Luc Besson’s 1997 “The Fifth Element‚” is a comedic science fiction movie about good versus evil in the distant future set in New York City‚ while making fun of sci-fi clichés. Although much credit to the film’s success can be attributed to the plot itself‚ however‚ the film’s use of mise-en-scène was the real show-stopper. Scenes with flying cars‚ grotesque monsters‚ and female heroine all combine to create an entertaining‚ action-packed film. In the opening scene‚ Besson opens on an ancient Egyptian
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POLYMER DATA HANDBOOK *Home *Browse/Search Contents *Browse by Polymer Class *Browse the Index *Online help Copyright © 1999 by Oxford University Press‚ Inc. EDITED BY JAMES E. MARK‚ UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI PUBLISHED BY OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS The online version of the Polymer Data Handbook includes key data on over two hundred polymers. Please note that entries are presented as PDF files and can only be read using Adobe Acrobat Reader Version 3. If you do not have the freeware reader‚
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[pic] (Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith n.d.) Star Wars III DVD cover- Textual analysis Communication is imperative to the life of our culture. Fiske (1990:2) describes communication as “the production and exchange of meanings. It is concerned with how messages‚ or texts‚ interact with people in order to produce meanings”. All humans instinctively look for meaning amongst countless forms of texts all the time‚ whether it be in television commercials‚ friends ’ fashion sense or architectural
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INTRODUCTION TO ETHICS IN FINANCE MEANING OF FINANCE Finance means fund or other financial resources; it deals with matter related to money and the market. The field of finance refers to the concept of time‚ money and risk and how they are interrelated. Banks are the main facilitators of funding. Funding means asset in the form of money. Finance is the set of activities that deals with the management of funds. It helps in making the decision like how to use the collected fund. It is also art
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papers‚ we have studied for this purpose includes: 1. MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS: AN EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF SYNERGIES‚ EXTERNALITIES AND DYNAMICS BY- RACHEL T. A. CROSON‚ ARMANDO GOMES‚ KATHLEEN L. MCGINN AND MARKUS NÖTH The ultimate goal of a takeover is to realize synergies‚ but how the synergies are divided between the involved companies is an open question that is critical for identifying winners and losers in mergers and acquisitions. Experimental method is used to investigate these questions
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Prepared By : Nithinlal.M PGDM ’13-‘15 Reg No : PG13027 Industry Overview Approximately 95% of India’s international trade by volume and 70% by value are seaborne. India has 11 major ports‚ 19 Medium port‚ and 187 minor ports along 7‚517 km long Indian coastline. It is strategically located as a major maritime nation due to its long coastline that flanks important global shipping routes. The National Transport Policy Committee (1980) recommended the following principles for
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is a hostile takeover? Merriam-Webster defines hostile as an adjective meaning “unfriendly‚” and takeover as a verb meaning “to assume control or possession of or responsibility for” (Mich‚ 1997). In the business arena‚ a hostile takeover is a stock acquisition in which “management and/or a significant number of shareholders oppose the purchase of the company by the intended buyer” (Fisher‚ Taylor‚ & Cheng‚ 2002). The case of Oracle and PeopleSoft is currently a hostile takeover situation. Meet
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separation of a subsidiary from the parent by splitting the shareholders of the parent company’s stock from the shareholders of the subsidiary’s stock. Most split-offs are tax-free transactions and used to downsize a company or defend against a hostile takeover. In a split-off a new company is created to take over the operations of an existing unit or division and some of the parent company’s shareholders will receive the stocks in subsidiary or in new private company in exchange for the parent private
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in terms of returns on equity ratio (ROE) and returns on assets ratio (ROA). With the data acquired‚ we tested the pre- and post-takeover of e- banking performance variation between means using a standard statistical technique for independent sample at 5 percent level of significance for performance factors such as ROE and ROA. The study uncovered that the takeover of electronic banking has positively and significantly boosted the returns on equity (ROE) of Egyptian banks. On the other hand and
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Agency Costs of Free Cash Flow‚ Corporate Finance‚ and Takeovers Michael C. Jensen Harvard Business School MJensen@hbs.edu Abstract The interests and incentives of managers and shareholders conflict over such issues as the optimal size of the firm and the payment of cash to shareholders. These conflicts are especially severe in firms with large free cash flows—more cash than profitable investment opportunities. The theory developed here explains 1) the benefits of debt in reducing agency
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