of the necessity power and profit of religion

... difference between the buy -and- hold return on the "event firm" and the buy and hold return on the reference portfolio or control firm The convention in much of the research that analyses the abnormal ... to test the "goodness" of the match between sample firms and portfolios and between sample firms and control firms I find that the CAR methods work better than the BHAR methods and that the portfolio ... long-run BHARs" (Barber and Lyon, 1997)) On the other hand, Fama (1998) suggests the use of CARs instead of BHARs □ Survival: Over time, there are changes in sets of firms that exist and have security...

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Ngày tải lên: 17/01/2014, 03:20

... and no weaker system of law enforcement than this; for it delivers the enforcement of the law to the vicissitudes of the distribution of power between the violator of the law and the victim of ... years, not only as a result of the end of the Cold War, the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the demise of most command economies The earlier process of decolonisation, the acquisition by non-industrialised ... juris, the customary process and the qualifying effects of international law The central aspect of this book’s explanation of the way in which power and obligation interact within the process of customary...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 06:20

... and Table present the evolution of the voting power of controlling shareholders in the main sample of unifying firms, and in the control sample of firms that chose to maintain their dual share ... performance and capital structure of Canadian firms Journal of Banking and Finance 32, 2423-2432 Kosenko, K (2008) Evolution of business groups in Israel: Their impact at the level of the firm and the ... calculated at the end of the calendar year preceding the unification, except for post-unification Q and voting power, which are calculated at the end of the unification year For the control sample of non-unifying...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 01:20

... norms and regulations based on the experts’ classifying knowledge.21 Government (the project of the rulers) and mentality (the state of mind of the ruled) then fuse, as both begin to perceive the ... for the micro-processes of agency and governance that have loomed large in the work of other theorists of national and imperial power. 16 The empire whose emergence Hardt and Negri ambitiously prophesy ... in the 1950s by the French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier, at the behest of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, the city of Chandigarh, the capital of Punjab and Haryana, accommodates a degree of...

Ngày tải lên: 13/03/2014, 21:59

... mouth of the Chao Phraya many revere the Chao Phraya as the ‘heart’ of Thailand, at the Gulf of Thailand Here, the calculated loads of and the river basin is widely regarded as the most these ... delta in the Netherlands and Belgium formed by the confluence of the Rhine, the Meuse and the Scheldt rivers The economic importance of the Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt delta is enormous, since the three ... high costs and losses in the future These costs then have to be borne by someone, and this is either the companies concerned or the taxpayer – often both Polluting in the pursuit of profit can...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 14:20

... beneficial and that problems can be ironed out; the Zimbabwe authors reluctantly The Politics of Decentralization conclude that they need the help of the government; and the authors of the Guatemalan ... research from CIFOR and WRI, as well as from independent researchers Taken together, the results of these studies paint a rich picture of the general and the specific, the common and the uncommon, ... levels of governance, by the design and implementation of fiscal and other financial aspects and by degree of social responsibility These processes are of central importance in political and economic...

Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2014, 11:14

... in the living room and headed for the kitchen with the cat in tow, only to nd, when he gets there, that he and the cat are staring blankly at each other Neither of them knows the purpose of the ... attention, and their course of least resistance was to use the side of the body that was una ected by their stroke Now rehabilitation actively takes the course of most resistance If a patient’s left hand ... parts of their brains interact to form a variety of overlapping sensory associations In other words, the rats were not just seeing their way to the food in the maze; they were smelling and feeling...

Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2014, 21:23

... conceptions of the social identities of those implicated in the particular operation of power The rest of Chapter is devoted to presenting the main idea of the book, in that it characterizes the primary ... lens of the State of Nature story about the origins of the concept of knowledge I argue that we can understand the wrong in terms of epistemic objectification, and I explain that notion by way of ... silencing of Marge here involves an exercise of power, and of gender power in particular But what we mean by power? And how does gender power relate to the general notion of social power? In...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 00:04

... on the one hand and the growing demand for healthy food on the other Another example might be the growing interest in local food, which is often equated with fresh and wholesome produce, and ... site of the quality battleground’ in the contemporary food chain (Marsden, 2004b) The underlying themes of the book—place, power, and provenance—were chosen because they encapsulate some of the ... distinction between ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ power The common currency of the corporate and political worlds, hard power ultimately involves the power to cajole, to compel, and to command by force if necessary...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 01:30

... constituted the essence of religion and the common core of the world’s “religions.” This understanding of religion and the religions dominated the academic study of religion during the last century ... in their published work and were not able to overcome the emerging division of labor between religious and theological studies, on the one hand, and the anthropology of religion, on the other ... divide The book addresses the subject of religious experience directly and the problems of reductionism and humanistic fears of the sciences indirectly and by example The orientation of the book...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:43

... ladder, compensating their commanding of cers And their commanding of cers are able to demand far greater goods in their own sphere of work: at the highest levels of power, they may control national ... want their names in print These people sat down and opened their homes and their lives to me, shared their ideas and their food, and trusted me with their stories This book chronicles many of them, ... the intersections of power, profit, survival, and humanity—in the shot of a gun? What experiences from the front lines of wars and the back lines of profiteering bring these understandings to life?...

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Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 10:20

... [28] Interestingly, the nucleotide, amino interactions Figure Three phylogenetic hypotheses for the root of theeutherian tree Three phylogenetic hypotheses for the root of theeutherian tree (a) ... represent the number of categories separated according to the total branch length of the 2,789 genes, the number of parameters, and the number of characters (or sites), respectively AIC is the Akaike ... sequences with the JTT-F + Γ8 model The rate parameters of the GTR model, parameters of the codon substitution model, and the shape parameter (α) of the Γ distribution were optimized In the concatenate...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:20

... evident then, that the future of the English nation now lay “with the middle-aged and the unfit”.71 The Limits of Knowledge: The Medical Profession and The Great Flu At the time of the Great Flu, the ... burials and opt for cremation instead Thankfully, they received the aid of a detachment of the Labour Corps of the Western Command of the Royal Army to dig graves, thus ameliorating the worst of the ... pushes the boundaries of history beyond the purview of the nation-state to consider the hitherto ignored, the local, the mundane, and the fact that the “primary, elementary connection between man and...

Ngày tải lên: 13/10/2015, 15:54

... description of the topics to be addressed in the course • A concept map or graphic representation of the content of the course • The rationale for the sequence of the course, especially if there is ... writing periods of the two semesters of the school year The reason why the students of the two English classes (grade 11) were chosen as the participants of the study were that: - They are gifted ... academic integrity Therefore, all students must understand the meaning and consequences of cheating, plagiarism and other academic offences under the Code of Student Conduct and Disciplinary Procedures...

Ngày tải lên: 24/07/2016, 15:46

... the same base as the segment and an equal height.3 Later, theorems worthy of mention suggested themselves to us, and we took the trouble of preparing their proofs They are these: first, that the ... the center of the sphere, I call the figure internally contained by the surface of the cone, and by the surface of the sphere inside the cone, a “solid sector.” /6/ And when two cones having the ... See the following note on purpose and practices of the critical edition of diagrams 2.3 Purpose and practices of the critical edition of diagrams The main purpose of the critical edition of diagrams...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 11:00

... Rule of law: Assessment of the law and order tradition in the country produced by the country-risk rating agency International Country Risk (ICR) Average of the months of April and October of the ... whatsoever for any consequences of its use The term "country", as used in the context of the ADB, refers to a member of the ADB and does not imply any view on the part of the Institute as to sovereignty ... Overview of the Financial Sector and Flow of Funds Analysis 3 The Role of Financial Infrastructure and Efficient Financial Markets 14 The Role of Government as Issuer 24 Conclusion: The Example of...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2012, 09:40

... superficial sensation in the bilateral upper limbs and trunk above the umbilicus, muscle wasting of the bilateral thenar and upper limbs, grade III muscle power of the upper and lower limbs, reduced ... fossa and excision of the arachnoid cyst were then surgically performed A straight median incision was made on the skull via the posterior temporal route The occipital squama was cut off and the ... within the cyst The cyst tightly adhered to the cerebrum, pons and cervical spinal cord The compartments were then separated and the posterior wall of the cyst was excised to break down the cystic...

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