... 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...
... approximately, except in some instances when !4E increased, or continued, during the night (Fig 2) using which AEs started was different forthe various rootstock/cultivar combinations (Table I) The cultivar ... conductivity could occur Work is continuing in order to evaluate the technique for assessing plant responses to drought inthe field and as a means of measuring physiological water stress References apple ... Conclusion These results indicate that the response to applied drought in apple trees produced more AE in a dwarfing rootstock (M.9) than in at vigorous one (M.25) for a given y Also there was...
... 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 ... 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 ... transport using temporal moment approaches, which are stated inthe following subsection Pore water samples at the end of the column were taken at specific intervals Nitrate ion inthe pore water samples...
... (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...
... 43% 4% 12% In India, the cultural varieties (writing and printing paper) account for about 41% of the production, specialty papers including coated papers for about 4% and newsprint for about ... for extraction of chlorine from the pulp When elemental chlorine and hypochlorite react with the lignin, they form chlorinated pollutants such as chloroform, dioxins, and furans inthe wastewater ... chlorinated pollutants inthe wastewater stream Typically, inthe bleaching process, the bleaching chemicals are injected into the pulp, and the resulting mixture is washed with water This process...
... 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...
... watermarks are highly correlated with the original one Therefore, embedding the watermark into the pinned field of the cover image and optimizing the similarity between the pinned field and the ... 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...
... 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 ... 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 ... 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...
... Modeling theWater Regime inthe Delta Thewater level inthe Mekong Delta is in uenced by water discharge of the Mekong River as well as the tidal variations inthe South China Sea and the Gulf ... than inthe flood season Inthe dry season, even small increments inthe sea level will affect large areas of the VMD On the other hand, water cover inthe dry season is basically restricted inthe ... background water levels at the peak of the flood season (October) attenuate the WLR inthe VMD In turn, it can be assumed that the increments inwater levels will be especially pronounced inthe dry...
... problems The beginning of the rainy season is the problematic period The main concern inthe village level was thewater quality, especially, thewater supply for domestic usage Forthe interviewed ... /3 liters of waterfor drinking For other purposes of domestic usage such as washing, bathing, … they take polluted water from canals and rivers Expenditure for high cost drinking water partly ... agriculture inthe Plain of Reeds Saline intrusion is one of the principal limiting factors in agricultural production Most of the area is under mono-crop rice cultivation, where most of the poor provinces...
... and the MD map There are three water quality problems and two water quantity problems that are the principal limit factors of agricultural productioninthe Delta (i) The salinity intrusion: There ... and the economic development needs have also driven the farmers to increase their income by increasing and diversifying their agricultural and fishery production Since the past 20 years, the ... billion USD damages by inthe past decade For rural and agricultural development in coming years, water needs forthe whole MD will mainly include: irrigation waterin dry season for 1,8 million hectares...
... 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...
... Monitoring by the State Environmental Protection Administration in China showed that river water quality was lower inthe north Water pollution in Asia: The urgent need for prevention and monitoring ... joining IWMI she worked forthe Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) in York and the University of Leeds where she worked on cleaner productioninthe textile industry in Bangladesh and other ... Water Management Institute, Sri Lanka About the Global Water Forum The Global Water Forum (GWF) is an initiative of the UNESCO Chair inWater Economics and Transboundary Governance at the Australian...