... price tothe government? According to details ofthe bill, investors who want to sell assets tothe Treasury Department cannot so at a price higher than what they paid for them In other words, ... ofthe government, their regulator, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, is running them through what s called a conservatorship, which means they cannot spit without talking to their regulator ... exactly what happened Various ideas have been floated by academics and politicians to either merge them into one or eventually fix them and sell them tothe private sector Given the depth ofthe financial...
... pits in the earth, leaving them to fill with water, then returning to bathe in the rich chemical soup Early Russian visitors tothe region told of finding candle stubs set at the edge ofthe caves ... screening (in Lenin’s words) the most important of all the arts.” Now the “new Russians” are transforming Soviet cinema space into their own “places of worship”: furniture stores, auto showcases, and ... and brochures for other film projects not associated with Gorky Studios It is a desperate effort to keep alive the industry at a time when, in the words of director Valery Todorovsky, cinema...
... ΔOS*E + S therefore, E ≧ (C – S)/ΔOS1 (b) Introduction of two enforcement factors as the background of games to see the impact on the contribution trade-offs Within the framework of game theories, ... application of game theories In order to examine the theories, mathematical analysis will be employed as a core tool of methodology Particularly, the thesis tries to come up with possible mathematical ... International Coffee Organization (ICO) Therefore, the views and analysis in the thesis is very much related tothe on -the- ground knowledge ofthe author himself.2 Although the ITTO is basically the commodity...
... information not only ofthe main effects ofthe factors but also of their combined interactions Since we have unequal sample sizes, to satisfy the orthogonality ofthe MANOVA decomposition, the ... properties ofthe BBS in people with type II diabetes mellitus Sensory testing was performed with SWM on the plantar surface ofthe great toe, plantar surface ofthe metatarsal ofthe first and fifth toes, ... experiment for two different factors (diabetes and peripheral neuropathy) Moreover, to reduce the variance in the error term we augmented the MANOVA model with the covariate of weight These quantitative...
... measured in theofthe host The size 2of the bone formationlateral view bone was also The size ofthe bone formation ofthe host bone was also quantitatively measured in the lateral view The area ... growth factor a; p < 0.05, b; p < 0.05 *; p < 0.05, **; p < 0.01 (compared tothe other groups) tion of RANKL (receptor activator of nuclear factor-kappa B ligand) [24] In the case of FGF-2 application ... muscle over the femur, then the surface ofthe femur was revealed The distal cut-line ofthe intercalary metaphyseal bone ofthe femur was designed above the epicondylar line The length ofthe graft...
... well as other cell types To determine the airway inflammatory response to Aspergillus antigen in the absence of MCP-1 or its receptor, CCR2, we used mice with targeted disruptions ofthe genes ... nine times to C57BL/6 and therefore have a more homogenous genetic background Some ofthe specifics of our experimental system may therefore account for the lack of a requirement for MCP-1 and ... contrast to some previous reports showing important roles for MCP-1 or CCR2 in other models of allergic asthma [25,27,33] Although the precise explanation of these differences is not clear, there...
... gives the log-odds ratio corresponding tothe probability that individual i selects profile B given the value of x, p and z for profile B as compared to profile A x is a vector of difference scores ... technology, whether the person providing the intervention is an allied health professional or a medical doctor, and the level of effort that would be required ofthe patient to comply with the prescribed ... due to data gaps with respect tothe tradeoffs between potentially relevant non-health characteristics (as opposed tothe trade-off between either cost or effectiveness and one or other of these...
... related tothe application of theory The games played with the above mentioned two factors under the principles of game theory turned out to be more successful than the cases without them This ... game theory models as shown in Box 1.1 The economic theory of collective action is the study related tothe provision of public goods through the collaboration of two of more individuals or organizations ... that the market force sometimes work tothe unplanned or undesirable direction for theconservationof natural resources These are important factors when considering the actual impact of trade or...
... accept the division ofthe corpus that is imposed on them by the names of authors ( the work of Racine”) orthe titles of works (Phedre or B&&ice) To take as one’s object of study the literary or ... only the material production but also the symbolic production ofthe work, i.e the production ofthe value ofthe work, or, which amounts tothe same thing of belief in the value ofthe work It therefore ... internal to each ofthe genres (i.e according tothe degree to which the authors and works conform tothe specific demands ofthe genre), which correspond tothe social hierarchy ofthe audiences...
... just talk badly to monkeys because according tothe story, monkeys are people too Others don’t want to get angry with the monkeys because they know this story .if we are angry then the monkeys will ... Report for the Directorate of Nature Conservation, Bogor, Indonesia W E B E R , A.W (1987) Socioecologic factors in theconservationof Afromontane forest reserves In Primate Conservation in the ... interconnections The first theme involved perceptions regarding the origin ofthe macaques, with villagers (both Lindu and migrants) envisioning the monkeys as related to humans For example: The story from orang...
... for Using Grammar Games in Class Successfully - Organization: The best way to gauge this is to pay attention to students for the first few days to see what length of time works the best for them ... have to show the tense orthe form of verb in each clause of that sentence, guess the meaning and the usage of this condition The group which gives the clear and correct answer will be the winner ... asks the students to work in groups They have to show the differences between sentences, about the form and the meaning; say the way to change from the direct sentence into indirect one The group...
... the content ofwhat they are saying rather than on a particular language form They should use variety of language and the teacher will not intervene to stop the activities; and the material the ... and categorized Then their results were put together to provide evidence for the discussion 3.5 RESEARCH PROCEDURES To sum up, the following steps will be used to reach the aims ofthe research: ... fearful of criticism or losing face, or simply shy ofthe attention that their speech attracts Nothing to say: Learners often complain that they cannot think of anything to say, or that they have...
... referred to as the time that it takes for an investment to pay for itself’ The basic premise ofthe payback method is that the more quickly the cost of an investment can be recovered, the more desirable ... taking the total cash inflow over the life ofthe investment and dividing it by the number of years in the life ofthe investment The ARR does not guarantee that the cash inflows are the same ... Stockholders have such a vested financial stake in the corporations they own stock in that a takeover affection The company may falter or thrive and either way this affects the bottom line of...
... because of psychological or mental factors) and type (symptoms developed due to allergies).22) Imai et al identified the psychosocial aggravating factors of SHS.23) The Japanese Society for Hygiene ... way to reduce behavioral/emotional problems, and to lessen the likelihood of falling into 494 Vol 56 (2010) asynchronization.131) Living Style Nakayama and Morimoto revealed the risk factors of ... risk for increase perception of disorder and stuffiness.39) The effect of building materials regulating indoor humidity on the indoor environment was studied to identify the influence on the psycho-physiologic...
... particularly sensitive tothe beauty ofthe landscape, tothe architecture ofthe villages and to any other element that belongs tothe region of production." Thus terroir includes event the landscape, ... quality, E is a vector of endowments, T a vector of technological variables, and W a vector of instruments; α, β, γ and δ are vectors of parameters, and 12 Note that some châteaux start to filter in ... are key ingredients to make top -of -the- range wines; terroir is not a crucial factor) Nevertheless, none ofthe two strategies seems satisfactory in the very competitive world market that prevails...
... villains to be met with in the history of crime To keep these in check, and to maintain order, was no easy task; but to make them work, to convert them into industrious and well-behaved members ofthe ... were, to a great extent, moulded by the Governors who had charge of them Whether for good or for evil, the influence ofthe Governor was decisive; and it was, therefore, a matter of great good fortune ... enabled them to draw correct charts ofthe coasts; they seldom landed, and even when they did, they never sought to become acquainted with the natives, orto learn anything as tothe nature of the...
... catalytic center ofthe enzyme These modications may be attributed to either the presence ofthe substrate and /or a product in the vicinity ofthe T2Cu active center rather than to disruption of this ... optical density, the concentrations of nitrate [17] and nitrite [18], the pO2 and the pH ofthe medium were monitored, and the composition ofthe gaseous phase in the fermentor was analyzed by ... involved in the formation of additional hydrogen bonding, stabilizing the deprotonated form ofthe Asp98 residue [15] orthe OẳNOH intermediate itself [16] In order to study the electron ow in the denitrifying...
... and the responses bankers make to manage reported profitability The degree to which the bank can change the portfolio mix and /or hedge in the short term would determine the magnitude ofthe effect ... able to test the importance of shifts in regulatory regime in behavioral differences across subperiods for the same group of banks The rest ofthe paper is organized as follows: section reviews the ... can be thought of as a call option on the assets ofthe firm, with the ability to put the assets tothe debt holders if the value ofthe assets is less than the promised value ofthe debt Thus...
... http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/) to obtain quantitative numbers representing expression levels ofthe gene or protein The expression level was normalized with either the rRNA (for the northern blot) or hemocyanin (for the ... 23–25 °C for h At the end ofthe culture period, the tissues were collected for total RNA extraction followed by northern blot hybridization [25] or RT-PCR For northern blot analysis, the nylon ... a vitellogenin-stimulatory factor of shrimp Because ofthe existence of multiple forms ofthe CHH family neuropeptides, there may be a discrepancy in defining the function of many cDNAs cloned...