the corporate governance of banks macey and ohara

Infelicities of the Intended Meaning of Canonical Texts and Norms Constraining Interpretation

Infelicities of the Intended Meaning of Canonical Texts and Norms Constraining Interpretation

... form reflect the rule -of- law value of the accessibility of law. The norms that handle cases of failed law reflect both the rule -of- law value of accessibility and the more substantive value of consistent ... as to ban the cute and gentle panda?”) A and B did not clarify whether pandas were within the rule before voting. The results of this disagreement are these. The rule “no bears” admits of two relevant ... infelicities. And it is always possible that 24 Of course, if there were no fact of the matter regarding the level of generality of the authorities’ intentions, there might well not be a fact of the matter...

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Between fathers and fetuses - the social construction of male reproduction and the politics of fetal harm

Between fathers and fetuses - the social construction of male reproduction and the politics of fetal harm

... nullius – as if they had no biological fathers. With no link between fathers and fetuses, no inheritance of harm could be attributed to the father’s use of drugs. The absence of fathers in debates ... the symbols of the ‘crack baby’, ‘pregnant addict’ and ‘absent father’ emerged at the center of debate over fetal hazards. (A more detailed analysis of the social and political construction of ... media coverage of the issue, and since news stories began suggesting the relation on fetal health of the combined eVects of poverty, addiction and exposures to workplace and environmental toxins. The precise...

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Tài liệu The Investing Secrets of Warren Buffett—and how to profit from them pptx

Tài liệu The Investing Secrets of Warren Buffett—and how to profit from them pptx

... features of the growth in sales and earnings: the rate of growth and the stability of the growth. Conscious Investor provides proprietary tools to measure both of these for thousands of companies. ... of let’s sit back and hope for the best. F Then there are others who deliberately do not want to know anything about the activities of the company. They want to study the “pure” movement of ... is to hold shares for the rest of his life, when the profit is there, and the share price has outpaced the value of the underlying business, then he sometimes takes it. The exciting thing about...

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Tài liệu The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money docx

Tài liệu The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money docx

... cost of the employment in question [1] . The excess of the value of the resulting output over the sum of its factor cost and its user cost is the profit or, as we shall call it, the income of the ... schedule of the marginal efficiency of capital and the complex of rates of interest on loans of various maturities and risks. Thus, given the propensity to consume and the rate of new investment, there ... entrepreneur. The factor cost is, of course, the same thing, looked at from the point of view of the entrepreneur, as what the factors of production regard as their income. Thus the factor cost and the...

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Tài liệu The Corporate R&D Tax Credit and U.S. Innovation and Competitiveness docx

Tài liệu The Corporate R&D Tax Credit and U.S. Innovation and Competitiveness docx

... with the older methods of cal- 2 Center for American Progress | The Corporate R&D Tax Credit and U.S. Innovation and Competitiveness the availability of foreign talent, and the tax and other ... discussion of the implications of comprehensive cor- porate tax reform for the corporate R&D tax credit. Given the spillover benets of R&D investment and the demonstrated eectiveness of the ... Progress | The Corporate R&D Tax Credit and U.S. Innovation and Competitiveness e tax expenditure for the deduction of R&D expenses is the dierence between the actual amount of the deduction...

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Tài liệu SWIMMING IN SEWAGE: The Growing Problem of Sewage Pollution and How the Bush Administration Is Putting Our Health and Environment at Risk ppt

Tài liệu SWIMMING IN SEWAGE: The Growing Problem of Sewage Pollution and How the Bush Administration Is Putting Our Health and Environment at Risk ppt

... 50 and 100 years old, 14 can develop cracks or joint openings from the weight and vibration of roads, soil, and structures above them, and from the corrosive actions of water, bacteria and ... Indiana, covers the bulk of Marion County in the central part of the state, pop- ulation 860,454. The city is situated in the upper part of the White River watershed—a system of rivers draining ... year, and the reefs have an esti- mated asset value of $7.6 billion. 247 Almost all the reefs off the Florida coast are at risk from a number of threats, including runoff of fertilizers and...

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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Ionic strength and magnesium affect the specificity of Escherichia coli and human 8-oxoguanine-DNA glycosylases pdf

Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Ionic strength and magnesium affect the specificity of Escherichia coli and human 8-oxoguanine-DNA glycosylases pdf

... In the absence of MgCl 2 , the affinity of Fpg for the THF:C ligand was 1.6-fold higher than for the THF:A ligand. The presence of Mg 2+ had little effect on the binding of Fpg to the THF:C ligand and ... independently evaluate the effects of ionic strength and Mg 2+ on the activity and specificity of OGG1, we measured the apparent values of k 2 and k 3 under conditions of low salt (KP i only) and no Mg 2+ , low ... determination The reaction mixtures were as in the standard assay, except that the components specified in the Results were added, and the concentrations of the substrate and enzyme varied as required for the...

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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Oxidized elafin and trappin poorly inhibit the elastolytic activity of neutrophil elastase and proteinase 3 pdf

Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Oxidized elafin and trappin poorly inhibit the elastolytic activity of neutrophil elastase and proteinase 3 pdf

... to a half-life of dissociation of 36–105 min [15]. The oxidation of elafin and trappin down-shifts the half-life of there complexes with NE to % 1.3– 1.8 min. On the other hand, the oxidized inhibitor–Pr3 complexes ... binding of the methionine sulfoxide residue at the S 1 Â subsite of the active centers of NE and Pr3. The fact that the S 1 Â subsite of Pr3 is significantly smaller than that of NE [21] might then explain ... oxida- tion of M51 and M89 of M25L elafin and M63L trap- pin, respectively. On the other hand, oxidation of M25L elafin and M63L trappin did not significantly affect their K i for NE (Table 2). We therefore...

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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "Enhanced word decomposition by calibrating the decision threshold of probabilistic models and using a model ensemble" pdf

Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "Enhanced word decomposition by calibrating the decision threshold of probabilistic models and using a model ensemble" pdf

... cross-validation into training and test subsets with the ratio of 9:1 we randomly split the data into training, validation and test sets with the ratio of 8:1:1. We then run our experiments and measured contingency ... Another way of classifying ap- proaches is based on the learning aspect during the construction of the morphological model. If the data for training the model has the same struc- ture as the ... makes them either supervised or unsupervised algorithms. The purpose of this paper is an analysis of the underlying probabilistic models and the types of errors committed by each one. Furthermore,...

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Tài liệu The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ppt

Tài liệu The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ppt

... and about the hearth the whole of the servants, men and women, stood huddled together like a ock of sheep. At the sight of Mr. Utterson, the housemaid broke into hysteri- cal whimpering; and ... sir, the two ran into one another naturally enough at the corner; and then came the horrible part of the thing; for the man trampled calmly over the, child’s body and le her screaming on the ... B. ing themselves along the railing. Poole, who had kept all the way a pace or two ahead, now pulled up in the middle of the pavement, and in spite of the biting weather, took o his hat and...

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Air Power in the New Counterinsurgency Era - The Strategic Importance of USAF Advisory and Assistance Missions ppt

Air Power in the New Counterinsurgency Era - The Strategic Importance of USAF Advisory and Assistance Missions ppt

... analysts, and journalists. Terrorists and insurgents share important features (e.g., their status as nonstate actors, their use of vio- lence, and the clandestine nature of many of their activities), ... be to gain the allegiance of the population to the government. 6 Every- thing that the local government, the United States, and other partici- pants do must be assessed in light of the contribution ... weaken and/ or destroy the power and legitimacy of a ruling government, while at the same time increasing the power and legitimacy of the armed insurgent group.” 10 is definition has a number of...

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THE CORPORATE NEWSLETTER OF RAMSAY HEALTH CARE 2009 docx

THE CORPORATE NEWSLETTER OF RAMSAY HEALTH CARE 2009 docx

... accountants, are many of the professionals that have left the country leaving it worse off. “Following the Tsunami, there was a great need for medical services and equipment and there was a real ... purchase of state -of -the- art phototherapy units, isolettes and patient monitors, the special care nursery is providing the highest standard of care which is being appreciated by staff and paediatricians ... paediatricians at the hospital.” ❚ Albury opens new theatre complex THE OFFICIAL OPENING of Albury’s new theatre complex, including a new state -of -the- art theatre, recovery area and two new day...

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THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF TREE CROPS AND THE PREVENTION OF VEGETATION FIRES IN SOUTH SUMATRA, INDONESIA pptx

THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF TREE CROPS AND THE PREVENTION OF VEGETATION FIRES IN SOUTH SUMATRA, INDONESIA pptx

... Land Clearing And Conflicts The agro-industry is another major acquirer and converter of land outside the control of local farmers. Up to the end of the eighties smallholder land acquisition ... continuum of land-use between the forest and the mono-crop plantation. Thus the rigid dichotomy often presumed between forest and plantation is irrelevant to the understanding and management of such ... defend their interests but in the interests of the government and private investors. Farmers also complain about their lack of control over the design and implementation of projects: many of...

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a study on social and environmental accounting, the corporate social responsibility awareness, benefits and problems facing by vietnamese companies

a study on social and environmental accounting, the corporate social responsibility awareness, benefits and problems facing by vietnamese companies

... monitoring of the society and the community. Lessons show that the power of profit can make the enterprises blind and irresponsible by hiding their legal actions and the voluntary investment of the ... system, and the role of accounting theory to reflect the concept of people about accounting and accountability. Figure 2.1: The theoretical framework of the research The scope of accounting ... According to the Stakeholder theory, " the corporations continued existence requires the support of the stakeholders and their approval must be sought and the activities of the corporation...

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