... the profits ofthe firms producing them The increased profit will give the proprietors of these firms thefinancial ability, and the motivation, to obtain additional inputs to expand output of ... forms of teams that are the subject of much business abuse, both in terms ofthe number of meetings held and in terms of what business people think of most meetings Indeed, business people often ... on others) Again, we submit that the problem with boring meetings is the incentive structure inthe committees The person calling the meeting will, however, consider the question of whether the...
... brings together findings from two recently completed studies that can inform international policy dialogue, including the UN High-Level Meeting on NCDs Their findings shed light on: • Size ofthe ... average of US $25 in low-income countries, US$ 50 in lower middle-income countries and US$ 139 in upper middle-income countries By contrast, findings from the second study by the WHO indicate that the ... gaps in our understanding of how to mitigate these challenges by highlighting recent findings about the social costs of NCDs and the resource needs for managing these conditions Specifically, the...
... modeling for financial risks and the pricing of derivatives He has published inthe fields of hedging in incomplete markets, financial econometrics and the modeling of default risk The Contributors ... Center ofthe City University of New York Her research interests include applications of mathematical programming in finance, in particular using disjunctive programming in modeling accounting regulations ... Mathematical Finance Seminar of New York University These articles, written by some ofthe leading experts infinancial modeling cover a variety of topics in this field The volume is divided into...
... (2003) Institute of Cultural Affairs International (1985) Institute of Global Education (1998) Institute of Inter-Balkan Relations (1998) Institute of Internal Auditors (1989) Institute of International ... (2000) Institute of International Sociology of Gorizia (2006) Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (2008) Institute of Social Studies Trust (1996) Institute on Human Rights and the ... (1977) International Institute of Administrative Sciences (1947) International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences (1989) International Institute of Humanitarian Law (1983) International...
... human involvement in their design Far fewer human traders will be needed inthe major financialmarketsofthe future 27 The Future of Computer Trading inFinancialMarketsThe impact of technology ... after the trade (including the price impact due to the information inthe trade) This cost can be interpreted as the profit realised by the other side ofthe trade, assuming they could lay off the ... Foresight: The Future of Computer Trading inFinancialMarkets (2012) Final Project Report The Government Office for Science, London The Future of Computer Trading inFinancialMarkets An International...
... States, both for their financing and their decision-making The United States in other words, whether by its intention, the intentions of others, or simply as a result ofthe structure ofthe global ... cases are the role of Dutch leadership inthe international political economy ofthe seventeenth century, the role of British leadership inthe nineteenth, the failure of leadership inthe period ... But these answers succeed neither theoretically nor empirically Theoretically, the internal logics ofthe arguments fail to explain the outcome The internal logics also tend to address either the...
... MUPT The SMUP is determined by using the firing times ofthe main spike of each individual MUP firing within a MUPT and relating these to the potential observed at a surface electrode overlying the ... in which d is the dimensionality (the number of input features) inthe problem As can be seen in (2), this factor drops out inthe construction ofthe discriminant through the application of ... number of samples assigned to each target class; inthe case of Table these are MUPTs, inthe remaining tables these are muscles The value at the foot ofthe “Per-class accuracy” column is simply the...
... and so, by the continuity of non- Archimedean norm and taking the limit of both sides ofthe above inequality, we get q(x + y) + q(x + σ (y)) − 2q(x) − 2q(y) = Thus, q is a solution ofthe Equation ... Journal of Inequalities and Applications 2011, 2011:17 http://www.journalofinequalitiesandapplications.com/content/2011/1/17 Page 10 of 11 and so, by interchanging role of x, y inthe preceding inequality, ... the proof All authors conceived ofthe study, and participated in its design and coordination All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they...
... (23.3%) The roles of NTFPs inthe livelihood strategies were considered a gap-filling supplement during the agricultural season and for diversifying sources of income The roles of NTFPs in Que ... these are the main source of medicine inthe hamlet A diverse array of medicinal plants is gathered year round, and most households also used medicinal plants to purify daily drinking water Firewood, ... transportation costs The households can increase cash income by investing in livestock breeding due mainly to the low overhead associated with this activity (e.g low cost of caring for and transporting to...
... Assuming that the main cost of reproduction is the time consumed by the male in discerning the sex of potential mates, increasing the number of mountings per unit time, at the risk of making some ... persistence in mounting and the differential resistance offered by males and females to being mounted In this situation, thebehaviourof mounting males as well as the differential reactions ofthe individuals ... between individuals resulting in mounting respectively Thus, the response to divergent selection can be analysed in terms ofthe corresponding changes inthe ratio a of these probabilities A value of...
... and C elegans (total of 98,695 introns) for TE insertions to determine the percentage of TE-containing introns (Figure 2a) The fraction ofthe introns that contain TEs inthe non- mammalian vertebrates ... (Const.) The table on the right shows the numbers of exonized TEs in each ofthe examined species (b) Summary ofthe effect of TE insertions into the first or last exons (i) Illustration of insertion ... respectively The grey boxes show insertion of TEs into exons The TE family is indicated beneath the gray box, along with the length of each inserted TE Lengths ofthe introns and exons flanking the inserted...
... endobronchial staging The patients’ records, including their clinical data, preoperative examination results, details of any surgeries, histopathological findings, and the TNM stages of all patients ... extent of lymph node metastases Intraoperative frozen sections were examined if invasion ofthe tumor was suspected at the surgical margins The histopathological findings were classified according ... subsets of stage III patients have been observed in a wide variety of clinical trials incorporating various combinations of chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and surgery The evidence of whether surgical...
... meta-analysis of RCTs focusing on the effect of CPAP and NPPV inthe treatment of ACPE was undertaken The methodological approach included the development of selection criteria, definition of search ... CPAP, the optimal levels of pressure when using NPPV and definition ofthe best time to start non- invasive ventilation Competing interests The authors declare that they have no conflicting interests ... seven years ago the first meta-analysis appeared, showing the efficacy of CPAP inthe treatment of ACPE [10] Since then, several RCTs comparing the use of CPAP and Available online http://ccforum.com/content/10/2/R69...
... MAP 5a or epinephrine ≤0.1a or norepinephrine ≤0.1a Dopamine >15a or epinephrine >0.1a or norepinephrine >0.1a Hematologic: platelet count ... However, non- neurologic organ dysfunction has been described in patients with neurologic injury inthe absence ofthe usual etiologic associations, namely infection or systemic traumatic injury Therefore, ... presentation to the trauma centre of or less inthe absence of sedation; need for intracranial pressure monitoring; or the presence of a clinical herniation syndrome as verified by the attending physician...
... spine pain [11] Definition ofnon specific Thoracic spine pain Midline back pain – for the purposes of this trial, the pain will be bound by the lateral margins ofthe thorax laterally and the ... asked to indicate which point along the line best represents their pain intensity The distance from the no-pain end to the mark made by the participant is their pain intensity score The Oswestry ... stainless steel instruments The promoters ofthe Graston Technique [4] claim that the instruments are much like tuning forks as they reportedly resonate inthe clinician's hands allowing the clinician...
... sTREM-1 during noninfectious inflammation ofthe lung Evidence about the induction of sTREM-1 in response to non- infectious pathologies was described inthe blood of patients suffering from acute ... expressed inthe course of nonbacterial inflammation following traumatic lung injury Key messages • sTREM-1 in BAL is expressed inthe course of nonbacterial inflammation following traumatic lung injury ... Furthermore, TREM-1 is known to modulate the innate response either by amplifying or dampening TLR-induced signalling [13] Thein vitro inhibition of TREM-1 results in reduced gene expression of...
... motifs Strengthening the PY tract eliminates the role ofthe C-rich motifs We next investigated the role ofthe PY tract in LCAT intron splicing We mutated the PY tract to determine whether the C-rich ... mechanisms of intron recognition promote splicing of introns with non- canonical PY tracts The pool of introns containing low-scoring U2AF65 binding sites represents a significant class of human introns ... eliminates the role ofthe C-rich motifs Strengthening the PY tract eliminates the role ofthe C-rich motifs (a) LCAT intron with the mutations shown in blue above the WT sequence BPS, branchpoint...