Six percent and other standards

Other Still Image Compression Standards

The “Reasonable Man” and other legal standards

In the common law of negligence, an individual breaches the duty of due care if she fails to act as would a “reasonable man” under the circumstances. A natural question, first posed by Rubinstein [8], is whether the “reasonable man” can be derived from the views of actual agents. Rubinstein introduced an axiomatic model and showed that there does not exist a non-dictatorial aggregation method w...

Microprocessor Standards and Markets , Part 11 : Six Architectural Affiliations

Each of the dominant chip architectures has affiliations with a variety of industry playersfrom chip fabricators to platform vendors. The strength of these affiliations, or keiretsus, will play a key role in determining the general market acceptance of a chip architecture. Intel X86 is the strongest keiretsu based on its immense application availability, volume, and range of products. The Power...

Chile’s Regional Arrangements: the Importance of Market Access and Lowering the Tariff to Six Percent

Using a multi-sector multi-country computable general equilibrium model, we examine Chile’s “additive regionalism” strategy of negotiating bilateral free trade agreements with all of its significant trading partners. Chile’s agreements with “Northern” partners provide sufficient market access to overcome trade diversion costs for Chile. By lowering its tariff from eleven to six percent, Chile i...

Development of youth percent body fat standards using receiver operating characteristic curves.

BACKGROUND Few studies have identified health-related criterion standards of percent body fat (%BF) in U.S. youth. Further, existing standards are static thresholds (e.g., 25%, 30%) and do not account for normal growth and maturation. PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to identify thresholds of %BF in youth linked to metabolic syndrome in a large sample of U.S. children and adolescents. ...