INTRODUCTION - The Hidden Side of Everything

... anticipate the crime drop— which was in fact well under way even as they made their horrifying 2 Introduction: The Hidden Side of Everything predictions—they now hurried to explain it. Most of their theories ... speeches about the won- derful opportunities of the global economy; they’ll be trying to keep body and soul together for people on the streets of these cities.” The smart money was plainly on the criminals. ... that the pool of potential criminals had dramati- cally shrunk. Now, as the crime-drop experts (the former crime doomsayers) spun their theories to the media, how many times did they cite legal-...

Meeting the Business Side of Google

... controlled their costs and tracked their returns). In time, the advantages of eBay’s system got the attention of midsize brick-and-mortar stores, which now operate eBay outlets as an essen- tial part of ... companies: Google the search engine and Google the business-services company. Together, the two sides form Google the media company. Along the same lines, Google is employed by two breeds of user: consumers ... revenue. Unlike the busy lifestyle of fulfilling orders taken through a Web site, the passive-revenue lifestyle lets the site do the work, not you. 19 Chapter 1: Meeting the Business Side of Google...

Drawing on the funny side of the brain

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Revealing the Hidden Nature of Space and Time: Charting the Course for Elementary Particle Physics pptx

... history of physics.One of the great scientific achievements of the 20th century was the develop-ment of the Standard Model of elementary particle physics, which describes the relationships among the ... Influenced the Structure of the Universe?, 50Roles of Accelerator- and Non-Accelerator-Based Experiments, 53 3THE EXPERIMENTAL OPPORTUNITIES 56High-Energy Beams: Direct Exploration of the Terascale, ... is the nature of space and time? What are the origins of mass? How did the universe begin? Howwill it evolve in the future? The next few decades could be one of the most excitingperiods in the...

the hidden life of dogs

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The Risk Management of Everything Rethinking the politics of uncertainty docx

... risk politics; on the other it mayexacerbate the risk management of everything. The example of the UK General Medical Council (GMC) isinstructive. The official inquiry into the serial murders ... rather than being in the hands of the gods.13As part of a politics of uncertainty, publics of varyingkinds demand decisions and the right to hold decision-makers toaccount. In this view, the ... prevented the crisis in question. The invention of the category of operational risk provides an example. The Risk Management of Everything 28 Demos4. Anxiety andclassification: The invention of operational...

The Dark Side of Universal Banking: Financial Conglomerates and the Origins of the Subprime Financial Crisis

... The U.S. market was by far the dominant market for CDOs, accounting for about three-quarters of the global issuance of CDOs.110 3. Over -the- Counter Derivatives and Synthetic CDOs Like the ... pay off their credit card balances. As in the case of nonprime home mortgages, LCFIs ignored the risks of nonprime credit card loans because they could securitize most of the loans. However, the ... enacted the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), which ratified the Citigroup merger and authorized universal banking. GLBA repealed the anti-affiliation provisions of Glass-Steagall and also amended the...

The Bright Side of Prison Life pdf

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Báo cáo khoa học: Oxidative neuronal injury The dark side of ERK1/2 potx

... functions of b-arrestins, or by modulating the activity of proteinkinase C, which can activate Raf isoforms at the apex of the ERK1/2 module (reviewed in [42]).Redox regulation at each of these ... 1).GTP-loaded Ras promotes activation of the MAPK kinasekinase Raf-1. Raf-1 then activates the MAPK kinaseMEK1/2, leading to ERK1/2 phosphorylation. In addition,MEK1/2 can be activated by B-Raf, ... phosphatases(PP) as well. Likewise, ubiquitin-proteasome (Ub-P) mediated degra-dation of phospho-ERKs may become impaired. Several of thesemechanisms may coexist, mediating the sustained ERK signalingobserved...

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