...I am writing this in reply to a letter I have recieved by Molina regarding the denyal of my request for shoe orthitics. If the notes in the report states I have pes planus (flat feet), then how do I have high arches? pes planus: people with flat feet or fallen arches either have no arch, or it is very low. My feet are flat to the ground, my left foot is severely flat and my ankle rolls inward. In the letter I recieved it states that I have high arches and hammer toe which is new to me. It also states that the notes don't show any of the problems that I have been going to the doctors for. Yes, I do believe my feet are the same size they just don't stand on the ground the same, the left one falls flat to the ground with no arch at all with the ankle rolling inwards, while the other foot has very little arch....
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...Friday, November 13, 2009 Part III Environmental Protection Agency 40 CFR Part 112 Oil Pollution Prevention; Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) Rule—Amendments; Final Rule wreier-aviles on DSKGBLS3C1PROD with RULES3 VerDate Nov2008 14:49 Nov 12, 2009 Jkt 220001 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 4717 Sfmt 4717 E:\FR\FM\13NOR3.SGM 13NOR3 58784 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 218 / Friday, November 13, 2009 / Rules and Regulations copy. Publicly available docket materials are available either electronically at http:// www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the EPA Docket, EPA/DC, EPA West, Room 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC. The Public Reading Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays. The telephone number of the Public Reading Room is 202–566–1744, and the telephone number to make an appointment to view the docket is 202–566–0276. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For general information, contact the Superfund, TRI, EPCRA, RMP, and Oil Information Center at 800–424–9346 or TDD at 800–553–7672 (hearing impaired). In the Washington, DC metropolitan area, contact the Superfund, TRI, EPCRA, RMP, and Oil Information Center at 703–412–9810 or TDD 703–412–3323. For more detailed information on specific aspects of this final rule, contact either Vanessa E. Principe at 202–564–7913 (principe.vanessa@epa.gov), or Mark W. Howard at 202–564–1964 (howard.markw@epa.gov), U.S...
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...Iowa State University Digital Repository @ Iowa State University Graduate Theses and Dissertations Graduate College 2012 Three essays on biofuel, environmental economics, and international trade Jingbo Cui Iowa State University Follow this and additional works at: http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd Part of the Agricultural and Resource Economics Commons, Agricultural Economics Commons, Economics Commons, and the Natural Resource Economics Commons Recommended Citation Cui, Jingbo, "Three essays on biofuel, environmental economics, and international trade" (2012). Graduate Theses and Dissertations. Paper 12304. This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate College at Digital Repository @ Iowa State University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Graduate Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Digital Repository @ Iowa State University. For more information, please contact hinefuku@iastate.edu. Three essays on biofuel, environmental economics, and international trade by Jingbo Cui A dissertation submitted to the graduate faculty in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Major: Economics Program of Study Committee: Harvey Lapan, Co-major Professor GianCarlo Moschini, Co-major Professor Sebastien Pouliot John Schroeter Rajesh Singh Iowa State University Ames, Iowa 2012 Copyright c Jingbo Cui, 2012. All rights reserved. ii DEDICATION ...
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...volatile industires and stable industries that supports regulation as stabilizing employment within volatile industries. Their anlysis also pointed out that the regulations impact the size of an industry which hampers entry of new firms which reduces over-all employment in an industry. (Micco & Pages 2007 p 23) Within conclusions reached utilizing existing economic data researchers have suggested utilizing better variables that will provide more reliable measures of estimating the economic effect of employment regulations besides employment rates and turnover rates. Other analysts examine how the regulatory structures, such as the EPA, evaluate the social cost estimates impact of regulation on impacted industries. Social cost estimates are obtained from "Partial Equilibrium Models (PEs) of the industry being regulated. (Murray et al. 2000) PE based estimates have been challenged by economists who have pointed to how environmental regulations interact with tax-induced distortions of the labor market, often referred to as "tax interaction effects" (TIEs). (Murray et al 2000 p 2) (Parry 1997) To use this anlysis the criticism pointed out that assumptions had to be made such as that there were no other market-distortions or...
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...Brussels, 15 December 2009 The EU-Latin America Bananas Agreement Questions and Answers What have the EU and Latin American (LA) countries agreed? The EU will: • cut its MFN import tariff on bananas in eight stages, from the current rate of €176/tonne to €114/tonne in 2017 at the earliest; and • make the biggest cut first, by €28/tonne to €148/per tonne, once all parties sign the deal. In return, Latin American countries will: • not demand further cuts in the framework of the Doha Round of talks on global trade once it resumes; • settle several legal disputes pending against the EU at the WTO, some dating back as far as 1993. 1. EU tariff cuts When all parties sign the agreement, the EU will make the first cut to its banana tariff, to €148 per tonne. This will apply retroactively from the date when all parties initialled the agreement. The tariff will then fall again at the start of each year for seven years, in annual instalments (€143, €136, €132, €127, €122, €117, €114), starting on 1 January, 2011. The EU will freeze its cuts for up to two years if WTO members do not conclude talks on agriculture in the Doha Round by the end of 2013. For more details, see below. 2. Latin American dispute settlement Once the WTO certifies the EU's new tariff schedule, Latin American banana-supplying countries will drop: • all their disputes on bananas with the EU at the WTO; and • any claims they made against the EU after new member countries joined the Union, or when the EU changed its...
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...Clean Automotive Technology Program Developing Cleaner and More Efficient Vehicles and Engines for Tomorrow 2006 Progress Report Contents Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 What Is the Clean Automotive Technology Program? . . . . . . 3 Summary of Recent Key Accomplishments . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Program Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Advancing Promising Technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Pursuing the Next Generation of Clean Engines . . . . . . . . 13 HCCI—Diesel Fuel Efficiency with Gasoline Emissions . . . 13 FPE—A Simpler, More Efficient Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Looking Ahead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Introduction Background ransportation and mobility are central to the American economy and way of life. While the world’s desire for personal mobility and commer cial transportation has evolved, so have the geopolitical and environmental landscapes. Global demand for oil is at an all-time high, driving up the price of gasoline and diesel fuel, and the environmental consequences of mobile source emissions have become more and more apparent. More than 100 million Americans live in coun ties that do not attain federal clean air standards for ozone (O3), sulfur...
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...CHAPTER 11 CURRENT LIABILITIES AND PAYROLL 1 EYE OPENERS 1. A discounted note payable has no stated interest rate, but provides interest by discounting the note proceeds. The discount, which is the difference between the proceeds and the face of the note, is the interest and is accounted for as such. 2. a. Income or withholding taxes, social security, and Medicare b. Employees Federal Income Tax Payable, Social Security Tax Payable, and Medicare Tax Payable 3. There is a ceiling on (c) the social security portion of the FICA tax and (d) the federal unemployment compensation tax. 4. The deductions from employees’ earnings are for amounts owed (liabilities) to others for such items as federal taxes, state and local income taxes, and contributions to pension plans. 5. Yes. Unemployment compensation taxes are paid by the employer on the first $7,000 of annual earnings for each employee. Therefore, hiring two employees, each earning $12,500 per year, would require the payment of twice the unemployment tax than if only one employee, earning $25,000, was hired. 6. 1. a 2. c 3. c 4. b 5. b 7. The use of special payroll checks relieves the treasurer or other executives of the task of signing a large number of regular checks each payday. Another advantage of this system is that reconciling the regular bank statement is simplified. The paid payroll checks are returned by the bank separately from regular checks and are accompanied by...
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...plants. (California Family Foods) The rice is transferred to the processing plant after being harvest where foreign objects (tree stomps, dirt, and stones) are removed; the husk (outer shell of the grain) is removed and the produce is called brown rice and it is ready for the milling process. This process removes the bran layer of rice turning it from brown to white. It goes to a polishing station where it is smoothened and given a shine look. Following is the grading which broken rice is separated out and also separated in different lengths. Discolored, yellow or immature rice is removed during the sorting station and then goes to packaging. It can be package in paper bag, but the most popular packaging method is polyethylene (PE) bag. This...
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...Title Grand Prix THE COSMOPOLITAN DIGITAL EXPERIENCE Advertiser/Client Product/Service Entrant Company Country THE COSMOPOLITAN OF LAS VEGAS HOTEL DIGITAL EXPERIENCE DIGITAL KITCHEN, Chicago USA Gold Lion PLAYING THE UNDERGROUND CENAKOVSKI JEUDI CLUB MUSIC EVENT JUNG von MATT, Hamburg COSSETTE, Montreal GERMANY CANADA THÉÂTRE DU THEATRE NOUVEAU MONDE MELBOURNE WRITERS FESTIVAL BBC 2010 MELBOURNE WRITERS FESTIVAL STORIES FROM THE STREET JWT, Melbourne THE CHASE CREATIVE CONSULTANCY, Manchester CREATIVE JUICE\BANGKOK (TBWA), Bangkok OGILVY & MATHER JAPAN, Tokyo GOBASIL, Hamburg FORSMAN & BODENFORS, Gothenburg BBDO GERMANY, Düsseldorf AUSTRALIA ALMOST EXTINCT BBC WILDLIFE FUND UNITED KINGDOM TAMIYA CALENDAR CHEMICAL REACTION BASISBIBEL SIAM TAMIYA SHU’S PRODUCTION GERMAN BIBLE SOCIETY IKEA BBDO TAMIYA MODEL KITS SHOP CORPORATE TOOL BIBLE COVER DESIGN THAILAND JAPAN GERMANY HOMEMADE IS BEST THE INTERACTIVE COAL-GATE DEPARTMENT STORE ADVERTISING AGENCY SWEDEN GERMANY LOVE BLOSSOMS HERE THE UNBELIEVABLE IS FOUND AT EMILIANO I AM ONE THOUSAND GOING GOING GONE RED! MOTHER'S PRIDE / MARVEL GROUP PRESCHOOL OF COMPANIES HOTEL EMILIANO ENABLIS RICHARD HOUSE PUBLIC HEALTH BUREAU OF FENGXIAN, SHANGHAI BMW MONOPRIX PIE INTERNATIONAL OFFF INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL MTV IKEA HOTEL EMILIANO BOOK NON-FOR-PROFIT ORGANIZATION GO RED! OUT OF THE BOX, New INDIA Delhi JWT BRAZIL, São Paulo BRAZIL COSSETTE, Montreal THE PARTNERS...
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...CDC: Center for Disease Control and Prevention cGMPs: good manufacturing practices CHO: Chinese hamster ovary cm: centimeter CPDP: Comprehensive Product Development Plan CO2: carbon dioxide COOH: carboxyl [group] CT [scan]: computed tomography CuSO4: cupric sulfate (anhydrous) D dATP: deoxyadenosine triphosphate, the cell’s source of cytosine (C) for DNA molecules D: diopter DEAE: diethylaminoethyl DNA: deoxyribonucleic acid dH20: distilled water ddNTP: dideoxynucleotide dNTP: deoxynucleotide triphosphates (the dATP, dCTP, dGTP, and dTTPs) DMV: Department of Motor Vehicles DPA: diphenylamine [solution] DTT: dithiothreitol DVM: Doctor of Veterinary Medicine E EDTA: ELISA: enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay EPA: Environmental Protection Agency EtBr: ethidium bromide EtOH: ethanol F FAA: Federal Aviation Administration FDA: Food and Drug Administration FLPC: fast-performance liquid chromatography G g: gram GC: gas chromatograph gDNA: genomic DNA GFP: green fluorescent protein GMO: genetically modified organism gp: glycosylated protein GM-CSF: granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor GTE: glucose/TRIS/EDTA H H20: water H202: hydrogen peroxide...
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...LA D AM A BL A N C A L ey en da d e M ad ri d Co r rí a el añ o 1 550 ; el o r o v en í a d el Pe rú en g al e on e s bi en cu st odi ad o s, y ac om pañ an d o el du l ce ti n ti n e o, l l en o s de o r gu l l o y a ca ri ci ad os p or d o rad as e sp e ran z a s, tam bi é n l l egaban su s p r op i eta ri o s. Un o d e el l o s, vi ej o , c o rc o va d o , c on l os oj os can sad o s de c on t empl a r t e s o ro s , d es e mba r ca b a en Cá di z . E ra ri c o , y c on el or o s e c r eí a c apaz d e c o mp ra r l o tod o : h a sta el a mo r . S e l e h i z o l arg o el vi aj e a l a Vi ll a y C o rt e , pu e s r ec o rd aba qu e su ami go el mé di c o d el Re y qu e dó tu t o r d e u n a n i ñ a en can t ad o ra qu e ah o ra f ri sa rí a en l o s v ei n te añ os y s oñ ab a en c on ta gi ar s e d e su j u v en tu d c on t ra y en d o m at ri mo n i o co n el l a. Ll eg ó el p e ru l e r o , h abl ó c on el tu t o r ; n ada s e c on su l tó c on l a mu ch ach a, au n qu e al go se l e d i o a en t en d e r d e b o da i n mi n en te . Y u n a vez t od o di spu e st o pa ra l a c e r em on i a , el vi ej o m édi c o l l ev ó a su pu pi l a al Pal aci o R e al . D on F el i pe II h abí al e si em pr e d em o st r ad o a f e ct o, y en es ta o ca si ón l e o fr e ci ó c o m o r egal o n u pci al di gn o d e su g r an d ez a, l as tr e c e m on eda s d e o r o qu e h abí an d e s e rvi r de a r ra s . Vi ví a l a n ovi a en l a cal l e de l as In f an ta s, en u...
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...Committee of the American Thoracic Society, Washington, DC, USA; 4RH White Consultants LLC, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA; 5Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 2Office 3Environmental B ackground : Exposure to ozone has been associated with adverse health effects, including premature mortality and cardiopulmonary and respiratory morbidity. In 2008, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lowered the primary (health-based) National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) for ozone to 75 ppb, expressed as the fourth-highest daily maximum 8-hr average over a 24-hr period. Based on recent monitoring data, U.S. ozone levels still exceed this standard in numerous locations, resulting in avoidable adverse health consequences. Objectives: We sought to quantify the potential human health benefits from achieving the current primary NAAQS standard of 75 ppb and two alternative standard levels, 70 and 60 ppb, which represent the range recommended by the U.S. EPA Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC). Methods: We applied health impact assessment methodology to estimate numbers of deaths and other adverse health outcomes that would have been avoided during 2005, 2006, and 2007 if the current (or lower) NAAQS ozone standards had been met. Estimated reductions in ozone...
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... The Journal of Nutrition Nutrition and Disease Algal Docosahexaenoic Acid Affects Plasma Lipoprotein Particle Size Distribution in Overweight and Obese Adults1–3 Lisa M. Neff,4 Jill Culiner,4 Susanna Cunningham-Rundles,6 Cynthia Seidman,7 Diane Meehan,7 Janet Maturi,7 Knut M. Wittkowski,5 Barbara Levine,4 and Jan L. Breslow4* 4 Laboratory of Biochemical Genetics and Metabolism and 5Research Design and Biostatistics Core, Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065; 6Cellular Immunology Laboratory, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, Weill Medical College, Cornell University, New York, NY 10065; and 7Bionutrition Department, Rockefeller University Hospital, New York, NY 10065 Fish oils containing both EPA and DHA have been shown to have beneficial cardiovascular effects, but less is known about the independent effects of DHA. This study was designed to examine the effects of DHA on plasma lipid and lipoprotein concentrations and other biomarkers of cardiovascular risk in the absence of weight loss. In this randomized, controlled, double-blind trial, 36 overweight or obese adults were treated with 2 g/d of algal DHA or placebo for 4.5 mo. Markers of cardiovascular risk were assessed before and after treatment. In the DHA-supplemented group, the decrease in mean VLDL particle size (P # 0.001) and increases in mean LDL (P # 0.001) and HDL (P # 0.001) particle sizes were significantly greater than changes in the placebo group. DHA supplementation...
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...SHALE GAS :AN UNCONVETIONAL GAS RESERVOIR SUNJAY,SUSHEEL KUMAR AND NIKHIL JAIN Geophysics ,Geology ,Mining Engg-IIT ,BHU ,Varansi 221005 ,India Sunjay.sunjay@gmail.com,skumarpetro09@gmail.com, nikhilchhajar@gmail.com Summary With a view to energy security of the world, unconventional energy resources - coalbed methane (CBM) , Methane Gas Hydrate, shale gas, basin centred gas ,tight gas, oil shale and heavy oil- exploration and exploitation is pertinent task before geoscientist . Shale gas is natural gas from shale formations which acts as both the source and the reservoir for the natural gas. Each Shale gas reservoir has unique characteristics. Shale has low matrix permeability, so gas production in commercial quantities requires fractures to provide permeability. For a given matrix permeability and pressure, gas production are determined by the number and complexity of fractures created, their effective conductivity, and the ability to effectively reduce the pressure throughout the fracture network to initiate gas production. Understanding the relationship between fracture complexity, fracture conductivity, matrix permeability, and gas recovery is a fundamental challenge of shale-gas development. Shale gas reservoirs almost always have two different storage volumes (dual porosity) for hydrocarbons, the rock matrix and the natural fractures .Because of the plastic nature of shale formations, these natural fractures are generally closed due to the pressure...
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...Chapter 5 Profit Ceflter. 201 Case 5-2 North Country Auto, Inc. George G. Liddy, part owner of North Country Auto, Inc., was feeling pretty good about the new control systems recently put in place for his fiv e department managers (new and used car sales, service, body, and parts departments). Exhibit 1 descdbes each department. Mr. Liddy strongly believed in the concept of evaluating each department individually as a profit center. But he also recog· nized the challenge of getting his managers to "buy in" to the system by working together for the good of the dealership. Background North Country Auto, Inc., was a fmnchised dealer and factory-authorized service center for Ford, Saab, and Volkswagen. Multipl e franchi ses were becoming more common in the 1980s. But the value of multiple franchises did not com e ,vithout costs. Each of the three manufacturers used a different computerized system for tracking inventory and placing new orders. They also required their dea lerships to maintain an adequate service facility with a crew of trained technicians that, in turn , necessitated carrying an inventory of parts to be used in repairs. Exhibit 2 gives balance sheet data with a brea kout of investment for each product lin e. North Country also operated a body shop, and in mid-1989 opened a "whil e-you-wa it" oil change service for any ma ke of vehicl e. The dealership was situated in an upstate New York town with a population of about 20,000. It served two nearby towns...
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