This book, updated with many new sample essays, is focused to help college students who are seeking admission to graduate schools of business administration. Extensive essay-writing advice covers the do’s and don’ts in writing a successful essay plus and instructs in the process of organizing ideas, writing a rough draft, then re-writing a final finished essay for presentation. It is followed with approximately 75 sample essays, all of them written by business school applicants accepted for enrollment in leading schools.
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Altersbedingte Makuladegeneration (AMD) ist die häufigste Ursache von Sehbeeinträchtigungen in Deutschland. Besonders für Menschen ab dem 60. Lebensjahr ist sie zur wichtigsten Augenerkrankung geworden. Therapie ist möglich, insbesondere wenn sie rechtzeitig begonnen und konsequent durchgeführt wird. Dennoch sind Beeinträchtigungen im Alltag häufig, so dass die medizinische Behandlung allein für den Erhalt der Lebensqualität oft nicht ausreicht: Dieses Buch ist das erste schulmedizinisch orientierte Handbuch für Betroffene und ihre Familien - jetzt in dritter, aktualisierter Auflage! Es enthält Informationen über alle Bausteine zur optimalen Therapie und praktische Tipps für den Erhalt von Unabhängigkeit und Lebensqualität. Sie erhalten alle Informationen, die wir auch in der Sprechstunde geben und Anleitungen, Hilfen vor Ort zu finden. Auch als e-book erhältlich.
Size effects can cause a significant increase in the strength of a metal. In the past, this effect has been extensively investigated for fcc metals but until today only limited knowledge exists on the size dependent behaviour of bcc metals. Bcc metals are used in many applications and, therefore, knowledge of their size scaling is of technological importance. Size effects in bcc metals are also interesting from a fundamental scientific point of view, since underlying dislocation processes of bcc metals differ from those of fcc metals. In contrast to fcc metals, where screw and edge dislocations have similar mobilities with little or no temperature dependence, the mobility of screw dislocations in bcc metals is strongly temperature dependent. In bcc metals, screw dislocations move by thermally activated kink pair nucleation and motion. Below the material dependent athermal temperature, their mobility is lower than that of edge dislocations. In this work, the deformation of Ta and -Fe micropillars was studied using microcompression experiments. Pillars were produced using a focused ion beam microscope and were compressed in a nanoindenter using a flattened tip. The experiments show that there is a distinct size effect in bcc metals. The size effect of -Fe is similar to the one found in typical fcc metals, and it is more pronounced than the one observed in Ta. A combination of this data with data obtained from fcc metals and from several other bcc metals indicates that the size dependence of bcc metals is temperature dependent. The differences in the mechanical behaviour between fcc and bcc metals can be attributed to the difference in mobility of screw dislocations in fcc and bcc metals. Results from microcompression experiments also indicate that screw dislocations control the deformation process. The results of these experiments can be explained by surface enhanced mobilities of screw dislocations. Overall, the mechanical behaviour of small bcc metals may be described by scaling laws as known from fcc metals and an additional temperature dependent component arising from the limited mobility of screw dislocations.
This dissertation examines Switzerland’s consumer prices through both micro and macro perspectives. Chapter 1 presents a descriptive analysis of firms’ price-setting behavior, revealing significant heterogeneity among price setters, particularly in the frequency of price changes, while the magnitude of these changes remains relatively stable. Chapter 2 delves deeper into the timing of price changes and evaluates the relevance of existing price-setting models. The empirical results align with recent menu-cost models that highlight the importance of time-varying heterogeneity and temporary price reductions. However, these findings do not reconcile the micro and macro facts. The subsequent chapters draw on recent theoretical contributions that focus on rational inattention, idiosyncratic disturbances, and sectoral heterogeneity. Chapter 3 employs a factor-augmented vector autoregression to differentiate disaggregate price fluctuations into idiosyncratic disturbances and a common component. The analysis confirms that sectoral responses to macroeconomic shocks exhibit considerable heterogeneity, consistent with the micro findings. Nevertheless, the implications of rational inattention do not fully align with the empirical data. Additionally, evidence suggests that the sluggish inflation response may be influenced more by the cost channel of monetary policy than by price stickiness.
