... around the world The immediate trigger ofthe crisis was the end ofthe housing booms in the United States and other countries and the associated problems in mortgage markets, notably the 206 ... public offerings, and mutual funds during the same period Nevertheless, Congress did not seriously consider the question of whether financial conglomerates threatened the stability ofthe financial ... pay off their credit card balances As in the case of nonprime home mortgages, LCFIs ignored the risks of nonprime credit card loans because they could securitize most ofthe loans However, the...
... functions of Ó FEBS 2004 b-arrestins, or by modulating the activity of protein kinase C, which can activate Raf isoforms at the apex ofthe ERK1/2 module (reviewed in [42]) Redox regulation at each of ... effects of pharmacological inhibitors of ERK1/2 activation can be established, as contributions of glial cell derived cytokines or vascular effects ofthe inhibitors are not a factor However, the ... not a factor However, the possibility of other kinases also being affected by the inhibitors cannot be excluded Molecular manipulation of select components ofthe ERK1/2 signaling pathway will be...
... I.1 What’s theDark Side? I.1.1 Why theDark Side? I.1.2 Who Cares About theDark Side? I.1.3 How Dark is theDark Side? I.1.4 What Else is on theDark Side? I.1.5 Ethics and theDarkSide I.1.6 ... start ofthe race The analysis ofthe failure ofthe project concludes the following: “Study after study reveals that sprinters have the most problems in the fractions of a second around the start, ... opposing group of professors never lost the desire to stop the project.) The Achilles’ heel ofthe project was the conceptual conflict between the anonymity ofthe feedback and the security against...
... access thedarksideofthe lung, in other words, the lung interior, and define the architecture of parenchyma that is not Page of (page number not for citation purposes) anchored to the pleural ... colleagues equate the presence of alveolar deformation in the pleural plane with alveolar instability and injury The authors defend this assumption with the observation that in the absence of injurious ... estimates of tissue architecture) are excellent[11] In light of these observations it must be concluded that Pavone’s index of alveolar instability is biased by the constraint to keep the local...
... held their position by virtue ofthe divine right of kings’ They were the anointed representatives of God on Earth and to challenge the legitimacy of their rule was to flout the will ofthe divine ... power 59 Thedarksideof leadership and silence in the workplace 77 The folly and the dangers of leadership education in business schools 96 PART II Case studies 115 Thedarksideof leadership ... influential Why thedark side? Why now? 13 individuals advocated political ends, in the pursuit of which the lives of their followers, not to mention those of their enemies, were of little significance...
... percent And even as the cost of buying a house plunged in many areas ofthe country in the latter half ofthe 2000s (causing, needless to say, its own set of problems) the price of other necessary ... as the “bridezilla.” The “must-have” baby item ofthe decade was the almost $1,000 Bugaboo Cameleon, the Mercedes of strollers Our own president would tell us that the proper response to the ... under the age of fifty-five will elicit not an opinion about the columnist deemed one ofthe most important women ofthe 1970s by Ladies Home Journal, but rather the simple query: “Who?” There...
... ke is the rate of return that the equity investor in this asset would demand given the riskiness ofthe cash flows and the value of equity at the end ofthe asset’s life is the value ofthe asset ... million The value of equity today can be computed as the sum ofthe present values ofthe free cash flows to equity during the next 10 years and the present value ofthe terminal value at the end of ... discounted back to the present to get the value ofthe firm today shown above as $ 2,645.60 million Note that this is not the value ofthe equity ofthe firm To get to the value ofthe equity, you...
... play is historical The later suggestion of Mr Acheson that theDark Lady, far from being a maid of honor, kept a tavern in Oxford and was the mother of Davenant the poet, is the one I should have ... motherly interest in Pembroke There is a further temptation in the theory for me The most charming of all Shakespear's old women, indeed the most charming of all his women, young or old, is the ... was she who suggested a scene of jealousy between Queen Elizabeth and theDark Lady at the expense ofthe unfortunate Bard Now this, if theDark Lady was a maid of honor, was quite easy If she...
... two, and then tell the entire story of that theme: the history of salt; the fragility of democracy; the use and misuse of punctuation This book has no such unifying theme We did consider, for ... Most of their theories sounded perfectly logical It was the roaring 1990s economy, they said, that helped turn back crime It was the proliferation of gun control laws, they said It was the sort of ... speeches about the wonderful opportunities ofthe global economy; they’ll be trying to keep body and soul together for people on the streets of these cities.” The smart money was plainly on the criminals...
... revenue Unlike the busy lifestyle of fulfilling orders taken through a Web site, the passive-revenue lifestyle lets the site the work, not you 19 20 Part I: Meeting the Other Sideof Google Google ... controlled their costs and tracked their returns) In time, the advantages of eBay’s system got the attention of midsize brick-and-mortar stores, which now operate eBay outlets as an essential part of their ... Part I: Meeting the Other Sideof Google In the next two years, online businesses might want to diversify their marketing efforts, reaching for recognition on other platforms besides Google’s...
... differences in the spectral maxima in the visible region ofthe Fe(III) species, spectra ofthe Asp40 mutants were essentially similar to that ofthe wild-type protein Additionally, spin states ofthe Fe(III), ... mM)1Ỉs)1) ofthe wild-type protein (Table 2) The data indicate that mutation of Asp40 at the haem proximal side alters the cyanide binding property only slightly, and may not significantly affect the ... significantly affect the binding of exogenous ligands, such as the cyanide anion, to the Fe(III) complex [17], and O2 and CO to the Fe(II) complex [18] However, the PDE activities of these mutants are...
... oftheuniverse The Expansion oftheUniverse 51 future ofthe universe, they give a pretty clear picture of its past The observations discussed in this chapter have opened to us a view ofthe ... faster than the size oftheuniverseThe size oftheuniverse is proportional to the one-half or two-thirds power ofthe time (see mathematical note 3, page 178), while the distance to the horizon ... to the motion ofthe star away from or towards the earth For instance, the wavelength of every dark line in the spectrum ofthe star Capella is longer than the wavelength ofthe corresponding dark...
... further, depends extremely sensitively on the very fine details ofthe intial state ofthe system In the case ofthe weather, the example often quoted that the development ofthe weather in the ... or the further it is away from the centre of rotation the greater the force needed and the greater the angular momentum ofthe weight In the case of such a rotating weight, the magnitude of its ... the extremes ofthe motion are limited by the shape ofthe curve as shown in the figure Because ofthe lopsided nature ofthe curve (steep mountain and low hill) it is clear that the higher the...
... world’ If the axiom of choice is, on the other hand, a mere matter of opinion or of arbitrary decision, then the Platonic world of absolute mathematical forms contains neither the axiom of choice ... contain assertions ofthe form ‘such-and-such follows from the axiom of choice’ or the axiom of choice is a theorem according to the rules of such-and-such mathematical system’) The mathematical assertions ... from the undoubted (though often ambiguous) role of beauty for the mathematics underlying the workings ofthe physical world, aesthetic criteria are fundamental to the development of mathematical...
... configuration ofthe surface, or ofthe character of vegetation Reminiscences ofthe woody valleys ofthe Cordilleras and ofthe Peak of Teneriffe Advantages ofthe mountainous region near the equator, ... geognosy (the study ofthe textures and ofthe position ofthe earth's strata), and to the configuration of continents and insular groups elevated above the level ofthe sea (the study ofthe geographical ... Dawn ofthe Science ofthe Cosmos 36 The Difficulties that opposed the Progress of Inquiry 37 Consideration ofthe Effect produced on the Mind by the Observation of Nature, and the...
... surveyed the whole range of existence, from the foundations of physics to the comparison of religions, from the facts of anatomy to the freedom ofthe will, from the vitality of cells to the attributes ... eliminate the third ofthe Kantian trilogy:— "Darwin's theory ofthe natural origin of species at once gave us the solution ofthe mystic 'problem of creation,' the great 'question of all questions' the ... the existence of all other sides In this futile enterprise they are imitating the attitude ofthe philosophic Materialists, on the other sideofthe controversy And then, again, Professor Huxley...
... direction ofthe stresses in the ether This suggestion did not meet the approval ofthe mathematical physicists of his day, for it necessitated 22 the abandonment ofthe conceptions they had worked ... distinguish the atom from the ether into which it dissolved In other words, such a conception makes the atoms of matter a form of motion ofthe ether, and not a created something put into the ether THE ... air, for the friction ofthe air is the condition for producing them However they came to be, there is implied the previous existence ofthe ether and of energy in some form capable of acting...
... rumblings of thunder we could hear the low sough and moan ofthe wind in the trees outside ofthe stockade, like the suppressed wail of human beings in pain; then would come a flare of flickering ... was then the county-seat of Union county, but the name did not suit the people, and the title ofthe county was changed to Davis Late at night we retired, making our beds on the soft sides of ... through the boughs and leaves over the hole and to the fleshy portion ofthe anatomy of a man beneath them A smothered yell and a convulsive spring revealed the place of concealment, and the poor...
... but, when they come to the bumps in the road, they have in place the team and the skills to maneuver around the danger zone First, in Part I, we discuss the hard realities of life in the modern ... WELCOME TO THE PROJECT MANAGEMENT JUNGLE 11 Attempting to create successful project teams through the use of squishy-sounding words like these is often derided as the use of soft skills But the ability ... little understanding ofthe real concerns and issues ofthe local employees Discussion with peers at other sites revealed much the same feeling After the calls, many ofthe attendees at Tom’s...