Martin Alexander Ahnefeld untersucht in drei empirischen Untersuchungen die langfristige Aktienkursperformance, das Risiko und die Ertragserwartungen von Finanzanalysten bei Privatisierungen am Kapitalmarkt und zeigt eine positive langfristige abnormale Aktienkursperformance auf. Diese lässt sich vor allem durch den Anstieg des Risikos und durch relativ pessimistische Ertragserwartungen erklären.
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Since its immediate success in 1813, Pride and Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novels in the English language. Jane Austen called this brilliant work "her own darling child" and its vivacious heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print." The romantic clash between the opinionated Elizabeth and her proud beau, Mr. Darcy, is a splendid performance of civilized sparring. And Jane Austen's radiant wit sparkles as her characters dance a delicate quadrille of flirtation and intrigue, making this book the most superb comedy of manners of Regency England. Among the writers who have approached nearest to the manner of the great master, we have no hesitation in placing Jane Austen. —Thomas Macaulay 'Pride and Prejudice' is the best novel in the language. —Anthony Trollope I used to think that men did everything better than women, but that was before I read Jane Austen. I don't think any man ever wrote better than Jane Austen. —Rex Stout Elizabeth Bennet has but to speak, and I am at her knees. —Robert Louis Stevenson Read again, and for the third time at least, Miss Austen's very finely written novel of 'Pride and Prejudice.' That young lady has a talent for describing the involvements and feelings and characters of ordinary life which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. —Sir Walter Scott
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<p>Lead-free solders are used extensively as interconnection materials in electronic assemblies and play a critical role in the global semiconductor packaging and electronics manufacturing industry. Electronic products such as smart phones, notebooks and high performance computers rely on lead-free solder joints to connect IC chip components to printed circuit boards.<i> Lead Free Solder: Mechanics and Reliability</i> provides in-depth design knowledge on lead-free solder elastic-plastic-creep and strain-rate dependent deformation behavior and its application in failure assessment of solder joint reliability. It includes coverage of advanced mechanics of materials theory and experiments, mechanical properties of solder and solder joint specimens, constitutive models for solder deformation behavior; numerical modeling and simulation of solder joint failure subject to thermal cycling, mechanical bending fatigue, vibration fatigue and board-level drop impact tests.</p>
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Container Terminals (CT) operate as central nodes in worldwide hub-and-spoke networks and link ocean-going vessels with smaller feeder vessels as well as with inbound and outbound hinterland transportation systems using road, rail, or inland waterways. The volume of transcontinental container flows has gained appreciably over the last five decades -- throughput figures of CT reached new records, frequently with double-digit annual growth rates. Stimulated by throughput requirements and stronger competition between terminals settled in the same region or serving a similar hinterland, respectively, cost efficiency and throughput capabilities become more and more important. Nowadays, both terminal capacity and costs have to be regarded as key indicators for CT competitiveness. In respect of this steady growth, this handbook focuses on planning activities being aimed at “order of magnitude improvements” in terminal performance and economic viability. On the one hand the book is intended to provide readership with technological and organizational CT basics for strategic planning. On the other hand this book offers methodical assistance for fundamental dimensioning of CT in terms of 'technique', 'organization' or 'man'. The former primarily considers comprehensive information about container handling technologies representing the state of the art for present terminal operations, while the latter refers to methodological support comprising in particular quantitative solutions and modeling techniques for strategic terminal decisions as well as straightforward design guidelines. The handbook includes an introductory contribution which gives an overview of strategic planning problems at CT and introduces the contributions of the volume with regard to their relationship in this field. Moreover, each paper contains a section or paragraph that describes the impact of findings investigated by the author(s) for problem-solving in long-term planning of CT (as an application domain). The handbook intends to provide solutions and insights that are valuable for both practitioners in industry who need effective planning approaches to overcome problems and weaknesses in terminal design/development and researchers who would like to inform themselves about the state of the art in methodology of strategic terminal planning or be inspired by new ideas. That is to say, the handbook is addressed to terminal planners in practice as well as to students of maritime courses of study and (application oriented) researchers in the maritime field.
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Clinical pharmacology plays an important role in today’s medicine. Due to the high sensitivity, selectivity, and affordability of a mass spectrometer (MS), the high performance liquid chromatography – mass spectrometry (LC-MS) analytical technique is widely used in the determination of drugs in human biological matrixes for clinical pharmacology. Specifically, LC-MS is used to analyze: anticancer drugs antidementia drugs antidepressant drugs antiepileptic drugs antifundal drug antimicrobial drugs antipsychotic drugs antiretroviral drugs anxiolytic/hypnotic drugs cardiac drugs drugs for addiction immunosuppressant drugs mood stabilizer drugs This book will primarily cover the various methods of validation for LC-MS techniques and applications used in modern clinical pharmacology.
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This book highlights innovative solutions together with various techniques and methods that can help support the manufacturing sector to excel in economic, social, and environmental terms in networked business environments. The book also furthers understanding of sustainable manufacturing from the perspective of value creation in manufacturing networks, by capitalizing on the outcomes of the European ‘Sustainable Value Creation in Manufacturing Networks’ project. New dynamics and uncertainties in modern markets call for innovative solutions in the global manufacturing sector. While the manufacturing sector is traditionally driven by technology, it also requires other managerial and organizational solutions in terms of network governance, business models, sustainable solution development for products and services, performance management portals, etc., which can provide major competitive advantages for companies. At the same time, the manufacturing industry is subject to a change process, where business networks play a major role in value-creating processes. By far the biggest challenge in this context is making value creation a sustainable process where economic, social, and environmental demands are met. Managing product and service-related business operations in manufacturing networks thus brings different challenges that cannot purely be resolved using traditional methods, and techniques. <p></p> <p>This book is an outcome of a European project funded by the European Commission, and performed by a dedicated R&D consortium comprised of some leading Research institutions and Industrial partners.</p>
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Gewinn ist immer auch eng mit Risiko verknüpft, d.h. ganz ohne Risiko gibt es auch keinen Gewinn. Der Kampf gegen das Risiko wird wesentlich vom vorhandenen Entscheidungsvermögen, d.h. Entscheidungstechniken als Denkhilfen, bestimmt. Die immer mehr zunehmende Dynamik der Märkte verstärkt gleichzeitig den Druck auf eine perspektivisch ausgerichtete Planungsbasis. Es geht darum sich schneller als die Konkurrenz auf das zukünftige Umfeld einstellen zu können, d.h. in Zeiten des schnellen Wandels wird Früherkennung/ -warnung immer mehr zum Königsweg: Gefahren und Risiken werden dadurch aufgespürt, bevor sie bedrohliche Folgen zeigen, Gelegenheiten/ Potenziale können erfasst werden, bevor sie verlorengehen. Die entscheidende Frage: mit welchen Planungs- und Steuerungsinstrumenten kann die Performance verbessert werden? Der Planungsprozess beginnt mit der Analyse der aktuell zur Verfügung stehenden Ist-Informationen. Die Wirtschaft steht angesichts der Unsicherheit über die Folgen eines zunehmenden Protektionismus, technologischer Umbrüche oder einer steigenden Bedeutung postmaterialistischer Werte vor großen Herausforderungen. Solche Veränderungen verlangen nach zeitnahen Anpassungsprozessen: Schnelligkeit und die Fähigkeit zur Selbsterneuerung entscheiden oft über Erfolg oder Misserfolg. Es gilt, durch vorausschauendes Management Veränderungen frühzeitig wahrzunehmen und aktiv anzugehen. Erforderlich hierfür sind eine fundierte Identifikation aller hierbei wirkungsrelevanten Einflussfaktoren sowie eine detaillierte Kenntnis über deren Auswirkungen. Auf dem Weg zu sich immer weiter digitalisieren Fabriken haben wir es zum ersten Mal mit der Tatsache zu tun, dass sich innerhalb eines Berufslebens der Arbeitsinhalt völlig ändern kann. Da sich die Veränderungsgeschwindigkeit voraussichtlich noch weiter erhöhen dürfte, ist es notwendig, sich rechtzeitig über zu ergreifende Maßnahmen Gewissheit zu verschaffen. Dies betrifft vor allem die Entwicklung neuer Methoden zur Modellierung von Wissen. Entscheidungsprozesse ruhen hierbei auf einem komplizierten und manchmal schwer zu durchschauenden Gerüst von Einflussfaktoren. Neben messbaren Faktoren gibt es viele andere, sogenannte weiche Faktoren, die für den Erfolg einer Entscheidung ausschlaggebend sein können. In einem zunehmend dynamischer und wettbewerbsintensiver agierenden Umfeld nimmt die relative Bedeutung der weichen Faktoren gegenüber den üblicherweise gemessenen harten Faktoren weiter zu.
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<p>This book is a collection of select papers presented at the Tenth Structural Engineering Convention 2016 (SEC-2016). It comprises plenary, invited, and contributory papers covering numerous applications from a wide spectrum of areas related to structural engineering. It presents contributions by academics, researchers, and practicing structural engineers addressing analysis and design of concrete and steel structures, computational structural mechanics, new building materials for sustainable construction, mitigation of structures against natural hazards, structural health monitoring, wind and earthquake engineering, vibration control and smart structures, condition assessment and performance evaluation, repair, rehabilitation and retrofit of structures. Also covering advances in construction techniques/ practices, behavior of structures under blast/impact loading, fatigue and fracture, composite materials and structures, and structures for non-conventional energy (wind and solar), it will serve as a valuable resource for researchers, students and practicing engineers alike. </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p></p>
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