... date, the zone of gap #2 has halted a further decline in the
share price of MRK.
However, it is not certain as to whether or not MRK can resume its prior uptrend
at this time. This is due to the ... area of gap #1 and its support zone of gap #2. A break through either
one of these zones would suggest continuation in that direction.
Most who were observing the recent trading activity of Merck ... For those of us who
utilize candlesticks, we believe " ;the claws" ofthe market to be hidden within their
message (from Nison, Beyond Candlesticks). Let us consider the case of Merck...
... interesting approach of explaining TPM to
their operators, who were mostly young women. They compared TPM to a mother caring
for her baby. The equipment, of course, is the baby. The mother, the operator, ... fever.
The mother does a lot of TPM activities, but what if she runs out of options? Then it is
time to call the doctor. The doctors are the maintenance people, the specialists. They go
in ...
Part of this new, high-tech maintenance operation is the training ofthe operators, which
becomes important under TPM. When maintenance workers realize the benefits of
transferring their routine...
... McCullough Professor of Finance at the Katz
Graduate School of Business ofthe University of Pittsburgh.
S. J. Liebowitz is the Ashbel Smith Professor of Economics at the University of
Texas at ...
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They substituted other materials for wood when the relative price of timber rose.
Under the same incentive, they were able to extend the effective life ofthe wood they ... Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He served as the Chairman of
the U.S. Council of Economic Advisors from 2006 to 2009.
Keith B. Leffl er is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of
Washington.
Kenneth...
... to the size and comparative
strength ofthe accountancy profession. In addition to arguments rehearsed within the sociology ofthe
professions - such as the growth of corporate capitalism, the ... neither the state-carved niche of insolvency business, nor the formation of a professional body,
but the steady increase in audit work that was to be the making ofthe modern UK accountancy profession. ... and other symbols
of professionalism.
THE ACCOUNTANCY PROFESSION IN THE UK : FORMATION, COMPETITION AND COLONIZATION
The development ofthe accountancy profession in the UK
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cannot sensibly...
... rate of change in the identity ofthe controlling shareholders: share
unifications were not used as a mechanism to facilitate the sale ofthe firm and the minor
reduction in the voting powerof ... at the end ofthe calendar year preceding the unification,
except for post-unification Q and voting power, which are calculated at the end ofthe unification year. For the
control sample of ... share
firms still trade).
The main goal ofthe study is to examine the long-term impact of share unifications
on the voting powerof controlling shareholders and on the firm’s control structure....
... element ofthe vector usually represents a word (or a group of words) of the
document collection, i.e. the size ofthe vector is defined by the number of words (or
groups of words) ofthe complete ... from the number
of clusters is the silhouette coefficient SC(P) (cf. [KR90]). The main idea ofthe coef-
ficient is to find out the location of a document in the space with respect to the cluster
of ... Stemming
In order to reduce the size ofthe dictionary and thus the dimensionality ofthe descrip-
tion of documents within the collection, the set of words describing the documents can
be reduced...
... concep-
tion ofthe whole of reality, we cannot hope to render compat-
ible the theories and observations ofthe various different
sciences: and providing that conception is not the task of any
one of ... the study of philosophical questions concerning the
mind and its properties – questions such as whether the mind
is distinct from the body or some part of it, such as the brain,
and whether the ... meaning thereby just that they feel,
see, think, reason and so forth. According to this view of the
matter, the philosophy of mind is the philosophical study of
minded things just insofar as they...
... only
Europeans but practically the whole world conceived of itself, of nature,
of religion, of human history, ofthe nature of knowledge, of politics, and
of the structure ofthe human mind in general. ... ofthe nature ofthe categories. It rejects the view ofthe categories
as concepts prior to experience that we then “apply” to experience by acts of synthesis. It also
rejects the view that they ... Werther, however, suggested that
there was nonetheless a sense brewing in all of “Germany,” maybe even
in all of Europe, that things, in the broadest sense ofthe term, had to
change. Theof cial...
... two other
women in the group named Cheryl. Two of the
three men named Phil. Ofthe men, only Phil
named Cheryl. In other words, in this instance, the
women evaluated the contribution of another
woman ... in how sensitive they
are to the social dynamics of language – in other
words, to the subtle nuances of what others say to
them. Men tend to be sensitive to thepower dy-
namics of interaction, ... to the gen-
eral public the idea of female and male styles of com-
munication. The material in this article is drawn from
Talking from 9 to 5 (Avon Books, 1995).
The Powerof Talk:
The head of...
...
resources are reserved all the way from sender to receiver before the start ofthe
transfer, thereby creating a circuit. The resources are dedicated to the circuit
during the whole transfer. Control ... VoP is growing, there is still considerable debate about
whether the underlying network technology will be ATM or IP. At the edge ofthe
network the choice, driven primarily by the regional Bell ... gateway controller," is
software that provides the call control and signaling for the next-generation
network. The softswitch moves the service intelligence out ofthe switch into a
database...
... to
Solve the World’s Ills at a Profit
CHAPTER 2
From the Infirmity ofthe Hyped Six Sigma to thePowerof Ultimate
Six Sigma
CHAPTER 3
The Scope, Structure, and Methodology ofthePowerof Ultimate ... research extending the frontiers of product qual-
ity to all areas of a company—including the quality of leadership, the quality of
employees, the quality of organization, and the quality of business ... investors, and on to the panorama ofthe ultimate purpose of busi-
ness—societal value the betterment of mankind, with profit at the end ofthe rainbow.
This is not just Pollyanna optimism. The movement...