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Solution structure of human MBD1 CXXC1
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Systemic banking crises
Systemic banking crises can have devastating effects on the economies of developing or industrialized countries. This Policy Discussion Paper reviews the factors that weaken banking systems and make them more susceptible to crises.Financial crises ; Bank failures
Industrial loan companies
Once Wal-Mart announced its intention to acquire an industrial loan company, a public furor arose that has brought a lot of attention to a type of institution that has existed for quite some time, but was not widely recognized outside of banking circles. What are ILCs and why have they become so controversial lately?Industrial loan associations
Automated real time detection of solar wind shocks and consequences for the identification of SSC and SI events
Algorithms have been developed to automatically detect Earth bound shocks in the solar wind as measured by the ACE satellite. These involve simple threshold techniques and wavelet analysis.
One practical application of this shock detection is that it can provide power companies with advanced warning of the potential for geomagnetically induced currents. The automatically detected shocks have been tested against published lists of known shocks and accuracy statistics are presented. Another use for automated shock detection is an aid to the preparation of lists of rapid variations: SSC and SI events.
To contribute to the IAGA published list of rapid variations, as prepared by Ebro Observatory, BGS staff
routinely identify, scale and classify the events recorded at the three UK magnetic observatories. This is carried out using the criteria from the Atlas of Rapid Variations (1959) and subsequent IAGA instructions.
The usefulness of automated detection of solar wind shocks for this task is examined by testing these against lists of identified SSC and SI events
The Pattern of Life of the Elderly Who Live Alone. A Comparative Study: Medical and Sociological
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Give A Man A Horse He Can Ride
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Use of a diary for farm accounts
This Bulletin tells how a diary may be used for keeping certain farm records. Farmers have need of two kinds of accountsâ⠡¬â€�first, those in which are recorded items of a financial nature, such as receipts and expenditures, and, second, those in which are kept records of farm work and production, such as dates of planting and of harvesting, crop yields, feed fed to live stock, etc. On the average farm, where the business is not too large, a diary is a very convenient means of keeping all these records. The farm home and the farm business are intimately associated; the one is indeed the headquarters of the other. A carefully kept diary embodies a chronicle of the affairs of both which is of permanent value, not only from a personal and sentimental standpoint, but also as a continuous record of the farm business. In the following pages several different kinds of such diaries are described with suggestions as to how various farm accounts may be kept in diary form
On wave-driven propulsion
A theory is presented for wave-driven propulsion of floating bodies driven
into oscillation at the fluid interface. By coupling the equations of motion of
the body to a quasi-potential flow model of the fluid, we derive expressions
for the drift speed and propulsive thrust of the body which in turn are shown
to be consistent with global momentum conservation. We explore the efficacy of
our model in describing the motion of SurferBot [Rhee et al., Bioinspir.
Biomim. 17 (5), 2022], demonstrating close agreement with the experimentally
determined drift speed and oscillatory dynamics. The efficiency of wave-driven
propulsion is then computed as a function of driving oscillation frequency and
the forcing location, revealing optimal values for both of these parameters
which await confirmation in experiments. A comparison to other modes of
locomotion and applications of our model to competitive water-sports are
discussed in conclusion
The Nature of Thermopower in Bipolar Semiconductors
The thermoemf in bipolar semiconductors is calculated. It is shown that it is
necessary to take into account the nonequilibrium distribution of electron and
hole concentrations (Fermi quasilevels of the electrons and holes). We find
that electron and hole electric conductivities of contacts of semiconductor
samples with connecting wires make a substantial contribution to thermoemf.Comment: 17 pages, RevTeX 3.0 macro packag
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