... terms of econometric technique and data.First, while King andLevine (1993a) andLevineand Zervos (1998) empirically assess the connectionbetween banking sector development andthesourcesof ... productivity growth, (iii) experience more rapid capitalaccumulation, and (iv) have higher saving rates.To evaluate the impact of banks on growthandthesourcesof growth, we seek an indicator of the ... model.IV. Financeandthe channels to economic growth This section presents the results ofthe cross-country and panel regressions of real per capitaGDP growth, productivity per capita growth, and...
... DevelopmentEconomics, 1996 (Washington, DC: The World Bank).Chernow, Ron, 1997, The Death ofthe Banker. The Decline andthe Fall ofthe Great FinancialDynasties. The Triumph ofthe Small Investor (New York: ... position and counterparties, on their side, might consider for them unnecessary to further assess the riskiness ofthe bank. Finally, the inadequacy ofthe static accounting framework, underpinning the ... contagion. But the centrality of the issue has to do with a deeper reason, that is, the understanding ofthe crucial role that finance plays for the functioning of market monetary economies of production....
... balance and minimal energy demand The energy balance of 3 different breweries shows that the technology and operational parameters applied in the brew house, the brew volume, operating schedules and ... elevating the sensibility of workers and managers. The calculation of minimal energy demand of processes has proven to be efficient in evaluating distribution and process efficiencies and stimulating ... changes in thermal energy management. The experiences ofthe pinch analysis are incorporated in the Green Brewery Concept. The concept calculates a generic list of heat sourcesand heat sinks...
... food stocks, andthe mood ofthe garrison. The tactics of the Daily Mail captured the attention ofthe nation; the newspaperdramatized the situation ofthe town by emphasizing the danger that ... notions of Boer inhumanity towardAfricans, the pro-war argument ofthe ‘‘negrophilists.’’ The other cat-egory into which mentions of Africans fall is praise ofthe loyalty of the Cape Boys andthe ... MafekingNight andthe following day, they were ‘‘everyone’’ and ‘‘London’’ and even ‘‘England.’’ They were created as a group by the newspapers, and this chapter examines the mechanism of their creation and...
... (such as the booby-trapping of temples), the use of poison, the destroying of wells andthe sowing of dissension in the enemy’s ranks.46Thestruggleformoderationinwarhasbeenalongone – and one ... world of inde-pendent political communities bound together by the rule of law ratherthan by the sovereignty of a single emperor. The Chinese can thereforebe said to have been the pioneers ofthe ... the law of war. It tells the story, in narrative form, of the interplay through the centuriesbetween,ontheonehand,legalideasaboutwarand,ontheotherhand,statepracticeinwarfare.Neffcovers the emergence,...
... for these countries the existence of cointegration could not be rejected. We therefore specify the VAR models in the level ofthe variables. Nevertheless, we neither impose the number of cointegrating ... countries: the fall of residential property prices is significantly different from zero even at the 95% level in Canada, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK andthe US. ... significant and shorter-lived than the GDP decline in the other group. The reactions ofthe other variables to a monetary policy shock are essentially the same. A third important characteristic of the...
... professional colleagues on the world. The Association has the role of coordinating the activities ofthe members in order to protect the interests ofthe members and improve the position of ... to be renewed to facilitate export and import. The General Department of Customs, the Ministry of Trade and examining bodies, andthe Bureau of Standards and Measures should have consensus ... needs and troubles and therefore create favorable conditions for activities of enterprises. The association has proposed the Ministry ofFinance to delay the application of a tax rate of five...
... question on the amount consumed in lians (50g/lian) per unit of time. A lian is the unit of weight in China equivalent to 50 g. The reproducibility and validity ofthe FFQ was assessed in a random ... of type 2 DM in four prospective studies [3;5-7]. The available data on the association between meat intake andthe risk of type 2 DM are limited to four health professionals cohorts andthe ... cross-sectional study and thus, may not be directly generalizable to the general population. To better understand the relationship between the intake of meat andthe risk of type 2 DM we prospectively...
... less than the level of HLA-DR in the cell lysates (5ul of a 1 in 10 dilution, from 2 x 106 PBMC). The shed HLA-DR therefore seemed to represent a small fraction ofthe total HLA-DR ofthe cell, ... Microbiology and Immunology from University of Leeds, and PhD in Immunology from University of Liverpool, where she worked on the expression of HLA-DR andthe characterisation ofthe monocyte ... Director of BPL for his his help and support, the staff ofthe ITU at the RLUHT in particular the research nurses, Neal Gratton and Andrea Fazakerley for recruiting patients into the study....
... toxoplasmosis is one ofthe most com-mon parasitic zoonoses worldwide. As for other zoonoses, veterinarians play an important role in the education ofthe human population regarding the risk of infection. ... perform the task, they should wear disposable gloves and wash their hands thoroughly with soap and wa-ter afterwards. Direct contact with cats is unlikely to result in transmission of toxoplasmosis ... pregnancy and that if they follow a few very simple “rules”, liv-ing with their pets need not represent any risk for infection with Toxoplasma gondii. Cats are the definitive host of T. gondii; they...
... Development and Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment in the land allocation under Decree 99. The goal of phase II is to finalize the legal framework to enable REDD + to realize the intended ... REDD?In the process of implementation of REDD at site, we have met significant challenges. The participation ofthe private sector is not strong enough especially the companies working in the field ... manipulated the whole thing for our own selfish reasons because we are more interested in the financial benefits of REDD rather than the social and environmental benefits. Then now, the question...
... understand the lyrics ofthe original song and they make comparison, they mainlyrecognize that major of covered songs are not as good as the original ones. Hence, they maylook down on the musicians, ... a lot of singers“borrow” foreign songs without “permission” of authors and then they said those are theirsongs. Furthermore a lot of people don’t really understand about Music cover, they just ... 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...
... monkeys on the island. The number of monkeys washing their sweet potatoesreached 99. The next day the 100th monkey, and all the other monkeys, began to wash their sweet potatoes! The 100th monkey ... story told of a young mon-key living on an island with a colony of monkeys. Sweetpotatoes, which grew on the island, were the staple food of the monkeys. The monkeys would scoop them up, cov-ered ... with sand and dirt, and eat them. That is, except forthis one female monkey. She would take her sweet potatoto the water’s edge and wash it off. Then she would eat it.Her siblings and others...
... aspect under the perfecthas the effect of asserting that the beginning ofthe event time is included in the PTS. The question of whether the end ofthe event time is included in the PTS or not ... (12b), the left boundary ofthe PTS is asserted to precede the beginning ofthe event time andthe right boundary ofthe PTS is not as-serted to be included in the event time. Examples such as the ... perfectreadings. Aspect, on the other hand, does. It has been noted that the aspec-tual makeup ofthe participial VP – both in terms ofthe Aktionsart of the underlying eventuality andthe grammatical aspect...