... date, the zone of gap #2 has halted a further decline in the
share price of MRK.
However, it is not certain as to whether or not MRK can resume its prior uptrend
at this time. This is due to the ... area of gap #1 and its support zone of gap #2. A break through either
one of these zones would suggest continuation in that direction.
Most who were observing the recent trading activity of Merck ... For those of us who
utilize candlesticks, we believe " ;the claws" ofthe market to be hidden within their
message (from Nison, Beyond Candlesticks). Let us consider the case of Merck...
... interesting approach of explaining TPM to
their operators, who were mostly young women. They compared TPM to a mother caring
for her baby. The equipment, of course, is the baby. The mother, the operator, ... fever.
The mother does a lot of TPM activities, but what if she runs out of options? Then it is
time to call the doctor. The doctors are the maintenance people, the specialists. They go
in ...
Part of this new, high-tech maintenance operation is the training ofthe operators, which
becomes important under TPM. When maintenance workers realize the benefits of
transferring their routine...
... McCullough Professor of Finance at the Katz
Graduate School of Business ofthe University of Pittsburgh.
S. J. Liebowitz is the Ashbel Smith Professor of Economics at the University of
Texas at ... TIMBER CRISIS 29
They substituted other materials for wood when the relative price of timber rose.
Under the same incentive, they were able to extend the effective life ofthe wood they
did use ... Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He served as the Chairman of
the U.S. Council of Economic Advisors from 2006 to 2009.
Keith B. Leffl er is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of
Washington.
Kenneth...
... to the size and comparative
strength ofthe accountancy profession. In addition to arguments rehearsed within the sociology ofthe
professions - such as the growth of corporate capitalism, the ... neither the state-carved niche of insolvency business, nor the formation of a professional body,
but the steady increase in audit work that was to be the making ofthe modern UK accountancy profession. ... and other symbols
of professionalism.
THE ACCOUNTANCY PROFESSION IN THE UK : FORMATION, COMPETITION AND COLONIZATION
The development ofthe accountancy profession in the UK
8
cannot sensibly...
... element ofthe vector usually represents a word (or a group of words) of the
document collection, i.e. the size ofthe vector is defined by the number of words (or
groups of words) ofthe complete ... from the number
of clusters is the silhouette coefficient SC(P) (cf. [KR90]). The main idea ofthe coef-
ficient is to find out the location of a document in the space with respect to the cluster
of ... Stemming
In order to reduce the size ofthe dictionary and thus the dimensionality ofthe descrip-
tion of documents within the collection, the set of words describing the documents can
be reduced...
... bc,
while others moved more quickly up the main waterways until, at about 1000
bc, they reached the eastern edge ofthe equatorial forest in the broad area of the
great East African lakes. There they ... ofthe economy at Birimi, a settlement close to the
northern edge ofthe West African forest in modern Ghana. This was an outlier
of the Kintampo culture whose other sites, further south in the ... fatal
to cattle. By the first half ofthe second millennium bc, cattle were herded
close to the top ofthe Niger bend and on the southern shores of Lake Chad.
Shortly afterwards, the first strong archaeological...
... to
totalizing power.
12
And for the most part, the initiators of totalitarian rule
pursued their aims in the name of some grand moral imperative – the
Aryan domination ofthe sub-human races ofthe world ... determine their
moral justiWability or lack thereof. Whether the wartime allies did enough
to assist victims ofthe Nazi holocaust; whether America should have
dropped the atomic bomb on Japan; whether ... The honor of politicians having
so often proved as hollow as their promises, their reputation as a class has
frequently tended to fall, like the salesman’s, to the level ofthe scoundrel
or the...
... two other
women in the group named Cheryl. Two of the
three men named Phil. Ofthe men, only Phil
named Cheryl. In other words, in this instance, the
women evaluated the contribution of another
woman ... in how sensitive they
are to the social dynamics of language – in other
words, to the subtle nuances of what others say to
them. Men tend to be sensitive to thepower dy-
namics of interaction, ... to the gen-
eral public the idea of female and male styles of com-
munication. The material in this article is drawn from
Talking from 9 to 5 (Avon Books, 1995).
The Powerof Talk:
The head of...
... to
Solve the World’s Ills at a Profit
CHAPTER 2
From the Infirmity ofthe Hyped Six Sigma to thePowerof Ultimate
Six Sigma
CHAPTER 3
The Scope, Structure, and Methodology ofthePowerof Ultimate ... research extending the frontiers of product qual-
ity to all areas of a company—including the quality of leadership, the quality of
employees, the quality of organization, and the quality of business ... investors, and on to the panorama ofthe ultimate purpose of busi-
ness—societal value the betterment of mankind, with profit at the end ofthe rainbow.
This is not just Pollyanna optimism. The movement...
... L
2
adjoint
L
†
, throughout, because by the Elliptic Regularity Theorem (Theorem 8) the
elements ofthe kernel are smooth, and they have compact support. This is the
content ofthe following Proposition.
Proposition ... manifolds.
The Rellich Lemma is the easier ofthe two to adapt. The Rellich Lemma
is a theorem about the compactness ofthe embedding operator: H
t
→ H
t
for
t
> t. Consider any sequence of functions ... operator on a compact set
¯
Ω ⊂ R
n
, then the
dimension ofthe space of distributions in the kernel of L is finite.
Proof. Recall the basic Sobolev elliptic estimate of section 2.1.3:
u
s
≤ C(...