... the survey individually and at their own pace The first section of the survey asked about the perceived risks and causes of “floods” (henceforth: “typical floods”) and the second section of the ... about the abstract construct of climate change Here, we present the findings of an initial study that aims to understand perceptions of changes in flood risks (i.e., from the past, and into the ... changes in the frequency and intensity of other extreme weather events such as heavyrainfall and flooding (Kunkel et al., 2013; Peterson et al., 2012), and evaluated the extent to which past weather
Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2022, 13:00
... between the opening price on day 1 and the offer price; offer-to-close return is the percentage difference between the closing price on day 1 and the offer The mean and median number of comanagers and ... quoting and trading the stock We use unique quote data with the identity of the market maker to examine the quoting behavior of the lead underwriter during the preopening period; the behavior of other ... herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily ref lect the views of the Commission or the authors’ colleagues upon the staff of the Commission. 1 See Aggarwal and Rivoli ~1990! and Ritter
Ngày tải lên: 23/04/2014, 16:09
regional business cycle and real estate cycle analysis and the role of federal governments in regional stability
... proximity from the economically dominant states play quite asigni cant role in the formation of the business cycle patterns of the formar group ofstates The business cycle patterns of the major oil ... proximity from the economically dominantstates plays quite a signi cant role in the formation of the business cycle patterns ofthe former group of states The business cycle patterns of the major oil ... well as the U.S on aggregate exhibited distinct downturn of the real estatecycle between the third quarter of 2006 and the rst quarter of 2007 Finally we foundthat the state level economic and real
Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 02:10
Báo cáo y học: "DNA transposons and the role of recombination in mutation accumulation in Daphnia pulex" pdf
... BLASTN (e-value < 0.00001 and >20% of the length of the query) and RepeatMasker (RM; >50 bp in length, >70% similarity, and >20% of the length of the query), respectively Families ... motifs such as, in the case of CACTAelements, terminal inverted repeats (Figure 1) [21] and, in the case of Helitrons, palindromes and the identification of tandem arrays of elements (Figure ... each TE family in MA lines with and without sex, and discuss the implications of the patterns observed for the role of DNA transpo-sons in shaping the genomes of species with multiple reproductive
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 20:21
báo cáo khoa học: " Developmental localization and the role of hydroxyproline rich glycoproteins during somatic embryogenesis of banana (Musa spp. AAA)" ppt
... 6-benzyladenine for further maturation and develop-ment of somatic embryos After 4 weeks of culture on RD2 medium, the weight of the cultures on RD2 medium was evaluated Then, a representative ... 7Figure 4 The effect of 3,4-DHP on the development and germination of banana somatic embryos and on the plant regeneration Images (a), (c), (e) and (g) represent controls Images (b), (d), (f) and (h) ... to RD2 and REG media for maturation and germination At the end of culture on the RD2 medium, antibody-treated embryo-cultures were light brown to black while this was not the case with the control
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 11:21
Báo cáo y học: "Complex systems and the technology of variability analysis" ppsx
... distribution of earthquakes A plot of the log of the power of earthquakes (i.e the Richter scale) against the log of the frequency of their occurrence reveals a straight line with negative slope of -1 ... Mathematically, standard deviation is equal to the square root of variance; and variance is equal to the sum of the squares of difference from the mean, divided by the number of degrees of freedom Evaluating ... similar regard-less of the size of the variation Magnifying or shrinking the scale of the signal reveals the same relationship that defines the dynamics of the signal, analogous to the self-similarity
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20
Báo cáo y học: " Distinguishing between linear and exponential cell growth during the division cycle: Single-cell studies, cell-culture studies, and the object of cell-cycle research" ppsx
... all of the growth pat-terns of the individual components, the growth law would be the weighted sum of these growth patterns As the cyto-plasm is by far the major component, the other parts of the ... recorded the height of my grandchildren at random occa-sions, usually family gatherings When measuring time occurs the grandchildren stand against the board, a line is drawn at the top of their ... dating the line At the left is the full board and at the right is a close-up of a portion of the board Trang 5genome The cytoplasm is the amorphous content of thecell composed of ribosomes, enzymes,
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:20
maltritz & berlemann (eds.) - financial crises, sovereign risk and the role of institutions (2013)
... in the case of unsecured debt is then 50 % A check of the calibration of the calculations delivers the following: the totalrecovery equals 50 %; the annual likelihood of default is 16 %, therefore ... assumption of 100 % recovery of the gold element and of a 50 % recovery of the rest in the partially collateralised structure Calculate the riskpremium by multiplying the probability of default by the ... expectations and the outlook is further clouded by the fact that the fundsavailable from the IMF and EFSF/ESM are dwindling as a result of other bailouts.Europe is running out of time and options
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2014, 12:17
palley - from financial crisis to stagnation; the destruction of shared prosperity and the role of economics (2012)
... produces exclusion and stagnation, as hap-pened in the 1930s and is happening again Core ThesisThe core thesis of the book is that the roots of the financial crisis of 2008 and the Great Recession ... Brief history of the federal funds interest rate, Trang 15The U.S economy and much of the global economy are now languishing in the wake of the Great Recession and confront the pro-spect of extended ... fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, political economist Francis Fukuyama (1992) wrote a book titled The End of History and the Trang 40Last Man The thesis was that the fall of the Wall marked the
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2014, 13:32
essays on corporate strategy- evolution of corporate capabilities and the role of intangible assets
... (2002), the divergence between the internal and the external cost of capital is due to the information asymmetries between the inventor and the investor, moral hazard on the part of the inventor ... (Megna and Klock, 1993) The MV i of the target firm is measured as the sum of all outstanding claims on the firm including book value of debt D i and preferred stock P i , and market value of common ... includes the theoretical discussion of and empirical tests for other confounding effects In the fifth section, the relevant robustness tests and their results are presented In the final section theoretical
Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2014, 00:32
peroxisome senescence and the role of catalase import in cellular aging
... dolichol, and other isoprenoids; the committed step in ether phospholipids (plasmalogen) synthesis; and the catabolism of certain purines, polyamines, and amino acids (Wanders, 2004) Many of these ... et al., 1998) The ability to balance the generation and decomposition of ROS prevents oxidative damage to the peroxisome and other cellular components of the cell Disruption of the ability to ... increase in the production of cellular ROS Trang 35This balance in the production and degradation of hydrogen peroxide andother ROS prevents accumulation of the potentially harmful reactants and accompanying
Ngày tải lên: 14/11/2014, 13:16
Vascularised bone tissue engineering endothelial progenitor cells and human mesenchymal stem cells coculture in 3d honeycomb scaffolds and the effect of bi rotational bioreactor and hypoxic microenvironment 1
... supervisors Prof Teoh Swee-Hin and A/Prof Jerry Chan I would like to thank them for their constant sharing of knowledge and ideas, their patience and understanding, and the many hours they have each ... UCB and adult PB-EPC in terms of its colony emergence, growth and vessel forming ability Table 2-11 Comparison of the advantages and disadvantages of the various modes of commonly used bioreactors ... representation of the molecular weight loss of the 3D scaffold with respect to the growth and remodelling of the engineered constructs over time tissue-Figure 2-10 Illustration of a scaffold
Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 10:16
Circuit theory of finance and the role of incentives in financial sector reform
... creating and advancing liquidity to producers; along the circuit, the financial system governs the supply and demand of funds and, at the end of the process, it determines the condition for the closure ... conceptualization and recent evidence CTF clarifies the role of the financial system in the functioning of a monetary market economy of production At the start of the circuit process, the financial ... institutions and strengthen the complementarity between the formal and the informal sectors The poorest people of rural and urban societies live beyond the frontier of formal finance, or outside the formal...
Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2012, 09:33
Facts of Vietnam Freight forwarding industry and the role of Vietnam Freight Forwarders Association (VIFFAS) to the industry in international economic integration processhelpful to Oristar.doc
... kinds: + The change of consumer-demand modal, market and the attitude to the availability and diversity of goods + The pressure of reducing cost + The development of Information technology + The pressure ... world The Association has the role of coordinating the activities of the members in order to protect the interests of the members and improve the position of Vietnam in the international freight ... learning and expanding With their experiences, they have learned the value of offering quality services In the way of growing, they have also open branches to establish a worldwide presence These...
Ngày tải lên: 27/10/2012, 16:42
Tài liệu Organization-internal Transfer of Knowledge and the Role of Motivation: A Qualitative Case Study pptx
... distribution of information is triggered by the view on the relevance of the information, the 122 Knowledge and Process Management power of the recipient, the level of workload and resources ... workers), one of the two less successful did improve on par with the average of the other four, but the other unsuccessful plant actually experienced a reduction of productivity of 20% (The six plants ... transfer, and whether and how this influences success or the antecedent factors of cognition, organization and motivation METHODOLOGY This is a case study, and the object of study is the transfer of...
Ngày tải lên: 24/01/2014, 00:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: DNA strand exchange activity of rice recombinase OsDmc1 monitored by fluorescence resonance energy transfer and the role of ATP hydrolysis pptx
... donor and acceptor dyes, will therefore unveil the status of physical union and separation of complementary strands during renaturation and strand exchange, respectively, and thereby assesses the ... monitor the time course of renaturation and strand exchange activities of OsDmc1 The renaturation activity was found to be stimulated in the presence of ATP and was saturated at 1.25 lm of OsDmc1 ... intriguing to note that the initial rate of renaturation in the presence of ATP-c-S was similar to that of ATP, but the reaction rate suddenly plummeted after about 50 s of the reaction There is no simple...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 07:20
Assessing and Managing Rapid Credit Growth and the Role of Supervisory and Prudential Policies docx
... to the borrower, the purpose and use of the loans, their sectoral composition and concentration, the currency denomination, and the maturity and other conditions of the loans In terms of the ... affected by a number of factors, including the openness of the capital account, the degree of euroization of the economies, the adequacy of monetary instruments and the effectiveness of monetary policy ... important to monitor and analyze a breakdown of aggregate credit data in terms of the borrower, the purpose of the loan, the currency denomination, and other relevant conditions of the loans Such a...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 08:20
Enterprise Adjustment and the Role of Bank Credit in Russia: Evidence from a 420 Firm''''s Qualitative Survey pdf
... confirms one of the most standard hypothesis on the microeconomy of transition: the adjustment and growth of enterprises require that they meet a growing demand for their goods and adjust to ... rather some exogenous characteristics of the sample 14 These phenomena are generated in a model of soft budget constraint in Berglof and Roland (1994) 22 Enterprise Adjustment and the Role of ... supply of credit Finally, the higher the co-ordinate on the f2 axis, e.g the more the enterprise is faced with financial limit, the higher the level of barter transactions and the higher supply of...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 08:20
DECISION MAKING AND THE ROLE OF ACCOUNTING pot
... main users of the reports, (2) the types of reports produced, (3) the frequency of reports, (4) the content and format of reports, and (5) external verification How the accounting profession is ... Accounting is often called the ‘language of business’ To be effective, the recipient must understand the message that the sender intends to convey You must learn the meaning of the words and symbols ... well the business actually performs in comparison with the estimates, how and when to replace assets, and how income tax and goods and services tax (GST) will impact on the business The role of...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 15:21
Báo cáo khoa học: Caenorhabditis elegans metallothionein isoform specificity – metal binding abilities and the role of histidine in CeMT1 and CeMT2 potx
... level to be of the highest interest, in order to shed light on the possible physiological functions of MTs in this organism and to further the understanding of the forces driving MT isoform differentiation, ... and Cu-supplemented E coli cultures Spectra recorded after incubation with DEPC are shown for Zn– and Cd–CeMT1 (B) and Zn– and Cd–CeMT2 (D) In the final column of (B) and (D), the spectra of the ... stoichiometry and the homogeneity of their preparations These differences are a result of the different coordination capacities of the respective C-terminal moieties and are attributable to the four...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 02:20