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... incomes not considered in the cost records or statements so as to ensure accuracy and to reconcile the profit of all product groups with the overall profit ofthe company The variations, if any, ... are to be mandatorily filled (a) *Corporate identity number (CIN) or foreign company registration number ofthe company (b) (a) *Name ofthe company *Address ofthe registered office or ofthe ... referred to as the company), have examined the books of account prescribed under clause (d) of sub-section (1) of section 209 ofthe said Act, and other relevant records for the period /year ...
... innovation ofthe inverse method proposed here This feature is the key element ofthe identification procedure and guarantees the quality ofthe fitted parameters and the wide range of validity ofthe ... the simplex is non-degenerated, any point connected to each ofthe other points defines vector directions able to span the N-dimensional vector space From the initial simplex and the values of ... versus time is the same for all parts ofthe section This hypothesis is reasonable here because the temperature field can be assumed to be constant (the thermal time constant ofthe sample is...
... the paper, a count of quality criteria met and the evaluators' overall assessment ofthe quality ofthe paper Step III: Synthesis of findings The third step was extraction of all key findings ... findings and the contribution ofthe study However, for two of these studies a thorough description ofthe qualitative study was not the main aim ofthe paper [26,27] In addition tothe overall ... conveyed mixed messages to them On the one hand parents tried to limit children’s intake of sweets, chocolates, soft drinks and potato crisps, and on the other hand they used the very same unhealthy...
... newly designed ionic liquid 15 Summary vii Part II: New Approach tothe Formation of Bishomoallylic Alcohols – Synthesis of (R)-Sulcatol The regioselectivitives of nickel-catalyzed homoallylation ... and the carbonyl group ofthe ester are chelated together to form a rigid bidentate conformation The bulky isopropyl group ofthe L-valine methyl ester selectively shields the Re face, leaving the ... water We further applied this methodology tothe combinatorial synthesis of βaminocarbonyl compound.20 By using the recycled indium trichloride as the catalyst, we were able to accomplish the one-pot...
... cases, the whole rearrangement is thermodynamically favorable and steric effects drive the reaction The preservation ofthe stereocenter and the olefin geometry together with the isolation ofthe ... warranted the proposed mechanism 37 PARTII Multigram Synthesis of (−)-Epibatidine Multigram Synthesis of (−)-Epibatidine 2.1 HISTORY AND THE DISCOVERY OF EPIBATIDINE In the mid-1970s, a novel class of ... PART I : DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL METHODS FOR THE SYNTHESIS OF HOMOALLYLIC ALCOHOLS PARTII : MULTIGRAM SYNTHESIS OF (−)-EPIBATIDINE KEN LEE CHI LIK B.Sc (Hons.), NUS A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE...
... But the demands of war time finance compelled the government to turn towards the growing number of commercial banks to buy large amounts of debt Over the course ofthe four year war the number of ... the failure ofthe bank would undermine the financial stability ofthe economy Only then would the FDIC be entitled to protect all the liabilities ofthe bank against loss Further, enacting the ... banks to purchase smaller banks; in either event the purpose is to capture the gains from thetoobigto fail status This potential cause of bank mergers has only recently begun to enter the banking...
... trade The mirror flatters; the razor … sharp On the company jet tootin’ up the TARP Masters ofthe universe … the master’s voice Greed is the creed … the drug of choice Toxic assets … the master ... to an investment bank for distribution Repeat What threatened to bring down banks was the fact that they held on totoo much ofthe risk of those loans, either on their balance sheets or in their ... according tothe New York Times: The top five executives at 10 financial institutions that took some ofthe biggest taxpayer bailouts have seen a com- THE CRIME OF OUR TIME bined increase in the value...
... investors Ultimately, these institutions will further weaken and may need to be broken up, their viable parts sold off to competitors With the industry already too concentrated, it’s important to ... alarmed, seeing the number of big, globally interconnected banks among the wounded The loss of even one of them, they feared, would create a domino effect that would lead to a collapse ofthe payment ... you where you want to go; it just takes longer The same goes for the machinery of monetary policy, largely because ofthe interdependence of all the moving parts Partofthe answer lies in excesses...
... explore the possibility of further modification We also undertook the study ofthe replacement ofthe R1 group with some selected ketones in order to synthesize another class of fulgides that, to ... Cycloalkylidene fulgides The photochromic properties ofthe new fulgides were also investigated Furthermore, the development of a new methodology towards the synthesis ofthe imide derivatives ofthe fulgides ... PART I – SYNTHESIS OF PHOTOCHROMIC FULGIDES PARTII – SYNTHETIC STUDIES TOWARDS ANTI-SARS AGENT AG7088 WAYNE LEE WEI WOON B.Sc (Hons.), NUS A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY...
... hybridomas, the intensity of binding was shown to be dependent on two main factors: the number of TCRs expressed on the cell surface, and the affinity ofthe MHC/peptide complex for the particular TCR If ... constant, then the intensity of fluorescent staining with MHC/peptide multimers can be used as a measure ofthe affinity ofthe TCR for the MHC/peptide Binding ofthe multimer was shown to be mostly ... MHC class II β-chain via a linker peptide This allowed the same peptide to bind to each peptide-binding region as the MHC molecules folded into the native configuration The MHC class II/ peptide...
... set of regulators to follow the rapid changes in each partofthe financial sector In light ofthe fast pace of financial innovation and the growing complexity of transactions, regulatory of cials ... the sale of mortgage-backed securities around the world Part II, composed of Chapters through 8, will assess the impact ofthe financial crisis on the stock markets, the capital of banks and the ... as partof mortgage pools underlying the issuance of MBS As the demand for MBS increased, mortgage originators were able to sell all of their subprime loans quickly tothe sponsors ofthe MBS Therefore,...
... crisis, with the blow-by-blow story of how rich bankers fought to save the Wall Street they knew and loved The details in TooBigto Fail will turn your stomach The arrogance, lack of selfawareness, ... —BusinessWeek TooBigto Fail is too good to put down Told brilliantly.” The Economist “Sorkin’s prodigious reporting and lively writing put the reader in the room for some ofthe biggest-dollar ... Praise for TooBigto Fail Winner ofthe 2010 Gerald Loeb Award for Best Business Book One ofThe Economist’s Best Books of 2010 One ofthe Financial Times’ Best Books of 2010 One of BusinessWeek’s...
... across the lawns ofthe twelve-acre estate The driver heard the stones ofthe walkway crackle as Richard S Fuld Jr shuffled out the front door and into the backseat ofthe car The Mercedes took ... lived to regret their decisions In many cases, it’s still too early to tell whether they made the right choices In 2007, at the peak ofthe economic bubble, the financial services sector had become ... effort to begin putting those pieces together At its core TooBigto Fail is a chronicle of failure—a failure that brought the world to its knees and raised questions about the very nature of capitalism...