... address whether the magnitude ofthe valuation coefficients on eamings andother information differs for R&D intensive firms To determine if the magnitudes o f the coefficients on eamings andother ... at the theoretical values o f the coefficients The coefficients depend on the persistence o f abnormal eamings andthe persistence o f other information I hypothesize that the persistence of ... model and hypotheses Section describes the research design and reports the results o f empirical tests ofthe roles of eamings andother information in firm valuation Section describes the research...
... (ntumpane) ofthe Kele in Congo, the xylophones used by the Northern Chin of Burma, the banging on the roots of trees practised by the Melanesians, the yodelling ofthe Swiss, the humming ofthe Chekiang ... the world, from the Fuegian of southernmost Chile to the Inuit of northernmost Alaska, and from the Maori ofthe remote Cook Islands to Siberian Yakut Some of them describe, of course, strictly ... manner 4 The Meaning of Tingo Hey you! O nce the first encounter is out ofthe way the correct form of address is important Most of us know the difference between the intimate French tu andthe more...
... switch and alters the expression ofthe two nuclear genome coded isoforms of CytOX V [10,32] The regulation of genes CytOX5a and CytOX5b, coding for the two isofoms Va and Vb, parallels that of genes ... shows the effects of hypoxia on the steady state levels ofnuclear genome encoded CytOX IV and Vb mRNAs There was no change in the levels of these mRNAs in macrophages at h of hypoxia, the time ... measured the steady state CytOX mRNA levels The Northern blot in Fig shows the effect of hypoxia on the levels of mitochondrial genome- andnuclear genome-coded mRNAs for CytOX subunits There were...
... “delivery” to the “target organ” (the decision-maker) This fate and transport terminology is adopted because it is part ofthe vernacular of many of those providing the information andof many ofthe ultimate ... dozen There was an effort to ensure balance in the group of respondents for any particular case study, but because ofthe relatively small number of respondents andthe non-random nature ofthe ... pedestrian As a group, the cases tend toward the “high-profile” end ofthe distribution of EPA decisions Nevertheless, among the case studies, there is some variability in the political and economic stakes...
... respecting these legends and myths It is this: they are versions of oral relations from the lips ofthe Indians, and are transcripts ofthe thought and invention ofthe aboriginal mind As such, they ... nor they employ words which are not known to their vocabulary It is in these legends that we obtain their true views of life and death, their religion, their theory ofthe state ofthe dead, their ... power and absorbing topic of Indian lore Their agency is at once the groundwork of their mythology and demonology They supply the machinery of their poetic inventions, andthe belief in their...
... portion ofthe voyage once made by the Maid ofthe Mist The water is in a perpetual tumult, a perfect embodiment ofthe spirit of unrest Owing to the rapidity ofthe descent andthe narrowness ofthe ... from the dip of this rock On the contrary, there is a rise of fifty feet to the head ofthe present rapids, and a further rise of twenty feet to the level of Lake Erie During 1871-2, the bed ofthe ... reasoning They made a double ambuscade: one for the train and escort, theother for the relieving force; and they destroyed them both, only three ofthe first escaping and eight ofthe latter...
... in their published work and were not able to overcome the emerging division of labor between religious and theological studies, on the one hand, andthe anthropology of religion, on theother ... own and that of others) and how it acquires meaning as it arises in the body and through interaction with others A more dynamic model of how we articulate our own experience and that of others ... divide The book addresses the subject of religious experience directly andthe problems of reductionism and humanistic fears ofthe sciences indirectly and by example The orientation ofthe book...
... i.e., the smallest observation, the lower quartile andthe upper quartile cutting off the lowest and highest 25% ofthe data, respectively, the median which is the middle value ofthe data andthe ... denotes the conversion ofthe Au(III), X the value of any ofthe five parameters of each broth, Cov(X, Y) the covariance value and rxy the correlation coefficient of X and Y with a range of [-1, ... those oftheotherand so was the case ofthe proteins The difference in the pH value (Fig 6b) was slight, which is also in accordance with what discussed in the prior section That is, in the biosynthesis...
... MD simulation ofthe RNIL process The objectives of this study are to understand the deformation behavior of imprinted film andthe effect of adhesion and friction with changes ofthe roller tooth ... of 0.002° per time step The unit of time step was 10-15 s The characteristic width and height ofthe roller tooth were both nm The roller was composed of 11294 atoms The width and height ofthe ... on the Au substrate One is the ‘‘pushed behavior’’ that occurs on the substrate atoms that are located on the left side ofthe roller, andtheother is the ‘‘pulled behavior’’ that occurs on the...
... solid wall of insects that bite, rising out of it But the beach is good dry sand, andthe wind keeps the bugs back in the swamp Between the beach andthe swamp is a strip of loam and jungle, ... shapes of patches They point into the wind and then go sideways; and they don't steer with an oar that Charon discarded thousands of years ago, that's painted crimson and raw violet; andthe only ... Then the sea breeze rose and swept the sky and ocean till they were one andthe same blue, the blue that comes highest at Tiffany's; and little puffs of shore birds came in on the breeze and began...
... was stopped after first cycle of chemotherapy at a dose of 43 Gy because of toxicity and old age ofthe patient The intensity of chemotherapy was reduced in smoker and non-smokers due to hematologic ... for the development of anal cancer is well known, no data about the influence of smoking during combined radiotherapy on the outcome after therapy exist as of now The exact role of smoking in the ... Touboul E, Schlienger M, Hadjrabia S, Laugier A: [Cancer ofthe anal canal; role of radiotherapy and combinations of chemotherapy and radiotherapy] Rev Med Interne 1993, 14:340-349 Akbari RP, Paty...
... hypothetical areas of psychiatric and psychological problems based on theoretical assumptions andthe clinical literature in the field By these modules, the A-TAC yields dimensional ratings of ... to the studies; it was hard to get in contact with many of these parents and to conduct a telephone interview with them The clinical diagnoses are state ofthe art but in the extended group of ... or at home, and (2) suffering on the part ofthe child A “problem load score” was calculated as the sum of these two items (thus ranging from to 2), with a theoretically defined cut-off for problems...
... analysis confirms that the changes observed in the viral DNA samples were the result of changes in the viral population close to the time of sampling and not the result of picking up viral DNA ... colon, and then start seeding the PBL andother gut tissues The current data does not allow us to determine this unequivocally and further studies will be necessary Our data did suggest that the ... followed at the Southern Alberta Clinic (SAC), Calgary, Alberta from 1993-1996 [24,25] All protocols were reviewed and approved by the Office of Medical Bioethics ofthe University of Calgary and patients...
... the pyrolysis and combustion of these fuels, for which there is lack of information in the literature The obtained data should be useful for the design of furnaces, which will utilize these materials ... cj is the fraction of combustibles in component j, aj(t) is the reacted fraction of component j in time t and m∞ is the normalized amount ofthe solid residues (minerals) at the end ofthe experiment ... Ej is the activation energy of component j, g expresses the effect of ambient gas composition and f describes the change of surface reactivity as a function ofthe fractional burn off: As the function...
... the piece of discourse under analysis The later includes the type of communicative event, the topic, the purpose ofthe event, the setting, the xii participant andthe relationships between them ... medium ofthe language activity It is the manifestation ofthe nature ofthe language code being used Halliday and Hassan include here: “Mode is the function ofthe text in the event, including therefore ... renovation cause and to raise its economy's competitiveness on the one hand, and on other hand to affirm the consistency ofthe Party and State's policies to integrate the national economy into the world...
... to the bulge ofthe equator Many forms of life on the coast are tailored to the cycle of tides High and low The gravitational pull ofthe Moon on the Earth causes tides in the oceans and seas of ... motion, due to the rotation ofthe Earth, the gravitational pull ofthe Sun and Moon, andthe difference in temperature and salt content ofthe water These movements form strong currents in the oceans, ... gravity and formed the Sun, the dust and particles around it clumped together to form the planets The heat ofthe Sun melted the ice particles nearby and eventually these rocks grew larger to form the...
... may provide the competent authorities the authority to inform the right holder ofthe names and addresses ofthe consignor, the importer andthe consignee, andofthe quantity ofthe goods in ... into the Party's territory of copies ofthe work; B the first public distribution ofthe original and each copy ofthe work by sale, rental or otherwise; C the communication of a work to the public; ... presence in the territory oftheother Party; D from the territory of one Party into the territory oftheother Party; by a service supplier of one Party, through presence of natural persons of a Party...
... the world Unfortunately the decade ofthe 90’s had not seen much relief in regulatory pressures There was the grounding ofthe oil tanker BRAER offthe Shetland Islands, andthe grounding ofthe ... design synthesis, production and part of hydrodynamics Volume I1 contains the subjects for the rest of hydrodynamics, structures andmaterials On behalf ofthe Standing Committee of PRADS andthe Local ... event was the grounding ofthe 119,000 DWT tanker, Torrey Canyon, off the southwest coast of England For the first time the tanker industry andthe public realized the unfortunate impact of a large...
... the operational status ofthe system The types of tests selected andthe frequency in which they are conducted depend on the importance ofthe system andthe resources available for testing These ... for the testing organization to alert other security officers, management, and users that network mapping is taking place Since a number of these test mimic some ofthe signs of attack, the appropriate ... fill the gap between the state ofthe art in system development and actual operation of these systems Two, security testing is important for understanding, calibrating, and documenting the operational...