... counterparties, systemic risk is the very concept that underscores the too big to fail doctrine The overarching theory holds that the failure of one big bank can bring downthe entire financial system At the ... model and the methods used by Lehman and Goldman Sachs to underwrite the stock In 1912 Lehman also underwrote F.W Woolworth Co., the first variety chain to be sold tothe public With the notoriety ... depositor money in stocks A third important reform was the creation of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to regulate the sale of securities tothe public Overnight, the SEC became the top...
... The warming of the atmosphere and oceans is leading toan accelerating loss of ice from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, and this melting could add substantially to sea-level rise in the ... changes tothe climate system, including oceans, atmosphere, and cryosphere, as well as natural ecosystems—and pose major challenges to human systems The impacts of these changes are likely to ... than 15 percent As illustrated in Figure 20, the range of changes in temperature forthe RCP scenarios is wider than forthe AR4 SRES scenarios The main reason forthis is that the RCPs span...
... turn is caused by the requirements of the Clean Air Act, which forces operators to upgrade all the way tothe state- of-theart, if they decide to change anything in an old power plant How Do We ... Chaps and Solar energy can also be stored underground, and forthe past 250 years humans have gained access to vast quantities of compressed and chemically transformed fossil organisms in the form ... responsibility is it to manage this risk, or at least to try? The answer tothis question is complex, and requires a deeper understanding of the origins of different risk factors and drivers, from the technology,...
... to work This commitment was restated in the Queen’s Speech and the Budget The Budget also set out the first steps in trying to achieve these aims However, the Government wants to go further to ... and then to remain in work and increase their earnings Getting the balance between these two elements will be crucially important We also want to remove the fear that thesystem will punish them ... people to make or change a claim and easier for them to understand how any changes in their circumstances will affect their claim Less delay, reduced error and fraud 14 The modern economy moves and...
... Indiana Valentine, too, is the story of a woman unhappily married This time the chief role is given tothe lover, and not tothe woman Instead of the misunderstood woman, though, we have the ... the individual, and the writers at the head of this movement were Chateaubriand, Victor Hugo and Dumas They claimed this freedom for Rene, for Hermann and for Antony, who were men An example had ... weddings and fetes All the poetry and all the picturesqueness of the country transform and embellish the story In Jacques we have the history of a man unhappily married, and this, through the reciprocity...
... Wiseman H (1993) Vitamin D is a membrane antioxidant Ability to inhibit iron-dependent lipid peroxidation in liposomes compared to cholesterol, ergosterol and tamoxifen and relevance to anticancer ... comparison with Fig and consisted of 85% methanol and 0.1% acetic acid from to 25 min, followed by linear gradient to 100% methanol and 0.1% acetic acid from 25 to 35 min; and 100% methanol and 0.1% acetic ... g for 10 at °C and the resulting supernatant was centrifuged at 9000 g for 20 at °C to sediment the mitochondrial fraction The pellet was resuspended in 0.25 m sucrose and the mitochondrial fraction...
... authorities forthe debts of the savings banks obliges these authorities to make appropriate financial provision to ensure that the banks can perform their functions in a regular manner 11 The guaranty ... sense to determine whether and how far the structure assigned tothe French savings banks by the reform of 1999 is transferable to these countries and can act as a model for them Comparing the ... savings bank The local savings companies thus act as the connecting link between the savings banks and the numerous (indirect) investors, and relieve the savings banks from the need to coordinate and...
... conversion to syntax tree, etc We outline below the stages of the French system, and compare them tothe German system Stage 1, the pre-processing of the data, involves language-neutral transformations ... responsible forthe realization of the determiner needs to check forthe presence of an adjective in between the determiner and the noun The form of the plural indefinite determiner is de before an adjective ... before the noun Besides that, the model refers only tothe gender and number of the head noun In German, however, the form of the determiner is determined by the gender, number and case of the...
... by the use of this implant During the insertion of the LISS tibial plate, we needed to have a good template and plan especially forthe insertion of locking screws over the distal femur forthe ... of the growth plate The disadvantages were that the patient might need another operation for implant removal and the implants were expensive compared to traditional plates Consent Written informed ... review and writing the manuscript, CKL and KYC are responsible forthe idea of the method of fracture fixation, operation of this patient and reviewing the manuscript HYL, CKL and KYC have read and...
... processes of the operating system, and by differences between the access to other hardware, for example, memory The correlation between total CPU load and the battery time is very high forthe Asus ... established, the sender application in the PCS is connecting tothe PCS-PHS link and is recoding the phone’s receiver output for transmission tothe PHS To avoid drop-outs in the audio stream, the signal ... of the beamformer performance is likely if the coherence filter is preceding the beamformer [21] 3.4.3 Requirements towards the PCL The requirements toward the wireless link between headsets and...
... altitude of 452 m and at a distance of 13 km from the analyzed forest stands in Moravec and 30 km from the analyzed forest stands in Radiměř) The presented data are the values aligned tothe regression ... consistent, for further handling in this paper we decided to study more closely the two following localities situated in the Bohemian-Moravian Upland where 414 root systems in 62 forest stands were analyzed: ... crown base tothe crown top and from the stem tothe branch tip The two analyzed localities exhibit the following common features: declining trees are present in all age classes and one stand includes...
... through the roots relative toan external driving force controlling the water flow The adequacy of the root systemto supply water to leaves can be estimated by the root hydraulic conductance per ... hydraulic resistance for a given investment (DRW) According tothe composite transport model [32], the radial resistance to water flow was higher in the ST root system as compared tothe LT system, probably ... analysis of variance (ANOVA) for a completely randomised design A discriminant canonical analysis was also performed to determine which root variables showing significant differences in the ANOVA were...
... Sea and the Gulf of Tonkin In this study, we applied thesystemtothe near-shore flow in the Hai Phong estuary, where the water creates a shallow and topographically complex strong tidal system ... rocky islands The Bach Dang and Cam rivers flow from the mouth of the Nam Trieu river into the sea, while the Lach Tray river flows from its own mouth The water of Chanh river flows into the sea ... attempted to understand the erosion and depression mechanism on the sea bottom and to interpret turbidity in the Do Son beach area The HUS-VNU modeling system provided five layers in the sigma...
... use the type secretion system (T3SS), a molecular syringe, to inject an arsenal of virulence effector proteins directly into the cytoplasm of the host cells The effectors can then target and ... mechanisms and effector proteins to manipulate the host cells on multiple levels Not only bacteria which use the T3SS secure their attachment to epithelial cells by altering the cytoskeleton, they ... mucosa is the constant renewal and shedding of epithelial cells at the top of the villi in the small bowel and from the colon surface If subjected to bacterial colonization, the enterocytes can undergo...
... remained tothe turn of the century [3] When John Holcomb issued a statement on behalf of the United States Armed Forces in January 2007 announcing a change in field practices to incorporate the use ... [3], the later of which is due in part to both dilution and consumption of coagulation factors [4] The 1980s saw the advent of damage control surgery, in which the restoration of normal anatomy ... hourly rates and total volume of plasma, and were less likely to receive platelets, cryoprecipitate, and recombinant Factor VIIa (fFVIIa) In univariate analysis, as the ratio of plasma to RBCs received...
... non transferred patients In transferred group there were more male, the mean age was lower than that of the non transferred group and the injury severity score was higher As forthe mechanism ... 48.8 From and to another unit 60 0.7 5.2 Total transferred 1165 13.7 100 Non Transferred Total non transferred 7359 86.3 TOTAL Total patients 8524 100 * TP, Total Patients; TRP, Transferred Patients ... guidelines and the fact that responsibility for transfers belongs tothe referring Page of physician and tothe National Emergency Center, which typically has limited access to vital information The...
... eliminate the ability of those at the bottom of the income ladder to save money and improve their lot in life The rules that governments set for their tax systems, and the degree to which they enforce ... spent to help finance tax cuts forthe super rich that began in 1981 Under the Republicans, beginning in 1997, this policy of taxing the poor and the middle class to finance tax cuts forthe super ... turn the American dream of prosperity and reward for hard work into an impossible goal for tens of millions of Americans and into a nightmare for many others Our tax system is being used to create...
... freeing the company from any further obligation “She said if I wanted to, I could take the rest of the day off “I said, ‘I can’t that! This is the day we’re closing the month and the year for payrolls ... “Did they ever get back to you?” Kevin asked “No, but they took four months to get back to me on this one,” meaning the liquidator “And once you’re in the university systemfor six months, then ... ago “If this country doesn’t get it together, they’re going to storm the White House,” Feldman predicted “It will probably turn into anarchy, and then it will turn into martial law, and the government...
... tothe tool before experimentation Before performing experimentation, the level scores of students in groups of classes is quite uniform This has created the basic for our confidence for us to ... exercises system 2.1.1 Thissystem has to contribute to performing the goal of speaking skills development teaching The exercises system had better to be done this mission This is the overarching ... hypotheses outlined in this thesis 3.1.2 The content of empirical Guide the students in the empirical classes to solving the exercise to enhancing the speaking skills that are integrated into...