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Consolidation and merger of corporations --- Health insurance --- Costs. --- Highmark. --- Independence Blue Cross.
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National parks and reserves --- Blue Ridge Parkway (N.C. and Va.) --- Planning
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Ambystoma --- Ambystoma jeffersonianum --- Amphibians --- Blue-spotted salamander --- Geographical distribution --- Reproduction --- Salamanders --- Sexual behavior --- Identification --- East (U.S.)
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Cyanobacteria are single-celled organisms that live in fresh, brackish, and marine water. They use sunlight to make their own food. In warm, nutrient-rich environments, microscopic cyanobacteria can grow quickly, creating blooms that spread across the water’s surface and may become visible. Because of the color, texture, and location of these blooms, the common name for cyanobacteria is blue-green algae. However, cyanobacteria are related more closely to bacteria than to algae. Cyanobacteria are found worldwide, from Brazil to China, Australia to the United States. In warmer climates, these organisms can grow year-round. Scientists have called cyanobacteria the origin of plants, and have credited cyanobacteria with providing nitrogen fertilizer for rice and beans. But blooms of cyanobacteria are not always helpful. When these blooms become harmful to the environment, animals, and humans, scientists call them cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (CyanoHABs). Freshwater CyanoHABs can use up the oxygen and block the sunlight that other organisms need to live. They also can produce powerful toxins that affect the brain and liver of animals and humans. Because of concerns about CyanoHABs, which can grow in drinking water and recreational water, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has added cyanobacteria to its Drinking Water Contaminant Candidate List. This list identifies organisms and toxins that EPA considers to be priorities for investigation. Reports of poisonings associated with CyanoHABs date back to the late 1800's. Anecdotal evidence and data from laboratory animal research suggest that cyanobacterial toxins can cause a range of adverse human health effects, yet few studies have explored the links between CyanoHABs and human health. Humans can be exposed to cyanobacterial toxins by drinking water that contains the toxins, swimming in water that contains high concentrations of cyanobacterial cells, or breathing air that contains cyanobacterial cells or toxins (while watering a lawn with contaminated water, for example). Health effects associated with exposure to high concentrations of cyanobacterial toxins include: stomach and intestinal illness; trouble breathing; allergic responses; skin irritation; liver damage; and neurotoxic reactions, such as tingling fingers and toes. Scientists are exploring the human health effects associated with long-term exposure to low levels of cyanobacterial toxins. Some studies have suggested that such exposure could be associated with chronic illnesses, such as liver cancer and digestive-system cancer. This monograph contains the proceedings of the International Symposium on Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Blooms held in Research Triangle Park, NC, September 6-10, 2005. The symposium was held to help meet the mandates of the Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control Act, as reauthorized and expanded in December 2004. The monograph will be presented to Congress by an interagency task force. The monograph includes: 1) A synopsis which proposes a National Research Plan for Cyanobacteria and their Toxins; 2) Six workgroup reports that identify and prioritize research needs; 3) Twenty-five invited speaker papers that describe the state of the science; 4) Forty poster abstracts that describe novel research.
Algal blooms --- Cyanobacterial blooms --- Cyanobacterial toxins --- Health aspects. --- Prevention. --- Environmental aspects. --- Algae blooms --- Blooms, Algal --- Microalgal blooms --- Phytoplankton algal blooms --- Water bloom --- Water blooms --- Algal populations --- Microalgae --- Plankton blooms --- Blue-green algal toxins --- Cyanobacteria toxins --- Cyanotoxins --- Bacterial toxins --- Blooms, Cyanobacterial --- Cyanobacteria blooms --- Cyanobacteria --- Neurosciences. --- Neural sciences --- Neurological sciences --- Neuroscience --- Medical sciences --- Nervous system
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Capital assets pricing model --- Securities --- Capital assets pricing model. --- Securities. --- Blue sky laws --- Capitalization (Finance) --- Investment securities --- Portfolio --- Scrip --- Securities law --- Underwriting --- Investments --- Investment banking --- Capital asset pricing model --- CAPM (Capital assets pricing model) --- Pricing model, Capital assets --- Capital --- Finance --- Law and legislation --- Mathematical models --- Capital structure --- Prices
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kunst --- mediakunst --- video --- videokunst --- film --- experimentele film --- installaties --- computerkunst --- video-installaties --- elektronische kunst --- digitale kunst --- kunstonderwijs --- vakdidactiek --- twintigste eeuw --- Verenigde Staten --- Frampton Hollis --- Conrad Tony --- Sharits Paul --- Blue James --- Vasulka Steina --- Vasulka Woody --- Weibel Peter --- 791.5 --- 791.43 --- 7.038 --- Exhibitions --- Mass media --- Mass communication --- Media, Mass --- Media, The --- Communication --- Study and teaching (Higher) --- State University of New York at Buffalo --- History
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Personal, anecdotal, and highly engaging, Watching Giants opens a window on a world that seems quite like our own, yet is so different that understanding it pushes the very limits of our senses. Elin Kelsey's colorful first-person account, drawing from her rich, often humorous, everyday experiences as a mother, a woman, and a scientist, takes us to the incredibly productive waters of the Gulf of California and beyond, to oceans around the world. Kelsey brings us along as she talks to leading cetacean researchers and marine ecologists about their intriguing discoveries. We encounter humpback whales that build nets from bubbles, gain a disturbing maternal perspective on the dolphin-tuna issue, uncover intimate details about whale sex, and contemplate the meaning of the complex social networks that exist in the seas. What emerges alongside these fascinating snapshots of whale culture is a dizzying sense of the tremendous speed with which we are changing the oceans' ecosystems-through overfishing, noise pollution, even real estate development. Watching Giants introduces a world of immense interconnectivity and beauty-one that is now facing imminent peril.
Whales. --- Whales --- aquatic mammals. --- blue whales. --- cetacean researchers. --- conservationist. --- creatures. --- dolphin tuna issue. --- dolphins. --- ecosystem. --- environmentalism. --- gulf of california. --- humpback whales. --- marine ecology. --- marine mammals. --- marine pollution. --- motherhood. --- nets from bubbles. --- noise pollution. --- ocean. --- oceanic creatures. --- open ocean. --- overfishing. --- personal experiences. --- phenomenon. --- save the whales. --- social networks. --- sperm whales. --- swimming. --- whale sex. --- whales.
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Introduction to Securitization outlines the basics of securitization, addressing applications for this technology to mortgages, collateralized debt obligations, future flows, credit cards, and auto loans. The authors present a comprehensive overview of the topic based on the experience they have gathered through years of interaction with practitioners and graduate students around the world. The authors offer coverage of such key topics as: structuring agency MBS deals and nonagency deals, credit enhancements and sizing, using interest rate derivatives in securitization transactions, ass
Amortization. --- Asset-backed financing. --- Loans. --- Securities. --- Asset-backed financing --- Securities --- Finance --- Business & Economics --- Financial Management & Planning --- Blue sky laws --- Capitalization (Finance) --- Investment securities --- Portfolio --- Scrip --- Securities law --- Underwriting --- Asset-backed securities --- Asset-based financing --- Asset securitization --- Securitization, Asset --- Law and legislation --- Investments --- Investment banking --- Corporations --- Covered bonds --- E-books --- 332.632 --- 333.605 --- 333.660 --- AA / International- internationaal --- Nieuwe financiële instrumenten --- Uitgifte van effecten: algemeenheden. Bankconsortiums
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This volume of the Proceedings of the Nineteenth Session of the Hague Conference on Private International Law encompasses all preparatory work and records of meetings which led to the adoption of the Hague Convention on the Law Applicable to Certain Rights in Respect of Securities held with an Intermediary (the Hague Securities Convention). The signing of this Convention on 5 July 2006 by two of the world's major financial markets, the United States and Switzerland, shows the relevance of the new treaty. Traditional rules, based on physical transfers and direct holdings, are too diverse and inadequate to deal with securities which are nowadays transferred and pledged by electronic entries to accounts with clearing and settlement systems and other intermediaries. By identifying specific conflict rules, the Hague Securities Convention provides a means to remedy this lack of legal certainty which has characterized for too long the field of security transactions. The Proceedings will enable the financial world, but also legal practitioners and academics to grasp the background and full objectives of this very innovative international instrument.
Droit international privé --- Valeurs mobilières --- Sources --- Conflict of laws --- Judicial assistance --- Droit international privé --- Procédure civile (Droit international privé) --- Assistance juridique internationale --- Congresses --- Civil procedure --- Congrès --- Conferences - Meetings --- Securities --- Blue sky laws --- Capitalization (Finance) --- Investment securities --- Portfolio --- Scrip --- Securities law --- Underwriting --- Investments --- Investment banking --- Choice of law --- Intermunicipal law --- International law, Private --- International private law --- Private international law --- Law --- Legal polycentricity --- Law and legislation --- Civil law --- Hague Conference on Private International Law.
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