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Haircut
With respect to each Transaction, if the Purchase Price is less than par, an amount equal to the difference between par and the Purchase Price, which shall be considered a ?settlement payment? as defined in Bankruptcy Code Section 741(8).
Financial Term
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Hazard Ratio HR
The relative likelihood of experiencing a particular event. In a survival study, this is the relative likelihood of death. A hazard ratio (HR) of 0.5 indicates that one group has half the risk of the other group.
Health Care Term
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HDL Cholesterol
high density lipoprotein associated with cholesterol.
Health Care Term
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Headcount-Related Expense
Includes salary and benefits (excluding performance-based incentives), and other noncompensation costs related to employees.
Financial Term
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Heating degree days
A measure of the number of degrees the average daily outside temperature is below 65 degrees Fahrenheit.
Energy Term
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Heavy Crude Oil
A relatively inexpensive crude oil characterized by high relative density and viscosity. Heavy crude oils require greater levels of processing to produce high value products such as gasoline and diesel fuel.
Energy Term
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Hedge
Establishing an opposite exposure position in a futures or OTC market by means of an option, swap or futures contract from that held and priced in a physical commodity or financial market. Without hedging, the physical or financial exposure would be at risk to price or rate fluctuations.
Financial Term
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Hedge Fund-Linked Derivatives
are derivative instruments, the value of which is primarily linked to the price movement of a hedge fund, hedge fund index or hedge fund futures or option contract.
Financial Term
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Hedging
The use of derivative commodity and interest-rate instruments to reduce financial exposure to commodity price and interest-rate volatility.
Financial Term
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Hematopoietic Stem Cells
Stem cells that give rise to all the blood cell types including myeloid (monocytes and macrophages, neutrophils, basophils, eosinophils, erythrocytes, megakaryocytes/platelets, dendritic cells), and lymphoid lineages (T-cells, B-cells, NK-cells).
Health Care Term
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Hemodialysis
pertains to the use of a machine to clean wastes from blood after the kidneys have failed. The blood flows through a device called a dialyzer, which removes the wastes. The cleaned blood then flows back into the body.
Health Care Term
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Hemofiltration Hemofiltrate
"Hemofiltration" is a continuous dialysis therapy in which blood is pumped through a hollow-fiber cartridge and the liquid portion of blood containing substances is removed into the sink department. The liquid portion of the blood ("hemofiltrate") is discarded.
Health Care Term
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Hepatitis
is an inflammation of the liver caused by infectious or toxic agents.
Health Care Term
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HFRX Indexes
are a series of benchmarks of hedge fund industry performance which are engineered to achieve representative performance of a large universe of hedge fund strategies. Hedge Fund Research, Inc. ("HFR, Inc.") employs the HFRX Methodology, a proprietary and highly quantitative process by which hedge funds are selected as constituents for the HFRX Indexes. This methodology includes robust classificati
Financial Term
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High Grade Ore
High percentage of metal content in ore. Metal Mining Industry Operating Statistics
Manufacturing Term
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HIV
Human Immunodeficiency Virus. HIV (also called HIV-1), a retrovirus, causes AIDS. A similar retrovirus, HIV-2, causes a variant disease, sometimes referred to as West African AIDS. HIV infection leads to the destruction of the immune system.
Health Care Term
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HMO Health maintenance organization
Health maintenance organization. Health care insurance organization. HMOs generally offer the most cost-efficient form of health care coverage.
Health Care Term
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Homocysteine
An amino acid produced by the body. Elevated levels of homocysteine in the blood appear to have a link to elevated risk of cardiovascular disease.
Health Care Term
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Hourly Compensation
The measure includes accrued wages and salaries, supplements, employer contributions to employee benefit plans, and taxes. Productivity
Economy Term
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Hours Worked
Hours data for the labor productivity and cost measures include hours for all persons working in the sector?wage and salary workers, the self-employed and unpaid family workers. Productivity
Economy Term
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HUD
The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Economy Term
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Hydrate
A compound which contains water molecules that are either bound to a metal center or crystallized with the metal complex.
Manufacturing Term
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Hydrometallurgical
The treatment of metal or the separation of metal from ores and ore concentrates by liquid processes, such as leaching, extraction and precipitation to extract and recover metals from their ores. Operating Statistics
Manufacturing Term
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Hypercholesterolemia
High blood cholesterol.
Health Care Term
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Hyperlipoproteinemia
An excess of lipoproteins in the blood.
Health Care Term
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