Module Title: Finance Principles Module Code: 5AC002 Module Leader: William Coffie Student Name and Number: Qianhui MA(1223583) Date of Submission: 14th Jan 2013 Words: 1441 Agency Theory and Corporate Governance Introduction In 26th February 1995‚ the Barings Bank‚ one of the oldest banks of the United Kingdom was declared bankrupt. Nick Leeson‚ the trader of the bank in Singapore had lost $1.4 billion on derivatives trading while the bank reported capital was only about
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Luc Brubaker Professor Kovak English 110 Reading Journal 3 17 September 2012 Reading Journal 3‚ Prompt 2 Especially in college‚ many students have a small window of interests and an even smaller window of subjects they actually want to learn about. No student gets the privilege to take all their favorite classes throughout their whole schooling career‚ so catering to the learning preferences of the students would be the best way for the students to stay engaged in subjects that they might “dislike
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our motor actions‚ together with the sensation of touching a pencil and paper. These kinds of feedback is significantly different from those we receive when touching and typing on a keyboard. Learning by doing Together with neurophysiologist Jean-Luc Velay at the University of Marseille‚ Anne Mangen has written an article published in the Advances in Haptics periodical. They have examined research which goes a long way in confirming the significance of these differences. An experiment carried out
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half‚ of course‚ is listening. In truth‚ there are few motives in our human experiences as powerful as the yearning to be listened to‚ to be taken seriously‚ and/or to matter to other people (Nichols‚ 1995). According to French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy (2003/2007)‚ "To be listening i.s always to be on the edge of meaning‚ or in an edgy meaning of extremity‚ and as it the sound were precisely nothing else than this edge‚ this fringe‚ this margin ... a resonant meaning‚ a meaning whose sense
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The Spratly Islands are a disputed group of more than 750 reefs‚ islets‚ atolls‚ cays‚ and islands in the South China Sea.[5] The archipelago lies off the coasts of the Philippines‚ Malaysia (Sabah)‚ and southern Vietnam. They contain less than 4 square kilometers (1.5 square miles) of land area spread over more than 425‚000 square kilometers (164‚100 square miles) of sea. The Spratlys are one of 3 archipelagos of the South China Sea which comprise more than 30‚000 islands and reefs and which complicate
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5 More Brilliant Film-Makers and their Brilliant Muses Recently we had a look at 5 Brilliant Film-Makers and their Brilliant Muses‚ which spotlit the magical pairings of Michelangelo Antonioni and Monica Vitti‚ Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina‚ Quentin Tarantino & Uma Thurman‚ Pedro Almodóvar and Penelope Cruz as well as Tim Burton & Johnny Depp. Here we explore five more film-makers and their muses. Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich An Austrian-American film-maker‚ Sternberg is best remembered
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Water Jousting In France “La joute des mariniers‚ entre le pont Notre-Dame et le Pont-au-Change‚” by the french artist Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Raguenet‚ was created in 1751. The name of the painting‚ when translated from French to English‚ says‚ “The jousting of the sailors‚ between the Pont Notre-Dame and the Pont-au-Change.” Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Raguenet uses certain shades of colors with counterclockwise eye movement‚ many little details to give a different perspective in the painting about water
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private key (this is virtually impossible and would constitute trying billions of possible key combinations) (4). Types of public key algorithms include Riverst-Shamir-Adelman (RSA)‚ Diffie-Hellman‚ Digital Signature Standard (DSS)‚ EIGamal‚ and LUC (5). Symmetric encryption uses only one key (a secret key) to encrypt and decrypt the message. No public exchange of the key is required. This method is vulnerable if the key is stolen or if the ciphertext is broken (4). Types of symmetric algorithms
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Luc Bubaker Professor Kozak English 110 Reading Journal 7 23 October 2012 Over time‚ a student’s education and the education system in which he or she is brought up in has drastically changed for the worst. Compared to the education system they had in the medieval times‚ the grading system that we have now is not great at all. Also affecting the educational system is technology because it provides easy access for students to plagiarize. Between the grading system and the technology dependency‚ the
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United Cereal: Lora Brill’s Eurobrand Challenge Introduction: The case is focusing on European division of a giant multinational breakfast food company‚ which describes a launch decision for a new cereal product. United Cereal (UC) was established in 1910 by Jed Thomas. It was known in the industry‚ eventually diversified into snack foods‚ dairy products. By 2010 UC was a $9 billion business‚ but the breakfast cereals still accounted for one-third of its revenues. As the breakfast cereal trend
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