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today s skills for tomorrow s need

innovative solutions [electronic resource] what designers need to know for today's emerging markets

innovative solutions [electronic resource] what designers need to know for today's emerging markets

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... Markets, the fourth chapter­ , covers the importance of understanding the ecosystem and its needs Building on existing research on business ecosystems, Girish Prabhu makes a case for needs analysis ... Markets dire warnings from population scientists that were issued several decades ago More consistent with those negative assessments are a second observation that economists make from this data, ... foundation for its success in IT software and business process Â� utsourcing o (BPO) services • Growing middle class: According to a Goldman Sachs report, the middle classes in the BRIC economies, that...
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The Six Driving Forces That Affect Your Business Plan _ And How to Focus on the Best One for Your Company’s Needs

The Six Driving Forces That Affect Your Business Plan _ And How to Focus on the Best One for Your Company’s Needs

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... 150 Seven Steps to a Successful Business Plan Typically planning teams spend time discussing the current state of their business situation Equal time is spent discussing the future Almost no ... goals Those are: Players Plans Processes Products Properties Payoff The Six Driving Forces That Affect Your Business Plan 175 THE KEY QUESTIONS: DEVELOPING FOCUS Ask yourself these seven questions ... urgency Your story cannot serve all six functions simultaneously Let s say your sales team has a high customer orientation They go to each 170 Seven Steps to a Successful Business Plan customer with...
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Tài liệu Future-Proofing BPON Architectures for Tomorrow’s GPON and N-GPON pdf

Tài liệu Future-Proofing BPON Architectures for Tomorrow’s GPON and N-GPON pdf

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... present significant issues, such as different band passes, using low water peak fiber, splitters for specific transmission ranges, and the need to accomplish testing in different band passes For ... transports data at 622 Mbits/sec downstream and 155 Mbits/sec upstream A move to GPON would increase those rates to 2.4 Gbits/sec downstream and 1.2 Gbits/sec upstream GPON also provides for ... higher split ratios to service more homes A centralized BPON system uses 1x32 splitters to service up to 32 customers GPON offers a 1x64 split enabling up to 64 customers to be serviced from a single...
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The Arctic Gold Rush The New Race for Tomorrow’s Natural Resources pdf

The Arctic Gold Rush The New Race for Tomorrow’s Natural Resources pdf

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... his way into those places that are today known as Smith Sound and the Kane Basin He was no natural sailor and suffered from chronic seasickness almost as soon as a ship set sail Yet he was also ... cruise ship, bus and plane to places that were considered impenetrable wildernesses not long ago Of course, this influx sometimes poses serious risks and causes damage This is not only because ... into the seas that surround Spitsbergen Island in the summer and was joined soon after by a missile cruiser, Marshall Ustinov.11 ‘Periodic missions of the Northern Fleet s battle vessels will be...
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Corporation 2020: Transforming Business for Tomorrow's World

Corporation 2020: Transforming Business for Tomorrow's World

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... criticisms of his “invisible hand” hypothesis explaining why selfish market behavior apparently delivered social benefits is that it ignores the very significant social costs that businesses pass ... United States of America 10 Keywords: Island Press, economics, sustainability, business, corporate responsibility, corporate externalities, environmental commons, sustainable economy To today s students, ... business, anywhere, for as long as its shareholders desired These hundred years also freed the corporation from social purpose, and established the primacy of profits as the corporation s raison...
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WOMEN’S NEED FOR FAMILY PLANNING IN ARAB COUNTRIES pptx

WOMEN’S NEED FOR FAMILY PLANNING IN ARAB COUNTRIES pptx

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... address such issues as women s status, as well as myths and misconceptions about contraception International development agencies should also play a role in advocating for WOMEN S NEED FOR FAMILY ... couples satisfy their contraceptive needs, providers in these sectors should maintain stocks of a mix of contraceptives and provide counseling so that women can choose the method that best matches ... analysis was sponsored by the UNFPA Arab States Regional Office in Cairo 25 Susheela Singh and Jacqueline E Darroch, Adding It Up: Costs and Benefits of Contraceptive Services, Estimates for 2012...
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Modernizing the Mobility Air Force for Tomorrow''''s Air Traffic Management System doc

Modernizing the Mobility Air Force for Tomorrow''''s Air Traffic Management System doc

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... deployment payloads for these missions from previous RAND analyses, as well as the Joint Flow and Analysis System for Transportation, a transportation analysis model used by the U .S Transportation Command ... operational standards by identifying needs and participating in working groups and committees The result of this consensus-based process is a set of standards, such as minimum operational performance standards ... methodology for modeling the wartime missions is discussed later in this chapter Steady-State Operations Pattern AMC plans and tracks MAF operations using the Global Decision Support System (GDSS), which...
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Modern Cartooning: Essential Techniques for Drawing Today''s Popular Cartoons

Modern Cartooning: Essential Techniques for Drawing Today''s Popular Cartoons

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... FEATURES The Eyes The Nose Problem The Mouth The Eyes and Mouth Working Together MOVING BEYOND THE BASIC HEAD SHAPE Small Changes—Big Results The Classic Cartoon Head Shape Sculpting the Head Shape ... DETAILS The Line of Action Stretching and Condensing the Body SAVING THE BEST FOR LAST: STUFF YOU WON’T LEARN IN ART SCHOOL The Fine Points Drawing the Characters in Their Own Scenes INDEX This is ... The nose, mouth, and ears are kept small This is not only a pretty look but also accentuates the size of those baby blues SWEET SIXTEEN This character can be a girl by day and a superspy at...
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Microsoft BI : For Today''''s Economy docx

Microsoft BI : For Today''''s Economy docx

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... Scorecards Spreadsheets IM/chat Newspapers Financial reports Documents Meetings Email Portals Business books Slide decks Webcasts Presentations RSS feeds Project plans Intranet Blogs Dashboards ... Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including ... Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period It depicts Gartner s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined...
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Additional Praise for Fixed Income Securities Tools for Today’s Markets, 2nd Edition phần 1 docx

Additional Praise for Fixed Income Securities Tools for Today’s Markets, 2nd Edition phần 1 docx

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... Rate Risk 378 Swap Spreads 378 Major Uses of Interest Rate Swaps 381 Asset Swap Spreads and Asset Swaps 382 TRADING CASE STUDY: 30-Year FNMA Asset Swap Spreads 386 On the Credit Risk of Swap Agreements ... services for our customers’ professional and personal knowledge and understanding The Wiley Finance series contains books written specifically for finance and investment professionals as well as sophisticated ... also publishes its books in a variety of electronic formats Some content that appears in print may not be available in electronic books Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) is not responsible for...
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Additional Praise for Fixed Income Securities Tools for Today’s Markets, 2nd Edition phần 2 ppsx

Additional Praise for Fixed Income Securities Tools for Today’s Markets, 2nd Edition phần 2 ppsx

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... level of asset swap spreads or may compare the asset swap spreads of several securities as part of a rich-cheap analysis Chapters through extracted discount factors at six-month intervals from the ... these errors Thus, a RMSE of basis points means that ±3 basis points correspond to a 1-standard deviation error of the fit, ±6 basis points correspond to a 2-standard deviation error, and so on ... (4.17) Solving, the true yield is 3.488%, or 1.7 basis points below the conventional yield Professional investors care about this difference The lesson for this section, however, is that forcing semiannual...
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Additional Praise for Fixed Income Securities Tools for Today’s Markets, 2nd Edition phần 3 docx

Additional Praise for Fixed Income Securities Tools for Today’s Markets, 2nd Edition phần 3 docx

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... there are several reasons fixed income professionals must understand these measures First, these measures of price sensitivity are simple to compute, easy to understand, and, in many situations, perfectly ... used only for securities with fixed cash flows Second, the assumption of parallel yield shifts is not a particularly good one and, at times, is internally inconsistent Despite these weaknesses, ... yield shifts Chapter discusses multi-factor formulations Chapter shows how to model interest rate changes empirically The assumptions about interest rate changes and the resulting measures of...
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Additional Praise for Fixed Income Securities Tools for Today’s Markets, 2nd Edition phần 4 docx

Additional Praise for Fixed Income Securities Tools for Today’s Markets, 2nd Edition phần 4 docx

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... characteristic 143 Bucket Shifts and Exposures makes it reasonable to hedge against possible changes in many small segments of the term structure While hedging against these many possible shifts requires ... history, yields of individual issues may be used In swap markets this problem does not arise because data series are usually for new par swaps of fixed maturities Second, in bond markets, it is important ... This discussion, therefore, is a very simple example of a growing swap book that is managed so as to have, in some sense, no outright interest rate exposure TABLE 7.4 Bucket Exposures for a Position...
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Additional Praise for Fixed Income Securities Tools for Today’s Markets, 2nd Edition phần 5 docx

Additional Praise for Fixed Income Securities Tools for Today’s Markets, 2nd Edition phần 5 docx

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... is 126×√1/12 or 36.4 basis points Representing this process with a tree is not quite so straightforward as 234 THE ART OF TERM STRUCTURE MODELS: DRIFT the simpler processes described previously ... derivative securities for the purpose of making markets or for proprietary trading For these purposes many practitioners wish to assume that some set of underlying securities is priced fairly For example, ... adding, for example, 20 basis points to each of these rates is equivalent to assuming that investors demand an extra 20 basis points for each year of modified duration risk Assuming this is indeed...
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Additional Praise for Fixed Income Securities Tools for Today’s Markets, 2nd Edition phần 6 pot

Additional Praise for Fixed Income Securities Tools for Today’s Markets, 2nd Edition phần 6 pot

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... market prices This issue will be discussed in the last section of this chapter This is the DV01 of the fixed side of the swap only See Chapter 18 TRADING CASE STUDY: Trading 2s- 5s- 1 0s in Swaps with ... CLOSED-FORM SOLUTIONS FOR SPOT RATES This appendix lists formulas for spot rates in various models mentioned in Chapters 11 and 12 These allow one to understand and experiment with the relationships ... for the cases of the constant, square root, and proportional specifications For comparison purposes, the values of σ in the three cases are set so that basis point volatility equals 100 at a short...
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Additional Praise for Fixed Income Securities Tools for Today’s Markets, 2nd Edition phần 7 potx

Additional Praise for Fixed Income Securities Tools for Today’s Markets, 2nd Edition phần 7 potx

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... data on special spreads indicates that special spreads for reopened issues not get as wide as special spreads of new issues In any case, as time passes after an auction, Liquidity Premiums of Recent ... respectively These issues trade somewhat special because some traders short these issues instead of the most recent issues The extent to which special repo rates are below GC is entirely a question ... new issue until it seasons and is distributed to buy-and-hold investors The extra liquidity of newly issued Treasuries makes them ideal candidates not only for long positions but for short positions...
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Additional Praise for Fixed Income Securities Tools for Today’s Markets, 2nd Edition phần 8 pot

Additional Praise for Fixed Income Securities Tools for Today’s Markets, 2nd Edition phần 8 pot

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... swap spread of the bond in this example is 15 basis points.4 The next section discusses the reasonableness of an asset swap spread of 15 basis points for the FNMA security For now, however, assume ... the text Asset Swap Spreads and Asset Swaps 383 flows by swap rates plus that spread gives the bond price Asset swap spreads are, for the most part, a measure of a bond s credit risk relative ... steps through is literally an asset swap since the fixed cash flows not cancel But these positions are similar in spirit to asset swaps in that they make or lose money with changes in asset swap spreads...
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Additional Praise for Fixed Income Securities Tools for Today’s Markets, 2nd Edition phần 9 ppsx

Additional Praise for Fixed Income Securities Tools for Today’s Markets, 2nd Edition phần 9 ppsx

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... FUTURES changing spot yields assumes that forward yields and repo rates move in parallel Which of these assumptions is more useful for hedging is an empirical question in which historical analysis ... and less subject to numerical error, but each user must decide if a model with a closed-form solution is suitable for the purpose at hand As discussed in Part Three, pricing models usually assume ... raises their net basis Thus, the net basis of a bond close to CTD behaves like a straddle on rates or prices Maintaining the assumption of parallel shifts of forward yields, Figure 20.6 graphs...
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Additional Praise for Fixed Income Securities Tools for Today’s Markets, 2nd Edition phần 10 pptx

Additional Praise for Fixed Income Securities Tools for Today’s Markets, 2nd Edition phần 10 pptx

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... 25 basis points the story works in reverse MBS duration rises, investors who hedge find themselves with too much duration, they pay in swaps, swap rates rise relative to Treasuries, and swap spreads ... fall, POs outperform 30-year Treasuries b When interest rates rise by 100 basis points, mortgage passthroughs fall by about 7% When interest rates fall by 100 basis points, pass-throughs rise by ... bonds or pass-throughs that receive principal, when exercise or prepayments cause interest payments to stop or slow the IO gets nothing Once again, its cash flows simply vanish This effect swamps...
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