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unusual facts about Turnover-pulse hypothesis


Elisabeth Vrba

She is well known for developing the Turnover Pulse Hypothesis, as well as coining the word exaptation with colleague Stephen Jay Gould.


2012 Gold Coast Titans season

After their worst ever season which ended in their winning the wooden spoon in 2011, the Titans underwent significant player turnover, which included the signings of Nate Myles, Phil Graham and Jamal Idris amongst others.

Adema Sangale

P&G is the world’s number one FMCG Company with an estimated daily turnover of $3 billion daily.

Adriana Kugler

Plant Turnover and Structural Reforms in Colombia (with Marcela Eslava, John Haltiwanger, and Maurice Kugler), IMF Staff Papers, 2006, 53.

Anthony Habgood

From 1991 to 2005, Habgood was Chief Executive, then Chairman of Bunzl, growing turnover from continuing operations from £500 million to £2.9 billion, and improving profits by a factor of 34, and "is widely credited with transforming Bunzl".

Baliuag Museum and Library

Antonio Cabangon Chua, Baliuag business mogul also graced the turnover.

Big Five law firms

Golden Circle, a term used for example, by The Economist, or Silver Circle coined by The Lawyer magazine in 2005 to describe mid-market or boutique law firms in the UK with profits per partner levels similar to those of the Magic Circle but being much smaller in terms of overall turnover and numbers of lawyers

Big Six law firms

Golden Circle (used by The Economist, for example; also Silver Circle, which was coined by The Lawyer magazine in 2005): mid-market or boutique law firms in the UK with profits per partner levels similar to those of the Magic Circle but being much smaller in terms of overall turnover and numbers of lawyers

Blue Ridge Quartet

After some turnover, the the bass slot was filled by George Younce.

Cuatrecasas

In 2013, it is ranked second largest law firm in Spain by turnover after Garrigues.

Deeside College

From 1974, the North East Wales Institute expanded under the vision of another prominent educator, Professor Glyn O Phillips, who took the institution forward and made it into a significant research based and practice based technological organisation which had a financial turnover equalling a great many universities close by, like Liverpool, Manchester and Bangor.

Dick Smith Foods

In 2006, the Herald Sun newspaper reported that Dick Smith Foods turnover had halved, due in part to the difficulty of finding local suppliers for their products.

Harris Scarfe

The year 2000 was difficult for all retailers, as the Australian Government introduced a new retail turnover tax (the GST).

Havells

Later it Acquired the Lighting business of a Frankfurt based company Sylvania, a global leader in lighting business and now for the first times in its history the company's turnover crosses US$1 Billion.

Humberside Seahawks

With both sets of fans on the edge of their seats (and the overtime period causing the live snooker coverage to be delayed on BBC1) a Panthers turnover fell to Seahawks' Dan Dorion (and ex-Panther himself) who was cruising the blue line.

Hunca Cosmetics

It is a well established company, with head offices in Istanbul, Sarıyer, which runs a factory in Çerkezköy, Northwest Turkey and has an annual turnover at US$50 million 2008 together with 550 employees.

Intermittent explosive disorder

Impulsive behavior, and especially impulsive violence predisposition has been correlated to a low brain serotonin turnover rate, indicated by a low concentration of 5-Hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5-HIAA) in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF).

Maclyn McCarty

As an undergraduate at Stanford University, he presciently began his studies in the nascent field of biochemistry, working with James Murray Luck on protein turnover in the liver.

MATIS Group

MATIS Hispania operates three locations in Spain: The head bureau in Barcelona and two offices in Pamplona and Madrid, producing a turnover of about 5,5 million EUR with 120 employees.

Mehmet Sabancı

In 2001, he quit his high ranked position in the holding as head of the food group with US$1.3 billion turnover, and started his own business in upper class car trade representing Smart, Aston Martin, Cadillac, Porsche, Brabus Mercedes-Benz, Startech Chrysler, MG and Rover brands.

Minimum wage

Three other possible reasons minimum wages do not affect employment were suggested by Alan Blinder: higher wages may reduce turnover, and hence training costs; raising the minimum wage may "render moot" the potential problem of recruiting workers at a higher wage than current workers; and minimum wage workers might represent such a small proportion of a business's cost that the increase is too small to matter.

Molecular drive

Molecular drive is a term coined by Gabriel Dover in 1982 to describe evolutionary processes that change the genetic composition of a population through DNA turnover mechanisms.

Noël Le Graët

The group's turnover in 2010 amounted to approximately 163 million Euro.

Patrick Ricard

The strategy proved a resounding success, particularly through the acquisitions of Seagram and Allied Domecq, sales outside France now accounting for 90% of turnover as against 17% when the Group was formed.

Penns Grove High School

William J. Hughes (born 1932), member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1975 to 1995 who was appointed by President Bill Clinton as United States Ambassador to Panama, a post he held until October, 1998 leading up to the historic turnover of the Panama Canal to Panamanian control.

Ryman

Theo Paphitis, who was formerly a 'Dragon' on BBC's Dragons' Den, acquired Ryman in 1995 and has since turned it into successful and profitable businesses comprising 236 stores with a group turnover of more than £120m.

Tata Global Beverages

At the time, Tetley was the world's second largest tea company after Unilever's Brooke Bond-Lipton and had an annual turnover of £300 million.

TAV Airports Holding

It generated 753 million Euro consolidated revenues (turnover) according to 2010 financial tables prepared in compliance with the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).

Tenix

By the early 1980s, Transfield had in excess of 3,000 employees and an annual turnover of A$350 million.When visiting Australia in 1986 Pope John Paul II toured the Transfield factory located at Seven Hills.

Tisovec

CSM Tisovec is a machine building company with 530 employees and annual turnover of 0,5 billion Korunas.

Type I pneumocyte

The cytoplasm in the thin portion contains pinocytotic vesicles, which may play a role in the turnover of surfactant and the removal of small particulate contaminants from the outer surface.


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