... among themselves in a secondary marketThe transaction price inthe second market is determined to clear themarketThe authors obtained the equilibrium price inthe secondary market and the optimal ... uncertainties, machine -8- Chapter Introduction failures and so on The main difficulty in inventory control is to tradeoff between the costs of maintaining high and low inventory levels Maintaining ... trading manufacturing inputs and those trading operating inputs Manufacturing inputs include raw materials, components and semi or final products while examples of operating inputs include maintenance,...
... Economist Intelligence Unit Limited 2012 Rise of the machines Preface Rise of the machines: Moving from hype to reality inthe burgeoning market for machine- to -machine communication is an Economist Intelligence ... stock levels in vending machines, for example Telecoms operators need to continually develop their own business models and customer offerings Machine- to -machine and the Internet of things in 2012: ... continue Rise of the machines M2M drivers for the next decade Approaching the tipping point? For M2M advocates, the dawn of 2012 offers much hope, as many of the vital building blocks for the...
... logistical chains inthe industry On the other hand, Logoplaste wished to obtain synergies with other partners who also have important operations inthe UK market Investment inthe UK was of ... have Insufflation (blowing) is used in combination with extrusion On leaving the circular draw-plate the tube is transferred to the interior of a mould The pressure of the air blown into the closed ... within the client's installations (in- house) Investment in machinery and plant equipment Acquisition of raw materials Total integration inthe client's supply-chain Packages delivered just -in- time...
... task, then it is not only confined to the Ministry of Labour or Ministry of Education and Training, it is also concerned with human resource planning inthe Ministry of Planning or Ministry of Finance ... among other things As we can see, on the one hand, English learning and teaching has helped Vietnam inthe new era of integration On the other hand, the learning and teaching of English at the expense ... another question: which foreign languages amidst hundreds of languages inthe global market? Undoubtedly, English has been enjoying the lion share inthe world marketin general and inthe international...
... excellent information: The support line This is based on point’s  and C The resistance line After giving in at point D, themarket may retest the neckline at point E The price direction If the neckline ... basis, matching systems are anonymous and individual traders deal against the rest of the market, similar to dealing inthe brokers' market However, unlike the brokers' market, there are no individuals ... latter exposed inthe development of automated dealing systems and the transition to the currency trading by means of the Internet In addition to the dealing systems, matching systems simultaneously...
... considerations inthe European market for building and future-proofing robust, flexible FTTN infrastructures Leveraging the existing ducts In deploying fiber from the central office (CO) to the node, ... of the ducts branch out into other directions Therefore, it’s not one cable running in one duct to one group of cabinets Rather, it is multiple ducts containing multiple cables that share the infrastructure ... life of the network Although there are capital expense implications in addressing most of these issues, they must be weighed against the potential operational savings inthe future Since each...
... harmonization between the requirements of themarket these solutions is finding the alternatives which are not and the ability to produce it In order to estimate the affecting the individual and collective ... How many importance is of opinion Catalyzing the ecologic trend within the attached to the ecologic value inthe green marketing’s community where they are living in As far as ecological processes ... by the growers who sell them, fresh fruits gardening Inthe 1960 s and 1970 s one effect of a 13 The Organic Products inthe Green Marketing Laboratory The organic nature of a product is the...
... with the applicable financial reporting framework also involves evaluating the fair presentation of the financial statements In doing so, the auditor considers whether the financial statements, including ... to continue as a going concern.42 Under the going concern assumption, an entity is ordinarily viewed as continuing in business for the foreseeable future with neither the intention nor the necessity ... available in current market conditions • Changes inthe cost of finance • The effect of changes in markets on the ability to realize assets • Deteriorating markets inthe entity’s business • Sale...
... primitives, there is plenty of future work to be done in examining the theoretical underpinnings of these results In particular, the extent to which the estimated slope of the marginal cost curve ... repositioning in differentiated product markets: The case of format switching inthe commercial radio industry, NBER Working paper 36 Appendix 1: Changes inthemarketIn November 2003, Intel released ... that the large OEMs not pay these list prices Instead, at a minimum, they get percentage discounts off of them depending on their size As long as these are the same across the OEMs in my data, then...
... hired labor; other costs; and operating interest Capital ownership costs include the annualized cost of maintaining the capital investment (economic depreciation and interest) inthe dairy operation, ... operating costs in 2005 were $4.31 per cwt inthe Northeast, $4.98 inthe Upper Midwest, and $6.49 inthe West Milk price premiums received in 2005 were sufficient in all regions to cover the added ... about their future inthe business as significantly fewer had plans to exit inthe next 10 years, and significantly more planned to be in business 20 or more years The primary difference in the...
... results remain unchanged so long as the original firm can include inthe contract a fee—such as the prepayment penalties in subprime mortgages—for refinancing with any firm inthemarket If firms ... q r PC binds because otherwise the firm could increase profits by reducing c In addition, IC binds because otherwise the firm could increase profits by increasing q Given that IC binds and ... the restricted than inthe unrestricted market, so the restricted market does not Pareto dominate the unrestricted one; and since all borrowers think they are sophisticated, they all prefer the...
... and individual state laws that eased restrictions on interstate bank branching beginning inthe 1980s, a wave of mergers has occurred inthe US banking marketThe number of commercial banks inthe ... markets inthe United States are the government securities market, the corporate equity market and the fixed income marketThe commercial paper market is an important short-term funding market These ... transactions in which either the originating depository institution or the receiving depository institution is not their customer These inter-operator transactions are settled by the Federal Reserve...
... equal to) the trigger level, then the rating source is inthe red zone, indicating that the realised default frequency is unequivocally not in line with the PD forecast We see the backtesting techniques ... Falkenstein (2001)) The reasoning is that as we test the 17 If the rating source’s eligible class and the benchmark are dependant then the variance of the combined normal distribution should include the ... equal to) the monitoring level and (strictly) below the trigger level, then the rating source is inthe orange zone The rating source is allowed to be inthe orange zone only once in five years...
... example, the model is based on the fact that no bank dominates themarket Banks are equal at the beginning of the maintenance period and they differ from each other inthe path of the shocks that they ... other before going to the general market or the standing facilities The design of the theoretical model is intended to replicate some of the basic features of the daily market for funds inthe ... (2003) and include the beginning and the end of the reserve maintenance period, the dates of meetings of the ECBs Governing Council and the end-of -the month We argue that ECB Working Paper Series...
... Europe Defining IPRs and their infringement thereby infringes the rights of the owner of the trademark in question under the law of the country of importation This definition essentially sets the standard ... order to lead others to believe they own the original Inthe former situation, counterfeit goods compete on the primary market, i.e they infiltrate themarket of the genuine good Inthe latter situation, ... counterfeiting and UUPC Further testing of the methodology is recommended in multiple industry sectors to better understand the scope and scale of the vii Measuring IPR infringements inthe internal market...
... meeting demand—or even staying in business Evaluating Opportunities inthe Changing Marketing Environment 97 A familiar brand name—and other marketing strengths—can be an advantage in seeking ... the marketing manager doesn’t control the variables of the marketing environment That’s why it’s sometimes useful to think of them as uncontrollable variables On the other hand, the marketing ... cost-cutting measures to take, a mar- Evaluating Opportunities inthe Changing Marketing Environment 103 keting manager may have to increase prices But the decisions of individual marketing managers...
... prognostic indicator in fulminant hepatitis in patients without encephalopathy upon admission [10,11] Inthe present study, we examined 11 proinflammatory genes in patients receiving therapy inthe ... GPIb-IX-V Therefore, upregulated VWF may represent unstable hemostasis and reflect damage to endothelial megakaryocytes expressing VWF Inthe signaling pathway, VWF interacts with integrins inthe ... functions inthe complement and coagulation cascades, linking downstream to the inflammatory process or to B cell receptor signaling NAMPT is another indicator for prognosis It is the rate-limiting...
... Restructuring of the Electric Power Industry and the Current State of the Power Marketin Japan 616 16.4.1 Progress inthe Restructuring of the Japanese Electric Power Industry 617 16.4.2 Outline of the ... Electricity Infrastructures inthe Global Marketplace capacity to incorporate into their crystal structures nearly all of the elements present in highlevel radioactive waste, thereby immobilizing them There ... of the total and India 6% So their energy needs, now and inthe long-term future, will come mainly from coal For example, inthe case of China 68.3% of their energy came from indigenous coal in...
... concentrate The remainder of the ore, containing most of the radioactivity and nearly all the rock material, becomes tailings, which are emplaced in engineered facilities near the mine (often in mined ... funding followed this Research continues in India At the Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic Research a 40 MWt fast breeder test reactor has been operating since 1985 In addition, the tiny Kamini there ... Advanced Thermal Reactors Being Marketed in 2008 The Role of Nuclear inthe Future Global Energy Scene 47 1.8.1 Licensing Many of the future designs are larger than predecessors Increasingly they involve...