... management and reporting system; the Bureau of Policy and Program Coordination; the Bureau for Global Health; and the regional bureaus for Africa, Asia and the Near East, and Latin America and the Caribbean ... Health account in fiscal years 2004 and 2005 helped fund wide-ranging efforts to lower maternal and child mortality in Africa, Asia and the Near East, and Latin America and the Caribbean The agency’s ... countries in Africa, Asia and the Near East, and Latin America and the Caribbean and to the Bureau for Global Health In allocating the funds, the agency considered various factors in its annual budgeting...
... biogeochemically complex coastal waters of the Santa Barbara Channel Results from statistical analyses, numerical radiative transfer modeling, and application of a semianalytical optical closure algorithm ... Methods A Field Experiment We collected time series datasets of physical and biooptical data on a shallow-water mooring, the Santa Barbara Channel Relocatable Mooring (CHARM), as part of the National ... spectral absorption data We thank Derek Manov and Frank Spada for their engineering support, Dave Romanko for CHARM optical data processing and support, Songnian Jiang for CHARM physical data processing,...
... humanitarian and criminal law may accompany violent conflict, andcan be both a cause anda consequence of conflict and instability What may begin as apparently “one off” abuse can escalate In ... reputational, operational, and financial risks for companies and investors Engagement with companies operating in conflict-affected and high- risk areas can increase investors’ understanding of highly ... place national legislation and institutions, establish export, import and internal controls and commit to transparency and the exchange of statistical data Participants can only legally trade...
... – data – can be conveyed, and possibly manipulated, for clarity or impact), and pertinent facts (accurate data with clear, decisive relevance to the matter in hand, and which may be used as the ... J, Saperas E, Santolaria S, Rodrigo L, Balanzo J, Bajador E, Almela P, Navarro JM, Carballo F, Castro M, Quintero E, Investigators of the Asociacion Espanola de Gastroenterologia (AEG): A nationwide ... planning, data extraction, and writing JP was involved with planning, writing and visual aids formats to explain risks All authors read and approved the final manuscript Acknowledgements Pain...
... ngữ Nam Bộ Như vậy, không gian đ a lí tiếng miền Nam, phương ngữ miền Nam hay phương ngữ Nam tác giả xác đònh rộng Không gian đ a lí phương ngữ Nam Bộ xác đònh hẹp Ranh giới PNNB trùng với ranh ... (từ thû ấy/ đến nay), thû (từ thû ấy/ đến giờ) V a rút gọn v a đảo trật tự câu nghi vấn tính chất, đặc điểm: bao cao (cao bao nhiêu), bao dai (dài bao nhiêu), bao lớn (lớn bao nhiêu)… Rút gọn, ... Long An, Tiền Giang, An -18- Giang, Kiên Giang, Cà Mau, Sóc Trăng, Bạc Liêu, Đồng Tháp, Bến Tre, Hậu Giang, Vónh Long, Trà Vinh thành phố Cần Thơ Vò trí đ a lí Nam Bộ: ph a bắc tây - bắc giáp Cam-pu-chia,...
... scholars defined translation as an art / craft: “Translation is a craft consisting in the attempt to replace a written message and/ or statement in one language by the same message and/ or statement ... source language and target language words have the closest possible match of form and content Dynamic equivalence is achieved when the source language and the target language words have the same ... abbreviations are used in written and spoken communication to save time and space Especially, name of Vietnam organizations and international organizations are written in form of abbreviations...
... is constant over time and across banks Rather than make an arbitrary assumption about its value, we will give the data a chance to inform us about it and treat mOTH as a parameter A 16 Banks report ... systematic risk Again, these effects—which 24 A number of authors have attributed the failure of the standard CAPM to its static nature; see, for example, Hansen and Richard [1987], Jagannathan and ... liabilities (in years) Savings, demand, and transaction deposits are included at their contractual (that is, zero) maturity c As a share of interest-earning assets d As a share of total liabilities...
... the parsing However, it is more laborious for Japanese and several other languages, which have no explicit word boundaries, than for Engllsh and many European languages (Miyazald, 1983) (Ohyama, ... amount of ambignJty, in that a character or a syllable has multiple candidates Such multiple candidates form the multiple text streams Figure 6 (a) shows an example of multiple text streams, expressed ... very suitable for text with a large character set, such as Japanese (more than 5,000 different chaxacters are computer re~able in Japanese) This algorithm ~Iso has the advantage of high speed...
... trade credit to assets are generally smaller and more indebted, and display a much higher sales growth, anda higher cash flow to capital ratio Furthermore, they generally have a higher trade ... to partition firm- years into small and large, we can see that the coverage ratio attracts a positive and statistically significant coefficient only for small firm- years that make a relatively ... inventory investment equation with a coverage ratio variable anda trade credit to assets variable, and we have estimated it differentiating the effects of the latter two variables for small and large...
... Sub-Saharan Africa South Asia Middle East and North Africa Latin America and Caribbean Europe and Central Asia East Asia and Pacific Share of GDP (right axis) Source: World Bank e=estimate; f=forecast ... about half of the expropriation acts occurred in Africa (North and Sub-Saharan) anda third of them in Latin America and the Caribbean The expropriations are also clustered in Africa and Latin America ... and the Pacific and in South Asia is estimated to have also decelerated in 2012, mainly because of a slowdown in China and India Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean slowed down as well,...
... difference of heart This age has oratory and wisdom, and so had Cicero's; this age has poetry and art, and so had that; but our age has heart and sympathy, and Cicero's had not Caesar's mind was the mind ... Saul to Ramah, and he said, Where are Samuel and David? And one said, Behold they be at Naioth And Saul went thither, and the Spirit of God came on him also and he prophesied Wherefore man said: ... final victory at Appomattox A century and more ago a young Moravian made his way to Jamaica as a Herald of Christ and his message of good-will The horrors of slavery in that far-off time cannot...
... that currently all risk management is performed in staff areas Senior line managers such as trading desk and portfolio managers have always performed a substantial risk management function and ... of available liquidity makes As shorthand, I will refer to risk that cannot be managed by trading in liquid markets as actuarial risk, since it is the type of risk that actuaries at insurance ... in 2003 Chapter on managing market risk, Chapter on value at risk (VaR) and stress testing, Chapter on model risk, and Chapter 13 on credit risk are almost completely rewritten and expanded from...
... system and to calculate trace impedances, propagation velocity, and all self and mutual parasitics The outputs are typically matrices that represent the effective inductance and capacitance values ... effective parasitic inductance and capacitance seen by a single line Since the transmission line parameters vary with data patterns and are essential for accurate timing and signal integrity analysis, ... longer a wire buta distributed parasitic element that will have delayanda transient impedance profile that can cause distortions and glitches to manifest themselves on the waveform propagating...
... 600 SmallCap Value Index CAM Asset Management Zenith Capital Revco Partners Alders Asset Management Eagle Capital Management Cross Capital Management Kiuley Capital Advisors Manager Firm Assets ... n /a 26.1 n /a 23.6 5-Year Standard Deviation Returns-Based Data* (Annualized) 24 BEFORE THE ANALYSIS INTERNAL DATABASES Internal investment manager databases are collections of information investment ... highly attractive candidates CHAPTER Investment Manager Sourcing ourcing investment managers is much easier today than it was just a decade anda half ago In the late 1980s, when I started in...
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... that there are no transitions from AAA to default, but there are transitions from AAA to AA and from AA to default Thus, transitions of the intermediate state ( AAA → AA → default ) contribute ... there are no transitions from AAA to default, there are transitions from AAA to AA and from AA to default As a result, the estimator for transitions from AAA to default should be nonzero andthese ... certain transitions may be a problem when estimating default probabilities For the lowest risk grade, such as AAA in Standard and Poor’s rating, defaulting in a given period is a rare event Although...
... Risk group according to amount of vascularization and PI Low RiskHighRisk Total Scanty Vascularization and PI > 0.82 (55.2%) (44.8%) Scanty vascularization and PI < 0.82 or Abundant vascularization ... Figure cancer with color vascularization Transvaginal scanty Doppler ultrasound showing a cervical Transvaginal color Doppler ultrasound showing a cervical cancer with scanty vascularization The amount ... Gordon W Jr, Alberts DS: Concurrent chemotherapy and pelvic radiation therapy compared with radiation therapy alone as adjuvant therapy after radical surgery in high- risk early-stage cancer of the...