... 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...
... THE TIMBER CRISIS 29They 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 ... 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 ... reached the end of their lives and as the price of wood rose, more and more were being replaced by metal bridges. The fi rst general substitution of metal bridges for wood took place in the 1890s...
... 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 UK8 cannot sensibly...
... is the primary key value ofthe record. Somereplication engines only log the fields that have changed instead of entire records. In anycase, the trigger posts the event about the change and the ... users of applications. Events themselves can't carry the text of the message itself, but they can alert user applications when new messages have been postedso they can pick them up. The fact ... table. They know which are the new records as they keep a record ofthe last IDfrom messages table they have read. Once they read the records, they update their internallast_ID value. Alternatively,...
... aware of their ownemotional landscape and the emotional context of their environ-ment. These insights are woven into the fabric ofthe coaching workand are introduced in ways in which the client ... appreciation of the strengths ofthe other players on his team. This new level of insight allows him to create plays that take his own skills to a newlevel and capitalizes on the talents of others.Coaching ... calculated. The evalua-tion strategy will also look into the sources ofthe monetary valueto show specifically how the business value is being produced. As welearned from the story ofthe consulting...
... 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 (orgroups 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 ... StemmingIn 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 canbe reduced...
... bc,while others moved more quickly up the main waterways until, at about 1000bc, they reached the eastern edge ofthe equatorial forest in the broad area of the great East African lakes. There they ... ofthe economy at Birimi, a settlement close to the northern edge ofthe West African forest in modern Ghana. This was an outlier of the Kintampo culture whose other sites, further south in the ... fatalto cattle. By the first half ofthe second millennium bc, cattle were herdedclose to the top ofthe Niger bend and on the southern shores of Lake Chad.Shortly afterwards, the first strong archaeological...
... tototalizing power. 12And for the most part, the initiators of totalitarian rulepursued their aims in the name of some grand moral imperative – the Aryan domination ofthe sub-human races ofthe world ... determine theirmoral justiWability or lack thereof. Whether the wartime allies did enoughto assist victims ofthe Nazi holocaust; whether America should havedropped the atomic bomb on Japan; whether ... The honor of politicians havingso often proved as hollow as their promises, their reputation as a class hasfrequently tended to fall, like the salesman’s, to the level ofthe scoundrelor the...
... for further researchIn spite ofthe significant findings that supported the alternative hypothesis ofthe positive effect of extensive reading on students' reading proficiency, there existed ... information of informants 24 characteristic made up the external validity ofthe study which helps to increase the validity of the later generalization ofthe result to the population. Involving the ... accurate. In the questionnaire of this study students were asked about their general impression ofthe program, their preference ofthe post- reading activities and other ingredients such as reading...
... two otherwomen in the group named Cheryl. Two of the three men named Phil. Ofthe men, only Philnamed Cheryl. In other words, in this instance, the women evaluated the contribution of anotherwoman ... in how sensitive theyare to the social dynamics of language – in otherwords, to the subtle nuances of what others say tothem. 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 fromTalking from 9 to 5 (Avon Books, 1995). The Powerof Talk: The head of...
... toSolve the World’s Ills at a ProfitCHAPTER 2From the Infirmity ofthe Hyped Six Sigma to thePowerof UltimateSix SigmaCHAPTER 3 The Scope, Structure, and Methodology ofthePowerof Ultimate ... 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 ... Some ofthe characteristics of these three types of companies are discussed inChapter 3.A Regrouping ofthe Disciplines ofthe Ultimate Six Sigma The original Ultimate Six Sigma book grouped the...