... those who own and manage these assets supposedly in the name ofthe public the various roads bureaucrats—cannot manage their way out ofthe proverbial paper bag It is they and they alone who ... road Some of 18 ThePrivatizationof Roads and Highways these landowners would demand high prices because of psychic attachment (e.g., the treasured, old homestead); others solely because they knew ... flowing 28 ThePrivatizationof Roads and Highways traffic, the presumption is that the owner ofthe intersection would act so as to minimize the chances of motorists from either street being isolated...
... example, evaluated the causes ofthe Great Depression and found that the collapse ofthe financial system - more specifically, the failure of roughly half the banks in the US between 1930 and 1933 - ... andthe role these play in affecting the economy more broadly The large body of literature reviewing the ‘bank lending channel’ for the effects of monetary policy on the volume of credit in the ... share ofthe consumer lending in the UK The data on individual banks’ balance sheets comes from the regulatory returns submitted to the FSA (and to the Bank of England as legacy supervisor) and...
... to theprivatizationofthe savings banks? (2) What impact did theprivatization have on (a) the provision of banking services to the population, (b) the provision of loans to SMEs, and (c) the ... competition and lead to an expansion ofthe branch system However, the effect oftheprivatizationof savings banks on competition andthe number of branch offices is unclear If the savings banks ... These provisions represented only a first step towards theprivatizationof publicly owned banks because the control ofthe spin-off joint-stock companies initially remained in the hands of the...
... education that meets the needs of servicemembers, veterans and their families However, for some schools the expansion ofthe DoD Tuition Assistance program to spouses, andthe passage ofthe Post-9/11 ... flowingto the for-profitschoolsoutpacing the overallrevenuegrowth of thoseschools, the military revenuegrowth of the companiesisalsooutpacing the spendinggrowthin the VA and DoDeducation ... help veterans and servicemembers support themselves and their families, and help to create a more robust U.S economy With the passage ofthe Post-9/11 GI Bill, the Congress andthe country committed...
... first offered ACP well beyond their ADSO and sometime after their tenth year of service The Air Force began offering ACP contracts in 1989.5 The Navy, on the other hand, offered Aviation Officer ... that the number of pilots hired by the major airlines is an indicator of some ofthe uncertainty in the civilian market and measures to some extent the health ofthe airline industry The number of ... Career Paths of Pilots in theMilitaryand Civilian Airlines Although the career paths of aviation officers are similar in many respects to those of other officers, several aspects of their career...
... specializing in the assessment and treatment of military- related psychiatric conditions The clinic follows a standardized assessment and treatment protocol; the standardized assessments included the PTSD ... intake to each ofthe follow-ups (p = 0.0051, p = 0.0405, and 0.0010 for each ofthe follow-ups) The percentages of responders on PCL at each ofthe followups are 35.71%, 42.86%, and 57.14%, respectively ... antipsychotic, the antipsychotic was discontinued prior to the initiation of aripiprazole The sample was derived from a retrospective chart review with approval from the Office of Research Ethics of the...
... when the ratio of ICU beds to population is low, as is the case in Israel Deliberate rationing of scarce health resources on the basis of age is highly controversial Like any other form of rationing, ... group of patients is also sent to the regular floor, however, not because they not need intensive care but because the person responsible for the ICU does not have a bed for them In the absence of ... justification and legitimization [6,7], and not on inconclusive evidence and a motivation to save money A serious confounding factor in the whole discourse on the allocation of intensive care is lack of...
... overwhelmingly the caregivers for infants and for the sick and frail, these developments would affect them doubly and trebly, as they would be caring for the health of others as well as for themselves ... 2008) The purpose ofthe Summit was to create an opportunity for the development of strategies and policies to deal with a number of issues around water and wastewater, including the question ofprivatization ... community rejected and did not use a newly built, four million dollar facility because of concerns about the water source andthe design ofthe treatment plant (Office ofthe Auditor Women and Health...
... activities ofthe organisation Risk management enhances the understanding ofthe potential upside and downside ofthe factors that can affect an organisation It increases the probability of success and ... tested, as part ofthe risk management process For example, consider the infrastructure of an organisation andthe implementation of a new IT system The choice of hardware and software are strategic ... decision-making These outputs will provide benefits by way of improvements in the efficiency of operations, effectiveness of tactics (change projects) andthe efficacy ofthe strategy ofthe organisation...
... elements and consist of five standards: ISO 9000- 1, ISO 9001, ISO 9002, ISO 9003 andISO 9004-1 [1,2] Currently, ISO9000standards have been adopted by more than 74 countries as national standards ... quality assurance The representative ofISO for the USA is the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) andtheISO9000 series is administered by the American Society of Quality Control ... planning for a case study of Vietnam National University Hanoi (VNU) Background an AHP andISO9000 2.1 Overview ofISO9000 quality system standard ISO9000 is a core of educational quality system...
... deposition and inhibition of NF-ΚB activation [5,12,13] Since there are commonalities in the pathophysiology of PAH and RP, particularly in the context of connective tissue disease, inhibition ofthe ... http://arthritis-research.com/contents/7/3/126 Figure Dysfunction of cellular components ofthe arterial wall andof inflammatory and haemostatic systems are interrelated predicted survivals of 69% and 57%, respectively Although ... nifedipine in reducing both the frequency andthe severity of attacks [14] PDE type V inhibitors such as sildenafil inhibit the degradation of cGMP, which mediates the signalling of several endogenous...
... access to the array and, if other clients had already referenced the data ofthe array, the physical memory cache ofthe array would be directly accessible to the client with no further message ... 5.5 Fault Handling The Mach page fault handler is the hub ofthe Mach virtual memory system The kernel fault handler is called when the hardware tries to reference a page for which there no valid ... vm_allocate_with_pager) or receipt of data in an IPC message In the first case, the source ofthe data is considered trusted (either the default pager, or a data manager known to the requestor) Use ofthe data received...
... the food stocks, andthe mood ofthe garrison The tactics ofthe Daily Mail captured the attention ofthe nation; the newspaper dramatized the situation ofthe town by emphasizing the danger that ... don’t know they know the public’’ (quoted in Koss Rise and Fall ) The Victorian cult of personality had moved into the press by the turn ofthe century, andthemilitary version ofthe focus ... examine both the role ofthe press in the formation of public opinion about imperialism andthe role ofthe press in the formation ofthe concept of public opinion itself Mafeking Night marks the powerful...
... conservative propaganda, and with the break up ofthe radical associations andthe consequent erosion ofthe links between these organisations and other intellectual currents and circles, the conditions ... by enlightening the understanding, and uniting the sentiments and views of men andof nations, forms a concert of wills, and a concurrence of action too powerful for the armies of tyrants’ (2 ... from the superstitions ofthe weak, andthe imposing craft ofthe subtle’ (323) Thomas Holcroft placed a similar emphasis on the art of printing’ in the defence of this progressivist vision of...
... the same base as the segment and an equal height.3 Later, theorems worthy of mention suggested themselves to us, and we took the trouble of preparing their proofs They are these: first, that the ... the center ofthe sphere, I call the figure internally contained by the surface ofthe cone, and by the surface ofthe sphere inside the cone, a “solid sector.” /6/ And when two cones having the ... See the following note on purpose and practices ofthe critical edition of diagrams 2.3 Purpose and practices ofthe critical edition of diagrams The main purpose ofthe critical edition of diagrams...
... of individual, hand-to-hand combat Grand strategy, on the other hand, remained the preserve of Tiw.11 In India, too, much the same phenomenon was apparent in the role of Indra, the chief ofthe ... for the purification ofthemilitary equipment, with particular attention paid to the horses andthe trumpets Before departing from Rome, the leader ofthe army brandished the lance of Mars and ... the mainstream of legal analysis, largely as a result ofthe crumbling of older conceptions of legitimacy andthe rise of new aspirations for democracy andthe self-determination of peoples The...