... lesser of 10% ofthe value ofthe gift and $75, then the value ofthe advantage is considered to be zero For example, if the price to attend the benefit dinner is $200 and the value ofthe dinner ... for the value of an item before taxes HSFM requests that organizations donating a gift -in- kind provide an invoice stating the value (not cost) ofthe item as ofthe date ofthe donation A gift -in- kind ... to these goods and services received in exchange for a gift as the Advantage Inthe above example the advantage is the value ofthe dinner, i.e $40 In situations where the cost or portion of the...
... occur in carriers oftherisk allele at later stages ofthe disease An interesting finding ofthe study presented here is the disproportionately high frequency ofthe PTPN22 1858T allele in male ... copies ofthe SE The subgroup of patients (n = 123) who were analyzed for the influence ofthe PTPN22 1858 SNP on radiographic progression was recruited inthe outpatient clinic ofthe Department of ... the recruitment of patients into the study UW and HH participated inthe design ofthe study, statistical analysis, interpretation ofthe results, and writing ofthe final manuscript Acknowledgements...
... militia of industry, repaying war debt, restoring the value ofthethe American colonies had currency, and lowering inflation defeated the army of one ofthe greatest nations inthe Proposing a ... Stockholders ofthe Bank ofthe United States “Proceedings ofthe Stockholders ofthe Bank ofthe United States Preparatory to the Creation of a Trust for Closing the Concerns of That Institution,” ... Money inthe form of gold or silver Inthe colonial period and inthe early years ofthe United States, specie often referred to gold or silver coins The First Bank ofthe United States 13 THE...
... higher inthe case ofthe latter Analysis ofthe IQ scores in our control group suggests the presence of a practice effect Out of 132 controls tested at the year time point, 37 were taking their ... may mask significant individual declines in IQ as discussed below The finding of similar outcomes in males and females is reassuring Initial reports of inferior outcomes in girls came from relatively ... and in fact in other areas of acute brain injury, such as head injury, girls usually have better outcomes than boys Again, changes in therapy protocols such as lack of co-administration of high-dose...
... market-wide risk, and they are the main drivers for the return volatility of mezzanine investment Financial risk is another important risk factor of mezzanine investments owing to the fact that mezzanine ... the binomial paths Figure 4.1 depicts the YTM ofthe mezzanine investment with the interest rate ofthe mezzanine 37 investment as the X-axis (originating from Table 4.1) The spread between the ... mezzanine investment The mezzanine investor would then collect the deemed interest plus the principal if it is the end ofthe mezzanine investment’s loan term (2) If the cash flow after mezzanine...
... wood, with a gable cut into steps; it looked upon oneof those winding canals which intersect each other inthe middle ofthe ancient quarter of Hamburg, and which the great fire of 1842 hadfortunately ... exceedingly fond of geology and all itskindred sciences; the blood of a mineralogist was in my veins, and inthe midst of my specimens I was always happy In a word, a man might live happily enough in ... older, at the end hewill be a most original character He was professor at the Johannæum, and was delivering a series oflectures on mineralogy, inthe course of every one of which he brokeinto a...
... andhappily the grand business ofthe document gained me the victory Just as the moment ofthe supreme experiment arrived the Professor'seyes flashed right through his spectacles There was a quivering inhis ... thirty-twoletters in apparent disorder There are words consisting ofconsonants only, as _nrrlls;_ others, on the other hand, in whichvowels predominate, as for instance the fifth, _uneeief,_ or the lastbut ... word in theGerman language Thus it happened that the picture of my prettyVirlandaise threw me in a moment out ofthe world of realities intothat of memory and fancy There looked down upon me the...
... him runningunder the noble trees which line the road to Altona, gesticulating,making shots with his cane, thrashing the long grass, cutting theheads off the thistles, and disturbing the contemplative ... viewabout the language ofthe document Inthe fourth line appeared theword "luco", which means a sacred wood It is true that inthe thirdline was the word "tabiled", which looked like Hebrew, and in thelast ... is inmy power to prevent the knowledge of it coming into the mind of mytyrant, I will it By dint of turning this document round andround, he too might discover the key I will destroy it." There...
... traveller, into the crater ofthe jokul of Sneffels,which the shadow of Scartaris touches before the kalends of July, andyou will attain the centre ofthe earth; which I have done, ArneSaknussemm." In ... thought on venturing on the expedition that, after all, he mighthimself discover the key ofthe cipher, and that then I should beclear at the mere expense of my involuntary abstinence These reasons ... withoutthinking any harm, cleared out the larder the night before, so thatnow there was nothing left inthe house Still I held out; I made ita point of honour Two o'clock struck This was becoming...
... penetrated into the fissuresof the crust ofthe earth, they broke out into fresh combustion withexplosions and eruptions Such was the cause ofthe numerousvolcanoes at the origin ofthe earth." ... "All the theories of science demonstrate such a feat to beimpracticable." "The theories say that, they?" replied the Professor inthe toneof a meek disciple "Oh! unpleasant theories! How the theories ... was therefore necessaryto point out which of these leads to the centre ofthe globe Whatdid the Icelandic sage do? He observed that at the approach of thekalends of July, that is to say in the...
... entertain such a proposal Thewhole thing is nonexistent I have had a bad night, I have beendreaming of horrors." But I had followed the banks ofthe Elbe and passed the town Afterpassing the port ... see theuneasiness and distress of my mind "What is the matter?" she said, holding out her hand "What is the matter, Gräuben?" I cried In a couple of minutes my pretty Virlandaise was fully informed ... with faltering voice "Then make haste down, or we shall lose the train." It was now manifestly impossible to maintain the struggle againstdestiny I went up again to my room, and rolling my portmanteausdownstairs...
... over theother, inthe only saloon cabin on board At a quarter past the moorings were loosed and the throbbing steamerpursued her way over the dark waters ofthe Great Belt The night was dark; there ... horrible mural painting, andcontaining within it a collection ofthe sculptor's works, nor in afine park the toylike chateau of Rosenberg, nor the beautifulrenaissance edifice ofthe Exchange, nor ... o'clock came The heavy coils of smoke from the _Ellenora's_ funnel unrolled in thesky, the bridge shook with the quivering ofthe struggling steam; wewere on board, and owners for the time of two berths,...
... floating prison, or rather hospital Butbefore quitting the deck ofthe schooner he dragged me forward, andpointing with outstretched finger north ofthe bay at a distantmountain terminating in ... out ofthe volcanoesby their own labour and at their own expense; in high westerly windsit was manifest that the red tiles ofthe roof would be scattered inthe air, to the great danger ofthe ... shall get there in very goodtime." At evening the schooner doubled the Skaw at the northern point ofDenmark, inthe night passed the Skager Rack, skirted Norway by CapeLindness, and entered the North...
... but the duties of your profession -" I am glad to think that our host, inthe innocence of his Icelandicsoul, was blind to the transparent artifices of my uncle "I very much approve of your beginning ... beginning with that volcano, M.Liedenbrock You will gather a harvest of interesting observations.But, tell me, how you expect to get to the peninsula of Snæfell?" "By sea, crossing the bay That's the ... "Yes, Herr Liedenbrock; the labours of MM Olafsen and Povelsen,pursued by order ofthe king, the researches of Troïl the scientificmission of MM Gaimard and Robert on the French corvette _LaRecherche,_...
... six o'clock inthe evening, which, according to him, was oneindispensable part ofthe engagement The start was fixed for the 16th of June My uncle wanted to pay thehunter a portion in advance, ... his induction coil, which produces a powerfulstream of electricity He obtained in 1 864 the quinquennial prize of5 0,000 franc reserved by the French government for the most ingeniousapplication of ... Olsen, inthe proportion of to 480,000 ofthe actual sizeof the island, and published by the Icelandic Literary Society Itwas a precious document for a mineralogist Our last evening was spent in intimate...
... that they would be avoided by winding along the seashore Infact, the great plutonic action is confined to the central portion ofthe island; there, rocks ofthe trappean and volcanic class,including ... peaks ofthe trachyte rockspresented faint outlines on the eastern horizon; at times a fewpatches of snow, concentrating the vague light, glittered upon theslopes ofthe distant mountains; certain ... foot, while the horses went on to the boat I perfectly understood the necessity of abiding a particular momentof the tide to undertake the crossing ofthe fiord, when, the seahaving reached its...
... again The soil told ofthe neighbourhood ofthe mountain, whose granitefoundations rose from the earth like the knotted roots of some hugeoak We were rounding the immense base ofthe volcano The ... hadturned the great bay of Faxa, and the twin peaks of Snæfell rosewhite into the cloudy sky at the distance of at least five miles The horses did their duty well, no difficulties stopped them in theirsteady ... this Icelandic lady was the motherof nineteen children, all, big and little, swarming inthe midst ofthe dense wreaths of smoke with which the fire on the hearth filledthe chamber Every moment...
... pressure, go off by way ofthe crater insteadof escaping by their usual passages through the fissures inthe soil.Therefore, if these vapours remain in their usual condition, if theydisplay no ... supposed they were standing there to bidus a kind farewell But the farewell was put inthe unexpected formof a heavy bill, in which everything was charged, even to the veryair we breathed inthe pastoral ... clearly," added the Professor "At the approach ofan eruption these jets would redouble their activity, but disappearaltogether during the period ofthe eruption For the elastic fluids,being no longer...
... whichgrew by the extinction ofthe lesser craters, supplied an egress tolava, ashes, and scoriae, of which I could see lengthened screesstreaming down the sides ofthe mountain like flowing hair ... by one of those torrents of stones flung up bythe eruptions, called 'sting' by the Icelanders If this torrent hadnot been arrested in its fall by the formation ofthe sides of themountain, it ... exhausted The Professor sawthat my limbs were refusing to perform their office, and in spite ofhis impatience he decided on stopping He therefore spoke to thehunter, who shook his head, saying: "_Ofvanför._"...
... hearominous noises or feel tremblings within the recesses ofthe mountain Thus the first night inthe crater passed away The next morning, a grey, heavy, cloudy sky seemed to droop over thesummit of ... which,shaken out of their loosened beds, rushed bounding down the abyss,and in their fall awoke echoes remarkable for their loud andwell-defined sharpness In certain parts ofthe cone there were glaciers ... pacingaround the bottom ofthe crater like a wild beast in a cage I hadneither the wish nor the strength to rise, and following the guide'sexample I went off into an unhappy slumber, fancying...