Mergers & Acquisitions in the light of antitrust law: Chinese, American and European Perspective

本文将以全球视野分析企业并购，并着重于对美国、欧洲以及中国的法律制度的分析， 这三者的法律制度是几乎所有其他国家倾向于遵照的模式。通过逐点比较，本文将试图重构 大局，而这一大局正是从事企业跨国并购计划的核心。 论文包括引言和四章，每章都被划分为几个小节，其主题涵盖了这些新的投资形式取得 非凡成就的原因（经济性评估）以及它们需要遵循的法律制度（规范性评估）。 第一章特别阐明了企业兼并和收购间的区别以及这些交易实现的不同形式，这是我们经 常容易忽视的地方。为了揭示促使企业交易自我实现的潜在动力，本章从经济角度通过利用 战略意图视角进一步分析这些区别。 第二章扩展到对本文所研究的国家...This piece will analyze mergers and acquisitions in a global perspective, with its main focus on the legal regimes of the three countries, US, Europe and China,that represent the models to which almost all the other States tend to conform. Through a point by point comparison it will try to recreate the big picture which is the core of the planning for undertakings engaging into trans-border mer...学位：法律硕士院系专业：法学院_民商法学学号：1292014115448

FLY on THE WALL: Interactive Visual and Audio Installation

Fly on The Wall is a visual-audio installation that incorporates an interactive walk thru; staged lighting, props, and visual components for each movement of the eight-minute piece of music. It utilizes and applies dramatic theory; French Scenes, color theory, and character development. The set is cyclical in design and shape, and divided into three sections, bestrepresenting an exposition/point of attack, climax and denouement. The purpose of the installation was to serve as an experiment in the delivery of character, narrative, commercial audio and reactive interaction with the individual listener. All challenges throughout the process were met and resolved with ease. Ultimately the installation was completed and opened to the public at the Centre del Carme Museum in Valencia for a weekend. Moving forward it is the intention to erect this installation again in varying venues, as an integral way of marketing the future business endeavor for the creation of community computer labs and creative space. In addition, the artistic hope is that Fly on The Wall will develop into a multi character series.https://remix.berklee.edu/graduate-studies-production-technology/1154/thumbnail.jp

Using Nd Isotopes to understand changes in continental weathering flux in Mid-Pennsylvanian (Desmoinesian) carbonate cycles

Decades of study on Phanerozoic sedimentary deposits indicates that changes in Earth\u27s orbital parameters are one of the main drivers of climate change on the 104-105 yr time scales, however understanding the relationships between climate change on coeval marine and continental deposits is difficult due to post-depositional erosion and tectonic processes. Nd isotopes measured in marine carbonates are a proxy for regional-scale continental weathering flux (CWF) and can help resolve these difficulties because its short residence time (less than ocean mixing times). This study focuses on cyclic Middle Pennsylvanian (Desmoinesian) marine successions from the Pedregosa (Arizona) and Bird Spring (southern Nevada) basin to address the interbasin and intrabasin response of Nd. Two types of orbital-scale subtidal cycles (1-7 m thick) are observed. Transgressive-regressive (TR) cycles (44%) are characterized by basal transgressive shallow subtidal deposits, deep subtidal deposits and capped by shallow subtidal deposits. Regressive (R) cycles (56%) are composed of basal deep subtidal deposits capped by shallow subtidal deposits; approximately 55% of T-R and R cycle caps show evidence of subaerial exposure. Due to the interpreted large magnitude sea-level changes and the position of study areas along the inner/middle platform, the cycles are dominated by highstand (or interglacial) deposition. Seventeen cycles were sampled (\u3c0.5 m sample resolution) for Nd-isotope analysis of whole rock limestones. єNd values for all three locations range between -12.3 to -5.95 and two contrasting orbital-scale єNd trends are recognized. Trend 1 (30%) is characterized by low єNd (high CWF) during sea-level highstands (interglacial stages) and trend 2 (45%) is defined by high єNd (low CWF) during sea-level highstands (interglacial stages). The absence of fluvial deposits within either studied basin combined with previous reports of thick Pennsylvanian loess deposits throughout the U.S. Southwest suggests an eolian source for the observed CWF. If an eolian interpretation is correct and we utilize recent climate modeling results for the late Paleozoic from Horton et al. (2012), which incorporates glacial-interglacial pCO2 changes which influences the position of the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) and low-latitude precipitation changes, then cycles that record high CWF (low єNd) during interglacials (trend 1) represents drier/more windy climates in upwind source areas, whereas low CWF (high єNd) during interglacials (trend 2) implies wetter/less windy climates in upwind source areas. This study illustrates the use of Nd isotopes in marine carbonates as novel proxy for detecting orbital-scale CWF changes in ancient marine systems

High temperature LSI

Integrated injection logic (1,2) technology for reliable operation under a -55 C to +300 C, temperature range is discussed. Experimental measurements indicate that an 80 mv signal swing is available at 300 C with 100 micro A injection current per gate. In addition, modeling results predict how large gate fan-ins can decrease the maximum thermal operational limits. These operational limits and the longterm reliability factors associated with device metallization are evaluated via specialized test mask

The role of lipoteichoic acid and the leukocyte integrins in the binding of group B streptococci to murine peritoneal macrophages

The macrophage has been shown to bind potentially pathogenic bacteria in the absence of serum components, but the mechanism is not well understood. The macrophage is a key component of our non-inducible defenses and this form of innate immunity is of particular importance for individuals in which the immune system may be sub-optimally functional, e.g., neonatal and geriatric individuals, and for sites in the body in which serum enhancement through opsonins is thought to be insufficient, e.g., lungs. To understand the mechanism by which mammalian innate host defenses respond to potential microbial aggression by opportunistic microorganisms, I developed two assays to quantify the in vitro, serum-free adherence of group B Streptococcus to murine peritoneal macrophages. The first is a modified direct microscopic assay, while the second is based upon an enzyme-linked assay using bacterial specific antibody. Sugar inhibition assays as well as studies with isogenic strains and neuraminidase-treated streptococci could not confirm a mechanism proposed by other investigators that macrophages recognize these streptococci by a lectin-like receptor for galactose. I observed that binding characteristics of the macrophage, such as temperature- and divalent cation-dependence, protease sensitivity, and enhancement by fibronectin and phorbol esters, were similar to those of the \beta\sb2 integrins, a heterodimeric family of leukocyte receptors. Monoclonal antibodies M1/70, which recognizes the $\alpha$-subunit of one member of the family, complement receptor 3 (CR3), and M18/2, which recognizes the $\beta$-subunit, common to all three members, were each shown to reduce bacterial adherence to down-modulation, flow cytometric and soluble inhibition studies. Using similar approaches I have additionally shown that the purified streptococcal membrane phosphosugar, lipoteichoic acid, can inhibit the binding of these bacteria to macrophages. These results support roles for both lipoteichoic acid and the \beta\sb2 integrins in the innate recognition of group B streptococci by macrophages

Establishing length-at-age references in the red mullet, Mullus barbatus L. 1758 (Pisces, Mullidae), a case study for growth assessments in the Mediterranean Geographical Sub-Areas (GSA)

Length at age data are a fundamental tool for the assessment of exploited fish populations, their use requiring the identification of the ‘unit stock’. At the present, however, the spatial reference for stock assessment in the Mediterranean Sea is based on a grid of 30 arbitrary Geographical Sub Areas (GSA). Since older data rarely respect the GSA borders, the authors propose to reconstruct the historical data within a common frame and to assess a single reference length at age, together with the corresponding von Bertalanffy growth parameters, to be used as a broad benchmark for analyses inter and intra GSAs. This approach was tested using, as a case study, the red mullet (Mullus barbatus L. 1758), one of the most investigated fish of the whole Mediterranean basin. Published and grey literature was browsed, to get direct and/or indirect length at age estimations. To establish a common baseline and maximize the use of partial information, a vBGF (L∞, total length in mm, and Ky-1) was fitted to length at age data whenever possible. 56 Mediterranean sets were utilized; an overall reference growth line was estimated by sex, discussing its adequacy to the life traits of the species

Age determination of illex coindetii from the strait of sicily by statolith increment analysis

A total of 649 short-finned squid Illex coindetti caught in the Strait of Sicily (Central Mediterranean) was examined to investigate statolith microstructure and estimate the number of growth increments. Two different methods of analysis were employed to count increments, the conventional method by eye and an automatic image-analysis system (IAS). Age estimates (based on the assumption of daily deposition of increments) obtained with the two methods were compared. Maximum ages estimated by eye were 230 and 240 days for males and females respectively. Average IAS estimates were significantly higher (2 days more for males and 5 days more for females) than the conventional ones. Size-at-age relationships were computed from both sets of age estimates using three size indicators: mantle length, body mass and an index calculated as the ratio between the logarithmic values of body mass and mantle length. Size-at-age relationships were similar for both methods of counting increments. Best fits were obtained using the quadratic, power and von Bertalanffy models applied to mantle length, body mass and the new index respectively

Abundances of demersal sharks and chimaera from 1994-2009 scientific surveys in the central Mediterranean sea

Bibliographic and data gathered in scientific bottom trawl surveys carried out off the Southern Coasts of Sicily (Mediterranean Sea), from 1994 to 2009 and between a depth of 10 and 800 m, were analysed in order to prepare a checklist of demersal sharks and chimaera, which are species sensitive to fisheries exploitation. Out of the 27 previously reported demersal shark and chimaera taxa in the Mediterranean, only 23 were found in literature and 20 sampled during the surveys in the investigated area. Among the species sampled in the surveys, only 2 ubiquitous (Squalus blainville and Scyliorhinus canicula) and 3 deep-water (Chimaera monstrosa, Centrophorus granulosus and Galeus melastomus) species showed a wide geographical distribution with a consistent abundance. Excluding the rare (such as Oxynotus centrina) or uncommon shark (e.g. Squalus acanthias), the estimated frequencies of occurrence and abundance indexes show a possible risk of local extinction for the almost exclusively (e.g. angelshark, Squatina spp.) or preferential (e.g. Scyliorhinus stellaris) neritic species.peer-reviewe