The pioneers of empire : being a vindication of the principle and a short sketch of the history of chartered companies, with especial reference to the British South Africa Company /

Mode of access: Internet.

Investment trusts and investment companies : report of the Securities and Exchange Commission : pursuant to section 30 of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935

Issued also in the congressional series under title: Investment trusts and investment companies : letter from the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission transmitting, pursuant to law, a report .

Charter, by-laws, officers and directors of The Union Labor Life Insurance Company and examination of the company by the Insurance Department of Maryland as of March 23, 1927.

Mode of access: Internet.

The company drill of the infantry of the line, together with the skirmishing drill of the company and battalion, after the method of Gen. Le Louterel. Bayonet fencing ...

Mode of access: Internet.

Supplementary information relative to New-Zealand : comprising despatches and journals of the Company's officers of the first expedition, and the first report of the directors.

I. Extract of a despatch from Colonel Wakefield ... dated Teawaiti, September 1, 1839.--II. Extract of a letter from E. M. Chaffers ... dated September 1, 1839.--III. Despatch from Colonel Wakefield, with journal, dated ... October 10, 1839.--IV. Sailing directions, by E. M. Chaffers.--V. Report on the physical condition and natural history of Queen Charlotte's Sound, Cloudy Bay, Tory Channel, Port Nicholson, and the surrounding country. By Ernst Dieffenbach.--VI. Colonel Wakefield's third despatch, forming a Journal from October 13 to December 13, 1839.--VII. First Report of the Directors of the New Zealand Company, May, 14, 1840.

The material facts about the Chiriqui improvement company's grants. Reasons why the validity of the company's title to the Chiriqui strip is denied and held to be void by the government of Colombia.

Signed: J. A.

Supplement to An analysis of the constitution of the East-India company: and of the laws passed by Parliament for the government of their affairs, athome and abroad. To which is prefixed, a brief history of the company, and of the rise and progress of the British power in India /

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Reports of deputations : who, in pursuance of resolutions of the Court of Assistants of the Drapers' Company, of Jan. 23, 1817; Aug. 3, 1818; Aug. 2, 1819; Aug. 7, 1820; April 7, 1827; July 12, 1832; & May 2, 1839; visited the estates of the company, in the County of Londonderry, in Ireland, in those years, and which were ordered by the Court to be printed for the use of its members..

Includes index.

Some correspondence between the governors and treasurers of the New England company in London and the commissioners of the United Colonies in America, the missionaries of the Company and others, between the years 1657 and 1712.

"Preface" signed: John W. Ford.

Posthumous papers bequeathed to the ... East India company, and printed by order of the government of Bengal ...

Printed by J.F. Bellamy.

Water chemistry, carbonate system parameters, and macro-organism biomass of vent and off-vent sites in the Columbretes Islands Marine Reserve

Ocean acidification is receiving increasing attention because of its potential to affect marine ecosystems. Rare CO2 vents offer a unique opportunity to investigate the response of benthic ecosystems to acidification. However, the benthic habitats investigated so far are mainly found at very shallow water (less than or equal to 5 m depth) and therefore are not representative of the broad range of continental shelf habitats. Here, we show that a decrease from pH 8.1 to 7.9 observed in a CO2 vent system at 40 m depth leads to a dramatic shift in highly diverse and structurally complex habitats. Forests of the kelp Laminaria rodriguezii usually found at larger depths (greater than 65 m) replace the otherwise dominant habitats (i.e. coralligenous outcrops and rhodolith beds), which are mainly characterized by calcifying organisms. Only the aragonite-calcifying algae are able to survive in acidified waters, while high-magnesium-calcite organisms are almost completely absent. Although a long-term survey of the venting area would be necessary to fully understand the effects of the variability of pH and other carbonate parameters over the structure and functioning of the investigated mesophotic habitats, our results suggest that in addition of significant changes at species level, moderate ocean acidification may entail major shifts in the distribution and dominance of key benthic ecosystems at regional scale, which could have broad ecological and socio-economic implications.

Combining micro and macro data in hedonic price indexes

This paper proposes arithmetic and geometric Paasche quality-adjusted price indexes that combine micro data from the base period with macro data on the averages of asset prices and characteristics at the index period.

Knowledge transfer in product development processes: A case study in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) of the metal-mechanic sector from Sao Paulo, Brazil

This paper reports a research that evaluated the product development methodologies used in Brazilian small and medium-sized metal-mechanic enterprises (SMEs), in a specific region of Sao Paulo. The tool used for collecting the data was a questionnaire, which was developed and applied through interviews conducted by the researchers in 32 companies. The main focus of this paper can be condensed in the synthesis-question ""Is only the company responsible for the development?"" which was analyzed thoroughly. The results obtained from this analysis were evaluated directly (through the respective percentages of answers) and statistically (through the search of an index which demonstrates if two questions are related). The results point to a degree of maturity in SMEs, which allows product development to be conducted in cooperation networks. (C) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.