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(M2 PressWIRE Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) BUYINS.NET / www.squeezetrigger.com is monitoring the performance of all stocks with earnings being released in the coming weeks and determining how the stocks have performed Before their last 12 quarterly, 6 quarterly and December earnings reports. AUDIOCODES LTD (NASDAQ:AUDC), SYNAPTICS INC (NASDAQ:SYNA), ALMOST FAMILY INC (NASDAQ:AFAM), BLOUNT INTERNATIONAL INC (NYSE:BLT), TICC CAPITAL CORP (NASDAQ:TICC), CASCADE MICROTECH INC (NASDAQ:CSCD) are all expected to be Up Before their earnings are released. The movement of stock prices in the days and weeks leading to and following these earnings announcements may follow a predictable pattern. Most companies stock price histories show random or unpredictable movements around earnings dates. But some seem to repeat the same pattern quarter after quarter, year after year. The # of Reports in the table below shows how many previous quarterly reports comprise the indicator that predicts how a stock will act after its earnings are released. The specific technology used to make these predictions is available for a low monthly fee at http://www.squeezetrigger.com/services/strat/mh.php . The following stocks are expected to go Up Before earnings are released Wednesday: Symbol Company # of Reports Quarter Release Date AUDC AUDIOCODES LTD 12 Quarter Q2 07/27/2011 SYNA SYNAPTICS INC July Earnings Q4 07/28/2011 AFAM ALMOST FAMILY INC 12 Quarter Q2 08/04/2011 BLT BLOUNT INTERNATIONAL INC 6 Quarter Q2 08/04/2011 TICC TICC CAPITAL CORP 12 Quarter Q2 08/04/2011 CSCD CASCADE MICROTECH INC 6 Quarter Q2 08/03/2011 This technology is designed to help the stock trader identify those companies that seem to have a consistent pattern of movement before or after the earnings release date, based on the history of earnings releases for that company. It combines a calendar of expected earnings releases with a history of past earnings releases in a way that lets you see if a pattern exists. AUDIOCODES LTD (NASDAQ:AUDC) - AudioCodes Ltd. designs, develops, and sells products for voice, data, and video over IP networks.

Wences Casares: Challenges to Entrepreneurship in Latin America ...

The entrepreneurial ecosystems are incredibly different in Europe, in Silicon Valley and in Latin America. In Latin America, uhm, doing a startup anywhere in the world is hard. It’s again, the, the numbers do not look very favorable. If you, whatever it is, it’s 1%, 10% if you want to be incredibly generous you will be successful. Uhm, let’s say it’s 1% and that’s a chance of 0.01. When you, in Latin America any business forget about the startup, it has a 1% chance of surviving. The ups and downs of the, of the economy, the lack of a strong institutional framework or rule of law, etc. etc. It’s much, much harder for companies in general to operate in this environment of very high friction than it is in the US or in Europe. And when you combine those chances or the sort of the startup chances times the, the Latin America where emerging market and high friction, the result, it’s an exponentially low. If the risk gets compounded and the upside doesn’t get compounded, ah, actually in many cases, the upside is less than in the of all the customer gets ah, smaller. So, so unless you, there is a very clear angle on how you know the market or a very specific opportunity, etc. I think that, that that the straight off of going to emerging market because there’s less competition is not necessarily a clear trade off that it pays off. There maybe more competition here but when you’re exiting in a place like Silicon Valley, you’re focused 80% of the time in creating value and 20% of the the time with dealing with the friction that comes with doing anything. In Latin America and most places, you’re lucky if you come focused 40% of the time to creating value and 60% of the time is dealing with the friction, which for startup, it’s, it’s ah, it’s asphyxiating, and can kill them very easily. There is some practical example that we learned when we moved here. In South America or in Europe as an entrepreneur, whenever you start a company and you will leave, and yourself, you typically put your own money to it. And you start and that gives you much more credibility than any other aspect. You know, that’s what they want to see in those environments. Are you willing to risk your own network to build a business. In Silicon Valley, it’s a very, it’s wire differently. Here, to be credible, to, to be able to talk to a business or a retailer or anybody who want, that you want to build that company around, you need to show that you’re venture-backed. And that’s just one little example of a lot of big difference when you get to choose a market, you know, those ah, the venture capital industry, it’s not that sophisticated nor exist so well in Latin America, yet nor in Europe, it’s there but it’s not as broad as Silicon Valley. So those are some of the examples of things that you have to handle when, when you make a decision where, where you want to base. I, uhm, if I were an emerging market entrepreneur who is very familiar with Silicon Valley, I would be looking at opportunities where I could develop a product and a business from Panama or wherever, it is, and using the local talent which sometimes you’ll be surprised on the quality of the talent you can get there can be much better than, than what you can get in here because, and that’s very counterintuitive but, but here talent is not only expensive but the best talent is often taken by the very large companies. So when you look at the startups, they will have one brilliant engineer for every four to nine good but average engineers. In Panama you may have the luxury of creating a team of nine brilliant engineers. That’s very, very hard to do in Silicon Valley. And I think it’s just a matter of time before we see a world class company addressing the world markets and develop the world markets from an emerged, from the emerging markets. Actually I think that the biggest reason why that is not happening is sort of self-imposed censorship if you will. There are, uhm, entrepreneurs who have the right ideas to do from Vietnam or from Panama or from Turkey and ah, they would like to launch them to the developed world from the market but they don’t do because they haven’t seen people do it before and they think it’s impossible. I just think we have to see the first examples of that to, to begin see a big trend in the rest. Especially, yeah, especially in mobile where I think some of these markets are very advance in how they use the mobile phone.

Friction science and technology, from concepts to applications

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Self-organization during friction, advanced surface-engineered materials and systems design

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Current trends in nonlinear systems and control, in honor of Petar Kokotović and Turi Nicosia

The execution of the regulation test with the three control solutions with ... the choice of an accurate friction model (as in the C2 control scheme) has ...

Track-related research, Friction control methods used by the transit industry

Recently, new solutions incorporating various methods of top-of-rail (TOR) friction control have been introduced. Wayside-based TOR solutions are available ...

Hybrid systems, computation and control : 8th international workshop, HSCC 2005, Zurich, Switzerland, March 9-11, 2005 : proceedings

Position and Force Control of Nonsmooth Lagrangian Dynamical Systems Without Friction Sophie Chareyron and Pierre-Brice Wieber INRIA Rhone- Alpes 38334 ...