Planes were also used for the first time. At first they were used to deliver bombs and for spying work but became fighter aircraft armed with machine guns‚ bombs and sometimes cannons. Fights between two planes in the sky became known as ’dogfights. Tanks: Tanks were used for the first time in the First World War at the Battle of the Somme. They were developed to cope with the conditions on the Western Front. The first tank was called ’Little Willie’ and needed a crew of 3. Its
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Male 72 yrs Hb 77g/l (NR 130-180) RBC 2.23 x 10¹²/l (NR 4.5-6.5) MCV 88fl (NR 76-96) WBC 98.2 x 10/l (NR 4-11) Platelets 28 x 10/l (NR 150-400) A) Calculation of PCV (packed cell volume or haematocrit) PCV = RBC (cells/l) x 10¯¹² x MCV (fl) RBC = 2.23 x 10¹²/l MCV = 88fl or 88 x 10/l PCV = 2.23 x 88 x10 PCV = 196.24/1000 PCV = 0.196 (NR 0.4-0.54) B) Calculation of MCH (mean cell volume) MCH = Hb (g/dl) x 10 RBS (cells/l) x 10¯¹² Hb = 77g/l or 7.7g/dl
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February 14 Valuation in a Private Equity Setting Guest Speaker Morris Sandler Introduction to the US LBO Industry Private Equity Information Sources Required Reading Brazos Partners The CoMark LBO Case Due Note on Valuation in Private Equity Settings (HBS 9-297-050) Case 4 Brazos Partners The CoMark LBO The partners of a new midmarket buyout fund are working on a buyout of a closely held modular building company. Although originally structured as a stock deal‚ they have realized that an asset deal
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STRATEGIES Low cost per average seat kilometer AirAsia focused on ensuring a competitive cost structure as its main business strategy. It has been able to achieve a cost per average seat kilometer (ASK) of 2.5 cents‚ half that of Malaysia Airlines and Ryanair and a third that of EasyJet. AirAsia can lease the B737-300s aircraft at a very competitive market rates due to the harsh global market conditions for the second-hand aircrafts because of the September 11th event in 2001. Low distribution cost AirAsia
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade opens in 1912 in Monument Valley with Indiana Jones as a boy scout who steals the Cross of Coronado from treasure hunters to put it in a museum. After the police force Indiana to give the cross back‚ the scene changes to a ship in the Atlantic in 1938 where Indiana finally obtains the Cross of Coronado‚ and Indiana later gives it to a museum. In the United States‚ Indiana Jones meets Walter Donovon‚ a donor to the museum who tells Indiana his father‚ Henry‚ went
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a lot of fuel for the power it generates. Therefore most planes use afterburners sparingly. For example‚ a military jet would use its afterburners when taking off from the short runway on an aircraft carrier‚ or during a high-speed maneuver in a dogfight. The following pictures‚ taken at the Virginia Air and Space Museum‚ show you some of the details of an afterburner-equipped engine. This particular engine
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sickle-cell hemoglobin. In 1956‚ Vernon Ingram developed the technique of fingerprinting peptides in order to pinpoint the difference between HbA and HbS. center6985 Fig: oxyhemoglobin and deoxyhemoglobin center18923000 Ingram’s fingerprints of HbA and HbS revealed that their alpha subunits are identical but that their beta subunits differ by a vari- ation in one tryptic peptide. Sequencing studies eventually
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balanced to have a sustainable deficit. This is echoed by Morgan Stanley Chief Economist Stephen Roach who stated‚ “other countries must learn to grow the old fashioned way – drawing support from their home markets rather than free-riding on the US” (HBS p11). The US has run a current account deficit for over 30 years. This shows that deficits can be sustainable over time. However‚ as of 2005 and earlier‚ the US deficit has spiked to dangerous and unsustainable levels. As of 2008‚ the current account
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since the time of the Romans‚ the only “advancement” that has been made since then is that instead of having gladiators fight to death‚ the subjects of torture are now animals. It is surprising that anybody gets pleasure from watching cockfights and dogfights‚ for the common man finds these acts atrocious and immoral and they have a sense that these acts are not only brutal‚ but they are also immoral and erroneous. George Will in his “The Barbarity of Boxing” discusses how these acts have magnified in
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OASIS HONG KONG AIRLINES LIMITED – WHAT WENT WRONG AND WHAT SHOULD HAVE DONE TO SAVE IT FROM BANKCRUPTCY Table of Content 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Company Background Liquidation Timeline Causes of Failure Impacts of Oasis’s Case What Should Have Done to Save Oasis from Bankruptcy Conclusion Company Background Oasis Hong Kong Airlines Limited • Long-haul budget airline • Hub at Hong Kong International Airport • Founder Mr. Raymond Lee Ms. Priscilla Lee • Started operation – Oct 26‚ 2006 Company
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