... under both headings As discussed below, changes in these ratings sometimes follow closely cyclical changes in economic conditions Moreover, owing to their low credit ratings, certain developing ... other financial instruments for the portfolios of certain institutional investors due to national regulations that restrict investment in speculative-grade bonds The rating agencies fall into two ... which macroeconomic policies are taken into consideration by CRAs in establishing sovereign ratings, it is reasonable to assume that orthodox policies focusing on the reduction of inflation and government...
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... increase in minority concentration is associated with a decrease in credit scores of 1.68 points, the impact of increasing minority concentration to 100 percent would be a decline of 168 points In ... family income of Missouri 31 Table 6: Percentage Point Difference % of minorities in worst interval - % of non-minorities in worst interval % of high income in worst intervals - % low income in worst ... Credit Scoring on Auto Insurance Underwriting and Pricing State of Washington, Office of the Insurance Commissioner Robinson, William S 1950 Ecological Correlation and the Behavior of Individuals...
... http://www.jfootankleres.com/content/1/1/14 in association with joint subluxation Occurrence rates for the condition reported in the literature vary, depending on the age of the participants investigated Mann and Coughlin ... dependent on a clinical diagnosis, including x-rays, made by the participating surgeons As there were seven surgeons involved in collecting data, some individual variation may have occurred in the accuracy ... funding body had no input into the design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript; and in the decision to submit the manuscript for publication...
... http://www.retrovirology.com/content/4/1/84 Figure Impact of the Vpr mutations on HIV-1 replication in monocyte-derived macrophages Impact of the Vpr mutations on HIV-1 replication in monocyte-derived macrophages ... death induction, indicating a functional link between these activities and the Vpr accumulation at the NE Finally, the replication of the hCG1-binding deficient Vpr mutant viruses was impaired in ... CG1 nucleoporin [28] This interaction does not require the FG-rich region of hCG1 but rather a region without consensus motif found in the N-terminal domain of the protein Using an in vitro nuclear...
... as conditions in business relation with international markets help Vietnam to strengthen the production capacity and production efficiency, to innovate technology and penetrate into international ... objective of obtaining a lasting interest by a resident entity in one economy (''direct investor'') in an entity resident in an economy other than that of the investor (''direct investment enterprise'') ... criterion does not correspond with the consolidation concept in the accounting statement Besides OECD's FDI definition, Vietnam's GSO (2007) also explained Foreign Direct Investment as the bringing...
... roofs can cut-off airconditioning costs by up to 20 percent and even lower indoor temperatures inside buildings without air conditioning In Washington, areas where cool roofs were installed, heat-related ... interests include the fate of toxicants in the environment, the impact of climate change on food security and solar energy usages in the changingclimate conditions His member of the US National ... comfort in modern roof houses at low cost underchangingclimate [6] Various studies related to the electric consumption and the perceptions of the indoor comfort by inhabitants in low income...
... design conditions were obtained by binning hourly data into frequency vectors, then deriving from the binned data the design condition having the probability of being exceeded a certain period ... K.K.W., Wong S.L., Lam J.C Impact of climate change on commercial sector air conditioning energy consumption in subtropical Hong Kong, Applied Energy 2010, 87, 232127 Mourshed M., The impact of ... activities focus on the study of crop climate relationships, using data from climate models, in combination with crop modeling and drought indices, under baseline climate and future projected climate...
... promote international co-operation on all questions concerning standardization in the electrical and electronic fields To this end and in addition to other activities, the IEC publishes International ... 80 l/min at reference conditions, a reading of 81 l/min (1,01 × 80) on this flowmeter is required Flowmeter This will also require a correction factor, since it is operating in conditions removed ... to be considered in order to use them correctly It is important a) to know what the flowmeter is indicating when used under the actual operating conditions; b) to know under what conditions of...
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... there is a missing link, only the recall is reduced slightly However, when computing CPER, an incorrect or missing alignment link might result in more than one phrase pair being eliminated from ... comparison of various statistical alignment models Computational Linguistics, 29(1):9–51, March Franz J Och 2003 Minimum error rate training in statistical machine translation In Proceedings of ... relatively low Increasing the phrase length increases the BLEU scores for all systems by nearly 0.7 points and increasing the size of the training data increases the BLEU scores by 1.5-2 points for...
... fill the positions, could be a reasonable solution In that event, we must make sure that the wages and working conditions of guest workers not undercut the wages and working conditions of America’s ... credibility of wage determinations remains questionable, because of concerns over data on which they are based Delays in publishing wage decisions call their relevance into question.’’ Our witnesses ... workers are disproportionately impacting the economy in certain sectors A recent study by the Congressional Budget Office, the CBO, touches upon such a conclusion by stating ‘‘The arrival of large...
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... communication technology IEC International Electrotechnical Commission IFC International Finance Corporation INHOPE International Association of Internet Hotlines ILO International Labour Organization ... be done by anyone under the age of 18 18 (16 under strict conditions) IV 18 (16 under strict conditions) V Basic minimum age The minimum age for work should not be below the age for finishing ... focuses on the Children’s Rights and Business Principles, and on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and its meaning for business The section also refers to the Guiding Principles on Business...
... millions of gallons of pollution.'" For instance, in June of 1995, an eight-acre lagoon containing hog waste collapsed and spilt 20 million gallons into New River in North Carolina Waste lagoons ... creating a nutrient management plan and meeting effluent limitations guidelines States maintain responsibility for implementing any regulations beyond these federal guidelines, including regulation ... definition ofenvironmental activities it sponsors In order to account for this increase in funding, the distribution of subsidies for conservation purposes could also be expanded.'6 CONCLUSION Addressing...
... are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data The delivery of regenerative medicines and theirimpacton healthcare ... donors, and a further sum of about US$340 million in institutional support in commitments for facilities construction, initial faculty hiring, and equipment funding for the institutes Combined ... criteria In the first year of this program of international collaboration, over $58 million in international funding and leverage has been obtained Dissolving the artificial national geographic funding...
... (Engelm.) forest stand on the summit part of the Jizerské hory Mts (Czech Republic) In: Saniga M., Jaloviar P., Kucbel S (eds), Management of Forests inChanging Environmental Conditions Zvolen, ... for interplantings of selected target species We can not also ignore complicated conditions on the sites with Calamagrostis for natural as well as artificial regeneration CONCLUSION Comparing ... carbon and nitrogen was very similar in both soil variants Kantor (1989) found significantly lower content of oxidable carbon under PP (only 14.9% in humification horizon) His study was conducted...
... adapting to rapidly changing environmental conditions Additionally, the combinations of conditions that exist today may change in the future, with past and present climatic conditions failing ... non-diapausing ones [74, 113] Information on the effects of the 2003 drought onforest insect populations can be found in [86] To date, data on the short- and mid-term consequences of drought on biodiversity ... functioning Decrease in local species richness Shift in species interactions Shift in species composition Boreal forest understory plants [13], temperate forest Collembolans [82], boreal forest...
... Europe Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution: International Co-operative Programme on Assessment and Monitoring of Air Pollution Effects on Forests, Hamburg, 1998 Atkinson D., Root ... no data on water relations and mineral nutrition is available for infected oaks under field conditions The knowledge about the effects of Phytophthoras on mature oaks under natural conditions is ... growth in infested compared with non-infested stands, together with the symptoms of pathogen infection on roots of trees in infested stands, indicate a significant negative impact of P quercina on...