... this shifting landscape An expanding network ofriskand opportunity: How UK SMEs are under-estimating the growing complexity of technology 17 18 An expanding network ofriskand opportunity: ... 13% of SMEs view this as a major risk These statistics may indicate a lack of understanding ofthe complexity andthe potential scale of impact associated with these emergent trends 10 An expanding ... interconnectivity ofthe risks andthe pace of change Source: Economist Intelligence Unit An expanding network ofriskand opportunity: How UK SMEs are under-estimating the growing complexity of technology...
... overview ofthe history of inflation-indexed bonds in the US andthe UK For the US we use an expanded version ofthe Gurkaynak, Sack, and Wright (2007) and Gurkaynak, Sack, and Wright (2010, GSW ... log returns with no variance adjustments for Jensen’s inequality Table shows the means and standard deviations ofrisk premia We obtain the nominal risk premium, therisk premium on TIPS andthe ... smaller than the real interest rate risk premium Another way to understand the economic significance ofthe estimated risk premia is by calculating their variabilities and comparing them to the variability...
... hypotheses—that similar risks demand similar returns, and that short-term investors look at riskandreturn in terms of intrinsic time—leads to alternative relationships between riskandreturn In the short ... not riskandreturn in calendar time, but rather, riskandreturn as measured in intrinsic time I will identify the word risk with volatility, that is, with the annualized standard deviation of ... , νS I can again create a portfolio V ˜ and 1−w shares ofthe riskless bond consisting of w shares of P B, choosing w so that V and S have the same intrinsic-time risk, and, therefore, the same...
... transcript is a product ofalternative transcriptional initiation of ENO1 and is transcribed from the intron III ofthe gene The transcript can be exported to the cytoplasm, and can be translated in vitro ... BEAS-2B and A549 cells under normoxic and hypoxic conditions can be explained by the low transcript abundance andthe low stability ofthe MBP-1 protein in these cells B Fig Increasing expression of ... the ENO1 transcript, andthe other is transcribed from analternative transcription start site in the ENO1 gene locus In a comparison of their relative mRNA abundance in the same cell, the RT-qPCR...
... Create a bank of messages by topics and themes that are relevant to the public and timed to events and seasons (e.g., holiday shopping and toy safety at the end ofthe year) Stories can then be ... fatal and nonfatal injury, violent death, and costs of injury Researchers, the media, public health professionals, andthe public can access and use WISQARS™ to characterize the public health and ... burden of injury in the United States Users can search, sort, andviewthe injury data and create reports, charts, and maps Queries can be run based on mechanism (cause) of injury, body region and...
... provides an analytical link between the two moments ofthe circuit of capital: between the process ofthe valorization of capital, on the one hand, andthe realization of exchange-value, on the other ... intersects and interacts between the monetary andthe financial system and inherits the contradictions that characterize the function of money as a means of payments, on the one hand, andthe dematerialization ... ultimately reflects the dual functions of money as the abstract representation and measure of value, on the one hand, and as the medium of circulation and exchange, on the other hand When money functions...
... proxy for the unobservable model of expected returns As a result, my tests are joint tests ofthe changes in thepricingof assets in place and growth options around the event andthe Fama and French ... project andthe second row gives therisk premium ofthe project (annualized expected return minus risk- free rate) The numbers in parentheses show the value andriskofthe project without the option ... (1) and (2) show that the impact ofthe event on the firm’s riskandreturn is a function ofthe ratio of value ofthe growth option embedded in innovative investment to overall value of the...
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... consumption than the neat diesel fuel The reason of higher BSFC of JOME and its blend was due to lower calorific value andthe higher densities of JOME and blends caused higher mass injection for the same ... condition, the load applied, fuel consumption, brake power and exhaust temperature were measured, the values were recorded thrice and a mean of these was taken for comparison The engine performance and ... kg of seed per plant in relatively poor soils The seed yields have been reported as 0.75– 1.00 kg per plants thus the economic yield can be considered to range between 0.75 and 2.00 kg/plant and...
... such factors as the political, economic, and technological advances ofthe country); the available teaching aids and materials ; andthe constant demand to prepare students for the standardized exams ... to raise the educational level andthe economic standards ofthe Jengka settlers The majority ofthe settlers in Jengka grow palm oil and rubber trees under the government's Federal Land Development ... number of ice-breaking activities, and were provided with an overview ofthe objectives ofthe workshop The purpose ofthe introduction session was to provide the participants with a sense of purpose...
... the categories, must be the transcendental synthesis of imagination This synthesis is an action ofthe understanding on the sensibility; and is its first application – and thereby the ground of ... principle ofthe figurative synthesis, i.e., ofthe forms of intuition; space and time are themselves conceived as synthetic unities, and spontaneity, the absolute synthetic activity ofthe productive ... The Science of Logic three Kantian Critiques andthe other parts ofthe Kantian system (such as Kant’s philosophy of nature as it was developed in Kant’s philosophy of science) in light of...
... depending largely on the relationship and interaction between the interviewer and interviewees The unequal 42 power between the researcher andthe interviewees can affect the quality ofthe responses ... remember andthe new words After some time, I usually forget the meaning and use ofthe words.” “If I see the words in the exercises many times, andthe teacher explains the new words, then I can remember ... test and their IQ test at the beginning ofthe school year The group of student was selected to be the target population of this research firstly because ofthe relative number of males and females...
... taken by Hadoop when hand-coded andthe rest ofthe bar indicates the additional overhead as a result ofthe automatic plan-generation by Hive, and operator function-call and dynamic data type ... DBA who can carefully design, deploy, tune, and maintain the system, but recent advances in automating these tasks and bundling the software into appliance (pre-tuned and pre-configured) offerings ... cases, there is a clear tradeoff between fault tolerance and performance, and parallel databases tend to choose the performance extreme of these tradeoffs For example, frequent check-pointing of...
... allowing rewriting from the top of a node to an appropriate auxiliary tree, and from the foot ofthe auxiliary tree back to the b o t t o m ofthe node The index stack keeps track ofthe nodes that adjunction ... [/3k] The Ni are nonterminals, the/ 3/strings of indices The " " notation stands for the remainder ofthe stack below the given string of indices Note that only one element on the right-hand side, ... First, we review Vijay-Shanker's standard definition of TAG derivation, and introduce the motivation for extended derivations Then, we present the extended notion of derivation informally, and formalize...
... IPv6, on the other hand, vastly expands the available address space and can help to support the proliferation of broadband, of Internet-connected mobile phones and sensor networks, as well as the ... pace of adoption was influenced by several drivers First among these were the 2003 mandate ofthe US Department of Defense (DoD) and 2005 mandate by the United States Office of Management and ... sets of ―rules ofthe game‖ for address transfers and mandate that all transfers be undertaken through the local RIR They place conditions on the transfer ofthe IPv4 address block, the source of...
... abraham kaplan ofthe translators and whether the verbal setting includes words other than particles The most practical context is therefore one word on each side, increased to two if one ofthe context ... Zemansky, M W., Heat and Thermody15 namics, McGraw Hill, 1943 Total 140 The key words selected were limited to nouns, verbs, and adjectives; these are the major carriers ofthe content of any ... appear in The Teacher's Word-Book of 30,000 Words.2 Seventy-four ofthe words are among the thousand most frequent words in the English language; of these, forty-four are among the first 500 The following...
... Romeo and Juliet as an entirely separate movie, then perhaps one would appreciate it more for its creativity If people were to watch this movie like any regular movie and not think of it as the ... this movie like any regular movie and not think of it as the original Shakespeare story, then perhaps the watchers would enjoy it more ...
... region, and they probably derive from the TLC plate used in the purification process The HSQC spectrum ofthe methyl region in metabolite was cleaner and similar to that of metabolite 1, indicating the ... combined and dried The residues were dissolved in methanol and subjected to LC ⁄ MS analysis as detailed below NMR Samples ofthe purified hydroxy metabolites of vitamin D2 (the masses ofthe compounds ... metabolite 2; Fig 3A and Fig 3B), while the proton NMR ofthe 17-CH in the vitamin D2 standard at 1.32 p.p.m disappeared The shift ofthe 14-CH is FEBS Journal 273 (2006) 2891–2901 ª 2006 The Authors...