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kothari - executive greed; examining business failures that contributed to the economic crisis (2010)

kothari - executive greed; examining business failures that contributed to the economic crisis (2010)

... Brothers, and Merrill Lynch, and it had to take over General Motors (GM) the largest corporation in the world not too long ago The cost to the U.S taxpayers for financial bailouts is estimated to ... worldwide, there were the Saving and Loan (S&L) scandal and the dot-com bust of the 1980s and 1990s Of the last three major economic crises in the past 25 years, the subprime has been the worst There ... during their tenures When they fail to gain the expected results, they may lose their job but get rewarded with huge severance packages Financially, the top leaders are well taken care of; their...

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Enhancements to the damage locating vector method for structural health monitoring

Enhancements to the damage locating vector method for structural health monitoring

... (2002) used the change in flexibility matrix to compute the so-called Damage Locating Vector (DLV) which is then used to localize damage When the DLV is treated as a static force vector onto the reference ... developed For the static case, the unknown to be solved is limited to a fixed factor between the loading at the reference and the damaged states This is practical since the magnitudes of the static ... detect the presence of damage as it occurs, (ii) determine the location of the damage, (iii) assess the damage severity, and in some cases (iv) predict the remaining service life of the structure To...

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Threats to the Marine Environment: Pollution and Physical Damage pptx

Threats to the Marine Environment: Pollution and Physical Damage pptx

... Oceans and the Law of the Sea – Report to the 60th session of the General Assembly, March 2005, para 104 113 Chapter 2: Threats to the Marine Environment 25 find their way into the sea from the above-mentioned ... from the oil itself, but from the detergents and other highly toxic chemical substances used to disperse the oil in the water during the subsequent clean-up.185 178 Bunker oil contains up to 27,000 ... rules of the POPs Convention, but the convention provides for a mechanism to add further chemicals to its regime.139 The POPs Convention, expanding the usual definition, also applies to “pollutants...

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the blackwell guide to the philosophy of computing and information-(all, but no chp 10, 21, 22)

the blackwell guide to the philosophy of computing and information-(all, but no chp 10, 21, 22)

... mine They belong to a late generation, technically trained to work only in the narrow field in which they happen to find themselves They work hard to gain little, and the more they invest in their ... discovery of other civilisations, the scientific revolution, the foundational crisis in mathematics and the rise of mathematical logic, evolutionary theory, and the theory of relativity, just to mention ... written The trick is to place an instruction table for carrying out the desired task onto the tape of the universal machine, the first line of the table occupying the first so many squares of the tape,...

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a guide to the end of the world everything you never wanted to know sep 2004

a guide to the end of the world everything you never wanted to know sep 2004

... dinosaurs, the race is likely to survive and, generally, to advance At some point in the future, therefore, we will begin to move out into space-first to our sibling worlds and then to the stars In the ... volcanoes During the next the planet would begin to cool, allowing the oceans to develop and the simplest life forms to appear The geological period known as the Cambrian, which marked the real explosion ... (ii) the loss of our planet to some catastrophe or another, but the survival of at least some elements of our race on other worlds; (iii) the obliteration of the human race but the survival of the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 10:21

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Báo cáo hóa học: " Vaccinia virus lacking the deoxyuridine triphosphatase gene (F2L) replicates well in vitro and in vivo, but is hypersensitive to the antiviral drug " pot

Báo cáo hóa học: " Vaccinia virus lacking the deoxyuridine triphosphatase gene (F2L) replicates well in vitro and in vivo, but is hypersensitive to the antiviral drug " pot

... contributed to the conception of the studies and the critical review of the manuscript DCQ contributed to the design of the experiments and analysis of the data KAK contributed to the acquisition ... data RWM contributed to the conception of the studies and the critical review of the manuscript PCT contributed to the design of experiments, the acquisition and analysis of data and the critical ... interests The author(s) declare that they have no competing interests Authors' contributions MNP contributed to the design of experiments, analysis of the data and the drafted the manuscript ERK contributed...

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Báo cáo y học: "Intraperitoneal Alpha-Lipoic Acid to prevent neural damage after crush injury to the rat sciatic nerve" docx

Báo cáo y học: "Intraperitoneal Alpha-Lipoic Acid to prevent neural damage after crush injury to the rat sciatic nerve" docx

... protein) levels in all groups The pathophysiology of the crush injury has not been fully understood, and it has been debated whether the ischemia, secondary to compression, or the mechanical deformation ... metal intoxication and diabetic polyneuropathy [22] The SOD-CAT system provides the first defense against oxygen toxicity SOD catalyzes the dismutation of the superoxide anion radical to water ... after injection of NMDA into the striatum [7] However, to our knowledge, the effects of aLA on crush injury have not been investigated in the English literature [3-7] The increased formation of...

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Báo cáo y học: "Cystatin C influences the autoimmune but not inflammatory response to cartilage type II collagen leading to chronic arthritis development" ppsx

Báo cáo y học: "Cystatin C influences the autoimmune but not inflammatory response to cartilage type II collagen leading to chronic arthritis development" ppsx

... protease inhibitors [26] These synthetic cysteine protease inhibitors are believed to have a protease inhibitory spectrum similar to that of cystatin C These studies, however, were not able to directly ... http://arthritis-research.com/content/13/2/R54 With the use of the CAIA model, we were able to pinpoint whether cystatin C had a principal role in the priming or effector inflammatory phase The CAIA model involves the administration ... contamination of the genome with the genes derived from the embryonic stem cell (ES) line used to create the mouse In the case of the cystatin C-deficient mouse the ES line used was derived from the 129/Sv...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:22

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Báo cáo y học: " The formation of cysteine-linked dimers of BST-2/tetherin is important for inhibition of HIV-1 virus release but not for sensitivity to Vpu" potx

Báo cáo y học: " The formation of cysteine-linked dimers of BST-2/tetherin is important for inhibition of HIV-1 virus release but not for sensitivity to Vpu" potx

... preventing exit of BST-2 from the ER or whether BST-2 can exit the ER and bypass the complex sugar modification machinery of the Golgi altogether On the other hand, we were able to detect high-mannose ... supports the notion that the loss of activity seen for the triple cysteine mutant is due to the lack of protein dimerization rather than caused by a change in the amino acid sequence The fact that the ... Figure Schematic of the BST-2 structure Schematic of the BST-2 structure (A) BST-2 is a type integral membrane protein The N-terminus localizes to the cytoplasm The BST-2 ectodomain contains three...

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Báo cáo y học: " Incorporation of podoplanin into HIV released from HEK-293T cells, but not PBMC, is required for efficient binding to the attachment factor CLEC-2" ppsx

Báo cáo y học: " Incorporation of podoplanin into HIV released from HEK-293T cells, but not PBMC, is required for efficient binding to the attachment factor CLEC-2" ppsx

... infectivity The augmentation of infectivity is due to the interaction of the virion-incorporated factors with their cognate receptors on HIV target cells, as exemplified by the up to 100-fold ... bind to the viral Env protein, but to a cellular factor incorporated into the viral envelope For viruses produced in the kidney-derived cell line 293T, this factor was Page of 18 found to be ... reagents and contributed to the interpretation of experiments, JM, GS and RGS contributed to the design and the interpretation of experiments, SP planned and supervised the research and wrote the manuscript...

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Hình ảnh Protocols in relation to the OSI model.doc

Hình ảnh Protocols in relation to the OSI model.doc

... flow H.323 RAS signaling yes you can! IP WAN zone zone Admission Control Via Zone BandWidth in the Cisco IOS MCM Gatepeer H×nh4: Admission - Cisco A B Setup Alerting Connect TermCapSet TermCapAck...

Ngày tải lên: 24/08/2012, 21:11

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Cambridge.University.Press.An.Introduction.to.the.Philosophy.of.Mind.Jan.2000.pdf

Cambridge.University.Press.An.Introduction.to.the.Philosophy.of.Mind.Jan.2000.pdf

... if they mean to abandon reasoned argument altogether, even in defence of their own position, then I have Introduction nothing more to say to them because they have excluded themselves from further ... The order in which these topics are covered has been deliberately chosen so as to enable the reader to build upon the understanding gained from earlier chapters in getting to grips with the topics ... reality Sense-datum theories and the argument from illusion Other arguments for sense-data Objections to sense-datum theories The adverbial theory of sensation The adverbial theory and sense-data...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 10:39

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Consultative document Revisions to the Basel II market risk framework

Consultative document Revisions to the Basel II market risk framework

... as the CAPM model) by regressing the return on the individual stock or sector index on the risk-free rate of return and the return on the market index 10 [163] The convenience yield reflects the ... on the basis of their assessment of the quality of the bank’s risk management system, subject to an absolute minimum of Banks will be required to add to this factor a “plus” directly related to ... related to the ex-post performance of the model, thereby introducing a built-in positive incentive to maintain the predictive quality of the model The plus will range from to based on the outcome...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2012, 09:40

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Báo cáo y học: "Does switching from oral extended-release methylphenidate to the methylphenidate transdermal system affect health-related quality-of-life and medication satisfaction for children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder&

Báo cáo y học: "Does switching from oral extended-release methylphenidate to the methylphenidate transdermal system affect health-related quality-of-life and medication satisfaction for children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder&

... if in the investigator's opinion there was potential for further symptom reduction, try the next higher dose No further titration was permitted after the final dose-adjustment visit at the end ... increasing the subject's MTS dose to the next available strength if side effects permitted "Acceptable" responses permitted the subject to be maintained on the current dose for the remainder of the ... who failed to respond to psychostimulants in the past, and those with conduct disorder, were excluded from the study Therefore, the results of this study should not be extrapolated to these patient...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:06

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Báo cáo y học: "Users' guides to the medical literature: how to use an article about mortality in a humanitarian emergency"

Báo cáo y học: "Users' guides to the medical literature: how to use an article about mortality in a humanitarian emergency"

... usually use the 95% CI, the range that includes the true mortality rate 95% of the time The narrower the CI, the closer the lower and upper boundaries of the CI are to the point estimate, the greater ... did the study assessing nation-wide mortality in the DRC achieve the goal of representing the underlying population? The investigators tell us that they divided DR Congo into two strata along the ... sampling, the investigator chooses the interval between each household (the sampling interval) according to the desired sample size and by the total number of households [24] A further option...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:31

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Báo cáo y học: "ntravenous transplantation of allogeneic bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells and its directional migration to the necrotic femoral head"

Báo cáo y học: "ntravenous transplantation of allogeneic bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells and its directional migration to the necrotic femoral head"

... modulate Treg cells to reduce the incidence of graft-versus-host disease In 80 addition, inhibition or restriction of these inflammatory mediators also alleviates further damage to the bone, cartilage ... Med Sci 2011, Then, the illuminator was turned off, and the image of light emitted from the nude mice, namely bioluminescence image, was taken Then, two images were merged and the location of ... dynamically monitored in a Kodak DXS small animal imaging system [10] When, the anesthetized nude mice were placed on the platform, the background image was taken under the lights of an illuminator http://www.medsci.org...

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