redefining success—from a first quarter perspective

... 14.50 Aa2/AA-/AA France July 2015 Nov 2004 9.27 Aaa/AAA/AAA Germany Apr 2016 Mar 2006 5.50 Aaa/AAA/AAA France July 2020 Jan 2004 8.72 Aaa/AAA/AAA Greece July 2025 Mar 2003 7.20 A1 /A/ A France July ... Moody's/S&P/Fitch Italy Sep 2008 Sep 2003 13.40 Aa2/AA-/AA France July 2010 Apr 2006 3.30 Aaa/AAA/AAA Italy Sep 2010 Sep 2004 12.80 Aa2/AA-/AA France July 2012 Nov 2001 14.50 Aaa/AAA/AAA Italy Sep 2014 ... ahead (percentages; daily data; five-day moving averages) (percentages; daily data; five day moving averages) one-year forward real rate nine years ahead one-year forward real rate four years ahead...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 02:20

... usually formulated using some diagramming technique such as causal loop diagrams or stock and flow diagrams (Sterman, 2000; Maani and Cavana, 2000) A causal loop diagram (and also a stock and ... regard a causal model that is validated in a particular case as a representation of an empirical fact and derive from this a theory This type of generalization underpins the case study research ... and Cavana (2000) also note that in the ‘hard’ approaches, organizational and people issues are not taken into account, and data is usually quantitative Wolstenholme (1993) puts this into perspective: ...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 07:20

... "What is the average of the salaries of the part-time employees?" One cannot slmply average over a set of salaries, since several employees may have the same salary; an indexed set ensures that ... producing a simpler logical form, one would like to this at an earlier stage and take advantage of optlmisatlons applicable to the simpler logical form A further complication is illustrated by a question ... correct, and that is compatible with efficient database access? The main drawback of this approach is that it leaves open the question of how predicates applied to sets relate to those same predicates...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 20:20

... trade similarly addressed spatial issues According to Krugman, area and geography did in any case always play a certain part in theory beyond classic economics Even in the past, certain areas ... solutions and, although this is usually linked to a geographical area, they can also be bound to a non-spatial social context such as a business association In his functional area concept, CAMAGNI also ... primarily analytically PORTER assumes that the international availability of capital, goods, information and technology plays an important part in locations’ structure In his comparative national...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 10:20

... Laborsta database (May 2009) and UNICEF staff calculations -10 Seychelles Ethiopia Kenya Uganda Iceland Rwanda Niger Costa Rica Viet Nam Pakistan Ghana Nicaragua Zambia Nigeria Nepal South Africa ... main channels First, a sharp contraction in world trade volume and commodity prices— ↓ Turkey Zambia Panama Bangladesh Sri Lanka Oman Madagascar Guinea India Jordan Lithuania Serbia Ghana Latvia ... Latvia Azerbaijan Estonia Angola Armenia Lithuania Seychelles Cambodia Singapore Ireland Iceland Ukraine Turkey Venezuela Georgia Russia Myanmar Botswana Hong Kong SAR Sudan Equatorial Guinea...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 21:20

... Scutari, D P Palomar, and S Barbarossa, “Optimal linear precoding strategies for wideband noncooperative systems based on game theory—part I: nash equilibria,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, ... G Scutari, D P Palomar, and S Barbarossa, “Optimal linear precoding strategies for wideband non-cooperative systems based on game theory—part II: algorithms,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, ... Bennis, C Wijting, S Abedi, S Thilakawardana, and R Tafazolli, “Performance evaluation of advanced spectrum functionalities for future radio networks,” Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 20:20

... other hand the dietitians complained that Latin Americans used too much sugar at meals It can be observed that the average Latin American student takes more sugar in his coffee than North Americans ... phrasal verb is a verb which is a combination of a verb and a particle or two particles A particle may be either a preposition or an adverb The phrasal verb “to put off” means “to delay” and ... regard financial security as an important factor in love and marriage Vietnamese young people are too timid to talk about finance when they are in love Faithfulness is regarded as a very important...

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2015, 14:19

... concerning a certain part of a day, a season in a year, a particular month in a year, a particular year in which a significant event or a habitual activity takes place Like and bằng, vào has nothing ... representative and extended from human capacities of imagination (such as metaphorical mappings and image schema transformation) demonstrating a natural and systematic organization of related senses ... of the area traditionally devoted to pragmatics as well as semantics As a matter of fact, Talmy (2000) states that cognitive semantics sees language meaning as a manifestation of conceptual structure:...

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2015, 14:22

... understanding of conversation than Discourse Analysis has, as a conversation has to be seen rather as an interactional product - as claimed by Conversation Analysis – than as a structural product ... Conversation Analysis perspective as the examination of the organization of conversation and not of conversation as a kind of sentence, is the aim of this paper Also, Conversation Analysis certainly has ... that much has been said and done about telephone conversation within pragmatics and conversation analysis field and such names as Levinson, Marknee, Sacks, Schegloff Jefferson, have become familiar...

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2015, 14:29

... to language – the matrix for language acquisition.‟ (David Nunan: 84) Conversation analysis is the outstanding empirical tradition in pragmatics, because its data remain open to any investigator ... openings appear at first sight to be a relatively simple and invariable routine, there is actually great variation in the way they are realized across languages, institutions and individuals Every ... conversation is among the easiest interaction to tape record The participants stay at one location and speak into a device that can be easily connected to a tape recorder Conversation analysts...

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2015, 14:37

... study, according to Bhatia [4], a genre analysis can be done at three levels of linguistic realization, which are (1) lexico-grammatical features, (2) text-patterning or textualization and (3) ... Notably, comparisons and ‘small talk’, which are quite popular strategies in the English evaluations, are totally absent from the Vietnamese auditions Instead, the judges’ opinions are regularly ... English cases Without a separate voting phase, they are given in various forms with great emphasis being placed on maintaining the rapport with the contestants The acceptance can be announced...

Ngày tải lên: 24/06/2015, 08:18

... ways particular activities are carried out and signaled Using Conversation Analysis (CA) as the methodology, this study illustrates the cultural characteristics of the format and interactional ... anybody learning a foreign language and remains a sensitive area in intercultural encounters, even for those who have mastered the basics of a foreign language and culture Inexperience in dealing ... systematic comparison across languages was carried out by a quantitative analysis based on the core sequences framework presented above It is through such crosscultural comparisons that the great...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2015, 19:52

... that stores data and a coupling element such as a coiled antenna that can communicate with the reader via radio frequency waves (Agarwal 2001) The tags can be active, passive or semi-passive Active ... goods faster and more efficient by eliminating the need for human intervention Strategically placed tag readers can read the tag attached to a pallet and automatically match its content against ... potential for organizations to collect data about any tagable entity, and has implications for supply chain management, human resources management, and customer relationship 24 management across...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 09:02

... proclaim state years of sabbatical years of rest ultimate/ eventual final attain reach persistent constant swift fast anew again edifice of character set of character thereof of it, whose Table ... integrated way as simultaneously a mental, social, cultural, institutional and political phenomenon Language has been seen now as not only a practice but also reflection of reality People have also ... attacks) and many of his top aides were in vain In March 2003, the U S-led coalition attacked Iraq reasoning that Iraq was storing weapons of mass destruction and maintaining the alleged link with Al...

Ngày tải lên: 18/12/2013, 10:08

... capital market in that the labor deviation is consistently larger than the capital deviation And this capital deviation is a natural measure of aggregate capital market distortions because it measures ... discussed as a tax on capital income as described above, it is equivalent to a small tax cut, rather than tax increase that would depress economic activity Note that there was almost no capital deviation ... Different aspects of this argument have been articulated by Taylor (201 0a, 2010b), Cochrane and Zingales (2009), Jagannathan, Kapoor, and Schaumberg (2009), and Mulligan (201 0a) , among others For example,...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 06:20

... by a company’s activities makes the task of developing CSR standards fairly daunting (Bhimani and Soonawalla, 2005) Financial reporting has traditionally been the domain of national standard ... concentration indicators, as appropriate Highly variable, depending on legislation and environmental management system in place Management and disposal costs and taxes potentially, Material purchase ... costs EMA places a particular emphasis on materials and materials-driven costs because (1) use of energy, water and materials, as well as the generation of waste and emissions, are directly related...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 22:20

... destroyed viable language and cultural groupings in the Americas and Australasia It is doubtful that economic globalization would have the same catastrophic impact in Europe, Asia and Africa For this ... international purposes 197 About "the native speakers of a language” and "native speakers of English”, there are a lot of debates R Mesthrie, R.M Bhatt talked about a traditional native speaker of a language ... "devastating effect of the process of language shift on actual individuals and their familial and social relations." Thirdly, in United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 11:20

... Vietnamese jokes are analyzed pragmatically and what similarities and differences between English and Vietnamese jokes as seen from a pragmatic perspective First, analyzing jokes one by one basing ... know what make us laugh and then we may say jokes are interesting for our life And we now also understand that we should pay more attention to the study of jokes pragmatically as semantic analysis, ... English and Vietnamese jokes analyzed pragmatically? • What are the similarities and differences between English and Vietnamese jokes as seen from a pragmatic perspective? • What tips are utilized...

Ngày tải lên: 07/04/2014, 15:59

... Shakespeare, the author of ´ ´ the Mahabharata, Gabriel Garc a Marquez, and Homer share a singular reference, so can Indian ragas, salsa, Tuvan overtone singing, and South African isicathamiya ¯ ... words) raps about arranged marriages, Chinese and Vietnamese pianists are storming the international stages, and Caucasians play jazz (and occasionally even the sitar) “Migrant music” acknowledged ... rhythm as a whole In the end, we just decided the one was on a particular beat in the bell pattern, and everybody was happy Hearing and seeing the advanced class play and dance was an absolute pleasure,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 01:01

... appropriate if we are interested An interesting case is that of oil-rich monarchical states, of which Saudi Arabia is the leading example Saudi Arabia has a large royal family, and its members share ... (Brazil) MWA mean wealth above NATSEM National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling (Australia) NBER National Bureau of Economic Research (USA) NBS National Bureau of Statistics NCAER National ... thanks are also due to Barbara Fagerman, Ara Kazandjian, Sherry Ruuskanen, and Bruck Tadesse for their assistance I am most grateful to all the contributors to this volume for their inputs and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 05:51