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... 2 Leadership Lessons from the Game of Golf The Course This unique golf course consists of eighteen holes, each one devoted to a principle of management. Like any other 18-hole course, there are ... playing the best round of golf you have ever had in your life and playing the worst? Similarly, what makes the difference in business between satisfying the requirements of the customer and losing their ... improve their performance—that’s why they play Sharing the golfing experience with others while trying to improve their own game is what the game is all about Why can’t some of the same

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 08:20

... concentrations b Simulated N fluxes at the outlet of the Orgeval watershed with a range of surface area of ponds (from the reference situation to 10% of the total surface area of the Orgeval watershed); c ... scenarios of mitigating measures at the scale of the Orgeval watershed The principle of the model is illustrated in Fig Quantifying the N cascade through the Orgeval watershed 3.1 N leaching from ... creation at the scale of the Orgeval watershed Interestingly, historical maps of the Orgeval area (e.g the socalled Cassini map, dating back to the middle of the 18th century) reveal that the traditional

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2022, 09:54

... entrenching the position of the Big 4" Academics Group auditors should have access to the reports and other documentation of all auditors of components of the group 22 4 SUPERVISION The ... reappointment of the auditor often hinges on the quality of their long-term... a full cessation of non -audit services, as the best guarantee for independence, or the prohibition of non ... pre-approved by the audit committee A ban on the provision of non -audit services by audit firms would... the level of the audit firm, but also at the level of the local office

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 05:20

... professor Walter Lewin The professor’s sense of wonder is on full display in a new book: For the Love of Physics: From the End of the Rainbow to the Edge of Time—A Journey Through the Wonders of Physics ... Manufactured in the United States of America 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Lewin, Walter H G For the love of physics : from the end of the rainbow to the edge of time—a journey through the wonders of physics / by Walter Lewin with ... superhero of the classroom, uses his powers for good—ours! The authors share the joy of learning that the world is a knowable place.” —James Kakalios, professor and author of The Physics of Superheroes and The Amazing Story of

Ngày tải lên: 17/04/2016, 00:51

... to pay the full cost of a melt-down They bear the costs of an accident “only up to the fire-sale value of their net assets Beyond that, they pay nothing—and the damages from a nuclear disaster ... the risks and benefits of each option to the patient; and, once the patient makes a decision, the doctor goes from there On the other hand, the patient does have a right to accept or reject the ... such directives, then it should be the responsibility of the government to take care of it In short, this called into question the very concept of liability on the part of a for-profit company Ramseyer

Ngày tải lên: 03/01/2018, 17:48

... General of the Committee of Governors of the EEC central banks Rapporteur, together with the late Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, of the Delors Committee Adrian Blundell-Wignall Special Advisor to the Secretary-General ... Turner Deputy Head of the Monetary and Economic Department of the BIS Niels C Thygesen Professor Emeritus of International Economics at the University of Copenhagen Former Chair of the Economic and ... A.E Goodhart Professor Emeritus and member of the Financial Market Group at the London School of Economics Former member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee Developer of Goodhart

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2018, 11:17

... variable The sample weight was applied in the bivariate analyses to adjust for inflation of the chi-square statistic by the size of the estimate by weighting the estimate back down to the original ... list of author information is available at the end of the article Nonetheless, each year a group of vulnerable infants is identified to the Canadian child welfare system with concerns about their ... are the most vulnerable subset of children involved with the child welfare system given their dependency on a caregiver to take care of their daily needs, and their inability to protect themselves

Ngày tải lên: 14/01/2020, 19:30

... those from BITs, as the guarantees against risks that such corporations would otherwise have assumed themselves as part of the normal process of establishing and running business The terms of the ... appealing On the other hand, developing countries usually are the Respondents under ICSID mechanism and the ones bear the burden of compensation and other measures as held in the awards of ICSID ... Permanent Court of Arbitration Stockholm Chamber of Commerce The 1958 Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards The United Kingdom The United States of America The 1962

Ngày tải lên: 20/04/2021, 23:06

... those from BITs, as the guarantees against risks that such corporations would otherwise have assumed themselves as part of the normal process of establishing and running business The terms of the ... appealing On the other hand, developing countries usually are the Respondents under ICSID mechanism and the ones bear the burden of compensation and other measures as held in the awards of ICSID ... Permanent Court of Arbitration Stockholm Chamber of Commerce The 1958 Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards The United Kingdom The United States of America The 1962

Ngày tải lên: 15/01/2022, 22:17

... experienced the endless cycles of the tea room for years and years with only the vaguest awareness of what it all meant Then one day, quite out of the blue, I noticed the tepid smell of rain in the air ... graduated from the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Durham She began studying the Urasenke tradition of the Way of Tea while working as a JET Program Coordinator of International ... peach, and then cherry trees Once the last of these had turned from pink to freshest green, the heady scent of blossom-laden wisteria tendrils would waft through the neighborhood After the azaleas

Ngày tải lên: 13/09/2022, 11:33

... 2004) Scholars are of the opinion that reflection-on-action encourages the scope and depth of reflection because of the lack of opportunity to stand aside from the dynamics of an activity while ... ‘active, persistent and careful consideration of any belief or supposed form of knowledge in the light of the grounds that support it and the further 1498 From evaluation to reflection-on-action conclusions ... immensely from the programme The researcher was interested in investigating possible reasons for their positive views This reflection was never part of the longitudinal study, but the data from the

Ngày tải lên: 11/10/2022, 10:54

... point on the curves is the mean of three independent determinations (SD £ 3%) Influence of membrane thickness on the antibacterial activity of the peptides The possibility of modifying the A laidlawii ... the susceptibility of mollicutes to melittin and the LK peptides was independent of the amount of cholesterol in the membranes of these bacteria Table Antibacterial activities of LK peptides and ... similar to those of mellitin, LK15(3.6) and Dns-LK15(3.6) were the most efficient of the LK peptides for the four types of membranes, i.e independent of the membrane thickness Their inhibitory...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 17:21

... knowledge, and abilities, as well as their attitudes toward the administrator It also depends on the nature of the activities, the lines of authority in the organization, the integrity of their ... organization They work at the process of institutional renewal They allow the institution to improve continuously They preserve and revitalize the values of the institution They mitigate the tendency of ... notions of teamwork and the value of each individual’s contribution to the final product The synergy an effective team produces is greater than the sum of its parts The foundation of the team is the...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 22:20

... consumption As the plane crested the top of the building, I knew the images were getting good, and by the time the plane reached the top of the frame—and thus also the top of the Capitol dome—I ... marking the end of the Gulf War The cover of Cigar Lifestyles magazine was one of many of the reuses of the Harrier image 26 Don’t Let the Fear of Striking Out Get in Your Way T he title of this ... from the Edge of Reality Waiting in the colonnade to go into the Oval A quick snap of me in the window, waiting to get into the Oval, with the Rose Garden in the background 10 Pool Spray in the...

Ngày tải lên: 31/05/2014, 01:21

... communities within the CLAHRCs The paper will start with a brief discussion of the structure and purposes of the CLAHRCs and the main premises of the CoP approach It will then explore the following ... ‘stage -of- change’ theories used in the field of implementation research [66] The main strength of the CoP theory is that it is able to provide a basis for the development and delivery of theoryinformed ... Finally, in their study of a multiprofessional radiotherapy unit, Tagliaventi and Mattarelli [26] emphasise the importance of flexibility of professional identities as a facilitator of knowledge transfer...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20

... evaluation was designed to explore the quality of the outputs of the IMP and of the commissioning process Our findings regarding the impact of the work funded and about the difficulties faced by those ... interpreted as a lack of knowledge about the IMP as a whole There was a better response to the postal survey sent to midwives A summary of the figures from the 100 out of 227 questionnaires returned ... role of the IMP as a whole in this Questionnaires to potential users on the dissemination and use of research findings While the projects were funded on the basis of their contribution to the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

... search out the massed wheeling circles of the stars, my feet no longer touch the earth, but, side by side with Zeus himself, I take my fill of ambrosia, the food of the gods Quote from Kepler ... Did he who made the Lamb, make thee? Tyger! Tyger! burning bright, In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Dare frame thy fearful symmetry? Lesson The mother of mathematics is astronomy/astrology ... God is a Mathematician William Blake 1757-1827 William Blake: The Ancient of Days William Blake: Newton The Tyger by William Blake • Tyger! Tyger! burning bright, In the forests of the night,...

Ngày tải lên: 01/12/2016, 16:20

... estimated costs of production and then the entire value of the equipment There is left the net value of the copper ore But these proceeds are to be obtained over a series of years, and are therefore ... from the micro the abrogation of the Great Western lease, to the macro the “disastrous” shortage of shipping tonnage capacity on the Great Lakes After finding out from an interview with one of ... reports of the Great Northern Iron Ore properties have been full of data but very bare of information Instead of the familiar statement of a corporation to its stockholders they represent the accounting...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2018, 11:35

... after the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers Taking into account the characteristics of the evolution of real credit, the variable under analysis in the rest of this paper is defined as the change in the ... the crisis while it decreased in the rest of Asia In the case of Mexico, the recovery of real credit took longer than in the rest of the region (ii) By the end of 2009, real credit growth and ... currency is another source of a currency mismatch In either of these two examples, a s harp depreciation of the local currency might severely impede the financial position of the debtor In the first...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 08:20