... and 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.6 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...
... FOR ASIA AND THEPACIFIC IN THE ASIA- PACIFIC REGION 2008PROSPECTSDEVELOPMENTSKEY ECONOMICAND 4China seeks growth with sustainabilityChina continues to be beset by its inability to rein in ... markets asinvestors 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 wasled by food price inflation of 18.2 per cent. Pork prices in China, the world’slargest...
... farhanah.farhanah@gmail.comas 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.13 Moreover, integration of GBV into the medical curricula is still lacking inthe region. 13ã One of the main challenges faced...
... found mainly in NinhThuan Sea and P. stimpsoni in Quang Binh–QuangTri Sea (Thuy 1996, 1998). The greatest hurdle inthe commercial culture ofspiny lobster is the difficulty in growing speciesthrough ... of the breeding ecology of the stocks in these regions. Larval ecology of P. ornatus inthe Coral SeaRecruitment processes inthe Torres Strait andeastern coastal regions are governed by the ... recruitment IntroductionThere is growing interest inthe aquaculture of spinylobsters as the world market demand for lobsterincreases beyond what wild fisheries are capable ofproducing 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 ... 45Six 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 caseswhere the connection between the activity ... linking involves enrolling a target in dozens-sometimes hundreds-of e-maillistings.4. Spoofing is faking the e-mail sender’s identity and tricking the target recipientinto believing that the ... protection in the Internet? 18Are there international initiatives to protect intellectual property in the Internet? What Internet-specific treaties are in place? 18Why 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 farand the expansion of their use inthe Federal Government.Given the costs involved in designing and conducting thesesurveys ... consider them to be customers.assuming that the instrument is well designed and able to After all, someone (the taxpayer) is paying the agency tomeasure 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 forthese stability bounds in (19.41), the upper bound for the step size is inversely proportional to the input signal power σ2x in general. In practice, the input signal power...
... Academyof 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 199 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 CongoWork 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.40 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...