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Showing 1 to 20 of 101 for “"Lehman"”.
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Estimating effective discharge at Lehman Creek, Great Basin National Park, Nevada
… discharge was estimated for two sites along Lehman Creek, an alpine fluvial system. Site one (WL-1, 2951 m elevation) has an effective discharge of 0.083 m3/s and site two (WL-2, 2019 m elevation) has an effective discharge of 0.400 m3/s. Calculated bankfull discharges are 2.52 m3/s for WL-1 …
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Paleo-aridity records investigated through drip water chemistry in Lehman Caves, Nevada
… changes and responses for the Great Basin. In Lehman Cave, Nevada, ten drips above actively-forming stalagmites were sampled monthly. Glass growth plates were also placed above three actively-forming stalagmites, allowing for the collection of new calcite growths. This project analyzed the …
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Isotope hydrology of Lehman and Baker creeks drainages, Great Basin National Park, Nevada
Environmental isotope techniques have been used to study the water resources in Great Basin National Park in Nevada in an attempt to understand the recharge and mixing characteristics of the creeks, lakes and shallow groundwater in the park. The results have been used to trace the sources of the …
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Records of Great Basin precipitation during MIS 11 from two Lehman Cave stalagmites
… in two coeval stalagmites, LC3 and BT1, from the Lehman Caves, Nevada. BT1 spans 388 to 384 ka. The LC3 record is split into two parts due to a hiatus observed through fluorescent imaging. The section prior to the hiatus spans 411 ka to 402 ka. The post-hiatus section of the stalagmite has a …
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In a digital age and where significant assets may consist of dematerialised instruments, are our existing rules sufficient to provide a fair and effective regime governing the location of assets?
The failure of Lehman Brothers ("Lehman") in September 2008 resulted in the world's largest ever insolvency proceedings. Almost eight years later, these have yet to be concluded. Much of the work of the lawyers involved with the Lehman insolvency has concerned questions of the ownership of assets …
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Change and stability: Agta kinship in a history of uncertainty
… as kinfolk. I use a formal theory of kinship (Lehman and Witz 1974, Witz and Lehman 1979, Lehman 1993) to illustrate how Agta society operates through kinship. This study demonstrates that social relations are not necessarily products of economic systems.
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Stock Market Interdependence and Contagion between Asian Emerging Markets and the World Market
… significantly in the second sub-phase after the Lehman Brothers collapsed. At the regional level, the market interdependence between pairwise Asian emerging markets increased over time and increased significantly during the Asian Financial Crisis and the Global Financial Crisis, which implied …
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First culture embedding in the language of childhood tales: a qualitative study on conventions and communication of C1-Korean vs. C1-American speakers
… necessary for successful communication today (Lehman, Chi-yue, & Schaller, 2004). Often speakers of different languages from different cultural backgrounds are categorized into too broad terms, the most commonly referred being (1) the West vs. the East, (2) individualistic vs. collectivistic, …
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The U.S. maritime strategy in the North Atlantic and Norwegian Sea: an evolving strategy in need of reassesment
… associated with past Secretary of the Navy, John Lehman, is no longer considered applicable in the context of today's East-west relationship and is in need of reassessment. The paper then assesses the current, post Cold War situation and looks at future security interests the United States may …
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A Poetic Poioumenon: Coterie and Ekphrasis in David Lehman's "The Breeders' Cup"
<p>David Lehman’s poem “The Breeders’ Cup” uses cross-generational coterie and ekphrasis to create a poetic poioumenon. When read in terms of art criticism, Lehman’s “The Breeders’ Cup” models creative processes from the past and calls for a rehabilitative ethic in postmodern poetics. Lehman …
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Currencies' exchange rate trend-before and after financial crisis
… contagion. While financial turbulence from Lehman bankruptcy spread crisis over a large number of countries, can we say that there is financial contagion? Were countries in different regions of the globe affected in the same way? This thesis will analyze credit crisis by looking into the …
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Correlates of housing stability among psychiatric consumer/survivors
… Community Services Form, Brief Version of the Lehman Quality of Life Interview, and Housing History Form from 601 psychiatric consumer/survivors in London, Ontario were analyzed. Correlational analyses did not support a relationship between the utilization of health and social services and …
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Kreppan mikla og Krísan 2007 - 2010 : samanburður út frá Kindelberger/Minsky módelinu og yfirlit yfir hagsöguna á milli krísanna tveggja
Fall fjárfestingabankans Lehman Brothers í september 2008 hrinti af stað verstu krísu síðan Kreppan mikla reið yfir heimsbyggðina á síðustu öld. Það var þessi margsagða setning sem varð til þess að skýrsluhöfundi þótti áhugavert að leggja þessar tvær krísur að jöfnu út frá módeli …
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Increasing compliance to a medical regimen with a juvenile diabetic
… Sobell, 1973), chronic pain (Fordyce, Fowler, Lehman, and DeLateur, 1975·), and asthma (Neisworth, 1972; Renne and Creer. 1976) have been treated by the use of behavioral techniques. Katz and Zlutnick (1975) mention two critical areas in which behavior analysis is particularly applicable to …
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Understanding organizational context for the evaluation of training outcomes: A multi-site case study in the community mental health sector
… will be successfully implemented (Bennett, Lehman & Forst, 1999). The study formally tests the factors outlined in the third level (organizational support and change) of Guskey's (2000) model. These factors make up the conceptual framework in order to explore and assess the contextual …
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Fall of the Titans, a study of the financial behemoths that crumbled in 2008
… In the second part, we take a closer look at Lehman Brothers, a 150-year old institution that symbolized American capitalism at one time, crumbled because of its own greed. We study how excessive exposure to the mortgage market, sinister accounting, flawed risk management and failed corporate …
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Corporate governance in emerging markets: a study of South African and Zimbabwean banks
… economy is huge as evidenced by the failure of Lehman Brothers in 2009. From the beginning of the 20th century, studies of business structures and management procedures were carried out and business managers increased their knowledge and understanding of how to achieve results beneficial to both …
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How Film and TV Music Communicate
… Commentary, referencing amongst others, Frank Lehman (2018), Arnie Cox (2017) and Lawrence Kramer (2002).<br/><br/>The centre of gravity in my books, which is distilled and discussed in this Commentary, focuses on how film music creates emotion, ultimately centring on how and why harmony …
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Three essays on empirical corporate finance
… financial crisis and the unexpected nature of Lehman Brother's collapse as a laboratory in order to tease out the effect of family control. I find the increase in loan spreads around the Lehman crisis was at least 24 basis points lower for family firms. Furthermore, the gap in spreads among …
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Risk aggregation and capital allocation using copulas
… to take on risks. Following the demise of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, the Basel III Accord proposed considerable increases in capital charges for banks. Whilst this ensures greater economic stability, banks now face an increasing risk of becoming capital inefficient. Furthermore, …
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