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Q808	what happens when the baroreceptor reflex is activated	Baroreflex	Subsequent changes in blood pressure are mediated by the autonomic nervous system .	00
Q808	what happens when the baroreceptor reflex is activated	Baroreflex	Atrial natriuretic peptide forms a parallel negative feedback loop in an endocrinological contrast to the renin-angiotensin system .	00
Q810	what ever happened to the survivors of the 1989 california earthquake	1989 Loma Prieta earthquake	The Loma Prieta earthquake, also known as the Quake of '89 and the World Series Earthquake, was a major earthquake that struck the San Francisco Bay Area of California on October 17, 1989, at 5:04 pm local time.	00
Q810	what ever happened to the survivors of the 1989 california earthquake	1989 Loma Prieta earthquake	Caused by a slip along the San Andreas Fault , the quake lasted 10–15 seconds and measured 6.9 on both the moment magnitude scale (surface-wave magnitude 7.1) and on the open-ended Richter Scale .	00
Q810	what ever happened to the survivors of the 1989 california earthquake	1989 Loma Prieta earthquake	The quake killed 63 people throughout northern California, injured 3,757 and left some 3,000–12,000 people homeless.	00
Q810	what ever happened to the survivors of the 1989 california earthquake	1989 Loma Prieta earthquake	The earthquake occurred during the warm-up practice for the third game of the 1989 World Series , featuring both of the Bay Area's Major League Baseball teams, the Oakland Athletics and the San Francisco Giants .	00
Q810	what ever happened to the survivors of the 1989 california earthquake	1989 Loma Prieta earthquake	Because of game-related sports coverage, this was the first major earthquake in the United States to have its initial jolt broadcast live on television.	00
Q811	how many pawns in chess	Pawn (chess)	Pawn in the standard Staunton pattern	00
Q811	how many pawns in chess	Pawn (chess)	The pawn (♙♟) is the most numerous and in most circumstances the weakest piece in the game of chess , historically representing infantry or, more particularly, armed peasants or pikemen .	00
Q811	how many pawns in chess	Pawn (chess)	In chess, each player begins the game with eight pawns, one on each square of the rank immediately in front of the other pieces.	11
Q811	how many pawns in chess	Pawn (chess)	(In algebraic notation , the white pawns start on a2, b2, c2, ..., h2, while black pawns start on a7, b7, c7, ..., h7.)	00
Q811	how many pawns in chess	Pawn (chess)	Individual pawns are referred to by the file on which they stand.	00
Q811	how many pawns in chess	Pawn (chess)	For example, one speaks of "White's f-pawn" or "Black's b-pawn", or less commonly (using descriptive notation ), "White's king's bishop pawn" or "Black's queen's knight pawn".	00
Q811	how many pawns in chess	Pawn (chess)	It is also common to refer to a rook pawn , meaning any pawn on the a- or h-file, a knight pawn (on the b- or g-file), a bishop pawn (on the c- or f-file), a queen pawn (on the d-file), a king pawn (on the e-file), and a central pawn (on either the d- or e-file).	00
Q812	what countries allow gays to openly serve in the military	Sexual orientation and military service	The military forces of the world have differing approaches to the enlistment of homosexual (gay and lesbian) and bisexual individuals.	00
Q812	what countries allow gays to openly serve in the military	Sexual orientation and military service	The armed forces of most developed countries have now removed policies excluding non-heterosexual individuals (with strict policies on sexual harassment ).	00
Q812	what countries allow gays to openly serve in the military	Sexual orientation and military service	Nations that permit gay people to serve openly in the military include the 4 of the 5 members of the UN Security Council (United States, United Kingdom, France, and Russia), the Republic of China (Taiwan), Australia , Israel , South Africa , Argentina , and all NATO members excluding Turkey .	11
Q814	how is hydrogen produced	Hydrogen production	Hydrogen production is the family of industrial methods for generating hydrogen.	00
Q814	how is hydrogen produced	Hydrogen production	Currently the dominant technology for direct production is steam reforming from hydrocarbons .	11
Q814	how is hydrogen produced	Hydrogen production	Many other methods are known including electrolysis and thermolysis .	00
Q814	how is hydrogen produced	Hydrogen production	In 2006, the United States was estimated to have a production capacity of 11 million tonnes of hydrogen.	00
Q814	how is hydrogen produced	Hydrogen production	5 million tonnes of hydrogen were consumed on-site in oil refining, and in the production of ammonia ( Haber process ) and methanol (reduction of carbon monoxide ).	00
Q814	how is hydrogen produced	Hydrogen production	0.4 million tonnes were an incidental by-product of the chlor-alkali process .	00
Q814	how is hydrogen produced	Hydrogen production	Hydrogen production is an estimated $100 billion industry.	00
Q815	how many percent is a basis point	Basis point	A basis point (often denoted as bp, colloquially referred to in the plural as "bips", also known as a "beep") is a unit equal to one hundredth of a percentage point , or one part per ten thousand , 1/10000.	00
Q815	how many percent is a basis point	Basis point	The same unit is also (rarely) called a permyriad, literally meaning 'for (every) myriad (ten thousand)', and in that context is written with which looks like a percent sign (%) with two extra zeroes at the end (like a stylized form of the four zeros in the denominator , although it originates as a natural extension of the percent (%) and permille (‰) signs).	00
Q815	how many percent is a basis point	Basis point	A basis point is defined as:	00
Q815	how many percent is a basis point	Basis point	1 basis point = 1 permyriad = one one-hundredth percent	11
Q815	how many percent is a basis point	Basis point	1 bp = 1 = 0.01% = 0.1‰ = 10−4 = = 0.0001	11
Q815	how many percent is a basis point	Basis point	1% = 100 bp = 100	00
Q815	how many percent is a basis point	Basis point	Basis points are used as a convenient unit of measurement in contexts where percentage differences of less than 1% are discussed.	00
Q815	how many percent is a basis point	Basis point	The most common example is interest rates , where differences in interest rates of less than 1% per year are usually meaningful to talk about.	00
Q815	how many percent is a basis point	Basis point	For example, a difference of 0.10 percentage points is equivalent to a change of 10 basis points (e.g. a 4.67% rate increases by 10 basis points to 4.77%).	00
Q815	how many percent is a basis point	Basis point	Like percentage points , basis points avoid the ambiguity between relative and absolute discussions about interest rates by dealing only with the absolute change in numeric value of a rate.	00
Q815	how many percent is a basis point	Basis point	For example, if a report says there has been a "1% increase" from a 10% interest rate, this could refer to an increase either from 10% to 10.1% (relative, 1% of 10%), or from 10% to 11% (absolute, 1% plus 10%).	00
Q815	how many percent is a basis point	Basis point	If, however, the report says there has been a "10 basis point increase" from a 10% interest rate, then we know that the interest rate of 10% has increased by 0.10% (the absolute change) to a 10.1% rate.	00
Q815	how many percent is a basis point	Basis point	It is common practice in the financial industry to use basis points to denote a rate change in a financial instrument , or the difference ( spread ) between two interest rates, including the yields of fixed-income securities .	00
Q815	how many percent is a basis point	Basis point	Since certain loans and bonds may commonly be quoted in relation to some index or underlying security , they will often be quoted as a spread over (or under) the index.	00
Q815	how many percent is a basis point	Basis point	For example, a loan that bears interest of 0.50% per annum above the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) is said to be 50 basis points over LIBOR, which is commonly expressed as "L+50bps" or simply "L+50".	00
Q815	how many percent is a basis point	Basis point	The term "basis point" has its origins in trading the "basis" or the spread between two interest rates.	00
Q815	how many percent is a basis point	Basis point	Since the basis is usually small, these are quoted multiplied up by 10000, and hence a "full point" movement in the "basis" is a basis point.	00
Q815	how many percent is a basis point	Basis point	Contrast with pips in FX forward markets.	00
Q815	how many percent is a basis point	Basis point	The relationship between percentage changes and basis points can be summarized as follows: 1 percentage point change = 100 basis points, and 0.01 percentage points = 1 basis point.	11
Q815	how many percent is a basis point	Basis point	So, a bond whose yield increases from 5% to 5.5% is said to increase by 50 basis points; or interest rates that have risen 1 percentage point are said to have increased by 100 basis points.	00
Q816	what does the royal family do	British Royal Family	The British Royal Family is the group of close relatives of the monarch of the United Kingdom .	00
Q816	what does the royal family do	British Royal Family	The term is also commonly applied to the same group of people who are the relations of the monarch in her or his role as sovereign of any of the other Commonwealth realms , thus sometimes at variance with official national terms for the family.	00
Q816	what does the royal family do	British Royal Family	Members of the Royal Family belong to, either by birth or marriage, the House of Windsor , since 1917, when George V changed the name of the royal house from Saxe-Coburg and Gotha .	00
Q816	what does the royal family do	British Royal Family	This decision was primarily taken because Britain and her Empire were at war with Germany and given the British Royal Family's strong German ancestry; it was felt that its public image could be improved by choosing a more British house name.	00
Q816	what does the royal family do	British Royal Family	The new name chosen, Windsor, had absolutely no connection other than as the name of the castle which was and continues to be a royal residence.	00
Q816	what does the royal family do	British Royal Family	Although in the United Kingdom there is no strict legal or formal definition of who is or is not a member of the Royal Family, and different lists will include different people, those carrying the style Her or His Majesty (HM) , or Her or His Royal Highness (HRH) are always considered members, which usually results in the application of the term to the monarch, the consort of the monarch, the widowed consorts of previous monarchs, the children of the monarch and previous monarchs, the male-line grandchildren of the monarch and previous monarchs, and the spouses and the widows of a monarch's and previous monarch's sons and male-line grandsons.	00
Q816	what does the royal family do	British Royal Family	On 30 November 1917, King George V issued Letters Patent defining who are members of the Royal Family; the text of the notice from the London Gazette is as follows:	00
Q816	what does the royal family do	British Royal Family	In 1996, Her Majesty The Queen modified these Letters Patent, as was evidenced by this Notice from the London Gazette:	00
Q816	what does the royal family do	British Royal Family	In 2013 Letters Patent were issued to extend a title and a style borne by members of the Royal Family to additional persons to be born, evidenced by this Notice from the London Gazette:	00
Q816	what does the royal family do	British Royal Family	Members and relatives of the British Royal Family historically represented the monarch in various places throughout the British Empire , sometimes for extended periods as viceroys , or for specific ceremonies or events.	00
Q816	what does the royal family do	British Royal Family	Today, they often perform ceremonial and social duties throughout the United Kingdom and abroad on behalf of the United Kingdom.	00
Q816	what does the royal family do	British Royal Family	Aside from the monarch, their only constitutional role in the affairs of government is to serve, if eligible and when appointed by letters patent, as a Counsellor of State , two or more of whom exercise the authority of the Crown (within stipulated limits) in the indisposal or absence from the British realm of the monarch.	00
Q816	what does the royal family do	British Royal Family	In the other realms of the Commonwealth royalty do not serve as Counsellors of State.	00
Q816	what does the royal family do	British Royal Family	However in each such realm the monarch's family members may act on behalf of, are funded by, and represent the sovereign of that particular state, and not the United Kingdom.	00
Q816	what does the royal family do	British Royal Family	The Queen, her consort, her children and grandchildren, as well as all former sovereigns' children and grandchildren hold places in the first sections of the official orders of precedence in England and Wales , Scotland , and Northern Ireland .	00
Q816	what does the royal family do	British Royal Family	Wives of the said enjoy their husbands' precedence, and husbands of princesses are unofficially but habitually placed with their wives as well.	00
Q816	what does the royal family do	British Royal Family	However, the Queen changed the private order of precedence in the Royal Family in favour of Princesses Anne and Alexandra, who henceforth take private precedence over the Duchess of Cornwall, who is otherwise the realm's highest ranking woman after the Queen herself.	00
Q816	what does the royal family do	British Royal Family	She did not alter the relative precedence of other born-princesses, such as the daughters of her younger sons.	00
Q818	what countries are very near to Haiti?	Haiti	Haiti ( ; Haitian Creole Ayiti ), officially the Republic of Haiti (; ), is a Caribbean country.	00
Q818	what countries are very near to Haiti?	Haiti	It occupies the western, smaller portion of the island of Hispaniola , in the Greater Antillean archipelago, which it shares with the Dominican Republic .	00
Q818	what countries are very near to Haiti?	Haiti	Ayiti (land of high mountains) was the indigenous Taíno or Amerindian name for the island.	00
Q818	what countries are very near to Haiti?	Haiti	The country's highest point is Pic la Selle , at .	00
Q818	what countries are very near to Haiti?	Haiti	The total area of Haiti is and its capital is Port-au-Prince .	00
Q818	what countries are very near to Haiti?	Haiti	Haitian Creole and French are the official languages.	00
Q818	what countries are very near to Haiti?	Haiti	Haiti's regional, historical, and ethno-linguistic position is unique for several reasons.	00
Q818	what countries are very near to Haiti?	Haiti	It was the first independent nation of Latin America and the Caribbean, the first black -led republic in the world, and the second republic in the Americas when it gained independence in 1804 as part of a successful slave revolution lasting nearly a decade.	00
Q818	what countries are very near to Haiti?	Haiti	In 2012, Haiti announced its intention to seek associate membership status in the African Union .	00
Q818	what countries are very near to Haiti?	Haiti	Haiti is the most populous of the predominantly Francophone independent nations in the Americas.	00
Q818	what countries are very near to Haiti?	Haiti	It is one of only two independent nations in the Americas (along with Canada) to designate French as an official language ; the other French-speaking areas are all overseas départements , or collectivités , of France.	00
Q818	what countries are very near to Haiti?	Haiti	Haiti is the most populous full member-state of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).	00
Q818	what countries are very near to Haiti?	Haiti	It is the poorest country in the Americas as measured by the Human Development Index .	00
Q818	what countries are very near to Haiti?	Haiti	Political violence has occurred regularly throughout its history , leading to government instability.	00
Q818	what countries are very near to Haiti?	Haiti	Most recently, in February 2004, a coup d'état originating in the north of the country forced the resignation and exile of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide .	00
Q818	what countries are very near to Haiti?	Haiti	A provisional government took control with security provided by the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH).	00
Q818	what countries are very near to Haiti?	Haiti	Michel Martelly , the current president, was elected in the Haitian general election, 2011 .	00
Q818	what countries are very near to Haiti?	Haiti	The island has had a history of destructive earthquakes.	00
Q818	what countries are very near to Haiti?	Haiti	A 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti on 12 January 2010 and devastated Port-au-Prince.	00
Q818	what countries are very near to Haiti?	Haiti	The highest reliable death count was estimated at 220,000.	00
Q818	what countries are very near to Haiti?	Haiti	Haitian government estimates were higher.	00
Q818	what countries are very near to Haiti?	Haiti	The Presidential palace, Parliament and many other important structures were destroyed, along with countless homes and businesses, leaving hundreds of thousands of people homeless.	00
Q818	what countries are very near to Haiti?	Haiti	The country has yet to recover from the 2010 earthquake (and subsequent incidents) due to both the severity of the damage Haiti endured in 2010, as well as a government that was ineffective well before the earthquake.	00
Q818	what countries are very near to Haiti?	Haiti	United States aid organizations have donated $2 billion.	00
Q818	what countries are very near to Haiti?	Haiti	Combined with other international donations, these funds are intended to contribute to the rebuilding of the country.	00
Q819	what genre is bloody beetroots	The Bloody Beetroots	The Bloody Beetroots is the pseudonym of Sir Bob Cornelius Rifo, the Italian electro house and dance-punk music producer , DJ and photographer .	11
Q819	what genre is bloody beetroots	The Bloody Beetroots	The Bloody Beetroots is well-known for the black Venom mask he wears during performances.	00
Q819	what genre is bloody beetroots	The Bloody Beetroots	In fact, the only identifying public feature of Rifo is the year "1977" tattooed across his chest, which is both the year that the producer and punk-rock was born.	00
Q819	what genre is bloody beetroots	The Bloody Beetroots	"The Bloody Beetroots DJ set" contains Sir Bob Cornelius Rifo and Tommy Tea.	00
Q822	how is a telephone pagers made	Pager	A Motorola Advisor alphanumeric pager used in Brazil in the 1990s, operated by Teletrim	00
Q822	how is a telephone pagers made	Pager	A pager is a wireless telecommunications device that receives and displays numeric or text messages, or receives and announces voice messages.	00
Q822	how is a telephone pagers made	Pager	One-way pagers can only receive messages, while response pagers and two-way pagers can also acknowledge, reply to, and originate messages using an internal transmitter.	00
Q822	how is a telephone pagers made	Pager	Pagers operate as part of a paging system which includes one or more fixed transmitters (or in the case of response pagers and two-way pagers, one or more base stations ), as well as a number of pagers carried by mobile users.	00
Q822	how is a telephone pagers made	Pager	These systems can range from a restaurant system with a single low-power transmitter, to a nationwide system with thousands of high-power base stations.	00
Q822	how is a telephone pagers made	Pager	One of the first practical paging services was launched in 1950 for physicians in the New York City area.	00
Q822	how is a telephone pagers made	Pager	Physicians paid US$12 per month for the service and carried a (6 oz) pager that would receive phone messages within (25 mi) of a single transmitter tower.	00
Q822	how is a telephone pagers made	Pager	The system was manufactured by the Reevesound Company and operated by Telanswerphone.	00
Q822	how is a telephone pagers made	Pager	In 1960, John Francis Mitchell combined elements of Motorola 's Walkie Talkie and automobile radio technologies to create the first transistorized pager, and from this point, paging technology continued to advance, and pager adoption continued to expand, until the early 1990s.	00

Q808

what happens when the baroreceptor reflex is activated

Baroreflex

Subsequent changes in blood pressure are mediated by the autonomic nervous system .

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Q808

what happens when the baroreceptor reflex is activated

Baroreflex

Atrial natriuretic peptide forms a parallel negative feedback loop in an endocrinological contrast to the renin-angiotensin system .

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Q810

what ever happened to the survivors of the 1989 california earthquake

1989 Loma Prieta earthquake

The Loma Prieta earthquake, also known as the Quake of '89 and the World Series Earthquake, was a major earthquake that struck the San Francisco Bay Area of California on October 17, 1989, at 5:04 pm local time.

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Q810

what ever happened to the survivors of the 1989 california earthquake

1989 Loma Prieta earthquake

Caused by a slip along the San Andreas Fault , the quake lasted 10–15 seconds and measured 6.9 on both the moment magnitude scale (surface-wave magnitude 7.1) and on the open-ended Richter Scale .

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Q810

what ever happened to the survivors of the 1989 california earthquake

1989 Loma Prieta earthquake

The quake killed 63 people throughout northern California, injured 3,757 and left some 3,000–12,000 people homeless.

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Q810

what ever happened to the survivors of the 1989 california earthquake

1989 Loma Prieta earthquake

The earthquake occurred during the warm-up practice for the third game of the 1989 World Series , featuring both of the Bay Area's Major League Baseball teams, the Oakland Athletics and the San Francisco Giants .

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Q810

what ever happened to the survivors of the 1989 california earthquake

1989 Loma Prieta earthquake

Because of game-related sports coverage, this was the first major earthquake in the United States to have its initial jolt broadcast live on television.

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Q811

how many pawns in chess

Pawn (chess)

Pawn in the standard Staunton pattern

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Q811

how many pawns in chess

Pawn (chess)

The pawn (♙♟) is the most numerous and in most circumstances the weakest piece in the game of chess , historically representing infantry or, more particularly, armed peasants or pikemen .

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Q811

how many pawns in chess

Pawn (chess)

In chess, each player begins the game with eight pawns, one on each square of the rank immediately in front of the other pieces.

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Q811

how many pawns in chess

Pawn (chess)

(In algebraic notation , the white pawns start on a2, b2, c2, ..., h2, while black pawns start on a7, b7, c7, ..., h7.)

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Q811

how many pawns in chess

Pawn (chess)

Individual pawns are referred to by the file on which they stand.

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Q811

how many pawns in chess

Pawn (chess)

For example, one speaks of "White's f-pawn" or "Black's b-pawn", or less commonly (using descriptive notation ), "White's king's bishop pawn" or "Black's queen's knight pawn".

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Q811

how many pawns in chess

Pawn (chess)

It is also common to refer to a rook pawn , meaning any pawn on the a- or h-file, a knight pawn (on the b- or g-file), a bishop pawn (on the c- or f-file), a queen pawn (on the d-file), a king pawn (on the e-file), and a central pawn (on either the d- or e-file).

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Q812

what countries allow gays to openly serve in the military

Sexual orientation and military service

The military forces of the world have differing approaches to the enlistment of homosexual (gay and lesbian) and bisexual individuals.

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Q812

what countries allow gays to openly serve in the military

Sexual orientation and military service

The armed forces of most developed countries have now removed policies excluding non-heterosexual individuals (with strict policies on sexual harassment ).

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Q812

what countries allow gays to openly serve in the military

Sexual orientation and military service

Nations that permit gay people to serve openly in the military include the 4 of the 5 members of the UN Security Council (United States, United Kingdom, France, and Russia), the Republic of China (Taiwan), Australia , Israel , South Africa , Argentina , and all NATO members excluding Turkey .

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Q814

how is hydrogen produced

Hydrogen production

Hydrogen production is the family of industrial methods for generating hydrogen.

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Q814

how is hydrogen produced

Hydrogen production

Currently the dominant technology for direct production is steam reforming from hydrocarbons .

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Q814

how is hydrogen produced

Hydrogen production

Many other methods are known including electrolysis and thermolysis .

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Q814

how is hydrogen produced

Hydrogen production

In 2006, the United States was estimated to have a production capacity of 11 million tonnes of hydrogen.

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Q814

how is hydrogen produced

Hydrogen production

5 million tonnes of hydrogen were consumed on-site in oil refining, and in the production of ammonia ( Haber process ) and methanol (reduction of carbon monoxide ).

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Q814

how is hydrogen produced

Hydrogen production

0.4 million tonnes were an incidental by-product of the chlor-alkali process .

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Q814

how is hydrogen produced

Hydrogen production

Hydrogen production is an estimated $100 billion industry.

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Q815

how many percent is a basis point

Basis point

A basis point (often denoted as bp, colloquially referred to in the plural as "bips", also known as a "beep") is a unit equal to one hundredth of a percentage point , or one part per ten thousand , 1/10000.

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Q815

how many percent is a basis point

Basis point

The same unit is also (rarely) called a permyriad, literally meaning 'for (every) myriad (ten thousand)', and in that context is written with which looks like a percent sign (%) with two extra zeroes at the end (like a stylized form of the four zeros in the denominator , although it originates as a natural extension of the percent (%) and permille (‰) signs).

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Q815

how many percent is a basis point

Basis point

A basis point is defined as:

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Q815

how many percent is a basis point

Basis point

1 basis point = 1 permyriad = one one-hundredth percent

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Q815

how many percent is a basis point

Basis point

1 bp = 1 = 0.01% = 0.1‰ = 10−4 = = 0.0001

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Q815

how many percent is a basis point

Basis point

1% = 100 bp = 100

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Q815

how many percent is a basis point

Basis point

Basis points are used as a convenient unit of measurement in contexts where percentage differences of less than 1% are discussed.

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Q815

how many percent is a basis point

Basis point

The most common example is interest rates , where differences in interest rates of less than 1% per year are usually meaningful to talk about.

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Q815

how many percent is a basis point

Basis point

For example, a difference of 0.10 percentage points is equivalent to a change of 10 basis points (e.g. a 4.67% rate increases by 10 basis points to 4.77%).

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Q815

how many percent is a basis point

Basis point

Like percentage points , basis points avoid the ambiguity between relative and absolute discussions about interest rates by dealing only with the absolute change in numeric value of a rate.

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Q815

how many percent is a basis point

Basis point

For example, if a report says there has been a "1% increase" from a 10% interest rate, this could refer to an increase either from 10% to 10.1% (relative, 1% of 10%), or from 10% to 11% (absolute, 1% plus 10%).

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Q815

how many percent is a basis point

Basis point

If, however, the report says there has been a "10 basis point increase" from a 10% interest rate, then we know that the interest rate of 10% has increased by 0.10% (the absolute change) to a 10.1% rate.

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Q815

how many percent is a basis point

Basis point

It is common practice in the financial industry to use basis points to denote a rate change in a financial instrument , or the difference ( spread ) between two interest rates, including the yields of fixed-income securities .

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Q815

how many percent is a basis point

Basis point

Since certain loans and bonds may commonly be quoted in relation to some index or underlying security , they will often be quoted as a spread over (or under) the index.

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Q815

how many percent is a basis point

Basis point

For example, a loan that bears interest of 0.50% per annum above the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) is said to be 50 basis points over LIBOR, which is commonly expressed as "L+50bps" or simply "L+50".

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Q815

how many percent is a basis point

Basis point

The term "basis point" has its origins in trading the "basis" or the spread between two interest rates.

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Q815

how many percent is a basis point

Basis point

Since the basis is usually small, these are quoted multiplied up by 10000, and hence a "full point" movement in the "basis" is a basis point.

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Q815

how many percent is a basis point

Basis point

Contrast with pips in FX forward markets.

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Q815

how many percent is a basis point

Basis point

The relationship between percentage changes and basis points can be summarized as follows: 1 percentage point change = 100 basis points, and 0.01 percentage points = 1 basis point.

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Q815

how many percent is a basis point

Basis point

So, a bond whose yield increases from 5% to 5.5% is said to increase by 50 basis points; or interest rates that have risen 1 percentage point are said to have increased by 100 basis points.

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Q816

what does the royal family do

British Royal Family

The British Royal Family is the group of close relatives of the monarch of the United Kingdom .

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Q816

what does the royal family do

British Royal Family

The term is also commonly applied to the same group of people who are the relations of the monarch in her or his role as sovereign of any of the other Commonwealth realms , thus sometimes at variance with official national terms for the family.

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Q816

what does the royal family do

British Royal Family

Members of the Royal Family belong to, either by birth or marriage, the House of Windsor , since 1917, when George V changed the name of the royal house from Saxe-Coburg and Gotha .

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Q816

what does the royal family do

British Royal Family

This decision was primarily taken because Britain and her Empire were at war with Germany and given the British Royal Family's strong German ancestry; it was felt that its public image could be improved by choosing a more British house name.

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Q816

what does the royal family do

British Royal Family

The new name chosen, Windsor, had absolutely no connection other than as the name of the castle which was and continues to be a royal residence.

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Q816

what does the royal family do

British Royal Family

Although in the United Kingdom there is no strict legal or formal definition of who is or is not a member of the Royal Family, and different lists will include different people, those carrying the style Her or His Majesty (HM) , or Her or His Royal Highness (HRH) are always considered members, which usually results in the application of the term to the monarch, the consort of the monarch, the widowed consorts of previous monarchs, the children of the monarch and previous monarchs, the male-line grandchildren of the monarch and previous monarchs, and the spouses and the widows of a monarch's and previous monarch's sons and male-line grandsons.

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what does the royal family do

British Royal Family

On 30 November 1917, King George V issued Letters Patent defining who are members of the Royal Family; the text of the notice from the London Gazette is as follows:

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what does the royal family do

British Royal Family

In 1996, Her Majesty The Queen modified these Letters Patent, as was evidenced by this Notice from the London Gazette:

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what does the royal family do

British Royal Family

In 2013 Letters Patent were issued to extend a title and a style borne by members of the Royal Family to additional persons to be born, evidenced by this Notice from the London Gazette:

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what does the royal family do

British Royal Family

Members and relatives of the British Royal Family historically represented the monarch in various places throughout the British Empire , sometimes for extended periods as viceroys , or for specific ceremonies or events.

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what does the royal family do

British Royal Family

Today, they often perform ceremonial and social duties throughout the United Kingdom and abroad on behalf of the United Kingdom.

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what does the royal family do

British Royal Family

Aside from the monarch, their only constitutional role in the affairs of government is to serve, if eligible and when appointed by letters patent, as a Counsellor of State , two or more of whom exercise the authority of the Crown (within stipulated limits) in the indisposal or absence from the British realm of the monarch.

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what does the royal family do

British Royal Family

In the other realms of the Commonwealth royalty do not serve as Counsellors of State.

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what does the royal family do

British Royal Family

However in each such realm the monarch's family members may act on behalf of, are funded by, and represent the sovereign of that particular state, and not the United Kingdom.

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British Royal Family

The Queen, her consort, her children and grandchildren, as well as all former sovereigns' children and grandchildren hold places in the first sections of the official orders of precedence in England and Wales , Scotland , and Northern Ireland .

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British Royal Family

Wives of the said enjoy their husbands' precedence, and husbands of princesses are unofficially but habitually placed with their wives as well.

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British Royal Family

However, the Queen changed the private order of precedence in the Royal Family in favour of Princesses Anne and Alexandra, who henceforth take private precedence over the Duchess of Cornwall, who is otherwise the realm's highest ranking woman after the Queen herself.

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what does the royal family do

British Royal Family

She did not alter the relative precedence of other born-princesses, such as the daughters of her younger sons.

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