fsa s handbook they derive their authority from the fsa s rule making powers as set out in the act and reflect the fsa s regulatory objectives the relevant principles are as follows

24 LESSONS FROM THE WORLD’S GREATEST CEO

Ngày tải lên : 08/11/2013, 01:15

... should focus on “winning businesses,” businesses that can be one of the two top competitors in each of its markets These are the businesses that will the best, particularly in tough times, the GE ... Terms of Use By stressing this point in everything the company did from including it in the GE values to declaring it in his annual speech to share owners—Welch was making sure that no one missed ... over, the style of management that was in place had not changed in decades In what was known as the scientiﬁc method,” workers were viewed as cogs in the vast machinery of business That assembly...

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Tài liệu Fertility, Family Planning, and Women’s Health: New Data From the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth pptx

Ngày tải lên : 12/02/2014, 23:20

... intervieweradministered portion of the survey and the second was in the self-administered portion (Audio CASI) In the interviewer-administered series, they were asked whether their ﬁrst intercourse was ‘‘voluntary ... very simple measures of these background characteristics and is limited to simple statistical measures such as percents and averages Further research on the 1995 NSFG will explore the usefulness ... control—United States—Statistics Childbirth—United States—Statistics Sex—United States—Statistics Pregnancy—United States—Statistics Health behavior—United States—Statistics United States—Statistics, Medical...

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Tài liệu Fertility, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health of U.S. Women: Data From the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth doc

Ngày tải lên : 13/02/2014, 10:20

... totals Estimates of sampling errors and other statistical aspects of the survey are described in more detail in a separate report (15) This report shows findings by characteristics of the woman interviewed, ... yield estimates for individual States Methods T he NSFG is based on interviews that are administered in person by trained female interviewers in the selected persons’ homes The Cycle data are based ... Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (OASPE) NCHS gratefully acknowledges the contributions of these programs and agencies, and all others who assisted in designing and carrying out...

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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

Ngày tải lên : 16/02/2014, 06:20

... a savings bank s earnings from term transformation increase by basis point (as compared to the previous year), the interest income (normalized to total assets) goes up by 0.51 basis points The ... falls in accordance with the respective earnings from term transformation The fact that a basis point increase in the earnings from term transformation does not translate in a basis point increase ... We assume that the same exposure to interest rate risk yields the same earnings from term transformation If this assumption holds and if the bank s exposure to interest rate risk is known (as in...

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Tài liệu FIRMS AND THEIR DISTRESSED BANKS: LESSONS FROM THE NORWEGIAN BANKING CRISIS (1988-1991) docx

Ngày tải lên : 16/02/2014, 10:20

... Non-performing loan estimates based upon loans classified into categories II-IV by the Japanese Ministry of Finance self-assessment standards of asset quality See http://www .fsa. go.jp\/news/newse/e20000728-1a.html ... specifications The estimates suggest that every dollar of new equity issued on 100 dollars of assets in the two years prior to the distress announcement leads to an increase of 90-125 basis points in the ... and introduces the event study methodology used in our paper and Section contains the event study results Section compares the Norwegian and Japanese financial systems and investigates the cross-sectional...

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Tài liệu The UN’s Role in Nation-Building - From the Congo to Iraq pptx

Ngày tải lên : 18/02/2014, 00:20

... Nations—Military policy—Case studies United Nations— Economic assistance—Case studies United Nations—Technical assistance—Case studies Peace-building—Case studies I Dobbins, James, 1942– JZ4984.5.U534 ... wisdom with which such resources are employed and on the susceptibility of the society in question to the changes being fostered Nevertheless, success is also in some measure dependent on the ... veterans of earlier operations The United States, in contrast, tends to staﬀ each new operation as if it were its ﬁrst and destined to be its last Service in such missions has never been regarded as...

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Reproductive contributions of Taiwan''''s foreign wives from the top five source countries pot

Ngày tải lên : 05/03/2014, 16:20

... by the school system and NGOs, including language training classes for the mothers from Southeast Asian countries Governments at all levels as well as human rights organizations should also play ... by the husbands, the wives themselves and their families, as well as by marriage brokers and government interventions, it is useful to assess the effects of such factors on the reproductive outcomes ... East and Southeast Asia in recent decades (Douglass 2006) The creation and sustainment of households at all lifecycle stages increasingly depends on short- and long-term migrations of individuals...

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CURRENCY BOARD OR CENTRAL BANK? Lessons from the Irish Pound''''s Link with Sterling, 1928-79 ppt

Ngày tải lên : 06/03/2014, 14:20

... remainder of the fall in the net foreign assets of the banking system was associated with a sharp increase in imports and a decline in meat exports Although previous studies have stressed the ... drawback is the inflexibility of the system in responding to shocks In this section we review the evidence on the stability-inducing characteristics; the following section discusses some shocks Seigniorage ... Commission, thus limited to gold and sterling This accounting device, separating the note issue business from the other activities of the Bank, was similar to that of the Bank of England 's Issue...

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“Marketing is the whole business, taken from the customer’s point of view.” - Peter Drucker docx

Ngày tải lên : 06/03/2014, 21:20

... Considering approaching these businesses with ideas for cross-promotions Ask stores to place market posters in their windows and offer to distribute store coupons good only on market day And ... •Consistently satisfy customers -they will rave about the market to friends, family and coworkers •Turn core customers into ambassadors-ask if they would share ﬂyers with friends and coworkers •Reward ... season-dates, locations, hours, a list of market products, a chart outlining when fruits and vegetables are in season, a schedule of special events as well as a short history of the market and...

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Excerpt from the Examination Regulations for the Master’s Program in Economics at the University of Mannheim docx

Ngày tải lên : 08/03/2014, 05:20

... presented in this or any similar form to any examination authority before The master s thesis is assessed by the examiner who has issued the topic The assessment is made according to the “assessment ... two month after submission The minimum grade for passing the master s thesis is 4.0 If passed, the candidate earns the amount of ECTS credits assigned to the master s thesis (see respective attachment) ... weeks of the processing time; in this case the master s thesis is treated as if it has not started yet The processing time depends on the field of study and is given in the corresponding specific...

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From the Earth’s Core to Outer Space docx

Ngày tải lên : 14/03/2014, 10:20

... decades Hannu Koskinen discusses the space weather effects that arise from Solar Coronal Mass Ejections Given the increasing dependence on electric power grids and satellite assets (satellite TV and ... ore deposits and discuss future developments Mining industry is strongly growing in Finland, and it is estimated that the output of metallic mines will increase from four million tons in the early ... forces and impacts these grew into to the actual planets we now know as Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars Farther from the Sun, in the cooler parts of the Solar nebula, the gaseous giant planets (Jupiter,...

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A Complete Guide for All Ages: Easy to understand information from the nation’s leaders in women’s health doc

Ngày tải lên : 14/03/2014, 12:20

... your health involves understanding your risk factors for different diseases Risk factors are things in your life that increase your chances of getting a certain disease Some risk factors are beyond ... as well as heart attack signs, common tests, treatments, and living with heart disease Stroke 37 Recognizing the signs of stroke, as well as understanding risk factors, diagnosis, ... is come down the stairs In the case of heart disease, that means taking steps such as quitting smoking and controlling your blood pressure through healthy eating, physical activity, and taking...

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progression of music from the 1940 s to the present

Ngày tải lên : 21/03/2014, 22:49

... twist to it In the 80 's the synthesizer became big with such groups as "The Eurythmics" The new groups of the 80 's revolutionized disco and transformed it to todays techno Synthesizers are insteruments ... day, the synthesizer is still being used in dance and techno music Also introduced into the 90 's was the computer The computer has been around a while, but not been used in the music industry ... this British invasion was a group known as "The Beatles" There hits like "I want to hold your hand" They broke up in 1970 and all pursued solo careers or in their own band Many people requested...

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Women’s Health Care Chartbook: Key Findings from the Kaiser Women’s Health Survey doc

Ngày tải lên : 22/03/2014, 10:20

... obligations In their roles as mothers, women are the primary caretakers of their children s needs, including managing their health care About one in five (21%) mothers are single parents and six in ... earnings are more likely to delay care because of costs, as are women of color, and those in the worst health status These are groups who have higher rates of lack of insurance and in many cases, ... purchase individual insurance also work full-time, yet for a variety of reasons, they must purchase their own insurance, often because they are not offered insurance by their employer or their spouses,...

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Lessons from the Army''''s Future Combat Systems Program doc

Ngày tải lên : 23/03/2014, 02:20

... System Engineering and Architechting System Engineering and Management Plan Systems Engineering Plan Systems Integration Laboratory Acronyms SMART SME SMOA SoRC SoS SoSCOE SoSS SPI SpI SRC SSP ... risk mitigation across systems Despite the lack of best practices for risk mitigation in SoS acquisition, it was asserted that the FCS risk management process was more rigorous than the standard ... over the past ten years of FCS • A history of FCS supporting analysis The report is also based on numerous interviews, focused on business leaders in the program from both the Army and the Lead Systems...

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Báo cáo khoa học: Puriﬁcation and cloning of a Delta class glutathione S-transferase displaying high peroxidase activity isolated from the German cockroach Blattella germanica pptx

Ngày tải lên : 23/03/2014, 09:21

... at least six classes of cytosolic GSTs in insects [2] The majority of GSTs are in the Delta and Epsilon classes, and the remaining enzymes are in the Omega, Sigma, Theta and Zeta classes The German ... cross-reactivity Several classes of proteins, such as pathogenesis-related proteins and profilins, have been identified as contributing to the cross-reactivity Results obtained from immunoblotting ... Substrate specificities of purified cockroach GST compared with those of other insect GSTs Values are the means ± SE from three separate experiments Substrate specificities of Delta class GSTs from...

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Báo cáo khoa học: Puriﬁcation and properties of the glutathione S-transferases from the anoxia-tolerant turtle, Trachemys scripta elegans pdf

Ngày tải lên : 23/03/2014, 15:20

... membranes such as reactive alkenes, epoxides, hydroperoxides and aldehydes These may be the primary substrates of the microsomal or membrane-bound GST in the same way as they are the substrates for Se-dependent ... hydroperoxide The classification of GSTs also depends on their responses to substrates and inhibitors Like all GSTs, turtle liver GSTs showed activity with the nonspecific substrates including CDNB, ... Thus GSTs can vary widely in their subunit size The larger molecular mass of turtle GSTs may arise as a result of post-translational modifications of the subunit proteins Cloning and sequencing...

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Control of Dioxins (and other Organochlorines) from the Pulp and Paper Industry under the Clean Water Act and Lead in Soil at Superfund Mining Sites: Two Case Studies in EPA''''s Use of Science potx

Ngày tải lên : 24/03/2014, 05:20

... Dioxin from Pulp and Paper and Lead in Soil at Mining Sites i Abstract This paper discusses EPA s acquisition and use of science in addressing dioxins (and other organochlorines) from the pulp and ... criteria, as well as the agency s initial stab at a dioxin reassessment in 1988, invited the States to exercise some scientific discretion in assessing the hazards of dioxin For the EPA regulatory ... others regarding EPA s acquisition and use of science The case studies also incorporate many comments and insights from these interviewees In all instances, interviewees were given the option of speaking...

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The Value of Comprehensive Credit Reports: Lessons from the U.S. Experience Summary pptx

Ngày tải lên : 29/03/2014, 07:20

... prices for other financial products as customers have been freed from their binding relationships with banks and other depository institutions In the past the customer s own bank was frequently the ... of lending may increase as information sharing expands the customer base C Limits on Information Sharing Is more information sharing always better? Interestingly, the theoretical models show that ... found in the U .S files provided the greatest lift in the predictive power of the scoring models, this result suggests that lenders and consumers in restricted-reporting environments are missing significant...

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JACK HARKAWAY AND HIS SON''''S ESCAPE FROM THE BRIGANDS OF GREECE pptx

Ngày tải lên : 29/03/2014, 07:20

... you, and repent." Mole staggered off As soon as he was gone, Matteo assisted his master to change his garments, and in the space of five minutes at the outside, the devil disappeared, and was replaced ... between them and the house as far as they could, when just as they gained the shelter of a trellissed verandah, a dog within set up a most alarming noise The three robbers exchanged uneasy glances ... one of the lady 's bracelets which he had with some dexterity removed The next round he was less successful As they shot past, the brigand 's hand was outstretched, but Hunston missed it, and a...

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