The challenge of sustainable adjustments in the eurozoneBjörn Brügemann
This document analyzes adjustment mechanisms in the Eurozone given heterogeneity between member states. It finds that Northern countries like Germany have large current account surpluses, while Southern countries like Greece have large deficits. Exchange rate misalignments exist, with some currencies undervalued by 13% and others overvalued by 23%. The document uses stock-flow consistent models to simulate the economies of two asymmetric countries in a monetary union. It concludes that Eurobonds could help reduce debt burdens in struggling countries and stimulate recovery, but Northern members fear this could enable continued poor policies in the South. More detail is needed on the foreign exchange rate equilibrium approach used.
This document provides information about team teaching including its definition, objectives, advantages, and disadvantages. Team teaching involves a group of instructors working cooperatively to deliver course content and evaluate student performance. It allows for interaction between teachers and collaboration in setting goals, designing lessons, and assessing results. While team teaching improves instruction quality and spreads workload, it also requires extensive co-planning time and can increase student dependency and noise challenges.
The document discusses arguments for fiscal centralization in the European Union based on lessons from other federal states. It argues that having decentralized fiscal policy alongside centralized monetary policy in the EU causes problems with adjustment to economic shocks and freeriding. The authors conclude that the EU should consider enforcing a no-bailout clause, allowing some independence for member states' revenue and spending, a system of fiscal transfers during crises, developing a euro bond market, and maintaining some flexibility.
The document is a diversity action plan drafted by the University of Washington Bothell Campus Diversity Council. It begins by noting that UWB values diversity and has made progress in increasing student diversity. However, retention of diverse students remains a challenge. It also acknowledges the need to increase diversity among faculty and staff.
The plan was created through research and input from various campus groups. It provides recommendations in five categories: conducting diversity assessments of all units; addressing needs for diversity-related space; increasing support for diverse students, faculty, and staff; enhancing diversity curriculum and programming; and developing a diversity strategic plan and increasing accountability. The goal is to focus diversity efforts, increase coordination, and support ongoing initiatives.
The presentation helps you understand how the heart system works with brief on heart diseases like Palpitation, miss beat or drop beat which falls under the category called electrical disturbance of the heart.
Este documento presenta los resultados preliminares de un estudio del ictioplancton en la desembocadura del río Madre de Dios en Perú, con énfasis en la familia Pimelodidae. Se examinaron más de 83,000 larvas de peces pertenecientes a cinco órdenes, predominando los Characiformes y Siluriformes. Dentro de los Siluriformes, se identificaron 1,241 larvas de 12 especies de Pimelodidae, destacando Pseudoplatystoma tigrinum, P. fasciatum y Sorub
This document summarizes key information from education budget documents in Punjab, Pakistan. It finds that Punjab allocates a large portion of its overall budget to education, though still below international benchmarks. The education budget has seen declines in both development and non-development categories in recent years. Most funding goes to salaries, while the non-salary portion that could be used for resources has seen reduced allocations. Literacy and learning outcomes in the province require improvement according to assessments.
This document discusses treatment options for heart diseases at SDM Narayana Heart Centre in Dharwad. It outlines various diagnostic tests for heart diseases like ECG, echocardiography, and treadmill tests. It then describes surgical procedures for treating issues like blocked arteries, including coronary angioplasty with stent placement and coronary artery bypass surgery. It also mentions treatments for valve diseases like balloon mitral valve procedures and valve replacement surgery. The document concludes with statistics on the procedures performed at SDM Narayana Heart Centre from 2009 to 2015, including over 12,000 angiograms and over 2,000 open heart surgeries.
The document discusses resources available at the library and elsewhere to assist with job searching. It provides an overview of the services offered at the local career centers, including access to job listings, resume and interview preparation assistance, unemployment filing and financial aid for training. A tour of the library's career resources showed locations for materials on resumes, interviewing, salaries and more.
Accessibility Support Baseline: Balancing User Needs Against Test EffortAidan Tierney
A guided conversation about the accessibility support baseline and an opportunity to find out what others are supporting and to share thoughts and experiences. The support baseline is the term WCAG uses for the set of user technologies that an application is expected to work with, specifically the combinations of assistive technology (AT), operating system (OS) and where relevant browser and device. WCAG doesn’t define what needs to be in the baseline because it depends on your users, and on the technologies available to them.
Is testing only one combination for web and one for mobile sufficient? Changes in desktop screen reader usage, mobile fragmentation, and frequent updates to OS and AT may mean that it isn’t. But there are hundreds if not thousands of potential combinations. How do we balance support for these combinations against testing effort?
We will discuss:
• Who or what does a baseline impact?
• Variables to account for in a baseline
• Effort and costs
• Assistive Technology usage data
• Organizational challenges to supporting AT
• Sample web and mobile support baselines.
This document summarizes the history and use of the anticoagulant warfarin. It outlines that warfarin was originally developed as a rat poison in the 1940s and was later found to help treat blood clots in humans. The document discusses warfarin's mechanism of action, pharmacokinetics, indications, adverse effects, interactions, and comparisons to newer oral anticoagulants. It also covers periprocedural management and reversal of warfarin and novel oral anticoagulants in emergency situations. While warfarin requires regular monitoring and has more drug and food interactions than newer agents, it remains an important and widely available treatment option with an approved antidote.
The challenge of sustainable adjustments in the eurozoneBjörn Brügemann
This document analyzes adjustment mechanisms in the Eurozone given heterogeneity between member states. It finds that Northern countries like Germany have large current account surpluses, while Southern countries like Greece have large deficits. Exchange rate misalignments exist, with some currencies undervalued by 13% and others overvalued by 23%. The document uses stock-flow consistent models to simulate the economies of two asymmetric countries in a monetary union. It concludes that Eurobonds could help reduce debt burdens in struggling countries and stimulate recovery, but Northern members fear this could enable continued poor policies in the South. More detail is needed on the foreign exchange rate equilibrium approach used.
This document provides information about team teaching including its definition, objectives, advantages, and disadvantages. Team teaching involves a group of instructors working cooperatively to deliver course content and evaluate student performance. It allows for interaction between teachers and collaboration in setting goals, designing lessons, and assessing results. While team teaching improves instruction quality and spreads workload, it also requires extensive co-planning time and can increase student dependency and noise challenges.
The document discusses arguments for fiscal centralization in the European Union based on lessons from other federal states. It argues that having decentralized fiscal policy alongside centralized monetary policy in the EU causes problems with adjustment to economic shocks and freeriding. The authors conclude that the EU should consider enforcing a no-bailout clause, allowing some independence for member states' revenue and spending, a system of fiscal transfers during crises, developing a euro bond market, and maintaining some flexibility.
The document is a diversity action plan drafted by the University of Washington Bothell Campus Diversity Council. It begins by noting that UWB values diversity and has made progress in increasing student diversity. However, retention of diverse students remains a challenge. It also acknowledges the need to increase diversity among faculty and staff.
The plan was created through research and input from various campus groups. It provides recommendations in five categories: conducting diversity assessments of all units; addressing needs for diversity-related space; increasing support for diverse students, faculty, and staff; enhancing diversity curriculum and programming; and developing a diversity strategic plan and increasing accountability. The goal is to focus diversity efforts, increase coordination, and support ongoing initiatives.
The presentation helps you understand how the heart system works with brief on heart diseases like Palpitation, miss beat or drop beat which falls under the category called electrical disturbance of the heart.
Este documento presenta los resultados preliminares de un estudio del ictioplancton en la desembocadura del río Madre de Dios en Perú, con énfasis en la familia Pimelodidae. Se examinaron más de 83,000 larvas de peces pertenecientes a cinco órdenes, predominando los Characiformes y Siluriformes. Dentro de los Siluriformes, se identificaron 1,241 larvas de 12 especies de Pimelodidae, destacando Pseudoplatystoma tigrinum, P. fasciatum y Sorub
This document summarizes key information from education budget documents in Punjab, Pakistan. It finds that Punjab allocates a large portion of its overall budget to education, though still below international benchmarks. The education budget has seen declines in both development and non-development categories in recent years. Most funding goes to salaries, while the non-salary portion that could be used for resources has seen reduced allocations. Literacy and learning outcomes in the province require improvement according to assessments.
This document discusses treatment options for heart diseases at SDM Narayana Heart Centre in Dharwad. It outlines various diagnostic tests for heart diseases like ECG, echocardiography, and treadmill tests. It then describes surgical procedures for treating issues like blocked arteries, including coronary angioplasty with stent placement and coronary artery bypass surgery. It also mentions treatments for valve diseases like balloon mitral valve procedures and valve replacement surgery. The document concludes with statistics on the procedures performed at SDM Narayana Heart Centre from 2009 to 2015, including over 12,000 angiograms and over 2,000 open heart surgeries.
The document discusses resources available at the library and elsewhere to assist with job searching. It provides an overview of the services offered at the local career centers, including access to job listings, resume and interview preparation assistance, unemployment filing and financial aid for training. A tour of the library's career resources showed locations for materials on resumes, interviewing, salaries and more.
Accessibility Support Baseline: Balancing User Needs Against Test EffortAidan Tierney
A guided conversation about the accessibility support baseline and an opportunity to find out what others are supporting and to share thoughts and experiences. The support baseline is the term WCAG uses for the set of user technologies that an application is expected to work with, specifically the combinations of assistive technology (AT), operating system (OS) and where relevant browser and device. WCAG doesn’t define what needs to be in the baseline because it depends on your users, and on the technologies available to them.
Is testing only one combination for web and one for mobile sufficient? Changes in desktop screen reader usage, mobile fragmentation, and frequent updates to OS and AT may mean that it isn’t. But there are hundreds if not thousands of potential combinations. How do we balance support for these combinations against testing effort?
We will discuss:
• Who or what does a baseline impact?
• Variables to account for in a baseline
• Effort and costs
• Assistive Technology usage data
• Organizational challenges to supporting AT
• Sample web and mobile support baselines.
This document summarizes the history and use of the anticoagulant warfarin. It outlines that warfarin was originally developed as a rat poison in the 1940s and was later found to help treat blood clots in humans. The document discusses warfarin's mechanism of action, pharmacokinetics, indications, adverse effects, interactions, and comparisons to newer oral anticoagulants. It also covers periprocedural management and reversal of warfarin and novel oral anticoagulants in emergency situations. While warfarin requires regular monitoring and has more drug and food interactions than newer agents, it remains an important and widely available treatment option with an approved antidote.
La guitarra eléctrica pertenece a la familia de instrumentos de cuerda pulsada y consta de 10 partes principales. Es un instrumento de cuerda amplificado eléctricamente creado para superar el limitado volumen de las guitarras acústicas, y Fender fabrica 90,000 cuerdas al día, lo que equivale a 20,000 millas de cuerdas por año.
The document is about the ukulele, a 4-stringed cordophone instrument traditional to Hawaii. It provides information on the ukulele's family (soprano, concert, tenor, baritone), parts, and origins tracing back to Portuguese sailors arriving in Hawaii in 1879 where it was popularized. It also includes a video and section on interesting facts about the ukulele.
3. SITUACIÓ
La costa Daurada està situada al sud i
l’est de Catalunya.
El nom de Costa Daurada li ve del color
daurat que es pot veure a les seves
platges quan llueix el sol. La sorra es
converteix a la vista dels humans en
petites marques que recorden l’or. Però
no només el color daurat és el que
predomina en aquesta terra. Les terres
de l’interior estan plenes de totes les
tonalitats del verd i el marró, amb talls,
fulles i arbres, especialment pins. A la
costa, hi predomina espectacularment el
blau de les platges, que contrasten amb
la lluentor de la sorra i que fan que quan
es pon el sol tot es torni de color
taronja.
4. COSTA DAURADA: és de costa baixa.
Els seus 92 km de litoral els formen
llargues platges de sorra fina
interrompudes per amagades cales de
formació rocosa amb pins que gairebé
s'endinsen al mar.
La Costa Daurada està situada
a la Depressió Litoral envoltada
de la Serralada Litoral.
5. Tota la Costa Daurada gaudeix d’un clima
típicament mediterrani, amb unes
temperatures suaus a l’hivern i uns estius
càlids amb escasses pluges. A l’hivern, el
vent de mestral o serè bufa des del
nord-oest i el garbí des del sud-oest, i a
l’estiu hi ha un grau d’humitat escàs que
allunya les boires.
6.
7. També hi podem trobar un
parc d’atraccións anomenat
PORTAVENTURA! És
fantàstic i emocionant!!! Hi
heu d’anar!!
Podem veure
molts animals
marins
fantàstics!!