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... to think of sustainability and the preservation of the earth’s environment and its eco- balance. The culture of rewards for bigger and better has been repeated in the fi nancial sector of industry. ... heads. So often management, out of ignorance, do this at the expense of increasing the risk of a disaster. This was done at Bhopal. If knowingly taken, then extra vigilance and the training of operators ... inventory of toxic materials. Important examples are offshore rigs, obsolete nuclear plant and ships. Of note is the IMO Convention for the Safe and Environ- mentally Sound Recycling of Ships,

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... adjacency of darts and maps any pair of opposite darts to a pair of opposite darts. All automorphisms of X form a permutation group on D(X) which is called the automorphism group of X and denoted ... an odd divisor s and any divisor t of n, a s and b t,j (0  j  ⌊ n 2t ⌋) are semiregular automorphisms of B n of orders s and 2t, respectively. For example, if n = 5, then s and t are 1 or 5. ... embeddings of some graphs such as bouquets of circles and dipoles are known However, the genus distribution of congruence classes of 2-cell embeddings of graphs... journal of

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... colony forming ability, DNA damage and apoptotic responses of these cells was determined, in addition to the modulation of HIF-1a and of p53, p21, caspase-2, and of the ataxia telangiectasia mutated ... expression of the pro-apoptotic caspase-2 and inhibition of the pro-survival protein PIDD-C Exposure of p53+/+ cells to DCQ induced single strand breaks and triggered the activation of the nuclear ... Furthermore, and in analogy with the mechanism of action of TPZ [7], the radical that results from addition of an electron to C2 of DCQ is more stable, by resonance, and therefore longer lasting and more

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... with elastic moduli of 2.8 kPa, acrylamide and bis-acrylamide at the final concentrations of 7.5% and 0.1%, respectively, were allowed to be polymerized by addition of TEMED and 10% ammonium persulfate ... phosphorylation of receptor tyrosine kinases and MAP kinase activation: roles of integrin aggregation and occupancy of receptors J Cell Biol 1996, 135:1633-1642 25 Freeman MR, Solomon KR: Cholesterol and ... composition and cell survival in prostate cancer cells and xenografts J Clin Invest 2005, 115:959-968 Figure Legends Figure Ligand-independent activation of Met and EGFR confers proliferative and invasive

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... to the aspect of individuality on top of cultural identity in intercultural situations iii LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES TABLES Table 1.1: Numbers of words and total weighted scores of the three ... Hanoikids and American respondents 40 v TABLE OF CONTENTS CERTIFICATE OF ORIGINALITY OF STUDY PROJECT REPORT i ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ii ABSTRACT iii LIST OF TABLES AND ... FIGURES iv TABLE OF CONTENTS vi INTRODUCTION 1 Identification of the problem and rationale Aims of the study Scope of the study Methodology

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... at Ninh Binh Center of Informatics and Foreign Languages” is the result of my own research in the fulfillment of the requirement for the Degree of Master of Arts at Faculty of Post-Graduate Studies ... for development of listening materials 64 vi CHAPTER C: CONCLUSION 66 A brief summary of the thesis and the main conclusion 66 Limitations of the study and suggestions ... colleagues at Ninh Binh Center of Informatics and Foreign Languages for their continued help and encouragement Last but not least, I would like to thank my husband, my parents who always encourage

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... Duyen, the Dean of English Department at Hanoi College of Commerce and Tourism, who helped and supported me all the time My deepest appreciation is for my husband who always supported and encouraged ... merit and evidence of student selfrelection.” (Paulson, Paulson and Meyer, 1991:60) Similarly, According to Arter and Spandell (1992, p.210) portfolio is seen as “a purposeful collection of student ... fusion of process and product It is the process of reflection, selection, rationalization, and evaluation, together with the product of those processes” In addition, “portfolio is a cumulative and

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... analysis of the needs of Nghe An Tourism Sector and a survey on Hotel Staff and Tourguides - To propose syllabus contents, which are to be well-matched to the objectives of the course and the ... students of Tourism at Nghe an College of Culture and Arts is presented Also, the aim, the methodology and the structure of the thesis are presented The following part, Part II, consists of three ... chapter is the review of taskbased syllabus design, which is the cornerstone of the study 1.1 Definition of Syllabus A syllabus is an expression of opinion on the nature of language and learning; it

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... highest rate of 40% (USA and Canada), Japan, Asia-Pacific (Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore) and Europe (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, ... market value of the stock, resulting in higher profit margins and detailed analysis of price volatility, risk, past performance and unexpected future Therefore, determining returns of a portfolio ... Table 5: Size and Profitability bivariate sorting 34 Table 6: Construction of size, BE/ME, profitability and 35 investment factors Table 7: Stationary test results regarding level values of 39 variables

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... MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING STATE BANK OF VIETNAM BANKING UNIVERSITY OF HO CHI MINH CITY BACHELOR THESIS Major: Financial – Banking Number : 7340201 Topic: APPLICATION OF FAMA FINANCIAL ... nay!!! MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING STATE BANK OF VIETNAM BANKING UNIVERSITY OF HO CHI MINH CITY BACHELOR THESIS Major: Financial – Banking Number : 52340201 Topic: APPLICATION OF FAMA FINANCIAL ... sales Aharoni, Grundy, and Zeng (2013) find that a rise in spending and a decline in profit margins were associated with an increase in profit From these results, Fama and French developed that

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... states of matter. • The development of string theory and the quantum theory of geometry as promising candidates for the union of quantum mechanics and general relativity. • The first descriptions of ... implications—from cosmology and black hole physics, to a new understanding of space and time, to a possible unification of all of the known forces and particles in nature—are enormous. Copyright © National Academy of ... the geometry of the universe and the value of the cosmological constant. Extending our understanding of physics to enormous densities, temperatures, and curvatures in the earliest moments of the...

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