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ward - the devil's casino; friendship, betrayal, and the high-stakes games played inside lehman brothers (2010)
... fee (on 4,500 shares) He and most of the other partners took the money and ran And Gregory and Fuld began their ascents into the ruling elite of the new Lehman Brothers The firm was founded in ... united They were, they proudly proclaimed again and again, "one firm." The Lehman mantra was "Do the right thing." They were the good guys of Wall Street But were they? There's a reason "The Modern ... never survive the Mexican peso crisis of 1994; and they did the same again through the Russian crisis of 1998 They had weathered rumor, had survived scandal, and had even ousted their longtime...
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Mobility and the high street retailers face up to the digital challenge
... looking to peers and other users to solve problems, which deflects them from going into the stores to get things fixed.” Rising to the challenge With all the growth of online commerce and the demise ... create a form of high- street presence at low cost, but they also help larger retailers and brands to test new products or concepts Customer traffic is driven mostly by word of mouth and social media ... some big highstreet names, retailers can take comfort from the fact that consumers still value the experience of going shopping Research has shown that many consumers view their online and in-store...
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Corporate and Marketing Strategies in the High-Tech Industry
... of the engine to be installed on the Airbus A320 and A321, and then the A340, constantly improving the cost/quality ratio through an aggressive management of the experience curve In the end, the ... digital switches, and handsets, to ensure maximum geographical coverage for users The larger the coverage, the greater the value for customers and the bigger the future demand, leading more customers ... 2.5) The simplest communication networks are the “one-to-many” broadcast networks like television Their value is proportional to N, the size of the audience: the more the audience, the greater the...
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Land-based marine pollution and the Arctic - polarities between principles and practice
... on the one hand, and actual practices relating to landbased pollution control in the Arctic, on the other Following an introductory summary of the sources of land-based marine pollution in and ... support for Arctic environmental and sustainable development programmes The Arctic Council and the Arctic Regional 78 79 80 D VanderZwaag, ‘International Law and Arctic Marine Conservation and Protection: ... include agreements for the Baltic, the northeast Atlantic and the Antarctic85); a stand-alone convention on Arctic land-based pollution; and a broader sustainable development and environmental protection...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Single phosphorylation of Tyr304 in the cytoplasmic tail of ephrin B2 confers high-affinity and bifunctional binding to both the SH2 domain of Grb4 and the PDZ domain of the PDZ-RGS3 protein ppt
... expression vectors for the Grb4 SH2 and RGS3 PDZ domains The DNA sequences encoding the Grb4 SH2 and the RGS3 PDZ domains were individually deduced from the amino All the peptides, either with or without ... part of the cell lysate The high- density band at the bottom is lysozyme, which was used to lyse the cells Lane 2: the purified GST-PDZ fusion protein by the glutathione-agarose beads Lane 3: The digestion ... to tyrosine kinases and phosphatases On the other hand, tyrosine phosphorylations not affect the conformation of the PDZ binding motif at the C-terminus (Fig 9) Therefore, the 33-residue functional...
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Tài liệu The RepoRT of The high-LeveL MeeTing on WellBeing and Happiness docx
... formulated by the High- level Meeting; n Reporting on the High- level Meeting themes and outcomes, and on the key principles and dimensions of the new economic paradigm at Rio + 20, and; n 16 Preparation ... formulated by the High- level Meeting; n Reporting on the High- level Meeting themes and outcomes, and on the key principles and dimensions of the new economic paradigm at Rio + 20, and; n Convening ... Forward From The High- Level Meeting .158 Defining a New Economic Paradigm: The Report of the High- Level Meeting on Wellbeing and Happiness Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole...
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Tài liệu The Economic Promise of Investing in High-Quality Preschool: Using Early Education to Improve Economic Growth and the Fiscal Sustainability of States and the Nation pptx
... care to meet the needs of working parents Furthermore, states should welcome a diverse set of providers that meet quality standards and the needs of the parents and communities they serve Business ... Well-off families know the value of high- quality preschool programs, and 70 percent of high- income families send their children to preschool (see Figure 2) At the other end of the income scale, about ... as is the premise of the No Child Left Behind Act, high school reform, and various other adult education and training programs targeted towards dislocated workers, welfare recipients, and other...
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Arctic smoke – record high air pollution levels in the European Arctic due to agricultural fires in Eastern Europe in spring 2006 pot
... transported westward to the British Isles, and then around the high and to the north Still later, the high s center moved to Greenland, and the European outflow reached Iceland but not anymore Svalbard ... N, 127 m a.s.l.) on the southernmost tip of the island of Heimay in the Westman Islands, a group of small volcanic islands to the south of the principal island of Iceland The preponderance of ... approximately at the time with the highest pollution levels measured at Spitsbergen There were several strong high- and low-pressure centers in the northern hemisphere The Icelandic low dominated the circulation...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Novel a-conotoxins from Conus spurius and the a-conotoxin EI share high-affinity potentiation and low-affinity inhibition of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors doc
... as the conantokins, the c-conotoxins, the I-conotoxins, and the e-conotoxins [17], and in the N-terminal region of the a4 ⁄ 7-conotoxin GID [18] However, Vc1a and peptides SrIA and SrIB are the ... cell and in an a3b4-expressing cell during control and toxin perfusion Left inset: the traces show the block at 30 s and the recovery after 40 s Right inset: the traces show the block at s and the ... families On the basis of the number of residues between the second and third cysteines and on the spacing between the third and fourth cysteines in the mature a-conotoxins, these peptides have been...
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Economic Development and the Escape from High Mortality pdf
... development initiated the escape from high mortality and provided the conditions for higher population and higher income in the world As food availability increased, anthropometric and epidemiological ... than double the mortality rates in England and Wales Szreter and Mooney (1998) further demonstrate the extent to which rapid urbanization and rapid city growth created a penalty in England For example, ... Age-specific death rates for England and Wales, and London from Wrigley et al (1997, Table 6.14) and Landers (1992, Table 3), respectively To compute the rates of England and Wales (without London),...
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Báo cáo khoa học: High-throughput two-hybrid analysis The promise and the peril pptx
... implicated in the same process An experimenter carrying out the method might find that for the protein fused to the DNA-binding domain (often termed the ‘bait’) used as the target in the search, the assay ... enzymes at the C termini of the fusions and for the activity of the two-hybrid reporter genes Only at the stage when transformants grew on these selective plates were plasmids recovered from the yeast, ... yielded a handful of candidate interactors (often termed the ‘prey’) as activation domain-fused proteins These candidates were generally analyzed individually to evaluate their authenticity,...
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STOCK ASSESSMENT AND FISHERY EVALUATION REPORT FOR THE GROUNDFISH FISHERIES OF THE GULF OF ALASKA AND BERING SEA/ALEUTIAN ISLANDS AREA: ECONOMIC STATUS OF THE GROUNDFISH FISHERIES OFF ALASKA, 2008 potx
... species bycatch and bycatch rates, the ex-vessel value of the groundfish catch, the ex-vessel value of the catch in other Alaska fisheries, the gross product value (F.O.B Alaska) of the resulting ... 2009 gear, and target fishery for the GOA and the BSAI, respectively Residents of Alaska and of other states, particularly Washington and Oregon, are active participants in the BSAI and GOA groundfish ... 2) the discard and utilization of groundfish catch; 3) the effects of the groundfish fisheries on marine mammals and sea birds; 4) other effects of the groundfish fisheries on the ecosystem and...
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Living Through the Hoop High School Basketball, Race, and the American Dream ppt
... them the importance of teamwork on the court They would reveal to me both the simple and profound ways that race and inequality influence how they lived and how they played I would show them the ... their use of context to understand their life chances and opportunities for social mobility In chapter 7, The Dirty Trick,” I tie the book’s implicit and explicit themes together to reveal the ... off the lights in the gym When the lights went out, the Raiders’ fans cheered, and then the up-tempo music began And now, your Forest County Raiders!” the public-address announcer shouted The...
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Comparison between the Matrix Pencil Method and the Fourier Transform Technique for High-Resolution Spectral Estimation
... because the Standard window reduces the bias but at the same time increases the variance On the other hand, the use of the Rectangular window makes a FTE biased even for high SNR In Fig 21 the behavior ... Comparison between the inverse of the variance and the CRB for the first DOA estimate f2 f1 Å 0.090 Hz and SNR Å 17 dB The TFBMPM reaches the CRB for all u1 u2 because the SNR is above the threshold ... below 10 dB the FTE with the Standard window offers less bias than the TFBMPM Nevertheless, the rmse obtained with the TFBMPM is less than the one computed using the Standard window as seen in...
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Free for All How Linux and the Free Software Movement Undercut the High-Tech Titans pot
... Meanwhile, on the other coast, the lawsuit tied up Berkeley and the BSD project for several years, and the project lost valuable energy and time by devoting them to the legal fight In the meantime, ... right and billions of dollars pour into their pockets They know how to schmooze, toady, beg, or even threaten until they wear the mantle of authority and command the piety and devotion of the world ... don’t need to sit in the corner when their computer crashes and complain about the idiot who wrote the software Anyone can read the source code and fix the glitches The folks in the free source software...
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DISTRIBUTION AND PACKAGING OF STUDENT FINANCI AIDI,: SOMEr EVIDEN~C FROM THE SURVEY 0F THE HIGH SCHOOL CLASS.OF 1972 potx
... measured by the standard error The chances are out of that an estimate from a sample will differ from the census value by less than standard error The standard error does not include the effects ... full and: coam plete statistics on the conditions of education in the United States; conduct, and~ ~ publish reports on specialized analses of the meaning and significance of such, statistics; and ... percent of the Federal-aid awards and the total average amount of such aid exceeds that for all students On the other hand, Federal grants tend to be awarded according to student ability, since the...
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Báo cáo Y học: Barley a-amylase Met53 situated at the high-affinity subsite )2 belongs to a substrate binding motif in the bfia loop 2 of the catalytic (b/a)8-barrel and is critical for activity and substrate specificity pot
... loops and (i.e domain B) from AMY2 (in green) and TAA (in black) The superimpositioning was guided by the catalytic acids (D179AMY2, E204AMY2, and D289AMY2 and D206TAA, E230TAA, and D297TAA) The ... structure of the AMY2 (top) and TAA (bottom) complexes [16,17] The inhibitors are in green and the arrow indicates the nitrogen (in dark blue) that corresponds to the oxygen of the scissile glycosidic ... and the majority of the mutants, however, reected the importance of the high- afnity subsite )6 [44], where Tyr104AMY1 (Tyr105AMY1) was stacking onto glucosyl at the nonreducing end of PNPG7 and...
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thomas and patnaik-serial correlation in high-frequency data and the link with liquidity
... approach, the key parameter of choice is the width of the grid If the width of the interval is too high, then information about the temporal pattern in the returns may be lost On the other hand, a ... to be for a random walk The VR test has more power than the other tests for randomness, such as the Ljung-Box and the Dickey-Fuller test (Lo and MacKinlay, 1989) It does not require the normality ... 24.56 This is the set of all the limit orders that are available in the market at that time, both on the buy and on the sell side Since the limit order shows both the price and the quantity,...
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high performance computing in science and engineering '10 transactions of the high performance computing center, stuttgart (hlrs) 2010
... Strengthening the research and increasing the visibility to compete at the international level are further goals of the Gauß–Allianz At the moment, the entire HPC community in Germany is awaiting the ... that the product of the inverse screening length and the slip length massively influences the electroosmotic flow and therefore the total mobility of the polyelectrolyte An important result of their ... simulations and give an overview on the relevant equations and the algorithm for its solution that are employed in their code, and report on their efforts to improve the physics in their supernova...
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