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... POST-OFFICE THE EARL OF CHICHESTER AND THE MARQUESS OF SALISBURY, HIS MAJESTY 'S POSTMASTERS-GENERAL PORTSMOUTH AND BRISTOL: Contractors' Number of Names Passengers In Out Miles Time allowed Dispatched ... those days! His son, Sir Henry, likewise had snuff boxes presented to him A handsome specimen snuff box is now in Miss Freeling 's hands It is made of tortoise-shell, it has the portrait of King ... lands, houses, offices, buildings and premises situate in the parish of St Werburgh, in the city and county of Bristol, in the county of Gloucester, and lying on the south-west side of Small Street,...

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... weighed It is necessary, for various reasons, to compare weights of gases and to this Wobbe number a comparison is made of their ‘densities’ The density of a substance is the weight of a given ... rates of diffusion varied inversely as the square root of the densities of gases Or, Diffusion rate f pffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi density Thus a light gas will diffuse twice as quickly as a gas of four times ... hydrogen is made up of two atoms Some substances are made up of combinations of different kinds of atoms Water is an example Water is composed of hydrogen and oxygen and its formation is described...

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... towards the countries of the East Of his successors, Seleucus Nicanor and some of the Ptolemies of Egypt prosecuted his plans of commerce with this part of the world with the most zeal and success ... articles used for their ships Silver, tin, lead, and vessels of brass; slaves, horses, and mules; carpets, ivory, and ebony; pearls and silk; wheat, balm, honey, oil and gums; wine, and wool, and ... some of his half-decked vessels, and his quickest sailing transports, ordering at the same time a small part of his army to attend his fleet Considerable difficulties arose, and some loss was sustained...

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... thus many businesses choose to borrow U .S dollars As the result, it makes the absolute numbers and proportion of U .S dollars loans outstanding increased Thirdly, many Vietnamese people have psychological ... online sales companies in Vietnam, they can see intuitively the listing prices in USD and VND USD is list in almost 100% of websites that sell electronics such as computers, and appliances imported, ... to the trend of structural transformation of deposits, the share of loans in U .S dollars compared to total loans and investments of the commercial banking system tends to increase, higher than...

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... potential of benign breast conditions and stress that mastectomy was not necessary in most Before him, many surgeons regarded ‘chronic cystic 17 Benign disorders and diseases of the breast disease’ as ... These are important in advising and assessing the results of reconstructive and cosmetic surgery Development The prepubertal breast is identical in both sexes and consists of a number of small ... names used for common benign breast disorders cyclical Nodularity Fibrocystic disease Fibroadenosis Cystic hyperplasia Hyperplastic cystic disease Schimmelbusch s disease Chronic cystic mastitis...

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... necessary, for various reasons, to compare weights of gases and to this a comparison is made of their ‘densities’ The density of a substance is the weight of a given volume In Imperial units it ... inversely as the square root of the densities of gases Or: Diffusion rate ∝ √ density Thus a light gas will diffuse twice as quickly as a gas of four times its density (see section on Specific Gravity) ... and wood is lighter than water In order to compare densities they are related to a standard substance For solids and liquids the standard is water For gases the standard is air This relationship...

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... moral assessment of such practices and rules is the domain of social justice The moral assessment of individual and collective agents and of their conduct within some existing institutional scheme ... conduct and character assessments On the other hand, it also seems that conduct in the context of particular social institutions cannot be assessed without a moral assessment of these institutions ... the United States This achievement of his teaching is celebrated in a volume of essays by his students, Reclaiming the History of Ethics: Essays for John Rawls, which his students presented to...

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... companies: Members and nonmembers of business associations Indicators of financial standing of joint-stock companies and membership in business associations Types of support rendered to authorities and ... financial undertakings Asset structure of Sberbank Definitions, descriptive statistics, and sources of variables used in the empirical analysis Results of regression analysis on enterprises with no ... system This chapter also addresses the issue of Russia s peculiarities in terms of its business environment in comparison to countries at a similar level of socioeconomic development, such as...

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... as well as political consequences It was a systemic crisis of distorted patterns and mechanisms of interactions between the state and the business that took shape in Russia in the 199 0s In September ... Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), Transition Report (various issues) (London: EBRD) Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat), Rossiiskii Statisticheskii Ezhegodnik (various issues) (Moscow: ... businesspersons) In this context, the crisis served as a prerequisite for stretching the horizons of the interests of all actors and for reaching a consensus among members of the elite on such issues...

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... Actors and mechanisms, East–West Journal of Economics and Business, 5: 197–215 Ericson, R E & Ickes, B W (2000) A model of Russia s virtual economy Discussion paper No 10 Helsinki: Bank of Finland ... Author s calculations based on survey data Notes: a Comparison of frequencies was based on ␹2 test, comparison of means used Krukcal Wallis test, and comparison of medians was based on median test ... numerator presents significance of differences by three groups of JSCs, and the denominator presents significance by four groups c Median or median test in parentheses JSCs increased gross sales in 2004...

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... Development of Russian Business always associated with the best-performing companies, companies with dispersed ownership in Russian terms would lose to other companies in indicators of performance and ... this section, the institutional diversity of open and closed JSCs is discussed, and the significance of each of these two corporate forms is then clarified in terms of company management and ... and major shareholders of Russian stock companies, the issue of whether their firms should be open or closed JSCs is just an “operational” variable, even after their establishment The discussion...

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... directors covers only independent directors Swiss listed firms6 Swiss listed firms11, b Dutch listed firms6 Dutch listed firms12 Belgian listed firms6 Swedish listed firms13 Finnish small and medium-scale ... exceeds the mean of the number of employees of the closed JSCs plus/minus standard deviation from the basic sample set; and Sample type IV, which consists of firms with a stable ownership structure ... behavior of business firms in a transition period and is the second objective of this chapter These two objectives raise the question of which dimension of a firm s organization and which business activities...

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... rivals and other companies in the same trade has an impact on its dismissal of insider directors and its appointment of their successors from the outside regardless of differences in period and ... unable to cast off its negative image as unreliable state The awareness of Russian people of the importance of contracts and property rights and the business ethics of Russian managers are improving ... Business distinguish the impact of shareholding by outside investors from that by business groups on the outsideness of chairman appointment We estimate this simultaneous-equations model by the 2SLS...

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... represents the following: CS: Case study; DS: Descriptive statistical analysis (t-test of differences in means, ANOVA, etc.); RA: Regression analysis (OLS: Ordinary least squares; 2SLS: Two-stage ... (OLS, 2SLS)* RA (LOG) DS RA (PRO) DS DS, RA (LOG) RA (PRO) RA (PRO, TOB) DS DS DS, RA (PRO) RA (OLS) DS, CS DS RA (PRO) DS DS DS RA (OLS) III I DS, PS DS, RA (PRO) Notes: a Each code represents ... new dataset of Russian corporations Hypothesis and empirical methodology As we discussed in the previous section, most prior studies on Russian companies not find a significant impact of company...

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... Organization and Development of Russian Business total of 456 of surveyed JSCs, 38% of companies had separate ownership and management compared to less than 28% of independent businesses and almost 58% of ... businesses (subsample 1) or a division of them (subsample 2) with a view to assessing the possible effect of the same factors on companies of different types Similar specifications for these subsamples ... Comparison of frequencies by ␹2 test, means by Kruskal Wallis test M&D _S stands for JScs where large shareholders are managers and the CEO is a shareholder, M _S, for JSCs where large shareholders...

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... in subsidiaries of BGs in regulated and nonregulated industries Number of board members Managers of JSC Workers and representatives of trade unions State Large outside shareholders Small outside ... industries Worker representatives who are mostly passive on Russian boards are almost unrepresented in this group of companies It is necessary to stress the significantly higher ratio of boards ... restructuring; and finally, in the case of the success of BG member enterprises, whether this success was due to enhanced competitiveness of the companies or support from the authorities Recent studies of...

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... (Moscow: Delo) Federal State Statistical Service (Rosstat) Finansy Rossii (Moscow: Rosstat) (various issues) Federal State Statistical Service (Rosstat) (2003) Investitsii v Rossii 2003 (Moscow: ... findings from the empirical studies of BAs in Russia Researchers started to explore the institute of business associations (BAs) in the mid-199 0s One of the first empirical surveys involving BAs was ... group weakness in Russia The analysis of the incentives to join associations and benefits from the membership based on our representative survey of medium-size and large Russian JSCs has the potential...

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... Organization and Development of Russian Business Table 11.7 Utility of business associations and their contribution to the establishment of standards and rules of conduct of business, evaluated by respondents ... Development of Russian Business Table 11.2 Indicators of financial standing of joint-stock companies and membership in business associations (percentage of respondents who answered) Indicator Share of ... and Development of Russian Business firm s decisions must be determined In the next section, we present a testable hypothesis that will clarify these issues Consolidation of interests of Russian...

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... State–Business Relations and Corporate Governance 285 State-owned enterprises (SOEs) as well as mixed enterprises played important roles in this process Since the beginning of the 200 0s, the ... was revised, a code of corporate behavior was designed, the dissemination of best practices of corporate governance was promoted, a reform of the judicial system was launched, and the system of ... Company s securities (shares, bonds) are listed on stock exchanges in Russia (q5) yes 12.8 Company s securities (shares, ADR, bonds, Eurobonds) are listed on stock exchanges abroad (q7) yes 4.1 Long...

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