The 2008 subprime mortgage crisis is characterized by an increase in subprime lending and default on such mortgages. A combination of factors, such as risk excessive risk taken on by financial institutions, poorly implemented government housing policies and biased regulation are perceived to have caused the crisis. In response to the crisis, Congress approved the largest bailout of the United States financial system in taxpayer history. Signed into law by President George W. Bush, the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) authorized the federal government to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to purchase distressed assets, including mortgage-backed securities, and provide liquidity to banks. Comprehensive financial reform followed the bailout package in the form of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. This paper examines how both pieces of legislation threaten the constitutional protection of economic liberties.

<p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p></p><p><p><strong><strong><p>Purpose:</p></strong><p> </p><p>The purpose of this thesis is to describe and to understand how a company within Swedish fashion industry, namely Frank Dandy, enters foreign mar-kets.</p><strong><strong><p>Background:</p></strong><p> </p><p>The Swedish fashion industry, defined as SMEs who have produced world-wide recognized brands created by designers and visionaries, has got a lot of coverage in media recently for its success abroad. Theories concerning in-ternationalization have previously not been applied to examine the latest development in the Swedish fashion industry or companies within it, such as Frank Dandy. A gap exists because previous studies have generalized re-tailers, textile industry, fashion houses, distributors and so on as fashion in-dustry. When in reality there is a big difference between these units, and what media refer to as the Swedish fashion industry.</p><strong><strong><p>Method:</p></strong><p> </p><p>For this study, a qualitative method has been chosen and the abductive ap-proach of systematic combing has been applied when creating a case study concerning Frank Dandy’s internationalization process. The abductive ap-proach enables the authors to successively modify their framework as new empirical findings arise and thus match it with the best theory suited to give insight to how Frank Dandy enters foreign markets.</p><strong><strong><p>Conclusion:</p></strong><p> </p><p>The purpose of this study has been fulfilled and the authors can conclude that Frank Dandy enters foreign markets through agents and distributors, as predicted by the Uppsala model. However, distributors are preferred over agents since they put less strain on the organization and finally that distribu-tors and agents are handpicked from an extensive international network.</p></strong></strong></strong></strong></p></p>

Universiẗat, Diss.--Jena, 2007.

Thesis (M.A.)--Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 2003. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 136-140).

In the first half of this work, titin's role in cardiac function was studied using intact cardiac myocytes. The development of a carbon fiber based cell-attachment system allowed diastolic and systolic function of the isolated intact myocyte to be investigated. Addition of actomyosin inhibitor to the intact myocyte revealed that the majority of the cell's diastolic stiffness is due to titin but that actomyosin interaction exists as well and contributes ~ 30% of total diastolic stiffness. The details of this study are provided in chapter 1. Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) accounts for up to 50% of total heart failure cases and is characterized by increased diastolic stiffness. An effective treatment for HFpEF does not exist. Reducing titin stiffness as a therapeutic strategy for lowering left ventricular (LV) chamber stiffness in HFpEF is currently under consideration. To understand the functional consequence of reduced titin stiffness on global cardiac function a Rbm20 Δᴿᴿᴹ mouse model was created. The Rbm20 Δᴿᴿᴹ model has deficiency in titin splicing that results in expression of very large and compliant titin isoforms in the sarcomeres. Study of Rbm20 Δᴿᴿᴹ cells revealed that cellular diastolic stiffness was inversely related to the size of titin and was reduced in a graded manner in Rbm20 Δᴿᴿᴹ heterozygous (+/-) and homozygous (-/-) cells. Importantly, reduced titin-based stiffness manifested in vivo as reduced LV chamber stiffness, which could be observed by echocardiography and pressure volume (PV) analysis. The systolic function of Rbm20 Δᴿᴿᴹ was studied by measuring the Frank-Starling mechanism (FSM), first at the intact myocyte level. The FSM was reduced in Rbm20 Δᴿᴿᴹ +/- and -/- with the largest reduction in -/- cells. PV analysis demonstrated a reduced FSM at the LV chamber level, consistent with the result at the cellular level. Surprisingly, exercise testing showed an enhanced exercise performance in cardiac specific Rbm20 Δᴿᴿᴹ +/- mice (relative to wild-type mice). Thus, this work indicates that increasing titin compliance improves diastolic function but negatively impacts systolic function. Importantly, findings suggest that the beneficial effect of improving diastolic function is a dominant effect. This work is described in Chapter 2.

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Frank Lloyd Wright (1867 - 1959) is amongst the most famous architects of all time, and is known as the greatest American architect. His personal life was filled with publicized difficulties and scandal, and he was well-known for his flamboyant and charismatic personality, his innovation modern design philosophies, and for the enormous number of realised and unrealised projects (approximately 450 buildings and another 550 unrealized projects) completed during his career which spanned seventy four years. / When he developed his Prairie style of design in the mid-1880s, inspired by the teachings of his mentor Louis Sullivan, he began a revolution in domestic architecture, firstly in America, but which then exerted a powerful impact on other Western countries. He and his work became icons of a new modern organic architecture. In Europe he influenced progressive architects and contributed to the development of Modernism when the spirit of his work and ideas was adopted and then reflected in the creation of the Modernist aesthetic. / Thesis (MArchitecture)--University of South Australia, 2005.