chapter 9  the building blocks of services

... Neutrino Wolfgang K H Panofsky Stanford University Funding of Particle Physics Pierre Ramond University of Florida, Gainesville Family xxvi BUILDING BLOCKS OF MATTER LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Blair N ... systems—without the written permission of the publisher Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Building blocks of matter : a supplement to the Macmillan encyclopedia of physics / edited by John ... the basic building blocks of matter has had on the minds of past and present scientists Biographical articles of physicists who have made seminal contributions to our understanding of the material...

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... are not sources of funding that come from investors, so they are not included in the calculation of the cost of capital We adjust for these items when calculating the cash flows of a project, but ... Risk-Adjusted Cost of Capital  Start by calculating a divisional cost of capital  Estimate the risk of the project using the techniques in Chapter 11  Use judgment to scale up or down the cost of capital ... control of firm 9 - 13 Why is yield on preferred lower than r d?  Corporations own most preferred stock, because 70% of preferred dividends are nontaxable to corporations  Therefore, preferred often...

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... Formulation of the first law of thermodynamics:  Consider a change of state of the system from an initial value U1 to a final value U , then Δ = U2 – U1 U If the change is due to the addition of a ... capacities of an ideal gas:  We knew the concept of heat capacity of an ideal gas in a constant-volume process Now consider more general cases of thermodynamic process  The general definition of heat ... Calculation of work done during volume changes:  A typical example of a thermodynamic system is an amount of gas enclosed in a cylinder with a movable piston (Such a system is the central part of heat...

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... example of irreversible process: The system consists of two identical metal blocks The whole system is thermally isolated from the surroundings The initial state a): the temperatures of two blocks ... Notice that the concepts of order/disorder have the meaning for systems which consist of a very large number of particles (molecules) For systems of few particles the concept of entropy plays no any ... any input of work → violate the “refrigerator” statement Violation of the “refrigerator” statement 5/6/2008 Violation of the “engine” statement 14 §3 Entropy and quantitative formulation of the...

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... the survival probabilities of individuals and a zero rate of interest, the price of a unit of second-period consumption, c2h , is equal to the survival probability of each annuitant Individuals ... distribution of bequests that become initial endowments of a subsequent generation Thus, analysis of the long-term effects of changes in longevity has to focus on the (ergodic) evolution of the distribution ... derivation of the ergodic, long-term, distribution of bequests which, in turn, generates a distribution of individual and aggregate savings A general analysis of this process is beyond the scope of this...

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... of annuity is sold at a common price available to all potential buyers In this kind of pooling equilibrium, the price of each type of annuity is equal to the average longevity of the buyers of ... provided by the purchase of life insurance Each annuity pays a flow of unit of consumption, contingent on the annuity holder’s survival Denote the price of annuities by pa A unit of life insurance pays ... the sign of the price of each good changes in the opposite direction to the sign of profits from sales of this good The following assumption about the relation between the elasticity of demand...

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... a surviving holder of the annuity.3 A long-term annuity pays a flow of returns, specified in advance, over a certain period of time or indefinitely When the short-run returns of annuities’ depend ... survival function, the purchase or sale of a long-term annuity is equivalent to a sequence of purchases or sales of short-term annuities However, upon the arrival of information on and the differentiation ... arrival of risk-class information yield a predetermined flow of returns which, in equilibrium, reflect the expected relative weight of different risk classes in the population Because of their...

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... purchase of a smaller amount of annuities early in life because of overly pessimistic beliefs about survival probabilities (a form of short-sightedness) It may provide one explanation of the observed ... (8.21), the interpretation of this result is that the flow of returns from annuities held at age M can be matched, using the relevant risk-class survival function of the holder of the annuities, to ... individuals disregard the effect of their actions on the equilibrium rate of return on annuities The impact of individuals disregarding their actions on the terms of insurance contracts is common...

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... expansion of investment options: Starting with diversified common stock portfolios, policies now offer a variety of specialized portfolios of bonds and securities With the exception of the United ... (2001) report that at age 65, 12 percent of men and percent of women will die prior to their 70th birthday, while 17.5 percent of men and 31.4 percent of women will live to age 90 or beyond Figure ... present values of benefits (Brown et al., 2001) August 22, 2007 Time: 09:50am chapter01.tex Introduction • Davidoff, Brown, and Diamond (2005) suggest that a mismatch of the age profiles of benefits...

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... accross states of nature) Sequential annuity market equilibrium is characterized by the purchase of long-term annuities, short sale of some of these annuities later on, or the purchase of additional ... desire of individuals for flexibility, the model should allow for short sales of annuities purchased early or the purchase of additional short-term annuities when so desired The first part of this ... life an amount of annuities that generates zero demand for annuities in older ages, ensuring a consumˆ ˆ ption path that is independent of the state of nature ( c1 and c2 independent of p) Consequently,...

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... or not to leave: The distribution of bequest motives, National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper No 11767 Kotlikoff, L., and L Summers 1981 The role of intergenerational transfers in ... economics of incomplete information Quarterly Journal of Economics 90: 624–649 Salanie, B 2000 Microeconomics of Market Failure Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Salanie, B 2003 The Economics of Taxation ... bequests and, 82; bundling and, 131; defined, 67; empirical importance of, 67; general model for, 69–71; proof of, 76; rate of return and, 71; refundable annuities and, 144–49; risk class and,...

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... therefore, from the depths of his hiding-place, the nature of that mysterious malady which bent down and devoured more mortally every day a man but lately so full of life and of a desire to live He ... acuteness of pain awakens hope in the mind of a physician Half a day passed away thus The doctor formed his resolution like a brave man, like a man of firm mind; he issued suddenly from his place of ... the absence of my son, Doctor,- that is my malady, and I not conceal it.” “Monsieur the Count, your son lives, he is strong, he has all the future before him of men of his merit and of his race;...

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... deeper understanding of demand behavior and the pricing of services It argues why all services are sold in advance and show how the specificities of services result in two types of risks faced by ... providing customized software services, many companies bundle their customized software services with support services to ensure satisfaction from the software’s proper usage For many professional service ... develop new markets Of course, not all services are capable of providing such trials It would not be possible for hospitals, for example, to provide trials of their services Summary of capacity for...

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... FIELD OF THE EARTH 98 Table 7.1 of Stacey and eq (3.43) we deduce that the relaxation time of the dipole is about 1000 years; in other words, the current rate of change of the strength of the ... picture of the field In gravity, the major component of the field is that of a point mass M in the center of the Earth; in geomagnetism, we will see that the field is dominated 81 by that of an axial ... Cause of the secular variation The slow variation of the field with time is most likely due to the reorganization of the lines of force in the core, and not to the creation or destruction of field...

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... disturbed him A cry of "Scat! you devil!" and the crash of an empty bottle against the back of his aunt's woodshed brought him wide awake, and a single minute later he was dressed and out of the window ... out of the window and creeping along the roof of the "ell" on all fours He "meow'd" with caution once or twice, as he went; then jumped to the roof of the woodshed and thence to the ground Huckleberry ... his dead cat The boys moved off and disappeared in the gloom At the end of half an hour they were wading through the tall grass of the graveyard It was a graveyard of the old-fashioned Western...

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... willows We took some fish off of the lines and set them again, and begun to get ready for dinner The door of the cavern was big enough to roll a hogshead in, and on one side of the door the floor ... was heaps of old greasy cards scattered around over the floor, and old whisky bottles, and a couple of masks made out of black cloth; and all over the walls was the ignorantest kind of words and ... FST! it was as bright as glory, and you'd have a little glimpse of treetops a- plunging about away off yonder in the storm, hundreds of yards further than you could see before; dark as sin again...

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... terms of turnover, Europe’s market in the “ASCII database services was one third of the size of the US market; the use of “videotext services was increasing in France (where over 90% of videotext ... ECJ23 on the basis of the conflicting judgments elsewhere 4.1.3 The opinion of stakeholders 75% of respondents to the Commission services' on-line survey are aware of the existence of the “sui generis” ... necessary to access the contents of databases and facilitate the dissemination of information The issue of access to “information” is of concern to various categories of users as it may involve information...

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