... substitute or the environment changes in ways that nullify the value of the resources) Exploitable? For each step of the preceding steps Resources and capabilities that of the VRINE test, can the firm ... that overlook the role of leadership in the early phases of strategic planning often find themselves scrambling when it’s time to execute No matter how thorough the plan, with-out the right leaders ... assured The advantage is likely only temporary A temporary competitive advantage conveys the potential to achieve above normal profits, at least until the competitive advantage is nullified by other...
... details: 9 The term translation itself has several meanings: it can refer to the general subject field, the product (the text that has been translated) or the process ( the act of producing the translation, ... First, the translator analyzes the source language text to discover its meaning, or the semantic representation and the authors intention and implication Then, all these factors are synthesized ... re-expressed intothe target language Obviously if the source text is wrongly analyzed, the translation will fail to render the authors intention Therefore, reading comprehension of the source...
... mowing down the weeds can make They did not stop there, though They trimmed all of the 54 The Value-Play Strategy hedges, edged along the sidewalks, and cleaned up the grounds I also had the landscaping ... me The two partners began to press me to sell the duplexes to them This was a good sign, because if they wanted it that badly, then chances were they would see the deal all the way through to the ... kick the tires I initially met with one of the two partners and later met with the second one They said they wanted to buy the property At the time, I was still thinking about just keeping the...
... produce? I: It really varies They have just put together a market report for one of the Financial Team’s clients, but before that have been designing a flyer for the Events department A: I hadn’t ... had clients in the financial sector What sort of work you for them? I: Well, we handle news releases and arrange feature length editorial coverage in the same way as we for our other clients However, ... things from there Of course it won’t be like that in reality, but hopefully this has given you a clearer overview of the types of PR involved For further information, please visit some of the links...
... her on tiptoe along the passage They made not the least noise until they reached the door Then Sara suddenly turned the handle, and threw it wide open Its opening revealed the room quite neat ... aren't you?" Sara looked out of the window intothe dingy square, where the sparrows were hopping and twittering on the wet, iron railings and the sooty branches of the trees She reflected a few ... fascinated Ermengarde the most was her fancy about the dolls who walked and talked, and who could anything they chose when the human beings were out of the room, but who must keep their powers a secret...
... How THEY get them?" "Why, they rub an old tin lamp or an iron ring, and then the genies come tearing in, with the thunder and lightning a-ripping around and the smoke arolling, and everything they're ... told Tom Sawyer so He said there was loads of them there, anyway; and he said there was A-rabs there, too, and elephants and things I said, why couldn't we see them, then? He said if I warn't ... tear around so?" "Why, whoever rubs the lamp or the ring They belong to whoever rubs the lamp or the ring, and they've got to whatever he says If he tells them to build a palace forty miles long...
... hard-fought battle Then the dead were counted, prisoners exchanged, the terms of the next disagreement agreed upon, and the day for the necessary battle appointed; after which the armies fell into line ... doughnut Then he skipped out, and saw Sid just starting up the outside stairway that led to the back rooms on the second floor Clods were handy and the air was full of them in a twinkling They raged ... General of the other These two great commanders did not condescend to fight in person that being better suited to the still smaller fry but sat together on an eminence and conducted the field...
... messages they produce in SP We've chosen SP for the rest of these examples because that is the same parser used by Jade, which we'll be discussing further in Chapter 3.2.1 DTD Cannot Be Found The ... like an out of context start tag In fact, they're really the same error The problem is never caused by the missing end tag per se, rather it's caused by the fact that something following it is ... associated with the calstblx.mod module can be ignored The CALS Table Model is customized by redefining parameter entities It's part of the design of the DTD fragment (3) Finally, if there are no...
... devoted to them, some of their classes appear throughout the book See the description of the Support Kit below for a specific example concerning the BLocker class Application Kit The classes of the ... another window Class Descriptions and the Be Book The definitive source of information for the many classes that make up the BeOS software kits is the Be class reference by the programmers of the ... are executed These instructions ensure that control is properly moved from the calling function to the called function and then back to the calling function The execution time for these extra...
... express the two types of casts, in Delphi for NET they are both converted intothe same code (the as cast): anotherObject := TAnotherClass (anObject); // direct anotherObject := anObject as TAnotherClass; ... memory: (i) the stack if the record variable is a local variable or (ii) the memory of the hosting data structure if the record is inside another type (an array, another record, a class ) At the opposite, ... in the interface section of a unit, allowing other units of the program to references them, or in the implementation section, where they are accessible only from methods of other classes of the...
... agreement between the parties whereby the seller has the obligation to hand over the property to the purchaser and receive payment, while the purchaser has the obligation to accept the property and ... agreement between the parties, according to which the seller has the obligation to deliver goods, transfer the ownership of the goods to the buyer and receive payment, the buyer has the obligation ... (a) where the contract involves the sale of goods which are at the time of the conclusion of the contract in the course of carriage or will be carried from the territory of one State to the territory...
... error messages and alerts to the user so that the user can fix the problem – Use the Focus() method of the control to transfer the focus back to the field – Set the Cancel property of CancelEventArgs ... When the user moves the mouse pointer over the icon, an error message pops up as a ToolTip The ErrorProvider Component Using the ErrorProvider Component and Other Validation Techniques The Validating ... property of CancelEventArgs to true This cancels the Validating event, leaving the focus in the control The CausesValidation Property • The default value of the CausesValidation property for a control...
... incorporated the pharmaceuticals intothe organic matter content of the soil or have degraded the pharmaceuticals into other compounds that were not monitored by the method The adsorption isotherms for these ... the analytes with the solid phase The next step involves the “loading” of the sample onto the cartridge The sample is passed through the cartridge by pressure differential In the third step the ... SPE cartridges The humics are retained by the SAX cartridge and the tetracyclines pass through to the HLB cartridge, where they are retained The SAX cartridge is then removed, and the tetracyclines...
... (t1) is the time interval during which the steady-state field of the vapor is established in the vicinity of the drop The time interval t2 describes the relaxation of salt concentration The establishment ... in the Environment The second term in the brackets describes the growth at the initial salt concentration and does not depend on salt diffusivity The third term decelerates the growth due to the ... in the case of evaporation If the environmental temperature varies with time for the period (t∞) much greater than the relaxation time (λ
... of the swamp with enclosures 40 × 10 m The heavy metal solutions were mixed into partially treated sewage flow through one of the enclosures The other received only the sewage waters Most of the ... proportional to the concentration in the waters decreased as the bound quantity reaches the capacity limit in the sludge These limits were calibrated in batch experiments evaluating equilibrium thermal ... and not much of the lead is translocated from the roots The rate of removal was proportional to the mass of live roots with little uptake by dead roots The more lead in solution, the longer time...
... released from the solid matrix and escape from the mineral grain intothe pore space These radon atoms are then transported by diffusion and advection, and are either decayed or released to the atmosphere ... Example of the maps of 137Cs ground deposition in the vicinity of the point of release as a function of the time from the beginning of release The point of release is the site of the Chernobyl ... of the map of time integrals of air volume activity of 131I in the vicinity of the point of release Predicted situation 24 hours from the beginning of the release The point of the release is the...
... (3,693,038) Accrued vacation reported in the statement of activities not require the use of current financial resources and therefore are not reported as expenditures in the governmental funds until due ... compensation liability reported in the statement of activities not require the use of current financial resources and therefore are not reported as expenditures in the governmental funds until due ... governmental activities in the statement of activities are different because: Governmental funds report capital outlays as expenditures However, in the statement of activities the cost of those assets...
... Nevertheless, with the emergence of each new technology comes the potential for new, unknown hazards Some hazards arise from the materials themselves, as in the case of asbestos fibers and lead Others ... entry intothe waste stream can occur: (1) during fabrication of the nanomaterial; (2) during storage and handling of the nanomaterial, including during incorporation of the nanomaterial into another ... material The processes for fabricating the target nanomaterials discussed in this book, as well as the products incorporating these nanoparticles represent the first generation of nanoproducts • The...