sample questions for measuring the strength and health of a culture

... mortgage and added a second mortgage and a line of credit when house prices skyrocketed in their area five years ago They used the cash for major renovations and a Caribbean vacation Unfortunately, ... income and expenses, and assets and liabilities, and whether the business is healthy or not is a simple matter of mathematics If you can add and subtract, then you can work out whether you’re financially ... and liabilities Assets are things that have a market value, such as a home, a car (that you own rather than lease), cash in a checking account, shares in a public listed company, and so on Liabilities...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 14:20

... bonds, and EFA represents Europe, Australasia, and Far East equities The portfolio was rebalanced annually so that the percentage allocations were reset to the above values at the end of each year ... risk-adjusted return, since risk and reward always go hand in hand, and the CAGR is earned every year, but the maximum drawdown is only suffered once Calculating the MAR of any investment situation ... inflation eating away at your meager returns If that had been included, it would mean that the CAGR was actually negative over the last ten years You would have been taking all this risk and...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 14:20

... quarterly basis and make any modifications necessary to get the balance back (to within 5%) if something changes For example, in Table 4-6, the British pound and New Zealand dollar balances are now ... it’s essential to calculate the compound annual growth rate (CAGR), rather than simply the total percentage return The CAGR is the annual rate of return that gives you the total return achieved ... rebalancing was used Overall, currency rebalancing was only used about 20% of the time and ETFs 80% of the time In Summary Effectively managing your savings and working capital depends on what the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 14:20

... have in play and how many are in the pot Mr and Mrs Fit start playing conservatively and make only small bets The casino gets paid because it takes its fee for each hand played So the number of ... with the amateurs’ chips before the casino takes them, again via its rake Protect Your Wealth from the Ravages of Inflation If this sounds familiar, it’s because it is a great analogy for the way ... chips any time they like—they just have to pony up more cash The casino takes a small fee (called a rake) from the pot for every hand played They can also cash out their chips any time they like and...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 14:20

... prices In the same way that you calculated the 10-day ATR for the entry signal, you want to use a slightly longer timeframe calculation (50 days in this case) as a proxy for what volatility may be ... Your Wealth from the Ravages of Inflation Again, a check should be done on at least an annual basis to see if any new inverse funds have been created that match the other funds on the list so they ... Day High Low True ATR Range Distance Distance Range (10) The spreadsheet formulas for the calculations in Table 5-4 are shown in Table 5-5 Table 5-5 Spreadsheet Formulas for Table 5-4 Cell Formula...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 14:20

... advisor as long as they are not using a traditional rebalancing approach Unfortunately I only know of one financial advisor in the United States who is actually offering this kind of managed account ... manage their account properly if he was unable to it for a period of time Mrs Fit also has the broker account password and understands how to manage stops and put on positions in the online access ... period of time—say, five years the MAR ratio of his active management trend-capturing method is significantly better than the FARCE method he was doing before Mr and Mrs Fit laugh to themselves and...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 14:20

... Reading Money and Investing Contrarian Investing: Buy and Sell When Others Won't and Make Money Doing It, by Anthony Gallea and William Patalon III (Prentice Hall, 1999) Fiat Paper Money, by Ralph ... capital allocation, 55 currency holdings after purchase, 56 FX account after rebalancing, 61 ideal and actual allocations of, 60 inflation rate, 53 interest rate, 53 positive real interest rate ... environment, 54 real rate of return, 53 Brokerage account, 45 Bullion Vault Company, 44 Buy -and- hold strategy, 110–112 C CAGR See Compound annual growth rate Canadian dollar, 53, 110 capital allocation,...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 14:20

... B-factors of Met121 at ˚ ˚ the A and B chains are 26.67 A2 and 49.26 A2 , and the ˚ and 79.30 A2 , respect˚ B-factors of S atoms are 38.14 A ively It is therefore reasonable to propose that conformational ... partial active enzyme intermediate, and kfast and kslow are A nity labelling of maize GST I (Eur J Biochem 271) 3505 the rate constants for the slow and fast phase of the reaction Analysis was ... indicates the absence of any structural perturbation caused by the mutation Aminoacid analysis of the SDTG-modified Phe51Ala mutant and determination of its total amino and carboxy content suggests that...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 16:20

... Rasch analysis Rasch analysis was conducted for each of the individual subscales of the PIPP with separate analyses reported for the PIPP Impact and PIPP Distress subscales In the previous validation ... perceive themselves as mentally and physically unhealthy [5] and they represent a considerable burden on health care expenditure [6-8] While OA of the hip and knee account for the largest component of ... suggestion of redundancy Each of the pairs of correlations were of similar strength with the WOMAC, HADS and General Wellbeing Index The Distress subscales appear to offer no further explanatory value...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20

... located from the mid-cervical to the thoracic trachea increased the diameter of the entire cervical to thoracic tracheal area Coughing and dyspnea disappeared and the dogs resumed normal activity ... female, CT‐TT: cervical trachea to thoracic trachea Fig Lateral radiographs before (a) and after (b) intratracheal placement of self expandable nitinol stent with flare ends in a dog with tracheal ... implantation, the respiratory dyspnea in all dogs improved dramatically, and the dogs resumed almost normal activity Between and months after implantation, the dyspnea caused by tracheal collapse showed...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 20:23

... along the bronchial trees Therefore cranio-caudal evaluation is necessary for accurate examination of ELCs HRCT is traditionally performed by axial imaging Although axial imaging has the advantage ... not in the surgical field, the suspected area was resected The final confirmation of ELCs was based on the pathology reports Axial and coronal HRCT protocol Data analysis The imaging parameters ... analyzed the number, location, and type of ELCs according to the MDCT data After analysis of the ELCs, a thoracic surgeon performed an axillary thoracotomy for direct inspection of the ELCs The operation...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:21

... convenience As such, it has been produced as a hard copy format and as a website and participants are able to choose to use either or both of these formats Both versions contain the same information and ... addressed before a large scale clinical and cost effectiveness evaluation of this approach Specifically, the trial will provide extensive quantitative and qualitative data on the acceptability of the ... no professional input They can be used as stand-alone interventions or as an adjunct to other forms of intervention This is a rapidly growing area and a recent meta-analysis of studies evaluating...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... implants were accurately positioned in the mandible and the maxilla according to the predefined planning that was made up of DVT scan and a wax up Again bone augmentation around the dental implants ... definite abutments and removing the auxililary implants final restauration was placed (figure 5) Discussion The main basic criteria for restauration of the edentulous maxilla and mandible are adequate ... bone mass and ortholalveolar form [6] This can be achieved by augmentation of the available substrate using established techniques such as vertical and lateral augmentation of the alveolar ridge,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 23:22

... appropriate and reasonable empirical data are available for calculating the necessary sample size that would allow a high chance to detect a significant difference across conditions Because of ... lower than the full form PTGI, and the reliability of the total score was generally in the range of 90 across a variety of samples [42] In the present study, the Italian translation of the PTGY-SF ... response to the American Psychiatric Association’s publication of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, which changed many of the diagnostic criteria for Major Depressive...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 23:23

... a beam -sample interaction for a helium ion beam, in comparison with interactions for a gallium ion beam and an electron beam of the same beam diameter at 30 keV The interaction volume of the ... energy beam of electrons in a raster scan pattern The electrons interact with the atoms that make up the sample producing signals that contain information about the sample' s surface topography, ... profile data are extracted from the two rectangular areas for beam spot size analysis in horizontal and vertical directions 83 Figure 3.20 Shape of the line scan in scanning a Gaussian...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 10:15

... log as the most up to date ‘‘truth’’ about the state of the data on disk The main difference is that database systems not use the log as the final repository for data: a separate data area is reserved ... couple the application’s performance to that of the disk and make it hard for the application to benefit from faster CPUs They also defeat the potential use of the file cache as a write buffer Unfortunately, ... file back sequentially, then writes 100 Mbytes randomly to the existing file, then reads 100 Mbytes randomly from the file, and finally reads the file sequentially again The bandwidth of each of the...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2012, 15:05

... accounts for the syntactic structure of language, it prefers placing the function of language as central (what language does and how language does it) rather than placing the elements of language and ... explore the meaning and structure of Torquay? But I said Turkey! as a text The analysis is based on the framework of Hallidays (1994)An Introduction to Functional Grammar, Halliday and 21 Hasans ... grammar are different from formal models of grammar by their focus on the communicative aspect of language 2.4 Metafunctions Halliday developed a theory of the fundamental functions of language...

Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:48

... declarative declarative declarative declarative declarative declarative declarative declarative declarative declarative declarative declarative declarative declarative declarative declarative ... complexes analysed for theme, 17 have Our analysis shows that most of the unmarked theme and have marked themes in the text belong to the plane of theme At the beginning of the text, ideational component ... declarative declarative declarative declarative declarative declarative declarative declarative imperative declarative declarative Modality ability/neg ability/pos ability/neg ability/neg ability/neg...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 20:20

... registration, location, and actiThe CORBA Event Service model simplifies application vation; request demultiplexing; framing and error-handling; parameter marshalling and demarshalling; and operation ... data was not availHigh Level able to be pulled, the calling I/O Facade would need to block I/O Facade I/O Facade I/O Facade Abstraction awaiting a result In order for the I/O Facade to pull, the ... (Philadelphia, PA), ACM, May 1996 [33] M H Klein, T Ralya, B Pollak, R Obenza, and M G Harbour, A Practitioner’s Handbook for Real-Time Analysis: Guide to Rate Monotonic Analysis for Real-Time...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 18:20

... PIVceeding of the ACM SIGMOD Conference on Management of Data, May 1994 [CS92] RakeshChandmand Arie Segev.ManagingTemporalFinancial Data in anExtensible Database.In Proceedings of the International Conference ... up the dimensions) There are also severalopen researchissuesin the design of systemsbasedon the E-ADT paradigm, and in extensions of the paradigm to handle optimizations that spandata types Acknowledgements ... supports relational data as well as sequencedata, using a novel design paradigm of enhancedabstractdata types (BADTs ) The systemimplementation basedon this paradigmallows sequence relational queriesto...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 16:20