... cycle synchronization in the region. We examine the following twelve countries in theAsiaPacific region: five Asian crisis countries (Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand), ... explain the synchronization ofthe business cycles of Japan and the crisis countries. Second, we may not observe synchronized business cycles among the crisis countries in the future. Since the Asian ... affect the business cycle dynamics of theAsiaPacific countries, for example, whether capital flows generate boom-bust cycles, and whether capital flows help explain the synchronization of the...
... against the currencies of other major trading partners, such as the European Unionand Japan. Furthermore, what is of particular concern to regional economies istheir varying degrees of appreciation ... for the Philippines. Countries in theregion therefore have lost competitiveness intheir exports not only to the United States but also to their other trading partners.Since 2006, thecountries ... Rates of real GDP growth for 2007 are estimates. Developing economies (including the Central Asian countries) comprise the developing economies ofthe region, and the calculations are based on the...
... most often these are not holistic and integrated.13 Moreover, integration of GBV into the medical curricula is still lacking in the region. 13ã One ofthe main challenges faced by most countries ... has been slow and uneven. While most ofthecountries in the region have domestic violence laws, majority of these are blind to the needs and realities of young people, and youth-friendly reporting ... Further, 78% of girls and 77% of boys reported that after participating in the GEMS intervention, they feel more comfortable with students ofthe opposite sex. Notions of sexuality and the...
... al. 1998). The causes ofthe variability in catches of seedlobsters between locations are unclear, but they are probably related to a mixture of factors including the presence of offshore currents ... extensivedamage during a period of prolonged bad weatherand strong tidal flows which led to the loss of most of the standing stock of fish and the eventual closure of the operation. In the Torres Strait, ... AM 23importance of this area as the bridge betweennorthern Australia and PNG. It is widely recognised,however, that the remoteness oftheregion and the associated high cost of infrastructure,...
... because they cannot afford the bus fare to get there.“Anaemic conditions are very common in these young mothers and their babies. Almost all who visit this clinic are estate labourers. They ... Vision mobilisers are very involved in the clinic arrangements every month. They visit every house in the area and inform them beforehand of the clinic day. They also come on the day in case ... knowledge about nutrition. They get through the day on plain tea and roti. And now through the clinic we have made them aware of their conditions and taught them what could be done.” Local...
... a GPL software gives the user the freedom to share 3TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION 5I. THE RULE OF LAW AND THE INTERNET 5 What principles underpin the UNCITRAL Model Law? 5 What kind of protection ... crime possible in the Internet? 26 What are computer crimes or cybercrimes? 27 What are examples of common misdemeanors on the Internet? 27 What is the reach of cybercrimes? 28 What legal policies ... in the Internet? 12Is information a property right? 13 What is a trade secret? 13 What are business method patents? 15 What arethe requirements for acquiring a patent? 16 What is the impact of...
... percentage of child deaths in the total the losses of life in the flood seasons in the MD. Save the Children (2003) reported that the vast majority ofthe drowning deaths in recent years in theregion ... them are children. Apart from for those living in the urban areas, children in the rural area are familiar with the water in rivers and canals. Their daily lives are linked with the rice fields ... all children (over 160,000) in the high inundated areas are not attending their schools. The beginning and the end ofthe rainy season arethe best time for mosquito reproduction resulting...
... mediation,waving their chopsticks in the air, and whilst the mother turned upon them in grossest abuse the daughtercleared out at the back ofthe premises. I left the irate parent brandishing the bamboo; ... by the feet, a nine-inch length of ropebeing attached to the off foreleg of one and the near foreleg ofthe other, the animals facing each other inrows, and eating from a common supply in the ... costlythan the mud-built habitation, although for their partthe people are worse off because ofthe lack of availableground for growing their crops. Here the people were still essentially Lolo, and the...
... The Safe Senders list is partofthe Junk E-mail filters. If you choose to allow external content from addresses listed in your Safe Senders list, you need to check the configuration ofthe ... Senders list using Tools, Options, Preferences, Junk E-mail and select the Safe Senders tab (see Figure 8.5). Near the bottom ofthe dialog is an option to Also Trust E-mail from My Contacts. You ... domains to the Safe Senders list directly from an email message. Click on the InfoBar or right-click in any image placeholder, and select Add Sender to Safe Senders List or Add the Domain @[domain-name]...
... employees. What share are these small businesses ofthe overall economy, and what is the role of im-migrants in them?Second—and for the larger partof this re-port—we look at the immigrant ... Francisco, the immigrant share of labor force is 36 percent and immigrants are 35 per-cent of business owners.At the other end ofthe spectrum, in places with low immigrant share ofthe poplulation, ... spirit of entrepreneurship with them to the United States. Understanding who the one million immigrant small business owners arewhatcountries they come from, what kinds of businesses they...
... in the Chair: Mr Miguel Barceló Pérez (Spain, EPP/CD)) a. Examination of credentials (Doc. 11124) b. Election ofthe President ofthe Assembly c. Election ofthe Vice-Presidents ofthe ... moratorium on the death penalty by Council of Europe member states" f. Adoption ofthe order of business g. Adoption ofthe minutes ofthe meeting ofthe Standing Committee (17 November ... 7.30 p.m. End ofthe sitting - 2 - Monday 22 January 2007 8 a.m. Bureau ofthe Assembly 9.30 a.m. Political groups 11.30 a.m. 1. Opening ofthe first partofthe 2007 Ordinary...
... detailedmap ofthe epitopes for the mAbs, where 45M1 recog-nizes an epitope located in the N-terminal region of the C-terminal cysteine-rich partof MUC5AC, pre-sumably in the last CysD domain ofthe ... with its domains. The C-terminal regionofthe protein is expanded,and its domains and GDPH-cleavage site are indicated. In the lower partofthe figure, the mapped regions for the 45M1, 166M1 ... cysteine-richFig. 1. The recombinant C-terminal cysteine-rich partof humanMUC5AC. A schematic picture ofthe recombinant C-terminal cyste-ine-rich partof human MUC5AC is given in the upper partof the figure....
... compared to the wildtype Arg46, with the precise value depending on the identity ofthe substituentamino acid (Fig. 5). These data establish that the mutantreceptors are much less likely than the ... mutation of Arg46 had the dualeffect of (a) decreasing agonist affinity and (b) promoting the agonist-induced active conformation due to the loss of astabilizing constraint on the ground state ofthe ... with the corresponding sequence of the V1aR [10]. The role ofthe N-terminus has beenaddressed recently by alanine-scanning mutagenesis of the N-terminus ofthe V1aR; this revealed that a...
... the plateauat229Ma.Thisdispositionindicateaargonlossfrom the sites release in lower temperaturerelating to partial reopening of these sites ataround of 125 Ma, after the closing ofthe site the mostretentivearound of 230Ma(Fig.3).+VN577 ... sample(VN571) in the northern partofthe studiedarea, far from zone of shear, has beeninvestigated.Age of thissamplecorrespondstoage of metamorphism of Kham Duc Formationat255.9 ... metamorphismisinverseandsyntectonic;(2) the isogrades are crossing the regional foliation and dip to the east and the degree of metamorphism increasefrom the eastto the west,thismetamorphismispost‐foliation...