... and whether we can find any evidence of business cycle synchronization inthe region. We examine the following twelve countries intheAsiaPacific region: five Asian crisis countries (Indonesia, ... underlying shocks inthe economy, etc.6 Using the data of twelve AsiaPacific countries, we find the following stylized facts of business cycles. First, business cycles inthe five Asian ... correlation in general increased inthe 1990s from the previous periods. This is mostly due to the industrial countries inthe sample. In conclusion, we can summarize the main characteristics of the...
... FOR ASIA AND THEPACIFIC IN THE ASIA- PACIFIC REGION 2008PROSPECTSDEVELOPMENTSKEY ECONOMICAND 4China seeks growth with sustainabilityChina continues to be beset by its inability to rein in ... markets asinvestors cashed in their holdings. Financial-market contagion thus spread from the United States to the Asia- Pacific region. There was also a withdrawal from markets intheregion as ... spurred the record inflation in China in 2007. The increase inthe CPI in August of 6.5 per cent year on year wasled by food price inflation of 18.2 per cent. Pork prices in China, the world’slargest...
... farhanah.farhanah@gmail.comas keypoints to cutting the cycle of violence and achieving SRHR. ey have to be meaningfully involved in policy making, programme planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluating at all ... are being utilised in the region include integrating GBV into primary health care, reproductive health care, or family planning services. ere are also NGO-led models, as in Papua New Guinea ... however, most often these are not holistic and integrated.13 Moreover, integration of GBV into the medical curricula is still lacking inthe region. 13ã One of the main challenges faced...
... received a single vaccination since their birth. So we had to start right from the beginning.” “Since then, we have seen a positive increase inthe interest of the mothers in their children’s ... sessions, including demonstration of cooking and feeding, to the group. After that they take on the responsibility themselves, cooking khichuri in their own houses and starting new groups of their ... 45Six mothers happily demonstrate breastfeeding in front of other mothers and villagers during the celebration of World Breastfeeding Week in Samlot district, early August. After attending a three-day...
... some-one uses the Internet to cause an injury in one State, the person causing the damage may be hauled into court inthe State where the injury occurred. In caseswhere the connection between the activity ... linking involves enrolling a target in dozens-sometimes hundreds-of e-maillistings.4. Spoofing is faking the e-mail sender’s identity and tricking the target recipientinto believing that the ... protection in the Internet? 18Are there international initiatives to protect intellectual property in the Internet? What Internet-specific treaties are in place? 18Why is there a need for such initiatives?...
... careful in spending objectives. Therefore, they would be interested in not only quality products but also the cost of the product. Inthe elderly, they are born and raised in war, their lives ... are the needs of the company, from the interests of the company. While companies in many developing countries is often argued that environmental costs are not included inthe price of the product ... make profit, unhindered except by fulfilling their duty to pay taxes. Then they donate a certain share of the profits to charitable causes. It is seen as tainting the act for the company to...
... cannot be linked back to the source. best inthe business inthe private sector. This type of The main issue then in is inthe feeling of anonymity. If benchmarking implies comparing customer ... important given the track record for customer surveys inthe literature thus farand the expansion of their use inthe Federal Government.Given the costs involved in designing and conducting thesesurveys ... consider them to be customers.assuming that the instrument is well designed and able to After all, someone (the taxpayer) is paying the agency tomeasure what was intended, there are still several issues...
... defined in (19.10). The excess MSE is the power of the additional error in the filter output due to the errors inthe filter coefficients. An equivalent measure of the excess MSE in steady-state is the ... Performance Issues When using the LMS adaptive filter, one must select the filter length L and the step size µ(n) toobtain the desired performance from the system. In this section, we explore theissues ... generalized expression forthese stability bounds in (19.41), the upper bound for the step size is inversely proportional to the input signal power σ2x in general. In practice, the input signal power...
... inundated, mainly the Northern parts of the MD known as the Long Xuyen Quadrangle and the Plain of Reeds. Along the 600 km-coast, the sea tide strongly influences the water quality due to the ... salinity during the dry season from December to May. Saline intrusion is one of the principal limiting factors in crop production, especially for rice, as crops are intolerant of salinity inthe ... rainfall inthe MD varies from 1,400 - 2,200 mm. About 90% of total rain water falls from May to October. At the end of the rainy season, due to the combination of floodwater draining from the...
... Academyof Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communi-ties. The Council is administered jointly by both Academies and the Institute ... developing and maintaining a credible integrated climate observing system.” The “Post-2002” report (NRC,1999b) determined that “ensuring continuity of operational data, evaluating the readiness ... of the candidate sensors. There have been final selections of the winning contractors in 1999 and 2000. The Ozone Mapping and Profiling Suite (OMPS) contractor was selected in early 1999. The...
... following stages:ã Denition of the roots of the problemã Ordering rootsã Creating and lling inthe tables of individual range selectionã Creating and lling inthe collective tableã Ranking the ... If the (i, j) entry inthe SSIM is A, then the (i, j) entry inthe reachability matrixbecomes 0 and the (j, i) entry becomes 1.ã If the (i, j) entry inthe SSIM is X, then the (i, j) entry in ... responsibility’.There are a number of enablers affecting the implementation of sustainability in the Supply Chain. In this research, an interpretation of sustainability inthe SupplyChain enablers in terms...
... either in wild-type strains and in mutant strains harboring mutations in the genes encoding enzymes of the biosynthesis and/or the transfer of the O-specific polysaccharide [12,13]. The core region ... [40–42]. The structure of the inner core region of the LOS fromP. stutzeri OX1, as determined in this study, was found toagree closely with the general structure described above. Itincludes the ... Y.A.,Zaăhringer, U. & Pier, G. (2003) Elucidation of the structure of the lipopolysaccharide core and the linkage between the core and the O-antigen in Pseudomonas aeruginosa immunotype 5 using...