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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- Brockhouse, Bertram Neville 1918-2003. Canadian physicist who shared a 1994 Nobel Prize for his contribution to the development of neutron scattering, a technique used to investigate the structure and properties of matter.
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- n. Canadian physicist who bounced neutron beams off of atomic nuclei to study the structure of matter (1918-2003)
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Brockhouse Cooper is a Montreal-based brokerage firm.
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They often trade at a discount to the underlying price of the commodity itself: At $82 a barrel, for example, oil is priced for moderate global growth, says Pierre Lapointe , a Montreal-based strategist at brokerage firm Brockhouse Cooper, while oil stocks are priced for a recession.
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McDonald's rivals Yum for international exposure, although Brockhouse Cooper analysts note only about 20% of revenue comes from the fast-expanding Asian-Pacific region.
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The number of profit-warning announcements over the past three months is near a decade low, according to brokerage firm Brockhouse Cooper.
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Toronto-based broker Brockhouse Cooper reckons a spike in oil prices to $130 a barrel would lower U.S. industrial-production growth from roughly 5% annually to about 4%.
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"The increase in political turmoil is making investors look more at the idiosyncratic risks of each emerging market," says Alex Bellefleur , a financial economist at investment bank Brockhouse & Cooper Inc. in Montreal.
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Montreal-based brokerage Brockhouse Cooper expects that partly for this reason, the S&P 500's dividend yield over the next few years will rebound to 2.7% from its current 2.2%.
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Becton, Dickinson that Brockhouse says also generate at least a third of revenue from Europe.
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Shull was rewarded with the Physics Prize in 1994, together with Bertram N. Brockhouse, who specialized in another aspect of neutron scattering on condensed material: the small energy losses resulting when neutrons excite vibrational modes (phonons) in a crystalline lattice.
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For this purpose, Brockhouse developed the 3-axis neutron spectrometer, by which complete dispersion curves (phonon energies as function of wave vectors) could be obtained.
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