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... needs to be done to reduce the probability and the severity of future financial crises The Chancellor of the Exchequer asked me in October 2008 to review the causes of the current crisis, and to ... the mortgage market The combination of factors common with the US and global story, and factors specific tothe UK, resulted in the evolution of the crisis in the UK having the following features: ... covered neither by the Icelandic scheme nor by the FSCS top up The UK government concluded that these deposits should be protected to underpin depositor confidence in the banking system The total...
... adequately monitor the performance of a DCMS contractor or stress test the system prior to its implementation In particular, SBA did not verify that the contractor provided the agency with the correct ... assessing theresponse of federal, state, and local agencies tothe Gulf Coast hurricanes and to identify steps that such organizations could take to improve the provision of assistance and services to ... contractor did not monitor the system as required or notify the agency of incidents that could increase system instability Further, the contractor delivered computer hardware for DCMS to SBA...
... been appropriate to include further proposals on the mentioned files (some of them putting forward tougher approaches) in the Liikanen Report Therefore, the ESBG wonders why the European Commission ... bonds issued in order to fund lending tothe real economy Due tothe difficulty of carrying out this definition, the Liikanen Group has opted to place into the ring-fence all the market making activities ... banks to uphold trading and market making activities This in turn would make it more expensive for all actors in the market (banks, their customers and other actors) to fund themselves and to manage...
... threat tothe status quo The EAEM relates tothe economic basis of development of the country; the EADM includes the configuration of the political and cultural aspects that are also used to reinforce ... seeks to identify the implications of these issues for a country such as Vietnam, which has only recently entered the EAEM TheResponsetothe Crisis: Thai Khem Khaeng The Thai government took ... expanding the public sector to become the principal engine of growth until such time as the private sector is able to resume this role Instead, these states are precipitately rushing to reduce their...
... survey for the euro area Notes: The data refer tothe period from the second quarter of 2008 tothe second quarter of 2010 The net percentage is the difference between the sum of the percentages ... Stability Facility On 10 May the ECB announced the launch of the Securities Markets Programme This is the third element in the ECB’s responsetothe crisis, the other two being the series of interest ... The longer maturities enabled banks to attenuate the mismatch between the investment side and the funding side of their balance sheet In addition to these measures, the Eurosystem continued to...
... modification is seen in the following: The flow of control in the system is simple The formal representation of the query is used to access the database and obtain the tuples which satisfy the user's query ... procedural in nature They guide the system to search for various patterns that may exist in the data The heuristies are linearly ordered; they range from simple to complex The ordering of the heuristics ... {in the mathematical sense) and there are some tuples in Tu,~., in which the values of the attribute A satisfy this relation R, the system attempts to determine via the above heuristics if there...
... Rubinstein et al.: Incidence of the V600K mutation among melanoma patients with BRAF mutations, and potential therapeutic responsetothe specific BRAF inhibitor PLX4032 Journal of Translational ... unresectable melanoma involving the skin of the left chest wall, progressing after treatment with topical imiquimod and systemic temozolomide, was referred to another institution for a phase II ... As part of the eligibility requirements of the trial, paraffin-embedded tissue from a biopsy of a cutaneous lesion was tested and shown to be positive for the BRAF V600E mutation The patient...
... for the majority of cells to contain sub2N DNA Furthermore, the Ymin (minimum response of the dose response curve) and the T = values (the number of cells at Time zero) were determined from the ... represent the bottom of theresponse curve and define the largest effect of the compound These Ymin values are evaluated relative tothe number of cells at time zero using a Ymin/T0 ratio Response ... accelerate the clinical development of therapies for hematological malignancies through the identification of the tumors most likely to respond One successful story of predictive biomarkers for hematological...
... for the majority of cells to contain sub2N DNA Furthermore, the Ymin (minimum response of the dose response curve) and the T = values (the number of cells at Time zero) were determined from the ... represent the bottom of theresponse curve and define the largest effect of the compound These Ymin values are evaluated relative tothe number of cells at time zero using a Ymin/T0 ratio Response ... accelerate the clinical development of therapies for hematological malignancies through the identification of the tumors most likely to respond One successful story of predictive biomarkers for hematological...
... From the text in the previous section, the reader will have noted that we are making a special attempt to present theprinciples and then to place them in the engineering context Thus, the book ... defining them The next step, therefore, is to list the components in a logical way We have adopted the convention that the first subscript refers tothe plane on which the component acts, and the ... throughout the world due tothe tectonic activity that is currently underway Of course, there have been past orogenic events so that the rock has a stress history Moreover, there are also factors such...
... sensibility to high temperatures, ash, and the effect of both of these together E globulus is the species with the smallest seeds, and is the most sensitive to seed age and the effects of fire Of the ... age of the seeds and the treatments to which they were subjected As the storage time of E globulus seeds increases, they become more susceptible tothe effects of the factors that were tested ... germination peaks in the Control treatments than in the others (figure 3) Furthermore, these peaks increase in importance, as the age of the seed decreases from 1990 to 1993 The distribution of...
... DAS28 does not include the physician’s global VAS and weights the swollen joint count lower than the SDAI To conclude, the analysis that we performed supports the validity of the DAS28 score for ... reflects the physician’s clinical judgment of responseto infliximab therapy in rheumatoid arthritis patients: validation of the DAS28 score in patients under infliximab treatment Arthritis Res Ther ... over-weighted in the DAS28 In our study, this difference in weight of the ESR did not induce a significant difference between the discriminant score and the DAS28 The absolute difference between the discriminant...
... is to lead theresponse and use the infrastructure of the health system to scale theresponsetothe level of the epidemic The expansion was based on a successful experience conducted in the ... showing the commitment needed for theresponse while the central government was just beginning to get more exposure tothe problem and to harm reduction approaches Regarding harm reduction, the first ... organizations is the key element of interventions to scale up theresponse in the country The role of the Public Health Centres, especially in the capital region of Jakarta and West Java (two of the main...
... for transcriptomics The high number of reads generated per run together with the low sequencing error rate in the contigs obtained makes it a good tool to deeply sequence the transcriptome of plants ... Transcriptome comparison between Chinese and American chestnut canker tissues To gain insight into the differences in theresponse of the American and Chinese chestnut species to infection by the ... blight symptoms in the forest due tothe large scale of the land mass affected [2] Development of genomic tools will certainly facilitate the isolation of resistance genes, improve the efficiency...
... A second objective was to characterize the ovarian response and the endocrine profiles in MAP-primed ewes stimulated during the non-breeding season, and to determine if the endocrine stage at ... introduction of the rams, there were no significant differences in LH basal concentrations The mean values for the number of large follicles and the maximum diameter of the largest follicle during the period ... concentrations may differ with factors such as breed, the stage of the anoestrous season, or the nutritional status of the animals Ewes that came into estrus also showed a preovulatory increase in estradiol-17ß...
... need to be mobile, the hospital telephone system was of limited use and on many occasions the coordinators had to meet face to face This was practical because the GICU, the ED and the operating theatre ... anyway given the size of the hospital) was not possible The blast occurred near tothe local bus depot and a bus was mobilized (it is unclear with what authority) to take the injured tothe TCH Unfortunately ... deal with clinical issues These are the province of the coordinators or may be addressed in departmental major incident response plans Due to its proximity tothe blast and the communications blackout,...
... ission 17 stop the interest because it poses a threat tothe mission of the college The attempt to halt the interest fails, and the administration and faculty then ignore the interest in the new ... education, starting at the institutional level and proceeding tothe curricular level Finally, the scope is further narrowed tothe topic of accounting education First, the history o f the CPA exam is ... changes were made tothe curriculum The findings suggested that the traditional values of the institution were not challenged by the required change tothe academic program Further, the change that...