Technology stocks

To gain exposure to sectors where, for various reasons, they do not wish to make actual purchases, investors can use a variation on a TR swap called an index swap, in which one of the counterparties pays a total return tied to an external reference index and the other pays a LIBOR-linked coupon or the total return of another index. Indexes used include those for government bonds, high-yield bonds, and technology stocks. Investors who believe that the bank loan market will outperform the mortgt e-backed bond sector, for instance, might enter into an index swap in which they pay the total return of the mortgage index and receive the total return of the bank-loan index. 

INPADOC (International Patent Documentation Center) is the most comprehensive tttbliographic database of scientific and technological patent documents in the world. The stock encompasses more than 26 miUion patent documents, more than 59 miUion legal status data, and about 10 million patent famihes (January, 2003). The database contains more than 35 milhon patent citations from 71 patent-issuing organizations (European Patent Office, World Intellectual Property Organization (WlPO)) and is updated weekly with about 40 000 new citations. 

Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress, Copper. Technology and Competitiveness, Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., stock no. 

The vocabulary in this edition contains an estimated total of 59,000 terms, some of the larger additions being in the fields of chemical technology, electronics, and warfare. Additional meanings are given for many terms that were listed in the earher editions, The latest decisions in nomenclature are followed in particular, the Stock valence names for inorganic compounds are freely given, as well as the older names. 

The technology required for PBAs is not less complex than that needed to develop a totally new polymer. However, the cost-risk of developing alloys from existing material stocks is still less than that for inventing new polymers. 

The conclusions of the cultural theorists are pertinent because of the clear dangers of putting too much stock in local and short term experience, since technology rarely exists free of people. For example, it is... 

Crude oil is by far the most important resource for modern society. Approximately 450 refineries in the world convert crude oil into transportation fuels (gasoline, diesel, kerosene), lubricants and feed stocks for all sorts of chemicals. Catalysts play a key role in these processes [J.A. Moulijn, M. Makkee and A. van Diepen, Chemical Process Technology (2001), Wiley, Chichester],... 

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