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... runs in its own thread and can execute only at certain times (typically when your application reaches the end of a method). While it runs, other The Life and Times of an Object First, let's ... The process of destroying an object and returning memory back to the heap is known as garbage collection. • You never declare a destructor with parameters, and it cannot take any parameters. ... compiler can make this translation. You can't override Finalize yourself and you can't call Finalize yourself. Why Use the Garbage Collector? In C#, you can never destroy an object...

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... made substantial contributions to conception and design, and to the analysis and interpretation of the data. TRM and GWC handled acquisition of data. All authors contributed to the manuscript ... diseases (DMARD) and with registry follow-up at one year, VARA and administrative data were used to create a gold standard and claims-based effectiveness algorithm. The gold standard outcome ... effective. Because of similarities in both the descriptive characteristics of the study populations of biologic and non-biologic DMARD users and the performance characteristics of the effectiveness...

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... gift. Ann, many times, said, ‘‘write a book based on your experiences and beliefs about leadership.’’ Our crew—Mark and his wife Maria; Tim, Kathy, and her husband, Keith Olander; Dave, Lisa, and Kevin—echoed ... readable, and enjoyable. Many friends and former colleagues helped along the way. My thanks to all of them, especially Chet Francke, Chuck LaSalle, Dick Lock, Mike Maggiano, Tom Olander, my brother ... longtime friend and colleague, provided input, in- sight, and the ‘‘nitpicking’’ required to keep me in the fairway. He is a joy to work with, a ‘‘real leader,’’ and a great human being. Ann and Bill...

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... the game and all its subtleties and vagaries grip the soul. Golf is a marvelous blend of tests of skill and character, the quest for continuous improvement, mo- ments of great exultation, and huge ... just over the horizon. Golf and leadership, to be played well, require understanding and consistent practice of basic fundamentals. Both demand, for most of us, the necessity of practice. Tools are ... the challenges of leadership and the challenges of the game Kevin and I went out to play on that August day in 1994, the marvelous game of golf. It is a lifelong addiction for many, and the numbers keep...

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... the decisions and actions they want. 2 Organizational Values Organizations, large and small, have increasingly recognized the need for, and the power of, values. Successful organizations, those that ... first like Phil, Johnny, and Ford; walking-the-talk; and establishing and liv- ing organization values like GE’s, GM’s, and Southwest’s. In your job or career changes, have organization values played ... centuries, and to guard the spirit of fair, consistent and honest competition. . . . No other sport de- mands so much of its participants in terms of integrity. 1 In a troubled world, the Rules of Golf...

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... into a sand trap next to the green. He blasted out of the sand, his ball landed on the green, and then rolled into the hole. Birdie, match, and the money! The pro walked over to the sand trap ... divot, and the ball lands on the green finishing about 12 feet from the hole. Riley calmly rolls in a birdie putt. Leaders must play a lot of decisions from divots, behind trees, and out of sand ... CH10 02-23-04 16:45:12 PS 118 Golf and the Game of Leadership As of this writing, the number one and number two ranked play- ers in the world, Tiger Woods and Ernie Els, are tied at 29 percent for...

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... Guards, Victoria Cross and Knight of the Garter.’’ ‘‘Campaigns?’’ ‘‘Dunkirk, El Alamein, and Normandy, sir.’’ ‘‘Languages?’’ ‘‘Private tutor in French, fluent German, and a bit of Greek.’’ His Lordship ... specific accomplishment or perhaps really good work over an extended period of time. Take a plain piece of stationery and prepare a short handwritten note of recognition. Sign it and mail it to the employee’s home. ... golf shots can land in the fairway, the rough, the woods, the water, or even a sand trap, and in every case I need to consider 10589$ CH13 02-23-04 16:45:26 PS 156 Golf and the Game of Leadership backdrop...

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... composure, the husband summoned on all his skill and holed the shot from the bunker. He took the ball out of the hole and while walking off the green put his arm around his wife and calmly said, ... hole. 1 The effectiveness of each and every golf shot is undeniable. The measurement of strokes per hole, strokes per round, and over time the measure of a handicap all clearly define an individual golfer’s ... actions: ■ Reward excellence and acknowledge and reinforce effort, progress, and growth. ■ Give credit when credit is due and be specific about the accomplishment and why it is praiseworthy. ■ Acknowledge...

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... the middle of the block.’’ You were patient and kind to me and trusted me to run those important errands. Once I dropped a whole tray of expensive watches and you calmly helped me pick them up and encouraged ... the layout of the course and importantly knows the 10589$ CH16 02-23-04 16:45:35 PS 192 Golf and the Game of Leadership importance of having a good organizational team and the role of the leader ... quality performance on that individual. And of course you can have all the possibilities of com- binations of good and not-so-good golfing teams. Guess what, the team with the best balance of good golfers...

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... expectancy, and certainty.’’ It is the oppo- site of gloom and despair. An optimistic attitude is essential to the golfing and personal success of a Norman, a Tway, and an Azinger. Real golfers, and ... his twenty-six-man crew of the Endurance on a two-year odyssey from being lost in the Antarctic to eventual return to the safety of civilization. The story of Shackleton and the crew of the Endur- ance ... achieved and accomplishments are applauded, you can stand up and say, ‘‘It was a team effort.’’ 10589$ CH16 02-23-04 16:45:40 PS 209 An Optimistic Outlook optimistic. You, as a leader, and your...

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... prepare own meals and handle money. A limited number of tests of physical performance for assessing the functioning of upper and lower extremities were carried out, using standard procedures. ... included: semi tandem stand, full tandem stand, rising from chair without using arms and shoulder external rotation (full). A younger member of the household present at the time of the interview ... "standing from chair without using arms" (84%), semi tandem stand was completed by 78% and full tandem stand by 72%. The poorest performance was in shoulder external rotation (69%). The proportion...

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... Erlander Professorship for 2002. Further support for HK came from the NSF under Grant DMS- 9970943 and from Eurandom. HK thanks Eurandom for appointing him as Eurandom Professor in the fall of ... left-hand sides of (3.31) and (3.60) are the same for this choice of Λ. We leave it to the reader to check that the right-hand side of (3.60) is at least as large as the right-hand side of (3.31), ... intersection of (3.36) and (3.37). Summing (3.57) over all v ∈C(2C 1 s), and using (3.54) and (3.56), therefore give 728 HARRY KESTEN AND VLADAS SIDORAVICIUS P {A 1 (s, t) intersects Λ and (3.36),...

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... trans- port of anticancer drugs and dyes in and out of cells (Table 2). 4-Chloro-7-nitro-2,1,3-benzoxadiazole (NBD-Cl) caused a prominent increase in rhodamine dye uptake into cells (Fig. 3 and ... Kinetics of the multidrug transporter (P-glycoprotein) and its reversal. Physiol Rev 77, 545– 590. 12 Wielinga PR, Westerhoff HV & Lankelma J (2000) The relative importance of passive and P-glycoprotein ... monitored continuously with an excitation wavelength of 555 nm and an emission wavelength of 575 nm. Inhibition of the NBD-Cl-sensitive efflux allowed the uptake of TMRM and its quenching within...

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... domains and have a similar mode of activation [1]. There are two isoforms of S6 kinase, S6K1 and 2. Both have highly homologous kinase and kinase extension domains flanked by the less conserved N- and ... phosphorylated and associated with PDGFR in a ligand-induced manner. In mamma- lian cells, both events, receptor association and tyro- sine phosphorylation occur simultaneously and peak within ... Stephens 7 , Andrew West 7 and Ivan T. Gout 2,3 1 Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, London, UK 2 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University College London, UK 3 The Institute of Molecular...

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... (for an overview, see Fig. 1). H-bonds are indicated in green, a-helix F in orange and parts of b-sheet A in pink. Backbone atoms of the s1A/hF- loop (residues D127 to E130) and of the top of hF and ... W141 with an A leads to substrate behaviour and a low, stable inhibitory activity (Fig. 2 and Table 3). This W is located in the cleft between hF and s2A (Fig. 5), and the presence of an aromatic ... wild-type protein. Inhibitory activity and substrate behaviour of PAI- 1(N139A) and PAI-1(T146A) were found to be invariant for several hours (Fig. 3 and Table 3). Both events require an exposed RCL, and it therefore...

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