• relationship between stratification and public funding for privately managed schools

... considered assume that the relationships between bank and market rates are symmetric and linear Several studies (Kleimeier and Sander, 2006; Payne and Waters, 2008; Wang and Thi, 2010; Rocha, 2011) ... the relationships between bank interest rates and the money market rate (proxied by the three-month EURIBOR) in the Eurozone for the period 2003(1)-2011(9), allowing for changes in the degree and ... completely disregarded and valuable information for the estimation of the interest rate pass-through model can be lost For these reason, several authors (de Bond, 2002; Sander and Kleimer, 2004,...

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... EU, and the government of the USA Both Europe and USA increased funding to research into vaccines and microbicides between 2000 and 2008 The USA has constantly and steeply increased their funding ... the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), might have an impact on government funding policies Globally, USA government and BMGF account for 79% of the global funding for vaccines and for 59% ... total of sexual and reproductive health and rights including AIDS were the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden, each contributing between 400 and 800 US$ per...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21

... 58:1107-1117 16 Clinical and Laboratory Standard Institute: Performance Standards for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing; 18th Informational Supplement M100-S18 Clinical and Laboratory Standard Institute, ... 17 Clinical and Laboratory Standard Institute: Methods for Dilution Antimicrobial Susceptibility Tests for Bacteria That Grow Aerobically; Approved Standard Clinical and Laboratory Standard Institute, ... BioMed Central and take full advantage of: • Convenient online submission • Thorough peer review • No space constraints or color figure charges • Immediate publication on acceptance • Inclusion in...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 17:20

... Health for England; 2004 31 The NHS Information Centre: Health Survey for England 2007: Volume 1Healthly lifestyles: knowledge, attitudes and behaviour London: The NHS Information Centre for Health ... for Health and Social Care; 2008 32 The NHS Information Centre: Health Survey for England 2007: Volume 2Methodology and Documentation London: The NHS Information Centre for Health and Social ... association between adjusted BMI and SDQ total score, reflecting a curvilinear relationship between weight and psychological wellbeing This modelled relationship is depicted in Figure for the SDQ...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:22

... Epps and Cereola (2008) identified the lack of a significant relationship between the corporate governance rating and operational performance represented by the rate of return on assets and the ... existence of a positive link between corporate governance and the marginal market value, for a sample of 24 Tunisian listed companies, covering the period between 2000 and 2005 For a sample of Japanese ... ascertained from publicly available information), new and updated governance factors related to board diversity and refreshment, and director compensation, zero-weight factors (informational-only...

Ngày tải lên: 02/01/2015, 17:33

... companies law both of public and private sectors to preparing the financial report by using the same standards and the subjection of the reporting for auditing And both of Ray and Lakshmanon see ... the relation between the financial reporting quality and three attributes for the accounting information quality which the financial accounting standards board statement No.(2) And the characteristics ... importance And perhaps what Lynn said about the hapes, since the financial information is prepared for public purposes and the accounting cannot achieve the user's desires in accessing information...

Ngày tải lên: 06/01/2015, 19:49

... states x and z such that x ≤ z Thus, Xj ≤ Zj for all j We reached states u and v from states x and z after the occurrence of event Clearly, we get: Uj = Xj , ∀j = i and Ui = F alse and Vj = Yj ... if for all event e, Pe (x) does not depend on state x and for all event e, if x1 ≤ x2 then e(x1 ) ≤ e(x2 ) We assume that the model is event monotone and that there exist two states M in and ... smallest and the largest of all states We perform the time parallel simulation as follows We proceed with an initial run and with some runs for fixing the paths using the same sequence of random...

Ngày tải lên: 16/10/2015, 09:09

... to 1997 for 58 countries, and for a shorter period for an additional 23 (See Eichengreen forthcoming for a review of this and other measures.) All PCSTS estimations use the POOL command with ... correspondence between Quinn and Prof Heston, 28 Feb 2001 The PWT 6.0 growth series for Syria contain some unlikely numbers, as does the trade series for India before 1970 The data for Syria and India before ... scores: trade (exports and imports) and invisibles (payments and receipts for financial and other services) We transformed each measure into a to 100 scale taking 100*(CAPITAL/4) and 100*(CURRENT/8)...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2012, 08:50

... outcomes? and addressed five priority areas: • assessment and reporting to improve learning • improving literacy and numeracy learning • improving outcomes for Indigenous students • teaching ... 1991), and the 1998 publication Literacy for All: The Challenge for Australian Schools (DETYA, 1998), outlining the National Literacy and Numeracy Plan agreed to by all Commonwealth, State and Territory ... speakers of the same age; and • the ability to understand, use and reflect on written texts in order to achieve one’s goals, to develop one’s knowledge and potential and to participate in society...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 06:20

... in regards to the relationship, if any, between inflation and growth, and any causal relationship between the two variables As a first step of investigating the relationship between the two variables, ... there are times when the output decreases and the inflation rate increases, for example, between E2 and E3 This negative relationship between inflation and growth is important, as it quite often ... if a relationship exists between inflation and growth, it is not likely to be a simple one The bivariate relationship may not be linear; and the correlation between inflation/disinflation and...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 19:20

... CO2, total, excluding and including, land use, land-use change and forestry, long time series ©OECD 2009 28 – MEASURING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ICT AND THE ENVIRONMENT SOURCE AND AVAILABILITY COMMENTS ... broader Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) analytical and policy work on the relationship between information and communication technology (ICT) and the environment.1 ... Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, the Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom and...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 09:20

... explanatory variables in model OG (4) and (5) So include, Hi• , fi• (S) and Xi• as extra regressors in (4) and (5) The random effects of the resulting equation (4) (and (5)) includes the term ηµi The ... analyses and that it therefore will add to our understanding of the reproting mechanisms 1 2 In the empirical analyses we will take f and g as a quadratic function and f and g as dummies for the ... effects have accounted for a relatively small part of the drop in the retirement rates See for instance Fields and Mitchell (1986), Stock and Wise (199?) and rust & Phelan (1997) for studeis that find...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20

... Banker-Customer Relationship: Banking is a trust-based relationship There are numerous kinds of relationship between the bank and the customer The relationship between a banker and a customer ... observed that banker customer relationship is transactional relationship Termination of relationship between a banker and a customer: The relationship between a bank and a customer ceases on: (a) ... customer relationship is fiducial relationship The terms and conditions governing the relationship is not be leaked by the banker to a third party Classification of Relationship: The relationship between...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 10:20

... were used for a tuning set for minimum error rate training, and another 1,500 for development set for analysis experiment We report testing results on the remaining 2,000 sentence pairs for the ... any English words, and can simply and easily be removed by referring to their POS information The unaligned words are case particles, final endings, and auxiliary particles, and they call these ... preprocessing method for both training and decoding in EnglishKorean SMT In particular, we transform a source language sentence by inserting pseudo words and syntactically reordering it to form a target...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 02:20

... was used for experiments containing both DNA and RNA For singleturnover protein in excess cleavage reactions, 10 nM I-AniI were mixed with nM end-labeled pCOBLE in TK9 buffer at 37 °C for Reactions ... were performed (Fig 4A) Both DNA and RNA substrates saturated limiting amounts of protein in the same manner with a stoichiometry close to : Two independent determinations were performed for each ... with and without nM AnCOBDP9 pre-RNA and with KCl at 50, 100 and 150 mM Note that increasing KCl concentration slows the cleavage of the DNA substrate in the absence of RNA (see also Fig 2D) and...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 10:20

... tuberculosis H37Rv, and the PMM74 and the PMM56 mutant strains, and incubated for 20 h with continuous shaking Lipids were then extracted, and separated by TLC as described before, and labeled compounds ... tuberculosis H37Rv, and transformants were selected on 7H11 supplemented with OADC and Km at 32 °C [12] Two clones were selected and grown in mL of 7H9 medium containing Tween-80 and Km at 32 °C for weeks ... OADC and incubation at 37 °C The values shown are the means ± standard deviations for three independent experiments important virulence factors for M tuberculosis, i.e DIMs and PGL-tb; and (b)...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 09:20

... of operation and stage of relationship between the middleman and the exporter Based on the work by Bello and Gilliland (1997) it investigates the effects on performance of single and combined ... exporters in collecting information is posited to be influenced by the exporter’s trust in its foreign channel partner, and the association between information collection and performance is argued to ... They develop and test a conceptual model of the association between information collection from two different sources (the intermediary and ‘‘other’’) and performance in export relationships...

Ngày tải lên: 07/04/2014, 11:16

... understanding of the intervening effects of select variables on the link between IT and performance Impacting firm performance Beyond insights for understanding the role and impact of information ... imperative for companies that properly integrate demand and supply to understand this flow from demand to supply and back to demand from a service dominant logic, to explore the drive for a common ... technologies and other variables including relationship quality, resource complementarity, and retailer logistics service on financial performance and ultimately on the overall performance in...

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