A flurry of merger and acquisition activity to start 2021 may just be a hint of what’s to come this year. We’ve seen 10 deal announcements cross our desks in the early weeks of this year, and they included some blockbusters. By acquiring UPS’s beleaguered freight operations, and Titanium Transportation found the transformative acquisition it was looking for, landing International Truckload Services..

Magnetic Resonance (MR) sensors are an area of increasing interest for the measurement and monitoring of material properties. There are two relaxation times associated with samples that can be measured with MR sensors: The spin lattice and spin spin relaxations. When developing new sensors, it is desirable to have a series of standards by which instruments can be assessed.

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It was the latest in a string of cases in which disarticulated feet in shoes were found washed up on beaches around the province, but it remains the only unsolved case. Beaches grabbed the public attention beginning in 2007, when a right foot in a sneaker washed up on a beach on Jedediah Island in the Strait of Georgia, north of Parksville.Over the next 11 years, more feet were discovered in a steady progression as theories abounded: that the remnants were the result of plane or boat crashes, or macabre foul play.But none of the cases solved by the BC Coroners Service have involved any nefarious activity, Yazedjian said.”We have had no cases so far where the feet have been severed by mechanical of non natural means,” she said.Most likely, the feet become separated from the rest of the remains as they decomposed.Instead of sinking, the shoe encased foot floats and is carried along by ocean currents until it is broken apart or washed up onto a beach.As reports of the shoes and feet grabbed headlines, Yazedjian said more people likely began having second thoughts about shoes they may have otherwise dismissed as garbage on a beach. Now,” she said about the influx of cases.

Such individuals carry different names depending on the applications. They are called compliers, beneficiaries, respondents, gullibles, influenceable, persuadable, malleable, pliable, impressionable, susceptive, overtrusting, or dupable. And as the reader can figure out, the applications in marketing, sales, recruiting, product development, politics, and health science is enormous.