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... 1ĐIRECTIONS IN DEVELOPMENT Trang 4Meeting the Balance of Electricity Supply and Demand in Latin America and the Caribbean Trang 6Meeting the Balance of Electricity Supply and Demand in Latin America and ... assessment of the electric power sector in Latin America and the Caribbean to 2030 and, in the process, provide initial answers to the previous questions The report begins by examining the history of the ... Latin America and the Caribbean Region of the World Bank: the Energy Unit and the Economics Unit of the Sustainable Development Department and the Office of the Chief Economist The task team

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... contributions of the thesis The thesis “The relation between exchange rate and the balance of payments – The theory and reality in Vietnam” contributes the following new points: Trang 5- Continue clarifying ... 2009 - The thesis also makes use of results of other relevant scientific research projects according to inheriting principles in order to prove and illustrate theoretical points in the thesis ... First, the thesis examines overall theories on the relationbetween exchange rate and the balance of payments - Second, the thesis investigates the reality of the balance of payments, policies of

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... equal to a linear combination of the recent rate of inflation, the deviation of a four-quarter rate of inflation from the bank’s desired rate of infla-tion, and the deviation of the percentage ... see Feinman (1993) and Gilbert and Lovati (1978) Trang 32In light of the difficulties the Federal Reserve was having, there was a growing interest in the institutions and logic underlying the formulation ... from an intensifying crisis in the savings and loan and mutual savings bank industries.28 Net inflows of funds to these intermedi-aries fell by almost 50% between 1965 and 1966 and their net income

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... KongThe influence of corporate governance mechanisms on the quality of financial reporting and auditing: Perceptions of auditors and directors in SingaporeJenny Goodwina, Jean Lin Seowb Singapore, ... two hypothetical cases to examine the perceptions of auditorsand directors in Singapore about corporate governance practices relating to thequality of financial reporting and auditing In the first ... addresses the scarcity of research in this environment by explor-ing governance issues relating to the quality of financial reporting and auditing in Singapore In spite of its size, Singapore

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... and plasticity, brain growth, neuron repair and remodeling, and even maintaining the normal function of this important organ (Dietschy and Turley, 2001; Herz and Bock 2002; Koudinov and Koudinova, ... including major structural elements of the cytoplasm and nucleus, components of the DNA repair machinery, and a number of protein kinases, which then lead to the stereotypic morphological and biochemical ... orthologs and is referred to as the NPC1 domain Within NPC1 there is a large, cysteine-rich luminal loop (amino acids 855–1098), which contains a ring-finger motif that may mediate protein– protein interactions

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... desire, there is a need to be selective in introducing loan words into the plane of the narrative discourse For instance, the seven pages of glossary in Heartland, and the five pages in A Kite in the ... said the midwife, meaning the father (3 – 4) Trang 32After this, the point of view changes to the father of the child The switch from the narrator to other points of view is rather rapid and confusing ... few of the poets and local critical intelligentsia attempted the writing of novels in the sixties and seventies Robert Yeo in an article, “The Use of Varieties of English in Singapore Writing”

Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 08:30

... tenses and aspects are often made In order to check the students’ understanding of the past tense and aspects in active voice, and find out the errors in the use of past tense and aspects in active ... percent of students can not determine the tense and aspect of the verbs in the clauses of the test questions Based on the survey analysis, the errors in the use of past tense and aspects made by the ... activities as choosing the correct answer, giving the correct tense form of the verbs in the brackets, giving the form of the irregular verbs, or writing the correct “- ing” form and “– ed” form

Ngày tải lên: 30/11/2015, 09:12

... publication and other rights in association with the copyright in the thesis and, except as herein before provided, neither the thesis nor any substantial portion thereof may be printed or otherwise ... recreational hunting, and contribute to the analysis of behaviors in the. .. random utility model which is used in much of the literature and is the focus of this thesis Therefore, ... thanks to the staff and student-friends in the Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology for their help, and to the Government of Viet Nam for its funding in the early years of my

Ngày tải lên: 22/05/2016, 11:25

... countries of the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)and the former Soviet Union (FSU) China and Vietnam have contained inflation andbenefited from continued high growth in GDP since the beginning of their ... distortions The diminishingeffects of initial conditions over time is shown by the convergence of PRIN1 and PRIN2 to the zero line Finally, an interesting question is whether these results continue ... not including initial conditions in the analysis of reforms and performance in the context of transition In his review of the transition process, Murrell(1996) points out that the degree of political

Ngày tải lên: 30/08/2016, 07:40

... honour My findings indicate that the mother occupies a central place in the process of disclosing and/or reporting rape The significant involvement of mothers in the aftermath of their daughters’ ... of kin support In addition to the role of mothers (or grandmothers) in the decision-making process, the relationship between a mother and her own siblings or siblings in-law plays a buffering ... after disclosure of the incident In doing so, she made a point of denying Sao a sense of belonging: Sao was neither part of the family nor a member of the extended kin group and thus had no moral

Ngày tải lên: 16/12/2017, 02:58

... to await the development of a method of observing or collecting them while in flight in some form of aircraft, and thus were, the "plankton" of the air The collection of insects in the upper ... October 1931, inclusive During the years of the work more than 1,007 hours were spent in the exposures of the collecting screens The actual flying time, including the exposures of the screens, ... preparation of a landing field and their kindness and consideration in offering their assistance and hospitality, at the time the airplane collections of insects were made in Mexico Those especially

Ngày tải lên: 16/07/2019, 06:48

... great-est insight and understanding of the role of sleep in later development In this study, the trajectory of the devel-opment of social competence was related to gender and presence of siblings at 18 months ... in the drafting or the revision of the manuscript In addition, ETo participated in the design of the study and performed the sta-tistical analysis ETa, TW, RS, MH, YO, and YM participated in ... composed of 25 items examining the behavior of the child toward the caregivers (e.g., child looks at the caregiver’s face as a social reference) and 45 items examining the conduct of the caregiver,

Ngày tải lên: 10/01/2020, 13:58

... manufacturing in low-income countries, Kumar and Managi (2012) on states in India, Wang and Szirmai (2013) and Bas and Causa (2013) on China, and the case of the manufacturing sector in Viet Nam ... The Institute began operations in 1985 in Helsinki, Finland, as the first research and training centre of the United Nations University Today it is a unique blend of think tank, research institute, ... adequately understanding the nature of productivity growth and its determinants, such as environmental practices and innovation, is worth investigating empirically Understanding the nature of productivity

Ngày tải lên: 13/01/2020, 18:01

... deprives the pathogen from this element by binding iron and facilitates the use of iron in the plant All organisms need iron, one of the most abundant chemical elements in the world, to use it in biological ... from the bacteria, released the dye by binding to iron and turned the color of the media from blue to orange The following formulation was used to determine the production percentages of siderophores ... using the reference tube as blind and reset Accordingly, the changes in % the siderophor production capacities of indicator B cereus DY6 and B tequilensis DT2 strains were also calculated and

Ngày tải lên: 14/01/2020, 09:55

... manufacturing in low-income countries, Kumar and Managi (2012) on states in India, Wang and Szirmai (2013) and Bas and Causa (2013) on China, and the case of the manufacturing sector in Viet Nam ... some of the points in the data source Therefore, we follow Levinsohn and Petrin (2003) (LP for short) by using material cost as an intermediate input demand function to invert out 𝜔𝑖𝑡; then the ... The Institute began operations in 1985 in Helsinki, Finland, as the first research and training centre of the United Nations University Today it is a unique blend of think tank, research institute,

Ngày tải lên: 16/01/2020, 11:45

... arrangement in Fig 4 The concentrations of As, Sb and Se in the samples were between 0.5 and 0.8␮g l−1 In the determination of As the samples prepared contained 800 mg Fe l−1. In the determination of ... determination of Sb and Se the iron content of the samples was 2500 mg l−1. The total variance of the results was composed of the residual variance and the influence of the day on which the measurement ... composed of the residual variance, the influence of the day of measurement and the influence of the analyst (s2 tot= s2 res+ s2 day+ s2 ana) According to F-tests (Table 10), the variance arising from

Ngày tải lên: 22/04/2020, 19:51

... main chains and 1-4 branchings, and the more common 1-3 main chains and 1-6 branchings.18 This fraction also is highly active in vitro and in animal models of cancer, although activity in these ... hospitals in Shanghai, Beijing, and other areas in China, with a total 189 patients The double-blind study used the same doses and test materials as the previous study, and examined PSP against the ... In contrast to the incredible response rates claimed in the Chinese study, in the Japanese study less than 50 percent of the leukemias and cancers of the prostate, brain, stomach, and bone seemed...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 02:21

... finding “something 26 quickly”–i.e., endorsing research having the lack of perspective exemplified by the Six Blind Men of India The objection that maintaining precoordinated strings of LCSH terms ... comprehension of the subject In a very similar way, Google searching leaves remote scholars, outside the research library, in just the situation of the Blind Men of India: it hides the existence and the ... teach how to find the precoordinated string than to teach how to think up all of the individual facets that need to go into a Boolean combination.) Increasing the granularity of searching to keyword...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 23:20

... in our knowledge of the biosynthesis of DIMs and PGLs, the in vivo functions of these FadD proteins in this pathway remain to be established and ⁄ or completed For instance, the involvement of ... interactions between FadD29 and PKS15 ⁄ on the one hand, and FadD26 and the FasI system on the other hand Further investigations, including protein interaction studies and structural studies, will ... with NdeI and HindIII, and cloned between the NdeI and HindIII sites of pMV361e, a pMV361 derivative containing the pblaF* promoter instead of the original phsp60 promoter and carrying a Km resistance...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 11:20

... redescribe their predecessors and place themselves at the culmination of the past and the promise of the future, even to the extreme of turning the fragile pax Europa into a scene of voicing that ... meaning and true intent of my texts in the wars and aftermaths I foretell; fill up the emptiness of the intentional at this time of writing (1888) with the consequences, in uence, legacy and historical ... critiques of pity, piety and the good should prove tinder for the incandescent spirits of the great warmongers, the zealots of a new order There is enough of blood, of domination, of mastery, will and...

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