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Ebook Chandi Borobudur A Monument of Mankind

No written documents whatsoever on the construction of Chandi Borobudur survive . Nor are there any references to the authority who had it built or the purpose for which it was intended. However, inscriptions carved above the reliefs on the ‘hidden ...

Story - antoq - 09/30/2010 - 06:33 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Ebook Socio-economic status, gender, and spouse?s earnings: affect of family background on matching

Since the seminal work of Akerlof and Kranton (2000), researchers have increasingly given attention to the question how identity affects economic outcomes (e.g., Almenberg and Dreber 2009; Booth and van Ours 2009; Chen and Li 2009). Akerlof and Kranto ...

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Ebook An Experimental Investigation of Bond in Reinforced Concrete

Reinforced concrete is one of the most widely used composite materials in civil engineering . A composite material is defined as a solid material that results when two or more different materials are combined to form a new material with properties ...

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Ebook Learning and Validation of Human Control Strategies

Over the past two decades, rapid advances in computer performance have not been matched with similar advances in the development of intelligent robots and systems. Although humans are quite adept at mastering complex and dynamic skills, we are far les ...

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Ebook Tropical Cyclone Forecast Verification: Three Approaches to the Assessment of the ECMWF Model

Tropical cyclones (TC) are amongst the most impressive weather systems of Earth’s atmosphere, not only as extraordinary natural phenomenon but also in terms of damage they can cause. In the USA, in the region of the Caribbean Sea as well as in man ...

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Ebook Entropy and Capital Market Efficiency

The paradigm in economics is about to change. The focus shifts away from the analysis of overall market structures in rational expectation equilibrium to the investigation of the interactive market process based on the market’s rules and regulati ...

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PDF Ebook Blood Pressure Variability in Neonates

In a neonatal intensive care unit, care is given to very ill neonates, most of whom are prematures . In the prognosis and treatment of such neonates, both lung and brain conditions play an important role. The treatment of immature lungs has been si ...

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PDF Ebook From C ++ to Objective-C

This document is designed to act as a bridge between C ++ and Objective-C . Many texts exist to teach the object model through Objective-C, but to my knowledge, none target advanced C ++ developers wanting to compare these concepts with their own k ...

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Ebook The Subprime Mortgage Crisis: Irrational Exuberance or Rational Error?

The subprime mortgage market is in free fall. Since the end of 2005, default rates on subprime mortgages have soared from 6.5% to over 30%, while foreclosure rates have jumped. Future increases are seemingly inevitable, and the prospects for recov ...

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PDF Ebook Pocket Linux Guide

This document, Pocket Linux Guide, is copyright (c) 2003 ? 2005 by David Horton. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License , Version 1.2 or any later version publishe ...

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Ebook Do Reforms In Transition Economies Affect Foreign Bank Entry?

Submitted by wulan on Fri, 04/16/2010 - 06:53

The growing presence of foreign-owned financial institutions during the 1990s is one of the most striking structural changes in the financial systems of the countries in transition. Currently, on average 60 per cent of the total number of banks is in foreign hands. In some Central Eastern European (CEE), South Eastern European (SEE) and Baltic countries, the share of foreign bank assets relative to total assets of the banking system is even more than 75% (Bol et al., 2002). This ‘takeover’ has occurred within a period of less than ten years. Given the high and growing share of foreign bank ownership, there is a growing need for studies on the reasons for foreign bank entry in transition economies.

The existing literature on foreign bank entry mainly deals with Western European countries, or with the US (Buch, 2000). There are only a few studies focusing on transition economies, but they only consider one country, or a small group of countries (e.g. Galac and Kraft, 2000, for Croatia, and Konopielko, 1999, for the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland).

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Ebook Entrepreneurial Teams, Optimal Team Size, and Founder Exits

Submitted by puput on Tue, 12/13/2011 - 08:46

Recent studies suggest that continuous innovative change leads to knowledge accumulation and complexity of knowledge, and this causes individuals to opt for specialisation in knowledge (Jones, 2009). As a result, innovation has become task of specialised individuals (Audretsch, 1995; Jones, 2009; Wuchtyetal., 2007). Team formation is desirable when team members gain from complementarities, encourage knowledge transfer of idiosyncratic information, and create synergy (Lazear, 1998; Hamilton et al., 2003; Rose, 2002).

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Ebook Perspectives on the Recent Currency Crisis Literature

Submitted by wulan on Fri, 01/15/2010 - 07:45

In the 1990s, currency crises in Europe, Mexico and Southeast Asia have drawn worldwide attention to speculative attacks on government-controlled exchange rates. To improve understanding of these events, research has proceeded on both theoretical and empirical fronts.

The purpose of this paper is to provide some perspective on this research and to relate it to earlier work in the area. The early work, now called first-generation research, responded to currency crises in developing countries such as Mexico (1973-1982) and Argentina (1978-81). These crises were preceded by overly expansive domestic policies. First-generation models show how a fixed exchange-rate policy combined with excessively expansionary pre-crisis fundamentals push the economy into crisis, with the private sector trying to profit from dismantling the inconsistent policies.

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