... often, they lacked thepolitical will—in a politicaland ideological environment that constrained it—as well as the fortitude to critically challenge the institutions andthe entire system they ... Often, those systems encouraged the big bet—where the payoff on the upside could be huge andthe downside limited This was the case up and down the line—from the corporate boardroom to the mortgage ... to launch and expand the market and, in turn, to further fuel the housing bubble Second, CDS were essential to the creation of synthetic CDOs These synthetic CDOs were merely bets on the performance...
... in the UAE Located on the offshore island of the same name, the Emirate of Abu A politicalandeconomic dictionary of the middle east Dhabi was founded by members of the Ahl bu Falah clan of the ... under the control of the FLN For the next 27 years, until 1989, the FLN was the only political party in Algeria The February 1989 amendments to the Constitution permitted the formation of other political ... comparisons with other aggregates, such as the Middle East and North Africa’ or the Middle East’ as used by other agencies including theUnited Nations andthe World Bank If the Middle East is...
... HEALTH AND SAFETY IN CANADA, THEUNITED STATES, AND MEXICO The Children in North America Project aims to highlight the conditions and well-being of children and youth in Canada, Mexico, andtheUnited ... comes to their health and well-being While the context of their lives varies, and there are some differences in the health challenges they face, there are surprising similarities across the continent ... over 60 percent of these babies were born in theUnited States, 33 percent in Mexico, and percent in Canada Between 1994 and 2004, the number of babies born in theUnitedStates increased slightly...
... Maternal, Infant, and Child Health Objectives for 2010 On an average day in theUnitedStates Quick stats for theUnitedStates Infant and Maternal Mortality Infant Mortality in theUnitedStates Infant ... for many of these indicators Users can compare data for counties, states, andtheUnitedStatesand can choose various output formats, including graphs, maps, tables, and slides which they can use ... program, while another nine andthe District of Columbia are planning one CDC has given 15 states grants to develop or enhance their program and to use the data they collect for prevention and referral...
... is the study of forests in theUnitedStatesthe types of forests, the extent of these forests, andthe ecosystem services that forests provide on a national level Similarly, the amount of land ... all the activities itemized, camping and biking provided the most jobs and had the largest economic impacts in the country Table A1: Economic Impact from Outdoor Recreation in theUnitedStates ... thousand/acre/year When these figures were extrapolated to the contiguous 48 U.S states (using U.S 2006 National Land Cover Survey Data) and for all of theUnited States, including Alaska and...
... System (NIMS), which is an integral part of the NRF The NIMS formalizes the Incident Command System (ICS), developed by the Forest Service in the 1970’s, to mobilize resources and people in the ... PROTECTING THEUNITEDSTATES FROM FOREIGN ANIMAL DISEASES The Threat of Foreign Animal Diseases Decades ago, foreign animal diseases (FADs) were considered in theUnitedStates as the purview of the ... Operations, and Planning (Fig 1) Duties and responsibilities of the sections are outlined below and also in Fig The Command Section is led by one Incident Commander and this Command Section controls...
... generated in the absence of government activities and policies The latter affect the demand for and supply of products and productive services in a variety of ways and, as a result, the wage and rental ... increases the share of the bottom 40 percent and decreases the shares of the groups above it; that from HI to HDI increase the share of the bottom 80 percent and reduces that of the top 20 The only ... (age, race, and sex) needed to improve the quality of the statistical match The income types in each return in the file were then corrected for the effects of audit by using the results of the IRS...
... in theUnitedStates have been motivated primarily by the need to protect human health However, studies conducted in the early 1980s in theUnitedStatesand during the 1990s in Europe and other ... conducted in the past decade on yield response to O3 exposure as an extension of the review conducted by Heck (22) 3.1 UnitedStates In theUnited States, the Clean Air Act mandates the protection ... in theUnitedStatesthe primary and secondary standards have been set equal to each other This was initially due to an early lack of research on the impacts of O3 on vegetation, and later to the...
... veinlets and random grains in the intrusive and surrounding fractures The ore includes chalcopyrite, pyrite, and sometimes molybdenite, magnetite, and gold Green and blue copper carbonates and silicates ... below the leached zone There are six copper-molybdenum sites in the U.S and 10 others in the world The median size is 500 million tons with the average grade being 42% Cu, 016% Mo, 02 ppm Au and ... minor minerals Alteration of the wallrock resulted in the formation of diopside and andradite in the central section, wollastone and tremolite in the outer, and marble in the peripheral zone Ores...
... in theUnitedStatesand willing to share their expertise, time and thoughts with the committee The study sponsors at the NIH Institutes and Centers andthe Agency for Healthcare Research and ... 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 mandate that ... of CAM therapies by the American public and provide a comprehensive overview, to the extent that data are available, of the therapies in widespread use, the populations that use them, and what...
... Maternal, Infant, and Child Health Objectives for 2010 On an average day in theUnitedStates Quick stats for theUnitedStates Infant and Maternal Mortality Infant Mortality in theUnitedStates Infant ... for many of these indicators Users can compare data for counties, states, andtheUnitedStatesand can choose various output formats, including graphs, maps, tables, and slides which they can use ... program, while another nine andthe District of Columbia are planning one CDC has given 15 states grants to develop or enhance their program and to use the data they collect for prevention and referral...
... imprisonment in theUnitedStates population by gender and race There was on average 1.75 million persons between the ages of 18 and 44 in prison in theUnitedStates between 2000 and 2004 The vast ... of the life table into these two states using prevalence of imprisonment by gender and race These figures were then used to compute the life table value of the total remaining years of life and ... expectancy in theUnitedStates Sullivan's method involves using the prevalence of health states at each age in the current population (at a given point of time) to divide the hypothetical years...
... symptoms and requires careful medical and psychiatric evaluations to rule out conditions with similar clinical Page of 13 presentation Our study andthe negative reports from the UK andthe Netherlands ... at the Cleveland Clinic for the VP62 XMRV plasmid, Dr Ila Singh at the University of Utah for the rabbit anti-XMRV polyclonal sera, and Dr Sandra Ruscetti at the National Cancer Institute for the ... PCR at the CDC with an XMRV-specific gag and a polymerase (pol) assay that detects xenotropic and polytropic MuLV The XMRV specific assay uses the primers GAG-O-F and GAG-O-R and GAG-I-F and GAG-I-R...
... memorialize the Congress of theUnitedStates to propose and submit to thestates for ratification an amendment to the Constitution of theUnitedStates to protect the cultural rights of all Americans The ... settle the frontier and lay railroads, work mines, and create an economic base Approximately twoand-a-half million Europeans immigrated to theUnitedStates in the 1860s, and another two -and- a-half ... to theUnitedStatesThe focus of the presentations in favor of the amendment were clearly concerned with the rising use of the Spanish language, and clearly unconcerned with the Founding Fathers'...
... socioeconomic standing, behaviors, and disease statesThe encounter level includes all activities and events associated with the delivery of care for the index hospitalization The features of the ... well as the qualities of their environment, whereas the clinical perspective adds the roles of the processes and structure of healthcare encounters We use these perspectives to consider the preventable ... to their structure and processes and push back against environmental forces Although hospitals can clearly change themselves and at least try to change the environment of their patients, the...
... Germany to become both the world’s largest merchandise exporter andthe second-largest merchandise importer (after theUnited States) In 2012, China overtook theUnitedStates as the world’s largest ... for its living standards to approach U.S levels.15 12 In other words, the PPP data reflect whatthe value of China’s goods and services would be if they were sold in theUnitedStates 13 However, ... relative to theUnitedStates TFP represents an estimate of the part of economic output growth not accounted for by the growth in inputs (such as labor and capital), and is often attributed to the effects...
... literature on the costs andeconomic implications of ADHD, there have been few studies that investigate the impact of ADHD on comorbid conditions and limited studies on the economics of ADHD in the inpatient ... 2006, which represented the most recent years of the NIS available at the time of our study The NIS is the largest all-payer inpatient care database in theUnitedStatesand contains data from ... by PC and LW All authors contributed to the study design and coordination Database analyses were conducted by SC and JM The study manuscript was drafted by JM and SC with input from PC and LW...
... in theUnitedStates than in either other country, and credentials a more central role in Japan Overall, Sweden andtheUnitedStates are much more like each other than they are like Japan The ... categories in Sweden andtheUnitedStates (whereas, as already noted, these categories not differ between Sweden andtheUnited States) In fact, the values on the anticapitalism scale for the bourgeois ... along the rows of the table, the columns of the table, or even the diagonal Indeed, in the Swedish data the monotonicity extends across the property boundary as well In theUnitedStatesthe results...