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M&A : the case of Secil and Lafarge Betões
No full textThe drive of the choice of the acquisition of Lafarge Betões by Secil as the subject of this dissertation
was to try to understand the rational of investing in a business that is currently in a very adverse
economic environment.
The forecast in this uncertain period is now a question of believe. Secil believed that, in Portugal, in this
recessionary environment was worth paying €65 million for Lafarge Betões.
Secil had a long term perspective that the Portuguese economy and the industry will recover and the
acquisition will bring a dominant market position overtaking Cimpor and improved efficiencies that will
contribute to a better performance in 2014-2015 when the economy will start growing.
The holding company Semapa is negotiating the acquisition of the remaining 49% share in Secil and
was recently a candidate to the acquisition of Cimpor.
It is this investment effort in the Portuguese industry, the optimistic believe of the “captains of
industry”, that has attracted my curiosity and justified the choice of this subject
On a subspace of dual Zariski topology
No full textLet R be a commutative ring with identity and S pee (M) (resp. Min(M)) denote the set of all second (resp minimal) submodules of a non-zero R-module M. In this paper, we investigate several properties of the subspace topology on Min(M) induced by the dual Zariski on S pee(M) and determine some cases in which Min(M) is a max-spectral space
Can Wearable Technology Enhance Emotional Intimacy? An experimental design research
No full textEmotion is an intangible fact that is woven into interpersonal relationships in order to sustain social bonds with more understanding, trust and intimacy. Today, people are in an era of digitally mediated HHI (Human-to-Human Interaction), which is transforming the traditional way of communication and social dynamics. In order to increase the affective level of communication, research areas, such as affective haptics and wearable technology have emerged to find more affective interaction avenues and convey human emotions through technology in a more physical way. This paper presents a survey and a design practice that aim to explore how wearable technology can enhance emotional intimacy by introducing new ways for expressing emotions. The analysis of this study is addressed on the privacy issue of emotional expression through wearable technology and intimacy of emphatic communication through these agents
Dr. Duane M. Jackson, Morehouse College, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Duane M. Jackson. Dr. Jackson talks about his paper, "Recall and the Serial Position Effect: The Role of Primacy and Recency on Accounting Students' Performance." Jackie Daniel, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States" By M. Carey.
No full text"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States: containing bried sketches of the moral and political character of those states.
By M. Carey, member of the American philosophical, and of the American Antiquarian Society, and author of The Olive Branch, Cindiciae Hibernicae, essays on banking, on political economy, and on internal improvement.
To which are now added the English editor's comments on the subject; together with Important Advice to Emigrants, and Cautions Against Impositions Practiced in the Outports
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Dr. Glendon Swarthout
No full textHosted by Roger M. Busfield, MSU Assistant Professor of Speech and Theater, Meet the Author is designed to introduce a general audience to a contemporary author and their work through in-depth interviews. This episode features a conversation between Dr. Glendon Swarthout, prolific author and English professor at MSU, and assistant professors Sam S. Baskett and Theodore B. Strandness
Simulation of thermal plant optimization and hydraulic aspects of thermal distribution loops for large campuses
No full textFollowing an introduction, the author describes Texas A&M University and its utilities system. After that, the author presents how to construct simulation models for chilled water and heating hot water distribution systems. The simulation model was used in a $2.3 million Ross Street chilled water pipe replacement project at Texas A&M University. A second project conducted at the University of Texas at San Antonio was used as an example to demonstrate how to identify and design an optimal distribution system by using a simulation model. The author found that the minor losses of these closed loop thermal distribution systems are significantly higher than potable water distribution systems. In the second part of the report, the author presents the latest development of software called the Plant Optimization Program, which can simulate cogeneration plant operation, estimate its operation cost and provide optimized operation suggestions. The author also developed detailed simulation models for a gas turbine and heat recovery steam generator and identified significant potential savings. Finally, the author also used a steam turbine as an example to present a multi-regression method on constructing simulation models by using basic statistics and optimization algorithms. This report presents a survey of the author??s working experience at the Energy Systems Laboratory (ESL) at Texas A&M University during the period of January 2002 through March 2004. The purpose of the above work was to allow the author to become familiar with the practice of engineering. The result is that the author knows how to complete a project from start to finish and understands how both technical and nontechnical aspects of a project need to be considered in order to ensure a quality deliverable and bring a project to successful completion. This report concludes that the objectives of the internship were successfully accomplished and that the requirements for the degree of Degree of Engineering have been satisfied
Ezrin Immunoreactivity in Renal Cell Carcinomas.
No full textOBJECTIVE: To determine ezrin's association with clinicopathologic features and to investigate the possible effects of the presence of ezrin on the differential diagnosis of subtypes of renal cell carcinoma (RCC).
STUDY DESIGN: Ezrin reactivity was examined immunohistochemically in tumor tissues obtained from 78 patients who underwent radical nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma. Correlation between ezrin expression and RCC subtypes was investigated and compared with tumor stage, grade and other clinicopathologic parameters.
RESULTS: There was no correlation between ezrin expression and clinicopathologic features. Furthermore, a significant correlation was found between ezrin reactivity and subtypes of RCC (p = 0.002). Ezrin reactivity was observed mainly in conventional, papillary and mucinous tubular spindle cell carcinoma (MTSCC) subtypes of RCC, while none of the chromophobe RCC was positive for ezrin. Sarcomatoid and unclassified subtypes of RCC were found to be faint and/or negative for ezrin reactivity.
CONCLUSION: Investigation of ezrin reactivity may be beneficial as an additional diagnostic marker in the differential diagnosis of RCC subtypes. Also, it seems to be useful to designate the origin of MTSCC
On M-coidempotent elements and fully coidempotent modules
No full textIn this article, we introduce the notion of M-coidempotent elements of a ring and investigate their connections with fully coidempotent modules, fully copure modules and vn-regular modules where M is a module. We prove that if M is a finitely cogenerated module, then M is fully copure if and only if M is semisimple. We prove that if M is a Noetherian module or M is a finitely cogenerated module, then M is fully coidempotent if and only if M is a vn-regular module. Finally, we give a characterization of semisimple Artinian modules via weak idempotents
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