... the real interest rateThe left-hand panels of Figure report the upward bias inthe mean real rate and the downward bias inthe variability of the real rate depending on the level of the nominal ... short-term nominal interest rates have been included inthe instrument set Robust standard errors in parentheses (e) Forthe euro area, the German long-term real interest rate has been used inthe estimation ... signficantly dampened The exchange rate rule is abandoned in favor of the original interest rate rule when the interest rate implied by the interest rate rule returns above zero At that point the Marshallian...
... media, while maintaining the saturated condition of porous media Steady saturated flow field was established inthe column when fluctuations inthe observed drainage rate from the bottom reservoir ... at the bottom of the column to keep the moisture content inside the column uniform while water was sprinkled over the top of the medium until the outflow from the bottom of the column equaled the ... HWCs while there is a slight change of the peak concentration in Andisol (Fig (b)) except forthe more pronounced tailing of the BTCs with the increase of HWCs The peak concentrations for Andisol...
... (with negligible changes in results) forthe cardinality of the classes set C We leave optimizing the number of syntax classes, or determining them directly from the data, for future work 3.2 SBSumBasic ... and N is the total number of words inthe input Sentences are then scored based on a composition function CF (·) that composes the score forthe sentence based on its contained words The most ... Nevertheless, for SumBasic to perform well, stop-words must be removed from the composition scoring function Because these words add nothing to the content of a summary, if they were not removed for...
... impact on the applications of informatics Also the developments in digital technology lead to increasing interest in telemedicine applications As forthe nursing staff inthe 21st century, they are ... be bridged to the bachelor program and giving them the opportunity for career promotion, and consequently increasing the enrollment rateinthe nursing profession and increasing the number of ... basis in contemporary nursing sciences Nowadays, most of the nurses are utilizing information technology and informatics during their study and practice Nursing informatics has been defined as...
... mapping if there exists a gauge for which the duality mapping J(x) is single-valued and continuous from the weak topology to the weak* topology, that is, for any {xn} with xn ⇀ x, the sequence ... admits a weakly continuous duality mapping Furthermore, by using these results, we obtain strong convergence theorems of the following new iterative schemes {un} and {wn} defined by ⎧ ⎨ u0 = u ... exists for all x, y Î U It is also said to be uniformly smooth if the limit is attained uniformly for x, y Î U Now we collect some useful lemmas for proving the convergence result of this paper The...
... robust to most of the attacks According to the definition in Ref [18], to determine the pinned image, the pixel averaging operation is applied on the boundary pixels Therefore, the pinned field image ... robust to the random noise and compression operations The pinned field image is determined inthe spatial domain rather than being determined inthe frequency domain Instead of taking account ... represent the texture information of the cover image By transforming the pinned field of the cover image into a binary feature image, the robustness of watermark can be enhanced But how to determine the...
... as providing further evidence that the clinical settings are CASs For interventions to be effective in improving patient outcomes, they must take this into account The difference inthe individual ... strategy to improve outcomes, the importance of allowing ‘local’ input or control into the intervention design, and the need to provide feedback regarding the impact of the intervention and the ... using the database conceived by VL, PN, and JP, rated studies, performed preliminary statistical analysis, interpreted findings, and drafted the manuscript MP rated studies, interpreted findings,...
... fold-increase in risk for NMSC (SCC and basal cell carcinoma) Of these cancers 90% occurred within the radiation field [10] The association between radiation and NMSC is also prevalent inthe ... during radiation therapy for breast cancer influence the risk of second malignancies These include quality, total dose, fractionation, degree of overlap between the fields, tissue volume inthe ... SCC of the nipple should be included inthe differential diagnosis of a nipple lesion in a patient presenting after radiation therapy Other diagnoses to consider include basal cell carcinoma,...
... while craving heroin .69 13 The craving makes me so nervous I can’t stand it .65 18 Using heroin is the only way to cope with the feeling of craving .63 17 Craving for heroin is all or none; there ... the study Therefore, caution should be exercised in applying the proposed CCBQ structure to other ethnic groups and in other countries Nonetheless, the sample used forthe study and the attendant ... Discussion The final version of the CCBQ contains 19 items rated on a 5-point percent agreement scale The results of principal components analysis of data collected from heroin abusing individuals in...
... Findings and Conclusions p 33 which including the conditions for legal reform, creating the legal framework as the basic for this process to take place, creating business opportunities forthe ... are the Project of constructing the fourth belt of Ha Noi Capital, the Project of investing and building the above highway No in Ho Chi Minh City, the Project of building the clean-water supplying ... mistakes inthe period of drawing documents of bidding invitation The bidding price was increased 17-26% Resources: Vietnamnet Restricting corruption or preventing wastefulness in ODA investment in the...
... stress testing and decision-making 36 Increasing use of hypothetical scenarios 35 Increasing investment in data and IT infrastructure to enhance risk information 27 Introducing or increasing use ... 48 Increasing involvement of senior management in stress testing 39 Introducing or increasing frequency of ad hoc stress testing 36 Strengthening link between stress testing and decision-making ... respondents) Increasing severity of scenarios used 48 Increasing involvement of senior management in stress testing 39 Introducing or increasing frequency of ad hoc stress testing 36 Strengthening link...
... nominal exchange rate. 2 However, since trade is costly, PPP will not hold continuously It is therefore informative to define the log of the real exchange rate as Since we use price indices inthe ... a proxy forthe annual interest rate, we therefore need to multiply the quarterly interest rate by four Hence, if we had used an annual interest rate, the coefficient forthe interest rate difference ... to multiply the quarterly interest rate is therefore a bit higher than (and depending on the interest rate) , and the corresponding coefficient forthe interest difference measured in annual terms...
... Continuing current forest management • Variations in forest management, such as increasing thinning or fertilisation Defining the Geographic Area and Temporal Range E Identifying the Baseline ... information, and are quantified ex post with information compiled during monitoring See Chapter 10 for more information on quantification and monitoring If the secondary effect involves GHG removals ... only information that users—both internal and external to the GHG project—need for their decision-making This information should thus fit the intended purpose of the GHG project and meet the expectations...
... contrast, the CO entry into the protein and the CO migration through the protein to the heme iron favours statistically CO binding for class II substrates The lack of methyl groups inthe substrate ... are mixed At the lowest absorbance the time is set to zero for fitting The data forthe different substrate complexes show that the binding rate can decrease or increase with increasing pressure ... camphane) Inthe following both these findings will be discussed Table Activation volume DV # and binding rate constant kon forthe CO binding in cytochrome P450cam bound with different substrates obtained...
... consists of the annually falling leaves and needles inthe forests [2], above all inthe tropical rain forests They can neither be collected with reasonable effort nor used since their high mineral ... slagging • Chlorine is released mainly as HCl, causing corrosion ingas cleaning facilities, poisoning catalysts, and potentially inducing the formation of toxic polychlorinated dibenzodioxins ... of the present per capita consumption inthe European Union (EU 27) The economic growth takes place inthe highly populated and rapidly growing and developing nations mainly in China, India, Indonesia,...
... 2008) Since the envelopes of the incoming edges are convex hulls, the Minkowski sum provides an upper bound to the number of line segments that constitute the resulting envelope: the bound is the ... operation performed inthe transformed graph as were connected by e inthe original graph The unique outgoing edge of v∧ (e) is associated with the rule re ; incoming edges are not linked to any ... is the sum over the number of line segments inthe envelopes of the incoming edges, i.e.: Env(v∧ (e)) ≤ v∨ ∈T (e) Env(v∨ ) Algorithm shows the pseudo code for computing the Minkowski sum over...
... deduce from the obtained relation a dispersive structure inthe ε variable This strategy is similar to the one used forthe study of the KdV equation Then inthe last subsection, using this inequality ... C for ε ∈ M and |eitL ε|H ∼ t3 for ε ∈ S The linear kind of strategies developed were then as follows: as each symmetry is at the heart of a growing direction in time forthe solutions to the ... nevertheless that as the pseudoconformal transformation is not inthe energy space and induces the additional degenerated direction ρ, the analysis is here usually very difficult Indeed, this linear...
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... to the sea carried by the cycle of water In Figure 1.1 the ocean on the left supplies the rain to the land on the right, and the water carrying sediments drains back to the ocean Inthe original ... PART I Introduction and Background After describing the contents of this book on lead and wetlands, the introductory chapter explains the gaia hypothesis forthe role of wetlands in regulating toxic ... Berthe decided that they could help by supporting small steps in understanding what might culminate in useful tools when the political will and the economic means to mitigate the damage to the...