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Wisdom tooth A third molar, commonly called a wisdom tooth, is one of the three molars per quadrant of the human dentition. It is the most posterior of the three.
Stock market A stock market, equity market, or share market is the aggregation of buyers and sellers of stocks (also called shares), which represent ownership claims on businesses; these may include securities listed on a public stock exchange, as well as stock that is only traded privately, such as shares of private companies which are sold to investors through equity crowdfunding platforms. Investment is usually made with an investment strategy in mind.
Monopolistic competition Monopolistic competition is a type of imperfect competition such that there are many producers competing against each other, but selling products that are differentiated from one another (e.g. by branding or quality) and hence are not perfect substitutes.
Manufacturing Manufacturing is the creation or production of goods with the help of equipment, labor, machines, tools, and chemical or biological processing or formulation. It is the essence of secondary sector of the economy.
Telecommunications equipment Telecommunications equipment (also telecoms equipment or communications equipment) is a hardware which is used for the purposes of telecommunications. Since the 1990s the boundary between telecoms equipment and IT hardware has become blurred as a result of the growth of the internet and its increasing role in the transfer of telecoms data.
Activation product Activation products are materials made radioactive by neutron activation.\nFission products and actinides produced by neutron absorption of nuclear fuel itself are normally referred to by those specific names, and activation product reserved for products of neutron capture by other materials, such as structural components of the nuclear reactor or nuclear bomb, the reactor coolant, control rods or other neutron poisons, or materials in the environment.
Price gouging Price gouging occurs when a seller increases the prices of goods, services, or commodities to a level much higher than is considered reasonable or fair. Usually, this event occurs after a demand or supply shock.
Economics An economy (from Ancient Greek οἰκονομία (oikonomía) 'management of a household, administration'; from οἶκος (oîkos) 'household', and νέμω (némō) 'distribute, allocate') is an area of the production, distribution and trade, as well as consumption of goods and services by different agents. In general, it is defined 'as a social domain that emphasize the practices, discourses, and material expressions associated with the production, use, and management of scarce resources'.
Business-to-business Business-to-business (B2B or, in some countries, BtoB) is a situation where one business makes a commercial transaction with another. This typically occurs when:\n\nA business is sourcing materials for their production process for output (e.g., a food manufacturer purchasing salt), i.e.
Small and medium-sized enterprises Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) or small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are businesses whose personnel numbers fall below certain limits. The abbreviation "SME" is used by international organizations such as the World Bank, the European Union, the United Nations, and the World Trade Organization (WTO).
Availability In reliability engineering, the term availability has the following meanings:\n\nThe degree to which a system, subsystem or equipment is in a specified operable and committable state at the start of a mission, when the mission is called for at an unknown, i.e. a random, time.
Availability factor The availability factor of a power plant is the amount of time that it is able to produce electricity over a certain period, divided by the amount of the time in the period. Occasions where only partial capacity is available may or may not be deducted.
Material Material is a substance or mixture of substances that constitutes an object. Materials can be pure or impure, living or non-living matter.
Recycling Recycling is the process of converting waste materials into new materials and objects. The recovery of energy from waste materials is often included in this concept.
Information security Information security, sometimes shortened to InfoSec, is the practice of protecting information by mitigating information risks. It is part of information risk management.
Arithmetic Arithmetic (from Ancient Greek ἀριθμός (arithmós) 'number', and τική [τέχνη] (tikḗ [tékhnē]) 'art, craft') is an elementary part of mathematics that consists of the study of the properties of the traditional operations on numbers—addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, exponentiation, and extraction of roots. In the 19th century, Italian mathematician Giuseppe Peano formalized arithmetic with his Peano axioms, which are highly important to the field of mathematical logic today.
Surgery Surgery is a medical or dental specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a person to investigate or treat a pathological condition such as a disease or injury, to help improve bodily function, appearance, or to repair unwanted ruptured areas.\nThe act of performing surgery may be called a surgical procedure, operation, or simply "surgery".
Bit numbering In computing, bit numbering is the convention used to identify the bit positions in a binary number.\n\n\n== Bit significance and indexing ==\n\nIn computing, the least significant bit (LSB) is the bit position in a binary integer representing the binary 1s place of the integer.
Significant Others The term significant other (SO) has different uses in psychology and in colloquial language. Colloquially "significant other" is used as a gender-neutral term for a person's partner in an intimate relationship without disclosing or presuming anything about marital status, relationship status, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
Mergers & Acquisitions In corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are transactions in which the ownership of companies, other business organizations, or their operating units are transferred or consolidated with other entities. As an aspect of strategic management, M&A can allow enterprises to grow or downsize, and change the nature of their business or competitive position.
Ben Ashkenazy Ben Ashkenazy (born 1968/69) is an American billionaire real estate developer. He is the founder, CEO, and majority owner of Ashkenazy Acquisition Corporation, which has a $12 billion property portfolio.
MIT Blackjack Team The MIT Blackjack Team was a group of students and ex-students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, and other leading colleges who used card counting techniques and more sophisticated strategies to beat casinos at blackjack worldwide. The team and its successors operated successfully from 1979 through the beginning of the 21st century.
Rozeta Hajdari Rozeta Hajdari (born June 10, 1974) is a Kosovar Albanian economist and politician, currently serving as minister of industry, entrepreneurship and trade of the Republic of Kosovo. Following a lengthy career with foreign development organizations, she joined the government as a non-partisan minister in 2020.
Sekunjalo Investments Sekunjalo Investment Holdings (parent company of African Equity Empowerment Investments) is a South Africa-based private equity firm specializing in acquisitions, PIPEs, and buyouts. It has principal operations in publishing, Internet, fishing, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, telecommunication, financial services, aquaculture, biotechnology, enterprise development, events management, travel.
Ark Encounter Ark Encounter is a Christian young Earth creationist theme park that opened in Williamstown, Kentucky in 2016. The centerpiece of the park is a large representation of Noah's Ark, based on the Genesis flood narrative contained in the Bible.
Integrator An integrator in measurement and control applications is an element whose output signal is the time integral of its input signal. It accumulates the input quantity over a defined time to produce a representative output.
Integrating sphere An integrating sphere (also known as an Ulbricht sphere) is an optical component consisting of a hollow spherical cavity with its interior covered with a diffuse white reflective coating, with small holes for entrance and exit ports. Its relevant property is a uniform scattering or diffusing effect.
Insignificance (Jim O'Rourke album) Insignificance is the second singer-songwriter album by Jim O'Rourke, originally released on November 19, 2001 by Drag City. It is named after the Nicolas Roeg film of the same name.
Bodymind Bodymind is an approach to understand the relationship between the human body and mind where they are seen as a single integrated unit. It attempts to address the mind–body problem and resists the Western traditions of mind–body dualism.
Financial transaction A financial transaction is an agreement, or communication, between a buyer and seller to exchange goods, services, or assets for payment. Any transaction involves a change in the status of the finances of two or more businesses or individuals.
Rationalization (economics) In economics, rationalization is an attempt to change a pre-existing ad hoc workflow into one that is based on a set of published rules. There is a tendency in modern times to quantify experience, knowledge, and work.
Adverse possession Adverse possession, sometimes colloquially described as "squatter's rights", is a legal principle in the Anglo-American common law under which a person who does not have legal title to a piece of property—usually land (real property)—may acquire legal ownership based on continuous possession or occupation of the property without the permission (licence) of its legal owner. The possession by a person is not adverse if they are in possession as a tenant or licensee of the legal owner.
International litigation International litigation, sometimes called transnational litigation, is the practice of litigation in connection with disputes among businesses or individuals residing or based in different countries.\nThe main difference between international litigation and domestic litigation is that, in the former, certain issues are more likely to be of significance — such as personal jurisdiction, service of process, evidence from abroad, and enforcement of judgments.
Settlement (litigation) In law, a settlement is a resolution between disputing parties about a legal case, reached either before or after court action begins. A collective settlement is a settlement of multiple similar legal cases.
Risk Factors
HUBBELL INC Item 1A Risk Factors Our business, operating results, financial condition, and cash flows may be impacted by a number of factors including, but not limited to those set forth below
Any one of these factors could cause our actual results to vary materially from recent results or future anticipated results
We operate in markets that are subject to competitive pressures that could affect selling prices or demand for our products
We compete on the basis of product performance, quality, service and/or price
Our competitive strategy is to design and manufacture high quality products at the lowest possible cost
Our competitors include companies that have greater sales and financial resources than our Company
Competition could affect future selling prices or demand for our products
Lower levels of economic activity in our end markets could adversely affect our operating results
Our businesses operate in several market segments including commercial, industrial, residential, utility and telecommunications
Operating results can be negatively impacted by volatility in these markets
Future downturns in any of the markets we serve could adversely affect our overall sales and profitability
We source raw materials from various suppliers located in countries throughout the world
A disruption in the availability or price of these products could impact our operating results
We use a variety of raw materials in the production of our products including steel, brass, copper, aluminum, bronze, zinc, nickel and plastics
We have multiple sources of supply for these products and are not dependent on any single supplier
However, significant shortages of these materials or price increases could increase our operating costs and adversely impact the competitive positions of our products which would directly impact our results of operations
We continue to increase the amount of product materials, components and finished goods which is sourced from low cost countries, including Mexico, China, and other Asian countries
A political disruption or significant changes related to transportation from one of these countries could affect the availability of these materials and components which would directly impact our results of operations
We engage in acquisitions and strategic investments and may encounter difficulty in integrating these businesses
We have pursued and will continue to seek potential acquisitions and other strategic investments to complement and expand our existing businesses within our core markets
In 2005 we completed five small acquisitions
The success of these transactions will depend on our ability to integrate these businesses into our operations
We may encounter difficulties in integrating acquisitions into our operations and in managing strategic investments
Therefore, we may not realize the degree or timing of the benefits anticipated when we first enter into a transaction
Our operating results may be impacted by actions related to our lighting integration and rationalization program
We continue to execute a multi-year program to integrate and rationalize our lighting businesses through factory consolidations, workforce reductions and product rationalizations
These activities consist of complex relocations of critical personnel and machinery, as well as hiring and training of new personnel and, in some cases, expansion or other modification to facilities
All of these activities are thoroughly planned and under the 9 _________________________________________________________________ [62]Table of Contents direction of experienced management personnel
However, the actions are occurring simultaneous with normal business operations and other initiatives
Therefore, there is a risk that (1) we may not complete the activities on a timely basis and incur duplicate or higher costs, (2) we may lose essential personnel and knowledge in transition and have to reestablish processes and procedures, and (3) our normal operations could be disrupted and interfere with our ability to manufacture and ship our products to satisfy the demands of our customers
Our operating results may be impacted by actions related to our enterprise-wide business system initiative
We continue to implement an enterprise-wide business system across our domestic operations
We have successfully completed two implementations and converted approximately one-half of our users to the SAP system
This activity involves the migration of multiple legacy systems and users to a common SAP information platform
Throughout this process, we are changing the way we conduct business and employees’ roles in processing and utilizing information
In addition, certain interfaces with our customers and suppliers are impacted which results in changes to the tools we use to take orders, procure material, schedule production, remit billings, make payments and perform other business functions
Based upon the complexity of this initiative, there is risk that (1) we are unable to complete the implementation in accordance with our timeline and incur additional costs, (2) the implementation could result in operating inefficiencies which could impact operating results, and (3) the implementation could impact our ability to perform necessary business transactions
All of these risks could adversely impact our results of operations, financial condition and cash flows
We are subject to litigation and environmental regulations that may adversely impact our operating results
We are, and may in the future be, a party to a number of legal proceedings and claims, including those involving product liability and environmental matters, which could be significant
Given the inherent uncertainty of litigation, we can offer no assurance that existing litigation or a future adverse development will not have a material adverse impact
We are also subject to various laws and regulations relating to environmental protection and the discharge of materials into the environment, and we could incur substantial costs as a result of the noncompliance with or liability for clean up or other costs or damages under environmental laws