Representatives of Ziff Brothers, Jana, TPG-Axon, Jennison, UBS and Deutsche Bank declined to comment.
Tony Axon, of the lecturers' union UCU, said training had improved in recent years.
Current companies in the program include ActiveDesk, World Housing Solutions (emergency shelters), and Axon Optics (migraine glasses).
Interestingly, the shareholder activism and attendant publicity of TPG-Axon has not done much to the Sandridge share price.
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That also makes it easy to attach electrodes to various points along an axon, to track those signals.
Both TPG-Axon and Southeastern Asset Management are doing fine jobs spreading their messages of management abandoning their shareholder responsibility.
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But nothing actually travels the axon's length except a wave of electrical potential.
Are investors discouraged and think that TPG-Axon has little chance to prevail and unseat current directors with their own slate?
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The axon is the long protuberance from a nerve cell that connects it to the next cell in the circuit.
TPG-Axon is one of the largest shareholders with 6.7% and combined with Mount Kellett Capital Management they control over 11% of shares outstanding.
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The ions inside the axon are held out of equilibrium with those outside it (there are too many potassium ions within, and too few sodium).
SandRidge laughably claims the TPG-Axon director slate lacks requisite energy experience.
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TPG-Axon has gotten much of its information through outside private investigations.
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In subpoenas, the SEC has sought information about communications related to Schering-Plough and other deals with Ziff Brothers, Jana Partners LLC, TPG-Axon Capital Management, Prudential Financial Inc.
Now come along hedge fund TPG-Axon and CEO Dinakar Singh.
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In MS the damage to myelin exposes channels on the surface of the axon, allowing potassium ions to leak out and thus dissipate the electrical current that carries nerve signals.
Their main finding was that a nerve impulse, now known as an action potential, is caused by the movement in opposite directions across the axon's surface membrane of sodium and potassium ions.
With the debut this week of a new version of the Axon video system, the company added, it also does not expect to sell existing levels of first generation Axon products and accessories.
Each neuron has a long fiber, or axon, that stretches upward through a tiny opening in the bone above it and into the olfactory bulb, a plum-size mass in the front of the brain, behind the forehead.
More symptoms will be analyzed and explained from a neuroscience viewpoint over the coming weeks, so be sure to stay tuned to Oscillatory Thoughts and The Cognitive Axon over the course of the next few days.
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