Conclusions. 1. There is no basis for finding that the agreement discriminates against any telecommunications carrier not a party to the agreement.
Conclusions. Based upon the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code"), applicable Treasury Department regulations in effect as of the date hereof, current published administrative positions of the Internal Revenue Service contained in revenue rulings and procedures, and judicial decisions, and upon the assumptions and representations referred to herein and the documents provided to us by you (including the Proxy Statement and the Reorganization Agreement), it is our opinion for Federal income tax purposes that:
Conclusions. Stanxxx xxxcluded that, based upon and subject to its analysis, assumptions, limitations and qualifications cited in its opinion, and as of the date of the fairness opinion, the merger value to be paid in cash for the limited partner interests in connection with the mergers is fair from a financial point of view to the limited partner of each respective partnership. Compensation and Material Relationships. Stanxxx xxx been paid a fee of $200,000 in connection with the rendering of the fairness opinion. Such fee was not conditioned on Stanxxx'x xxxdings and is payable whether or not the mergers are consummated. In addition, Stanxxx xxxl be reimbursed for all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses, including legal fees, and will be indemnified against certain liabilities including certain liabilities under the securities laws. During the past two years, the partnerships had engaged Stanxxx xx render financial advisory services in connection with proposed transactions which were withdrawn and never consummated. In connection with such assignments Stanxxx xxx paid fees aggregating $125,000. ALTERNATIVE TRANSACTIONS TO THE MERGERS We considered the following alternative types of transactions before selecting the merger transaction described in this document. As discussed below, we believe that the mergers are the best available alternative for the partnerships to maximize the value of the partnerships' property interests.
Conclusions. This pilot study offers the first regional-level characterization of PLWH proceeding through the early steps of transplantation. PLWH were less likely to traverse the steps of kidney transplant compared with those HIV negative, highlighting the need for targeted interventions to improve access to kidney transplant for PLWH. Identifying the barriers and disparities for referral to kidney transplantation faced by person living with HIV and end stage renal disease By Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxx ScB, Monmouth University, 2009 MD, Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx University School of Health Sciences, 2013 Advisor: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx, MD A thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Xxxxx X. Xxxxx School of Graduate Studies of Emory University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Clinical Research 2020 I would like to thank Xx. Xxxxxx Xxxxx and Xx. Xxxxxx Xxxxxx for serving as research mentors. Their assistance in honing my ideas and interests, providing me with the necessary support and guidance to complete my MSCR application, and informative discussions regarding the implications of this work, not only tremendously developed this work, but helped me to grow as a junior investigator. I am thankful for the help of Dr. Xxxxxxxxx (AKA Xxxxx) Xxxx who assisted me with the analysis and served as my reader and additionally and Xx. Xxxxxxxxx for reviewing the drafts of this thesis. I would like to thank Xx. Xxxxxxx Xxxxx for being instrumental in obtaining the data for this project and being so accommodating to additional data requests. I am also appreciative of Dr. Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx who has been a fearless leader and program director, and the main reason why I applied to the MSCR program. Lastly, I would like to thank my husband Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx for his patience, love, support, and SAS consultations. TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1 BACKGROUND 3 METHODS 8 RESULTS 19 DISCUSSION 24 CONCLUSIONS 33 REFERENCES 34 INTRODUCTION End-stage renal disease (ESRD) has increased by 1000% in the past 3 decades, proving to be a significant health concern in the United Sates. In 1980, there were 60,000 persons with ESRD though in 2018 there were over 700,000 Americans living with ESRD (1). The expense of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and ESRD has a significant impact on the United States economy and in 2018, CKD and ESRD accounted for approximately 7% of Medicare expenditure, equating to $114 billion per year (2,3). It is well established that kidney transplantation is the ...
Conclusions. 1. There is no basis for finding that the amendment to the previously approved agreement discriminates against any telecommunications carrier not a party to the agreement.
Conclusions. 8.2.1 The construction phase and EM&A programme of the Project commenced on 12 March 2012.
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Conclusions. There was an increasing trend in nickel concentrations since about 1994, although it has been reduced in magnitude in recent years. The cause of this increase is unclear, but concentrations of total nickel remain well below guideline levels for aquatic life. • There may be slight increases in cobalt, rubudium, and dissolved nitrogen and dissolved sulphate. • There appears to be a decreasing trend in lead concentrations and a possible increase in manganese. These trends may be related to the elimination of leaded gas and the use of a manganese-based additive. • Specific conductivity also appeared to be increasing over time, but the levels seem to have remained steady since about 1992. Similar patterns were noted for hardness. • The Fraser River at Red Pass has a low sensitivity to acid inputs (has a high buffering capacity) based on its relatively high total alkalinity and calcium concentrations. • Exceedances of water quality guidelines by metals such as total copper, total iron, and total silver, appear to be associated with elevated turbidity levels, indicating that these metals were bound in particulate matter, and therefore not available to biota and not of concern. Many metals that appeared to have values that exceeded guidelines in the past, have been shown to meet guidelines since lower detection limits have been utilized, and confidence in results have coincidentally improved. • As there are no major human activities upstream from the Red Pass site, the measured concentrations of all metals would appear to be due to natural erosion processes in the upper watershed. Occasional high turbidity values are also attributed to natural erosion processes. • All fecal coliform values were very low, indicating little fecal contamination of the Fraser River was occurring upstream from Red Pass. • True colour has only been measured at Red Pass since 1997, but all values since that time have been below the aesthetic guideline for drinking water quality. • Another recent evaluation of water quality at the Red Pass site, using the Water Quality Index as an assessment tool, ranked the water quality as Good to Excellent. Benthic populations measured downstream from the site in 1996 also indicated excellent water quality, and the population itself was considered to be a “reference” (i.e. undisturbed) population.
Conclusions. In this paper we demonstrated how adaptable SLA management is essential for companies that want to use Cloud services and complies with the Cloud Computing self-service, on-demand characteristics to change SLAs during runtime. High utilization of the infrastructure for the provider and an ideal pay per use basis for the companies can therefore be achieved. With A-SLO-A it is possible to get customer specific SLAs automated in acceptable conditions for both REFERENCES Brandic, I., Music, D., Xxxxxxx, P., and Dustdar, S. (2009). Vieslaf framework: Enabling adaptive and versatile sla-management. In Proceedings of the 6th Inter- national Workshop on Grid Economics and Business Models, GECON ’09, pages 60–73, Berlin, Xxxxxx- xxxx. Springer-Verlag. Cloud Research Center. University of Applied Science Furt- xxxxxx. xxxx://xxx.xxxxx.xx-furtwangen.de. Distributed Management Task Force (2010). Architecture for managing clouds. xxxx://xxxx.xxx. FOSII Team (2012). Foundations of self-governing ict infrastructures website. xxxx://xxx.xxxxxxx.xxxxxx. xx.xx/xxxxxxxxx/XXXXX. Xxxxx, J., Xxxxxxxxx, W., Xxxxxxx, A., and Xxxxxxx, K. (2011). Service Level Agreements for Cloud Comput- ing, chapter A Reference Architecture for Multi-Level SLA Management, pages 13–26. Springer-Verlag. ISO/IEC SC 38 Study Group (2011). Jtc 1/sc 38 study group report on cloud computing. Technical re- port, International Organization for Standardization. xxxx://xxxxx.xxx.xxx. Xxxxxxx, X. X., Xxxxxxx, F., and Kotsokalis, C. (2011). Sla*: An abstract syntax for service level agreements. 11th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Com- puting, pages 217–224. Xxxxxxxxxx, B., Chu, J., Ma, S., Meng, Y., So, N., and Un- behagen, P. (2010). Cloud reference framework. Tech- nical report, Internet Engineering Task Force. http:// xxxxx.xxxx.xxx/ html/ draft-xxxxxxxxxx-cloud-reference- framework-00. Liu, F., Tong, J., Mao, J., Xxxx, X. X., Xxxxxxx, X. X., Bad- ger, M. L., and Leaf, X. X. (2011). Nist cloud comput- ing reference architecture. Technical report, National Institute of Standards and Technology. Xxxxxx, H., Xxxxxx, A., Xxx, A., Xxxx, X. X., and Xxxxxx, R. (2003). Web Service Level Agreement (WSLA) Language Specification, v1.0. SLA@SOI. SLA@SOI projekt website. http:// xxx-xx-xxx.xx/.
Conclusions. In conclusion, we have developed a green version of organo- phosphorus-catalysed amide bond formation between unacti- vated aromatic carboxylic acids and amines. The commercially available pre-catalyst 3-methyl-1-phenyl-2-phospholene oxide 4 is reduced in situ by inexpensive and environmentally benign poly(methylhydrosiloxane) and bis( p-nitrophenyl) phosphate. With our newly developed method a wide variety of secondary and tertiary amides could be synthesised in very good to excel- lent yields. It is envisioned that organophosphorus catalysis will be a subject of extensive investigations in the upcoming years. Moreover, we believe that poly(methylhydrosiloxane) will find practical applications in several other common reactions in organic chemistry. Experimental A Radleys tube equipped with a magnetic stirbar was charged with carboxylic acid (0.5 mmol, 1.0 equiv.), phosphine oxide 4 (0.075 mmol or 0.125 mmol; 0.15 or 0.25 equiv.), and Published on 17 July 2017. Downloaded by Radboud University Nijmegen on 3/8/2019 8:23:31 AM. bis( p-nitrophenyl) phosphate (0.025 mmol, 0.05 equiv.). Subsequently toluene (2.5 mL, 0.2 M) was added, and to the formed suspension were added benzylamine (0.65 mmol, 1.3 equiv.), CCl4 (1.0 mmol, 2.0 equiv.), and poly(methyl- hydrosiloxane) (Mw 2450 Da, 0.12 mmol, 9 Si–H equiv.). The reaction was stirred at 110 °C for 20 hours. After cooling to room temperature, toluene was removed under reduced pressure and the crude product was resuspended in ethyl acetate (20 mL). The organic phase was washed with sat. aqueous NaHCO3 (2 × 20 mL), brine (1 × 20 mL), dried over Na2SO4, filtered, and evaporated. The crude product was puri- fied by silica column chromatography (ethyl acetate and n-heptane) to afford the desired amide. Conflict of interest There are no conflicts of interest to declare. Acknowledgements We thank Dr Xxxx Xxxxx for technical assistance with in situ VT 1H NMR and 31P NMR experiments. Notes and references 1 (a) X. X. xxx Xxxxxxxx, X. X. xxx Xxxxx and F. P. J. T. Rutjes, ChemSusChem, 2013, 6, 1615–1624; (b) X. Xxxxxxxxx and X. Xxxxx, Tetrahedron Lett., 2016, 57, 4443–4451. 2 (a) X. X. Xxxxxxx, X. X. XxXxxxxxx and X. XxXxxxxx-Xxxxx, Org. Lett., 2008, 10, 2589–2591; (b) X. Xxxx, X. Xxxxxxx, X. Xxxxxxx and X. Xxxxxx, Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 7340–7343; (c) X. Xx, X. Xxxx, X. Xxxxx, X. Xxxxx and X. X. Xxxxxx, Tetrahedron, 2013, 69, 8769– 8776; (d) X. X. Xxxxxx, X. Xx, X. Xxxxxxxx, X. X. Xxxxx, X. Xxxxx and A. M. Xxxxxxx, X. Xxx....
