The solvency standards implicit in bank capital levels, as reported eg in Jackson et al (2002), are much higher than those required for top ratings, if standard single period economic capital models are taken seriously. We explain this excess capital puzzle by forward looking rating targeting behaviour by banks, which aims at maintaining rating above a minimum target in future periods. We calib...

concentrations of several solutes – nitrate, arsenic, sulfate, boron, chloride, and bromide – along with total dissolved solids (tds) in ten counties bordering the brazos river in east-central texas were compiled, mapped, and analyzed relative to regional land use and geology. agriculture and oil/gas production are major activities and potential sources of groundwater contamination in the study...

DNA methylation and histone H3 lysine 9 methylation. Curr. Biol. 12, 1360 3 Richards, E.J. and Elgin, S.C. (2002) Epigenetic codes for heterochromatin formation and silencing: rounding up the usual suspects. Cell 108, 489–500 4 Bartee, L. et al. (2001) Arabidopsis cmt3 chromomethylase mutations block non-CG methylation and silencing of an endogenous gene. Genes Dev. 15, 1753–1758 5 Lindroth, A....

As mulheres integrantes da sociedade nórdica do século X foram, algumas vezes, retratadas como guerreiras, além poderem assumir o papel marido quando este não estivesse disponível. Diante disso, buscou-se analisar uma possível semelhança entre a mulher e personagem Éowyn romance de J.R.R. Tolkien, O Senhor dos Anéis, publicado 1954-1955. Em seguida, pretendeu-se maneira foi ressignificada na ad...

We concentrate on the problem of the provision of one pure public good whenever agents that form the society have either single-plateaued preferences or single-peaked preferences over the set of alternatives. We are interested in comparing the relationships between di¤erent nonmanipulability notions under these two domains. On the single-peaked domain, under strategy-proofness, non-bossiness is...