risk taking and the search for yield

... sky near sunset As they walk, the grandfather tells tales of the Old Ones, the elders of the community, and of their wisdom As the boy absorbs the stories and begins to make their wisdom his own, ... groaning woods, the crying grass, and the moaning rocks They are also in the woman's breast, the wailing child, the home, and the crowd The last line tells us, "The dead have a pact with the living." ... of the ancestors in the voices of fire and water We are then told that those who have died "have never left" and that they are "not under the earth." Rather, they are in the rustling trees, the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

... between the ends they seek and the means they use to realize them The idea that the end justifies the means has always rested on casuistry It only begs the question of what justifies the end, and to ... a high price for their liberation from the Taliban Aside from the thousands killed and the tens of thousands injured in the initial bombing campaign, the economy has collapsed to the point where ... shambles; and the exodus of the middle class Iraq has become the most dangerous place on earth—not merely for the soldiers of the occupying power but also for the citizens forced to endure the descent...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:44

... integration: I Symmetry and convergence of the corticocortical connections of the left and the right principal sulcus (PS) and the left and the right supplementary motor area (SMA) in the rhesus monkey ... Logsdail and Toone defined diagnostic criteria for PIP [4], thereby distinguishing PIP from the other psychoses of epilepsy, namely ictal and interictal psychosis The patient presented here meets these ... the field of epilepsy further into the convergence of other neuroscientific areas related to psychosis, and in the future provide further clinical criteria for assessing risk Conclusion Postictal...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

Ngày tải lên: 26/03/2015, 08:58

... a drug lead for further drug development The following development involves total synthesis to meet the demands of larger quantity for the downstream research and diverted total synthesis which ... MES and rotorod test 85 2.2.2 Implications for the results of the phytochemical and animal study 91 2.2.2.1 Justifications for choosing the strategy of the purification of the alkaloids and phenols ... as the compounds in the synthetic libraries, but the effort- and costinput to generate those pure natural product libraries are extremely more intensive than their counterparts in the synthetic...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 21:27

... results 23 © The Economist Intelligence Unit Limited 2012 The Search for Growth Opportunities and risks for institutional investors in 2012 About this report The search for growth is the second ... Limited 2012 The Search for Growth Opportunities and risks for institutional investors in 2012 LTRO has bought Spain and some of the other southern governments some time, but it’s difficult forecasting ... 28 25 13 The Search for Growth Opportunities and risks for institutional investors in 2012 Which of the following regions and countries of the world you think offer the best potential for asset...

Ngày tải lên: 04/12/2015, 00:24

... 2011 The search for growth Opportunities and risks for institutional investors A mixed outlook for the financial sector T he past three years have been a grueling and turbulent period for the financial ... Limited 2011 The search for growth Opportunities and risks for institutional investors Diverging prospects for Europe T he prospects for the Eurozone continue to diverge between the stronger ... explores the likelihood and potential impact of a range of both positive and negative scenarios The Economist Intelligence Unit conducted the survey and analysis, and wrote the report The findings and...

Ngày tải lên: 06/12/2015, 23:14

... trappers, traders, and scouts They made the unexplored regions their home They blazed the great western trails and created interest in this new land with their stories of vast forests and fertile valleys ... found their lands and waterways ruined as digging continued Californios, the Hispanics who lived in California before it became part of the United States, also found their land overrun Losing their ... More Land, More People Opening Up the West In the 1800s the United States was growing People continued to arrive from other lands, but more than just the population was expanding The size of the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/02/2017, 14:59

... trappers, traders, and scouts They made the unexplored regions their home They blazed the great western trails and created interest in this new land with their stories of vast forests and fertile valleys ... found their lands and waterways ruined as digging continued Californios, the Hispanics who lived in California before it became part of the United States, also found their land overrun Losing their ... More Land, More People Opening Up the West In the 1800s the United States was growing People continued to arrive from other lands, but more than just the population was expanding The size of the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/04/2017, 15:54

... integrity, and availability; and you may experience attacks against these dimensions We can think of these as the “primary colors” of information assurance By mixing and matching these and we mix and ... about them Unfortunately, the “somebody” is usually a bad guy The bad guys always seem to find out about vulnerabilities long before the good guys 1-7 Relating Risk, Threat and Vulnerability Risk ... decrypt the passwords Then, with a stolen password, the attacker can execute an integrity attack when they gain entrance to the system And they can even use an availability attack as part of their...

Ngày tải lên: 09/12/2013, 17:15

... manage and stimulate the carbon market • Build research capacities and initiate research on emissions, potential efficiency gains • Refine GHG emissions targets (e.g based on data produced for the ... • In-depth consultation with key stakeholders and the wider public • Refine the CCA strategy • Adopt CC impact scenarios as the basis for public and private investments • Mainstream reduction ... strategies and plans for 2011 and beyond; in public investment decisions; and policy instruments such as SEA • Articulate VN policies, strategies and plans on vulnerability reduction in the context...

Ngày tải lên: 24/01/2014, 00:20

... four fundamental forces One of these is the gravitational force The other three are the electromagnetic force, the weak force, and the strong Force Force particle Mass force Strong Gluon Electromagnetic ... between the two presidents and that therefore, without further ado, the light it emitted traveled the same distance to reach each of them Since the speed of the emitted light to the left and to the ... is for the president of Backwardland, and since the speed of light toward each is the same, the light will reach the president of Forwardland first This is why the citizens of Forwardland claim...

Ngày tải lên: 25/01/2014, 16:20

... to alleviate the funding risks faced by the banks It should therefore facilitate the provision of money and credit to the economy.22 Understanding the funding models of banks and the interlinkages ... borrower and on the value of collateral that the bank receives For instance, a positive shock to the value of the collateral that is pledged to banks implies a lower risk for the bank and thus the ... market interest rates and accommodating the demand for outside money Changes in these interest rates alter the opportunity costs of money holdings and thereby affect the demand for broad money however,...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 11:20

... to the other group of participants for the pleasant and beautiful dimensions (compare Figures and 2); there are significant or nearsignificant differences (as is the case with AA and RD in the ... In the second phase of the memory task we showed the participants the same 48 target pictures as well as the 48 specific distracters (one for each target) in a random order and including the ... with the intention of producing a work of art The experiment reported in this article is clearly in line with the latter trend Second, despite the fact that much of the effort put into the research...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 17:20

... well-known and extensively used compound classes [3] and, therefore, the chances that the bacterium would develop cross-resistance to these drugs are quite high However, in the search for novel ... processed at varying pH did not yield sufcient quantitative data, and therefore the FRET assay was used to study the effect of pH on the enzyme The stability of the synthetic SceD peptide substrate ... using the oligonucleotides -SpsB5 and -SpsB3 for the fulllength and oligonucleotides tr-SpsB5 and -SpsB3 for the truncated derivative, respectively The oligonucleotides were designed based on the...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 01:20

... published in the series of the Government Institute for Economic Research and the research work has been done with the support of Sitra The advisory group for the project included Kalevi Luoma, Research ... costs and the expenses of the social and health services are increasing The report analyses the factors influencing the use of social and health services by the elderly On the basis of the analysis, ... receiving some help, the sources of the help was asked The list covered both informal and formal care-givers and respondents were asked to list all of them and name one who helps the most The structure...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 17:20

... National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, Netherlands Rudolf Hoogenveen National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, Netherlands Alan A Jackson ... implications for the health sector and other sectors, and the range of interventions needed to halt the rising trend and eventually reverse it It also outlines national and regional policies for population-level ... of the countries it serves The European Region embraces some 880 million people living in an area stretching from the Arctic Ocean in the north and the Mediterranean Sea in the south and from the...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 14:20

... court of the emperor The child watches the bird The bird weeps for the child The child begs the bird to listen .The bird dresses up the child The child grows up The child watches the bird The bird ... emperor The emperor feels that the brothers tempt a beauty into the game The kingdom saves the life from crumbling the earth into the bird The kingdom forces the whip into wiping the tears on the ... away at the child The child does thoroughly The bird sees the child The child sits down The child watches the bird The bird lives from the reign to the child The child thanks the victory for blessing...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 00:20

... 399 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth The earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters ... with each other or striking a wall The more rapidly they strike, the greater the pressure; the greater the pressure, the more the gas expands, preventing the collapse of the balloon The speed ... fields and disciplines and deals with the search for meaning, growth and change They are books that circumscribe our times and our future Ask your bookseller for the books you have missed THE ART...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 14:03

... exposure and the use of lip sunscreen and ment and the consumption of alcohol are protective coverings The dentist should emphastrongly linked, particularly when there is consize the strong risk ... patterns, and smoking and alcohol consumption are key to understanding the general health of a patient Obtaining this information is pivotal to determining the potential for oral diseases and whether ... increased potential for oral cancer.8 what the practitioner must know as the oral and head and neck examination and treatment plan evolve In conducting the initial patient interview, the dentist should...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 17:20