... 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
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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...
... be.
Back to the taxi. The first thing a person
might do is flag down the taxi. The driver
stops, gets out and opens the door. The riders
enter. Then the driver wants to know where
to? They point the ... wire-walkers, the clowns
ran into the Big Top and did their acts. The audience was
kept busy watching their antics, while the other work was
going on. The moment the rigging was finished, the
clowns ... through
the situation to the punch line (here’s a tip ) or the gag (a sucker on the line). Lead them
straight to the gag with funny developments (falling out ofthe taxi, missing the chair the waiter
pulls...
... 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...
... but the basic structure is the
same. The whole filter expression returns a list, which is assigned to the
methodList variable. The first half ofthe expression is the list mapping
part. The ... is the name ofthe
current method.
Using the getattr function, you're getting a reference to the method
function in the object module.
Now, printing the actual doc string ofthe ... make sure that the value
of a is never false. One common way of doing this is to turn a into [a] and
b into [b], then taking the first element ofthe returned list, which will be
either a or b....
... objective. The findings of this study
illustrate that: (a) the KMS developed in the organization studied did not meet the claims of
their creators, as the applications provided a poor approximation ofthe ... ultimately, themselves redundant. In
reaction to the probability of industrial unrest,
Coillte dispensed with the services of IMS—Sean
Breen, IMS’s CEO described the situation thus:
The first phase ofthe ... knowledge; (b) the importance of developing
self-knowledge about the essence of social phenom-
ena, and not just their form; (c) the role of commit-
ment in learning; and (d) the selectivity of social
Knowledge...