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Some describe the decline as a complex global phenomenon with numerous causes.

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Russ Meyer, a branding expert at Siegel + Gale who has worked with many large, global companies such as CVS and Hewlett - Packard on their recent rebranding efforts, says the process for larger corporations can be quite time - consuming and complex.

It's one thing to discern the opportunity, but quite another to shoe - horn into a market as complex and tightly constrained as the global defence sector.

QINGDAO, China, April 28 (Reuters)- Wang Jianlin, the billionaire boss of China's Dalian Wanda Group, said on Saturday he will turn the northern port city of Qingdao into a global film production hub as he launched a sprawling studio complex in a ceremony attended by hundreds.

Actual results, including with respect to our targets and prospects, could differ materially due to a number of factors, including the risk that we may not obtain sufficient orders to achieve our targeted revenues; price competition in key markets; the risk that we or our channel partners are not able to develop and expand customer bases and accurately anticipate demand from end customers, which can result in increased inventory and reduced orders as we experience wide fluctuations in supply and demand; the risk that our commercial Lighting Products results will continue to suffer if new issues arise regarding issues related to product quality for this business; the risk that we may experience production difficulties that preclude us from shipping sufficient quantities to meet customer orders or that result in higher production costs and lower margins; our ability to lower costs; the risk that our results will suffer if we are unable to balance fluctuations in customer demand and capacity, including bringing on additional capacity on a timely basis to meet customer demand; the risk that longer manufacturing lead times may cause customers to fulfill their orders with a competitor's products instead; the risk that the economic and political uncertainty caused by the proposed tariffs by the United States on Chinese goods, and any corresponding Chinese tariffs in response, may negatively impact demand for our products; product mix; risks associated with the ramp - up of production of our new products, and our entry into new business channels different from those in which we have historically operated; the risk that customers do not maintain their favorable perception of our brand and products, resulting in lower demand for our products; the risk that our products fail to perform or fail to meet customer requirements or expectations, resulting in significant additional costs, including costs associated with warranty returns or the potential recall of our products; ongoing uncertainty in global economic conditions, infrastructure development or customer demand that could negatively affect product demand, collectability of receivables and other related matters as consumers and businesses may defer purchases or payments, or default on payments; risks resulting from the concentration of our business among few customers, including the risk that customers may reduce or cancel orders or fail to honor purchase commitments; the risk that we are not able to enter into acceptable contractual arrangements with the significant customers of the acquired Infineon RF Power business or otherwise not fully realize anticipated benefits of the transaction; the risk that retail customers may alter promotional pricing, increase promotion of a competitor's products over our products or reduce their inventory levels, all of which could negatively affect product demand; the risk that our investments may experience periods of significant stock price volatility causing us to recognize fair value losses on our investment; the risk posed by managing an increasingly complex supply chain that has the ability to supply a sufficient quantity of raw materials, subsystems and finished products with the required specifications and quality; the risk we may be required to record a significant charge to earnings if our goodwill or amortizable assets become impaired; risks relating to confidential information theft or misuse, including through cyber-attacks or cyber intrusion; our ability to complete development and commercialization of products under development, such as our pipeline of Wolfspeed products, improved LED chips, LED components, and LED lighting products risks related to our multi-year warranty periods for LED lighting products; risks associated with acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures or investments generally; the rapid development of new technology and competing products that may impair demand or render our products obsolete; the potential lack of customer acceptance for our products; risks associated with ongoing litigation; and other factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including our report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended June 25, 2017, and subsequent reports filed with the SEC.

International philanthropy and the western world's desire to eradicate poverty and disease can't ever truly rid themselves of their imperialist roots; as many critics have pointed out, the white savior industrial complex has never been more pervasive in global culture.

He earned these accolades by guiding the country through the worst of the recession, building a reputation as an expert on complex financial reform, and snagging the top spot at the Financial Stability Board, an international body crafting new policies for global finance.

As a partner in Big 4 focused on the transaction world, Elise advised Boards and senior management on complex issues for Global Corporations as well as Private Equity and Sovereign Wealth FundAs a partner in Big 4 focused on the transaction world, Elise advised Boards and senior management on complex issues for Global Corporations as well as Private Equity and Sovereign Wealth Fundas well as Private Equity and Sovereign Wealth Fundas Private Equity and Sovereign Wealth Funds.

The first edition was published on January 20th 2015 as the first step towards developing a complete GPS system for global change makers, enabling them to move quickly and safely in a complex, fragile and uncertain environment.

A WORLD OF NEW OPPORTUNITIES The Global Opportunity Report acts as a GPS, helping leaders navigate an increasingly complex risk landscape.

Following a January rally, the global commodities complex underwent declines in February before partially recovering in March; for the first quarter as a whole, the benchmark Thomson Reuters CoreCommodity CRB Index (CRB) gained 0.8 % on a price - only basis.1 Among the 19 component commodities tracked by the CRB, advancers had a slight edge over decliners, buoyed by growth in global economies and weakness in the trade - weighted US dollar, which retreated 2.1 %, according to the Federal Reserve's (Fed's) US Dollar Index.1 Aside from robust gains for a host of agricultural products, oil and gold were also among the commodity winners.

Commodities were nonetheless facing some complex challenges, including a risk of expanding US / China trade sanctions that could limit global trade and growth, as well as a softening of select economic data that may have implied demand growth could be somewhat disappointing for commodities and limit further price gains.

Following a January rally, the global commodities complex underwent declines in February before partially recovering in March; for the first quarter as a whole, the benchmark Thomson Reuters CoreCommodity CRB Index (CRB) gained 0.8 % on a price - only basis.

«I am not yet finished; nor do I believe we are ever to have a perfect understanding of so complex a system as the global money machine.

His ground breaking research on complex systems modelling of debt - deflation was awarded the eminent Revere Award from the Real World Economics Review, describing Keen as the economist «who first and most clearly anticipated and gave public warning of the Global Financial Collapse and whose work is most likely to prevent another GFC in the future».

Unless these developments escalate to the point of impacting global growth, we do not expect a sizeable impact to the commodity complex as a whole.

As the global economy became more complex in the second half of the 20th century, most nations eventually moved away from the gold standard, creating fiat currencies built on laws and trust in government.

Complex networks — such as the ones that are required for global shipping — can benefit from the shared, trusted, real - time view of data.»

With massive and increasing structural deficits; exploding debt in all sectors; hostile demographics; social and political fracturing and disintegration; grotesque wealth inequality; extraordinary global trade competition; a complete collapse of respect for vital government organizations such as the Justice Department and FBI, which the people now realize have gone rogue; an extremely complex and corrosive global geopolitical environment; the real prospect of war, potentially nuclear and worldwide; not to mention numerous additional factors, we can only point to few other times in history more dangerous to the people's financial welfare, and therefore more overall bullish for gold, one of the only financial sanctuaries proven to work in times of dislocation.

As the inter-relationship of the global financial markets becomes more complex, the Firm has participated in several initiatives involving both foreign public issuers also seeking listing on U.S. exchanges and markets, as well as U.S. issuers exploring foreign listings, including on the AIM Market of the London Stock Exchange, the Toronto Stock Exchange and Euronext AmsterdaAs the inter-relationship of the global financial markets becomes more complex, the Firm has participated in several initiatives involving both foreign public issuers also seeking listing on U.S. exchanges and markets, as well as U.S. issuers exploring foreign listings, including on the AIM Market of the London Stock Exchange, the Toronto Stock Exchange and Euronext Amsterdaas well as U.S. issuers exploring foreign listings, including on the AIM Market of the London Stock Exchange, the Toronto Stock Exchange and Euronext Amsterdaas U.S. issuers exploring foreign listings, including on the AIM Market of the London Stock Exchange, the Toronto Stock Exchange and Euronext Amsterdam.

Messiah Complex is Brand's tongue - in - cheek attempt to claim his place among the great revolutionary messiah figures of global history Che Guevara, Gandhi, and, of course, Jesus men he refers to as his personal heroes.

Of course, as our convictions persist and mature, we begin to see the ways in which we are complicit in global wealth disparity and injustice, and we begin to think more seriously about policy, about sustainability, about making more dramatic attitude and lifestyle changes, and about problems within some of our charities and justice groups that perpetuate a white savior complex, sometimes doing more harm than good.

Global examples have shown that soft drink taxes fail to have a meaningful impact on obesity rates and ultimately serve as a Band - Aid solution to a complex public health issue, which first and foremost requires access to adequate nutrition education and health care.

As food supply chains have become increasingly global and complex, new and challenging risks have emerged.

As a guiding paradigm, Symbiotic realism argues that state interest must now be accommodated within frameworks of cooperation that balance between power - maximization and the reality of a very complex global system, populated by actors that operate at multiple levels bothbelow and above the national level.

According to President Buhari, «In 2017 alone, we saw significant commitments and agreements by major global organisations in infrastructure projects such as: the proposed USD 9 billion Dangote Refinery and Petrochemical complex in Lagos; the completed USD 600 million Lafarge Plant in Calabar; the proposed rail stock; the proposed USD 1.3 billion public private partnership with General Electric on Rail Track Development and the proposed ENI / Agip rehabilitation of Port Harcourt Refinery.

He added: «This power will give our law enforcement agencies the tools they need to tackle the increasingly complex and global nature of terrorism and gather and analyse evidence to prosecute terrorists who make ever greater use of new technology such as encrypted computers.»

While acknowledging the «complex nature» of obtaining legal assistance in repatriating looted funds, he said, «as a global challenge, corruption must be tackled globally.»

As obesity becomes a global health threat, scientists are discovering new details about how this complex affliction affects the body — and about the many factors that bring it on.

In a process similar to a CT scan, the team then ran a complex mathematical process to unravel the data and build the most detailed global map of the lower mantle, showing features ranging from as large as the entire hemisphere down to 400 kilometres across.

Amphibians are a group that is highly sensitive to global warming due to the permeability of their skin and their complex lifecycle, which combines an aquatic stage as larvae and a terrestrial stage when young and as adults.

Global warming has replaced the China Syndrome as the number one energy worry in the United States, and Cassini is delivering a whole world of new data on Saturn: rubble - pile moons, record - groove gaps in the planet's famous rings, complex weather systems churning through the pastel cloud cover, and possible explanations for the unrelenting 900 - mile - an - hour winds.

We can view these advancements as opportunities for our global society to tackle complex problems, such as energy demands, food and water security, and disease.

The problems facing society, such as global climate change, are so complex and immense that nothing short of a full transformation of science will help us solve them, said Heide Hackmann, executive director of the International Council for Science (ISCU).

My hope is that scientists will reject that fatalism and help us see warfare as a complex but solvable problem, like AIDS or global warming.

Global complex problems, such as energy, environmental issues, pandemics or diseases related to aging societies, also have to be faced jointly by different disciplines.

EVEN AS THE U.S. EXPLORES THE COMPLEX CHALLENGES OF global warming, air pollution remains widespread and dangerous.

Complex as they may be, the activities and effects of consumers should be incorporated into global vegetation models in order to accurately predict the likely consequences of global change.

Having now surmounted the corn challenge gives researchers confidence to tackle even more complex crop genomes, such as wheat and barley — other potential weapons in fighting global hunger.

Demands for scientific knowledge that makes a real difference to real peoples» lives grow as the consequences of global environmental changes become a reality for communities across the world, and societal risk profiles become increasingly complex.

«To predict the effects this type of deforestation has on the relationship between rain forest and the savanna — and on the local and global climate — it's necessary to understand how the transitional forest evolves in time and reacts to disturbances,» explained Yannick De Decker, associate professor at the Center for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems, as well as the Nonlinear Physical Chemistry Unit at ULB.

Diving deeper into the complex puzzle of mass strandings, the team decided to expand their analysis and include additional oceanographic and atmospheric data sets from NASA's Earth science missions, including Terra, the Sea - viewing Wide Field - of - view Sensor — or SeaWIFS, for short — and Global Precipitation Measurement, as well as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, or GOES, mission.

Gentine's team is the first to isolate the response of vegetation from the global warming total complex response, which includes such variables for the water cycle as evapotranspiration (the water evaporated from the surface, both from plants and bare soil) soil moisture, and runoff.

We thus envisage the molecular mechanism of interallelic complementation to involve the exchange of XPD molecules within the TFIIH complex or turnover of TFIIH complexes containing different XPD molecules at the site of DNA damage during the course of the global genome as well as transcription - coupled repair of either UV - induced or endogenous DNA damage.

As a fully integrated firm, we connect knowledge and experience across our global network of experts to help clients solve their most complex challenges.

«deCODE's success in localizing disease - contributing genetic factors even in such complex disorders as anxiety and obesity marks once more achievements that we believe could not easily be obtained by anyone else,» notes Jonathan Knowles, Head of Global Research at Roche.

development of two - way coupling between WRF and CCSM to represent the upscaled effects of climate hot spots such as the Maritime Continent, the subtropical eastern boundary regime, and the monsoon regions where global climate models fail to simulate the complex processes due to feedback and scale interactions.

In his role as principal associate director, Warner is responsible for applying LLNL's multidisciplinary science and technology to anticipate, innovate and deliver responsive solutions for the nation's complex, global, national, homeland and energy security challenges.

A global classic, Cabernet Sauvignon tends to be medium or full bodied, and is a great match to hearty dishes such as roast lamb and beef, and more complex dishes such as coq au vin.

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