The Shape Of Time

Here The American financial industry was regulated from 1940 to 1980, followed by a long period of deregulation. At the end of the 1980s, a savings and loan crisis cost taxpayers about $124 billion. In the late 1990s, the financial sector had consolidated into a few giant firms. In March 2000, the Internet Stock Bubble burst because investment banks promoted Internet companies that they knew would fail, resulting in $5 trillion in investor losses. In the 1990s, derivatives became…

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Work of arts by Victor Alvarez Ênio de Oliveira Ars longa, vita brevis Hippocrates ABSTRACT: I selected an epigraph that suggests that art is long, life is short. At first glance, one can think that the Hippocrates’ saying contrasts life and art. However, the anacoluthon between the two phrases shows, in fact, that the Greek philosopher highlights their connection. This epigraph suggests, among other interpretations, that life and art are comparable and, therefore, they complement each…

A graphical representation of a function––here the number of hours of daylight as a function of the time of year at various latitudes–– is often the most natural and convenient way to represent the function. Functions and Models The fundamental objects that we deal with in calculus are functions. This chapter prepares the way for calculus by discussing the basic ideas concerning functions, their graphs, and ways of transforming and combining them. We stress that a function can be…

Globalization and capital markets. Overview of international capital markets: 1. purpose, history and hypothesis 2. empirical evidences on variation in globalization 3. interpretation Benefits and costs of financial globalization (compare trade in goods) Benefit: efficient distribution of resources i.e. savings for investments Costs: 1. possibility of financial crisis: Asia 1997-98, Russia 1998. Turkey 2000-01, Argentina 2001 -02 etc. 2. taxation 4. No international lender of last…

BIG PROFILE BIG is a Copenhagen and New York based group of architects, designers, builders and thinkers operating within the fields of architecture, urbanism, research and development. The office is currently involved in a large number of projects throughout Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East. BIG’s architecture emerges out of a careful analysis of how contemporary life constantly evolves and changes. Not least due to the influence from multicultural exchange, global economical flows

Pereira}@lx.it.pt Abstract. It is well known that the text that appears in a video scene or is graphically added to it is an important source of semantic information for indexing and retrieval, notably in the context of video databases. This paper proposes an improved algorithm for the automatic extraction of text in digital video; its major strengths are its robustness in terms of text skew and its improved performance in dealing with scene text. The system is based on a…

 USEFUL PHRASES FOR THE CLASSROOM  1. What does ……… mean? 2. How do I say ……..? 3. I don’t understand. 4. Can you talk more slowly please? THE VERB TO BE (PRESENT TENSE) Example Hello, my name is John and this is Karen. What is your name? POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS Singular my, your, his/her/its Plural our, your, their Example Subject Pronoun Possessive Pronoun I like my phone. My phone is red. I my You like your phone.Your phone is blue. you your He…

School and the Production of Society ANDRÉ PETITAT, Department of Sociology, University of Québec-Montreal ABSTRACT Most sociological theories present school as a source and a channel of social reproduction: of a dominant group, of essential values, of bureaucracy, etc. This paper, primarily based on a study of the origins of colleges and the bourgeoisie in the sixteenth century comes to an opposite conclusion: it shows school as an agent or an active medium in the emergence of…

dermatoglyphic, somatotypic, and the physical qualities of strength and velocity of reaction, VO2max and coordination characteristics of helicopter’s pilots of Brasilian Air Force (FAB), in 2003 Perfiles dermatoglífico, somatotípico, de las cualidades físicas de fuerza y velocidad de reacción, VO2max y de la coordinación motora, característicos de pilotos de helicópteros de la Fuerza Aérea Brasilera (FAB), en 2003 The goal of the present experiment was to identify the following…