... value firms all through the year Consequently, the last annual report that is available for a firm being valued can contain information that is sometimes six or nine months old In the case of firms ... for revenues, operating income, R&D expenses, and net income Table 9.1: Ariba: Trailing 12-month versus 10-K (in thousands) Six Months ending Six months ending Annual Trailing 12- March 2000 March ... research and development expenses from prior years, with the number of years of historical data being a function of the amortizable life Table 9.2 provides this information for the firm If only...
... 1, early and late VAP in study (onset 15) After stratification, patients ... were and 16 μg/mL Median durations of mechanical ventilation (7 versus 13 days; generalized Wilcoxon P = 0.031) and ICU stay (13 versus 21 days; P = 0.027) were shorter for doripenem; betweengroup ... statistically significant shorter durations of mechanical ventilation (median, versus 10 days) and hospitalization (median, 22 versus 26 days) than was use of comparator antibiotics (piperacillin/ tazobactam...
... 5 2 Abbreviations: CABG, coronary artery bypass graft; HDL, high-density lipoprotein; LDL, low-density lipoprotein; MI, myocardial infarction; SAP, stable angina pectoris; USAP, unstable angina ... achieve maximal vasodilatation before undergoing their initial and final angiograms The glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitor (Tirofiban) was administered at the operator’s discretion All patients maintained ... infarction, target vessel revascularization (TVR) Target vessel revascularization was defined as being either percutaneous or surgical revascularization of the stented epicardial vessel The secondary...
... quantitation of microgram quantities of protein utilizing the principle of protein-dye binding Anal Biochem 1976, 72:248-254 Laemmli UK Cleavage of structural proteins during the assembly of the head ... identical protein profile which consisted of 25-30 bands with major bands having molecular weights of approximately 120, 92, 80, 66, 55, 42, 36, 29, 24, 20, 18 and 16 kDa (Fig 1) The protein profiles ... E.coli heat shock proteins were detected by western immunoblots, but a similar response was observed in sera from patients with other forms of endocarditis While heat shock proteins may not be as...
... – EMOTIONAL VERSUS LOGICAL APPEALS – The Difference between Logical and Emotional Appeals Distinguishing between ... recycling and the people who throw their bottles and cans in the trash continue to just that (only being a little bit more careful, burying the bottles inside “legal” trash such as pizza boxes and ... filters)? Why should any of us be forced to be surreptitious about something so simple – EMOTIONAL VERSUS LOGICAL APPEALS – as throwing away a soft drink can? I urge both the council and the mayor...
... Process Clause for deWning abortion rights is that a Due Process depiction of the abortion issue reinforces the Court’s disconnection between the constitutional right to an abortion and abortion ... abortion rights, far from carrying a non-traditional message about women’s rights, relies upon and reinforces some of the most traditional components of motherhood by invoking the principles of ‘lifeboat’ ... becomes a means of providing for, or taking care of, others The problem is deWned simply in terms of being a mother with too many to care for, and without adequate resources The only solution is to...
... seinem nat¨ rlichen Zwecke, der Gl¨ ckseligkeit, entsagen; denn das kann er nicht, so u u wie kein endliches vern¨ nftiges Wesen uberhaupt; sondern er m¨ sse, wenn das Gebot der Pflicht u ¨ u eintritt, ... range from seeing him as a more-or-less orthodox Lutheran theist all the way to seeing him as a modern atheist.) It is clear that Hegel thought religion, at least in the sense of being a communal ... both, in being a social matter of each serving as master and vassal, or, in Kantian terms, of simultaneously, first, each subjecting the other to the law he himself authors; second, of each being himself...
... the word functions in the sentence If a noun or pronoun is being described, use an adjective If a verb, adjective, or other adverb is being described, use an adverb Here's an example to refresh ... play together in the rest of this chapter C h a p t e r : How to Write and Speak Good: Adjectives Versus Adverbs JOl In the Know: Adjective or Adverb? Modifier Function Example Adjectives Describe ... widely Adverb easily more easily most easily C h a p t e r : How to Write and Speak Good: Adjectives Versus Adverbs As you can see from this table, the comparative and superlative degrees of adjectives...
... contrasting the layout, lexical choice, syntactic features and cohesive devices in AOSs versus VOSs and ACSs versus VCSs The results marked the significant influence of culture on the discourse ... Jerry Seinfeld Public speaking is considered the greatest fear a person can have That fear can be much greater than the phobia of snake, traveling by air or even death The quote by Jerry Seinfeld ... contrastive analysis between them in order to find out their similarities and differences in American versus Vietnamese language It is carried out with the hope that the research result would be useful...
... Syntactic Features of the names of coffee shop in English Versus Vietnamese Summary of Syntactic Features of the names of coffee shop in English Versus Vietnamese Frequency of Semantic Features of ... Features of the names 38 of coffee shop in English Versus Vietnamese Summary of structural features of the names of 61 coffee shop in English Versus Vietnamese CHAPTER INTRODUCTION 1.1 RATIONALE ... phenomenon as well as the product from human being’s practical activities Culture is the one which originates from nature and changed by human being’s influence This characteristic allows us...
... 1 CHAPTER (1.4) My whole being was overflowing with joy INTRODUCTION [46, p.252] (1.5) There was one little black chow who ... Feelings in Published of literature – handwriting diary The following examples are Diaries (English versus Vietnamese)” characterized by conceptual metaphor of INNER FEELING IS FIRE: 1.2 AIMS AND ... have been investigated, half of them are English samples and the rest are Vietnamese ones After being Vietnamese in order as follows: Firstly, the samples used for the data collection and data...
... words, it is often necessary to use pre-sequences Study of Pre-sequences in Announcements in English versus which can supply speakers useful hints to get their communication Vietnamese” as a topic ... clarify the similarities and differences of syntactic and pragmatic features of PAs in English versus 2.2.1 Syntactic Theory Based on the viewpoint of Greenbaum [15], sentences are Vietnamese...
... H Koopman, D Sportiche, E Stabler; “Syntactic to relax, to entertain or somewhere to go sightseeing Advertising is a Theory: A Formal Introduction” by Ivan A Sag, Thomas Wasow is good tool to...
... expressing Richness and Poverty in English versus Vietnamese An Investigation into Pragmatic and Cultural Aspects of Idioms expressing Richness and Poverty in English versus Vietnamese ... The proverbs are classified into separated units regarding to topics Thus, the readers in well-being, and comprises many According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty, poverty is over 300 ... and poverty in English Vs Vietnamese to clarify the syntactic and semantic features in English versus Vietnamese Comparative method accompanied by the qualitative and 3.2 SAMPLING The samples...
... every nation in the world Moreover, proverbs are known as the sum-up of daily In fact, as human beings, anyone does have feelings and experiences and common observations about all things and thoughts ... That is an interesting issue which interests many proverbs containing weather terms in English Versus (Vs.) researchers among whom I am not an exception Vietnamese In addition, proverbs have ... to all.” Some folklorists share linguistic features of proverbs through parallelism in English versus the same idea in which a proverb can be commonly thought of as a Vietnamese Tran Le Nghi...
... explain “metaphor and metonymy are different kinds of 2.2.3 Metaphors versus other ways of meaning transference 2.2.3.1 Metaphors versus Simile processes Metaphor is principally a way of conceiving ... color is accounted 7.8% versus 12.5% in Vietnamese newspapers In contrast, the group of metaphors denoting war in English newspapers is used more in Vietnamese (17.0% versus 10.0%) Beside that, ... employs a combination of the descriptive and contrastive method In this study, 2.2.3.2 Metaphor versus metonymy Galperin (1981) in Stylistics states: “The stylistic device based on the principle...
... written discourses as “Modal Disjuncts” From another approach, in Evidential Markers in English versus Vietnamese by Tran Thi Thanh Chau, the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic features of evidential ... Adjective + + + + + - Noun + - - + - - Verb + + + + + + 4.2 SEMANTIC CHARACTERISTICS OF ADS IN ENGLISH VERSUS VIETNAMESE 4.2.1 Semantic Characteristics of ADs in term of Doubt and Certainty The decision ... (depending on the reliability on P) combining the auxiliary and the ADs according to degree of strength being modified as premodifiers of degree almost, very, quite + r t, + Table 4.10 The Pragmatic Similarity...