Money and Banking is a junior level course offered at most higher education institutions as part of an economics or business related curriculum. In 1999, the author prepared the course to be delivered over the Internet in an asynchronous manner, during a summer session. The course was offered again with this format during the fall of 2000, and a third time during the spring of 2001. In this pap...

Agression in male Barbary Macaques (Macaca sylvanus). At AAP, an all-male group of 17 Barbary Macaques is housed. Although aggression is noted to vary from time to time, it is not clear whether the amount of aggression is related to the season changes. Therefore, a study will performed to determine whether or how aggression is related to season or other factors. This group is planned to be reho...

line 5: “A field campaign was conducted on landfast first-year sea ice in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago during the summer of 2012...” Mention that sea ice here is undeformed here, as you do in Section 3.

Financial markets, particularly those for credit instruments in the more mature financial centres, have witnessed major turmoil since the summer of 2007. Already a number of suggestions have been made by policy makers and market participants to improve the functioning of the financial system. However, unlike earlier periods of stress or crisis, there have been no major calls for new data or imp...

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The increasingly global sourcing of information technology (IT) work is prompting fundamental changes in the availability of IT skills needed in both client and vendor organizations. In the summer of 2005 the Society for Information Management (SIM) sponsored of an international data collection effort by 20 researchers, is, who investigated how these factors affect the skills, capabilities and ...

In light of the significant role of teachers in pronunciation, we conducted a questionnaire survey in the summer of 2015 in an attempt to reveal the problem areas in English pronunciation faced by Japanese teachers of English. A total of 100 public junior high school teachers in Tokyo responded to the survey. The preliminary analysis revealed positive correlations between “emphasis on pronuncia...

The story of the Pact of unity between Chiara Lubich and Igino Giordani, which was the prelude to Chiara’s mystical experience in the summer of 1949, concludes with the introduction of something new arising from the Pact: the Soul. Chiara describes it as “the bond between us,” the “space” where the multiplication of the one and the unification of the many is both actualized and explained. This ...

Ambient nitrogen dioxide (NO2) concentrations are regularly measured at only two monitoring stations in the city centre of Ljubljana, and such scanty data are inadequate for drawing conclusions about spatial patterns of pollution within the city, or to decide on effective measures to further improve air quality. In order to determine the spatial distribution of NO2 concentrations in different t...

Light absorption coefficients of black carbon ( abs B ) were measured at several urban and industrial locations in Jordan during the summer of 2007 and the winter of 2008 using the photoacoustic instrument at a wavelength of 870 nm. Black carbon mass concentration (BC) was calculated using abs B . Black carbon levels at urban locations in the summer of 2007 were higher than those obtained at in...