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PASSING GAME Benny Friedman and the Transformation of Football pptx
... interrupted the proceedings The kid next to Benny had knocked his prayer book out of his hand A moment later there was the sound of another thud It wasn’t another book It was the sound of the teacher’s ... figuratively took the game off of the street for Benny The gym teacher gave Benny his first glimpse at the technique and strategy of the game The boy began to understand that football, as violent and physical ... association The games evolved from a desire on the part of the best from given areas of the country to test themselves against the best from other areas The teams themselves arranged the games...
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hegel and the transformation of philosophical critique mar 2007
... concepts on the one hand and intuitions on the other These two factors correspond to two distinct faculties of human cognition: the faculty of thought or of the understanding on the one hand and the ... solution of the problem goes by way of the deduction of the objective validity of the pure concepts of the understanding, which is Kant’s immediate aim in the deduction How, then, we get from the ... solution to the problem of the possibility of synthetic, a priori knowledge and the relativization of our knowledge to objects as they are for us The Principle of Apperception and Subjectivity The transcendental...
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benston et al - following the money; the enron failure and the state of the corporate disclosure (2003)
... element in the Enron and the other recent accounting scandals was not a major flaw in the standards themselves, but primarily a failure either of the company to comply with the standards or of the regulator ... enacting most of them, and others, in the Corporate Responsibility Act of 2002 Policymakers were not the only ones to take quick action in the wake of the scandals The major stock exchanges the New ... short years ago, the American system of corporate disclosure the combination of accounting and auditing standards, the professionalism of auditors, and the rules and practices of corporate governance...
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governing failure - provisional expertise and the transformation of global development finance
... understanding this transformation, and mapping the contours of these emerging practices of governing in the context of failure? In other words, how we study the how of global governance? One of the ... culmination of seven years of research into the changes taking place in the policies of the IMF, the World Bank and several key donors Most of the book’s empirical material is drawn from the IMF and the ... of the 1990s, including the Mexican and Asian financial crises and the recognition of a failed decade of aid to sub-Saharan Africa, were viewed as signs of profound failure in the governance of...
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Reframing NLP and the transformation of meaning
... jobs at the same time, neither of them can function well Neither can their job as well as they could if they had some way of jointly organizing their behavior to get the outcomes that they both ... strategies As they walk into the kitchen and see dirty dishes everywhere, they go "Ugh!" In order to make the bad feeling go away, they have to wash all the dishes Then they can stand back and go "Ahhhh!" ... bad in the context of the family It becomes good in the context of banking and in the context of a man trying to take advantage of the daughter on a date Bill: So you're really changing the context...
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A park like transformation for the study and the control of a nonsinusoidal brushless DC motor
... optimize the efficiency of the drive In this work, we will show how an extension of the Park transformation will lead to the 'jxeudo-dq" components of the electric variables The electric equations of ... Compensation of the cogging torque The cogging torque T results of the interaction between , the rotor magnets and the stator slots It depends only on the rotor position and has to be compensated by the ... a, b or The total fluxes a can be split in fluxes self-induced by the stator currents andifluxes due to the permanent magnets of the rotor : where L, and M, are the self-inductance and the mutualinductance...
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Tài liệu Banks’ exposure to interest rate risk, their earnings from term transformation, and the dynamics of the term structure pptx
... contribution of the systematic factor and the regulation to the total timely variation of the exposure is 17.24% and, therefore, 82.76% of the variation is due to idiosyncratic effects These effects ... disentangle the contributions of the systematic factor and of the regulation One can expect some correlation between the regulatory variables outi (t) and out2i (t) on the one hand, and the variables ... instance, the duration, and the weighted sum of the positions’ duration is a measure of the bank’s exposure to interest rate risk (See, for instance, Sierra and Yeager (2004)) The main problem of these...
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Tài liệu The Transformation of Banking and Its Impact on Consumers and Small Businesses docx
... The biggest change has been in the importance of so-called megabanks, those that hold more than $100 billion of assets At the end of 1999, there were eight of these giant companies Together they ... broaden the array of products they offer online, making available services such as insurance and brokerage that they either produce themselves or market on behalf of other companies As serious as these ... branches for many of their banking services Will the transformation of banking now under way hurt consumers by raising the price or reducing the quality of these services? Or will the changes benefit...
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Gradual phase and morphology transformation of Fe3O4nanoparticles to a - FeOOH nanorods in alcohol/water mediain the presence of surfactant F127
... agent to control the mesoscale structure of metal oxides [16–20] The cooperative assembly route was originally developed for the synthesis of mesostructured silica where the simple and effective ... ratios of alcohol/water is consistent with XRD results well The magnetism of the samples prepared in pure water and in alcohol/water media is also investigated, as shown in Fig The value of saturation ... magnetization of samples a, b, and c is 75.4 emu/g (Fig 3a), 39.2 emu/g (Fig 3b), and (Fig 3c), respectively The magnetism results also match XRD and TEM results well Based on the values of saturation...
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university of california press from marriage to the market the transformation of womens lives and work aug 2006
... motherhood, and the labor force have altered profoundly over these years and the consequences of these shifts for the new economy of today Rather than focusing as many others have on the loss of ... argument and for his appreciation of grand theory and both the strengths and vulnerabilities of his friends; and Russ Faeges and Marc Steinberg for again affirming the value of theory and for ... lives and work and the consequences of these changes for the new social and economic order of today It also sketches some of the implications of such analysis for our understanding of the difficulties...
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Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: " Humus conditions and stand characteristics of artificially established young stands in the process of the transformation of spruce monocultures" pdf
... the unmixed beech stand (22.0 t/ha) The mixed stand of spruce with beech and the spruce stand represent a mean between the stands – The active soil reactions of forest floor of the spruce stand ... between the unmixed spruce stand and mixed stand of spruce with beech, between the unmixed spruce and beech stand, mixed stand of larch with beech and unmixed beech stand In exchangeable pH on the ... mixed stands of spruce (larch) with beech, the content of total carbon and nitrogen is lower than in the spruce stand The main indicator of the biomass decomposition rate is just the content of nitrogen...
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bryce - pipe dreams; greed, ego and the death of enron (2003)
... Member of Board of Directors Chief Executive Officer, Enron Europe Member of Board of Directors President, Enron Broadband Services Member of Board of Directors CEO, Enron Communications CEO, Enron ... Member of Board of Directors Member of Board of Directors Chief Risk Officer Chief Accounting Officer Member of Board of Directors General Counsel Member of Board of Directors Chief Financial Officer ... 20 The Job Fair John Henry Kirby and the Roots of Enron Buy or Be Bought The Merger The Lays Move to River Oaks The Valhalla Fiasco "The Smartest Son of a Bitch I've Ever Met" Banking on the...
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munzig - 2003 - enron and the economics of corporate governance
... “standardized,” and can be thought of as commodity markets with classic laws of supply and demand governing them These markets consist of many producers and many consumers, with the quality of the ... indicate the questionable nature of such transactions at the end of the third and fourth quarters in 1999, one of which was that Enron bought back five of the seven assets just after the close of the ... “nodders and yes-men” (The Economist 2002) as directors and thus weakening the imperative oversight role of the Board and contributing to the fall of Enron The theoretical implications of a board...
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Cambridge.University.Press.Gender.Race.and.the.Writing.of.Empire.Public.Discourse.and.the.Boer.War.Sep.1999.pdf
... the food stocks, and the mood of the garrison The tactics of the Daily Mail captured the attention of the nation; the newspaper dramatized the situation of the town by emphasizing the danger that ... examine both the role of the press in the formation of public opinion about imperialism and the role of the press in the formation of the concept of public opinion itself Mafeking Night marks the powerful ... powerful beginning of the New Journalism at the same time as it marks the beginning of the end of the New Imperialism The coincidence of these occasions arises from the nature of the South African...
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Cambridge.University.Press.War.and.the.Law.of.Nations.A.General.History.Sep.2005.pdf
... of individual, hand-to-hand combat Grand strategy, on the other hand, remained the preserve of Tiw.11 In India, too, much the same phenomenon was apparent in the role of Indra, the chief of the ... the mainstream of legal analysis, largely as a result of the crumbling of older conceptions of legitimacy and the rise of new aspirations for democracy and the self-determination of peoples The ... WAR AND THE LAW OF NATIONS to trace the whole process of transformation of the legal nature of war, insofar as records enable us to so, from the earliest periods of recorded history up to the...
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Circuit theory of finance and the role of incentives in financial sector reform
... creating and advancing liquidity to producers; along the circuit, the financial system governs the supply and demand of funds and, at the end of the process, it determines the condition for the closure ... institutions and strengthen the complementarity between the formal and the informal sectors The poorest people of rural and urban societies live beyond the frontier of formal finance, or outside the formal ... affected by the creation and use of fiat-money Crucial to this purpose is the functional separation that the theory operates between banks and firms The macroeconomic focus of the theory, however,...
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Ensuring Financial Stability: Financial Structure and the Impact of Monetary Policy on Asset Prices
... zero even at the 95% level in Canada, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the US Moreover, while in some countries, (including Finland, the UK and the US) residential ... also for these countries the existence of cointegration could not be rejected We therefore specify the VAR models in the level of the variables Nevertheless, we neither impose the number of cointegrating ... to offset the macro economic effects of the collapse of the bubble).2 Of course, it is by no means clear that central banks are better able to judge the appropriate level of asset prices and the...
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Facts of Vietnam Freight forwarding industry and the role of Vietnam Freight Forwarders Association (VIFFAS) to the industry in international economic integration processhelpful to Oristar.doc
... kinds: + The change of consumer-demand modal, market and the attitude to the availability and diversity of goods + The pressure of reducing cost + The development of Information technology + The pressure ... learning and expanding With their experiences, they have learned the value of offering quality services In the way of growing, they have also open branches to establish a worldwide presence These ... The Association has the role of coordinating the activities of the members in order to protect the interests of the members and improve the position of Vietnam in the international freight forwarding...
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Báo cáo y học: "The association of meat intake and the risk of type 2 diabetes may be modified by body weight"
... the amount consumed in lians (50g/lian) per unit of time A lian is the unit of weight in China equivalent to 50 g The reproducibility and validity of the FFQ was assessed in a random sample of ... For other participants the average of the baseline and follow-up FFQ data were used in the analyses The average daily intake of individual food items (g/day) was combined to compute intake of red ... knowledge there are no other reports of a direct link between poultry consumption and risk of diabetes or of interactions between poultry consumption and BMI and the risk of type DM Red meat consumption...
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Báo cáo y học: "HLA-DR regulation and the influence of GM-CSF on transcription, surface expression and shedding
... than the level of HLA-DR in the cell lysates (5ul of a in 10 dilution, from x 106 PBMC) The shed HLA-DR therefore seemed to represent a small fraction of the total HLA-DR of the cell, however the ... expression of both the percentage of monocytes expressing HLA-DR and the density of HLA-DR expression have been observed as a feature of sepsis [4;5;7;8;22-25] Only recently have the possible ... express HLA-DR on their surface [3] To assess the relative contribution of shed to total HLA-DR, the sHLA-DR in the plasma was compared to the total HLA-DR present in cell The level in the plasma (40ul...
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