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... 29 PIRI AVERAGE PRICE CHANGE Rank Location Country/Area Nairobi Kenya Kenyan Coast Kenya Miami US Bali Indonesia Jakarta Indonesia London UK Vancouver Canada Moscow Russia Toronto Canada 10 Beijing ... Zealand 44 Washington DC US 45 Barcelona Spain 46 Paris France 47 Dubai UAE 48 Shanghai China 49 Madrid Spain 50 Singapore Singapore 51 Geneva Switzerland 52 Tuscany Italy 53 Barbados Caribbean ... important city in China in the past and it will be again As Valuation Director, Brand Finance, London SHANGHAI: The city is a catalyst for cultural and technological innovation and represents Chinese...

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... treatment concept for gunshot related intracranial haematomas Some authors had recommended an evacuation of haematomas [22,23], whereas others prefer evacuation only in cases of elevated intracranial ... Full Metal Jacket ammunition A metal casing around a lead core These bullets are dimensionally stable and produce nonexpanding and deep penetrating wounds Jacket Hollow Point ammunition Bullets ... threatening injuries of the thorax are haemato- or haematopneumothorax, tension pneumothorax and pericardial tamponade They should be diagnosed within the first physical examination and be treated...

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... summary, the LCA probably was not able to produce either L-aspartate or L-asparagine via the modern canonical alternologs (nitrilase and asparaginase), but could via the degradation of oxaloacetate ... contrast, alanine racemase (EC:5.1.1.1) isomerizes D-alanine to Lalanine and is constrained to Bacteria Alanine aminotransferase (EC:2.6.1.2) converts L-glutamate and pyruvate to Lalanine and is ... Additional data files 18 The following additional data are available with the online version of this paper Additional data file is a graph showing a detailed view of the bipartite network analyzed...

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... financial operations and transactions, research on financialization has established that finance is constituted by both financial and non-financial actors and institutions Hence, it is critical ... everyday life in finance The notion of financialization emanates from political economy and radical Marxian analyses of capitalism from the late 1960s to the 1980s Financialization was deemed as a ... Fundamental demand-supply and the financialization of oil 1.2 A financial geographical perspective on oil trading and production 1.3 Organization of Thesis 11 CHAPTER TWO: GEOGRAPHY OF FINANCE AND...

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... Rodriguez-Falces, Javier Navallas, Armando Malanda, Penka A Atanassova, Nedka T Chalakova, Borislav D Dimitrov, Runer Augusto Marson, Bego a Gavilanes-Miranda, Juan J Goiriena De Gandarias, Gonzalo A Garcia, ... Phinyomark, Sirinee Thongpanja, Huosheng Hu, Pornchai Phukpattaranont, Chusak Limsakul, Saara M Rissanen, Markku Kankaanpää, Mika P Tarvainen, Pasi A Karjalainen, Chiharu Ishii, Adriano O Andrade, Alcimar ... 97 Leandro Ricardo Altimari, José Luiz Dantas, Marcelo Bigliassi, Thiago Ferreira Dias Kanthack, Antonio Carlos de Moraes and Taufik Abrão Section EMG Analysis and Applications 117 Chapter Nonlinear...

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... organizational decision making 3 Model A central idea of performance feedback theory is that decision makers use an aspiration level to evaluate organizational performance along an organizational ... of simulation studies on how aspiration-level learning contributes to organizational adaptation Finally I discuss how organizational goal variables are chosen 39 40 Organizational Learning from ... as would a decision maker who lacks the information to build an adaptive aspiration level Are there natural aspiration levels in reality? Arguably, the status quo is often a natural aspiration...

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... respond 3.3 Aspiration levels and adaptation Is it helpful or harmful for organizations that managers use performance feedback and aspiration levels to manage change? As noted earlier, historical ... Historical aspiration levels track the actual performance of the organization, and thus may let the aspiration level lose alignment with what is actually achievable in a given 66 Organizational Learning ... performance relative to the aspiration level affects organizational search, risk taking, and change This broad impact makes performance a “master switch” that controls a range of organizational responses...

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... Lending officers, analysts, and bond traders are individuals taking risk on behalf of the organizations, as managers are, and the risk taken by a single trader can be substantial (Shapira 2000) Thus, ... of imitation and technology-based competition that reorganize an industry (Tushman and Anderson 1986) Innovations are thus important for the focal organization and for society at large Because ... that innovations are opposed to the organizational requirements of stability and legitimacy, and advocates organizational mechanisms for protecting and promoting innovations (Dougherty and Hardy...

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... organizational change that many managers hesitate to make We can study the acquisition of assets by pursuing the usual idea that performance below the aspiration level causes organizational change and managerial ... variables are measures of environmental opportunities, threats, and social models Measures of organizational capabilities and constraints can also be included The model and the control variables ... that performance relative to social aspiration levels weakly affects the growth of assets, and organizational slack does not affect the growth at all Model has all variables included, and confirms...

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... advertising rates, targeted advertisers, and format changes Because radio broadcasting has many local markets, there is cross-sectional variation in social aspiration levels Because data are available ... estimates of historical aspiration levels Audience share estimates are a goal variable viewed as important by all radio station managers and sufficiently public that data are easy to compare across ... collect many years of performance data and one year of outcome data The potential for all organizations in a given year to be affected by third causes such as a common social aspiration level...

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... cases: a manager who is fully rational and acting in the organization’s interest, and a manager who is boundedly rational and selfish The answer is that the former case seems unproblematic, and ... theories A recent and growing tradition in managerial cognition has drawn ideas from work on organizational enactment and individual cognition to explain how managers categorize other firms and differentially ... concrete organizational structure, and a set of rules and norms on how organizations should treat their employees A given organization may have many possible institutional configurations, and the...

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... Prentice-Hall 1995 Institutions and Organizations Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Scott, W Richard and John W Meyer 1983 “The organization of societal sectors.” Organizational Environments: Ritual and Rationality, ... “Understanding escalation situations: antecedents, prototypes, and solutions.” Research in Organizational Behavior, 9: 39–78 Staw, Barry M., Lance E Sandelands, and Jane E Dutton 1981 “Threat-rigidity ... Brandon and Michael T Hannan 1984 Social Dynamics: Models and Methods Orlando, FL: Academic Press Tushman, Michael L and Philip Anderson 1986 “Technological discontinuities and organizational environments.”...

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... Edward Arnold Halliday, M .A. K (1994) An Introduction to Functional Grammar Second Edition London: Edward Arnold Halliday, M .A. K and R Hasan (1997) Cohesion in English London: Longman 10 Hoa, ... Systemic Functional Grammar Systemic functional grammar is a grammar model developed by M .A. K Halliday (1994) which takes a functional approach to grammar, analyzing language as a social-semiotic ... traditional grammar‟ In addition to that, functional grammar also offers us an analytical tool of looking at the whole text and the grammatical features which are typical characteristic of that...

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... collaboration with other international organisations The member countries include Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, ... International Energy Agency International Energy Forum Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change International Relations International Renewable Energy Agency Million tons of Carbon Dioxide North Atlantic ... assumptions and ontological and epistemological dispositions (Andreatta and Koenig-Archibugi 2010; Waever 1996) According to the neo-neo synthesis, states are the primary and rational unitary actors...

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... and Garofoli, 200 7a; Yeung, 2009b) These transnational economic transactions are sustained by social and institutional factors, such as international organizations, transnational communities, and ... communication, and innovation, and retained regional competitive advantage in a given global production filiere Some researchers conducted an analytical focus similar with organizational approaches, mainly ... analytical foci from regional variables to non-regional ones, associated with studies of transnational corporations (TNCs) and economic globalization (i.e Amin and Robins, 1990; Amin and Thrift,...

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... of U.S railroad corporations The corporate bond market, essentially a railroad bond market in its early decades, can properly be viewed as an American financial innovation that later spread to ... the ratings agencies once again caught a large wave of financial development and rode it Agency expansion began slowly at first, and then picked up steam Even the leading agencies had but a handful ... the bond rating business, a natural outgrowth of the financial and operating information it compiled and sold The company merged with Standard Statistics, another information and ratings company,...

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... readable and can be used to create a relational database To accommodate data from NMR and cryoEM experiments, a PDB Exchange Dictionary (PDBx) was created that has the same syntax as mmCIF but contains ... There are specialty databases such as the Nucleic Acid Database (Berman et al., 1992) and the HIV Protease Structural Database (Ravichandran et al., 2002) that create in-depth resources for researchers ... comparison with their own, now more than half of the papers that cite this one publication alone describe bioinformatic and computational analyses of structural data Enormous efforts are under way...

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... 2a0 a2 + a0 a1 a3 − ε a1 ), − (a1 a2 − 2a2 a3 + a0 a2 a3 + ε a2 ), 2 − 3a a a + a a2 + ε a ), − ( 2a2 3 c0 = c1 = c2 = c3 = where as usual ε = or in accordance with whether D ≡ or modulo (Again, ... with each other; this is analogous to the fact that row and column operations on a rectangular matrix commute Hence we obtain a natural action of Γ on C2 Now given any cube A ∈ C2 as above, ... rank Let S again be an oriented quadratic ring and K = S ⊗ Q the corresponding quadratic Q-algebra A rank n ideal of S is an S-submodule of K n having rank 2n as a Z-module Two rank n ideals are...

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... Plant VAO VAO VAO VAO VAO VAO VAO VAO VAO VAO VAO VAO VAO VAO VAO VAO VAO VAO VAO VAO GMC GMC GMC Succinate dehydrogenase Succinate dehydrogenase DAAO DAAO DAAO DAAO ? ? VAO AMO AMO DAAO DAAO ... Plant Plant Bacteria Plant Plant Fungus Bacteria Bacteria Bacteria Plant Bacteria Animal Fungus Yeast Yeast Bacteria Bacteria Plant Bacteria Fungus Fungus All Bacteria Animal Animal Bacteria Bacteria ... Bacteria Bacteria Fungus Bacteria Animal Animal Fungus Bacteria Animal Bacteria Plant Bacteria Bacteria Plant allergens BG6 0a [55] and Phl P 4a [165] Tetrahydrofuran monooxygenase reductase component...

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... and HMGB1 release from monocytes differ significantly, with IL-1b being secreted early after monocyte activation and HMGB1 at a later stage IL-1b consistently acts at an early phase of inflammation ... galectin-1 and galectin-3 to accumulate at specific spots underneath the plasma membrane, and what actually causes the formation of exosomes into which these proteins appear to be packaged in an active ... necessary and sufficient to direct a corresponding fusion protein to the HASPB export pathway in both parasites and mammalian cells HASPBN18 is myristoylated at a glycine residue in position and palmitoylated...

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