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... ownership: A notable example was RJR Nabisco’s extravagant 1980s spending on a corporate aircraft fleet Investors and creditors fashioned contracts from financial accounting balances in attempts to align ... 1866 the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Rail Road Company treasurer replied to an NYSE information request by stating his managers make “no reports and publish no statements and have done nothing ... simply emerged as a practical way to keep track of an organization’s resources Entering transactions twice provides a check to ensure computational accuracy and allows managers to track asset ownership...

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Ngày tải lên: 18/09/2012, 14:04

... Extended palette An extended palette is available for broader (screen) applications Compared with the basic palette, this colour palette comprises a number of heavier shades Each typeface is available ... thousands are separated by a comma; main and decimal sums by a decimal point For example: EUR 1,250.00 In Dutch, thousands are separated by a dot, main and decimals sums by a comma If there are ... with a similar function already exist, or can this new form be combined with an existing form? - Does the form have a name, and is this name as short as possible? - Is all the information requested...

Ngày tải lên: 23/10/2012, 13:53

... Minneapolis, USA) This assay measures biologically active VEGF121 and VEGF165 Statistical analysis Differences between patients and healthy controls were evaluated using a non-parametric Kruskal-Wallis test ... data reveal an important limitation for Ang-2 as a quantitative marker for vascular permeability: high Ang-2 might be a surrogate parameter for increased capillary permeability per se, but is ... multivariate Cox model In a large trauma cohort study [22], Ang2 correlated with mortality in a univariate analysis In a surgical population with ARDS, Ang-2 predicted death with a similar discriminatory...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:31

... 36 and health-related quality of life after intensive care in Morocco Acta Anaesthesiol Scand 2007, 51:189-197 A ssaoui Y, Zeggwagh AA, Zekraoui A, Abidi K, Abouqal R: Validation of a behavioral ... presented as the mean ± standard deviation for variables with a normal distribution, and as the median and interquartile range for variables with skewed distributions Parametric or nonparametric ... participated in the design of the study, and performed the statistical analysis RA conceived of the study, participated in the design of the study, performed the statistical analysis and Available...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:35

... Yamaguchi H, Sasaki K, Satomi Y, Shimbara T, Kageyama H, Mondal MS, Toshinai K, Date Y, Gonzalez LJ, Shioda S, Takao T, Nakazato M, Minamino N Peptidomic identification and biological validation of ... cDNA (Salton, unpublished data) was isolated via Xba I-Apa I restriction cleavage, and cloned into the NheI-ApaI sites of a pShuttle vector to generate the expression cassette under regulation ... hypothesis was rejected at the 0.05 level in all analyses Statistical analysis Results Statistical analyses were performed using SigmaStat (version 3.0, SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL) Independently measured...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 10:52

... philosophical significance LIFE IS A DREAM DRAMATIS PERSONAE Basilio King of Poland Segismund his Son Astolfo his Nephew Estrella his Niece Clotaldo a General in Basilio's Service Rosaura a Muscovite Lady ... ROS And now a lamp, a lamp! And now the hand That carries it FIFE Oh, Lord! that dreadful chain! ROS And now the bearer of the lamp; indeed As strange as any in Arabian tale, So giant-like, and ... national type of drama which Lope had established was maintained in its essential characteristics by Calderon, and he produced abundant specimens of all its varieties Of regular plays he has left a...

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Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2013, 21:23

... people drink more than 200 million …… a day A Glasses of beer B Glasses of wine C Cups of tea In Japan, gift –giving …… in business A Is acceptable B Is unacceptable C Not important  ... Singapore, you should shake hands with … A Everyone in company B Only younger staff C Older and more reserved people You are making a proposal to a group of Japanese executives, when you notice a ... their arms folded and eyes closed They are A Listening intently B Tired and catching up on some sleep C Pretending to be asleep to show you that they think the presentation is poor British people...

Ngày tải lên: 18/09/2013, 01:10

... Eating with hands is …… Malaysia A Rude B Acceptable C Common When gifts are given to Chinese people, they … A Are accepted right away B Are refused C May be refused times before being accepted  ... find a few of them washing their feet in a sink You think: A They must have had smelly feet B They are simply freshening themselves up C They are preparing to read their prayers Eating with hands ... 2 Indians shake hands with members of … A The same sex only B The opposite sex only C Both the sexes During a break for a meeting between you and a group of Saudis, you walk into the men’s...

Ngày tải lên: 18/09/2013, 01:10

... …… A Across the lap B On the table C On the right of the plate You are eating delicious potatoes at an American’s house When you finish eating the potatoes, the American asks you if you want more ... What should you say? A Say ‘no’ twice and after that they ask you the third time, you say ‘yes’ B Hold out you plate C Say ‘yes, please’ When doing business, Mexicans look for what in potential ... shaking hands in Sweden, which of these is true? A Gloves must be removed B Gloves must not be removed C It does not matter if gloves are removed or not In the UK, napkins should be placed …… A...

Ngày tải lên: 18/09/2013, 01:10

... beauty in a woman Answer: T True or false 12 You are eating delicious potatoes at an American’s house When you are asked if you want more, you should say “No, thanks” with a smile and hope they ... should say “Sorry” Answer: T True or false 15 Red flowers in Japan are given at funerals Answer: F True or false 16 Mexicans are supposed to put their hands off the table during a meal Answer: ... True or false 17 In Australia, you may bring a gift of chocolate if invited to someone’s house Answer: T True or false 18 Spaniards dislike to maintain eye contact during conversation Answer:...

Ngày tải lên: 18/09/2013, 01:10

... additional graphics or even animation here, too Later in this chapter, we look at how to add a Play Again button to this frame Encapsulating the Game At this point, we have a game that runs as ... slow machines can run this game at this high frame rate 120 Chapter 3: Basic Game Framework: A Matching Game That wraps up the matching game, leaving us with the final version files: MatchingGame10.fla ... as a whole Flash movie The movie is MatchingGameX.fla, and the ActionScript class is MatchingGameX.as When the movie runs, the game initializes and starts The movie is the game, and the game is...

Ngày tải lên: 29/09/2013, 19:20

... therefore vary as much as organizations vary Many organizations, particularly those without large numbers of staff, not have an HR department but manage their staff within their general management ... integrated way in a real situation It is also usually a requirement that students should demonstrate that they can review the results and provide a critical evaluation of what was achieved and what was ... approaches have also developed in the context of large, relatively stable bureaucratic and hierarchical organizational structures If a significant amount of an organization’s work is managed through...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 08:20

... subsides As the pain subsided, I began to relax b e racked w i t h p a i n He is emaciated and racked with pain A good dictionary will also tell you if a collocation is formal or informal For example, ... well] Harry was blissfully u n a w a r e that he was in danger [Harry had no idea at all, often used a b o u t something unpleasant] 12 English Collocations in Use Exercises 4.1 Complete each sentence ... her new grandson A d v e r b s and adjectives Adjectives often have particular adverbs which regularly collocate with t h e m They are happily married I am fully aware that there are serious...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 11:20

... Statistics is simply a mathematical science that gathers information about a population so that population may be described usefully Statistics are often used to draw conclusions and make decisions ... people are probably on the road in clear weather than snowy weather A second question to ask: is the statistic given in such a way that it misrepresents the data collected? Does it make the data sound ... children watch violent programs regularly, and they don’t end up as criminals.” Another common way in which statistics are manipulated is by leaving out key information For instance, a company claims...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2013, 17:20

... JSP is also very powerful, faster than ASP, and instantly familiar to Java programmers It allows the Java program to leverage the aspects of the Java2 platform such as JavaBeans and the Java libraries ... Windows NT and many Unix versions, and it can be built as an Apache module and as a binary that can run as a CGI When built as an Apache module, PHP is especially speedy A downside is that you have ... support via something known as the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), and there are several standard and non-standard tags that are used to add Java applets to a web page These tags tell...

Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2013, 00:15

... graphics APIs With careful design and implementation, performance of Java 3D applications can rival native OpenGL applications and will exceed JNI−based Java wrappers over OpenGL As a Java API, Java ... takes place that qualifies this as a 3D application In fact, in the MyJava3D example application, we cheat and use some of the Java 3D data structures This allows us to use the existing Lightwave ... examples 1.6 Summary Java 3D is an application programming interface (API) developed at Sun Microsystems for rendering interactive 3D graphics using the Java programming language Java 3D is a...

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