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Shark repellent — A shark repellent is any method of driving sharks away from an area, object, person, or animal. Shark repellents are one category of animal repellents.OverviewShark repellents have been of interest to human beings for many years, for a number of… … Wikipedia
shark repellent — Often used in risk arbitrage. Examples are golden parachutes , poison pills , safe harbor, and scorched earth policy. porcupine provision. Amendment to company charter intended to protect it against takeover. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary * * *… … Financial and business terms
Shark Repellent — Slang term for any one of a number of measures taken by a company to fend off an unwanted or hostile takeover attempt. In many cases, a company will make special amendments to its charter or bylaws that become active only when a takeover attempt… … Investment dictionary
Shark net — A shark net is a submerged net placed around beaches to reduce the occurrence of interactions between sharks and swimmers.Shark nets do not offer complete protection but work on the principle of fewer sharks = fewer attacks . They reduce shark… … Wikipedia
Electropositive shark repellent — Electropositive metals (EPMs) are a new class of shark repellent materials that produce a measurable voltage when immersed in an electrolyte. The voltages produced are as high as 1.75 eVDC in seawater. It is hypothesized that this voltage… … Wikipedia
Magnetic shark repellent — Magnetic shark repellents utilize permanent magnets, which exploit the sensitivity of the Ampullae of Lorenzini in sharks and rays (electrosense). This organ is not found on bony fishes (teleosts), therefore, this type of shark repellent is… … Wikipedia
Great white shark — Taxobox name = Great white shark fossil range = Pliocene to recent status = VU trend = unknown status system = iucn2.3 image width = 250px regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Chondrichthyes subclassis = Elasmobranchii ordo = Lamniformes … Wikipedia
porcupine provisions — shark repellents Provisions made by a company to deter takeover bids They include poison pills, staggered directorships, etc … Big dictionary of business and management
Sharkdefense — is an internationally recognized and award winning research organization and think tank focused on shark bycatch reduction. Its core research involves chemical and electrochemical shark repellent technologies. SharkDefense s repellent experiments … Wikipedia
Electronegativity — This electrostatic potential map shows how the oxygen atom has a more negative charge than the hydrogen atoms. Electronegativity, symbol χ (the Greek letter chi), is a chemical property that describes the tendency of an atom or a functional group … Wikipedia
