...
http://www0.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/indepth/docs/china091900.htm.
Internet in China: Big Mama is Watching You
15
3. The Internet in China
This chapter will provide information about the origin and history of the internet in China.
First, ... changed since the Open Door Policy in 1977. With the
introduction of the internet, a lot of changes were made inthe structure of theChinese
government, and therefore the different ministries and ... theChinese government
insisted in introducing and developing the internet, since it is supposed to be so troublesome
to control. Then, the function of the media in China will be explained,...
... authoritative inthe Middle Ages called their
authority into question. When combined with the propaganda poten-
tial of the printing press to disseminate such findings, printing became
a major force behind ... of
books, including one on the concept of Fatherland inthe Netherlands
from early modern times till World War II and one on Dutch lieux-
de-m´emoire.
Introduction
(as developed by Gutenberg inthe ... flood of supportive information
and suppressing contrary stories and externally by feeding information to
their vassal papers in Avignon and London.
Furthermore, inthe s,
they launched a...
... Eng-
land and France throughout the century. The British ‘defined
themselves as Protestants struggling for survival against . . . the
THE CRISIS OF
LITERATURE INTHE 1790s
Print Culture andthe ... of their mix of promise and threat, anticipation and dread,
resound inthe writings of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
in Britain – a time and a place when the newly disturbing ... inthe print industry.
22
In Letters on Education (1790), Catherine Macaulay argued that the
‘advantages of printing, by rendering easy the communication of
ideas, giving an universality to their...
... in terms of
MiCA and MaCA in details. Therefore, within this study, the author focuses on analyzing
and contrasting them in terms of MiCA (concerning grammatical and semantic features of
the ... morphological features. Furthermore, ‘run’ and ‘chạy’
coincide in their general meanings and meanings in some idioms. Interestingly, ‘run’ is
richer in meanings, consequently richer in synonyms than ... meanings, their idioms, their synonyms and other
microlinguistic factors that effect the uses of the two verbs.
The findings of the study on the ground of general meanings may help the translators...
... at random. Then the data are
analyzed and systematized to work out a fresh insight into the meanings expressed by can,
may, must and their equivalents in Vietnamese.
5. Design of the study
The ... problems in understanding the texts, and especially in interpreting
the writer’s opinion and attitude expressed by such typical modals as can, may, must. With
all these reasons, I made up my mind ... by the subject of the sentence by
the speaker (or by some other agents). Inthe epistemic world, the must inthe same
sentence could be read as a logical necessity according to the reasoning...
... both inthe mode l andinthe data. Mo reove r, price ratios are disproportionately lo wer
for short-term debt when short spreads are high both inthe model andinthe data.
17
The distinct dynam ... time-varying differences i n the prices, and
inthe liquidity and insurance benefits o f these two assets, which rationalize the mo vements
in s pread curv es and maturity composition observed in t ... v
c
(b
S
,b
L
,y) is the value associa ted with not defaulting and sta yin g inthe contra ct and
v
d
(y) is the value associated with default.
Since we assume that default costs are incurred w henever the borro...
... bond, and
the BEIR calculated from these
two yields.
Table 1 shows the sample means and measures of the variability of the nominal and real
yields andthe BEIR. The drop inthe mean and variability ... a nominal bond, we obtain a nominal ytm. Inthe case of the RRB, we use
the market price andthe real coupon rate to obtain a real ytm. Inthe absence of
distortions, the spread between the ... of inflation expectations over similar horizons (Scholtes
2002).
The literature that seeks to explain these findings investigates whether the Fisher
hypothesis the theoretical basis for the...
... official accounting standards, the EU provided a clear and distinct
alternative to US GAAP for international firms and investors. It also reinforced the
IASB’s role as the focal point for the convergence ... so that they do not have to incur the cost
of familiarizing themselves with financial reporting standards used in other countries or
of translating financial results from one set of standards ...
The EU andthe Global Convergence in
Accounting Standards
Policy Area: Accounting Standards European Union Center of North Carolina
EU Briefings
new set of common EU accounting standards...
... 2003
Role of the hinge peptide andthe intersubunit interface
in the swapping of N-termini in dimeric bovine seminal RNase
Carmine Ercole
1
, Francesca Avitabile
1
, Pompea Del Vecchio
1
, Orlando Crescenzi
1
, ... into an apparent molar heat capacity taking
into account the instrument calibration curve and the
buffer–buffer scanning curve, and by dividing each data
point by the scan rate andthe protein ... located in regions different from
the hinge loop 16–22.
In the search for the region primarily involved in the
swapping, we focused our attention on the interface between
the subunits. In a previous...
... role inthe way Chinese cities have
functioned and grown and will continue to do so. This report examines
China’s urbanization and some of the most pressing issues related to
Chinese cities and ... explored. Chinese environmental
protection officials have stated that they will increasingly rely on finan-
cial incentives andthe market rather than simply fines andthe court
system to improve the ... comparison. They include the eco-
village of Huangbaiyu, the city of Rizhao andthe eco-city currently being
developed inthe city of Tianjin. Research pertaining to these areas does
not include...
... household income, the gender of the child, the marital status of the mother,
whether English is spoken inthe household, smoking and drinking habits by the mother, the
number of siblings of the cohort ... contact with the grandmother, the mother’s perception of
the quality of the neighborhood, whether the mother worked inthe NHS before the birth of the
child, whether the mother worked in a “scientific ... inthe north, andinthe London region in particular.
16
While the MCS contains information about the personal characteristics of the parents, the
information on fathers is often missing or incomplete;...
... eal interest rate has declined from around
4% inthe 1960s to less than 2% in 2004.
In the model, the d ecline inthe natural real inter est rate inthe eu r o area is largely due
to a fall inthe ...
Regarding the output gap, the length of the business cycle’s booms and busts are in line
with the consensus view inthe business cycle literature. However, the estimated output gap is
influenced ... in
part,relatedtotheevolutionoftherealinterestrategap. Inlinewiththishypothesiswe
find that the real rate gap is also strongly and negatively correlated with the output gap.
Next, w e investigate the leading indica...
... growing condition
of the agricultural, livestock and marine production, and cover the following processing and
circulations of food. The processes also include eating and drinking, intake and ... soil and water constitutes the prerequisite of the overall food safety system. Mean‐
while, proper eating and drinking habits are essential in maintaining health. Thereafter, when
designing the ... and China, 2008. The respondents of the preliminary surveys are 297 in total
in China. The survey in Japan was an indoor group investigation using a survey slip. The
survey in China was conducted...