... value tothe Nation and its people.”2 Andthe Federal Land PolicyandManagement Act directs federal agencies to manage public lands so as to “provide food and habitat for fish and wildlife and ... roadless areas of national forests a total area of 60 million acres of public forestland and grasslands the Office ofManagementand Budget (OMB) concluded that quantifiable costs inthe form of lost ... processes and using them to partition the landscape into ecological units This method has the advantage of allowing simplification, standardization, and verification, thus being the most appropriate...
... research Summary This exploratory study was the first to examine the utility ofthe ORCA as a baseline measure of organizational readiness to change andto examine the relationship ofthe ORCA to ... 1.5-day training at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center The first day of training provides information on the risks for and impact of liver disease in patients with SUD, the goals ofthe LHI, anda ... http://www.implementationscience.com/content/5/1/46 leagues pointed out in their discussion ofthe definition ofthe construct of organizational readiness to change, an organization may have all ofthe necessary financial and material resources...
... by articulating that theUnitedStates is a global leader – a nation that “must always lead on the world stage” (in that of 2014) and “is both the land ofthe free andthe home ofthe brave” (in ... calling people to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and prevent its capacity to threaten America and our allies inthe future, Obama put a stress on “finding ... war is against core al Qaeda, Russia and China are both flexing their muscles anda number of al Qaeda affiliates in countries such as Syria are enjoying something ofa resurgence, any move of...
... C Garcia-Amador, ‘Latin America andtheLawofthe Sea’, in L M Alexander (ed.), TheLawofthe Sea: A New Geneva Conference Proceedings ofthe 6th Annual Conference oftheLawofthe Sea Institute, ... in protecting the polar marine environment: Australia, Canada andtheUnitedStates Donald R Rothwell and Christopher C Joyner Canada andthe Arctic marine environment TheUnitedStatesandthe ... global and regional solutions inthelawofthe sea and ocean policy as these relate tothe Arctic Ocean andthe Southern Ocean In addition tothe Fridtjof Nansen Institute – which initiated the...
... reduction, and less avoided ecosystem damage A pollution cap as examined here, assuming there was also a 550ppm carbon policyin place, leads to only a 0.1 to 0.8 gigaton increase inthe land sink in ... questions inthe natural and social sciences that are amenable to quantitative analysis and are relevant to environmental policyThe current structure ofthe IGSM is shown in Figure Chemically and radiatively ... Capping of NOx leads to decreases in O3 and OH and an increase in CH4 (caused by the lower OH which is a CH4 sink) The CO and VOC cap increases OH and thus increases sulfate (formed by OH and...
... was introduced into Thailand from Japan in 1965, into Viet Nam in 1973 and 1994 from Taiwan, the Philippines and Thailand, and into Lao PDR and Cambodia at an unknown date It is widely disseminated ... from Malaysia and into Viet Nam from Africa andthe Philippines during the period 195155, into Lao PDR in 1955 from Thailand and into Cambodia at an unknown date It has escaped from its original ... Thailand, although it is widely cultured in China andinthe South of Thailand Its general acceptance in central Thailand, including the Bangkok area, indicates that tastes are not fixed and that...
... birth/infant death data Prepared by the March of Dimes Perinatal Data Center, 2009 March of Dimes Infant and Infant and Maternal Maternal Mortality Mortality Infant Mortality intheUnitedStates ... ethnicity, and maternal age is also available for many of these indicators Users can compare data for counties, states, andtheUnitedStatesand can choose various output formats, including graphs, maps, ... death data Prepared by the March of Dimes Perinatal Data Center, 2009 March of Dimes Infant Mortality and Race/Ethnicity of Mother n African-American infants are nearly two anda half times as likely...
... the available growth space ofthe natural forest all the time Its share inthe utilization of available growth space permanently increased and reached 29.41% inthe upper layer in 2002 When all ... natural forest just starts to dominate from the aspect of yield and function at this stage Because ofthe dying-off of trees ofthe upper layer and damage tothe lower layer by falling trees the ... shadetolerant admixed species are able to maintain their position inthegrowing space of this natural forest, in spite ofthe fact that beech is a dominant species References ASSMANN E., 1961 Waldertragskunde...
... the Savings and Loan crisisintheUnitedStatesinthe late 1980s, which cost more than $150 billion tothe American taxpayers Since then, Argentina, Russia, Indonesia, Turkey, Korea, and many ... ceilings, the regulator increases the franchise value ofthe banks (even if they are not currently binding) which relaxes the moral hazard constraint Similar ideas are put forward in Caminal and Matutes ... mean–variance analysis of bank capital regulation Journal of Banking and Finance 14:69–84 Goodfriend, M., and R G King 1988 Financial deregulation, monetary policy, and central banking In Restructuring...
... Soussa 2001 Crisis management, lender of last resort andthe changing nature ofthe banking industry In Financial Stability and Central Bank: A Global Perspective (ed R A Brealey et al.), chapter ... predictable by indicators ofthe business cycle The phenomenon has been theorized inthe literature on information-based bank runs (see Chari and Jagannathan 1988; Jacklin and Bhattacharya 1988; Allen ... started in 1988 a disastrous policyof bad investments which initially resulted ina spectacular increase ofthe size of its total balance sheet (30% in two years) anda 200% increase of its industrial...
... firms ina stable than ina changing environment (Rajan and Zingales 2003); it is also easier at the beginning of an upturn—because the worst firms have already gone bankrupt—than at the end of an ... expropriating their shareholders, as ina standard bankruptcy procedure The second characteristic ofthe optimal allocation is that bankers obtain the same profit rate inthe two remaining states, ... Lang, and S M Sorescu 1998 The informational advantage of specialized monitors: the case of bank examiners Presentation at the June 1998 Annual Meeting ofthe Western Finance Association, Lake Tahoe,...
... regulators Besanko and Kanatas (1993) and Boot and Greenbaum (1993) argue that increased capital requirements may reduce the monitoring incentives of banks and as a result decrease the quality of ... binding) which relaxes the moral hazard constraint Similar ideas are put forward in Caminal and Matutes (2002) Furfine (2000) calibrates a dynamic model of bank behavior with moral hazard and argues ... impact ofthe IMF preferred creditor status on crisis resolution Bank of England, Working Paper, January Rajan, R G., and L Zingales 2003 Banks and markets: the changing character of European...
... Emerging problems with the Basel capital accord: regulatory capital arbitrage and related issues Journal of Banking and Finance 21:491– 507 Kim, D., andA Santomero 1988 Risk in banking and capital ... Switzerland Furlong, F., and M Keeley 1989 Bank capital regulation and risk taking: a note Journal of Banking and Finance 13:883–91 Gorton, G., andA Santomero 1990 Market discipline and bank subordinated ... such as interest rate and exchange rate derivatives in OTC markets Tothe extent that interbank loans are neither collateralized nor insured against, a bank’s failure may trigger a chain of subsequent...
... Savings and Loan crisis, the Mexican, Asian, and Russian crises, andthecrisisofthe Long Term Capital Management hedge fund have all shown the importance ofthe intervention ofthe central ... locations andthe equilibria ina one-location DD model These results are also related tothe papers by Bhattacharya and Gale (1987) and Bhattacharya and Fulghieri (1994) that consider N-location ... interbank transactions were prohibited andthe central bank acted as a counterparty to all transactions 26 On that point it is interesting to note that intheUnited States, there are two ??? (1) The...
... monetary authorities inthe Continental Illinois debacle in 1984 and, to some extent, in arranging the private-sector rescue of Long Term Capital Management 21 The failure of Barings in 1996 is an ... Regulators have often adopted a too-big -to- fail (TBTF) approach in dealing with financially distressed money center banks and large financial institutions 20 One ofthe reasons is the fear ofthe ... weights: to make them proportional tothe systematic risks (the betas) ofthe assets • I take into account limited liability and I show that it modifies ina substantial way the banks’ behavior toward...
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... the riskiness of banking organizations: subordinated debt yields, risk-based capital, and examination ratings Journal of Banking and Finance 26:989–1009 Fries, S., P Mella-Barral, and W Perraudin ... Perraudin 1997 Optimal bank reorganization andthe fair pricing of deposit guarantees Journal of Banking and Finance 21:441–68 Froot, K., and J Stein 1998 Risk management, capital budgeting, and capital ... F., and N Keeley 1990 A reexamination of mean–variance analysis of bank capital regulation Journal of Banking and Finance 14(1):69–84 Gennotte, G., and D Pyle 1991 Capital controls and bank risk...
... +++ MAA %a Intb 1-day Kidney Small intestine Large intestine Bronchi Trachea Tissues Table The distribution and intensity of a2 ,6SA-gal (stained by MAA) and a2 ,3SA-gal (stained by SNA) receptors ... binding to initiate infections The presence of avian receptors inthe trachea and bronchial epithelium and their absence in other parts of lung support previous findings that influenza viruses mainly ... ducks ofthe age groups was an interesting finding, especially considering the dominant presence of a2 ,3SA-gal receptors in epithelial cell ofthe large intestine The presence of avian type receptors...
... participated in data analysis and interpretation of results and manuscript preparation GAU participated inthe overall study design, instrument development, and data collection All authors read and approved ... impact of independent variables on average costs are displayed as marginal effects or elasticities impacts inthe table Marginal effects are displayed for categorical variables indicating the ... ability to receive and process vaccination data within one month of vaccine administration increased CPR by $0.41 These were followed in impact by the ability for a clinic to access IIS data during...