What is Basel III and who is making the decisions? Basel III is a set of proposed changes to international capital and liquidity requirements and some other related areas of banking supervision. It is the second major revision to an original set of rules‚ now known as Basel I‚ which was promulgated by the Basel Committee in 1988. The committee was established in the mid‐1970’s‚ after the failure of a small German bank (Herstatt) sent shudders through the global financial system as a result of poor
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Accurate IMU-Based Orientation Estimation Under Conditions of Magnetic Distortion Nagesh Yadav∗‚ Chris Bleakley† {nagesh.yadav∗‚ chris.bleakley†}@ucd.ie UCD Complex and Adaptive Systems Laboratory‚ UCD School of Computer Science and Informatics‚ University College Dublin‚ Ireland Abstract—Low cost‚ compact Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) are now being used to track human body movements in indoor environments by estimation of the 3D orientation of body segments. In many of these systems‚ heading
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The Xia Dynasty The first prehistoric dynasty is said to be Xia‚ from about the twenty-first to the sixteenth century B.C. Xia-dynasty was founded by the Si-clan‚ who were descendants of the clan’s foundation father‚ Yu. Because of the lack of written sources‚ historians have still not gained a correct idea of how the people lived at that time. According to the later tradition‚ Yu spent thirteen years to dig out channels and maintain dikes. When emperor Shun died‚ the officials disagreed with the
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BC. A part of a war called Warring States Period‚ the campaign was to unify all of what was Ancient China and to solidify Qin’s rule to all of it. But before the unification was achieved‚ the seven major states had their own customs and culture. Wu Qi‚ wrote a book entitled The Book of Master Wu wherein he declared that the government and nature of the people were reflective of the terrain where they live in. The Qin State‚ which emerged as the most powerful of the warring states‚ was described
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The life of a person is the product of interaction between Yang (light Qi) and Yin (heavy Qi). Yang comes from. Heaven and father‚ and Yin from. Earth and mother. After the death of a person‚ Yang is returned to Heaven and Yin to Earth. So a person comes from‚ nature and returns to it. The least intelligent being‚ an amoeba‚ and the most intelligent being‚ a human being‚ each consists of Qi‚ and they are integral parts of a continuum‚ — a chain of beings that is never broken because
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mahogany‚ brown‚ and even green. This was the case along the coast of Guangdong in southern China. Here‚ the algal blooms “inflicted significant negative impacts on the society” and “devastated aquaculture and destroyed natural marine ecosystems.” (Qi et. al 2004) Harmful algal blooms affect more than just bodies of water‚ however. They affect everything in the water and anything that consumes something from that body of water‚ from plankton to humans. Nutrient loading will appear to have a positive
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Reliability Evaluation of Bangladesh Power System Using Cumulant Method Nahid-Al-Masood1‚ M. N. Sahadat2‚ S.R. Deeba Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology Dhaka‚ Bangladesh E-mail: 1 nahid@eee.buet.ac.bd‚ 2sahil0406@gmail.com S.Ahmed1‚ G.A.K.Biswas‚ A.U.Elahi‚ N.M.Zakaria Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering BRAC University Dhaka‚ Bangladesh E-mail: 1shahriar.me@gmail.com weather effects is presented in [6] where
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body."[3] There is no consensus among reflexologists on how reflexology is supposed to work; a unifying theme is the idea that areas on the foot correspond to areas of the body‚ and that by manipulating these one can improve health through one’s qi.[4] Reflexologists divide the body into ten equal vertical zones‚ five on the right and five on the left.[5] Concerns have been raised by medical professionals that treating potentially serious illnesses with reflexology‚ which has no proven efficacy
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| Prestige Data Service 2010 SUMMER Executive Summary To assist Prestige Telephone Company on making the decision of continue its subsidiary or not‚ this report provides an analysis of Prestige Data Service (the subsidiary) on the status quo revenues and costs‚ a prediction on its break even situation‚ as well as possible options to increase profit. The report has its limitations due to insufficient detailed information on both other revenues and variable costs of Prestige Data Service
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A Historical Survey of the Three Types of Acupuncture 1. Introduction to Acupuncture There are many forms of medicine but no other has withstood the test of time as well as acupuncture. There is evidence to suggest medicine in ancient China began as early as the Stone Age (CAM 3). It continues to develop under the same theories today. Acupuncture began traveling out of China in the beginning of the Current Era (Ma 94) and has now spread over the entire world. As in other academic subjects many
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