... indebtedness provide an indication of the scales of the international aspects of the two banking crises, international banking is only part of the totality of banking. Total bank deposits therefore ... The timing of thebanking crisis in relation to the downturn inthe real economy was different in the two episodes. Almunia, Bénétrix, Eichengreen, O’Rourke and Rua (ABEOR), in an interesting ... decline in manufacturing globally inthe twelve months following the global peak in industrial production, which we place in early 2008, was as severe as inthe twelve months following the...
... Vp−−, in which Iit is the sectoral indicator number i in the year t; Vo is the value of the indicator i in the beginning (starting) year of the plan, selecting from the poorest target community ... is the value of the indicator i inthe year t; Vp is the prospective value of the indicator i of the last year of the plan (minimum value). The UNDP’s HPI is an indicator of poverty in ... is the primary factor from the rest. As the former, it can count all those poor people who live in places where the environment is the main factor inthe poverty of their area generally. The...
... We interpret the choice of the immediate reward in the near-term frame combined with the choice of the delayed reward in the distance frame as “hyperbolic,” since the implied discountrate inthe ... test whethersuch individuals save more as a result of opening the account.We partnered with the Green Bank of Caraga, a rural bank in Mindanao inthe Philippines. First, independently of the GreenBank, ... indicated if the coefficient on the commitment treatment indicator inthe non-SEED regressionwere the negative of the coefficient inthe primary ITT analysis. Ifall SEED savings lead to new institutional...
... dissecting the role of the endocannabi-noid systemin physiology as well as in pathologicalprocesses. Thesystem incorporates the endocannabi-noids, their synthetic and degradative enzymes, the endocannabinoid ... ischemia. The results ofthese studies have been rather conflicting in supporting either a beneficialor a detrimental role for the endocannabinoid systemin post-ischemic neu-ronal death, in that ... exacerbated the detrimentaleffects of OGD in vitro by releasing glutamate in excess, indicating that the increase in 2-AG levelsthat was observed by these authors following OGDmay protect dopaminergic...
... have the same syntax as the one commonly used in search engines, quoted text meaning a phrase pattern. Then, these patterns are searched inthe Web (using Google at the moment) and thesystem ... existent inthe web to find its answers. In addi-tion it has an interface on the web where every-one can pose questions to thesystem (http://www.linguateca.pt/Esfinge/).Esfinge is based on the ... Altavista index 34,900,000 and 60,500,000 pages in Portuguese respectively. The system is described in detail in (Costa, 2005a, 2005b). 2 System Architecture The inputs to thesystem are...
... major public health concern in the country. TB inthePhilippines ranked fifth inthe 10leading causes of death and fifth inthe 10 leading causesof illness, with an incidence reported to be 6.3 ... commonly infecting the pulmonary sys-tem, it can also manifest as extra-pulmonary TB (EPTB)affecting the gastrointestinal, skeletal, cardiac, genitouri-nary, and nervous systems including the eye. ... especially in immunocompromised indi-viduals and the elderly.TB inthe eye can manifest in a myriad of ways, and the definitive diagnosis can be daunting due to the dif-ficulty of getting ocular...
... record, thesystem needs to checkits stored version against the current version maintained inthe in- dexes to determine whether the record contains the latest data. Suchcost of accessing indexes ... key is the primary key of the record and ptr is the offset that points to the location of that record in the log. The index of each tablet can be maintained in memorysince the size of an index ... compar-ing the versions of the records in T ’s write set that T has read be-fore (there is no blind write) with the current version of the recordsmaintained inthe in- memory indexes. If there...
... card interest rates inthePhilippines are currently among the highest inthe world. The regulations for non-bank financial institutions do not impose any ceilings on the rate of interest, including ... the leading government financial institutions inthePhilippines and the biggest financier of the government’s housing programs, granted a total of PHP 23.5 billion worth of housing loans in ... on the role of consumer credit inthe development of thePhilippines and in elevating the well-being of its people. BIS Papers No 46 119 At the same time, the BSP also ensures that the...
... negative inthe beginning of the 7th month. Towards the end of the 3rd mo. Towards the end of the 5th mo. In the beginning of the 7th month Towards the end of the 7th ... remains a major public health inthe Philippines. In 1998, TB ranked fifth inthe 10 leading cause of death and fifth inthe 10 leading causes of illness. Our country ranks second to Cambodia in ... of infection inthe community, that is to find the persons discharging the tubercle bacilli and put them to treatment to render non-infectious initially and ultimately cure them. Definition...
... fine-tuning inthesystem isachieved by small changes inthe luciferase emissionspectrum or by shifting light wavelengths during theirpassage through the organic coupling system to the spicular ... ofretinal to the protein. An analogous photocycle system was studied in plants with the light-responsive protein.This comprises the mononucleotide light-binding fla-vin, oxygen and voltage domain ... sequencing [55]. In mammals, the proteincryptochrome is one regulator inthe complex molecu-lar system of the circadian clock [56].Focusing on the phylum Porifera, the closest relativeof the...
... Nearly all the individual works in the collection are inthe public domain inthe United States. If an individual work is inthe public domain in the United States and you are located inthe United ... This convinced me, and I let them wash mine as they didtheir own, by pouring water on each dish separately, rinsing and setting to dry on the porch inthe sun, the only place where the vermin would ... possiblygoing into some sort of a fit. With a twang on the strings of the flattened out little instrument, we subsided,concluding that the concert had begun. Then when the others joined in, the mingled...
... This indicates that serotonin degrada-tion inthe skin includes its oxidative deamination. The H2O2produced during this reaction may also be used for the oxidation of serotonin and other indoleamines, ... have tested the expression of dif-ferent elements of the serotoninergic systeminthe C57BL/6 mouse and related their activity inthe skin to the phase of the hair cycle and to the cutaneous ... of NAS in skin physiology. In summary, we present the molecular and biochemicalcharacterization of the apparatus producing and metabo-lizing serotonin and N-acetylserotonin inthe skin ofC57BL/6...
... of the crisis inthe early 1990s, however, the U.S. banks were the first to get back in. Over the course of the financial roller-coasters in Argentina and Brazil in 2001-02, the U.S. banks initially ... dominate U.S. international lending. Their share increased from 55% in 1984 to 73% in 2005. This stands in sharp contrast to the dwindling shares of medium-term claims (31% in 1984 to 20% in ... modest exposure inthe region. In Latin America, U.S. banks led the pullout at the onset of the debt crisis in early 1980s. Throughout the 1980s, they consistently cut exposure inthe region. Upon...