This issue of Global Perspectives looks
at factors driving emerging market investments — and which markets appear most promising.
Several of the new findings are enabled by tools we've released over the last couple years including the Smashwords Series Manager which allows us to look closer
at the factors driving series performance, and Smashwords Preorder Distribution which was first announced in 2013 but has now given us a wealth of information we can now mine and share.
A new study released in the journal Energy and Environmental Science by MIT and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory looks
at factors driving cheap (er) Chinese made solar panels.
Whilst there were arguments in favour of the split, others suggested a re-look
at the factors driving the request.
Not exact matches
For Harry's, vertical integration was
driven by one crucial
factor: There are only a few manufacturers in the world that can make what it sells — high - end razor blades —
at scale.
Factors like storage, refrigeration and shipping can
drive up the prices
at national grocery stores, so you can generally score much better deals
at small markets that get their produce from local farms and wholesalers.
Strebulaev and his colleagues surveyed 885 venture capital professionals
at 681 firms, asking the VCs to identify the
factors that
drive their investment selection decisions and rank them according to importance.
What we didn't anticipate was that other
factors, including bad weather and other hiccups in commodities markets, would
drive up the price of food in much of the U.S., increasing restaurants» costs
at a time when they couldn't easily pass those costs through to budget - conscious diners.
Analysts
at Exane BNP Paribas have said they see a $ 25 billion market for automated
driving technology by 2020, with vehicle intelligence becoming «the key differentiating
factor».
Factors like the anticipation of the CME listing cryptocurrency futures in the second week of December and investor FOMO (fear of missing out), are
driving «another frenzy of buying,» said Chris Weston, chief marketing strategist
at IG Group, in a note to clients Monday.
Other
factors drive happiness blips, like the Blue Jays» surprise run
at the World Series.
Price structures are often influenced by two
factors: cost - plus (maintaining prices
at a level that exceeds product costs by a certain margin) or opting to follow the market leader's price structure and being completely
driven by its policy.
«The pricing of diamonds is hugely variable and
driven by a multitude of
factors,» said Ben Davis, an analyst
at Liberum Capital Markets.
Maury Obstfeld, economic counsellor and research department director
at the IMF, told CNBC Monday that there was a broad cyclical upswing but many of the
factors driving growth were temporary in nature.
Although your personal credit score will be part of the equation, it is not the
driving factor and there are many business - related data points we look
at to evaluate a business» creditworthiness.
If you have federal student loan debt, The U.S. Department of Education offers various repayment plans, including Income -
Driven Repayment (IDR) Plans that set your monthly loan payments
at an amount that
factors in your income and family size.
Economic growth, interest rate differentials and inflation are three
factors that
drive currency movements, according to Kevin Flanagan, senior fixed - income strategist
at WisdomTree.
Schmidt took his time to explain that a multitude of
factors are in play when looking
at the release of Google self -
driving cars, and regulation is one of the essential ones.
Some of this difference is
driven by slightly different growth
factors; for example, VONG looks
at book - to - price ratios, medium - term growth forecasts and historical sales - per - share growth, while IWY only uses the latter two
factors.
Our econometric analysis shows that global
factors play a dominant role in
driving inflation
at the individual country level; our measure of the global output gap has begun to increase, and should rise further as emerging markets recover, exerting upward pressure on inflation rates.
Recent research from Gallup focused on «active disengagement,» or the notion of employee engagement
at work (or the lack thereof) as a
factor in
driving business operations.
It's no surprise that Lindsay frames this as a battle; the
factors driving this trend are as complex as any war and require both a boots - on - the - ground response and effective strategy
at policy level.
He suggested that deceptive marketing, particularly aimed
at young teens, and the known link between contraception and increased sexual activity were key
factors in understanding Planned Parenthood's abortion -
driven revenue growth.
«Despite the fact that health attributes, particularly free - from,
factor strongly in consumer decisions when purchasing plant - based proteins,
at the end of the day, taste is the
driving force behind purchase and eating decisions.
Introduction The organic industry
at the turn of the century
Factors driving organic agriculture growth Prospects for organic agriculture Conclusions
Travis: I looked
at four
factors when determining my Masters pick this year:
driving distance, par 4 scoring, par 5 scoring, and strokes gained tee - to - green.
The third
factor is that, well, the Giants are supremely bad
at hitting line
drives at all this year.
* Curiosities about same sex stimulation, I think many men have these curiosities and it messes with them mentally, either they act on it or divulge in gay porn I DO NT THINK THATS TRUE UNLESS THEY ARE IN PRISON * Addiction to porn and / or jacking off ONLY WHEN GETTING IT FROM THEIR WIFE IS SUCH A CHORE * Medical Conditions such as low sex
drive, he is older and it has been going down over the years, he has high blood pressure and takes medication, he also has low Vitamin D and takes supplements, he may have some ED issues as well LACK OF SEX COULD CAUSE AS WELL AS BE CAUSED BY THOSE
FACTORS * Sexual advances from other woman and him acting on those or seeking out other women for comfort when he is angry and / or depressed A DEFINITE POSSIBILITY * His ADHD doesn't allow him to process issues normally, he is quick to anger, depression, and feeling disrespected that causes his to retreat * He was self raised, came from drug infested household where neglect, torture, and narcissism ruled, and he lost his mother
at the age of 7 from drugs, growing up in foster care * I make more money and I control all the money, he is not interested in paying bills
at all, this immaculateness him * He is a control freak and sex is his way of controlling me, where he otherwise can't control me as I am more educated and he is more vocational SOUNDS TO ME LIKE YOU ARE A MATCHED PAIR IN THAT RESPECT.
DR. MURPHY: The emotional
factor that I mentioned, carrying the baby, meeting the baby's needs, not letting the baby cry, doing the calorie count per day to make sure that the calories per kilo per day are
at least
at what normal babies need and we increase that as we can in order to see if it's really calorically
driven.
She knew this about me, about my admission to medical school and dropping out, and on the basis of the internal
factors which
drove me, in the past, to get into medical school, so calculated that I was not much of a risk
at all even though I was broke and continued to be so for the first three years of our marriage.
«The schools we selected
at the beginning had very high free / reduced percentages — something like 80 percent — so that was a
driving factor with our principals
at the time,» recalled Shorter.
To truly address the reasons why women choose potentially unsafe home birth situations and attendants, we need to look as their — usually unconscious —
drive to protect their mental health, when faced with disrespectful, intrusive and abusive medical environments (I'm not saying that all hospitals are like that
at all, mine isn't, but it can be a major
factor).
It is
at this point that you see the emergence of socio - economic
factors that remain of relevance after the war and into the Communist era: a
drive for economic self - sufficiency, social welfare stimulated by the refugee crisis — the government needed to cope with 80 million refugees.
Despite
factors that should
drive up interest — control of the board being
at stake, big money flowing into some campaigns, and outside forces trying to steer the outcome — history shows School Board races rest in the hands of relatively few voters.
All three companies cite a sizable tax base, manageable debt burden and careful budgeting as
driving factors in arriving
at their credit rating.
«CRKII most likely regulates the stability of mutated epidermal growth
factor receptors and
drives cancer growth by promoting signaling, or communication, within cancer cells,» said Julia Petschnigg, lead author on the paper and a postdoctoral fellow
at U of T. «We found that a combinatorial chemotherapy that inhibits those mutated receptors and CRKII could be beneficial in treating lung cancer.»
Among dozens of mouse studies, he presented work led by Moderna Co-Founder Kenneth Chien, then
at Harvard Medical School in Boston, showing that mice recovering from induced heart attacks survived longer and had stronger hearts when injected with mRNA encoding a protein that
drives blood vessel formation — vascular endothelial growth
factor (VEGF).
Dr. Spiker and coauthors write, «In the pursuit of cost optimization, and the broader pursuit of value
driven healthcare, it may prove valuable to study the
factors that allow these states to deliver care
at a lower cost.»
In a different study Waghmare presented
at the recent annual meeting of the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation in Orlando, Florida, the researchers teased out a few risk
factors that can
drive the development of lower respiratory tract infections — namely, high levels of steroid use (commonly given to transplant patients for other complications such as graft - vs.
Earlier work Weimbs conducted
at UCSB had shown that the transcription
factor called STAT6 is overly active in PKD, and he also recalled that STAT6 had been shown to
drive the expression of pIgR in other organs.
A multitude of interacting
factors are
driving the increase in Lyme disease cases, but their relative importance remains unclear, according to Marm Kilpatrick, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology
at UC Santa Cruz.
The findings, published in the American Journal of Public Health, suggest that state lawmakers look
at factors both within their states as well their neighboring states when considering new
driving laws.
Richard Thomson, a physical oceanographer
at the Institute of Ocean Sciences in British Columbia who also did not take part in the work, says that deep - sea currents could be the
driving factor behind the extreme variations in biology.
The researchers measured blame by looking
at more than 50 driver
factors coded in the FARS database, including such «unambiguous»
factors as
driving through a red light or
driving on the wrong side of the road.
In a set of papers out today in the journals Nature Genetics and Nature Communications, researchers
at the Cancer Center
at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) shed new light on the genetic mechanisms that promote metastasis in the mouse model and also implicated the typical Western high - fat diet as a key environmental
factor driving metastasis.
This suggests that the initial selection
at this locus may have been independently
driven by some
factor other than AMY2B copy number.
Poor physical health and financial health are
driven by the same underlying psychological
factors, finds a new study out of the Olin Business School
at Washington University in St. Louis.
Now, however, a team of researchers led by Yu - Hua Tseng, Ph.D., Investigator in the Section on Integrative Physiology and Metabolism
at Joslin Diabetes Center and an Associate Professor of Medicine
at Harvard Medical School, has created cell lines of human brown and white fat precursor cells that will help investigators to pick apart the
factors that
drive the development and activity of each type of cell.
They're actually picked as defects in heart development and those very often spontaneously go away, so they're probably
driven by growth
factors that are present
at that time of development of the heart and in combination with mutations in fact, in cases of familial hematoma syndrome, but they almost invariably self resolve.
Orbital
factors can initiate, but the insolation rate of change due to orbital
factors would not
drive the detailed processes
at a centennial scale (Dansgaard Oeschger etc).