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Daws, Matthew. "Categorical Aspects of Quantum Groups: Multipliers and Intrinsic Groups." Canadian Journal of Mathematics 68, no. 2 (April 1, 2016): 309–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.4153/cjm-2015-022-0.
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AbstractWe show that the assignment of the (left) completely bounded multiplier algebra Mlcb(L1()) to a locally compact quantum group , and the assignment of the intrinsic group, form functors between appropriate categories. Morphisms of locally compact quantum groups can be described by Hopf *-homomorphisms between universal C*-algebras, by bicharacters, or by special sorts of coactions. We show that the whole theory of completely bounded multipliers can be lifted to the universal C*-algebra level, and that the different pictures of both multipliers (reduced, universal, and as centralisers) and morphisms then interact in extremely natural ways. The intrinsic group of a quantum group can be realised as a class of multipliers, and so our techniques immediately apply. We also show how to think of the intrinsic group using the universal C*-algebra picture, and then, again, how the differing views on the intrinsic group interact naturally with morphisms. We show that the intrinsic group is the “maximal classical” quantum subgroup of a locally compact quantum group, that it is even closed in the strong Vaes sense, and that the intrinsic group functor is an adjoint to the inclusion functor from locally compact groups to quantum groups.
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De Villiers, Rikus R., and Sanlie L. Middelberg. "Determining The Impact Of Capitalising Long-Term Operating Leases On The Financial Ratios Of The Top 40 JSE-Listed Companies." International Business & Economics Research Journal (IBER) 12, no. 6 (May 24, 2013): 655. http://dx.doi.org/10.19030/iber.v12i6.7871.
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Operating leases forma great part of companies financing structures in todays economicenvironment. Some accounting standard-setters and other users of financialstatements are of the opinion that the current standard on accounting foroperating leases, IAS 17, does not provide sufficient guidelines on the disclosureof a companys leasing activities. The current accounting standard on leasesprovides companies with the opportunity to classify lease contracts intodifferent classes which leads to off-balance-sheet financing. This problem iscurrently being addressed by the IASB as they are in the process of developingan improved standard on leases.The main focus ofthis paper is to determine the impact of the improved accounting standard onthe financial statements and the resulting financial ratios of theJSETop40 companies when operating leases are accounted for ason-balance-sheet debt. The differences between the current IAS 17 and theExposure draft (ED/2010/9) are identified and the comparison indicatessignificant differences between these two approaches on accounting foroperating lease activities.The focus of the IASBin developing this exposure draft was to provide the users of financialstatements with a universal picture of the leasing activities that the companyis engaged in. The findings include that this objective is achieved as usersare not left uninformed about any of the financing activities that stakeholdersare exposed to if indeed a company is engaged in operating lease activities.The study also revealed that the capitalising of long-term operating leaseswill have a significant effect on the key financial ratios that stakeholdersuse to interpret a companys financial performance.
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Pavlov, Alexander, Ulrich Pennig, and Thomas Schick. "Quasi-multipliers of Hilbert and Banach $C^*$-bimodules." MATHEMATICA SCANDINAVICA 109, no. 1 (September 1, 2011): 71. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/math.scand.a-15178.
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Quasi-multipliers for a Hilbert $C^*$-bimodule $V$ were introduced by L. G. Brown, J. A. Mingo, and N.-T. Shen [3] as a certain subset of the Banach bidual module $V^{**}$. We give another (equivalent) definition of quasi-multipliers for Hilbert $C^*$-bimodules using the centralizer approach and then show that quasi-multipliers are, in fact, universal (maximal) objects of a certain category. We also introduce quasi-multipliers for bimodules in Kasparov's sense and even for Banach bimodules over $C^*$-algebras, provided these $C^*$-algebras act non-degenerately. A topological picture of quasi-multipliers via the quasi-strict topology is given. Finally, we describe quasi-multipliers in two main situations: for the standard Hilbert bimodule $l_2(A)$ and for bimodules of sections of Hilbert $C^*$-bimodule bundles over locally compact spaces.
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Mitreva, Dr Sc Elizabeta. "Lifelong learning and the need of designing and implementing an educational subsystem in Macedonian companies." ILIRIA International Review 2, no. 1 (June 30, 2012): 271. http://dx.doi.org/10.21113/iir.v2i1.173.
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The education of the employees in each instance of company comes wiith the purpose to gain competences and experience in order to realize every business process in accordance with the requests of the products/ services, legal obligation and competitiveness criteria, as well as with the appointing of the employees requests, and all that with the intention to achieve quality where it is necessary to involve everyone in their own field.In this paper the following inputs are being given in order to get a clear picture if Macedonian companies are keen on to learning and stimulating the individual and collective learning as to improve the results in general.According to the given results in the research, it is stated that Macedonian companies do not care about the quality, insufficiently pay attention to the continuous education, make small investments in the innovations and over all, the quality system is built in a very small number of companies.In this paper the following model for a successful designing and implementing of the educational system as a subsystem of the house of quality is suggested. This methodology is integral and universal meaning it is applicable to all companies and institutions.Without a given training about TQM (Total Quality Management) philosophy and a continued education provided firstly to the managers and further on to all the employees, the TQM strategy could not be implemented as well as the benefits that come with the quality system.All the above is imposing a stronger systematic effort where the bases lay in: strong leadership (new style of the top management, realistically grounded market vision, politics and strategy and systematic orientation and business moral that will gain back the confidence between the management and the employees), staff participation (efficiency and cooperativeness in the teamwork that will not stifle the creativity and the individualism).
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Bansal, Dr Kapil. "The Role of Human Resource Management in Developing the Human Capital for Global Excellence-An Empirical Study." Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education (TURCOMAT) 12, no. 5 (April 11, 2021): 804–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.17762/turcomat.v12i5.1487.
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Companies currently are facing various crucial business challenges; Intellectual capital, Technology, Globalization, Profitability through growth, and Change. These challenges require organizations to build new capabilities in a collaborative manner, and it is human resource management developing these capabilities. It enables the organizations by playing the leadership role in meeting competitive challenges. HR professionals have shed their traditional image of policing rule making policy. Today HR professionals are held responsible for the employee’s engagement and commitment towards the organization and making them contribute and stepping into the shoes of ownership. It is no longer administrative dinosaur. It has changed from a narrow picture, reactive role to a much wider canvas. By bringing the management of the organization together with the employees, a new management of human resources triggers, a merging of the reservoir of knowledge of the person and the organization, culminating in the combined triumph of both. Competitiveness at the global level can be achieved not by only using the upgraded technologies and facilities, but by motivating employees efficiently and effectively, to comply with universal standards. Every company on the world stage, human resources professionals have the mission to affect the business world; HR is now on a paradigm shift and as a support function, withered on the board, called on to help others and to hire and fire from the companies are rapidly eroding. Human resources playing a very proactive role in managing the problems of globalization. It brings change and improves the individuals' ability to learn and collaborate, manage diversity, ambiguity and complexity. The research is an attempt to understand the role of HRM in building national talent for global achievement and to study and compare the perception of corporate employees, management faculties & management students.
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Mitreva, Elizabeta. "METHODOLOGY FOR DESIGNING AN EDUCATIONAL SUBSYSTEM AS A POLL FROM THE HOUSE OF QUALITY IN MACEDONIAN COMPANIES." Problems of Management in the 21st Century 3, no. 1 (April 20, 2012): 81–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.33225/pmc/12.03.81.
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The education of the employees in each instance of a company comes along with a purpose to gain competence and experience in order to realize every business process according to the demands of the products/services, the legal obligation as well as the criteria of competitiveness. Furthermore, it is directly conjoined with the very act of foundation setting of the employees’ requests with a unique intention - to achieve quality, stressing the vital need to affiliate everyone in their own field. This analysis presents the research inputs which are being given in order to get a clear picture whether the Macedonian companies are eager to learn and stimulate both the individual and the collective learning in order to improve the results in general. According to the given results in the research, it is stated that the Macedonian companies do not pay much attention to quality. They are insufficiently concerned with the continuous education, which is evident in the small investments they make in regard to the innovations. Hence, the quality system has been built in a very small number of companies. The following model presented in this elaborate has been suggested for a more successful designing and implementation of the educational system as a subsystem of the house of quality. This methodology is integral and has a universal notion which is applicable to all types of companies and institutions as well. Without a conducted training about TQM (Total Quality Management) philosophy and a continued education provided firstly for the managers and further on for all of the employees, the TQM strategy could not be implemented in a satisfactory manner. Also, the benefits that come along with the quality system could not be visible as a result. Key words: educational subsystem, leadership, methodology, quality system, TQM strategy.
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Hada, Kazuhiro. "Relativistic Jets from AGN Viewed at Highest Angular Resolution." Galaxies 8, no. 1 (December 18, 2019): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/galaxies8010001.
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Accreting supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei (AGN) produce powerful relativistic jets that shine from radio to GeV/TeV γ-rays. Over the past decade, AGN jets have extensively been studied in various energy bands and our knowledge about the broadband emission and rapid flares are now significantly updated. Meanwhile, the progress of magnetohydrodynamic simulations with a rotating black hole have greatly improved our theoretical understanding of powerful jet production. Nevertheless, it is still challenging to observationally resolve such flaring sites or jet formation regions since the relevant spatial scales are tiny. Observations with very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) are currently the only way to directly access such compact scales. Here we overview some recent progress of VLBI studies of AGN jets. As represented by the successful black hole shadow imaging with the Event Horizon Telescope, the recent rapid expansion of VLBI capability is remarkable. The last decade has also seen a variety of advances thanks to the advent of RadioAstron, GMVA, new VLBI facilities in East Asia as well as to the continued upgrade of VLBA. These instruments have resolved the innermost regions of relativistic jets for a number of objects covering a variety of jetted AGN classes (radio galaxies, blazars, and narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies), and the accumulated results start to establish some concrete (and likely universal) picture on the collimation, acceleration, recollimation shocks, magnetic field topology, and the connection to high-energy flares in the innermost part of AGN jets.
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Chambers, Georgina M., Christopher Harrison, James Raymer, Ann Kristin Petersen Raymer, Helena Britt, Michael Chapman, William Ledger, and Robert J. Norman. "Infertility management in women and men attending primary care—patient characteristics, management actions and referrals." Human Reproduction 34, no. 11 (November 1, 2019): 2173–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/humrep/dez172.
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Abstract STUDY QUESTION How did general practitioners (GPs) (family physicians) manage infertility in females and males in primary care between 2000 and 2016? SUMMARY ANSWER The number of GP infertility consultations for females increased 1.6 folds during the study period, with 42.9% of consultations resulting in a referral to a fertility clinic or specialist, compared to a 3-fold increase in the number of consultations for men, with 21.5% of consultations resulting in a referral. WHAT IS KNOWN ALREADY Infertility affects one in six couples and is expected to increase with the trend to later childbearing and reports of declining sperm counts. Despite GPs often being the first contact for infertile people, very limited information is available on the management of infertility in primary care. STUDY DESIGN, SIZE, DURATION Data from the Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health programme were used, which is a national study of Australian primary care (general practice) clinical activity based on 1000 ever-changing, randomly selected GPs involved in 100 000 GP–patient consultations per year between 2000 and 2016. PARTICIPANTS/MATERIALS, SETTING, METHODS Females and males aged 18–49 years attending GPs for the management of infertility were included in the study. Details recorded by GPs included patient characteristics, problems managed and management actions (including counselling/education, imaging, pathology, medications and referrals to specialists and fertility clinics). Analyses included trends in the rates of infertility consultations by sex of patient, descriptive and univariate analyses of patient characteristics and management actions and multivariate logistic regression to determine which patient and GP characteristics were independently associated with increased rates of infertility management and referrals. MAIN RESULTS AND THE ROLE OF CHANCE The rate of infertility consultations per capita increased 1.6 folds for women (17.7–28.3 per 1000 women aged 18–49 years) and 3 folds for men over the time period (3.4–10.2 per 1000 men aged 18–49 years). Referral to a fertility clinic or relevant specialist occurred in 42.9% of female infertility consultations and 21.5% of male infertility consultations. After controlling for age and other patient characteristics, being aged in their 30s, not having income assistance, attending primary care in later years of the study and coming from a non-English-speaking background, were associated with an increased likelihood of infertility being managed in primary care. In female patients, holding a Commonwealth concession card (indicating low income), living in a remote area and having a female GP all indicated a lower adjusted odds of referral to a fertility clinic or specialist. LIMITATIONS, REASONS FOR CAUTION Data are lacking for the period of infertility and infertility diagnosis, which would provide a more complete picture of the epidemiology of treatment-seeking behaviour for infertility. Australia’s universal insurance scheme provides residents with access to a GP, and therefore these findings may not be generalizable to other settings. WIDER IMPLICATIONS OF THE FINDINGS This study informs public policy on how infertility is managed in primary care in different patient groups. Whether the management actions taken and rates of secondary referral to a fertility clinic or specialist are appropriate warrants further investigation. The development of clinical practice guidelines for the management of infertility would provide a standardized approach to advice, investigations, treatment and referral pathways in primary care. STUDY FUNDING/COMPETING INTEREST(S) This paper is part of a study being funded by an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council project grant APP1104543. G.C. reports that she is an employee of The University of New South Wales (UNSW) and Director of the National Perinatal Epidemiology and Statistics Unit (NPESU), UNSW. The NPESU manages the Australian and New Zealand Assisted Reproductive Technology Database on behalf of the Fertility Society of Australia. W.L. reports being a part-time paid employee and minor shareholder of Virtus Health, a fertility company. R.N. reports being a small unitholder in a fertility company, receiving grants for research from Merck and Ferring and speaker travel grants from Merck. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER NA
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Shidlovskaya, Tetiana A., Kateryna V. Ovsyanik, and Nadiya Ya Navalkivska. "The condition of bioelectrical activity of the brain among the patients suffering diabetes mellitus type II with hearing impairment." OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY, No2(4) 2021 (March 24, 2021): 37–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.37219/2528-8253-2021-2-37.
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Topicality: The sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) is a polyetiological disease with a complex pathogenesis. Sensorineural hearing loss is also caused by metabolic disorders and system diseases, including diabetes mellitus (DM).Quite often at sensorineural hearing loss there are extraauralic manifestations of the central nervous system (CNS). On the other hand, with diabetes, there are also observed the affection of the nervous system both in the form of polyneuropathy and certain disorders of the CNS. Electroencephalography (EEG) is a reliable, universal, objective, non-invasive method of research the functional condition of the CNS. Aim: to investigate changes in the condition of bioelectrical activity of the brain according to electroencephalography among patients with diabetes mellitus type II with impaired auditory function. Materials and methods: 43 patients with diabetes mellitus type II were examined, who, according to subjective audiometry, revealed impairments of auditory function and 15 persons of the control group. The EEG research was performed using a computer electroencephalograph from the company “DX-System” (Ukraine) according to the generally accepted method. Results and discussion: The qualitative analysis of EEG results among patients with diabetes revealed abnormalities in the functional condition of the CNS in the form of diffuse changes in bioelectrical activity of the brain, disorganization and desynchronization of basic rhythms, signs of irritation of brain structures, amplified by functional loads. Among the examined patients using background EEG we observed the expressed irritative changes, decrease in bioelectrical activity of a brain, desynchronization and disorganization of rhythms. Among many of them there were periodic sharp peaks and potentials, a tendency to accelerating the basic rhythm, and against this background, the increase in the content of slow waves (theta), mainly in the front leads. Moreover, the most pronounced changes in bioelectrical activity took place in the temporal and frontal leads. Thus, in patients with diabetes mellitus type II with SNHL disorganization and desynchronization of the EEG picture was detected in 34 patients (79.1 % cases). The expressed irritative changes were registered in 39 persons (90.6 % cases), hypersynchronous bursts were detected in 15 patients (34.8%), sharp peaks and potentials were present in 21 person (48.8 %) Many patients had smoothed zonal differences – 25 persons (58.1%) and lack of reaction to eye opening – 15 patients (34.8%)The decrease of bioelectrical activity reached 86.0 % cases. The amplitude of the basic alpha rhythm of the EEG among the examined patients diabetes mellitus type II with SNHL is significantly (p<0.01) lower than the norm in the temporal, parietal and occipital leads, which was 31.8±2.5, 44.1±3.1 and 43.5±4.2 мkV, respectively. In a significant part of the examined patients (88.3 %) with hearing impairments on the background of diabetes mellitus type II, these manifestations were increasing by hyperventilation. Violations of bioelectrical activity of the brain in 97.6% of cases were symmetrical, which indicates diffuse cerebral changes in the functional condition of the CNS in this category of patients. Irritations of the cortical structures of the brain were registered in all examined patients with diabetes mellitus type II. In many of these patients (97.6%) cortical irritation was combined with the involvement of deep brain structures. Thus, dysfunction of the diencephalic structures of the brain occurred in 48,8% of cases, diencephalic-stem – in 39,5%, mediobasal – in 9.3% cases. Only one patient had irritation of only the cortical structures. So, among our examined patients with diabetes mellitus type II with impaired auditory function according to EEG there are pronounced violations of bioelectrical activity according to EEG, including changes in the cortical and deep - diencephalic and stem structures of the brain. Conclusions: 1. The researches made by EEG method in patients with diabetes mellitus type II and SNHL objectively confirm the violation of the functional condition of the CNS among such patients. 2. In patients with diabetes mellitus type II and SNHL there are changes in bioelectrical activity mainly in the form of decreasing of bioelectrical activity of the brain (86,0%), expressed irritative changes (90.6%), irritation of deep structures of the brain (97,6), disorganization and desynchronization of the EEG picture (79.1% cases). 3. In patients with SNHL on the background of diabetes mellitus type II there is significantly (p<0.01) lower decreasing of amplitude of the alpha rhythm in comparison with the control values in temporal, parietal and occipital leads to 31.8±2.5, 44.1±3.1 and 43.5±4.2 mkV, respectively.
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White, Simon D. M. "Simulations of Disk Galaxy Formation in their Cosmological Context." Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union 4, S254 (June 2008): 19–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1743921308027336.
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AbstractTogether with the discovery of the accelerated expansion of the present Universe and measurements of large-scale structure at low redshift, observations of the cosmic microwave background have established a standard paradigm in which all cosmic structure grew from small fluctuations generated at very early times in a flat universe which today consists of 72% dark energy, 23.5% dark matter and 4.5% ordinary baryons. The CMB sky provides us with a direct image of this universe when it was 400,000 years old and very nearly uniform. The galaxy formation problem is then to understand how observed galaxies with all their regularity and diversity arose from these very simple initial conditions. Although gravity is the prime driver, many physical processes appear to play an important role in this transformation, and direct numerical simulation has become the principal tool for detailed investigation of the complex and strongly nonlinear interactions between them.The evolution of structure in the gravitationally dominant Cold Dark Matter distribution can now be simulated in great detail, provided the effects of the baryons are ignored, and there is general consensus for the results on scales relevant to the formation of galaxies like our own. The basic nonlinear units are so-called “dark matter halos”, slowly rotating, triaxial, quasi-equilibrium systems with a universal cusped density profile and substantial substructure in the form of a host of much less massive subhalos which are concentrated primarily in their outer regions.Attempts to include the baryons, and so to model the formation of the visible parts of galaxies, have given much more diverse results. It has been known for 30 years that substantial feedback, presumably from stellar winds and supernovae, is required to prevent overcooling of gas and excessive star formation in the early stages of galaxy assembly. When realistic galaxy formation simulations first became possible in the early 1990's, this problem was immediately confirmed. Without effective feedback, typical halos produced galaxies which were too massive, too concentrated and had too little disk to be consistent with observation.Simple models for disk formation from the mid 1990's show that the angular momentum predicted for collapsing dark halos is sufficient for them to build a disk population similar to that observed. Direct simulations have repeatedly failed to confirm this picture, however, because nonlinear effects lead to substantial transfer of angular momentum between the various components. In most cases the condensing baryonic material loses angular momentum to the dark matter, and the final galaxy ends up with a disk that is too compact or contains too small a fraction of the stars.These problems have been reduced as successive generations of simulations have dramatically improved the numerical resolution and have introduced “better” implementations of feedback (i.e. more successful at building disks). Despite this, no high-resolution simulation has so far been able to produce a present-day disk galaxy with a bulge-to-disk mass ratio much less than one in a proper ΛCDM context. Such galaxies are common in the real Universe; our own Milky Way is a good example. The variety of results obtained by different groups show that this issue is very sensitive to how star formation and feedback are treated, and all implementations of these processes to date have been much too schematic to be confident of their predictions.The major outstanding issues I see related to disk galaxies and their formation are the following: Do real disk galaxies have the NFW halos predicted by the ΛCDM cosmology? If not, could the deviations have been produced by the formation of the observed baryonic components, or must the basic structure formation picture be changed? How are Sc and later type galaxies made? Why don't our simulations produce them? What determines which galaxies become barred and which not? Can we demonstrate that secular evolution produces the observed population of (pseudo)bulges from pre-existing disks? How does the observed population of thin disks survive bombardment by substructure and the other transient potential fluctuations expected in ΛCDM halos? Is a better treatment of feedback really the answer? If so, can we demonstrate it using chemical abundances as fossil tracers? And how can we best use observations at high redshift to clarify these formation issues?
Books on the topic "Universal Pictures Company"
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The Universal silents: A filmography of the Universal Motion Picture Manufacturing Company, 1912-1929. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland, 1999.
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Universal sound westerns, 1929-1946: The complete filmography. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland & Co., 2003.
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Universal women: Filmmaking and institutional change in early Hollywood. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010.
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Martine, Orange, ed. The man who tried to buy the world: Jean-Marie Messier and Vivendi Universal. London: Viking, 2003.
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Soister, John T. Of Gods and monsters: A critical guide to Universal Studios' science fiction, horror, and mystery films, 1929-1939. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland, 1999.
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Unoki, Ko. Mergers, acquisitions and global empires: Tolerance, diversity, and the success of M&A. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2012.
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Hoey, Michael A. Sherlock Holmes & the FabulousFaces - The Universal Pictures Repertory Company. BearManor Media, 2011.
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Braff, Richard E. Universal Silents: A Filmography of the Universal Motion Picture Manufacturing Company, 1912-1929. McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers, 2009.
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The Universal Silents: A Filmography of the Universal Motion Picture Manufacturing Company, 1912-1929. McFarland & Company, 1998.
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Townsend, Sylvia. "Potholes." In Bumpy Road, 96–104. University Press of Mississippi, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496804143.003.0006.
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The film company finishes shooting the picture in this chapter.In Boswell, Oklahoma they use up the town’s water supply and two locals with a shotgun in a pickup truck run them out of town. The Universal executive Ned Tanen visits the set and becomes convinced the film will be a hit. James Taylor’s first hit song, “Fire and Rain,” climbs to the top of the charts, making him famous. Taylor’s newfound celebrity helps attract journalists to the travelling set, and all the publicity raises expectations for the low-budget existentialist car-racing movie. After Jaclyn Hellman’s sense memory exercises, which became fierce and antagonistic due to her distress over her husband’s mistress being along on the shoot, and Hellman’s withdrawal of the script and hands-off directing style, Taylor vows never to make another movie, and he never has.
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Kupst, Mary Jo, and Kristin Bingen. "Stress and Coping in the Pediatric Cancer Experience." In Comprehensive Handbook of Childhood Cancer and Sickle Cell Disease. Oxford University Press, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195169850.003.0008.
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The diagnosis of pediatric cancer is one of the most stressful situations a child and family must face. It presents an overwhelming series of stressors, not the least of which is the possibility of the child’s death. Although the survival rate for childhood cancer has improved significantly (from nearly always fatal in the 1950s and 1960s to nearly 75% survival at present), the treatments remain lengthy and intensive, involving fundamental changes in the child and family’s lives. The chapters that follow in this book present a thorough discussion of the various psychological issues in pediatric hematology/oncology. This chapter begins with an overview of what is meant by coping and then focuses on three main questions: (a) What is the impact of pediatric cancer? That is, with what must children and families cope? (b) How do they cope? And, finally, (c) how is coping related to positive adaptation? We also discuss the theoretical and methodological issues involved in studying coping and adaptation. As there is a subsequent chapter related to families in this volume, we focus primarily on the child, adolescent, and young adult with cancer. Coping is a process that must always be considered in a situational context because it may vary across situations and over time (Compas, Worsham, &Ey, 1992; Fields & Prinz, 1997). It follows that taking a longitudinal approach toward understanding the stressors and demands placed on a child and family as they progress through the experience of cancer is essential. Despite this clinical knowledge and seemingly universal acknowledgment of the process nature of coping, most studies have assessed coping with pediatric cancer at a single point or phase (Compas et al., 1992), and it has often been necessary to extrapolate assumptions about the process by combining results from separate studies. We present a picture of the coping tasks that children and their families face from diagnosis through and beyond treatment. In general, the descriptions of the “natural history” of adaptation (Natterson & Knudson, 1960) from early studies (Binger et al., 1969; Chodoff, Friedman, & Hamburg, 1964; Futterman & Hoffman, 1973) remain useful, although the type and duration of treatment as well as prognostic factors may have changed.
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Baldwin, Peter. "How the West Was One." In The Narcissism of Minor Differences. Oxford University Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195391206.003.0020.
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When Americans Compare Their Country to others, it is almost invariably to find fault with it. Of course, there are tub-thumpers on the right wing, for whom the United States is the greatest nation and comparisons are drawn merely to underline that preeminence. But they are a predictable lot, and intellectually of no consequence. Comparisons with abroad are of little use when preaching to the choir if the choir does not care. Most conservative Americans are too uninterested in Europe to sit still for comparative explanations of U.S. superiority. Mitt Romney got very little traction from attacking French health care and other things Gallic during his abortive run for the Republican nomination in 2007. The vast majority of Americans’ comparisons are undertaken by social scientists with liberal leanings who hope that the United States will some day approximate Europe when it comes to family allowances, universal health insurance, parental leave, and the like. For them, Europe means northern Europe. They either ignore the south or see it too as aspiring to north European status. Stockholm is the mecca toward which the social science faithful pray. Because of their political reform agenda—fervent but unfulfilled—the tone they strike is wistful. Take as a recent example the American Human Development Report, published by a preeminent institution, the Social Science Research Council, and prefaced by multiple well-wishes from the great and the good. It is modeled on the UN’s attempt to sum up economic and human well-being in a single number, to compare nations and progress over time. Its wealth of information lays bare the sometimes dramatic disparities within the United States and shows where it is lagging in relation to peer comparison countries. That is all well and good, and who could fault it? It is when sight is lost of the larger picture that worries begin. Thus, the report presents a chart (Figure 1.2) showing an apparently precipitous decline in America’s human development ranking. The United States stood in second place, after Switzerland, in 1980. This held steady until 1995, when it plummeted over the next 15 years to land at the 12th spot in 2005. America’s numerical score has increased steadily, we are reassured. But the scores of other countries have risen even faster. As a result, the United States has fallen behind its more efficient competitors.
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"Born in Iran and currently residing in London, Hossein Amini initially thought that he wanted to be a writer-director after helming a few shorts while at Oxford. But once he started making a living as a writer on other people’s projects, he discovered that he enjoyed focusing on screenwriting. His career began with television movies, The Dying of the Light (1992) and Deep Secrets (1996), but even then Amini knew that his interest was in features. A chance encounter with director Michael Winterbottom at the BAFTA awards in the mid-1990s led to their collaboration on the feature Jude (1996), an adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s novel Jude the Obscure that starred Christopher Eccleston and Kate Winslet. Amini’s next adaptation was The Wings of the Dove (1997), based on Henry James’ novel—the film went on to receive four Academy Award nominations, including Best Adapted Screenplay. Soon after, Amini signed an exclusive overall deal with Miramax Films, working on the independent company’s diverse projects like Gangs of New York (2002) (for which he didn’t receive a credit) and The Four Feathers (2002). After his Miramax deal ended, he was approached by Universal Pictures to work on an adaptation of a book by crime author James Sallis about an enigmatic getaway driver. The project, Drive (2011), was eventually independently financed and directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, receiving rave reviews in competition at Cannes. Though Amini has primarily written for indie and art-house films, he has recently been involved with some major studio projects, including Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) and 47 Ronin (2013). Currently, he’s directing The Two Faces of January, his adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel, which stars Viggo Mortensen and Kirsten Dunst." In FilmCraft: Screenwriting, 13–14. Routledge, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780240824857-2.
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Richmond, Shaun. "American Railroad Freight Cars: 100 Years of Progress, 1920-2020." In 2020 Joint Rail Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/jrc2020-8107.
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Abstract This paper was written to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the ASME Rail Transportation Division, which was founded in 1920 and held its first meeting in St. Louis. It attempts to paint a picture of the U. S. railroad freight car and the engineering processes involved in its design and construction in 1920 and compare this with today’s designs and practices. Progress in freight car design has been evolutionary rather than revolutionary. The steel freight car had largely replaced its wooden predecessor by 1920 and the basic design of many cars was already in place. Exceptions being the Spine Car and the Well Car, which were entirely unknown in 1920. The Box Car has diminished greatly in importance and more specialized cars are now common. One important difference is that welding is now used extensively in freight car construction whereas in 1920 riveting was almost universal. An important change is the availability of electronic instrumentation to measure, record and analyze the load environment of cars. This has allowed the development of performance-based specifications and these have largely replaced the prescriptive standards used in 1920. CAD and FE analysis have revolutionized the way in which cars are designed, allowing much more refined analysis which has led to far lighter car designs. In 1920 virtually all Engineers were white men — this too is changing.