Sample Sheet

Sample sheet of the illumina sequencing data regarding Tadarida teniotis diet described in Mata et al

Regulations of stock stockbrokers's acting towards his clients

1 Regulations of stockbroker's acting towards his clients Abstract The purpose of my thesis is to define and analyze a scope of regulation of securities broker's acting toward his clients. These rules are set up by European law and regulation, which was brought by three legal documents. First is Directive no. 2004/39/EC on markets in financial instrument, also called MiFID (Markets in Financial Instrument Directive). Second rule is implementing regulation of European Commission no. 1287/2006. Third rule is implementing directive of Commission no. 2006/73/EC. The first rule crates so called LEVEL 1 and the last two rules create LEVEL 2. Legal rules in Czech Republic are set up by reception of above mentioned European rules into the Czech act no. 256/2004 Sb. about business activities on capital markets and implementing publication no. 237/2008 Sb. These all legal documents bring wide range of regulations and inside of this regulation; the significant group is created by rules about protection of the clients, which are the subject of my analyses in the thesis. The thesis is composed of introduction chapter and seven specific chapters. In introduction are presented objectives and goals and structure of the thesis. In this chapter is defined the basic terminology and sources of the law. First chapter is focused..

Cotton pest-control value provided by Mexican free-tailed bats over time.

<p>Maximum and minimum ecosystem service values for pest control represent calculations using the highest and lowest values, respectively, for several model parameters. From 1990 through 2008, the value of cotton pest-control services across the southwestern U.S. declined by 79%, from a high of $23.96 million in 1990 to a low of$4.88 million in 2008 (mean values). Values are indexed to 2011 U.S. dollars.</p

Market Forces and Technological Substitutes Cause Fluctuations in the Value of Bat Pest-Control Services for Cotton

<div><p>Critics of the market-based, ecosystem services approach to biodiversity conservation worry that volatile market conditions and technological substitutes will diminish the value of ecosystem services and obviate the “economic benefits” arguments for conservation. To explore the effects of market forces and substitutes on service values, we assessed how the value of the pest-control services provided by Mexican free-tailed bats (<i>Tadarida brasiliensis mexicana</i>) to cotton production in the southwestern U.S. has changed over time. We calculated service values each year from 1990 through 2008 by estimating the value of avoided crop damage and the reduced social and private costs of insecticide use in the presence of bats. Over this period, the ecosystem service value declined by 79% ($19.09 million U.S. dollars) due to the introduction and widespread adoption of Bt (<i>Bacillus thuringiensis</i>) cotton transgenically modified to express its own pesticide, falling global cotton prices and the reduction in the number of hectares in the U.S. planted with cotton. Our results demonstrate that fluctuations in market conditions can cause temporal variation in ecosystem service values even when ecosystem function – in this case bat population numbers – is held constant. Evidence is accumulating, however, of the evolution of pest resistance to Bt cotton, suggesting that the value of bat pest-control services may increase again. This gives rise to an economic option value argument for conserving Mexican free-tailed bat populations. We anticipate that these results will spur discussion about the role of ecosystem services in biodiversity conservation in general, and bat conservation in particular.</p></div

Decreased pest-control value of the bats resulting from adoption of Bt cotton.

<p>The light gray line shows actual pest control values from 1996 through 2008. The black line shows the potential value of bat pest control services if Bt had not been adopted. The dark gray line shows the percentage of the potential pest control value lost due to the adoption of Bt cotton. In 2008 the value of bat pest control services was $2.66 million dollars (approximately 33%) less than what it might have been.</p