... http://www0.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/indepth/docs/china091900.htm. Internet in China: Big Mama is Watching You 153. The Internet in China This chapter will provide information about the origin and history of the internet in China. First, ... changed since the Open Door Policy in 1977. With the introduction of the internet, a lot of changes were made inthe structure of theChinese government, and therefore the different ministries and ... theChinese government insisted in introducing and developing the internet, since it is supposed to be so troublesome to control. Then, the function of the media in China will be explained,...
... authoritative inthe Middle Ages called theirauthority into question. When combined with the propaganda poten-tial of the printing press to disseminate such findings, printing becamea major force behind ... ofbooks, including one on the concept of Fatherland inthe Netherlandsfrom early modern times till World War II and one on Dutch lieux-de-m´emoire.Introduction (as developed by Gutenberg inthe ... flood of supportive information and suppressing contrary stories and externally by feeding information totheir vassal papers in Avignon and London.Furthermore, inthe s,they launched a...
... drawing an overall picture of the two relevant verbs inthe English and Vietnamese languages, the author made effort to deeply investigate into the objective verbs by analyzing and synthesizing ... in terms of MiCA and MaCA in details. Therefore, within this study, the author focuses on analyzing and contrasting them in terms of MiCA (concerning grammatical and semantic features of the ... morphological features. Furthermore, ‘run’ and ‘chạy’ coincide in their general meanings and meanings in some idioms. Interestingly, ‘run’ is richer in meanings, consequently richer in synonyms than...
... realized bythe subject of the sentence by the speaker (or by some other agents). Inthe epistemic world, the must inthe samesentence could be read as a logical necessity according to the reasoning ... in improving reading skill andin doing some English-Vietnamese translation. I found thatstudents still have many problems in understanding the texts, and especially in interpreting the writer’s opinion ... at random. Then the data areanalyzed and systematized to work out a fresh insight into the meanings expressed by can,may, must and their equivalents in Vietnamese.5. Design of the studyThe...
... both inthe mode l andinthe data. Mo reove r, price ratios are disproportionately lo werfor short-term debt when short spreads are high both inthe model andinthe data.17 The distinct dynam ... time-varying differences i n the prices, and inthe liquidity and insurance benefits o f these two assets, which rationalize the mo vements in s pread curv es and maturity composition observed in t ... vc(bS,bL,y) is the value associa ted with not defaulting and sta yin g inthe contra ct and vd(y) is the value associated with default.Since we assume that default costs are incurred w henever the borro...
... bond, and the BEIR calculated from these two yields. Table 1 shows the sample means and measures of the variability of the nominal and real yields andthe BEIR. The drop inthe mean and variability ... risk. The decline inthe BEIR, however, is due largely to a drop inthe nominal yield, rather than to a large increase inthe real yield.21 The falling BEIR may reflect a generalized flight by ... a nominal bond, we obtain a nominal ytm. Inthe case of the RRB, we use the market price andthe real coupon rate to obtain a real ytm. Inthe absence of distortions, the spread between the...
... committed to adopting the IASB’s international financial reporting standards (IFRS) for the preparation and reporting of financial statements by companies with shares held bythe public. This ... official accounting standards, the EU provided a clear and distinct alternative to US GAAP for international firms and investors. It also reinforced the IASB’s role as the focal point for the convergence ... so that they do not have to incur the cost of familiarizing themselves with financial reporting standards used in other countries or of translating financial results from one set of standards...
... into an apparent molar heat capacity takinginto account the instrument calibration curve and the buffer–buffer scanning curve, andby dividing each datapoint bythe scan rate andthe protein ... 2003Role of the hinge peptide andthe intersubunit interface in the swapping of N-termini in dimeric bovine seminal RNaseCarmine Ercole1, Francesca Avitabile1, Pompea Del Vecchio1, Orlando Crescenzi1, ... located in regions different from the hinge loop 16–22. In the search for the region primarily involved in the swapping, we focused our attention on the interface between the subunits. In a previous...
... role inthe way Chinese cities have functioned and grown and will continue to do so. This report examines China’s urbanization and some of the most pressing issues related to Chinese cities and ... explored. Chinese environmental protection officials have stated that they will increasingly rely on finan-cial incentives andthe market rather than simply fines andthe court system to improve the ... comparison. They include the eco-village of Huangbaiyu, the city of Rizhao andthe eco-city currently being developed inthe city of Tianjin. Research pertaining to these areas does not include...
... household income, the gender of the child, the marital status of the mother,whether English is spoken inthe household, smoking and drinking habits bythe mother, the number of siblings of the cohort ... contact with the grandmother, the mother’s perception of the quality of the neighborhood, whether the mother worked inthe NHS before the birth of the child, whether the mother worked in a “scientific ... inthe north, andinthe London region in particular.16While the MCS contains information about the personal characteristics of the parents, the information on fathers is often missing or incomplete;...
... eal interest rate has declined from around4% inthe 1960s to less than 2% in 2004. In the model, the d ecline inthe natural real inter est rate inthe eu r o area is largely dueto a fall inthe ... Regarding the output gap, the length of the business cycle’s booms and busts are in line with the consensus view inthe business cycle literature. However, the estimated output gap is influenced ... in part,relatedtotheevolutionoftherealinterestrategap. Inlinewiththishypothesiswefind that the real rate gap is also strongly and negatively correlated with the output gap.Next, w e investigate the leading indica...
... growing conditionof the agricultural, livestock and marine production, and cover the following processing and circulations of food. The processes also include eating and drinking, intake and ... 2008. The respondents of the preliminary surveys are 297 in total in China. The survey in Japan was an indoor group investigation using a survey slip. The survey in China was conducted by means ... soil and water constitutes the prerequisite of the overall food safety system. Mean‐while, proper eating and drinking habits are essential in maintaining health. Thereafter, whendesigning the...
... Poland The main public players inthe fields of health and R&D policies are the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Science and Higher Education. There also are other stakeholders like the ... wristband. This allows localising the patient in case he or she gets lost and does not find their way back. Thus, the system enables individuals suffer-ing from dementia to maintain a certain ... transfer, storage and processing in medicine. The programmes “eHealth – ICT in Healthcare” and “Innovation inthe care for the elderly” force research with respect to the specific infrastructural...
... us.Given the scarcity of Chinese women in America at the beginning of the 20th century, they helped to unify and recreate family through theircooking, caretaking, and healing. They maintained their ... “white” pastry, and the burning of incense in order to respect the deceased. The Chinese honor their ancestors in an annual journey in April to the cemetery during the Qing Ming festival, which ... Saga and Cultural Legendhave gained. The process is transforming in establishing their biculturalidentity and mother–daughter bonds. The themes of loss and abandonment in An-Mei’s story and the warrior...