Not exact matches
Such risks, uncertainties and other
factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and
factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital
structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various
factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to
as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.
But the FBA storage - and - shipping fee alone for this one jar would be about $ 4.44 — in part because of its weight — and that's before you
factor in the cost for the seller to make or acquire the product
as well
as Amazon's 15 percent commission under the previous fee
structure.
You'll need to
factor in variables such
as new product launches and major promotions,
as well
as consider your personnel
structure.
You should also be considering
factors such
as organizational
structure, end - customer demographics, cash flow strength and growth projections.
Barclays is giving advice «on value - boosting transactions — such
as spinoffs, splitoffs and carveouts — to help deter activists,» and working with companies «to pinpoint the
factors driving poor performance, such
as the company's balance sheet, operating performance, or corporate
structure.»
In the previous post titled
as entrepreneurial success
factors among the most important
factors in the hierarchical
structure of
factors that make an entrepreneur be a successful entrepreneur is the willingness to take entrepreneurial action.
Although a number of
factors led to this decision, a few worth noting are a modest level of debt (22 % of the capital
structure, as shown in the Capital Structure box), ample cash (nearly $ 15 billion at yearend 2011, as noted in the Current Position box, which is directly below the Capital Structure box), and a lengthy history of solid earnings (which can be seen in the Statistica
structure,
as shown in the Capital
Structure box), ample cash (nearly $ 15 billion at yearend 2011, as noted in the Current Position box, which is directly below the Capital Structure box), and a lengthy history of solid earnings (which can be seen in the Statistica
Structure box), ample cash (nearly $ 15 billion at yearend 2011,
as noted in the Current Position box, which is directly below the Capital
Structure box), and a lengthy history of solid earnings (which can be seen in the Statistica
Structure box), and a lengthy history of solid earnings (which can be seen in the Statistical Array).
A range of
factors have driven this shift, including a sharp reduction in the cost to advance technology companies to proof of concept and business model validation — aided by declining infrastructure expenses, the rise of cloud - based software and service providers, and «pay
as you grow» cost
structures.
Yet MVS make for poor accountability and bad corporate governance, which is perhaps why the dual class
structure is listed
as a risk
factor in the IPO prospectus.
These points are all, of course, interrelated: Apple's organizational
structure, focus, and release - focused development cycle enable it to create highly differentiated products, even
as the exact same
structure, focus, and development cycle underly the company's struggles in iterative services.1 Similarly, Amazon's highly modular
structure, varied businesses, and iterative approach to those businesses enable it to create services with itself
as its first, best, customer, and then extend those services to developers and retailers, even
as the exact same
factors lead to product disasters like the Fire Phone.
Actual costs that may have been incurred if we had been a standalone company would depend on a number of
factors, including the chosen organizational
structure, what functions were outsourced or performed by employees and strategic decisions made in areas such
as information technology and infrastructure.
They need to consider the valuation relative to other companies depending on several
factors such
as growth rate, capital
structure, revenue, risk profile, and net income.
A «compelling reason [to have a DCS
structure] based on holistic assessment of various
factors such
as industry and operating track record».
As you prepare to answer these questions, here are five
factors you'll want to take into account when choosing a business
structure.
Management cited strength in securitization markets, and in particular, vigorous collateralized loan obligation formation,
as factors behind the success in
structured finance.
Taking into account both size and distance — and ignoring all other
factors that bear on trade intensity, such
as industrial
structure — British Columbia's trade with Korea would be expected to be about 42 % the size of Ontario's (this is the ratio of provincial GDPs, divided by the ratio of their respective distances to Korea).
For although certain principles of wear and dissolution, which apparently can not be prevented from growing more pronounced with age, seem to be inherent in the
structure of our individual bodies, there is no indication of any similar
factor in the global evolution of a living mass
as large
as the Noosphere, where the overriding evolutionary law seems to be that, of statistical necessity, it must simply converge upon itself.
However, this
factor is not part of the essential
structure of experience
as such; it lies rather at the base of experience.
Whereas Aristotle,
as we have seen, took the first
factor to be peculiar to conscious experience and the second to be the more general
factor lying at the base of consciousness, Whitehead took the subject - object
structure as general and fundamental and interpreted causal efficacy in terms of it.
One that was based on a survey of mainline church members, for example, suggested that identification with the local community served
as an important plausibility
structure for traditional religious tenets.13 Furthermore, those who made such localistic identifications were considerably more likely than «cosmopolitans» to espouse traditional religious beliefs (controlling for a variety of other
factors) and to allow these beliefs to influence their thinking on racial and social questions
as well.
For example, one of the central economic
factors encouraging the excessive power of broadcasters is the tax
structure which allow businesses to write off advertising
as a business expenditure.
When family researchers look at how families function, i.e., how competently they handle tasks, challenges, and conflicts, rather than how families are
structured, the encouragement and support of individuality and difference emerges
as a key
factor In other words, what is important is how people treat each other within families rather than who they are or how they appear.
According to the Einsteinian formulation of GTR, the physical magnitudes so represented define the metric
structure of the space - time continuum, and fields of gravitational force are interpreted
as inextricably intertwined with this
structure.29 According to the Whiteheadian formulation of 0TH, the physical magnitudes so represented define a physical characteristic, the «impetus,» against the background of a uniform metric
structure.30 In effect, Einstein incorporates fields of gravitational force into a theory about the metric
structure of the space - time continuum, whereas Whitehead retains such fields
as special physical
factors constitutive of the physical field associated with an event.
The
factor which makes possible not only complexity of
structure, but any structural relationship at all, is the mental acting which is ingredient in the physical existent — structural relationship,
as the outcome of inter-acting, entails the
factor of «end,» which necessitates mental acting.
In order to get the two senses of durations - the raw one given in sense - awareness, which has reiterative patterns and so on, and the events which are introduced
as factors — he gives them the same name and then in his «duro» he loses the reiterating
structures given in sense - awareness.
Two
factors above all have contributed to implant and to foster this hesitancy: on the one hand, the very
structure of the discipline which serves
as a sort of introduction or preparation, to the science of religions (one knows that the majority of historians of religions are former philologists, archeologists, historians, orientalists, or ethnologists); on the other hand, the inhibition created by the lamentable failure of the vast theoretical improvisations of the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth (mythology considered a «disease of language,» astral and naturist mythologies, pan-Babylonism, animism and pre-animism, etc.).
Google uses different
factors like the relevancy of your website's content, its
structure, and how many times your website is referenced by other sites,
as well
as other
factors to determine your ranking.
On a Molecular Basis, Investigate Association of Molecular
Structure with Bioactive Compounds, Anti-Nutritional
Factors and Chemical and Nutrient Profiles of Canola Seeds and Co-Products from Canola Processing: Comparison Crusher Plants within Canada and within China
as well
as between Canada and China
It's hard to pinpoint specific players
as definitive
factors when so much of how a team defends is tied into its
structure, but there are some personnel changes that broadly tie in with the suddenly sturdy defense.
I have not
factored in a cost
structure to my criteria,
as my thinking is it is better to buy one really good educational learning toy, than half a dozen junk toys.
«Closeness between the generations depends on structural
factors that facilitate interaction between the grandparents and grandchild, such
as geographic distance and family
structure.
For more consistent results, the researchers only recruited women, and the participants completed surveys to see if there were any other
factors at work that could affect brain
structure, such
as depression or level of formal education.
A 2006 study2 identified a
structured plan
as one of the few
factors that significantly improved the postdoc participants» training experience.
But epidemiologists are increasingly turning to agent - based models to include
factors that the equations ignore, such
as geography, transportation networks, family
structure, and behavior change — all of which can strongly affect how disease spreads.
Studies of brain
structure and correlations with levels of a protein known
as BDNF (brain - derived neurotrophic
factor) will also be performed using these findings.
Analyzing China, for example, the report balances that country's centralized planning and financial strength against countervailing
factors such
as its «endemic» corruption, repressive political
structure, opaque legal system, and insistence that, in return for access to its vast market, foreign companies surrender proprietary intellectual property.
The severity of earthquake shaking is fundamentally controlled by three
factors: earthquake magnitude, the attenuation of energy
as waves move through the crust and the modification of shaking due to the local geological
structure.
By building a physical framework for this motion, we can identify key
factors in the nuclear
structure and function
as well
as expand the field of stochastic polymer dynamics.
«In utero conditions can affect a teen's brain development:
Factors such
as placement in the womb and access to nutrition impact cortical
structure.»
Manufacturers of these products have two determining
factors with which they can define the properties: the yarns,
as well
as the
structure via which the individual yarns are interconnected — such
as special weave patterns or mesh variations.
Grant's method, called «iterative
structure factor retrieval,» allows scientists to reconstruct not only the three - dimensional phases but also the three - dimensional intensities which are lost in solution scattering experiments
as the molecules tumble randomly in solution.
In fact, automation was the enabling
factor in LaGa's eye - catching design
as well
as the speed and efficiency involved in assembling the
structure.
Therefore, we used external
factors as the basis to propose a new salary
structure.
The
structure of synaptophysin suggests that the protein may function
as a channel in the synaptic vesicle membrane, with the carboxyl terminus serving
as a binding site for cellular
factors.
These nutrients acted
as growth
factors which, in addition to the EPCs, allowed the resulting silk
structure to support the formation of functioning platelets.
However, in terms of extending the distance of wireless power, CMRS, for example, has revealed technical limitations to commercialization that are yet to be solved: a rather complicated coil
structure (composed of four coils for input, transmission, reception, and load); bulky - size resonant coils; high frequency (in a range of 10 MHz) required to resonate the transmitter and receiver coils, which results in low transfer efficiency; and a high Q
factor of 2,000 that makes the resonant coils very sensitive to surroundings such
as temperature, humidity, and human proximity.
Throughout the duration of the program the visiting scientists and guest speakers highlighted key cultural
factors critical to the design, development, and implementation of a successful mentoring program in the BMENA region, such
as collectivism versus individualism and the prevalence of institutional hierarchical
structure (or not).
Professor Baron - Cohen commented: «Although these very clear sex differences in brain
structure may reflect an environmental or social
factor, from other studies we know that biological influences are also important, including prenatal sex steroid hormones (such
as fetal testosterone)
as well
as sex chromosome effects.
Nettles and his colleagues measured the improvement in the models by what is known
as the R -
factor, which measures the similarity between the actual
structure of the molecule and the experimental model — in other words, just how closely the refined
structure model can predict the factual data.
He says that, while
factors causing DT104's hyperpathogenicity have not been completely identified, the strain seems to owe its resistance to multiple antibiotics to an integron — or gene cluster —
structure designated
as «Salmonella genomic island 1» (SGI1).