2014, 15:58

... estimate the private return to R & D by using data at the firm or industry level, and their results, though not uniform, are the most consistent across studies They seem to form the basis for the ... banks in the largest of the member-countries These efforts have worked to great effect for the sovereign debt of Italy and Spain, resulting in steadily declining spreads The bad news is that these ... most cases The United States, possessing its own unpegged currency, does not face this situation.8 In the States, arguments about the need for austerity measures make for a moot debate: the government...

Ngày tải lên: 23/09/2015, 08:52

... GDP—by far the steepest fall over such a short time in the history of the series This violent change in the flow of net lending is rather surprising at first, for there is nothing in the line just ... to recognize that there is no natural floor to the flow Implications for Future Private Spending, GDP, and the Other Sector Balances Figure traces our baseline projection for the government deficit ... precise about the timing— that there would be a recession in 2008 At the time, we entertained the possibility that, with the dollar so low, net exports might save the day, after an uncomfortable period...

Ngày tải lên: 23/09/2015, 08:52

... education 20/20: What role for the private sector? Preface Global education 20/20: What role for the private sector? is an Economist Intelligence Unit report sponsored by Cisco The findings and ... “unimportant” The private sector has not missed this point The question is not if, but rather how, corporations become engaged in education Since education policy is set by the state, the role of the private ... education 18 Primary education 14 Other 13 While every effort has been taken to verify the accuracy of this information, neither The Economist Intelligence Unit Ltd nor the sponsors of this report can...

Ngày tải lên: 04/12/2015, 00:12