... minimum, the board’scriteria for selecting new directors, andoversight of the evaluation of the board and management; andã an annual performance evaluation of the committee.24 CorporateGovernance ... counsel and corporate secretary. The formal designationis less important than whether the functions of a chief governance officerare accomplished. Most important is whether corporategovernance ... Peterson,Chairman of The Blackstone Group and Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and John W. Snow, former Chairman and CEOof CSX Corporation and former Chairman of The Business...
... is an- other large effort to create dialectal Arabic resources(and tools). They too focus on online sources suchas blogs and forums, and use information retrievaltasks for measuring their ability ... whereby the written formof the language, Modern Standard Arabic (MSA),differs in a non-trivial fashion from the various spo-ken varieties of Arabic. As the variant of choice for written and official ... given the topic at hand and the individualistic nature of the posts, they are verylikely to contain a high degree of dialectal data.AcknowledgmentsThis research was supported by the HumanLanguage...
... product can reduce the value of the product to the customer. 50. The “image” of a brand is therefore an integral part of the product, and determines the willingness to pay of consumers. Manufacturers ... significant, and these are no more likely for restraints on internet distribution than they are in the case of any other distribution channel. Distribution over the internet should therefore not ... into the Mathematical Principles of the Theory of Wealth), 1838 (1897, Engl. trans. by N.T. Bacon). 8 See for a standard theoretical treatment G.F. Mathewson and R.A. Winter, An Economic Theory...
... insignificant, but Leverage and Secured are still significant. As before all coefficients in the third run have the same sign as in the first run (except forthe dummy variable for Food Stores). Therefore ... but one is secured and the other is not, the issuer of the secured debt has to have a lower rating compared to the other issuer. Therefore in such a case the coefficient of the dummy variable ... estimators for Size and misinterpretation of the results. Rating categorization may also have changed during the sample period.14 Using these dummy variables for year of issue can answer these...
... created the framesfiles and managed the annotators, and Olga Babko-Malaya checked the frames files for consistency and did the bulk of the adjudication.We measured agreement between the two annotations ... to the verb force. In the PropBank annotation, we split the sententialcomplement into two semantic roles forthe verb force, assigning roles to the nounphrase and verb phrase but not to the ... possible annotations for each verb. For role identification, we expect agree-ment between annotators to be much higher than chance, because while any node in the parse tree can be annotated, the...
... to 4.8 times the median, and the cut-off forthe top 0.5 per cent from 3.4 to nearly 6 times the median.2827 This uses data from the NES, the predecessor to ASHE, rather than the LFS used ... is the challenge which must be met.Harriet Harman Minister for Women and Equality January 2010 An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in theUK Report of the National Equality Panel An Anatomy ... the country, inform debates over the fairness or otherwise of the outcomes for different population groups, and assist the formulation and design of relevant policies. An anatomy of economic...
... shows the range between the 10th and the 90th percentiles. The thicker bar shows the range between the 30th and the 70th percentiles. The three vertical lines running from the top of the ... Note: For each group, the black cross marks the group median. The thin horizontal bar shows the range between the 10th and the 90th percentiles. The thicker bar shows the range between the ... in the data forthe cohort examined. 21 An anatomy of economic inequality in the UK (e) Sexual orientationThere is very little information on the economic position of people in terms of their...
... 2008 1 The CorporateGovernance Lessons from the Financial Crisis Grant Kirkpatrick * This report analyses the impact of failures and weaknesses in corporate governance on the financial ... is therefore natural for the Steering Group to examine the situation in the banking sector and assess the main lessons for corporategovernance in general The current turmoil in financial ... the most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression. It is therefore natural forthe Steering Group to examine the situation in the banking sector and assess the main lessons for corporate...
... History of governance in India 417 Corporategovernance in India 418 The legal and regulatory framework regarding corporategovernance in India 419 Corporategovernance – Indian practice ... in Canada and abroad. Having acted on commercial arrangements and transactions in Canada, the US and elsewhere in the world for over a decade and a half before turning to environmental and ... trading transactions (ERPAs and related financing and transactional documents for a broad range of CDM, JI, Alberta regulatory and voluntary car-bon deals) and advising on corporategovernance and...
... little and far too late in the day to make any tangible difference to prevailing practices in the banking and the financial sector. The FSA’s proposals forthe future 38. The FSA outlined in the ... of corporategovernance in the banking sector. 124 Q 632 125 Q 644 126 Q 2792 Banking Crisis: reforming corporategovernance and pay in the City 27 60. We note that some sections of the ... 2660 28 Banking Crisis: reforming corporategovernance and pay in the City 63. LIBA explained that UK company law requires quoted companies to publish, with their annual report and accounts,...
... assessing the national HIS and planning for its strengthening. Stakeholders will include the producers, users and financiers of health information and other social statistics at various national and ... along with the results forthe standard items. If such an approach does not meet the needs for adaptation of the tool, assessment organizers are encouraged to contact HMN2 for assistance. Table ... with these broader policies and plans. It is also important forthe advocates of national HIS strengthening to engage in discussions on the reform or development of these broader policies and...
... families. The Global History of Corporate Governance: An Introduction 339. See Bae, Kang, and Kim (2002), Bebchuk, Kraakman, and Triantis (2000), Barca andBecht (2001), Bertrand, Mehta, and Mullainathan ... approaching. The Global History of Corporate Governance: An Introduction 17 around the fur trade, and then as first a French and then a British colonyof settlement. Their theme is how the institutions ... pro-fessional managers and diversify their wealth across many firms only if theytrust thecorporategovernance of those firms, and conclude (p. 2193) that the separation of ownership and management...
... back-translation and original versions of the question-naire was performed and the results were used for the development of the final consensual translation of the Estonian language PDQ-39. Distance conversion ... Well-Being and Stigma, with adifference of less than 10%. For Cognition, the differencewas 16%. The difference between the mean and median for the summary index was approximately 1% (see Table4 for ... previous validation studiesin other cultural settings in UK, USA, Canada, Spain and Italy. The Estonian version of the PDQ-39 is an acceptable, valid and reliable instrument for quality of life measurement...
... GT andAS. SG was consulted for methodology and analysis andrevised the manuscript for its intellectual content. AS con-tributed to the conception, design and interpretation of the study and ... revised the manuscript and gavefinal approval forthe final version to be published. GTwas responsible for substantial contribution to the con-ception and design of the study, supervised data analysisand ... responsible forthe literature review, managementand organisation of the study, methodology with assist-ance from GT, AS, DG, data collection, data input, dataanalysis and interpretation with assistance...