... adherence to best practices, and whether these marginal improvements will outweigh the additional risks imposed by patient transport, is unclear Nevertheless, there are compelling data from a broad ... regarding the financial implications of the diversion of patients away from low-volume institutions [66] Although it is difficult to quantify or predict the impact of these phenomena, the effects ... patients are transported short distances, thebenefits of regionalization may outweigh the small risks related to brief patient transports between sites In the modelling study by Page of (page number...
... of its customers If there is an issue with the license application, the user is advised of the problem and is requested to manually file a registration with the FCC This further process could ... the applicants A process is established whereby links are time and date stamped, and in the unlikely event that interference were to occur, priority is given to the first link installed and the ... A four step analysis is then undertaken First the database manager assigns a time and date stamp to the application, to resolve any future time-based conflicts...
... period.2 My sample banks, then, are the state-chartered New York City member banks for which these examination reports are available for the years 1926-30 (For a list of the sample banks and the specific ... passbooks." The amount on this line virtually matches the amount corresponding to the percent deposit rate in the interest rate table on page of the report The passbook rate varies across the sample ... 13 percent for the entire sample period and about the same for each subperiod The key question, then, is this: Can the variation in the passbook rate be explained by variation in the risk characteristics...
... A: The figure shows the scatter plot of the US SDF estimated on a country pair basis The US SDF on the vertical axis is estimated vis-à-vis the UK Theoretically, if all the points were on the ... in parenthesis J-Stat denotes the p-value of the Jstatistic to test the null hypothesis that the overidentifying restrictions are satisfied Excess returns are expressed vis-à-vis the US The data ... both the domestic country and the US for bonds Standard errors are reported in parenthesis J-Stat denotes the p-value of the Jstatistic to test the null hypothesis that the overidentifying restrictions...
... that is the prescription of the e image of the gradient of the solution, but again the perturbation arguments are substantially different The organization of the paper is as follows In the next ... Spruck in their treatment of the Dirichlet problem for the Monge -Amp` re equation [8], e [13] Let ut be the solution of (2.5) As before we always suppose the origin is a boundary point and near the ... on the boundary By the C 1,α estimate (Lemma 3.5) and the equation itself, we can then infer a continuity estimate for D2 u on the boundary However, unless the inhomogeneous term f is smoother,...
... surprising of these results, both from a theoretical perspective and in comparison to other empirical results,12 are the two negative relationships detected They imply that the smaller the size of ... Kingdom rank at the top At the bottom, one finds the Democratic Republic of Congo; many other African nations rank low as well In relative change, of the countries listed here the United Kingdom ... and economic freedom (in the form of the ScullySlottje index) affect economic convergence, and they find economic freedom, of all the variables they studied, to have the strongest effect.13 As...
... semantics ASLC, on the other hand, does not attempt to attach the VP to the S until the very end (Fig lb) Thus even the thematic role of the subject NP remains unresolved until the very end ASLC ... attach the PP to the VP or NP even before the noun in the PP has been seen At this time, semantics cannot provide useful feedback since it has no information on the role filler for a thematic ... soon as all the required children of the node are analyzed, without waiting for other optional children to the right The required units are predefined syntactically for each phrase; they are not...
... of the value of this work to the economy vary depending upon the estimated number of volunteer hours and the method of valuing the contribution For example, the work done by volunteers in the ... lifestyles rather than pass on their wealth to the next generation; these are the SKINS, Spend the Kids’ Inheritance Now (The Australian 2002) Population ageing offers opportunities for the economy ... opportunities for the economy to respond to the needs of older people The ageing of the consumer market will change the emphasis, for example more golf clubs will be sold than surf boards, but the trends...
... technologies For example, with Bt engi neered into a corn crop, the entire crop is resistant to BIO- Use of Biotechnology in Agriculture Benefits and Risks certain pests, not just the part of the plant ... enough of it to harm them Insecticide resistance Another concern related to the potential impact of agri cultural biotechnology on the environment involves the question of whether insect pests ... such if their nutritional content or composi tion differs significantly from their conventional coun terparts or if they pose any health risks Both the Na tional Academy of Sciences and the FDA...
... methods are more specific, users of these methods will be more certain about the traits they introduce into the plants.”24 14 • TheBenefits of Biotechnology TheBenefits of Biotechnology • 15 National ... environmental benefitsTheBenefits of Biotechnology • Biotechnology Provides Farmer and Community BenefitsThe world’s farmers are not the only beneficiaries of agricultural biotechnology When the farmer ... in the U.S and other countries Its most significant conclusions include: (1) There is no evidence of the existence of unique hazards, either in the use of rDNA biotechnology techniques or in the...
... steps of benefits analysis c The low benefit/cost ratio reflects the ratio of the low benefits estimate to the central cost estimate, while the high ratio reflects the ratio of the high benefits ... summarizes the analytical sequence used to develop the prospective results; we describe the analytic process in greater detail below The first step of the analysis is the estimation of the effect of the ... estimate thebenefits and costs of the Clean Air Act (CAA) The main goal of these reports is to provide Congress and the public with comprehensive, up-to-date, peer-reviewed information on the Clean...
... pay, the social program benefits they would receive, and the incarceration costs they would impose in each year of their lives from the age at which they left school through age 79 We assume the ... that these examples not require that we value, as would be the case in a cost-benefit analysis, the private benefits to participants in either program, such as higher lifetime earnings or other benefits ... reduces the influence of the outliers, so that the model more accurately describes the relationships for the large majority of cases We compared the differences between the fifth and fiftieth and the...
... in the labour force at the time of the survey; for the wage regressions, only full-time employees are included The wage data is for the year 2005 The controls used in the wage regression are the ... to the work patterns and business culture in Canada Because of these factors, our estimate of the immigrant earnings gap is potentially biased, although there are risks on both the down and the ... cities, where the majority of immigrants settle Exhibit shows the average wage gap in the three largest Canadian cities, compared to the average for the rest of Canada Immigrants in these cities...
... before switching to the new version In terms of the security of the updates, files are signed (using Verisign) and checksummed before they are placed on the Sophos Databank Thereafter, additional ... own performance The logs from any of the Enterprise Manager libraries around the organisation can be viewed at any time They are stored in real-time on the remote library computer then transferred ... categories: urgent and non-urgent They all go through the same process, with the exception of the distribution method The procedure for both types is shown in the following diagram: E-mail Quality...
... against the operational and scientific benefits of continuing; that is, are thebenefits greater than the costs and can the necessary funds be secured? The scenario ASSESSMENT OF THEBENEFITS ... unavoidable The additional year can be used to more fully weigh the benefits, costs, and risks Introduction SCOPE OF THE REPORT This is the interim report of the Committee on the Future of the Tropical ... from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine The members of the committee responsible for the report were chosen for their...
... to the concentration of traffic15 and in other London shopping streets, tenants on the asphalted side of a road compare their situation unfavourably with the tenants on the other side of the ... to notice the opportunities to spend The key issue though is the improvement in the quality of the urban environment that results from a rise in the volume of walkers and a fall in the dominance ... to the shop, and shoppers were then interviewed to determine the reality The results were fascinating: retailers hugely overestimated the importance of the car, and underestimated how many of their...
... estimates calculated in the next chapter, thebenefits accruing to different stakeholders must add up to thebenefits for the entire system Another kind of double counting can occur if benefits to society ... Final Benefits There are often several steps between GridWise-enabled changes and thebenefits they bring to particular stakeholders in the power system It is thus not surprising that the initial ... reformulates benefits to electricity suppliers and end-users in terms of intermediate and final benefitsBenefits Often Are Not Independent of Each Other Many of the final benefits themselves are...
... and then in their application to our concern with thebenefits of learning I then reflect on the use of the triangle as a means of coming to grips with the complexities and interactions of the ... the wider literature The extent of this discussion varies; the theoretical debate on social capital is less mature and more in flux than on the other themes, so we devote more space to it We then ... a deeper level of understanding The final chapter revisits the principal themes and draws together the main conclusions of the work; it also raises some further theoretical considerations, and...
... can claim the monopoly’ 12 thebenefits of moderate beer consumption There have been many studies, which have attempted to compare the effect of beer, wine and spirits to see whether they are ... these illnesses have their roots in unhealthy lifestyles88 One of the key messages referred to by all the speakers at the third Beer and Health Symposium was the importance of lifestyle and the ... healthy lifestyle Another key message from the symposium was that the health benefits described are the result of light to moderate consumption and the effects on health are quite the opposite when...