Given a start with some other fissile material (U-233, U-235 or Pu-239) as a driver, a breeding cycle similar to but more efficient than that with U-238 and plutonium (in normal, slow neutron reactors) can be set up. (The driver fuels provide all the neutrons initially, but are progressively supplemented by U-233 as it forms from the thorium.) However, there are also features of the neutron economy which counter this advantage.
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Therefore, sellers of the portfolio protection that typically hedge will sell more SPX futures in the first week of a five-week expiration cycle relative to the first week of a four-week expiration cycle.
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Although the Bretton-Woods system (1948-1971) was a pseudo-gold-standard manipulated by central banks, it was far superior to the fiat paper regimes seen since 1971, which have contributed so much to the boom-bust cycle, to unprecedented market volatility, over-leveraging, government budget deficits, debt crises, and economic stagnation.
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After a down cycle you typically have a booming up-cycle due to pent up demand.
It was in that moment that Chinoy realized that television news -- and the 24-hour news cycle CNN had pioneered -- was going to alter everything.
And some groups heavily involved in Bush's 2004 campaign -- representing thousands of volunteers and millions of dollars in resources -- said they plan to sit this cycle out or turn their focus to down-ballot races.
He said the challenge would be for universities which wanted to introduce higher fees to re-cycle the income to create bursaries for poorer students.
The AKP's internal constitution was amended during the party congress to allow parliamentarians who have already served three terms -- such as Erdogan -- to be re-elected after sitting out an election cycle.
They happen because management ignores deep-seated weaknesses and allows itself to get caught up in a cycle of short-term initiatives meant to meet high expectations with high-risk growth.
Warren White of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, and his colleagues were the first to find that sea-surface temperatures across the globe swing up and down in a 10-to 12-year period that lags behind the solar cycle by two to three years.
To supply the extra juice, utilities turn on inefficient single-cycle gas turbines, which turn 25% of the fuel's energy into electricity, as opposed to 45% for combined-cycle plants that use turbine exhaust to make steam to run a second generator.
According to a life-cycle analysis, the land-based crops all were found to sequester more carbon than that incurred in growing them, while the contrary was true for growing algae, meaning that replacing fossil fuels by algal fuels could cause an overall increase in carbon emissions.
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Beckstoffer has figured out that a certain altitude--from about 600 to 730 meters--in the right part of Lake County has a heating-and-cooling cycle similar to Napa's.
With nothing more than these resources and the IBM partnership, Kithulegoda expects to get his six-week cycle down to two.
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And in the meantime we're going to keep pursuing an all-of-the-above strategy for American energy to break the cycle of price spikes year after year.
Tentatively, I suggest a ten-year moving average to reflect a full asset-price cycle.
Despite paying initial lip-service to the need to counteract the debilitating oil-price cycle by saving money during the boom years, he has virtually emptied the fund set up in 1998 for that purpose.
To break out of the anxiety-filled cycle I have to give up the notion that I have some superhuman level of control.
That 10-15-year product development cycle john2011 alludes to still poses problems to speedy financial analysis and decision-making of this particular industry.
In 2000, he recorded thousands of Brood X members emerging four years early in other words, shifting to a 13-year cycle that Massospora is not equipped to match.
Windsor Castle, encircled by the historic city of the same name, is an easy-to-tackle 30-mile cycle from the capital.
"The good news is that people who stay up late in front of the television and computer may be able to undo some of the harmful effects just by going back to a regular light-dark cycle and minimizing their exposure to artificial light at night, " Bedrosian says.
But surely a few of these governors and legislatures have come to realize that the way to create a long-term cycle of business growth is to foster a tax and regulatory environment that is favorable to all job creation, not just the kind that pops up on Entertainment Tonight.
Silicon Valley was once so inward-looking that venture capitalists used to say they would not back a start-up unless they could cycle to its office.
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Walt used a three-period simple moving average of a five-period RSI to help identify cycle highs and lows.
It's also a way for pundits, bloggers and talk-show hosts to elevate themselves during the 24-hours news cycle, says Robert Thompson, a professor of pop culture history at Syracuse University in New York City.
We considered the 12 years from 2001-2012, and to control for any distortion of the artificial calendar year, we added the June-May cycle to the mix.
The rules pose another systemic problem as they tend to feed the sovereign-bank cycle currently causing the crisis due to sustaining the current death spiral of financial lending.
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Our big macro call of the end of the previous cycle and the start of the new cycle from August-October of last year continues to be spot on.
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