The Treatment of Global Mergers: An Australian Perspective

The purpose of this article is to examine some recent global mergers from an Australian perspective. The article begins by considering the administrative tribunal and Court structure in Australia, as well as the procedural, substantive. and remedial aspects of Australian laws regulating global mergers. It then considers the Merger Guidelines and their focus on the unilateral and co-ordinated post-merger effects that are likely to occur. The article examines a number of recent global mergers. including Coopers & Lybrand/Price Waterhouse, BAT/Rothmans, Pepsi Co/Smith\u27s Snack Foods and Coca-Cola/Cadbury Schweppes, as well as their assessment by the ACCC. Finally, it considers some of the problems posed by multiple merger review by competition agencies around the world

Analytic Hyperrealism in Photography Remodeling the study of light through computational modes of exploring image making.

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Forrest v ASIC: A 'perfect storm'

The policy objectives of the continuous disclosure regime augmented by the misleading or deceptive conduct provisions in the Corporations Act are to enhance the integrity and efficiency of Australian capital markets by ensuring equality of opportunity for all investors through public access to accurate and material company information to enable them to make well-informed investment decisions. This article argues that there were failures by the regulators in the performance of their roles to protect the interests of investors in Forrest v ASIC; FMG v ASIC (2012) 247 CLR 486: ASX failed to enforce timely compliance with the continuous disclosure regime and ensure that the market was properly informed by seeking immediate clarification from FMG as to the agreed fixed price and/or seeking production of a copy of the CREC agreement; and ASIC failed to succeed in the High Court because of the way it pleaded its case. The article also examines the reasoning of the High Court in Forrest v ASIC and whether it might have changed previous understandings of the Campomar test for determining whether representations directed to the public generally are misleading

Comparación entre bloqueo del Plano Abdomino Transverso (TAP BLOCK) e infiltración local para analgesia postquirúrgica en cesáreas

Trabajo Final Especialidad - Estudio Clínico Prospectivo Aleatorizado Simple ciegoIntroducción La cesárea se considera una intervención con dolor postoperatorio de moderado a severo y el control adecuado del mismo tras esta intervención es un compromiso para el anestesiólogo. La infiltración local o la realización de un bloqueo analgésico del plano abdomino transverso (TAP Block- Transversus abdominis plane block), son métodos efectivos con baja incidencia de efectos adversos en el contexto del abordaje multimodal para proveer analgesia postoperatoria en pacientes sometidas a cesárea. Objetivos Comparar la eficacia analgésica entre el TAP Block e infiltración local en el dolor postoperatorio en cesáreas durante las primeras 24 horas. Métodos Estudio clínico prospectivo, aleatorizado y a simple ciego, en 70 pacientes ASA I y II, entre 18 y 45 años sometidas a cesárea programada a término con 37 a 41 semanas, con incisión quirúrgica de tipo Phannenstiel. Al grupo TAP Block se le realizó dicho bloqueo al finalizar la cirugía con bupivacaina 0,25 % 20 ml por lado ecoguiado, y el grupo infiltración local, recibió por parte del cirujano a cargo la infiltración del plano cutáneo con la misma concentración y volumen de anestésico local. A ambos grupos se les administró diclofenac endovenoso reglado. Se evaluó la presencia de dolor a partir de la escala visual análoga (EVA) tanto en reposo como en movimiento, a las 6, 12 y 24 horas de finalizado el procedimiento. Se tomó registro del momento y de la cantidad de rescates analgésicos solicitados. Resultados No se encontraron diferencias estadísticamente significativas en las características demográficas de los grupos. El grupo TAP Block registró valores menores de EVA tanto en reposo como en movimiento a las 6, 12 y 24 horas postoperatorias frente al grupo infiltración local, cuya valoración fue estadísticamente significativa. La cantidad de rescates analgésicos solicitados fue superior en el grupo infiltración local vs TAP Block, encontrándose una diferencia estadísticamente significativa. No hubo diferencias en el momento en que fue solicitado. Conclusión La realización del TAP Block brinda mejores condiciones de analgesia, tanto en reposo como en movimiento, durante las primeras 24 horas postoperatorias, además de una disminución en la necesidad de rescates analgésicos.Fil: Corones, Rodrigo Bautista. Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas. Carrera de Especialización en Anestesiología. Rosario; Argentin

CRITICAL ISSUES IN HIGH END COMPUTING - FINAL REPORT

High-End computing (HEC) has been a driver for advances in science and engineering for the past four decades. Increasingly HEC has become a significant element in the national security, economic vitality, and competitiveness of the United States. Advances in HEC provide results that cut across traditional disciplinary and organizational boundaries. This program provides opportunities to share information about HEC systems and computational techniques across multiple disciplines and organizations through conferences and exhibitions of HEC advances held in Washington DC so that mission agency staff, scientists, and industry can come together with White House, Congressional and Legislative staff in an environment conducive to the sharing of technical information, accomplishments, goals, and plans. A common thread across this series of conferences is the understanding of computational science and applied mathematics techniques across a diverse set of application areas of interest to the Nation. The specific objectives of this program are: Program Objective 1. To provide opportunities to share information about advances in high-end computing systems and computational techniques between mission critical agencies, agency laboratories, academics, and industry. Program Objective 2. To gather pertinent data, address specific topics of wide interest to mission critical agencies. Program Objective 3. To promote a continuing discussion of critical issues in high-end computing. Program Objective 4.To provide a venue where a multidisciplinary scientific audience can discuss the difficulties applying computational science techniques to specific problems and can specify future research that, if successful, will eliminate these problems

Multisoliton solutions and integrability aspects of coupled nonlinear Schrodinger equations

Using Painleve singularity structure analysis, we show that coupled higher-order nonlinear Schrodinger (CHNLS) equations admit Painleve property. Using the results of Painleve analysis, we succeed in Hirota bilinearizing the CHNLS equations, one soliton and two soliton solutions are explictly obtained. Lax pairs are explictly constructed.Comment: Eight pages and six figures. Physical Review E (to be appear

Submission to Australian Consumer Law Review Issues Paper

This submission was prepared by Professor Stephen Corones, Professor Sharon Christensen and Nicola Howell on behalf of the Commercial and Property Law Research Centre (CPLRC) at QUT. The CPLRC is a specialist network of researchers with a vision to reform legal and regulatory frameworks in the commercial and property law sector through high-impact applied research. The submission addresses particular issues and questions from the Issues Paper related to Lemon Laws, transactions involving digital content and the sharing economy, and financial services. The numbering of questions from the Issues Paper has been adopte

A New Parabolic Approximation to the Helmholtz Equation

Parabolic or forward scattering approximations are often used to investigate acoustic or electromagnetic wave propagation in inhomogeneous media. Recently there has been an intensified interest in these approximations traceable in large measure to the work of Tappert1 and Claerbout2. Tappert’s work, reviewed in context in 1 applies the Leontovich-Fock (LF) approximation with considerable success to the study of underwater acoustics. Claerbeut has applied these approximations in a geophysical context. The LF parabolic approximation is very well suited to the study of sound propagation in model oceans that have range independent sound speeds. It has also been used to study propagation in fiber optics material,3 as well as in the study of laser propagation in the atmosphere.</p