The company hopes the offerings will be sufficient to retain its critical triple-A rating for its subsidiary Ambac Assurance, but it said the offering might not be enough to prevent a downgrade of the unit by the rating agencies Moody's Investors Service or Standard & Poor's.
Questions about MBIA's capital position and its ability to hold on to a critical triple-A credit rating kept customers away during the quarter until Moody's and S&P reaffirmed their ratings.
We designed a heating-quenching procedure in a thermodynamic region limited between the critical and triple point densities of carbon to study a sample of 1750 atomic arrangements produced at different densities, quench rates, and using graphite and diamond unit cells as precursor structures.
Hydroxylation of proline to hydroxyproline (Hyp) is critical for triple helix stabilization.
Knoblauch stroked a critical two-run triple off Joey Hamilton in the second inning that gave Denny Neagle an early cushion and helped him win his fourth straight start.
Although it predicts the existence of a triple critical point, it does not successfully predict its value.
As a result, it allows for a triple critical point where the nematic, isotropic, and smectic A phase meet.
This eliminates the problems of correspondence and adjustments between experiments that are often critical in the triple resonance strategy.
In safety-critical systems, the triple modular redundancy (TMR) technique [14] is widely used for fault tolerance.
The critical point of water (triple point) is T = 273 °C, p = 22 MPa.
The chapter also describes an approach to study the cytoskeleton at the leading edge of cultured cells by platinum replica EM after detergent extraction, triple fixation, critical point drying, and shadowing with platinum and carbon.
