... at the end ofthe month prior to the start ofthe maintenance period that the operation falls under. Write-offs and provisions and return on assets are measured at the end ofthe year before the ... studies the data cross-sectionally. Section 5 presents the panel analysis and provides the main results ofthe paper. Section 6 concludes. The Appendix contains an overview ofthe structure ofthe ... mean of 1,144% and a standarddeviation of 3,331%. It is highly skewed. The minimum is 86%, the median is 400%, and the maximum is 26,997%. Imbalance×nex has a mean of -208,065%2 and a standarddeviation...
... depreciation.2 The sudden stop episodes studied include the Latin American debt crises ofthe 1980s, the Mexican crisis of the first half ofthe 1990s andthe East Asian and Russian crises ofthe late ... κpMtMt(8)using the value of final goods, the sum of all value added andthe total income in the economyrespectively. The last term in equation (8) is the income ofthe intermediary in the currentperiod and ... market.We calculate the cost of credit for the median firm as the ratio ofthe real value of interestpayments to the real value ofthe stock of bank debt. As observed in the figure, this realimplict...
... dissociation may be facilitated in the female genitaltract because of dilution ofthe protein in the intraluminal fluids ofthe cervix and the uterus, andthe acidic fluid ofthe uterotubal junction. Such ... [24], andthe C1sprotease ofthe C1 complex of complement [25]. Thus, the Trp band can be regarded as a characteristicfingerprint ofthe native fold of PSP-I and PSP-II. The near-UV CD spectra of ... spectrum of PSP-I ⁄ PSP-II reflects the specific environment of chiral aromatic side chainsin the tertiary structure ofthe folded protein, and the band intensities decrease in a sigmoidal way as ther-mal...
... carboxy-terminal part of the reactive center loop of PAI-1 in the small cleft formedby the 60-loop and VR1 loop can be envisioned. The kinetics ofthe interaction of thrombin and TM were shownto ... can explain part of the effect of thrombin on the proliferation and migration of vascular SMC [4,34]. In the context of the vessel wall, TM might therefore function as a regulator of PAI-1 inactivation ... numericalintegration ofthe rate equations that describe the mechan-isminFig.4wasperformedtoobtaintheoreticalinsightinto the effect ofthe second-order rate constants and concentrations of TM and PAI-1 on the...
... 2011 The Effectsof Funding Costs and Risk on Banks’ Lending RatesIntroductionThere are a number of factors that influence the way banks set lending rates. Among these, the costs of debt and ... middle ofthe range, as a result of some repricing of lending rates relative to these costs. In addition to the increase in the cost of debt funding, there have been other drivers ofthe rise ... wholesale debt (domestic and foreign). The share of securitisation has also fallen since the onset ofthe financial crisis, as the amortisation ofthe outstanding stock of residential mortgage-backed...
... Kulin, and Cranbrook. The mean levels of translucency of noodles made from the soft, low-FSV wheat flour andthe soft, high-FSV wheat flour (9.25% protein) were 39.75 and 43.75%, respectively. The ... boiling time andthe degree of starch swelling (Crosbie 1992). Accurate measurement ofthe color of boiled noodles necessitates the use of a method that minimizes the effect of variation on ... be largely independent of noodle thickness. These were considerations in the development of methods in the present study. The aims ofthe study were to develop new and improved methods for...
... project offices ofthe Slum Development Department ofthe Dhaka City Corporation (Table 1 and Figure 1). Thus, for the ‘code name’, we used the initials of inundation duration, inundation type and ... occurs rather frequently. Respondent mothers easily understand its definition, and there is little variation of symptoms from mothers’ perceptions (Killewo and Smet 1989): the occurrence of 3 or ... influences are lower and higher at a cut-off age of 20. The team physician assessed the degree of dehydration according to the WHO criteria (WHO 1990). The severity of each diarrhoeal disease...
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... nullius – as if they had no biological fathers. With no linkbetween fathers and fetuses, no inheritance of harm could be attributed to the father’s use of drugs. The absence of fathers in debates ... the symbols ofthe ‘crackbaby’, ‘pregnant addict’ and ‘absent father’ emerged at the center of debateover fetal hazards. (A more detailed analysis ofthe social and politicalconstruction of ... mediacoverage ofthe issue, and since news stories began suggesting the relation onfetal health ofthe combined eVects of poverty, addiction and exposures toworkplace and environmental toxins. The precise...
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... cost ofthe employment in question[1]. The excess ofthe value ofthe resulting output over the sum of its factor cost and its user cost is the profit or, as we shall call it, the income ofthe ... schedule ofthe marginal efficiency of capital andthe complex of rates of interest on loans of various maturities and risks. Thus, given the propensity to consume andthe rate of new investment, there ... entrepreneur. The factor cost is, of course, the same thing, looked at from the point of view ofthe entrepreneur, as what the factors of production regard as their income. Thus the factor cost and the...