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... to 2003 The second and third columns of the table showthe correlations between each of these variables with our absolute governance scorecard and change of the scorecard respectively The scorecard ... market power and negatively correlated with debt ratio and R&D intensity The correlation between ROA and market power andthe Correlation between ROA and R&D intensity are expected, as the activity ... with the regulator’s recommendations and are likely to disclose more on their governance status There is not necessarily a strong linkbetween governance level and performance On the other hand,...
... The LIBOR Scandal: The Fix Is In the Bank of England Did It! No 125, 2012 2012/9 The Mediterranean Conundrum TheLinkbetweenthe State andthe Macroeconomy, andthe Disastrous ... single projection for the years 2015–18 and then for the years 2019–23 ** The CBO projects that unemployment will be 5.5 percent at the end of 2018 We calculate the rates for 2015 and 2016 with a simple ... partners (see the IMF projections depicted in Figure 3), exports seem to be on the increase As shown in Figure 10, the parts of the world that import the most goods and services from the United...
... Closing the gap Thelinkbetweenprojectmanagement excellence and long-term success Preface Closing the gap: Thelinkbetweenprojectmanagement excellence and long-term success ... Closing the gap Thelinkbetweenprojectmanagement excellence and long-term success Companies train and recruit projectmanagement professionals to increase the organisation’s skills and experience ... 2009 Closing the gap Thelinkbetweenprojectmanagement excellence and long-term success “Whether it’s a US$50,000 study or a US$30 billion “giga” project, the basic tenets of project management...
... double-strand breaks (DSBs) A single-strand overhang is formed by exonuclease activity and invades the homologous doublestranded region of the other allele These steps of homology search and recombination ... CcCac1L and CcLim15 in the crude extracts of meiotic tissues (Fig 2E) Taken together, these results suggest that the interaction between CcLim15 and CcCac1L is related to specific events during the ... (Fig 3A) The FEBS Journal 275 (2008) 2032–2041 ª 2008 The Authors Journal compilation ª 2008 FEBS 2035 Linkbetween Lim15/Dmc1 andthe CAF-1–PCNA complex S Ishii et al phase together with the meiosis-specific...
... years, there has been a special interest in thelinkbetween exchange rates and interest rates in both advanced and developing countries This is understandable, given the important role these ... weighted average of the real interest rate andthe real exchange rate, where the weight on the exchange rate, !, depends solely on the elasticities of aggregate demand to the exchange and interest rate ... appreciation The interest rate hike puts a limit to the increase in aggregate demand, while also being instrumental to the strengthening of the exchange rate via the UIP schedule The latter strengthening...
... to the beam at the edge of this sector and its neighbour at the edge of the adjacent sector When estimating the AoA, the estimates p1 , p2 , and p3 of the mean signal power at the output of the ... compared with each other If p1 > p3 , then ˆ the ratio b21 is calculated andthe AoA is estimated using the ˆ bearing curve b21 (θ) If p1 < p3 , then the value b32 is calculated andthe AoA is estimated ... error lies within the range 2◦ to 6◦ (depending on the true source bearing) and is solely due to the random wandering of the CofG of the angle-spread source For the lower SNRs, the bearing estimation...
... studies of breast cancer andthe relationship betweenthe expression of ERa and response to the nonsteroidal antioestrogen, tamoxifen Oestrogens and ERs also play a vital role in the development or ... contributions FR and RNK have reviewed the literature FR has performed the laboratory based work RNK and SYI provided the supervision FR wrote the manuscript RNK and SYI edited the manuscript All ... ER and other sex hormone receptors in oesophageal cancer Conflicting data exist on the expression of sex steroid receptors in oesophageal cancer and hence their role in the progression of the...
... in the design of the study, acquisition, analysis and interpretation of data and drafting the manuscript BB and BL performed the histological and morphometrical analyses, and contributed to the ... analysis and contributed to the interpretation of data GL conceived and coordinated the study, participated in the design of the study, analysis and interpretation of data and drafting the manuscript ... emphysema and fibrosis may result from two distinct and apparent opposite processes, they may coexist either in different areas, or in a same area of the lung of humans and animals The development and...
... 48106-1346 The undersigned, appointed by the Dean of the Graduate School, have examined the thesis A FURTHER ANALYSIS OF THE CAUSAL LINKBETWEEN ABORTION AND CRIME Presented by Spencer Martin, a candidate ... state fixed effects andthe differences in the five early-legalizing states, and across time, since the theory implies there is a time lag betweenthe abortion decision andthe crime impact For ... argument to the debate around this subject The original article and argument simply assumed thelinkbetweenthe typical aborting mother andthe typical mother of a potentially criminal child; no...
... answer: The two decades between 1975 and 1995 brought significant changes in the representation of women in Freedonia's work force, according to the graphs In 1975, for example, some 300 000 men and ... worked in the communications sector Twenty years later, though the number of men remained unchanged, the number of women rose to 550 000 A similar situation was seen in the wholesale and retail ... also made gains in both the finance/banking industries and in the defence-related public sector Whereas some 125 000 women worked in finance and banking institutions in 1975, the number increased...
... grow quickly and others not That is, the variation in the dependent variables comes from both the time series andthe cross-sections, and some pooling of data is necessary to address the questions ... data, and note significant deviations betweenthe PWT 6.0 and PWT 5.6 results The PWT 6.0 data contain more observations than the PWT 5.6 data, but when matched with the data for other variables the ... and liberalization, on the one hand, and growth and growth volatility, on the other, were tradeoffs in democracies We explore briefly both lines of inquiry as a guide to further research 13 The...
... family Very often, the person who takes such a stand will command the respect of their peers—many of whom may wish that they too could make a similar commitment Nonetheless, such a stand can also generate ... primarily from the narrow focus on organizational goals and objectives to the exclusion of personal goals and objectives In other words, if all that matters is the organization's goals, there is simply ... organizations compete for a limited resource The success of one means that it tends to get more of the resource, which then reduces the success of the others The resource could be limited dollars to...
... ‘‘Saving and Financial Planning: Some ´ Household Financial Management: The Connection between Knowledge and Behavior and more research on budgeting and cash-flow management is needed Data from the ... cash-flow management index had the largest percentage of respondants in the high group (66 percent), followed by the credit management index (45 percent), the saving index (33 percent), andthe investment ... in the low, medium, or high groups on the credit management index, given a specific credit management knowledge score.20 In this analysis, the correlation between credit management knowledge and...
... their investigation As well, they adequately reported on the content of the interventions, the statistical analytic decisions, andthe dates of recruitment and follow-up, and they addressed their ... information regarding the intervention itself, the statistical analyses performed, andthe methodology and adequate discussion of the generalizability of the results and how they fit in the context of ... the statistical methods used, detailing of the flow of participants through the study and their baseline characteristics, and an interpretation of the results as they fit in the context of other...
... has termed the Matthew effect, with the better readers reading more and therefore increasing their exposure to print, and consequently their word recognition skills and their fluency and speed ... Summary, which describes the CLP and provides an overview of the main themes of these projects and a summary version of the position papers and presentations on each project, and a Conference Report, ... whom had received their research funding from the ARC, to discuss and review their work in the reading area As noted by Pratt and Coltheart7, the issues covered andthe emphases of the different...
... receipts and payments (the credit terms on sales and purchases are the same so that a =~) andthe firm buys just in time so inventory is zero and YI =O operating cash cycle (0) is cet Then theand ... and for the times series properties of earnings and cash flows The modern economic theory of the firm views the firm as a set of contracts between a multitude of parties The underlying hypothesis ... because the sales contract determines both the timing and amount of the cash inflows (and often related cash outflows) andthe recognition of earnings The sales contract specifies when and under...
... cyanobacteria at the time of chloroplast origin had poorly defined interactions between Cyt f and plastocyanin and/ or plastocyanin and photosystem I, and subsequently the nature of the interactions in the ... concentrations and temperatures, the plant and cyanobacterial systems show similar rates DISCUSSION To our knowledge, the work described here and in the related publications [1,7] is the first kinetic ... differed dramatically betweenthe reaction with photosystem I and with Cyt f Whereas the reaction with Cyt f showed an overall attraction betweenthe reaction partners, the reaction with photosystem...