... place together with the potential effects of a takeover ‘Takeover’ is referring to transfer of control of a firm from one group of shareholders to another group of shareholders It is a change in the ... one net advantages: the tax relief on debt interest Behind the use of WACC (the average of the costs of these sources of financing) as the NPV discount rate is the assumption of an unchanging capital ... referred to as the time that it takes for an investment to pay for itself’ The basic premise of the payback method is that the more quickly the cost of an investment can be recovered, the more...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 13:02
... substituents enhance planarity of the aniline framework, thereby shortening d(CN) The accompanying loss of electron density from the amino nitrogen atom decreases the pKa of the amino group Conversely, ... substituents The variations of the three properties are closely tied together Hammett constants which used as regression indicator to investigate the change of properties yield rather good correlations ... HyperChem software 7.52 to study the influence of substituents on some properties of compounds II Methods Hammett constants for the substituents were taken from [8] The pKa values for the aniline...
Ngày tải lên: 23/07/2014, 13:21
báo cáo khoa học: " The filter of choice: filtration method preference among injecting drug users" ppsx
... injection of this drug 39% of the heroin users and 33% of the cocaine users used the syringe filter to preserve their health The cotton filter on the other hand, is often preferred for it allows ... as the main advantage of syringe filters The transparency of the solution, the reductions of abscesses and cellulites, as well as the preservation of veins are often referred to by drug users The ... by these drugs) The main arguments mentioned by this population for the continued use of cotton filters are the conservation and re-use of “old cottons” and the assumption that filtration of these...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20
DEVELOPING, USING AND ANALYZING THE RESULTS OF INTERVIEWS TO DETERMINE THE FEELINGS OF FOREIGN TOURISTS ON THEIR VISIT TO VIET NAM
... INTERVIEW QUESTIONS According to the purpose of the report, we had to go out to carry out our interview with the foreigner tourists We had to spend two days in the OldQuarter to it Before carrying this ... that the percentage of independent tourist is the biggest It occupies 58% in total The numbers of tourists who travel in-group hold 33% And the business tourist market is less, 9% Seeing the result, ... finding other guests, but not much tourist, so we could interview one to two travelers Most of them seemed too closed, to be friendly and warmhearted, and welcome us They told us everything they...
Ngày tải lên: 25/04/2013, 15:42
Tài liệu The Global Report of the Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change Study: Consultation Draft doc
... necessarily reflect the views of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent The World Bank does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this work The boundaries, ... climate change The difference between these two worlds entails a series of actions to adapt to the new world conditions And the costs of these additional actions are the costs of adapting to climate ... change They can choose to nothing to suffer (or enjoy the benefits from) the full impact of climate change Or they can decide to adapt to the level where the benefits from adaptation equal their...
Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 10:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: An engineered disulfide bridge mimics the effect of calcium to protect neutral protease against local unfolding docx
... indicator for the occurrence of the intermediate in the unfolding Calcium ions are the main contributory factor to enzyme stability The binding of calcium ions seems to be the main source of stabilization ... Reduction of autoproteolysis, in the presence of 2– mm CaCl2, by the addition of isopropanol leads to a reduction of the observed rate constants of unfolding The kobs values coincide for both of the ... Model of the 3D structure of the neutral protease from Bacillus stearothermophilus, including the position of the disulfide bridge in mutant G8C ⁄ N60C The model was created on the basis of the...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 17:20
Tài liệu The economics of moving to higher welfare farming docx
... taken in the field of livestock production The Dutch study referred to earlier suggests that a method to internalise the externalities of meat production – i.e including them in the price of meat ... used to internalise the externalities of the production of meat and dairy products – i.e including them in the price of the product This would involve the introduction of a Pigouvian Tax equal to ... the introduction of a Pigouvian Taxiv equal to the cost of the negative externalities.Such a tax would correct the market failure due to externalities The study states that the average rate of...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 20:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Structure of coenzyme F420H2 oxidase (FprA), a di-iron flavoprotein from methanogenic Archaea catalyzing the reduction of O2 to H2O ppt
... one iron to be more loosely bound to the enzyme than the other [34] The low occupancy of the proximal iron leads to an increase of the temperature factor of its surroundings but not to a significant ... points to the di-iron center The iron closer to FMN is, in the following, referred to as proximal iron, and the other as distal iron The distance between N5 ˚ of FMN and the proximal Fe of about ... between the isoalloxazine ring of FMN and the segment between His151 and Pro153 of the switch loop, whereby the imidazole group of His151 interacts with the bottom of F420H2 and the side chain of...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 10:20
Báo cáo khoa học: The binding of IMP to Ribonuclease A pptx
... with the difference that the phosphate group of IMP mol I is close to the position of the b-phosphate group of pdUppA-3¢-p while the inosine base passes through the ribose of the adenosine part of ... inhibitor than IMP Thus, the 5¢ phosphate group of the IMP molecule might connect to the carbonyl O6 group of another IMP molecule and then the hydroxyl groups 2¢ and 3¢ from the ribose of the ... 0.77 for the association of AMP to the active site of RNase A Comparative structural analysis Although the three IMP molecules bind to the catalytic cleft of RNase A one after the other, they not...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 21:20
A Designer''''s Guide to Adobe InDesign and XML: Harness the Power of XML to Automate your Print and Web Workflows pptx
... is at the heart of the technology XML is all about how the pieces are put together The Structure pane and the Tags panel work hand in hand to reveal the how The Structure pane gives you the big ... Tag button Figure 2.24 To create a tag, select New Tag from the Tags panel menu or click the New Tag button at the bottom of the panel Figure 2.25 Type Portrait in the New Tag dialog The tag ... temporarily holds the place of another piece of data that’s dropped in when the XML is displayed in a browser, imported into InDesign, or otherwise parsed One of the coolest tricks of XML, you can...
Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 23:20
THE USE OF DERIVATIVES TO MANAGE INTEREST RATE RISK IN COMMERCIAL BANKS docx
... equal or close to that of the mortgages The proceeds of the sales of the notes can be used to pay of the CDs and reduce the duration gap Alternatively the thrift can buy a swap and take the fixed ... million It thus just offsets the loss in net worth on the balance sheet The total premium cost to the bank of buying these puts is the price of each put times the number of puts: Cost = Np x ... dictate the price of the cap, and so the net cost of the hedge will depend upon the characteristics of the floor being sold The bank will have to decide on two variables when selecting the floor...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 01:20
Credit Unions and the Supply of Insurance to Low Income Households pdf
... If the result of the income draw in the second period is negative then the agent will be in receipt of the minimum income guarantee and desires to increase consumption then on the expectation of ... whether N or P has occurred This may be taken as a reflection of the greater information available to the managers in the credit union due to the nature of the common bond In the context of this ... L will, of course, be a function of the decision variables of the credit union so that x L = x L(c,s,t) The operation of the credit union The first issue to be tackled in a model of the credit...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 07:20
Đề tài "Invariant measures and the set of exceptions to Littlewood’s conjecture " doc
... extension to the nonsplit case appeared in [4] Using the methods we present in the second part of the present paper, the results of [3] can be used to show that the set of exceptions to Littlewood’s ... handled with the methods of [3], and measures with“low” (but positive) entropy can be handled using the methods of [20] Together, these methods give Theorem 1.3 (as well as the more general Theorem ... Cambridge in the spring of 2000 and ETH Zurich in which some of the seeds of this work have been sown We would also like to acknowledge the hospitality of the University of Washington, the Center...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 09:20
Bringing the Hidden Giants to the Footlight: the Role of Savings and Retail Banks in Increasing the Level of Access to Financial Services docx
... and channelling more of the remittances into the financial system and intermediating the flow of the resources, savings banks contribute to leveraging the positive impact of these transfers In several ... important aspect of these projects is that they are not conducted separately from the mainstream banking activities Some of the MFI clients upgrade from the microfinance customer segment to the SME segment ... investment need and their ability to repay The amount of the first loan does not exceed US$ 750 and the borrowers can apply for a second loan of up to US$ 1,250 A loan amount up to US$ 375 must be...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 10:20
Promoting the Use of End-to-End Congestion Control in the Internet pptx
... on the R1-R2 link (Because there is no congestion on the first link, the UDP arrival rate at the first router is the same as the UDP sending rate.) The bold line (at the top of the graph) shows the ... shows, when the sending rate of the UDP flow is small, the TCP flows have high goodput, and use almost all of the bandwidth on the R1-R2 link When the sending rate of the UDP flow is larger, the UDP ... the bandwidth of the R2-S4 link can occur for a network of routers using either FCFS or WRR set to 128 Kbps, 9% of the bandwidth of the R1-R2 link Be- scheduling In these scenarios, there is one...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 22:20
Research " THE RATE OF RETURN TO EDUCATION AND THE GENDER EARNINGS DIFFERENTIAL : A COMPARISON OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE REPULIC OF IRELAND " ppt
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 03:20
Chương 2: Sự biến đổi của thịt sau giết mổ - The Conversion of Muscle to Meat potx
... Chương Sự biến đổi thịt sau giết mổ The Conversion of Muscle to Meat pH 7.0- 7.0 6.5- D.F.D 6.5 6.0- Bình thường 6.0 5.8 5.5 5.3 5.0 5.5- P.S.E ... bắp cổ, chi trước chi sau, cứng hoàn to n xẩy 2 Giai đoạn chín tới pH giảm cực tiểu (pH cuối cùng) AM bị phân giải Giải phóng màng lyzosome: hoạt hóa cathepsin, protease emzyme => Tăng WHC, ... Phosphorylase a G-1-P G-6-P Axit lactic Vai trò adrenalin trình đường phân phẩm chất thòt Thay đổi pH thịt theo nhiệt độ pH 7.0 5.6 420C 37 2giờ 33 27 170C 70C 00C 10 16 20 24 Giai đoạn tê cóng Yếu tố đònh...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 14:20
how m butterfly uses the art of illusion to foster stereotypes among its main characters
... instead of what is actually occurring, we begin to enter into a very dangerous area When we begin to act on these illusions, however, we only add to the problem In the play M Butterfly there were ... "butterfly" The set up is quite similar to the original play, right up to the surrendering of Song's character What subsequently follows, however, is a complete turning of the tables To make matters ... downfall.(Davis 6) The way Gallimard slipped into ruination by crossing the line of healthy fantasy into a world of false conceptions got me thinking about the way we allow illusions to influence our...
Ngày tải lên: 21/03/2014, 22:04
The Federal Home Loan Bank System: The Lender of Next-to-Last Resort? ppt
... item, the table reports the aggregate percentage of the item relative to total assets in the last quarter, the percentage change over the quarter, and the change in the ratio of the item to total ... an overview of the FHLB System, continue with an analysis of the uses of FHLB advances during the recent stress, and then provide a detailed comparison of the liquidity facilities of the FHLB System ... (the FHLB of Chicago) to 74.9% (the FHLB of San Francisco) Special privileges accruing to the FHLB System include: a provision authorizing the Treasury Secretary to purchase up to $4 billion of...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20