value builders or quick buck artists

CREATING VALUE IN PENSION PLANS (OR, GENTLEMEN PREFER BONDS) ppt

... benefit plans that borrow from the sponsors’ employees in order to lend to other corporate borrowers The new equilibrium would be characterized by increased leverage on corporate balance sheets—the ... included on corporate balance sheets, are arguably corporate assets and liabilities.2 Although plan assets are held in trust for the plan beneficiaries, gains or losses on the portfolio flow ... fixed returns for equity returns have a market value of zero at inception 52 JOURNAL OF APPLIED CORPORATE FINANCE Because a dollar of pension contributions is deductible, the corporation’s net...

Bóa cáo y học: "Is the value of a life or life-year saved context specific? Further evidence from a discrete choice experiment" ppt

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... be treated before elderly so their lives may be extended for the community benefit" (ID: 19) Working age adults a priority 33 "Working adults may be able to stay in work force for a longer period" ... attributes or if they were largely ignored or deemed irrelevant by respondents in the pilot surveys (eg level of effort to comply, whether or not the intervention is in current use) Levels for each ... health or nonhealth arguments in the objective function (rather than to elicitation biases, error or framing effects), then this might increase confidence in the use of monetary values for priority...

Báo cáo sinh học: "Breeding value prediction for production traits in layer chickens using pedigree or genomic relationships in a reduced animal model" docx

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... GBLUP can be equally accurate or even superior in prediction for traits for which no individual QTL explains a large proportion of the variation [17,18] Correlations for selection at an early age ... Markov Chain, which can be poor for Bayes-C- π Two independent chains with a high (0.99) or a low (0.1) starting value for π were used to verify convergence of π For some traits (eE3, eEW, lEW, ... the same value with a clearly peaked posterior distribution but for other traits 160,000 iterations were not sufficient for the two chains to reach the same posterior means, as the posterior distribution...

Seafood processing - Adding value through quick freezing, retortable packaging and cook-chilling

Danh mục: Cao đẳng - Đại học

... transmitted, or utilized in any form by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying, microfilming, and recording, or in any information storage or ... like a tuna loin, orange like a slice of salmon, white as sole llet, or almost transparent Seafood, fresh or frozen, whole or lleted, crude or cooked has its own typical avor, more or less marine, ... collected from prerigor or postrigor sh.4,7 The inuence of rigor on the salt absorption behavior of salmon and cod llets have been reported It has been shown that when the postrigor sh, was immersed...

Topic artists or scientists

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... too abrupt to conclude that people are more willing to show admire and deference to scientists rather than artists who also considerable dedications to the world ...

Topic keep or drop custom value

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When the Discussion Gets Stalled or Heated

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... Keep power in your pocket (e.g. attorney, credible reference) Keep the door open Conflict as a Choice Point  Explore whether conflict is a signal for a change  View the disagreement as a choice point and explore options for moving ... Pause when formulating judgment  Understand what was meant by actions or words  Reflect on information and ask for additional information  Reinterpret by applying an alternate explanation  Redirect conversation toward ... Creating impression that something is of greater value  Giving an impression of wealth or competence through appearance  Disclosing “private” information  Omitting or downplaying less attractive aspects of ...

QUICK TEST Professional.pdf

Danh mục: Công nghệ thông tin

... the recorded script Object Repository  What is Object Repository? Object Repository is a location within the test structure where QuickTest stores object information captured during recording ... synchronization value for all Objects Instructs Quick Test to wait for all the objects for a specific amount of time  Synchronization of a specific Object Instructs Quick Test to wait for a specific ... Test results can be stored in their own location (for documentation) or in a temporary location that is overwritten each time the test is run (debugging) How QuickTest Works with Objects What...

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Quagmire or Gold Mine?

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... make digital/hard copy of part or all of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage, the ... the store’s responses In the software shopping domain, Shopbot was given the home pages for 12 online software vendors Shopbot learned to extract product information from each of the stores, ... in Information Retrieval (Copenhagen, Denmark), June 12, 1992, pp 318–329 Doorenbos, R.B Etzioni, O and Weld, D.S A scalable comparison-shopping agent for the world-wide web Technical Report 96–01–03,...

Procedural Abstraction and Functions That Return a Value

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... Details  The values of the arguments are plugged into the formal parameters (Call-by -value mechanism with call-by -value parameters)  The first argument is used for the first formal parameter, ... formal parameter, the second argument for the second formal parameter, and so forth  The value plugged into the formal parameter is used in all instances of the formal parameter in the function body ... function call Returns the value calculated by the function Syntax: return expression;  expression performs the calculation or  expression is a variable containing the calculated value Example: return...

Ship or Sheep Third Edition

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... lunch for for '-9 {6} 16 untr /ieiman pair Minimal words a A27a Listen and repeat the words azzub You will hear five words from each minimal pair For each word write l for /e/ (sound 1) or for lal ... in th Thiscordwas in the sea short He wa 4/ I_ I ti He was short lt'sasmall H -z!rt It'sa small port fox forks Lookfor the fox -tA \-/' Port *-Z-=jy4:="a Lookfor the forks spot sPort I don'tliketnesespots ... sound Sports reportfrom Radio Station ANNOUNCER: morning Roarers This the football team arrived backfrom yorr LauraShortis our sportsreporter, she was at the airport and LAURA sHoRT:cood morning,...

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Example about Project or Plan in Writing Task 1

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... in order to reach the two viewing platforms There are now plans to build below the foundations of the tower These plans include the development of five underground levels that will incorporate ... facilities, a cinema and museum and two floors of underground parking Although details have yet to be finalised, the principle is that the five floors will be connected by two vertical passenger ... tower In addition, the floor immediately below the tower, which is planned to house the ticket office, will also consist of a large atrium with a glass ceiling so that visitors can look directly...