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the effect of treaties on foreign direct investment: bilateral investment treaties, double taxation treaties, and investment flows doc

... include the establishment of Investment Promotion Agencies (IPAs), the offering of incentives, the preparation and dis-semination of investment guides, and, notably, the conclusion of international ... protection for investors in case of expropriation or deprivation of operating rights than is available under the law or in the courts of the host state. The answer of the proponents of BITs ... not contain a property clause at all. Most Latin American constitutions contain variations on the concept of the “social function of property.” Typically BITs contain a stricter form of protection...

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THE EFFECT OF EDUCATION ON ECONOMIC master sciences po fr

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Tài liệu KRONE - The effect of errors on TCP Application performance (Full version) docx

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... end of the session to the other TCPentity. The FIN bit is set to the value one or turned- on.  The window size, sometimes just called the window, is the number of bytes the sending station hasin ... provide the connection-oriented functions.As an illustration of this, in the example of the webclient-server interaction above, Ethernet and IP operatein a connectionless fashion. Therefore, ... some cases,a connectionless protocol will implement one or two of the functions.One of the most important concepts in data communi-cations is how connection and connectionless protocolsare...

Tài liệu The Effect of TARP on Bank Risk-Taking Lamont Black and Lieu Hazelwood docx

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... information includes the identity and location of the institution, the date the institution received TARP funds, and the amount of the funds received. None of the banks which we identified as “non-TARP” ... pricing on their loans along with the risk profile. The nominal interest rate of the loan is one of the loan characteristics recorded in the STBL. The respondent banks also indicate whether the ... amount of the infusion, we use a regression analysis similar to equation 2, but replace the TARP Recipient variable with an alternative measure of the infusion. We consider the log of the dollar...

The Effect of Aesthetic on the Usability of Data Visualization pdf

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... International Conference Information Visualization (IV'07)0-7695-2900-3/07 $20.00 â 2007 The Effect of Aesthetic on the Usability of Data Visualization Nick Cawthon and Andrew Vande Moere The ... influence on task effectiveness, as there seems less concern for the experiential nature of aesthetic judgment. Other research projects demonstrate the advantages of aesthetic design on interactive ... applicable. Our hypothesis is that aesthetic will have an effect on extending the latency of task abandonment and duration of erroneous response time. This is potentially important because these factors...

Báo cáo khoa học: The effect of heme on the conformational stability of micro-myoglobin doc

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... side-chains of Arg45 and Lys96 (Fig. 8). These interactions conceiv-ably also contribute to the conformational stability of holo-lMb. Consistently, they are maintained over the 1.5 ns of the simulation ... in the ﬁrst0.5 ns of MD simulation, triggering the unfolding of helix E and the subsequent global unfolding of the structure. In holo-lMb, the shielding effect of the heme and the engagement of ... native-like conformations.Conclusions The comparison of apo- and holo-lMb by MD simu-lations reveals a dramatic effect of the heme cofactor,which is seen to stabilize native Mb-like folded confor-mations...

Báo cáo khoa học: The effect of pH on the initial rate kinetics of the dimeric biliverdin-IXa reductase from the cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC6803 pptx

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... and the variation of initial rate with the concen-tration of the second substrate is then used to estimatekcatand the Kmfor the variable substrate. However, the assumption that a concentration ... reciprocal of the apparent Vmaxwas plotted against the concentration of inhibitory product and the inhibition constant for the inter-cept effect (Kii) was determined from the intersection on the inhibitor ... [5].Questions on the possible function of BVR-A incyanobacteria parallel a major re-evaluation of the function of BVR-A in mammals. Once considered toplay a role solely in the elimination of excess...

The Effect of HMOs on the Inpatient Utilization of Medicare Beneficiaries Technical Appendix pptx

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... parts: the effect on the probability of a year with at least one day, the mean effect on days conditional on any days, and the smearing factor. To calculate the effect of a variable on the probability ... probabilities to estimate the factor needed to transform the standard deviation of the coefficient in the original equation to the standard deviation of the impact on population probabilities. For ... in the three factors that are multiplied together to estimate effects on total days are independent, so we can add the variance of the log of those factors to get the variance of the log of the...

The effect of Qigong on general and psychosocial health of elderly with chronic physical illnesses: a randomized clinical trial doc

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... Question-naire. The questionnaire consists of 28 questions on a five-point scale. This indicated that the wholespectrum of the five-point scales was utilized in the reflection of quality of life of ... 12 weeks. The control group received the sameamount of traditional remedial rehabilitation activ-ities under the supervision of qualified professionalsso as to neutralize the effect of staff’s ... in the intervention group,however, received one hour practice of qigong, twicea week, under the supervision of a qualified practi-tioner, on top of the basic rehabilitation activities.The...

THE EFFECT OF EDUCATION ON ADULT HEALTH AND MORTALITY: EVIDENCE FROM BRITAIN doc

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... our estimates of the effects of the law changes on mortality.Finally, we report our estimates of the effects of the additional education induced by the law changes on other measures of health and ... information on quarter of birth). For each dataset, we present separate regression discontinuity estimates of the effect of the reform on the fraction of individuals of each birth cohort appearing in the ... indicators of underlying health status. The HSEcontains some of these, obtained from a nurse visit to consenting respondents. In panel B of Table5a we report estimates of the effects of education on the...

The Effect of Drought on Health Outcomes and Health Expenditures in Rural Vietnam

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... outputin the year of the survey. With paddy rice being one of the most widespread and commonlyplanted crops, the regressions look at the relation between the incidence of drought and the price of ... indicators of health conditionsto estimate the direct impact of drought on health outcomes. The analysis also assesses the relation of drought and the agricultural sector, which socio-economic characteristics ... exceed the cumulativetotal 1000 mm. The southern regions as well as the region around the province of Hue can beseen to have had more rainfall than the northern part or the southern coastal regions...

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Differences by Mother''''s Education in the Effect of Childcare on Child Obesity pdf

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... interaction effects decreased only by 0.001 with the exception of the interaction effect for the child of the woman with some college education. Using conventional methods of computing the marginal ... Ruhm, 2008). The main effect of education on obesity is negative, and monotonically so, across the four educational attainment subgroups. Consistent with previous studies, the sign of the coefficient ... recognizable. The major findings of the study concern the heterogeneity of effects of non-parental childcare on obesity by maternal education. Consistent with previous work, non-parental childcare...

Báo cáo hóa học: " The effect of acyclovir on the tubular secretion of creatinine in vitro" pdf

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... par-tially due to the inhibition of renal tubular secretion of creatinine by acyclovir, and not entirely the result of decreased GFR. To the best of our kno wledge, the effect of acyclovir on the renal ... decrease in the concentration of [2-14C]creatinine in the apical compartment in the presence of quinidine or cimetidine, compared t o the concentrationFigure 2 Te traethylammonium (TEA) transport ... seeding. Alltransepithelial transport studies were conducted on con-fluent cell monolayers.At the time of commencement of the transportexperiments, the growth medium from the cell culturechamber...

Báo cáo hóa học: "Research Article The Effect of Cooperation on Localization Systems Using UWB Experimental Data" doc

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... condition (number of configurations belonging to the condition over the total number of configurationsconsidered). The characterization of the bias for 3,4, and 5walls is not reported because the ... positionswithin the environment, wall thicknesses, and other factors.Ta ble 2 reports the mean and standard deviation of the ranging error for each condition, as well as the frequency of the condition ... Figures 5 and 6,weobservethat the selection of the right reference beacon can furtherimprove the positioning accuracy in both cases. The effect of cooperation on localization is investigatedin Figures...