Activity in Global Foreign Exchange Markets

According to a recent BIS survey, turnover in foreign exchange markets continued to increase between April 2007 and April 2010. Growth was slower than in earlier years, consistent with a slowdown in the underlying demand for foreign exchange owing to the impact of the global financial crisis on international trade and investment. In an exception to this trend, spot turnover increased significantly, driven in part by the ongoing expansion of high-frequency trading.Foreign Exchange Market Turnover; High-frequency Trading; BIS Triennial Survey

Texas: Round 1 - State-Level Field network Study of the Implementation of the Affordable Care Act

This report is part of a series of 21 state and regional studies examining the rollout of the ACA. The national network -- with 36 states and 61 researchers -- is led by the Rockefeller Institute of Government, the public policy research arm of the State University of New York, the Brookings Institution, and the Fels Institute of Government at the University of Pennsylvania.Since the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law on March 23, 2010, Texas has reviewed and debated the different policy directives of the legislation. In 2011, Texas decided against administering a state-run health insurance exchange and opted in to a federally run exchange. This decision occurred prior to the Supreme Court decision on the constitutionality of ACA provisions. In 2013, after the 2012 Supreme Court decision allowed states to decide whether to expand Medicaid, Texas chose not to expand Medicaid eligibility and enrollment

Study of a Contemporary Effort to Build a Prototype College in Suburbia

This case study covers the first stages of a contemporary effort by a group of citizens to plan and thereby satisfy certain educational needs of those outlying communities of Chicago collectively known as south suburbia . The college is intended to serve not only the local locale but also to serve as a prototype for similar institutions in other sub-metropolitan areas. The study was undertaken with the expectation that a detailed, analytic attempt at an examination of a particular attempt to meet needs for higher education would illuminate a number of conditions affecting the establishment and operation of higher institutions of learning. The time period covered is approximately 6 years, from the first tentative discussions to the end of 1964. (From the introduction.) The plans, decisions, and events which took place during the first stages of founding a new college in a Chicago suburb were detailed. The investigator expected that accounting for all the initial founding operations in a single case study would reveal specific patterns of interaction. These could then be used for identifying most of the factors ultimately crucial to the success or failure of establishing a new college. Implications were that the scope of the activity was extensive enough in its involvement of persons, groups, agencies, plans, and projections, and different resources over a sufficiently long period of time (6 years) to have encompassed most of the major decisions and problems which inevitably would be encountered in other attempts which might be undertaken. (ERIC Clearinghouse abstract) This research was also presented in a 1965 Ed.D. dissertation, University of Chicago by the author, A College in Park Forest: A Study of the First Stages of a Contemporary Effort to Build a College in Suburbia , (UC thesis number T-11805) available in the Governors State University Archives.([email protected]) and through Proquest Digital Dissertations reprint service

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The impact of land reform in Zimbabwe on the conservation of cheetahs and other large carnivores

Prior to 2000 Zimbabwe was hailed as a conservation success story, with large areas of commercial (private) land outside of national parks being used to support wildlife. In 2000, however, a Fast-Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) was initiated, resulting in the resettlement of most commercial land. This had well known socio-economic impacts, but to date little research has been conducted on the effects on wildlife and human-wildlife conflict. This study aimed to determine the impact of the FTLRP on the conservation of large carnivores and on human-carnivore conflict, focussing on the cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus). A case study compared three land use types (LUTs): commercial (Savé Valley Conservancy private wildlife reserve); resettlement (area of the conservancy that had been resettled); and neighbouring communal land. Spoor density of large carnivores was on average 98% lower in the resettlement LUT than the commercial LUT, while sighting reports and historical written records showed that the abundance of large carnivores had declined since the onset of the FTLRP. Aerial census data demonstrated a reduction in carnivore carrying capacity in both the commercial and resettlement areas. Habitat loss and fragmentation, alongside poaching, appeared to be the main mechanisms affecting changes in carnivore abundance. Interviews revealed that in the resettlement LUT, rates of livestock losses to large carnivores were perceived to be greater than in the communal LUT, and attitudes towards carnivores were more negative than the commercial LUT. It appears that the FTLRP had a significant negative impact on wildlife conservation and human-carnivore conflict, and is estimated to have driven a 70% decline in Zimbabwe’s cheetah population. It is recommended that future resettlement is carefully planned to mitigate these problems, and that schemes are established to allow communities to benefit from wildlife while minimising the impact of resettlement on human-wildlife conflict

Status of the Cheetah in Zimbabwe

The cheetah Acinonyx jubatus once occurred throughout Zimbabwe, but is now largely absent from the north and east of the country. Estimates of the cheetah population over the last 30 years range from 400 to 1,500, but many of these figures are not based on reliable data, and no current estimates are available. The cheetah population is thought to have been stable or decreasing in protected areas, and increasing on private land. The fast track land resettlement programme (FTLRP) initiated in 2000 may have affected the present status and distribution of the cheetah, but this has not yet been investigated. Cheetahs are legally hunted as problem animals and as trophies, but insufficient data are available to assess the impact of hunting on the population. Illegal removals may also have an important impact on the population. It is suggested that research is con- ducted to determine the current status and distribution of the cheetah population, and how this may have been affected by recent land use changes. In addition, it is recommended that trophy quality should be monitored, and information on non-lethal predator management techniques should be provided to farmers

Total Protein in Several Oat Varieties Grown in Iowa

The percentages of total protein in 14 varieties of hulled and dehulled (groats) oat kernels grown at Ames, Iowa, in 1957 were determined by the Kjeldahl method. The average total protein percentage was approximately 5 percent higher in the groats than in hulled oat kernels

CHARACTERIZATION OF WATER MEDIATED HYDROPHOBIC AND IONIC INTERACTIONS USING RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY

Raman spectroscopy can be combined with multivariate curve resolution (MCR)