... of the sponsor) to underwrite the sale of ABS to investors After the underwriting has been completed, the proceeds paid by investors for the ABS are transferred tothe sponsor in payment for the ... http://ssrn.com/abstract=1403973 2009] THEDARKSIDE OF UNIVERSAL BANKING 964 securities and other financial instruments to investors LCFIs used the OTD strategy to maximize their fee income, reduce their capital charges, ... governmental assistance they received, they are the clearly the epicenter of the global financial crisis This Article argues that they were also the principal private-sector catalysts for the enormous credit...
... contributions of glial cell derived cytokines or vascular effects of the inhibitors are not a factor However, the possibility of other kinases also being affected by the inhibitors cannot be excluded Molecular ... upstream activators of ERK1/2 Classic receptor-regulated activation of ERK1/2 signaling occurs through recruitment of cytoplasmic adaptor proteins and the small G protein Ras tothe membrane (Fig ... types must be considered at the organism or tissue level decreased [9,40] This apparent dissociation suggests that either the phosphatases are inactivated or they are unable to access their target,...
... 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 Personal ... engagement in other tasks which were apparently too time consuming to allow him to contribute tothe project Nonetheless, the others suspected that he considered his job to be threatened by the software ... the workers themselves may determine their only way out is to cause the project to fail, losing the business, and thereby freeing them from the punishing environment.” • “They will not have to...
... alter the strain distributions between alveoli and alveolar ducts? To answer these questions one would have to access thedarkside of the lung, in other words, the lung interior, and define the ... tothe question how a normal acinus deforms during a breath, there are nevertheless important lessons to be learned from Pavone’s observations There is no question that the choice of ventilator ... unit dropout and the use of inflation pressures which should have expanded open units to their total lung capacity all along Could the constraint placed on the pleural surface by the imaging system...
... his family get tothe village? They got tothe village by bus c Where is the banyan tree? It’s at the entrance tothe village d What did they see on the mountain? They saw the shine of a ... hero e Where did they have their picnic? They had their picnic on the river bank f.What did Liz to show the trip to her parents? She took a lot of photos to show the trip to her parents g ... trip to their home village b Many people like going there for their weekends c There is a small bamboo forest at the entrance tothe village d Liz had a snack at the house of Ba’s uncle e There...
... ROS may then recruit the MAPK or Akt pathways to activate HIFa via ligand-independent activation of various growth-factor receptors, such as the EGF receptor [33] To add further complexity to normoxic ... action for each cytokine in this cell type In contrast to these findings, the two cytokines were reported to act in the same manner to increase transcription of HIF1a mRNA by twofold to threefold resulting ... of the response derived from hypoxic signals relative to receptor-mediated signals receptor-mediated factors that stimulate HIFa currently includes many growth-factors, cytokines and circulatory...
... reports The meetings are not a chance for you to beat them up or to tell them how to their jobs but rather should be pegged to their agenda—what they want to talk about, factors that affect their ... help followers learn how to work together Your job is to get the team to work together so that needed information flows quickly and accurately There is no time to waste To make all this work, your ... but, when they come tothe 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...
... parameters [16] The individual atomic orbital angular momenta couple together to give a total orbital angular momentum L, and the individual atomic spin angular momenta couple together to give a total ... Atoms In a simple paramagnet, the atoms not interact with each other, and the ˆ only contributions tothe Hamiltonian H come from their interaction with the applied magnetic field H As the atoms ... that the book comes even close tothe work of the masters mentioned earlier The intention of this author is only to show how the different sides of magnetism come together For this reason, the...
... but, when they come tothe 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 ... approach the problem this way, continuing to try to trade off the technical constraints, while either ignoring or caving in tothe inputs from stakeholders The inability to balance the expectations ... to plan and execute the appropriate culture change within the team to drive the actions required for the desired business results > Execution results: The project manager’s ability to blend the...
... reports The meetings are not a chance for you to beat them up or to tell them how to their jobs but rather should be pegged to their agenda—what they want to talk about, factors that affect their ... help followers learn how to work together Your job is to get the team to work together so that needed information flows quickly and accurately There is no time to waste To make all this work, your ... Customer Expectations: The customer (the representative of the paying entity, not the end consumer necessarily) expects the product to be delivered for the lowest cost and on schedule, with the...
... to team members in the areas that matter to them Help them to meet their own work goals Lead them in the effort to establish and meet the overriding team goal Of course, doing these things will ... reporting, and encouraged them to come tothe meeting prepared to bring up and solve problems We showed them the one-page form we wanted them to fill out and bring to each team meeting They were skeptical, ... for several days, then went tothe team leaders with an idea to work with them to analyze the open scope items and to create a milestone schedule with enough detail (a milestone every two weeks)...
... leaders It looks for the ability to communicate effectively so as to bridge the various stakeholder viewpoints, to manage and balance risk, to have the willingness to make the tough calls (even ... wherever the organization culture seems to push you But it is always best to tell customers, your management, and your team what they need to hear, even if they vehemently not want to hear it at the ... members of the design team, “who have to parse out what this really means given the available technologies in order to decide how to design the circuit.” There are often multiple ways to so “They document...
... attendance to those you think should attend Many people attend meetings to be in the know or to protect their or their organization’s backside Then, oddly enough, they may complain about having to attend ... over tothedarkside of management, I think I understand and even empathize with them I don’t consider the term nerd, for example, to be particularly derogatory I know some fantastic nerds; there ... incorporate what they say into the all-hands agenda This also gives you an opportunity to try out your part of the presentation and to clarify with them what each of them will say at the all-hands...
... needs to be on the tasks and risks and the actions needed to avert those risks for the next few milestones That takes up the bulk of the page Next, list all the remaining milestones At the bottom ... milestones so far Sure, maybe you had to move a little work from one milestone tothe next, but everything held together The team is working well, raising and solving problems together Your customer ... Manager’s One-Pager If the answer to any question in Figure 9-1 is No, then the manager is driven to enter the needed action into the OnePager For example, if the answer tothe question “Do current...
... a wedge into your efforts to get the key managers to work together Stoplight Charts Most project managers in my experience either use too few or too many metrics to try to understand their projects ... metric for the top ten risks they face and then play all sorts of games to avoid having to react tothe metric If two or more of your top ten risks move toward greater risk in a given month, then mark ... but there are a few areas to watch out for First, the automated nature of these systems means that the output is only as good as the original input and the frequency and the accuracy of the updating...
... seems to be “Send everyone to a class, get them a colored belt, and your organization will be fine, too.” These quick-fix approaches don’t work because they don’t change the culture and they don’t ... in the long run? Does it lead to real success? In the past few years, we’ve seen a lot of very public examples, in the world of finance, in the car industry, and in others, where the lack of these ... centered on people These tools are all just ways to help you, the project manager, sharpen your focus where it needs to be—not on chasing the next looming deadline and then the next one or endlessly...