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Cseas Weekly Bulletin (November 30, 2015), Center For Southeast Asian Studies

CSEAS Bulletin

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Side-Chain Boron Difluoride Formazanate Polymers Via Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization, Samantha Novoa, Joseph A. Paquette, Stephanie M. Barbon, Ryan R. Maar, Joe Gilroy

Chemistry Publications

The synthesis, characterization, and ring-opening methathesis polymerization (ROMP) of a novel norbornene-based boron difluoride (BF₂) formazante monomer are described in detail. The polymerization studies confirmed ROMP to occur in the presence of BF₂ formazanates, and also demonstrated the controlled nature of the polymerization. The polymers retained many of the unique characteristics of the monomers in dichloromethane, including absorption and emission at maximum wavelengths of 518 and 645 nm, large Stoke's shifts (u_ST = 127 nm, 3,800 cm^-1), and the ability to act as electron reservoirs to form borataverdazyl-based poly(radical anions) (E°_{red1 …}

The Job Of Human Capital: What Occupational Data Reveal About Skill Sets, Economic Growth And Regional Competitiveness, Lillian Frances Stewart

ETD Archive

A region's workforce has been described as its greatest asset. Guided by human capital theory and new growth theory, regions have pursued economic development policies to increase the number of college-educated workers and expand the pool of STEM -- science, technology, engineering, and math -- talent. Academic literature and policy interventions have focused on a region's human capital in terms of educational attainment instead of a more fine-grained definition of human capital based on skills and competencies. This dissertation integrates economic and business theory and combines three federal databases to explore regional human capital assets. Findings suggest that policymakers may …

2015-11 Afs 101/103 Food From The Oceans: New England, Michael Cerbo

Library Impact Statements

Library Impact Statement submitted in response to new course proposal for AFS 101/103 Food from the Oceans: New England. This course was supported with no need for additional resources. Responding library faculty member: Michael Cerbo. Requesting faculty member: Austin Humphries.

The Tiger Vol. 109 Issue 52 2015-11-30, Clemson University

Tiger Newspapers 2015

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Dando Las Gracias (Giving Thanks), Hope Hudson

2015-16 Postcards

Postcard from Hope Hudson, during the Linfield College Semester Abroad Program at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador

People, Michaela Duffey

2015-16 Postcards

Postcard from Michaela Duffey, during the Linfield College Semester Abroad Program at Kanto Gakuin University in Yokohama, Japan

Reflection On Australia, Hannah Kintz

2015-16 Postcards

Postcard from Hannah Kintz, during the Linfield College Semester Abroad Program at James Cook University in Cairns, Australia

Banner News, Jesse Rose, April Schumann, Julie Roosa, Brad Grout, Dylan Nikkel

Banner News

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2015 香港快樂指數調查 Hong Kong Happiness Index Survey 2015, Lok Sang Ho

Hong Kong Happiness Index 香港快樂指數調查

由嶺南大學公共政策研究中心進行的「香港快樂指數調查」結果顯示，香港人於2015年的快樂指數為70.0（以0-100分計算），稍低於去年的70.5。較為意外的結果是30歲以下受訪者的快樂指數，由67.8回升至69.3。

儘管受訪者對媒體的評價仍處於低水平，但評分由去年的4.76微升至4.89。市民對公共政策質素的滿意度為4.37（以0-10分計算），與去年的4.34相比變化不大；市民對香港生活環境的滿意度，由去年的5.95顯著下跌至今年的5.69；對公共醫療的滿意度，則由去年的6.49下跌至今年的6.30。評分處於6或以上者屬於良好或以上。

家庭月入介乎一萬至二萬元之間的人士的快樂指數，比去年明顯上升7%至6.82；而家庭月入一萬元以下人士亦上升了3%。結果可能反映今年較早時候法定最低工資的提高。家庭月入二萬至三萬元人士的快樂指數則下跌了4.7%。

According to the results of the Hong Kong Happiness Index Survey conducted by Lingnan University’s Centre for Public Policy Studies, the Happiness Index for Hong Kong people in 2015 stands at 70.0 (on a scale of 0 to 100), which is slightly lower than last year’s 70.5. Surprisingly, the Happiness Index of people aged below 30 rose from 67.8 to 69.3.

Respondents’ degree of satisfaction with the media rose slightly to 4.89 from last year’s 4.76, albeit still at a low level. Satisfaction with Hong Kong’s public policy is 4.37 (on …

Using A New Evidence-Based Health Workforce Innovation Research Framework To Compare Innovations In Community Health Center And Other Ambulatory Care Settings, Leah E. Masselink, Patricia Pittman, Claire Houterman

Health Workforce Research Center Publications

In the United States, changing demographics, rising costs, and the impact of new regulations and payment models arising from the Affordable Care Act have placed unprecedented pressures on healthcare providers to increase access to care, improve quality and to control costs. To meet these challenges, some providers are forming accountable care organizations (ACOs) while others are pursuing medical homes or other novel payment and care delivery models designed to help meet these challenges. Within established organizations such as federally funded community health centers (CHCs), healthcare leaders are exercising significant latitude in developing innovative solutions for meeting their patients’ needs more …

2015 November 30 - Graduate Council Minutes, College Of Graduate And Continuing Studies, East Tennessee State University

Graduate Council Agendas and Minutes

No abstract provided.

Gec Meeting Minutes For Nov 30, 2015, General Education Committee

General Education Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

What's Happening: November 30, 2015, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

Nutrient Concentrations For The Northeastern Gulf Of Mexico And West Florida Shelf: June 2012 – August 2014, Kendra L. Daly

C-IMAGE data

This dataset contains seasonal nutrient data collected from the northeastern Gulf of Mexico and the west Florida shelf. The contents of the dataset are an assessment of to assess the seasonal and interannual concentration and distribution of nutrients after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Retracted Article: The Impact Of Systemic Liquidity Risk On Stability Of The Polish Economy, Jerzy Piotr Gwizdała

European Management Studies

The article entitled Wpływ systemowego ryzyka płynności na stabilność gospodarki polskiej published in “Problemy Zarządzania (Management Issues)” 2015, No. 3(55), pp. 19-29, https://doi.org/10.7172/1644-9584.55.2, written by Jerzy Gwizdała has been withdrawn due to the plagiarism of extended extracts of Mr. Błażej Kochański’s doctoral dissertation entitled “Systemowe ryzyko płynności w polskim systemie bankowym – determinanty i trendy” defended in 2014 and reviewed by Jerzy Gwizdała.

Systemic Risk Management. Cognitive Perspective, Jan K Solarz

European Management Studies

This article argues that in order to manage systemic risk, we need more sophisticated and realistic cognitive framework through which to analyse its dynamics and costs. We used macroprudential and microprudential policy to manage explicit systemic risk. Systemic risk is a propagation risk, where shocks spread in time and across sectors. Whilst there are no easy answers, employing this conception of systemic risk management provides an alternative cognitive framework. The narrative approach developed in this article has two dimensions: theoretical tradition in economics (political economics, mathematical economics, institutional economics) and key concepts (rent-seeking, external costs, complexity, nano-finance). To that end, …

The Phenomenon Of Excessive Procyclicality Of The Financial Sector From The Perspective Of Macroprudential Policy – Sources, Methods Of Reduction And Their Basic Limitations, Małgorzata Olszak

European Management Studies

This article presents explanations of the procyclicality phenonomenon with the application of the theory of market failures and behavioral finance. This analysis shows that the most important failures include: externalities of strategic complementarities (the classical herding phenomenon), fire sale externalities (i.e. asset prices spirals); network externalities (i.e. contagion risk). The theory of market failures does not say the whole story about the procyclicality phenomenon. To get a fuller picture of procyclicality one has to resort to behavioral finance, i.e. availability heuristics and threshold heuristics. The analysis also focuses on macroprudential instruments in their potential to affect financial cycle and soundness …

The Impact Of The New Resolution Regime On Public Support To Banks, Agnieszka Trzcińska

European Management Studies

Public support provided to banks during the crisis has incentivised reforms at EU level which aim at limiting costs of banks’ failures incurred by taxpayers. In this context, a resolution framework was agreed and the Single Resolution Mechanism was established. The latter will operate within the banking union, i.e. currently the euro area. This paper focuses on new burden-sharing rules for banks and their impact on the need for mobilising budgetary resources for banks under resolution, in particular the need for public capital injections to ailing financial institutions. To this end, it identifies circumstances in which public support may be …

The Stability Of Bank Deposits Of Communes In Poland, Paweł Galiński

European Management Studies

The aim of the article is to characterize the stability of bank deposits of each type of the communes in Poland as well as the main determinants of their value. The research time range covers the period 2008–2014. In this period, some legal and financial determinants of deposit activity of these units appeared. The activity of the communes in this field simultaneously influences the stability of sources of funding of banks, which include deposits of these entities. This especially concerns cooperative banks, which are natural clients for rural communes and urban-rural communes, as units from the public finance sector in …

Modelling Time To Default Or Early Repayment As Competing Risks, Ewa Wycinka

European Management Studies

Early repayment and default are two basic perils causing credit termination. Who of the borrowers and when are at the risk of both events is important information for the creditor. The article employs some of the estimators of the method of competing risks to model time to default or early repayment. The empirical part of the article consists of the results of the study on the sample of 5000 five-year loans that were observed for 24 months. Probabilities of default and early repayment have been evaluated by means of selected estimators. These estimators are also suitable for distinguishing borrowers with …

Cross-Currency Interest Rate Swap In The Context Of The Calculation Of Capital Adequacy Of Banks With Foreign Currency Mortgages, Jan Koleśnik

European Management Studies

Polish banks have a large long currency position resulting from the portfolio of foreign currency mortgages, which they secure mainly using FX swaps and cross-currency interest rate swaps (CIRS). The purpose of this paper is to show how to take CIRS, which is one of the most popular methods of hedging against risk of CHF mortgages, into account in the calculation of capital adequacy. The paper also tries to answer the question whether the conversion of foreign currency mortgages will lead to changes in the treatment of CIRS in the calculation of capital adequacy of banks. The author points out …

Feedbacks And Systematic Risk Of Denominated Debt In Poland, Ireneusz Dąbrowski

European Management Studies

On January 15th 2015, when the Swiss National Bank (SNB) suddenly announced that it would no longer hold the Swiss franc at a fixed exchange rate with the euro, there was panic. The franc soared, which drastically affected the cost of loans taken out in francs. Poland is in the second place in the European Union in terms of outstanding loans in that currency. At the end of January 2015 housing loans in CHF in Poland were valued at 149.6 billion zlotys (PLN). The problem of turbulence arising from foreign currency loans and loans denominated in foreign currencies is multi-layered …

Financial Risk In Polish Companies During The Global Economic Crisis Of 2007–2008 With Particular Emphasis On Evaluation Of The Use Of Reserve Debt Capacity, Wiktor Cwynar, Anna Ostrowska-Dankiewicz, Piotr Oratowski

European Management Studies

The article presents research findings on capital structure and financial risk changes in Polish companies during the global economic crisis of 2007–2008. Authors evaluated financial data for 4188 companies, both listed and unlisted within particular sectors. The whole population of companies was split into two parts based on the average value of the debt ratio calculated for pre-crisis years (2005–2007). The first group was composed of companies with average debt ratio below industry norm expressed in sector mean value of the debt ratio. These companies were assumed to have reserve debt capacity. The second group consisted of companies with average …

Recovery And Resolution – New Mechanisms For Systemic Risk Management In The Insurance Sector, Teresa Czerwińska

European Management Studies

The new regulatory and institutional trends in the financial sector are a response to the recent crisis. The need for public intervention and the mobilization of public funds to cover the mass losses of private entities have changed the point of view of regulators, supervisory authorities and public opinion. Firstly, stability has become by far the fundamental value of the financial system, much greater than its growth and innovation potential, which is widely reflected not only by the legal regulations. The study analyzes the trends in the systemic risk management in the insurance sector. It presents the characteristics of key …

The Utah Statesman, November 30, 2015, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

Southeast Florida Large Coral Assessment 2015, Brian K. Walker, Katelyn Klug

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Reports

The 2013 nearshore mapping project conducted by Walker and Klug expanded the previous knowledge on the amount, location, and species type of ecologically important large (>2 m) coral colonies in southeast Florida. They discovered over 110 previously undocumented large corals of which 60 were dead and 50 were still alive; 40 of the living corals were larger than 2 m wide and up to 5 m in diameter. Because these corals are the largest and oldest organisms on our reefs, they deserve special attention.

Currently there is unprecedented disease and bleaching in the northern portion of the Florida Reef …

Tailwinds Can Reduce Groundspeed Too, Nihad E. Daidzic

Aviation Department Publications

FAA Safety Seminar (GL1565666) held at Minnesota State University, Mankato Ostranger Auditorium at 18:30 CST on Monday, November 30, 2015.

Uab Senior Luke Mcclintock First-Round Finalist For Highly Competitive Hertz Fellowship, Staff

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

Surgeons Repair Tallassee Woman's Mitral Valve To Help Her Overcome Staph Infection, Stroke, Tyler Greer

Browse All News

No abstract provided.