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performance. The unemployment rate has a negative sign in all regressions and is significant in the case of profits although not on net interest margins measures. Staikouras and Wood (2003) examine the performance of a sample of banks operating in thirteen EU banking markets. The results indicate that loans to assets ratio and the proportion of loan loss provisions are inversely related to banks’ return on assets, as well as that banks with greater levels of equity are relatively more profitable. The

ghostwriting.14 The authors found that ten of the academic medical centers explicitly prohibited ghostwriting. They also found that three centers have authorship policies that prohibit ghostwriting in practice but do not mention the term “ghostwriting” and thirteen authorship policies fail to ban all aspects of ghostwriting, mainly because the policies do not require that all qualified authors be listed. C. Detection of ghostwriting by medical schools is limited In their responses, all of the medical schools

 (1794-­‐1796)             Voltaire    Candide  (1759)                 Thomas  Jefferson  et  al.    The  Unanimous  Declaration  of  the  Thirteen  United  States                                                                                        

of metaphors on the part of major thinkers, such as Paul Ricoeur. It is little surprising, therefore, that many writers should stress the abundance of metaphorical material in the biblical exposition of Christ's atoning work. Some count as many as thirteen key metaphors or "models." Willem J. van Asselt (from the University of Utrecht), to whom I owe this piece of information, settles for four: the Ransom-Victory, the Sacrificial, the Substitution, and the Exemplarist representations.2 A possible typology

EWEA estimates that wind power both onshore and offshore could contribute to 11-14% (180 GW) of wind power in 2020 (depending on 2020 demand) from a level of 3% (50 GW) at the end of 2006. The target cannot be met without large-scale offshore wind. Thirteen years is short notice. Strong policy measures must therefore be implemented rapidly. RECOMMENDATIONS: Establishing a European policy framework for offshore wind power To guarantee investor confidence, and develop offshore wind farms on a sufficient

company’s international revenue accounted for 9.3% of their total revenue and the international sales for the same period increased by 23.9% (Marks&Spencer Annual Report, 2009). Moreover, this year the company brought eight stores in Hong Kong and thirteen in Ireland (DATAMONITOR, 2009). Thus the company is working hard on their international operations that will help them diversify and provide a greater stability. 5.2 WEAKNESS: Declining Sales in UK: Marks&Spencer have the most of the revenue

the focus on hospital marketing communications strategy, diseases that tended to be treated exclusively by alternative, non-allopathic medicine were excluded, and diseases that require patient-physician interaction and prescription were preferred. Thirteen EBBs of consumer conversations were selected using the preceding criteria. As per the guidelines for netnographic research (Kozinets, 2002), the author obtained written informed consent from the EBBs' moderators to analyze postings and formal

of California Press, 1983); two dozen newspaper articles and letters by Afghānī as well as reports about Afghānī, translated into French by Homa Pakdaman in her book Djamal-ed-din Assad Abadi dit Afghānī (Paris: G. P. Maisonneuve et Larose, 1969); thirteen additional newspaper articles translated by Marcel Colombe into French. These appeared in the journal Orient, issues 21–25 (1962). One of the classic secondary sources is Albert Hourani’s Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age: 1798–1939 (London: Cass

seems to be more towards love, whereas the Basil of the 1891 edition cares more for his art, saying "the one person who gives my art whatever charm it may possess: my life as an artist depends on him." The book was also extended greatly: the original thirteen chapters became twenty, and the final chapter was divided into two new chapters. The additions involved the "fleshing out of Dorian as a character" and also provided details about his ancestry, which helped to make his "psychological collapse more

Second hand smoke, smoking ban, incidence, myocardial infarction Impact on public smoking ban in public places on the incidence of myocardial infarction Introduction – Second-hand smoke increases the risk of myocardial infarction by 25 to 30%. Thirteen epidemiological studies and two recent meta-analyses have evaluated the impact of smoking bans in public places, instituted since 2002 in the United States and in Europe, on the risk of myocardial infarction. The objective of the manuscript is to