economy but also democracy is at a crossroads

... been embraced by a number of advanced and developing nations, including the United States, Britain, Chile, and Hong Kong 7-28 Pragmatic Nationalism Pragmatic nationalism suggests that FDI has both ... endowments or assets that are tied to a particular location and that a firm finds valuable to combine with its own unique assets are a) First mover advantages b) Location advantages c) Externalities ... States, and also for the European Union South, East, and Southeast Asia, and particularly China, are now seeing an increase of FDI inflows Latin America is also emerging as an important region...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2014, 18:39

... P=1 and S=0 Player C D C 3,3 0,5 D 5,0 1,1 Player So that joint cooperation is more profitable than alternating C and D Player has an action and a strategy He (and hence the strategy) plays PD ... therefore should take into account for features which nowadays characterize the internationalization process, capturing the technological implications of M &A At first, we consider a situation with two ... choice of actions has for each player It is assumed that players have complete information, so that once a pair of actions is chosen, the objective function for each player maps these into a payoff...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 09:20

... re-categorization as capital expenses Next, the amortization of the research asset is treated the same way that depreciation is and netted out to arrive at the adjusted operating income Adjusted ... computed after capital expenses, the reality is that there are a number of capital expenses that are treated as operating expenses For instance, a significant shortcoming of accounting statements is ... restructuring and inventory charges were tax deductible and the after-tax portion was added back; the tax rate was computed based upon taxes paid and taxable income for that year Tax rate in 1998 = Taxes...

Ngày tải lên: 23/10/2012, 11:08

... (discharge date or death date) - randomization date + If discharge date was not available, patients were censored at late follow up In addition, all-cause overall mortality and, in patients with P aeruginosa ... because they had valid ICU admittance dates but no valid ICU discharge dates and had hospital discharge dates (doripenem, 3; comparator, 6) Duration of hospitalization was defined as (discharge ... data in the pooled analysis, included durations of mechanical ventilation, ICU stay, and hospitalization Duration of mechanical ventilation was defined as stop date - maximum (start date or randomization...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:02

... physicians Also, the CPOE Shulman et al [1] examined included an available (but not interactive) on-line information system with drug interactions, contraindications, side effects, formulary, and ... consider that among CPOE systems’ many virtues is their ability to reduce errors that seldom reach patients (which neither negates their many valuable contributions nor precludes their extraordinary ... emerge.” Evaluation of CPOE systems, and of all healthcare information technology, is mostly terra incognita This research reminds us that while CPOEs undoubtedly reduce several forms of medication...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:39

... unselected Turkish patients Abbreviations ACC: American College of Cardiology; AHA: American Heart Association; CABG: coronary artery binding graft; CK: creatine kinase; MACE: major adverse cardiac events; ... 30 days; late, >30 days and very late, >1 year) Myocardial infarction was defined as a creatine kinase (CK) elevation >2 times above the upper limit of normal levels with any associated elevation ... vasodilatation before undergoing their initial and final angiograms The glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitor (Tirofiban) was administered at the operator’s discretion All patients maintained anti-platelet...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:18

... citrate-phosphate buffer was added to each well After 15-20 mins at room temperature, the reaction was stopped with 50µl of 2.5 M H2SO4 The plates were read in an automated ELISA reader (340 ATC, ... wellcharacterized staphylococcal cell wall antigens PG and TA and total cell lysate in sera from patients with deep-seated and superficial S aureus infections We demonstared that the patients with deep-seated ... SLT, Austria) at 492 nm using a reference wavelength of 620 nm The results of the assay were expressed as the mean optical density at 492 nm of the duplicate values Statistical analysis was performed...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2012, 11:08

... change Behavioral change Knowledge change Local partner satisfaction (Dissatisfaction) Foreign partner satisfaction (Dissatisfaction) RECOMMENDATIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT Figure 4.1 Analytical framework ... cooperative arrangement is between contractual arrangements and cooperative arrangements, which involve exchange or contribution of capital, that is equity arrangements Among the later, a distinction ... partners graded higher than the local partners The Vietnamese graded work satisfaction and salary fairness much lower than the foreigners This indicates that the local managers are not very satisfied...

Ngày tải lên: 13/04/2013, 11:01

... DISADVANTAGES OF MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS Despite some advantages of Mergers and Acquisitions, in fact they have much more disadvantages Statistics show that most Mergers and Acquisitions reduce rather ... organization can experience a substantial increase in market share The new firm is usually more cost-efficient and competitive as compared to its financially weak parent organization III DISADVANTAGES ... negative connotations, therefore, by describing the deal euphemistically as a merger, deal makers and top managers try to make the takeover more palatable An example of this would be the takeover...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2013, 12:00

... ngày gia tăng nhanh chóng Những thương vụ giao dịch gọi mua lại doanh nghiệp xuyên quốc gia (transnational acquisitions) mua lại doanh nghiệp chéo (cross-border acquisitions) Các vụ giao dịch ... công ty mua tồn thị trường, công ty bị mua lại biến tùy theo mục tiêu ý muốn hai bên tham gia vào mua • lại Nếu xét tính chất giao dịch mua lại doanh nghiệp ta phân hoạt động mua lại doanh nghiệp ... thành loại: Mua lại doanh nghiệp mang tính chất thân thiện (friendly acquisition): hình thức - mua bán diễn đồng thuận hai bên cảm thấy th a mãn với thương vụ Mua lại doanh nghiệp mang tính chất...

Ngày tải lên: 19/10/2013, 21:20

... that the speaker is “glad” to see his foe outstretched this way— he’s glad to see him dead What Does It Mean? Okay, so that’s what happened in the poem But what does it all mean? Look again at ... you know that this apple grew on a tree and that this tree is a metaphor for the speaker’s anger You also know that the poem is called A Poison Tree.” You read in the fourth stanza that, in the ... stanza is a poetic “paragraph”; each stanza in this poem is four lines long) to track the action What happens in the first stanza? First, look at an example of how the action of a poem— what happens...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 17:20

... group disappears, and with that disappearance, the language of justiWcation for the killing of anyone or anything no longer applies This is because the key principle in a lifeboat context is that ... trapped and the only way to escape is to kill one of their members so that the rest may live, then it is ethical to so because this is a situation that is ‘an unavoidable emergency [that is] ... pro-choice advocates to meet pro-life advocates on the same footing, by arguing that pro-choice women are dedicated to being good mothers, and that obtaining an abortion is a necessary means a woman...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... Magazine has a (high) Magazine has the (high) (tall) television tower circulation than TV Guide, but AARP circulation of all January and February are the (cold) dentally, they are also the (heavy) ... comparative and superlative degrees of most adjectives and adverbs, as in less attractive and least attractive Less and fewer cannot be interchanged Less refers to amounts that form a whole or can't ... Foi gras has many calories Because calories can be counted, use the adjective many rather than the adjective much Don't Use No Double Negatives A double negative is a statement that contains two...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 16:20

... my salary My salary isn't particularly high, so I only pay tax at the basic rate My personal allowance is £5,000 a year Then I pay 10% on the next £2,500, and 22% on everything above that I also ... reference see A & C Black Banking and Finance (978-07136-7739-3) 19 Taxation Unit 0000 My name's Marcus I work for a bank I'm on PAYE (Pay As You Earn) This means that tax is automatically deducted ... houses and shares Capital gains tax b A tax on specific transactions For example, in the UK, it is payable by the buyer of a house Value Added Tax (VAT) Stamp duty Wealth tax c Tax on earnings,...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2013, 10:20

... social and psychological factors that influence communication” Hoa (2000) stated that “discourse analysis as a study of how and for 10 what purposes language is used in a certain context and ... language, vocabulary derived from Latin That is why formal spoken language has many features very similar to written texts, particularly absence of vernacular vocabulary and slang, as well as the employment ... utilizing sensationalism to attract audience viewers and increase advertising revenue profits Participants are often placed in exotic locations or abnormal situations, and are often persuaded to act in...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 12:41

... data collection and data analysis These parts will be followed by the consideration of reliability and validity 3.2 RESEARCH DESIGN This is a descriptive, comparative, qualitative and quantitative ... in Vietnamese) The samples will be sorted and analyzed in term of structural and semantic features 3.6 DATA ANALYSIS After completing the data collection, analyzing and classifying data are the ... for entertainment or chatting Each coffee shop has a different name Name is one of the indispensable parts of a shop A shop’s name is not merely a name but also a brand name associated with the...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 12:41

... questions are accurate ones The qualitative a Structural metaphors and quantitative research designs are now briefly elucidated b Orientational metaphors 3.3 SAMPLING c Ontological metaphors The research ... selectively 300 samples in both languages were collected - Analyzing and classifying data into categories into syntactic and conceptual metaphoric features Accordingly, the data was sorted into categories ... Conj+HeadV2+Pron+PG Adv+Head V+PG GROUPS Aux+Head Adj+PG Adv+Head Adj+AG PUBLISHED Adv+Head Adj+N VIETNAMESE Adv+Adv+Head 4.3.1 Conceptual Metaphorical Features of Word Groups Adj+Pron+Adv +Pron...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:17

... affirmative imperative structures are made in English as PAs than negative ones, which is also similar in Vietnamese Fifth, both English and Vietnamese people are similar in using vocatives and ... can find that PAs in English can be categorized in Declarative Questions 14 13.59 many different structures such as interrogative, declarative, Tag Questions 15 14.56 imperative, exclamative and ... Incomplete statements 12.32 8.21 Total 65 100 61 100 10 Exclamatives Frequency (%) 30.5 Imperatives Number 47 Declaratives Frequency (%) Negative statements Vietnamese Language Number Affirmative statements...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:22

... What are the semantic and syntactic features of real estate advertisements in English? What are the semantic and syntactic features of real estate advertisements in Vietnamese? semantic features ... least a sentence or a property (for sale by owner) In most situations in the United States, phrase acting as a slogan to attract readers A real estate real estate is a legal designation, and is ... the language in real estate advertisements An investigation into linguistic features of a discourse is not new, but the investigation into linguistic features of real estate advertising is rather...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:23