... but the death of ideas It supports the hanging man in the previous layout Note the flowers springing from the split-open back ofthe skull? They indicate that if you are prepared to kill off ... down the stairs at the end ofthe corridor and his office is directly in front of you.’ She indicated the direction he should take ‘Oh, by the way, pupils are not allowed in the front entrance, they ... wasn't offended; he'd joined group wanks in dressing rooms At his last school some ofthe year eleven idiots had jerked themselves off in the back row ofthe chemistry lab to impress their girlfriends...
... exacerbate the magnitude ofthe downturns that caused them The extent of adverse spillover from the banking sector to other sectors depends on the degree of leverage elsewhere The higher the leverage of ... KENNETH E SCOTT O ne ofthe most feared events in banking is the cry of systemic risk It matches the fear of a cry of “fire!” in a crowded theater or other gatherings But unlike fire, the term systemic ... danger of systemic risk are likely to differ depending on the strength ofthe initial shock and on the characteristics ofthe bank initially affected In the absence of guarantees, units on the transmission...
... AMS is the paradigm where a predefined level of demand is managed internally and the remainder augmented with cloud services The apothegm is ‘Own the base and rent the peak’ Conclusion The customer’s ... health starts with an assessment of value The assessment of value of cloud services can only include a comparison against other cloud providers The comparison of cost between traditional IT investment ... simple as a mouse-trap The complication is that for most customers they already have an IT investment So the assessment of cloud value will involve a comparison between what other IT investments...
... ln(assets) and the equity ratio are available monthly In the regressions, for each operation we use the values of these two variables at the end ofthe month prior to the start ofthe maintenance ... studies the data cross-sectionally Section presents the panel analysis and provides the main results ofthe paper Section concludes The Appendix contains an overview ofthe structure ofthe German ... the main refinancing operations ofthe European Central Bank (ECB) These are the most significant sources of liquidity in the euro area.3 During the sample period, June 2000 to December 2001, the...
... assessed by local of cials The state board of equalization would then apportion the value ofthe property to each county, depending on the proportion of track that ran through the county The localities ... with the publication ofthe first annual report ofthe new Commission in Lunacy and its “graphic exposure ofthe abuses ofthe county system,” did a new state care bill pass the legislature.52 The ... was proportionate to the stock owned by out -of- state investors, which amounted to about a quarter ofthe total receipts ofthe corporation tax Thus, the corpo- 16 | THEPRICEOF PROGRESS ration...
... interrupted the proceedings The kid next to Benny had knocked his prayer book out of his hand A moment later there was the sound of another thud It wasn’t another book It was the sound ofthe teacher’s ... part ofthe best from given areas ofthe country to test themselves against the best from other areas The teams themselves arranged the games But even if somewhat informally organized, these ... secular world than their parents had ever known, and they wanted a place in it The growing popularity offootball in turn -of -the- century Cleveland coincided with the explosive growth ofthe city’s Jewish...
... in respect ofthe economics offootball In section 1.1, the principal contributions of each of these articles are reviewed in turn, and the subsequent development ofthe economics of team sports ... only football s global popularity at the start ofthe twenty-first century, but also the special historical significance of England as the original birthplace ofthe sport Club football played in the ... have been a pervasive feature ofthe history of English football .The retain-and-transfer system, the maximum wage, the 12 The Economics ofFootball minimum admission price and gate and television...
... developed the sugary bait by combining fruit juice oils and boric acid The fruit juice gets the attention ofthe mosquitoes Boric acid kills the insects when they eat it The scientists took the boric ... director ofthe club, and says the students are involved in the school’s efforts GABRIELLE KING: “When the earthquake happened, the children wanted to know what they could to inform other students ... reaching the muscles The researchers designed a special cap for the user This head cover captures the signals from the scalp and redirects them to a computer The computer interprets the signals...
... Solving the problem was therefore divided into two steps; the analysis ofthe buyers’ preference and the incorporation ofthe qualities ofthe goods (i.e timber logs) The first step was analysing the ... goods The link to the qualities ofthe goods’ is eventually formed by the fact that the consumer preferences themselves are often directly or indirectly controlled by the properties ofthe goods ... Quantity effects on theprice will not aid in ranking the qualities of goods Theprice variation along the demand curve is not subject to quality Rather, the upward or downward movement ofthe demand...
... variations in the fiber core can affect the angle and speed that a light pulse can travel This effect is the refractive index profile ofthe material, which is calculated as the ratio ofthe speed of light ... fiber making up much ofthe installed base, the IEEE is exploring ways to run 10 Gigabit Ethernet over 300 meters of 62.5µm fiber with the use of a singlemode laser source The proposed standard, ... vacuum to the speed of light through the material For example, the refractive index of a vacuum is 1.0, while air is slightly higher than 1.0, and glass ranges from 1.45-1.48 The higher the refractive...
... estimates ofthe number of cases in the category (‘n’) and the average cost for that category The product is the total cost (eg the wage rate for lost earnings multiplied by the average number of days ... response rate of 70.8% (Health Area range 63.9–79.4%) The demographic profile ofthe sample is comparable to that of NSW as a whole (Blyth et al, 2001) 11 The high priceof pain Some 20% of females ... 2007 The high priceof pain Using an incidence approach, only cases like ‘c’ would be included, with the total cost estimate equivalent to the sum of all the costs in the base year (ΣC) plus the...
... records and scores as the measure ofthe success ofthefootball program In this study, the results of games are cited to provide a quantitative basis for the more important themes of Zuppke’s impact ... out for the team Thefootball captain hailed a new era in Illini football due to the persistency and dogged determination ofthe new coach and the willingness ofthe men to be driven.”3 The Illinois ... zero The weather slowed the train and the engine broke down a hundred miles west of Minneapolis The team spent five hours in their cars until a relief engine brought them to the Twin Cities The...
... between the clubs and the players the power was very much in the hands ofthe clubs in the 1930s The view that a professional player was a ‘servant’ ofthe club, its manager and, most importantly, the ... The career path of professional footballers 15 perhaps exemplifies the way in which professional footballers of this era were, like most working men of their generation, at the beck and call of ... Terrace Heroes The 1930s saw the birth ofthefootball idol, the ‘terrace hero’ prototypes for today’s powerful media sport stars The players ofthe 1930s were the first generation of what we now...
... some fraction of households really are indifferent to prices of low priced items like ketchup within the range of prices observed in the data The impact of advertising on consumer price sensitivity ... cell ofthe Table reports the probability that a particular type of consumer buys the indicated brand on a particular purchase occasion, given thepriceofthe brand is in the indicated range The ... like theprice elasticity of demand in equilibrium Rather, one must estimate how it shifts the whole distribution of WTP in the population This means estimating how it shifts the shape of the...
... understanding ofthe sociology of careers, the object of this next section is to provide an initial examination ofthe careers of male professional footballers in England The careers of professional footballers ... the culture of work in professional football, the fragile and uncertain nature of playing careers, the ways in which the orientations of players to their work change over the course of their careers ... number of salient properties and conditions ofthe work of professional footballers Professional football in context 23 Conditions of work The first characteristic to note is that professional footballers...
... role of players in the game and the NU’s reluctant steps to open professionalism, the chapter details the helplessness ofthe sport in the face ofthe tidal wave of soccer in the early 1900s The ... little sense ofthe importance of preserving their history I have made use ofthe minute books of leading committees at the headquarters ofthe Rugby Football League and the Rugby Football Union; ... ofthefootball club which uses the name ofthe school Matters have been left too much to the management ofthe players themselves, with the result that, contrary to the original intention of the...
... records and scores as the measure ofthe success ofthefootball program In this study, the results of games are cited to provide a quantitative basis for the more important themes of Zuppke’s impact ... out for the team Thefootball captain hailed a new era in Illini football due to the persistency and dogged determination ofthe new coach and the willingness ofthe men to be driven.”3 The Illinois ... zero The weather slowed the train and the engine broke down a hundred miles west of Minneapolis The team spent five hours in their cars until a relief engine brought them to the Twin Cities The...
... perish the thought!5 In a similar vein, and in recognition ofthe national aspirations ofthe Australian code, the editor ofthe Footballer suggested in 1881 that the sooner the name ofthe game ... indication ofthe popularity ofthe mediated version ofthefootball codes As demonstrated in Table 2.2, thefootball codes contributed eight ofthe top ten sport programs in 2005, with rugby union the ... scholars offer a detailed comparative analysis ofthe history of each code across various states.2 Geoffrey Blainey, on the other hand, in the penultimate chapter of his book on the origins of Australian...
... performance ofthe company The alternative hypothesis states that the announcement of a rights issue will cause the share priceofthe company announcing the issue to decrease This is represented by the ... Score, ofthe issuer will not affect share price performance ofthe company around a rights issue The alternative hypothesis states that the financial position ofthe issuer will influence the drop ... announcement ofthe rights issue, generally preceding the date ofthe announcement of finalisation ofthe decision to proceed with the 22 A significant portion ofthe population of relevance were...