Daniel Leykam,1 Sergej Flach,2 Omri Bahat-Treidel,3 and Anton S. Desyatnikov1 1Nonlinear Physics Centre, Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia 2New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study, Centre for Theoretical Chemistry and Physics, Massey University, Auckland 0745, New Zealand 3School of Mathematics and Physics, The Universi...

tising on the performance and asset and liability characteristics of firms Germain Act of 1982 eliminated many of the differences in in the U.S. savings and loan industry over the period 1985 to 1989. The the asset and liability powers of thrifts and other depository results of a simultaneous equation analysis on a sample of 2,534 thrifts institutions. The Financial Institutions Reform, Recover...

Employment and Wage Cuts in Mexico's tariff levels were associated with a slight Effects of Trade decline in employment in Liberalization Mexico and with increases in average wages (perhaps reflecting improved The Case of Mexican Manufacturing productivity in the reformed industries and a shift toward the use of more skilled Ana Revenga workers). The wages and employment of skilled production w...

The medical profession is one of the noblest professions in the world. However, corporatisation and commercialization of medical profession has made it like any other business and the medical profession is increasingly being guided by the profit motive rather than that of service. Such a situation gave rise to unethical practices and negligence. When business motive comes to the force, service ...

According to Federal Environmental Protection Agency (FEPA) Act of 1990, under section 38 a very lucid definition of environment was given as thus: ‘Environment includes water, air, land and all plants and human beings and/or animals living there in and the interrelationships which exist among these or any of them.’’ Thus, ‘’environment’’ comprises land, air, water and all the physical structur...

The past few years have witnessed an increasing interest in nutrition interventions, which have emerged as a key matter to achieve MDGs. While political commitment is widely spread, more needs to be done to improve operational capacity. This article, resulting from the Landscape Analysis Country Assessment, provides an overall picture of Burkina Faso’s nutrition situation and outlines the steps...

This paper defines online communities and their constituent elements. It provides a framework in which online communities can be discussed and compared irrespective of topic or content. It explores the notions of core and peripheral membership and behaviour and provides a set of metrics for determining the activity profile of the community. Finally it presents a case study of an online communit...

This historical study utilizes annual insured bank data from 1936 through 1989 to empirically evaluate the impact of bank regulation on bank risk taking in a cross-country comparison of the United States and Canada. Risk is hypothesized to be determined, in part, by the regulatory environment in which a bank operates. The findings of this analysis contributes to the contemporary deregulation po...

Which actions does morality require of us? What does it forbid and what does it permit? In trying to fi nd some general answers to these questions, moral theorists typically start from commonsense morality, from what ordinary people think about moral issues. In deciding how to act, people often think about the consequences of their actions: they try to fi nd the action that leads to the best ov...