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Specification (technical standard) The National Building Specification is owned by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) through their commercial group RIBA Enterprises (RIBAe). NBS master specifications provide content that is broad and comprehensive, and delivered using software functionality that enables ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14171448 |
Specification (technical standard) Specifications and other standards can be externally imposed as discussed above, but also internal manufacturing and quality specifications. These exist not only for the food or pharmaceutical product but also for the processing machinery, quality processes, packaging, logistics (cold... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14171448 |
Specification (technical standard) Recently, the ISO has made some progress in the area of food and drug standards and formal specifications for data about regulated substances through the publication of ISO 11238. In many contexts, particularly software, specifications are needed to avoid errors due to lack of compati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14171448 |
Specification (technical standard) However errors due to file name encoding incompatibilities have always existed, due to a lack of minimum set of common specification between software hoped to be inter-operable between various file system drivers, operating systems, network protocols, and thousands of software package... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14171448 |
Specification (technical standard) In practice, many successful specifications are written to understand and fine-tune applications that were already well-developed, although safety-critical software systems are often carefully specified prior to application development. Specifications are most important for external i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14171448 |
Operational database management systems (also referred to as OLTP On Line Transaction Processing databases), are used to update data in real-time. These types of databases allow users to do more than simply view archived data. Operational databases allow you to modify that data (add, change or delete data), doing it in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14190258 |
Operational database Recognizing this, Gartner started to publish the Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems in October 2013. Notable operational databases include: Operational databases are used to store, manage and track real-time business information. For example, a company might have an operatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14190258 |
Operational database In data warehousing, the term is even more specific: the operational database is the one which is accessed by an operational system (for example a customer-facing website or the application used by the customer service department) to carry out regular operations of an organization. Operational data... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14190258 |
Operational system An operational system is a term used in data warehousing to refer to a system that is used to process the day-to-day transactions of an organization. These systems are designed in a manner that processing of day-to-day transactions is performed efficiently and the integrity of the transactional data ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14190268 |
Bill and keep (B&K or BAK), also known as net payment zero, is a pricing arrangement for the interconnection (direct or indirect) of two telecommunications networks under which the reciprocal call termination charge is zero. That is, each network agrees to terminate calls from the other network at no charge. According ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14192530 |
Bill and keep In the European mobile telecommunications sector, in the absence of a bill and keep arrangement, the wholesale markets have traditionally applied the calling party pays principle, in which an originating network pays the terminating network a charge called the mobile termination rate or fixed termination ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14192530 |
Inflatable rat Inflatable rats, or union rats, are giant inflatables in the shape of cartoon rats, commonly used in the United States by protesting or striking trade unions. They serve as a sign of opposition against employers or nonunion contractors, and are intended to call public attention to companies employing non... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14193474 |
Inflatable rat While the inflatable rat sometimes varies in appearance and size, it generally features large teeth and grotesque features, particularly a scabby belly, a reference to the nickname of "scab" that is given to strikebreakers. Many unions have nicknamed the inflatable rat "Scabby the Rat," a name which orig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14193474 |
Post-graduate diploma in management studies (UK) The post-graduate diploma in management studies, post-nominal letters DMS, is a university management qualification in the United Kingdom. The post-graduate qualification was originally accredited by the DMS Committee of the DES. It originally required either one year fu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14202291 |
Post-graduate diploma in management studies (UK) The BIM subsequently was renamed to the Institute of Management when combining with the Institute of Industrial Managers, and now has again been renamed to become the Chartered Management Institute. The assessment for the few DMS courses which are still run in the UK is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14202291 |
History of marketing The study of the history of marketing, as a discipline, is meaningful because it helps to define the baselines upon which change can be recognised and understand how the discipline evolves in response to those changes. The practice of marketing has been known for millennia, but the term "marketing"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14202905 |
History of marketing And, in 1976, the publication of Robert Bartel's book, "The History of Marketing Thought," marked a turning-point in the understanding of how marketing theory evolved since it first emerged as a separate discipline around the turn of last century. According to etymologists, the term 'marketing' fir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14202905 |
History of marketing Some researchers argue that marketing practices can be found in antiquity while others suggest that marketing, in its modern form, emerged in conjunction with the rise of consumer culture in seventeenth and eighteenth century Europe while yet other researchers suggest that modern marketing was only... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14202905 |
History of marketing Curtis has described this mosaic as a "an advertisement... and a rare, unequivocal example of a motif inspired by a patron, rather than by the artist." In Pompeii and nearby Herculaneum, archaeological evidence also points to evidence of branding and labelling in relatively common use. Wine jars, f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14202905 |
History of marketing Systematic use of stamped labels dates from around the fourth century BCE. In a largely pre-literate society, the shape of the amphora and its pictorial markings conveyed information about the contents, region of origin and even the identity of the producer which were understood to convey informati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14202905 |
History of marketing Over time, permanent shops began to open daily and gradually supplanted the periodic markets. Peddlers filled in the gaps in distribution by travelling door-to-door in order to sell produce and wares. The physical market was characterised by transactional exchange, bartering systems were commonplac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14202905 |
History of marketing The rise of a consumer culture led to the commercial investment in carefully managed company image, retail signage, symbolic brands, trademark protection and the brand concepts of baoji, hao, lei, gongpin, piazi and pinpai, which roughly equate with Western concepts of family status, quality gradin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14202905 |
History of marketing In the early 18th-century, Daniel Defoe, a London merchant, published information on trade and economic resources of England and Scotland. Defoe was a prolific publisher and among his many publications are titles devoted to trade including; "Trade of Britain Stated," 1707; "Trade of Scotland with F... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14202905 |
History of marketing Wedgewood's marketing was highly sophisticated and recognisably 'modern' in that he planned production with the sale in mind. He carried out serious investigations into the fixed and variable costs of production and recognised that increased production would lead to lower unit costs. He also inferr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14202905 |
History of marketing Outside the major metropolitan cities, few stores could afford to serve one type of clientele exclusively. However, gradually retail shops introduced innovations that would allow them to separate wealthier customers from the lower classes and peasants. One technique was to have a window opening out... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14202905 |
History of marketing Manufacturers tended to insist on strict standardisation in order to achieve scale economies with a view to keeping production costs down and also to achieving market penetration in the early stages of a product's life cycle. The Model T Ford was an example of a product being manufactured at a pric... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14202905 |
History of marketing This insight led to the exploration of other factors such as lifestyles, values, attitudes and beliefs in market segmentation and advertising. When Wendell R. Smith published his now classic article, "Product Differentiation and Market Segmentation as Alternative Marketing Strategies" in 1956, he n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14202905 |
History of marketing In addition to the studies of specific cultures or time periods, discussed in the preceding section, some historians of marketing have sought to write more general histories of marketing's evolution in the modern era. A key question that has preoccupied researchers is whether it is possible to iden... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14202905 |
History of marketing Keith dated the production era from the 1860s to the 1930s, but other theorists argue that evidence of the production orientation can still be found in some companies or industries. Specifically Kotler and Armstrong note that the production philosophy is "one of the oldest philosophies that guides ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14202905 |
History of marketing Instead, marketing activities should strive to benefit society's overall well-being. Marketing organisations that have embraced the societal marketing concept typically identify key stakeholder groups including: employees, customers, local communities, the wider public and government and consider t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14202905 |
History of marketing One study suggests that relationship marketing is really a sub-component of large scale movements of the value-added process rather than a separate era or framework. Some theorists suggest that marketing is moving from a relationship marketing paradigm and towards a social media paradigm where mark... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14202905 |
History of marketing He traced three distinct eras in Pillsbury's evolution: In addition, Keith hypothesised that a "marketing control era" was about to emerge. Although Keith's article explicitly documented Pillsbury's evolution, the article appears to suggest that the stages observed at Pillsbury constitute a standar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14202905 |
History of marketing A detailed study of the chocolate manufacturer, Rowntree, found that this company had shifted from a production orientation through to a marketing orientation by the 1930s, without having transitioned through the so-called sales orientation. Other critiques of Keith's work have pointed out that the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14202905 |
History of marketing A study by Grundey (2010) suggests that many contemporary textbooks begin with Keith's eras and expand on it by including newer concepts such as the "societal marketing concept", the "relationship marketing concept" and the "interfunctional concept", as shown in the table below. More recently, Kotl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14202905 |
History of marketing The University of Illinois also started offering coursework in marketing in 1902. In the academic year, 1904-1905, the University of Pennsylvania commenced teaching marketing. Other universities soon followed, including the Harvard Business School. Prior to the emergence of marketing courses, marke... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14202905 |
History of marketing In 1936, the publication of the new "Journal of Marketing" gave marketing academics a forum for exchanging ideas and research methods and also gave the discipline a real sense of its own distinct identity as a maturing academic discipline. Several scholars have attempted to describe the evolution o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14202905 |
History of marketing A school of thought refers to an intellectual tradition or a group of scholars who share a common philosophy or set of ideas. Marketing historians, Shaw and Jones, define a school of thought as one that has "a substantial body of knowledge; developed by a number of scholars; and describing at least... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14202905 |
History of marketing Although the distinctive features of these schools can be identified and described, many of the early text-books included elements drawn from two or more schools of thought- for example, in a series of chapters devoted to commodities followed by a series of chapters devoted to the institutional and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14202905 |
History of marketing " These schools borrowed heavily from economics and were largely concerned with aggregate demand and lacked a focus on the individual firm. By the 1960s, all previous schools of thought had been eclipsed by the managerial school because it offered a problem-solving approach and presented marketers ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14202905 |
History of marketing A key work in the institutional school tradition is Weld's "The Marketing of Farm Products," (1916) while other important contributors included: Butler's "Marketing and Merchandising," (1923); Breyer's "Commodity and Marketing" (1931); Converse's "Marketing: Methods and Policies" (1921) and Duddy &... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14202905 |
History of marketing This shifted the emphasis away from the functions of marketing and towards a more problem-solving approach, thereby paving the way for a more managerial approach within the discipline. Some historians have claimed that Alderson's article signalled a "paradigm shift" in thinking, towards a new "macr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14202905 |
History of marketing Key works in the marketing management tradition include Wroe Alderson's "Marketing Behavior and Executive Action," (1957), Howard's "Marketing Management" (1957), Lazer's "Managerial Marketing: Perspectives and Viewpoints," (1957) and McCarthy's "Basic Marketing: A Managerial Approach" (1960). The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14202905 |
Business Intelligence 2.0 (BI 2.0) is a development of the existing business intelligence model that began in the mid-2000s, where data can be obtained from many sources. The process allows for the querying of real-time corporate data by employees, but approaches the data with a web browser based solution. This is in c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14204007 |
Like-kind exchange A like-kind exchange under United States tax law, also known as a 1031 exchange, is a transaction or series of transactions that allows for the disposal of an asset and the acquisition of another replacement asset without generating a current tax liability from the sale of the first asset. A like-kin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14204910 |
Like-kind exchange The replacement property generally must be "identified" within 45 days of when the original property is transferred, and must be "acquired" within 180 days of when the original property is transferred. If the transaction is handled properly, the payment of tax is deferred until the replacement proper... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14204910 |
Like-kind exchange In a like-kind exchange, the realized gain or loss usually never disappears; rather, the unrecognized gain or loss typically carries over into the new asset. When the new asset is sold or exchanged in a taxable transaction, the realized gain or loss from the first transaction will then be recognized.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14204910 |
Like-kind exchange While livestock can qualify for like-kind exchange treatment, livestock of different sexes will not qualify as like-kind. Seven types of property are not eligible for a like-kind exchange: (1) stock in trade or other property held primarily for sale; (2) stock, bonds, or notes; (3) other securities o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14204910 |
Like-kind exchange Assuming the exchange qualifies for non-recognition (based on how the taxpayer held the old property and how the taxpayer intends to hold the new property), the $6,000 realized gain will not be recognized, and the taxpayer's basis in the new asset will be $14,000. Because the new asset likely has a v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14204910 |
Like-kind exchange Thus, upon a cash sale of the new property for its fair market value of $12,000, no gain or loss would result. Property transferred in a like-kind exchange is often encumbered by liabilities and debt, especially where the asset is real estate. In this regard, the tax code treats relief from indebtedn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14204910 |
Like-kind exchange While taxpayers generally prefer non-recognition for realized gains (so they do not have to recognize the gain currently and pay the resulting federal income tax currently), they usually prefer to recognize realized losses currently in order to obtain the tax benefit of the resulting deduction sooner... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14204910 |
Like-kind exchange When a third party willing to pay cash is involved, however, Revenue Ruling 77-297 indicates that non-recognition will apply if the taxpayer acquires the new property solely for the purpose of exchanging it with property of a like-kind. In Starker v. United States, (see section 1031) the court held t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14204910 |
E-textiles Electronic textiles or e-textiles (often confounded with smart textiles) are fabrics that enable digital components such as a battery and a light (including small computers), and electronics to be embedded in them. "Smart textiles" are fabrics that have been developed with new technologies that provide added... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14206086 |
E-textiles The health and beauty industry is also taking advantage of these innovations, which range from drug-releasing medical textiles, to fabric with moisturizer, perfume, and anti-aging properties. Many smart clothing, wearable technology, and wearable computing projects involve the use of e-textiles. Electronic t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14206086 |
E-textiles At the end of the 19th century, as people developed and grew accustomed to electric appliances, designers and engineers began to combine electricity with clothing and jewelry—developing a series of illuminated and motorized necklaces, hats, brooches and costumes. For example, in the late 1800s, a person coul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14206086 |
E-textiles in 1995, Wainwright went on to invent the first machine enabling fiber optics to be machined into fabrics, the process needed for manufacturing enough for mass markets and, in 1997, hired a German machine designer, Herbert Selbach, from Selbach Machinery to produce the world's first CNC machine able to autom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14206086 |
E-textiles Wainwright was commissioned to speak at the Textile and Colorists Conference in Melbourne, Australia on June 5, 2012 where he was requested to demonstrate his fabric creations that change color using any smart phone, indicate callers on mobile phones without a digital display, and contain WIFI security featu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14206086 |
E-textiles The field of e-textiles can be divided into two main categories: Most research and commercial e-textile projects are hybrids where electronic components embedded in the textile are connected to classical electronic devices or components. Some examples are touch buttons that are constructed completely in text... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14206086 |
E-textiles It has shown that weaving can be used to incorporate electrically conductive yarn into a fabric to obtain a textile that can be used as a "Wearable Motherboard". It can connect multiple sensors on the body, such as wet gel ECG electrodes, to the signal acquisition electronics. Later research has shown that c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14206086 |
E-textiles Some of the most advanced functions that have been demonstrated in the lab include: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14206086 |
Linear scheduling method Linear Scheduling Method (LSM) is a graphical scheduling method focusing on continuous resource utilization in repetitive activities. LSM is used mainly in the construction industry to schedule resources in repetitive activities commonly found in highway, pipeline, high-rise building and rail c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14206645 |
Kronos Incorporated is a U.S.-based multi-national workforce management and human capital management cloud provider headquartered in Lowell, Massachusetts, United States, which employs more than 6,000 people worldwide. Kronos was founded in 1977 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Simon Business School a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14211432 |
Kronos Incorporated In 2014, private equity firms Blackstone and GIC invested in Kronos alongside Hellman & Friedman and JMI Equity. In the transaction, Kronos was valued at $4.5 billion. This was the first year that the company achieved $1 billion in annual revenue. In 2017, Kronos moved its corporate headquarters fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14211432 |
Robert Schmertz (November 15, 1926 – July 24, 1975) was an American real estate developer and sports franchise owner. He was owner or part-owner of two NBA franchises; the Portland Trail Blazers from 1970 through 1972, and the Boston Celtics from 1972 until 1975. He also owned the New England Whalers of the World Hocke... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14217694 |
Occupational rehabilitation is the science and practices of returning injured workers to a level of daily work activities that is appropriate to their functional and cognitive capacity related to their position of which may be influenced by the severity of a worker's injuries. Many workers have an increased risk of dev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14220245 |
Occupational rehabilitation Cognitive work hardening programs administered by occupational therapists using the Canadian Model of Client-Centered Enablement (CMCE) improve return to work outcomes of employees suffering from depression. Cognitive work hardening incorporates meaningful occupations or work tasks that are ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14220245 |
JD–MBA A JD/MBA is a dual degree program offered jointly by some law and business schools. The program generally lasts four years (saving one year over completing both degrees separately) and results in the candidate earning both a Juris Doctor degree and a Master of Business Administration degree. Top ranking Canadian... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14239063 |
JD–MBA Three and a half year programs can be completed in 7 semesters. The following schools offer 3.5 year JD/MBA programs: Duke University, Emory University, Boston University, Cornell University, and University of South Carolina. Four year programs can be completed in 8 semesters. The following schools offer only 4 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14239063 |
McGuire's Motivations McGuire’s Psychological Motivations is a classification system that organizes theories of motives into 16 categories. The system helps marketers to isolate motives likely to be involved in various consumption situations. McGuire first divided the motivation into two main categories using two crite... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14240521 |
AEX cfiXML The FIATECH schemas have been developed to automate information exchange for the design, procurement, delivery, installation, operation and maintenance of engineered equipment. Though large companies may have internal software integration systems, data exchange between collaborating companies commonly requir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14244176 |
AEX cfiXML Schema structure includes data revision and change tracking support, and life-cycle status detail, so applications can be developed to monitor data alterations over time and maintain records throughout the life-cycle of an equipment item. Units of measurement are also supported by the schemas, so can be used... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14244176 |
Whitewash waiver or whitewash resolution is a corporate law concept originating in Hong Kong and Singapore. It refers to a proposed resolution for the waiver of rights of independent shareholders to receive a mandatory takeover from the undertaking shareholders and its concert parties for the ordinary shares of the com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14252700 |
Patricia Szarvas Patricia Falco Beccalli (born 21 January 1970 in Vienna, Austria) is a freelance moderator, executive media coach and writer. For over 14 years she was a financial journalist and anchor of CNBC TV based in London. Moving on to Germany, she reported daily from the Frankfurt stock exchange on business an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14256931 |
Patricia Szarvas Patricia Falco Beccalli is a world renowned venture capitalist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14256931 |
Undisclosed principal In agency law, an undisclosed principal is a person who uses an agent for negotiations with a third party who has no knowledge of the identity of the agent's principal. Often in such situations, the agent pretends to be acting for himself or herself. As a result, the third party does not know to l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14261236 |
Undisclosed principal The undisclosed principal concept often arises in the context of real estate transactions, where a buyer risks a seller being less inclined to sell land, risks a seller demanding a higher price, or risks a seller becoming a holdout if the seller knows or can guess the identity of the buyer or the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14261236 |
ItsNat Natural AJAX, is an open-source Java component-based Ajax framework. simulates a virtual browser within a Java application running on the server. This virtual browser represents documents using the W3C's DOM Level 2 node tree, and documents can be changed at any time by external Java code running on the server. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14271459 |
ItsNat If the modification is big provides "template fragments", a template fragment is a piece of markup that can be inserted (included) as DOM into the main tree statically or dynamically (typically as a response of a user/Ajax event). To save server memory provides a DOM tree node cache in a serialized form (as plai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14271459 |
ItsNat This mode may be not so fine grane and performant than the stateful mode, however this approach is more easily scalable because there is no per client page data kept in server and therefore AJAX requests can be dispatched to different server nodes with no need of session data sharing or server affinity need in s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14271459 |
ItsNat SVG plugins (including AJAX): Adobe SVG Viewer v3 , Savarese Ssrc (adds XUL to MSIE too), SVGWeb , and Batik as applet. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14271459 |
The Fund for American Studies is a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1967, the organization's mission is "to change the world by developing leaders for a free society." In 1967, Charles Edison took the first steps toward establishing the institution that is known today as The Fund for America... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14273988 |
The Fund for American Studies The institutes combine lectures, coursework, internships, evening lectures, and site briefings at key institutions of national government. In addition to its summer and semester Institutes, TFAS sponsors other educational programs and conferences for professors and students throughout the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14273988 |
The Fund for American Studies Students examine the economic and political issues that shape how business and government interact as well as the importance of representing the interests of business before Congress. Accepted students earn course credit, intern with corporate governmental affairs office and trade associat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14273988 |
The Fund for American Studies Students also attend briefings at the White House, State Department, and Capitol Hill as well as guest lectures from government officials and policy makers. In 2007 CS added a political journalism component for students interested in print or broadcast journalism, politics or public relati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14273988 |
The Fund for American Studies They include the Alumni Achievement Award, the Kevin Burket Alumni Service Award, the Young Alumni Award and the Chapter of the Year Award. The Congressional Scholarship Award is given annually to a U.S. senator at a dinner that raises money for students to attend the Institute on Business... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14273988 |
Phenol-soluble modulin Phenol-soluble modulins (PSMs) are a family of small protein, that carry out a variety of functions, including acting as toxins, assisting in biofilm formation, and colony spreading. PSMs are produced by "Staphylococcus" bacteria including Methicillin-resistant "Staphylococcus aureus" (MRSA)"," a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14276878 |
Phenol-soluble modulin Generally PSMs are encoded on the core genome of "staphylococcal" species however some, such as PSM-mec, are encoded on mobile genetic elements. PSMs are generally separated into one of two classes α-type PSMs and β-type PSMs, which are based upon characteristics of the two most well studied PSMs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14276878 |
Phenol-soluble modulin Little work has been done to determine the exact structure of PSM-mec. PSM regulation in "S. aureus" is primarily controlled by the "agr" system. The exact mechanism of regulation differs from other "agr" controlled toxins, which are controlled by the "agr" effector molecule RNAIII. PSMs, however... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14276878 |
Phenol-soluble modulin In addition to their role in attracting neutrophils to sites of infection, PSMs can also influence the function of neutrophils. It ha been demonstrated that secreted PSMs are able to induce Neutrophil Extracellular Trap release. The PSMs also have been shown to decrease the number of persister ce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14276878 |
Phenol-soluble modulin While the α-type PSMs are regarded as major cytolysins, the β-type PSMs are though to play a role in biofilm formation. "S. epidermidis", which is a known opportunistic pathogen, has a high level of β-type PSM expression. In addition "in vitro" measurement of PSMβ expression in "S. epidermidis" h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14276878 |
Feldstein–Horioka puzzle The is a widely discussed problem in macroeconomics and international finance, which was first documented by Martin Feldstein and Charles Horioka in a 1980 paper. Economic theory assumes that if investors can easily invest anywhere in the world, acting rationally they would invest in countries ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14280089 |
Feldstein–Horioka puzzle Similarly, savers as savers would show no preference for investing within their own country, but would lend to foreign investors and would not need to lend domestically. For example, a saver in France would have no incentive to invest in the French economy, but would invest in the economy which... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14280089 |
Regulatory News Service The (RNS) transmits regulatory and non-regulatory information published by companies and organisations allowing them to comply with local market transparency legislation. It is owned by the London Stock Exchange and distributes over 70% of UK company news and results announcements and over 40% o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14289681 |
Backus–Kehoe–Kydland puzzle In economics, the Backus–Kehoe–Kydland consumption correlation puzzle, also known as the BKK puzzle, is the observation that consumption is much less correlated across countries than output. In an Arrow–Debreu economy, i.e. an economy with a complete set of state-contingent markets, country-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14290091 |
Backus–Kehoe–Kydland puzzle The others are the home bias in trade puzzle, the equity home bias puzzle, the Feldstein-Horioka savings-investment correlations puzzle, the purchasing power and exchange rate disconnect puzzle, and the Baxter-Stockman neutrality of exchange rate regime puzzle. It is also related to the Back... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14290091 |
Business continuance volume In disk arrays, a business continuance volume, or BCV, is EMC Corporation's term for an independently addressable copy of a data volume, that uses advanced mirroring technique for business continuity purposes. BCVs can be detached from the active data storage at a point in time and mounted o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14295094 |
Merchant Shipping Act 1988 The c.12 was an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom. It aimed to prevent foreign fishing fleets from fishing in British territorial waters. In the Factortame case, its provisions in Parts I and II, Registration of British Ships, were disapplied by the House of Lords when they were found t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14302097 |
Employers' Association of Greater Chicago The (EA) was a nonprofit association of employers based in Chicago, Illinois. It was founded as the Employers' Association of Chicago in 1903, although it was also known colloquially as the Chicago Employers' Association. Its goal was to oppose the unionization of companies in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14305450 |
Employers' Association of Greater Chicago During the summer of 1902, the Employers' Association of Chicago was formed. John G. Shedd, vice-president of Marshall Field & Company, was the primary force behind the organization of the group. Shedd became the first president. Montgomery Ward manager (later president) Robert... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14305450 |
Employers' Association of Greater Chicago When the CBA attempted to intervene in the telephone equipment strike, the EA retaliated. The EA threw its entire support behind Kellogg Switchboard, which subsequently refused to bargain with the union. The EA also supplied funds and legal expertise which enabled Kellogg Switc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14305450 |
Employers' Association of Greater Chicago The EA also raised $1 million (about $25 million in 2007 dollars) to establish the Employers' Teaming Association-a new company which, within a matter of weeks, bought out a large number of team owners and imported hundreds of African American strikebreakers from St. Louis to d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14305450 |
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