... anticipated that catches management unprepared.
A contingency plan should address such occurrences.
Natural disasters are a primary contingency that companies
plan for. Like manmade situations, these ... brief-
ing. Make sure participants understand that your planning model is
about to take a dramatic turn for the better. Business-as-usual can-
not be allowed.
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Figure ... a minimum of two activities:
1. Quarterly checks
2. An annual update
The Practical Guidelines for
Buildinga Business Plan in
Five Pages
T
his chapter explains the five major elements that make...
... you are staging more than one application, create a subdirectory for each.
Step 3: Move your files to the staging area and create the Oracle Installer files.
Repeat this step for each staging area ... the Oracle Installer.
Examine the files listed in the Available Products pane. If you do not want
a file to appear in this pane for example, a file has already been estab-
lished as a dependency ... (PRD file) A file that lists all installable components in a
given staging area.
Oracle File Packager A wizard that creates the product file and all
the Oracle Installer files (MAP, VRF, INS,...
... Applications
1.5.1.2.2 The MAP file
The MAP file is a table that lists all the files that make up your application.
Interface Label Name of your application as it appears in the Available
Products ... of a given type; for
example, the Edit action fora text item may be the command string that invokes
Notepad or WordPad.
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Macros. Macros are variables you can use to modify actions. A macro ... documents across multiple platforms
Many applications today run on multiple platforms, with development taking
place on a variety of platforms as well. Chapter 6, "Designing Portable
Applications"...
... easy to say that we want
every vendor’s system to use a certain type of
cable, from a management perspective, we
also wanted a single vendor to install all the
cabling, make sure cable trays ... horizontal pathway space, fire-stopping pathways, and overhead-head racks. That’s where ADC’s
TrueNet cable, with it’s smaller diameter, really came into play.
“The number of fire-stopping paths ...
ensuring that a two-inch minimum bend radius is
maintained throughout.
CASE STUDY
Building a new hospital provides one location for
care, research, and education. It also provides
a once-in -a- lifetime...
... JEL is a journal that systematically catalogues
articles from relevant international economics journals. This data base is available under the
name ‘ECONLIT’ in the online sources of the faculty ...
EU, etc) are available from the commercial online data base ‘Statistiknetz.de’ that can be
accessed freely via the faculty library. Access requires a university IP, so you must use a
university ... text and right after the quote in short form by using the following
scheme: (last name of author and year of publication, exact page(s)).
Example for an indirect quote:
At least in the case...
... Automatic
Thesaurus Discovery. Kluwer.
Jaroslava Hlav a cov a and Pavel Rychl´y. 1999. Dispersion
of words in a language corpus. In Proc. TSD (Text
Speech Dialogue), pages 321–324.
Adam Kilgarriff, ... Center of basic re-
search LC536 and in the National Research Pro-
gramme II project 2C06009.
6
A word sketch is a one-page corpus-derived account of a
word’s grammatical and collocation behaviour.
7
The ... distribution.
All the information is available. We can deter-
mine, in a large corpus such as the BNC, for each
noun lemma with more than (say) fifty occurrences,
what percentage is plural. We present...
... biotechnology
and as a model for human disease. Crit Rev Biotech 16:95–118, 1996.
Shibata H, Toyama K, Shioya H, Ito M, Hirota M, Hasegawa S, Matsumoto H, Takano H,
Akiyama T, Toyoshima K, Kanamura R, Kanegae ... examination of animal behavior, longevity,
and cause of death, as well as gross and microscopic examination of animal tissues.
Specialized physiological and behavioral tests also may be performed ... via gene therapy is an experimental approach to
treatment of a complex disease such as cancer (see Chapter 10).
A final approach to gene therapy against cancer is tumor-directed delivery of a
gene...
... companies arecalled “growth
stocks,” and those ofbad companies
arecalled“value stocks.” Let’s
considerfor a moment, Wal-Martand Kmart. The formeris finan-
cially healthyand universallyadmired, ... withlegendary management,
a steadily growing stream of earnings,
and a hugepileof cash on
hand for emergencies. The latterisasick puppy, having recently
declaredbankruptcy due to marginal financialresources ... measure short-term risk by calculating something statisticians
call a “standard deviation” (SD). This can be thought about as the degree of “scatter”
of a series of values about the average. For...
... the case of companies that are buying back
their shares. A company that has grown its earnings by 5% per year
and annually buys back 5% of its outstanding shares will appreciate by
10% per year, ... foremost, because it provides an intuitive way
to think about the value of a security. A stock or bond is not an
abstract piece of paper that has a randomly fluctuating value; it is a
claim on real future ... observers, and unfortu-
nately, this is eventually what happened.
Third, and most important, the real beauty of the above formulas is
that they can be rearranged to calculate the market’s expected...
... was the result of a massive
collaborative effort to collect and analyze stock and bond prices. As
researchers began to examine the aggregate performance of stocks
and bonds, it was only natural ... each year. This is the best-case scenario for active-
ly managed mutual funds—turn your portfolio over once a year, and
you might—just might—match the index. And that’s before taxes. In a
taxable ... explained by
the laws of chance.
Are we in Randomovia yet? Almost. If we actually were in
Randomovia, we would find that above-average performance does not
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Figure...
... value
each year as capital gains. Fortunately, there are now “tax-efficient”
index funds designed for taxable accounts, which are generally able to
avoid capital gains. In 1999, Vanguard created ... unnecessary capital gains and resultant taxes. For the taxable
investor, indexing means never having to pay the tax and investment
consequences of a bad manager.
Why Can’t I Just Buy and Hold ... expense are least for large-cap
funds, intermediate for small-cap and foreign funds, and greatest for
emerging market funds. They are tabulated in Table 3-1.
94 The Four Pillars of Investing
500 dramatically...
... the S&P 500 was less than infla-
tion—that is, it had a negative real return—whereas the EAFE beat
inflation handily. You’ll also see that the EAFE beat the S&P 500 by a
similar margin ... large
stocks. Small companies tend to be insubstantial and fragile. More
importantly, they are thinly traded—relatively few shares change
hands during an average day, and in a general downturn, a few moti-
vated ... can swallow.
So what’s a reasonable foreign allocation? Certainly less than 50% of
your stock pool. For starters, foreign stocks are more volatile, in gen-
eral, than domestic stocks on a year-by-year...
... the roads and public safety made travel a danger-
ous, slow, and extremely uncomfortable endeavor.
At a stroke, the railroads made overland travel cheap, safe, rapid,
and relatively comfortable. ... financial chaos of Paris arrived a most extraordinary
Scotsman: John Law. After escaping the hangman for killing a man in
a 1694 duel, he studied the banking system in Amsterdam and even-
tually ... builders,
and particularly real estate brokers in places like Omaha, Sacramento,
and a small junction town called Chicago.
“Wall Street Lays an Egg”
So quipped the headline of the entertainment newspaper...