Medium-term notes

Multiseller securitization conduits typically issue short term commercial paper or medium term notes in the capital markets to fund their purchases of receivables from originators. See, e.g.. Corporate Asset Funding Co., Inc., Fitch Investors Service, Structured Finance, New Issue, June 15,1992, at 81 (discussing Corporate Asset Funding Co., Inc. s 7 billion commercial paper and medium term note program) Mark H. Adelson, Asset-Backed Commercial Paper Understanding the Risks, Moody s Investors Service, Structured Finance, Special Report, Apr. 1993. 

The Pfandbrief market is comprised of several types of issues in addition to the aforementioned traditional and Jumbo Pfandbriefe, there are Global issues and a variety of Structured issues and the latest enhancements to the product range by the way of Medium-Term Note (MTN) and Commercial Paper (CP) programs. 

While uranium yellowcake prices have risen steeply in recent years there is no immediate or medium-term prospect of fuel resource scarcity, nor do rising prices have much impact on the economics of nuclear power. CESSA notes, however, that a global shift from replace nuclear with nuclear towards policies of nuclear expansion could put uranium supply under pressure and hence greatly improve the economics of reprocessing. 

An inverse floating-rate note, or inverse floater, pays a coupon that increases as general market rates decline. It offers enhanced returns to investors who, in contrast to the market consensus, believe the outlook for bonds is generally positive. These notes are suitable when inflation is low and the yield curve positive, both conditions that would, in a conventional analysis, suggest rising interest rates in the medium term. Inverse floaters may also be appropriate when the yield curve is negative, i.e., inverted, should the investor agree with the market consensus, which would be for lower rates in the medium term. 

It is important to note that Eqs. (3.1) and (3.2) apply to colloidal particles in a vacuum. If there is instead a liquid medium between the particles, the van der Waals potential is substantially reduced. The Hamaker constant in these equations is then replaced by an effective value. Consider the interaction between two colloidal particles 1 and 2 in a medium 3. If the particles are far apart, then effectively each interacts with medium 3 independently and the total Hamaker constant is the sum of two particle-medium terms. However, if particle 2 is brought close to particle 1, then particle 2 displaces a particle of type 3. Then particle 1 is interacting with a similar body (particle 2), the only difference being that molecules of particle 2 have been replaced by those of medium 3. Thus the potential energy change associated with bringing particle 2 close to particle 1 in the presence of medium 3 is less than it would be in vacuo. The effective Hamaker constant is thus a sum of particle-particle plus medium-medium contributions. 

As noted previously, toxicity may be defined as the quantity of a toxic substance necessary to produce a harmful effect on any studied species. In the case of CW agents, this dose may be lethal or incapacitating in a short or medium term. For TIC, longer-term doses are defined (e.g. the dose that is inunediately dangerous to life and health (IDLH) which is the concentration at which exposure must not exceed 30 min). 

Unfortunately, reliable data on the equilibrium swelling and long-term stability of hydrogels obtained by this method are not available. It should be noted that crosslinking of polymers with metal ions is one of the few reactions which can be carried out directly in the soil medium, which is efficiently used, e.g., in oil recovery [65, 66]. 

It should be noted that hydrolysis of the PAAm chains in hydrogels can also occur in aqueous medium at the application conditions, i.e. in the soil. This should obviously cause an increase in swelling but at the same time it makes the risk of irreversible ionic collapse more real. This tendency is irresistible and can serve as one of the factors determining the lifetime of SAH in soil. Abrupt disappearance of the SAH effects were observed in some of our long-term experiments. 

We have already noted in an earlier section that treatment of filler with a finishing agent also increases its abrasive attack on the parts of the processing equipment [271], At the same time it has been shown indirectly in [297,298] and directly by microscopic inspection in [294] that a synthesized polymer film remains on the polymerization-modified filler after the processing treatment, that is, there is always a medium which protects the molding equipment from the abrasive attack of the filler. In view of these observations, the polymeric composites with PMF are comparable, in terms of abrasive activity, with unfilled polymers [226, 227],... 

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