In the last few days, bankers said Thursday, Lehman's name had arisen as the likely target, largely because of its extensive operations in derivatives, which are complex securities that derive value from something else, such as stocks, bonds, currencies or interest rates.
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"Today, developing countries are increasingly using intellectual property as a strategic tool for economic growth and are requesting WIPO's help in deriving value from their intellectual property systems, especially in the area of protecting and leveraging their creative assets, " Shamoon added.
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Bankers Trust has forewarned investors that it will lose dlrs 125 million in the quarter because of bad bets on Latin American securities and sagging demand for derivatives, customized securities that derive value from underlying markets in stocks, currencies and interest rates.
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If cash flow-derived value which excludes market judgment as to default risk but may also more accurately represent " actual " value if the market is sufficiently distressed is used ( rather than sale value ), the size of market-value adjustments required by the accounting standard would be typically reduced.
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Criticism related to the Drake equation focuses not on the equation itself, but on the fact that the estimated values for several of its factors are highly conjectural, the combined effect being that the uncertainty associated with any derived value is so large that the equation cannot be used to draw firm conclusions.
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Collection of the constants in this formula into a single constant gives a frequency equivalent to about 3 / 4 of the 13.6 eV ionization energy ( see Rydberg constant for hydrogen = 3.29 ?10 15 Hz ), with the final value of 2.47 ?10 15 Hz in good agreement with Moseley's empirically-derived value of 2.48 ?10 15 Hz.
