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Grasping at straws: a ratings downgrade for the emerging international financial architecture
No full textFollowing the Asia crisis of 1997-98, policymakers invested a great deal of energy in designing a new international financial architecture. However many of the policy proposals which have emerged from think tanks and the multilateral agencies have proven unworkable or politically unpalatable. The debate focuses on state-led initiatives. But the assumption that public policy is by definition an output of public institutions is difficult to sustain in an era of global change. This paper considers specialized forms of intelligence-gathering and judgment-determination which seem increasingly important as sources of governance in this era of financial market volatility. These agents - embedded knowledge networks (EKNs) - include the major bond rating agencies, Moody’s Investors Service and Standard and Poor’s, the focus of this paper. The Basel Committee has put forward a serious proposal to reform the existing capital adequacy framework which uses banks' own internal ratings and external bond ratings to calculate bank risk-weighted capital requirements. The paper shows that there are potentially unexpected consequences from using private rating agencies as a substitute for state-based regulation, due to the organizational incentives that shape the ratings industry. Cementing these organizational incentives into the emerging financial architecture will give rise to negative social and economic consequences
Letter to Benjamin Clark Cutler from Benjamin Stevens
No full textLetter dated April 14, 1863 to Assistant Adjutant General, Captain Benjamin Clark Cutler, Santa Fe, from First Lieutenant Benjamin Stevens, Fort Wingate, New Mexico, recommending John Murphy and Martin Quintana, in the First New Mexico Volunteers, for military promotion to Second Lieutenant. Letter also signed by First Lieutenant J. L. Barbey, joint author. Civil War. HL introduction page overlaid by document. Letter in English, handwritten, 1pp/fr
Energy transitions
No full textPatterns of energy have changed dramatically since the onset of the Industrial Revolution in terms of both energy quantities and energy quality. These changing patterns of energy use, where energy quantities and quality interact in numerous important ways, are referred to in this article as energy transitions and are described mainly from a historical perspective. Far from being completed, many of these transitions are continuing to unfold in industrial and developing countries alike indicating powerful trends towards higher energy use and environmental impacts as a twin result of population and economic growth. These upward pressure trends are moderated however by continued improvements in the efficiency of energy use and improvements in energy quality, illustrated in this article by the energy intensity of economic activity and the carbon intensity of energy both at the level of primary energy and final energy
Accelerations for global optimization methods that use second derivative information
No full textTwo new improvements for the algorithm of Breiman & Cutler are presented. Better envelopes can be built up using positive definite quadratic forms. Better utilization of first and second derivative information is attained by combining both global aspects of curvature and local aspects nearthe global optimum. The basis of the results is the geometric viewpoint developed by the first author and can be applied to a number of covering type methods. Improvements in convergence rates are demonstrated empirically on standard test functions
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1995 BRAC Commission
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Rituximab for prevention and treatment of graft-versus-host disease
No full textGrowing understanding of the important role of B lymphocytes in alloreactivity has paved the way for evaluating anti-B cell therapy with rituximab in patients undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation. Data suggesting a beneficial reduction in incidence and severity of acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) are limited to non-randomized studies from single institutions using higher than conventional doses of rituximab. Additionally, rituximab is used as an effective treatment of corticosteroid-refractory chronic GVHD with good responses, particularly in cases of dermatologic and mucosal involvement. Post-transplant administration of rituximab appears to reduce the rate of chronic GVHD in preliminary studies.ARAI S, 2008, ASH ANN M, V112, P466; Canninga-van Dijk MR, 2004, BLOOD, V104, P2603, DOI 10.1182-blood-2004-05-1855; CUTLER C, 2010, ASH ANN M, V116, P214; Cutler C, 2006, BLOOD, V108, P756, DOI 10.1182-blood-2006-01-0233; Do RKG, 2002, CYTOKINE GROWTH F R, V13, P19, DOI 10.1016-S1359-6101(01)00025-9; Eapen M, 2007, BIOL BLOOD MARROW TR, V13, P1461, DOI 10.1016-j.bbmt.2007.08.006; Glass B, 2008, ASH ANN M, V112, P1974; Harris DP, 2000, NAT IMMUNOL, V1, P475, DOI 10.1038-82717; Kapur R, 2008, HAEMATOL-HEMATOL J, V93, P1702, DOI 10.3324-haematol.13311; Kayagaki N, 2002, IMMUNITY, V17, P515, DOI 10.1016-S1074-7613(02)00425-9; KHARFANDABAJA MA, 2010, BIOL BLOOD MARROW TR, V16, pS281, DOI 10.1016-j.bbmt.2009.12.376; Kharfan-Dabaja MA, 2009, BIOL BLOOD MARROW TR, V15, P1005, DOI 10.1016-j.bbmt.2009.04.003; Kharfan-Dabaja MA, 2008, BIOL BLOOD MARROW TR, V14, P121, DOI 10.1016-j.bbmt.2007.12.340; Khouri IF, 2008, BLOOD, V111, P5530, DOI 10.1182-blood-2008-01-136242; Khouri IF, 2007, BRIT J HAEMATOL, V137, P355, DOI 10.1111-j.1365-2141.2007.06591.x; Khouri IF, 2001, BLOOD, V98, P3595, DOI 10.1182-blood.V98.13.3595; Kim SJ, 2010, HAEMATOL-HEMATOL J, V95, P1935, DOI 10.3324-haematol.2010.026104; McIver Z, 2010, BIOL BLOOD MARROW TR, V16, P1549, DOI 10.1016-j.bbmt.2010.05.004; Mellon-Reppen S, 2010, BONE MARROW TRANSPL, V45, P1758, DOI 10.1038-bmt.2010.58; Mohty M, 2008, BONE MARROW TRANSPL, V41, P909, DOI 10.1038-bmt.2008.12; Okamoto M, 2006, LEUKEMIA, V20, P172, DOI 10.1038-sj.leu.2403996; Pidala J, 2011, INT J HEMATOL, V93, P206, DOI 10.1007-s12185-010-0747-x; Ratanatharathorn V, 2003, BIOL BLOOD MARROW TR, V9, P505, DOI 10.1016-S1083-8791(03)00216-7; Ratanatharathorn V, 2000, ANN INTERN MED, V133, P275; Ratanatharathorn V, 2009, BRIT J HAEMATOL, V145, P816, DOI 10.1111-j.1365-2141.2009.07674.x; RATANATHARATHOR.V, 2007, BLOOD, V110; Sarantopoulos S, 2009, BLOOD, V113, P3865, DOI 10.1182-blood-2008-09-177840; Sarantopoulos S, 2011, BLOOD, V117, P2275, DOI 10.1182-blood-2010-10-307819; Schaerli P, 2000, J EXP MED, V192, P1553, DOI 10.1084-jem.192.11.1553; Schultze JL, 1997, J CLIN INVEST, V100, P2757, DOI 10.1172-JCI119822; Shimabukuro-Vornhagen A, 2009, BLOOD, V114, P4919, DOI 10.1182-blood-2008-10-161638; Teshima T, 2009, INT J HEMATOL, V90, P253, DOI 10.1007-s12185-009-0370-x; van Dorp S, 2009, BIOL BLOOD MARROW TR, V15, P671, DOI 10.1016-j.bbmt.2009.02.005; von Bonin M, 2008, TRANSPLANTATION, V86, P875, DOI 10.1097-TP.0b013e318183f662; Zaja F, 2007, BONE MARROW TRANSPL, V40, P273, DOI 10.1038-sj.bmt.170572511141
The Battle of Leyte Gulf 23 - 26 October 1944
No full textOn the fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Thomas J. Cutler, author of the highly praised Brown Water, Black Berets, takes a fresh look at the greatest of all naval battles. Using materials not available to previous authors, Cutler captures the milieu, analyzes the strategy and tactics employed, and re-creates the experiences of the participants - from seaman to admiral - both Japanese and AmericanTo describe the Battle of Leyte Gulf as the "greatest of all naval battles" is no exaggeration. The American, Japanese, and Australian ships engaged in the battle numbered 282, and hundreds more were involved in related peripheral operations. Nearly two hundred thousand men participated, in a geographical area spanning more than a hundred thousand square milesDozens of ships were sunk, including some of the largest and most powerful ever built, and thousands of men went to the bottom of the sea with them. Every facet of naval warfare - air, surface, submarine, and amphibious - was involved in this great struggle, and the weapons used included bombs of every type, guns of every caliber, torpedoes, mines, rockets, and even a forerunner of the guided missil
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