... Money T han God ALSO BY SEBASTIAN MALLABY The World’s Banker: A Story of Failed States, Financial Crises, and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations After Apartheid: The Future of South Africa MORE ... of the frontiers of finance: of innovation and increasing leverage, of spectacular triumphs and humiliating falls, and of the debates spawned by these dramas For much of their history, hedgefunds ... consensus was not that academics flocked to hedgefunds It was that institutional investors acquired a license to entrust vast amounts of capital to them Again, the years after the 1987 crash were an...
... kanji katakana katakana-kanji kanji-hiragana hiragana kanji-katakana kat akana-symbol-katakana number kanji-hiragana-kanji alphabet kanji-hir agana-kanji-hir agana hiragana-kanji percent 45.1% 11.4% ... speech Table shows examples of common charto Chinese characters Hiragana and katakana are acter bigrams for each partof speech in the infresyllabaries: The former is used primarily for grammatical ... types of characters other t h a n punctuation marks: kanji, hiragana, katakana, R o m a n 3.4 P a r t o f S p e e c h a n d W o r d M o r p h o l o g y alphabet, and Arabic numeral Kanji which means...
... present participle as adverb present participle as adverb (un-) Christianly 0.5 unchristianly 0.2 av-dx av-j av-j-u av-jc av-jp-u av-js av-n av-s av-u av-vvg av-vvg-u av-vvn past participle as adverb ... to a particular partof speech Many of the mistakes that taggers make have to with erroneous assignments of POS tags to such words A particular occurrence of ‘since’ or ‘before’ may be an adverb, ... separate problem The standard adverbial form of an adjective uses a -ly suffix But there is a class of spatial adjectives that use an ‘-s’ suffix (‘downwards’) There is also a zero form of adverbs...
... courses and religions which claim that man's 'natural' state is one of happiness are just plain wrong - as wrong as a book on juggling which claims that the balls 'naturally' want to be in a neat arc ... we are far more than a collection of physical needs We also have a whole range of intellectual and emotional needs We also have 'spiritual' needs in the sense of wanting answers to "what's it all ... (joy), any more than the juggler aims to attain a perfect frozen arc of equally-spaced balls above her head so that she might relax, arms folded So what is our purpose? It is to maintain a state of...
... Yokoyama T, Aihara Y, Sekiguchi Ki K, Tanaka T, Nagai R, Kurabayashi M: Transcriptional activation of the BNP gene by lipopolysaccharide is mediated through GATA elements in neonatal rat cardiac myocytes ... Cardiol 2002, 34:649-659 Ma KK, Ogawa T, de Bold AJ: Selective upregulation of cardiac brain natriuretic peptide at the transcriptional and translational levels by pro-inflammatory cytokines and ... terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide plasma level as an early marker of prognosis and cardiac dysfunction in septic shock patients Crit Care Med 2005, 33:1001-1007 Tomaru Ki K, Arai M, Yokoyama...
... established on average each year Hedgefunds and mutual funds differ substantially in the amount of assets they manage There are some hedgefunds that are quite large and some that are quite small ... 1–8) FundsofFundsFundsof funds, also referred to as fundsofhedge funds, are very much what they appear to be hedgefunds that invest in other hedgefundsFundsoffunds create pools of capital ... limited partnership A mutual fund manager may have no material personal assets in the fund he or she manages, but ahedge fund manager will have a material investment that sometimes makes the manager...
... Korea UAE–Abu Dhabi UAE–Abu Dhabi UAE–Abu Dhabi UAE-Dubai UAE–Dubai UAE-RAK Hong Kong Monetary Authority Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA) Libyan Investment Authority Khazanah Nasional Bhd Oman Investment ... match the target companies in the SDC database with the Datastream database using the company‟s Datastream code as displayed in the SDC database In some cases, the SDC database does not show a ... management (AUM) as published by the SWF Institute as of September 2010 Country Fund Name UAE- Abu Dhabi Norway Saudi Arabia China China Singapore China-HK SAR Kuwait China Russia Singapore Qatar...
... Korea UAE–Abu Dhabi UAE–Abu Dhabi UAE–Abu Dhabi UAE-Dubai UAE–Dubai UAE-RAK Hong Kong Monetary Authority Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA) Libyan Investment Authority Khazanah Nasional Bhd Oman Investment ... match the target companies in the SDC database with the Datastream database using the company‟s Datastream code as displayed in the SDC database In some cases, the SDC database does not show a ... management (AUM) as published by the SWF Institute as of September 2010 Country Fund Name UAE- Abu Dhabi Norway Saudi Arabia China China Singapore China-HK SAR Kuwait China Russia Singapore Qatar...
... the fact that there have been a number of individual biographical accounts, as well as sweeping sociopolitical or psychiatric generalizations A lack of data and an apparent ambivalence among many ... logical target of Asahara, Prabhakaran, or bin Laden is not a particularly useful guideline to assess the probability of such an attack Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was not a logical target for ... to have plotted to assassinate Japan’s emperor Shoko Asahara’s cult is already on record for having made an assassination threat against President Clinton Library of Congress – Federal Research...
... cultural material later, after they have mastered the basic grammar and vocabulary of the language The last one is the lack of adequate training HCC teachers may not have been adequately trained ... awareness, as a fundamental feature of language and an integral partof language learning, is important at all level.” Briefly, regardless of different points of view, the study of culture takes ... being a native speaker is not always an advantage, because in an intercultural approach, the teacher needs to know something about both cultures Because this approach is comparative and is based...
... containing different concentrations of the analyte are prepared to construct each external calibration curve, consisting of the concentration of an alkyl nitrite on the horizontal axis and peak area ... in rats J Pharm Sci 74:780–782 10) Kielbasa WB, Bauer JA, Fung HL (1999) Analysis of isobutyl nitrite inhalant in rat and human blood: application for pharmacokinetic investigations J Chromatogr ... Terumo, Tokyo, Japan and other manufacturers) and rapidly injected into GC iv Quantitation: a 0.25 mL of the same matrix e (without an analyte), 0.5 mL of the phosphate buffer, 0.05 mL of isobutyl...
... GC/MS analysis for DAEMS in serum (a) a total ion chromatogram (TIC) and a mass chromatogram; (b) an EI mass spectrum of DAEMS; (c) a CI mass spectrum of DAEMS Poisoning case, and toxic and fatal ... EMPA in serum (a) a TIC and mass chromatograms; (b) an EI mass spectrum of the t-BDMS derivative of EMPA; (c) a CI mass spectrum of the same derivative of EMPA data of animals According to the ... construct a calibration curve for DAEMS consisting of peak area ratio of DAEMS to IS on the vertical axis and DAEMS concentration on the horizontal axis A peak area ratio obtained from a test specimen...
... 188 Cannabinoids and their metabolites GC analysis of cannabinoids in plant specimensa Reagents and their preparation • • • Extraction and purification of cannabinoids [3]: Cannabis sativa L is ... with cannabinoid concentration on the horizontal axis and with peak area ratio ofa cannabinoid to IS on the vertical axis GC analysis of cannabinoids in plant specimens ⊡ Figure 2.2 Gas chromatogram ... Kagaku 25:321–326 6) Matsunaga T, Nagatomo H, Narimatsu S et al (1993) Studies on identification of cannabis seeds I: Qualitative and quantitative analysis of cannabinoids in cannabis seeds Jpn J...
... Qualitative analysis is made by the comparison of the retention time ofa peak ofa specimen with that of the authentic standard and also by the confirmation of the absence of such a peak in a ... Morphine and its analogues 8) Matsubara K, Fukushima S, Akane A et al (1992) Increased urinary morphine, codeine and tetrahydropapaveroline in Parkinsonian patient undergoing L-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine ... methods Qualitative analysis is performed by finding a peak appearing at the same retention time as that of the authentic standard after trimethylsilyl (TMS) derivatization; it is also important to...
... cyanosis headache, dyspnea, tachypnea, tachycardia and hypertension mental derangement, listlessness and metabolic acidosis coma, convulsive attack and hypotension death A poisoning case [4] An ... peak area ratio of nitrate to IS obtained from a test specimen is applied to the calibration curve to calculate its concentration ii Analysis of nitrite i A 0.2-mL volume ofa test specimen and ... or 4-µL of the upper layer is injected into GC Various known amounts of nitrate and a fixed amount of IS are added to blank specimens and processed in the same way to construct a calibration curve...
... Japan, such criteria set by official institutions are not available for drugs of abuse Upon judgements of analytical data, the idea of cutoff values should be adopted with reference to the values ... composed ofa mixture of non-polar phase and a cation exchanger phase; the mechanisms are reversed-phase extraction plus cation-exchanging action The LRC reservoir is advantageous, because as much as ... only give rough estimation of them References 1) Editorial Committee of the Manual of the Japanese Pharmacopoeia (ed) (1996) Manual of Japanese Pharmacopoeia, 13th edn Hirokawa Publishing Co., Tokyo,...
... about A 10-mL volume of ethanol and 10 mL distilled water are passed through a Sep-Pak C18 cartridge using a 10-mL volume glass syringe to activate the cartridge at a flow rate not faster than ... vertical axis The peak area ratio ofa test specimen is applied to the calibration curve to obtain its pentazocine concentration Assessment of the method > Table 5.1 shows EI mass spectra of pentazocine ... chromatography Pharmazie 46:464–465 8) Seno H, Kumazawa T, Ishii A et al (2000) Determination of pentazocine in human whole blood and urine by gas chromatography/surface ionization organic mass...