a dictionary of terms and expressions

... contact than is the case with a PROSCENIUM stage The apron stage was a common feature of Elizabethan theaters, such as Shakespeare’s GLOBE THEATRE Arab-American literature The first wave of Arab-American ... (1996), ed Alpana Sharma Knippling Arcadia An idealized PASTORAL setting Arcadia is a mountainous region in Greece, celebrated as a rustic setting in classical and Renaissance literature Sir Philip ... Awards Annual awards given by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences The symbol of the award is an “Oscar” (the origin of the name is disputed), a gold-plated statuette of a...

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... adjective adverb argument vernacular abl, ABL abs, ABS abstr acc, ACC act, ACT adj, ADJ AdjP adv, ADV AdvP AFF AGR AgrP AGT all, ALL aor, AOR AP appl arg art ASL asp ASR ATB ATN ATR ablative absolutive ... studies as an area of performance features which a grammar of a language would aim to exclude analogical (adj.) see analogy analogy (n.) A term used in historical and comparative linguistics, and ... Turkish and Japanese 18 AGR /caìv/ AGR see agreement agrammatic speech see agrammatism agrammatism (n.) A term traditionally used in language pathology, as part of the study of aphasia, referring...

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... ratio of an analyst's forecasts The ratio of alpha to residual standard deviation Appraisal rights A right of shareholders in a merger to demand the payment of a fair price for their shares, as ... well as its expected cash and loan balances Cash and carry Purchase of a security and simultaneous sale of a future, with the balance being financed with a loan or repo Cash and equivalentsThe value ... the average or representative price of a large number of trades Average rate of return (ARR) The ratio of the average cash inflow to the amount invested Average tax rate Taxes as a fraction of...

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... ratio of an analyst's forecasts The ratio of alpha to residual standard deviation Appraisal rights A right of shareholders in a merger to demand the payment of a fair price for their shares, as ... well as its expected cash and loan balances Cash and carry Purchase of a security and simultaneous sale of a future, with the balance being financed with a loan or repo Cash and equivalentsThe value ... the average or representative price of a large number of trades Average rate of return (ARR) The ratio of the average cash inflow to the amount invested Average tax rate Taxes as a fraction of...

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... ratio of an analyst's forecasts The ratio of alpha to residual standard deviation Appraisal rights A right of shareholders in a merger to demand the payment of a fair price for their shares, as ... well as its expected cash and loan balances Cash and carry Purchase of a security and simultaneous sale of a future, with the balance being financed with a loan or repo Cash and equivalentsThe value ... the average or representative price of a large number of trades Average rate of return (ARR) The ratio of the average cash inflow to the amount invested Average tax rate Taxes as a fraction of...

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... ratio of an analyst's forecasts The ratio of alpha to residual standard deviation Appraisal rights A right of shareholders in a merger to demand the payment of a fair price for their shares, as ... well as its expected cash and loan balances Cash and carry Purchase of a security and simultaneous sale of a future, with the balance being financed with a loan or repo Cash and equivalentsThe value ... the average or representative price of a large number of trades Average rate of return (ARR) The ratio of the average cash inflow to the amount invested Average tax rate Taxes as a fraction of...

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... "Peter, Paul and Mary gave a book, a pen and a pencil to Jane, Elisabeth and John respectively", we wish to associate a structural representation giving the 'meaning' "Peter gave a book to Jane, Paul ... The set of rules in a grammar forms a formal grammar, ie it defines a language, in fact two languages, one of strings and the other of trees At the moment, there is no large applications of the ... theoretical and methodological issues in machine translation of natural languages, COLGATE Universit~ New York, August 1985 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS [Zaharin 86] Zaharin Y "Strategies and heuristics in the analysis...

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... professional educational programs meet specific academic and/ or practice standards APA, CACREP, and ACSW accredit academic mental health and related programs actionable Giving rise to a “cause of action.” ... professional standards Standards of professional practice that exceed the minimum standards mandated by a code of professional ethics Standards that are deemed compatible and consistent with achieving ... being: “Act in such a way that you always treat humans not merely as means to an end but also as an end.” casuistry Ethical approach to analyzing moral and legal that argues from the abstract to...

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... Korea and Japan; the Chinese apple was not so tasty Even today, apples are relatively dear, and therefore an acceptable gift, especially since the apple (ping) can stand as a symbol for ‘peace’ ... the deceased The painter arrived with a readymade picture of a man in official garb or of a lady in court dress, and all he had to was add a few lineaments of the deceased’s face to complete the ... (‘Book of Changes’) is the best-known of the Chinese oracle books About two thousand years ago it acquired canonical status and was used as a sort of handbook in the identification and interpretation...

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... transferor ISO International Organization for Standardization: an international body whose members are national standards bodies and which approves, develops and publishes international standards ... the discharge of an obligation by a transfer of funds and a transfer of securities that have become irrevocable and unconditional SSS final transfer an irrevocable and unconditional transfer which ... optimisation of collateral usage and transfer of collateral OTC collateral pool assets owned by members of a payment system that are collectively available to the system as collateral to enable...

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... fr astragalos : dice astragalomancy NL astragalus, fr Gk astragalos a : the bone astragalus astragalectomy b : astragalar and astragalocalcaneal atto- -ata n pl suffix NL, fr L, neut pl of -atus ... : atlas atlantad : atlantal and atlantoaxial atlantoodontoid atlo- combining form atlas : atlantal and atloaxoid atloido- combining form F atlo do-, fr atlo de : atlantal and atloidoaxoid atm- ... mandibular and mandibulation mandibulopharyngeal mandibuliform mangan- or mangano- also mangani- combining form G mangan, fr F manganèse : manganese : manganese and manganate manganocolumbite manganiferous...

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... 1997), Mathematically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations (Institute of Physics Publishing, 1998) and Practically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations on Engineering, Technology and Architecture ... challenge! Copyright © 1999 IOP Publishing Ltd Medically Speaking A Dictionary of Quotations on Dentistry, Medicine and Nursing Selected and Arranged by Carl C Gaither and Alma E Cavazos-Gaither ... Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 7503 0635 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data are available Production...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 22:20

... ratio of an analyst's forecasts The ratio of alpha to residual standard deviation Appraisal rights A right of shareholders in a merger to demand the payment of a fair price for their shares, as ... well as its expected cash and loan balances Cash and carry Purchase of a security and simultaneous sale of a future, with the balance being financed with a loan or repo Cash and equivalentsThe value ... the average or representative price of a large number of trades Average rate of return (ARR) The ratio of the average cash inflow to the amount invested Average tax rate Taxes as a fraction of...

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... AlltheWeb.com a search engine that in March 2004 became part of Yahoo!, and now uses the Yahoo! database alpha (α) a measure of the opacity, or visibility, of an object in a graphical image A transparent ... server software Apache is available from the Apache Software Foundation at www.apache.org API (Application Program Interface) the set of services that an operating system makes available to programs ... that work has already been done An important early application framework was MacApp for the Macintosh Newer programming languages such as Delphi, Visual Basic, and Java have application frameworks...

Ngày tải lên: 29/04/2014, 15:22

... ratio of an analyst's forecasts The ratio of alpha to residual standard deviation Appraisal rights A right of shareholders in a merger to demand the payment of a fair price for their shares, as ... the average or representative price of a large number of trades Average rate of return (ARR) The ratio of the average cash inflow to the amount invested Average tax rate Taxes as a fraction of ... equity Asset/liability management Also called surplus management, the task of managing funds of a financial institution to accomplish the two goals of a financial institution: (1) to earn an adequate...

Ngày tải lên: 07/07/2014, 22:20

... equity Capitalization ratios can be interpreted only in the context of the stability of industry and company earnings and cash flow Capitalization table A table showing the capitalization of a firm, ... Basic balance In a balance of payments, the basic balance is the net balance of the combination of the current account and the capital account Basic business strategies Key strategies a firm ... interest rate on a floating-rate note Capital Money invested in a firm Capital account Net result of public and private international investment and lending activities Capital allocation decision Allocation...

Ngày tải lên: 07/07/2014, 22:20

... is earned continuously, and at each instant, the interest that accrues immediately begins earning interest on itself Continuous random variable A random value that can take any fractional value ... horizon matching, a variation of multiperiod immunization and cash flow matching in which a portfolio is created that is always duration matched and also cash-matched in the first few years Combination ... decision and the financing decision) from that firm's point of view Corporate financial management The application of financial principals within a corporation to create and maintain value through...

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... Cumulative probability distribution A function that shows the probability that the random variable will attain a value less than or equal to each value that the random variable can take on Cumulative ... and announce the date and amount of the next dividend Dedicated capital Total par value (number of shares issued, multiplied by the par value of each share) Also called dedicated value Dedication ... Existing in actual fact although not by official recognition Dead cat bounce A small upmove in a bear market Dealer An entity that stands ready and willing to buy a security for its own account (at its...

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... harmonization and unification of social, fiscal, and monetary policies Economies of scale The decrease in the marginal cost of production as a plant's scale of operations increases Economies of ... Dictionary of Finantial and Business Terms Lico Reis - Consultoria & L?nguas licoreis@terra.com.br Equivalent annual annuity The equivalent amount per year for some number of years that has a ... the ability of an issuer to make interest and principal payments will change because of rare, discontinuous, and very large, unanticipated changes in the market environment such as (1) a natural...

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