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... amount of oil spilled, sea and weather conditions, and the geographical location of the spill Storage, separation of oil from water and debris, and disposal of the oil are crucial parts of a cleanup ... sources of oil spills, the types of oil spilled into the sea, and the causes of spills from any type of ship or vessel worldwide are shown in Figure Half of the oil spilled in the seas is the runoff ... Photographs of many of the incidents listed in Table appear throughout this book as examples of oil behaviour and cleanup techniques ©2000 by CRC Press LLC Figure Statistical summary of sources of...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 15:20

... Hairball The Art of Innovation Jump Start Your Business Brain A Whack on the Side of the Head The Creative Habit The Art of Possibility BIG IDEAS The Age of Unreason Out of Control The Rise of the Creative ... permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book The scanning, uploading, and distribution of this book via the Internet or via any other means without the permission of the ... for Adam Smith, we didn’t select The Wealth of Nations and its nine hundred-plus pages because of the sheer magnitude of the undertaking We suggest Geoffrey Moore’s Crossing the Chasm as a more...

Ngày tải lên: 03/04/2014, 17:50

... interest: Before being appointed Professor of Medicine at the Fiji School of Medicine, I was the external advisor for the establishment of the internal medicine component of the AusAID-funded postgraduate ... Ministry of Health (29), the Fiji School of Medicine (2) or by a United Nations organization (1), and doctors temporarily training overseas but still employed by the Ministry of Health (3 out of 4) ... The interviews were audiotaped, professionally transcribed and analysed by means of QSR-N6 software [37] All interview passages were coded into at least one of several dozen codes that were initially...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... 85% of ‘Chuppies’ are aware of the top European designers, and unlike America and Europe most of those purchasing luxury goods are those under the age of 30 Electronics and Mobile Phones One of ... found that 46% of Chuppies say they like celebrity endorsements in advertising The quality of products consumed is also a demonstration of ‘face’ The UPS (2006) study found that 85% of ‘Chuppies’ ... availability of credit in the market greases the wheels of an economy, and this will assist in the Chinese government’s vision of becoming consumption rather than investment driven The Importance of ‘Face...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 23:20

... Percentage of responses Year of primary medical qualification Figure Diagram1showing the year of primary qualification of overseas doctors Diagram showing the year of primary qualification of overseas ... over-representation of Indian doctors Using an online method of data collection may have limited the reach of this survey Younger doctors who are more at risk of being affected by changes to immigration Page of ... the career paths of many non-European doctors, many of whom have spent a considerable duration of time working and training in the National Health Service of United Kingdom Page of (page number...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... development of free trade unilateral liberalization more difficult because of protectionist interest groups and lack of coordination Ari Kokko Institutions: Bretton-Woods solutions Four cornerstones of ... cluster is located • Protection of the local market and support to exporters may influence the location decisions of firms • FDI of central importance Ari Kokko Instruments of active trade policy • ... Trade: Institutions and impact Lecture Shortcomings in neoclassical trade theory What if the assumptions of the neoclassical theory aren’t true? – all industries are not equally valuable: better...

Ngày tải lên: 09/12/2013, 20:15

... Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the London Business School, the University of Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business, Columbia Business School, the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, ... Business, Yale School of Management, Harvard Business School, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, New York University Stern School of Business, ... surveys, for a total of 11422 firm observations Of these, 4000 firms had received a loan within three years of the end of the survey reference year (I use three years as a cutoff because the 1993...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 10:20

... component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and NIH Roadmap for Medical Research Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and not necessarily represent the official view of ... health-related quality of life; * Adjusted for age, sex and race Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2008, 6:110 ment in fitness by mL/kg·min of VO2peak was ... association of type diabetes with the physical component score was augmented with the addition of fatness in mode1 (mean difference of -3.25, P = 0.002) A 10% increase in the percentage of body fat...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... responsible for the professional development of consultants in our global network Currently, I lead the development of our firm’s intellectual capital for our network of 62 of ces worldwide In the ... the Gallup organization of more than 80,000 managers in over 400 companies, this was one of the largest studies of its kind ever undertaken One of the key conclusions of First Break All the Rules ... time, one of my professors was Jerry Porras Years later, he became Collins’s co-author of Built to Last, and was cited by Kirby as one of the major sources for her article In his professorial...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 21:20

... think of me?” is the classic line of a conversation hijacker It’s just one of the many habits of poor listeners along with interrupting, ambushing, glazing over and pseudo-listening Although all of ... profile pictures that tell a story lead to a much higher quality of contacts Gerrig discusses these alternative forms of storytelling, such as a user of a dating site creating an online profile ... that a loss of self-control can lead to needless loss of life, but all of us, even in our much less dramatic lives, have experienced the sort of overwrought situations that can spin out of control...

Ngày tải lên: 05/07/2014, 07:23

... responsible for the professional development of consultants in our global network Currently, I lead the development of our firm’s intellectual capital for our network of 62 of ces worldwide In the ... the Gallup organization of more than 80,000 managers in over 400 companies, this was one of the largest studies of its kind ever undertaken One of the key conclusions of First Break All the Rules ... hard Yes, part of the problem lies in the talent pool, but a bigger part lies in the “eye of the beholder.” All too often, the people who conduct searches make one or more in a series of tactical...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 07:21

... which made Quinsa not only one of the best examples of the professionalization of a family-owned company in Latin America, but also one of the most outstanding cases of systematic, managerially ... featured literally dozens of cases of poor execution at the very top It asserted that one of the main reasons for CEO failure was the profound difficulty that these failed professionals experienced ... the publication of this seminal article, both the sordid record of public scandals and the bulk of related research have only confirmed Drucker’s view of a very poor track record of people decisions,...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 07:21

... the case of YPF, the oil and gas enterprise that José Estenssoro helped transform As a result of the efforts of Estenssoro and others, which included substantial restructuring, spinoffs, and ... the senior ranks The CEO of the merged company had to decide who would stay, and who would go— against the backdrop of a sagging stock price and the outmigration of some of his most talented executives ... the key managerial positions Because of all of these difficulties, the owners of the enterprise decided to conduct an objective and independent appraisal of the senior management team in order...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 07:21

... the pleasure of working with a remarkable group of individuals in this powerful think tank Most of them held a PhD in organizational psychology, and many of them were former students of the late ... present in one out of four of my searches Notably, however, when candidates excelled in terms of IQ and relevant experience, but did not have a high level of EI, they failed 25 percent of the time! ... percent of the failures also had relevant experience as one of their two most salient characteristics! • IQ is not enough of a predictor for success Two-thirds of the failures had IQ as one of their...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 07:21

... refuses your offer, you should lower your level of aspiration After a period of “adolescence” of some 20 interactions, which you use to gain feedback on the attractiveness of your offer, you should ... Jones of Stanford University and John C Williams of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco have argued that the right level of R&D spending by U.S companies to ensure consistent levels of growth ... an inventory of competencies of your employees worldwide Over the last few years, we have helped one of our clients (a leading global supplier of heavy machinery) build an inventory of competencies,...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 07:21

... were analyzing in detail what made for the outstanding performance of several of our of ces Indeed, there was a small group of offices that had compiled amazing track records and built stellar reputations ... evaluated a mean of 25 employees, the range of individual interviewers’ validities went from a low of –0.10 to a high of +.65.17 That range deserves some additional scrutiny A validity of –0.10 implies ... the importance not only of having a limited number of assessors, but also of having all of them be highly qualified (the H factor in the HOT SHOT equation) In the second row of that figure, I summarize...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 07:21

... one If you reduce the risk of one of these types of error, you inevitably increase the other From the point of view of the candidate, he or she can make two types of mistakes: getting into the ... seconds of silence, I shared with him with full candor that his offer was too low for the reality of the market and the caliber of that CFO candidate Even if this candidate had accepted the offer, ... the norm for professional services firms, particularly in the United States—a type of incentive that usually goes by the name “eat what you kill.” The opposite type of system is often called the...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 07:21

... drowned in the details of these sordid stories: tens of thousands of jobs lost, billions of dollars in losses for investors, life savings wiped out, and the wholesale squandering of trust in our businesses ... beginning of this section— are extremely rare cases The Wall Street Journal reports that of the tens of millions of businesspeople in the United States, only about 1,000 have been convicted of corporate ... Expected value of the maximum of a random sample of size n from a standardized normal population A large number of potential candidates should be generated σ Standard deviation of the candidate’s...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 07:21

... of disease, impaction of mucus and failure of mucociliary clearance are unequivocally present In patients with bronchiectasis, stagnant pools of secretions collect in the saccular dilations of ... examination of the lungs of uninfected neonates with CF who died of meconium ileus, there was little histopathology and no inflammation However, there is widening of the orifices of the submucosal ... neither of the opsonin-receptor pairs is left intact [94,95] Thus, all the usual mechanisms of ingestion of P aeruginosa are crippled in the presence of free elastase activity (Fig 3) In one study of...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:20

... second category of perceived neighborhood safety (Zmedium), the coefficient of X (β1) should be added to the coefficient of the interaction term XZmedium (β6) (equation 3) Because of the logarithmic ... odds ratio of X (EXPβ1) should be multiplied by to the odds ratio of the interaction term XZmedium (EXPβ6) To obtain the coefficient of the individual cognition (X) for the last category of perceived ... coefficient of X (β1) should be added to the coefficient of the interaction term XZlow (β7) (equation 4) Again, to obtain the odds ratio of the individual cognition (X) for the last category of perceived...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:21