Nistratov, Andrey Nistratov, Vidoje Moracanin, Ching-Chow Yang, Ayon Chakraborty, Kay Chuan Tan, Graham Cartwright, John Oakland Published by InTech Janeza Trdine 9, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia Copyright © 2012 InTech All chapters are Open Access distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, which allows users to download, copy and build upon published articles even for commercial purposes, as long as the author and publisher are properly credited, which ensures maximum dissemination
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has been considerable growth in the transfer of credit risk across and between sectors of the financial system. In particular there is evidence that risk has been transfered from the banking sector to the insurance sector. One argument is that this is desirable and simply reflects diversification opportunities. Another is that it represents regulatory arbitrage and the concentration of risk that may result from this could ∗ We are grateful to our discussant Charles Calomiris and other participants
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Technologies for Alternative Energy Climate Change Working Paper No. 7 Ainsley Jolley Climate Change Project Working Paper Series March 2006 Centre for Strategic Economic Studies Victoria University PO Box 14428 Melbourne VIC 8001 AUSTRALIA Telephone +613 9919 1340 Fax +613 9919 1350 Email: csesinfo@vu.edu.au Website: http://www.cfses.com Technologies for Alternative Energy 1. Introduction In Papers 5 and 6 technologies for the main sources of energy consumption were discussed. In
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Patrick Walsh and Adamantios Koumpis On Site The Esprit ATLAS Project T wo European research technology development (RTD) managers of IT companies have been brainstorming for half a day. Lots of food has been consumed, exhausted secretaries and junior project managers of the two teams are praying for the meeting to end. The two senior execs have not joined efforts for the new product idea that initially seemed so exciting in previous communications they had via email. On the other
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Solving reader collision problem in large scale RFID systems : Algorithms, performance evaluation and discussions John Sum, Kevin Ho, Siu-chung Lau Abstract—Assigning neighboring RFID readers with nonoverlapping interrogation time slots is one approach to solve the reader collision problem. In which, Distributed Color Selection (DCS) and Colorwave algorithm have been developed, and simulated annealing (SA) technique have been applied. Some of them (we call them non-progresive algorithms), like
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Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Spyware is software that aims to gather information about a person or organization without their knowledge and that may send such information to another entity without the consumer's consent, or that asserts control over a computer without the consumer's knowledge.[1] "Spyware" is mostly classified into four types: system monitors, trojans, adware, and tracking cookies.[2] Spyware is mostly used for the purposes of tracking and storing Internet users' movements on the
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4. 4.1 Big Data Introduction In 2004, Wal-Mart claimed to have the largest data warehouse with 500 terabytes storage (equivalent to 50 printed collections of the US Library of Congress). In 2009, eBay storage amounted to eight petabytes (think of 104 years of HD-TV video). Two years later, the Yahoo warehouse totalled 170 petabytes1 (8.5 times of all hard disk drives created in 1995)2. Since the rise of digitisation, enterprises from various verticals have amassed burgeoning amounts of digital
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INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE IN COLLABORATION WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH The Role of Leadership in Improving the Quality of Teacher Education: The Case of Dr. Abdulmajid Hussein College of Teacher Education By Mohammed Abdi Obolos A Thesis Submitted to University of Greenwich and International Leadership Institute in Partial Fulfillment for the Degree of Master in Transformational Leadership and Change October 2011 Jijiga Contents I. Table of Content ..........................
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popularity in social media, MDMA’s use among young adults has increased. History MDMA was first introduced and produced by Merck in 1912, a manufacturer and pharmaceutical corporation (Bouso, Doblin, Farré, Alcázar & Gómez-Jarabo, 2008).Merck distributed MDMA as a haemostatic drug, decreasing the amount of blood stream within blood vessels (Bouso et. al, 2008). MDMA originated in multiple forms of safrole (Shulgin, A., 1986). Safrole was presented as a dull liquid contained in perfume, flavor additives
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