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Acer: off the pacer/Acer:不再是領導廠商

2011年04月22日 12:40 PM
Lex：宏碁路在何方？
Lex_Acer: off the pacer
英國《金融時報》 Lex專欄


It's never pretty when a company goes through an existential crisis. Shares in Acer, the world's third-largest maker of personal computers, have lost close to half their value this year, as management has dithered between chasing scale or profitability in the face of weak demand. Last week's downgrade to second-quarter shipment forecasts – a mere two weeks after the new executive team hinted at an upgrade – suggests that the company still lacks a sense of direction.


一家公司在生死攸關之際，看上去都不會太美。全球第三大個人電腦製造商宏碁(Acer)的股價今年幾乎下跌了一半。面對疲弱需求，該公司管理層在追逐規模還是保持盈利性之間猶豫不決。上周宏碁下調二季度銷量預期——就在兩週前新的管理團隊還暗示會上調預期——表明該公司仍缺乏方向感。Barbara Campbell is part of a worldwide experiment testing whether electrodes implanted in the eye can restore sight.


In vitro suit: Japan doctor implanted wrong egg in woman

Mcclatchy Newspapers

Feb. 20, 2009, 8:56PM

• In Vitro Fertilization Can't Reverse Aging's Effects
  

In vitro fertilization, which thousands of women undergo each year in the hope that it will give them the same odds of having a baby as when they were younger, cannot fully turn back the biological clock, researchers are reporting today.
(By Rob Stein, The Washington Post)

• 
  From the archive: Test-tube babies

  The 30th anniversary of in-vitro fertilisation approaches. Here's how we addressed the moral debate in 1981

implant

v., -plant·ed, -plant·ing, -plants. v.tr.

1. To set in firmly, as into the ground: implant fence posts.
2. To establish securely, as in the mind or consciousness; instill: habits that had been implanted early in childhood.
3. Medicine.
   1. To insert or embed (an object or a device) surgically: implant a drug capsule; implant a pacemaker.
   2. To graft or insert (a tissue) within the body.

v.intr. Embryology

To become attached to and embedded in the uterine lining. Used of a fertilized egg.

n. (ĭmPRIMARY_STRESSplăntSECONDARY_STRESS)

Something implanted, especially a surgically implanted tissue or device: a dental implant; a subcutaneous implant.

[Middle English implanten, from Medieval Latin implantāre : Latin in-, in; see in-² + Latin plantāre, to plant (from planta, a shoot; see plant).]

implantable im·plant'a·ble adj.

in vitro

[L.] literally within a glass, i.e. outside the living body; observable in a test tube; in an artificial environment.

fertile (REPRODUCTION)
adjective
1 describes animals or plants that are able to produce (a lot of) young or fruit:
People get less fertile as they get older.
NOTE: The opposite is infertile.

2 describes a seed or egg that is able to develop into a new plant or animal

fertility
noun [U]
a fertility symbol
declining fertility rates

fertilize, UK USUALLY fertilise
verb [T]
to cause an egg or seed to start to develop into a new young animal or plant by joining it with a male cell:
Bees fertilize the flowers by bringing pollen.
Once an egg is fertilized by the sperm, it becomes an embryo.

fertilization, UK USUALLY fertilisation
noun [U]
In humans, fertilization is more likely to occur at certain times of the month.

pacemaker/ pacer
(pās'mā'kər)
n.

1. Sports. One who sets the pace in a race. Also called pacer, pacesetter.
2. A leader in a field: the fashion house that is the pacemaker. Also called pacesetter.
3. 1. A part of the body, such as the mass of muscle fibers of the sinoatrial node, that sets the pace or rhythm of physiological activity.
   2. Any of several usually miniaturized and surgically implanted electronic devices used to stimulate or regulate contractions of the heart muscle.
4. Biochemistry. A substance that regulates a series of related reactions.

pacemaking pace'mak'ing adj. & n.