, holding risk constant. That is, it identifies lost potential return given the firm's level of return risk. One can identify the group of banks that are most efficient (say, the quarter of banks with the lowest levels of measured inefficiency) as those that are value-maximizing banks.10...
Trees maintain a safety margin against extra loads by typically reaching only one-quarter of the height at which they buckle under their own weight, although there is considerable inter- and intraspecific variation (King, 1991). Wind increases transpiration, cools meristems and reduces rates of ...
Loosely pack the straw in the shelter to the quarter or halfway point. Straw Not Hay for Outdoor Cat Shelters Some tips – Don’t place the shelter directly on the cold ground. Use two 2x4s or other materials to raise it off the ground and place straw underneath. This makes it easier...
His final retrospective article, 'A Quarter-Century of Recreational Mathematics', Scientific American (Aug 1998). Science quotes on: | Entertain (27) | Entertaining (9) | Mathematics (1395) | Serious (98) The line separating investment and speculation, which is never bright and clear, becomes...
Nowadays everyone knows that the US is the world’s biggest polluter, and that with only one 20th of the world’s population it produces a quarter of its greenhouse gas emissions. But the US government, in an abdication of leadership of epic proportions, is refusing to take the problem ...
Berkshire Hathaway’s operating profits surged in the fourth quarter and for the full year as the conglomerate’s businesses continued to roar back to life from the pandemic economic slowdown. Chairman Warren Buffett increased his bet on that comeback, buying back a record amount of Berkshire shar...
You start working at a quarter to nine and finish at a quarter past five, OK Now, students aren’t allowed to bring large bags into the library. But staff can bring their bags in and leave them in the office. You have an hour for lunch. But I don’t like staff eating in the ...
So if we take a distance of 2 times and square it, we get 4, the inverse of which would be 1/4 or rather, a quarter of the original power – not half. Moving our subject 3 meters from the light (3 * 3 = 9, so 1/9) the power of our light source now becomes 1/9th of ...
Best time to negotiate (especially with a public company) is quarter- and year-end Even if your store is in the “cloud,” you MUST choose it wisely. Being “in the cloud” does not absolve you from data platform selection. Data Warehouse Architecture No matter where you put your data ...
A quarter of the poorest households in this area had no car in the household, while there is very little public transport available, with almost no cross linkages, and very little transport to hospitals. This leads to problematic travel experiences. To present two: a young mother, pregnant ...