... economic issues such as competitiveness and debt dynamics These issues, andthe implications ofthe ECB s interest rate decisions, were explained with regards to the multiple crises affecting the Eurozone ... data as the data available at the time of this investigation, March 2012, are late enough to represent the revised versions of many ofthe numbers used The issue ofthe “timings” ofthe data is addressed ... economic crisis has intensified this debate andthe questioning ofthe long-term viability ofthe Eurozone as the prospect of a breakup ofthe euro is increasingly viewed as possible.” While the potential...
... bladder, and sanjiao ) are Yang The symptoms of sickness also can be classified: chill and a slow pulse are symptoms of Yin, while fever and a fast pulse are symptoms of Yang The Five Elements Thetheory ... conditions The paper consists of two parts The first part (Sections II and III) investigates the origins of East Asian cultural characteristics Philosophical backgrounds such as Confucianism and Taoism ... ancient East Asians combined the trigrams with a variety of images such as animals, members ofthe family, numbers, parts ofthe body, compass directions, seasons ofthe years, etc (see Table 4) The...
... introduction of subsidies and incentives to boost the production of biofuels SNEP fell short of proposing any form of subsidies and or incentives after setting the targets In order to meet the set target ... between the cost of producing biofuels andthe cost of producing petroleum derived products some authors have suggested the removal of all subsidies on petroleum derived fuels whiles others have ... [11] Also, it was assumed that the hydrolysis of starch to glucose goes to completion whiles the conversion of glucose to ethanol also goes to completion (The theoretical conversion of glucose to...
... the mix, to bring the heterogeneous whole under firmer pressure and control: so long as this mixed constitution of our nature possesses us, we pay it tribute and serve it; so soon as we possess ... Irish, he suggests, ‘ the guilty authors of Fenianism’’ owed themselves no less Reviewing the whole corpus of Arnold s Irish writing into the s, Seamus Deane aptly remarks that it ‘‘establishe [s] ... the viability of this view and, at the same time, argue that something other than this is just as important here For as Dewey suggests, the uses to which the essentializing historicist representation...
... ideas This of course strikes us as absurd, because we always think ofthe existence ofthe object as the presupposition ofthe existence ofthe knowledge of it; we not think the existence ofthe ... of mathematics and those which form the presuppositions of physics And it is Kant 's aim to relate these classes to the sensibility andthe understanding respectively His view is that mathematical ... is physical rather than metaphysical, and is based upon our possession of physical organs It assumes that the reality to be apprehended is the world of space and time, and it asserts that by the...
... rebelliousness against feudal rulers of China is similar to the rebelliousness of Chinese immigrants against the unjust and racist policies ofthe United States Many immigrants defied the rules that they ... independent of one another Symbols of women merge the images of mother and wife, while those of men merge the images of father and son Sun Versus Moon Myths: Battle ofthe Sexes The popular sun myth ... had its own set of stories and legends that sustain its people and nurture its children As groups immigrate to other lands, they cherish these stories and legends while creating new ones of their...
... a symbol as s1 s2 , where s1 and s2 are the symbols of two given substitutions We shall always understand by the symbol s1 s2 the result of carrying out first the substitution s1 and then the substitution ... an Then ss−1 = s0 ands 1 s = s0 , [8] CHAPTER I so that s is the substitution inverse to s 1 Now if ts = t s, then tss−1 = t ss−1 , or ts0 = t s0 But ts0 is the same substitution as t, since ... given, is the substitution , S1 , S2 , , SN −1 , Si Sj , S1 Si Sj , S2 Si Sj , , SN −1 Si Sj or the product of any two ofthe N substitutions is again one ofthe substitutions ofthe set Moreover...
... -graphs must be treated separately There is a basic species relationship which permits the expression ofthe unrooted species in terms ofthe rooted ones It plays the role ofthe classical Dissimilarity ... -structures according to their stabilizers, within the language of species It is interesting and useful to have at hand the first few terms ofthe molecular expansion of CB -graphs This is possible ... unlabelled CB -structures Three examples are given in this section Finally, in Section 4, we present the molecular expansion of some of these species It consists of a descriptive classification ofthe unlabelled...
... bond shop would never survive the Mexican peso crisis of 1994; and they did the same again through the Russian crisis of 1998 They had weathered rumor, had survived scandal, and had even ousted their ... Adam; Steve was Hoss, and Joe, for obvious reasons was Little Joe " She said Chris, "the leader always the first in, was Pa " Neporent came up with the idea because Lessing, the chubbiest ofthe ... hardscrabble resourcefulness exemplified by the credo "The Trader Knows Best" and a selfless embrace ofthe "one firm" mantra In 1980, as they looked around Wall Street and saw the excesses of the...
... lessons have they learned from their previous successful (and not-so-successful) cross-border transactions? What pitfalls should be avoided in various stages ofthe deal and post-merger process? ... succeeds, the owner claims all the benefits If it fails, the owner sustains all the losses Lack of control, andthe negative consequences this entails, is perhaps the most frightening scenario for the ... industries are alike, of course The need to seize opportunities as soon as they arise explains why some Japanese firms buy first and consider the details later “In certain industries and types of...
... definition fails to bring out the specific features that make artworks what they are He insists that his theory stresses the importance ofthe institutional framework against which works of art are ... distinguishing between art and non-art in controversial cases (due to its excessive inclusiveness) Precisely because of its commitment to accommodating the “openness” ofthe concept of art and ... that, for the reasons Weitz has given, the issue of what art is cannot be completely separated from the question of what the artworld calls art But I hope to have shown that these two issues should...
... plausible In studies aiming to understand the behaviours of teams of healthcare professionals in managing chronic diseases, some sort of aggregation of measures from individuals is necessary This ... them) andthe number of responses per practice Although both host studies were randomised controlled trials, we analysed them as two cross-sectional studies on the basis that any effect ofthe ... and theoretically [15] In studies wishing to understand the behaviours of healthcare professionals in relation to the management of many chronic diseases then some sort of aggregation of measures...
... plausible In studies aiming to understand the behaviours of teams of healthcare professionals in managing chronic diseases, some sort of aggregation of measures from individuals is necessary This ... them) andthe number of responses per practice Although both host studies were randomised controlled trials, we analysed them as two cross-sectional studies on the basis that any effect ofthe ... and theoretically [15] In studies wishing to understand the behaviours of healthcare professionals in relation to the management of many chronic diseases then some sort of aggregation of measures...
... funds; they screen and select potential fund-users on the basis of creditworthiness, assess the quality, risk, and profitability of investment projects, allocate funds, monitor their use, and seek ... producers; along the circuit, the financial system governs the supply and demand of funds and, at the end ofthe process, it determines the condition for the closure ofthe circuit As discussed, the ... unnecessary to further improve the bank’ risk position sand counterparties, on their side, might consider for them unnecessary to further assess the riskiness ofthe bank Finally, the inadequacy of...
... types of students in other university, NEU students are the perfect entity to take the research The study illustrates the effects of music cover and NEU students’ behaviors towards the spread of ... Nowadays, finding covered songs are so easy, they appear in most CDs of most singers “Music cover” is not a new concept Most singers choose to cover a song of other musicians or singers to make their ... studies and shows what the achieved points andthe weakness in each study are After that, it states personal opinion of reporter about previous studies andthe purpose to this research Data analysis...
... Parkinson s Disease Parkinson s disease (also known as Parkinson disease or PD) is a degenerative disorder ofthe central nervous system that often impairs the sufferer s motor skills and speech ... to aspects of study design, performance, and analysis, with a focus on randomization ofthe study subjects, blinding ofthe investigators and study subjects, andthe handling of dropouts and ... in the clinical status ofthe patient Confidence intervals measure the robustness and stability ofthe estimate ofthe odds ratio, and if the confidence interval excludes 1.0, then there is a statistically...
... imagination This synthesis is an action ofthe understanding on the sensibility; and is its first application – and thereby the ground of all its other applications – to the objects of our possible intuition ... is recognized also as the principle ofthe figurative synthesis, i.e., ofthe forms of intuition; space and time are themselves conceived as synthetic unities, and spontaneity, the absolute synthetic ... the transcendental synthesis of imagination Imagination is the faculty of representing in intuition an object that is not itself present But inasmuch as its synthesis is an expression of spontaneity,...