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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.
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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...
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IN THE ASIA- PACIFIC REGION
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China seeks growth with sustainability
China continues to be beset by its inability to rein in ... markets as
investors 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 was
led by food price inflation of 18.2 per cent. Pork prices in China, the world’s
largest...
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as 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.
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Moreover, integration of GBV
into the medical curricula is still lacking inthe region.
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... found mainly in Ninh
Thuan Sea and
P. stimpsoni
in Quang Binh–Quang
Tri Sea (Thuy 1996, 1998).
The greatest hurdle inthe commercial culture of
spiny lobster is the difficulty in growing species
through ... of the breeding ecology of
the stocks in these regions.
Larval ecology of P. ornatus inthe
Coral Sea
Recruitment processes inthe Torres Strait and
eastern coastal regions are governed by the ... recruitment
Introduction
There is growing interest inthe aquaculture of spiny
lobsters as the world market demand for lobster
increases beyond what wild fisheries are capable of
producing sustainably....
... 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 ... 45
Six 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 cases
where the connection between the activity ... linking involves enrolling a target in dozens-sometimes hundreds-of e-mail
listings.
4. Spoofing is faking the e-mail sender’s identity and tricking the target recipient
into believing that the ... protection
in the Internet? 18
Are there international initiatives to protect intellectual property
in the Internet? What Internet-specific treaties are in place? 18
Why is there a need for such initiatives?...
... 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 far
and the expansion of their use inthe Federal Government.
Given the costs involved in designing and conducting these
surveys ... consider them to be customers.
assuming that the instrument is well designed and able to After all, someone (the taxpayer) is paying the agency to
measure 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 for
these stability bounds in (19.41), the upper bound for the step size is inversely proportional to the
input signal power σ
2
x
in general. In practice, the input signal power...
... Academy
of 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...
... action, the speaker and
he=rer mutually believe that executing plan P will result
in the hearer acquiring the required information, but, since
only the hearer is actually executing the plan, the ... result in identification of the intended referent, and in
the case of the S[ action, the plan is simply to do nothing,
because the referent of the term is already mutually known.
This is not the ... knowledge.
Since there are two dimensions relevant to ,:haracteriz-
ing concept activation actions, it is possible to define four
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Some Pragmatic Issuesinthe Planning of Definite and Indefinite...
... Pygmies draw drinking water directly from natural springs in Ituri forest
47Water Issuesinthe Democratic Republic of the Congo
Work in progress: construction of a retaining headwall inthe village ... Precambrian crystalline basement
rocks (including basalt and granite) cropping out
in the mountainous terrain along the Albertine Rift
from Lake Tanganyika to Lake Edward, as well as
in the lower Congo ... to the long-term sustainability of major
infrastructure investments inthe water sector.
The immediate challenge on the ground is the
non-application of basic zoning principles and
land delineation...
... against society,
protecting the individual. However, this creates problems for the clinician because in many
clinical situations the rights of one individual impinge on the rights of another, ... depth to the clinician’s understanding of the Four
Principles. Seeing Beneficence in terms of maximising happiness and relieving suffering and
seeing Non-Maleficence, Autonomy and Justice in terms ... but
are lacking miserably in developing countries. Patients in many developing countries
are sent home withering in pain with nothing more than ibuprofen to control their
pain. These patients...
... carbohydrate drink (malto-dextrin) the evening before
the operation and another 400 ml about 2-3 hours before the operation. Insulin resistance
has been shown to be an independent factor explaining the ... decrease in whole body insulin sensitivity. These findings
suggest that the relative change in insulin sensitivity is related to the degree of surgical
stress.
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4. Preoperative information ... fluid intake up to 2 hours before surgery. Food or drinks containing milk make the
emptying slower and need six hours.
74,75
Emptying of the stomach usually occurs within less
than 90 minutes in...
... Academy of Engineering in providing services to the government, the public,
and the scientific and engineering communities. The Council is administered jointly by
both Academies and the Institute ... that the FDA has agreed to include information
about the lack of activity of anti-EGFR antibodies inthe setting of KRAS
mutations inthe labels (i.e., while the indication remains broad, the ... engineers.
It is autonomous in its administration and inthe selection of its members, sharing with
the National Academy of Sciences the responsibility for advising the federal government.
The...