... banks operating in New Zealand all have histories of well over 100 years These include the Auckland Savings Bank (ASB), the Australia and New Zealand Bank (ANZ/National), the Bank of New Zealand (BNZ), ... Bergstrom, A J and Bresnahan, J M (1996) How Banks Can Harness the Power of Branding US Banker, 106(3), March, pp 81-82 Bharadwaj, S G., Varadarajan, P R and Fahy, J (1993) Sustainable Competitive Advantage ... Management and Customer Loyalty Journal of Financial Services Marketing, 8(1), August, p 71 Kaynak, E (198 6a) Globalisation of Banks: An Integrative Statement International Journal of Bank Marketing,...
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... the location in time where a similar shape occurred) and a scale factor that is related to the amplitude and width of the wavelet The CWT of each single signal is calculated for a range of different ... tendon, aligned with the muscle fibre direction Morphological, electrical and physiological parameter values were based on data of the biceps brachii (default values of the software package) For a ... detection area was assumed to be circular The radius of the detection area (10 mm) was estimated based on [16] and [17] The simulated location of the electrode array was between the innervation zone and...
Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20
báo cáo hóa học:" The validity of self-rated health as a measure of health status among young military personnel: evidence from a cross-sectional survey" pot
... healthcare needs of all military healthcare beneficiaries and to target specific health issues For instance, the Health Care Survey of DoD Beneficiaries [8] assesses a broad range of healthcare ... important to military health and fitness, self-rated health Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2006, 4:57 appears to be a valid measure of health ... summary, a single-item self-assessment of health was consistently related to a variety of health parameters important to the military Used at a population level, this brief health status measure may...
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Báo cáo hóa học: "Research Article Weighted Estimates of a Measure of Noncompactness for Maximal and Potential Operators" pot
... 34, page that the measure of noncompactness of T is greater than or equal to limn → ∞ en T In the sequel, we assume that X is a Banach space which is a certain subset of all Haarmeasurable functions ... integrals,” Journal of Function Spaces and Applications, vol 1, no 1, pp 35–43, 2003 G G Oniani, “On the measure of non-compactness of maximal operators,” Journal of Function Spaces and Applications, ... fractional integrals,” Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, vol 192, pp 261–274, 1974 20 E T Sawyer, A characterization of a two-weight norm inequality for maximal operators,” Studia...
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Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: " Predator/prey ratios: a measure of bark-beetle population status influenced by stand composition in different French stands after the 1999 storms" pps
... proportion of pines (PROP_PIN) around the 10 bottle-traps of each site The comparison of predator/prey ratios between sites and years was carried out using a two-way analysis of variance of the angular ... compare barkbeetle and predator abundances from year to year (GLM analysis in SPSS 11.5) 2.2 Data analysis In each site, maps of the stands where the traps were set-up and of the neighbouring stands ... 302 N Warzộe et al Table I Location and characteristics of the study sites Site Location (department) Elevation (m) Area (ha) Age (year) HA Hanau (Moselle) 260 25 110130 ST Steinbach (Bas-Rhin)...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:22
Báo cáo y học: " Construct development: The Suicide Trigger Scale (STS-2), a measure of a hypothesized suicide trigger state" pdf
... which assesses the presence of “thoughts of death,” was also used in the analysis Statistical Analysis Reliability was assessed through Cronbach’s alpha, which was used as a measure of internal ... retrospective review of suicidal ideation and behavior Demographic and clinical data are presented in Table Axis I diagnosis was unavailable for 15 subjects due to unavailability of their charts for review ... Hamilton SP: Panic as a marker of core pathological processes Pyschopathology 2001, 34:278-288 Katz CE, Mojtabai R, Camacho K, Samuel J, Galynker I: Panic attack and suicide risk: A multivariate logistic...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22
Báo cáo y học: "The development of the Quality Indicator for Rehabilitative Care (QuIRC): a measure of best practice for facilities for people with longer term mental health problems" potx
... reliability of these domains was assessed using two measures: 1) the KMO measure of sampling adequacy and 2) Cronbach’s Alpha, a measure of internal consistency A value of greater than 0.7 is desirable ... measure of this type and has potential for use as a research tool and as an international quality benchmark Additional material Additional file 1: Results of inter-rater reliability testing Acknowledgements ... data entry was completed for 10% of the toolkit data using a separate database and the study statistician carried out data validation on the two databases for each centre The maximum error rate...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:23
báo cáo khoa học: " Fighting addiction''''s death row: British Columbia Supreme Court Justice Ian Pitfield shows a measure of legal courage" pot
... of addiction as a healthcare issue in the years to come Government of Canada The Attorney General of Canada hired a formidable legal adversary, John Hunter, Q.C of Hunter Litigation Chambers as ... who has, according to the Canadian Bar Association, has "litigated many ground-breaking constitutional law cases" in Canada [71] Mr Arvay has been described by the President of the International ... lead lawyer for the Government of Canada rose in immediate response and stated for the record that Canada had no intention of disputing that addiction is an illness The legal team for Canada had...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20
Báo cáo y học: "Is Phytalgic® a goldmine for osteoarthritis patients or is there something fishy about this nutraceutical? A summary of findings and risk-of-bias assessment" pot
... Symptomatic efficacy and safety of diacerein in the treatment of osteoarthritis: a meta-analysis of randomized placebo-controlled trials Osteoarthritis Cartilage 2009, Oct 14 [Epub ahead of print] ... the use of random assignment, and subsequent concealment of allocation would qualify as adequate (that is, low risk of selection bias); it seems reasonable that at baseline the patients in the ... osteoarthritis Osteoarthritis Cartilage 2000, 8:9-12 Christensen R, Bartels EM, Astrup A, Bliddal H: Symptomatic efficacy of avocado-soybean unsaponifiables (ASU) in osteoarthritis (OA) patients:...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:22
Suitability of insulin like growth factor 1 (IGF1) as a measure of relative growth rates in lingcod
... multivariable analysis of variance (ANOVA) (PERMANOVA, SUITABILITY OF IGF1 253 FIGURE Location of lingcod collections near Friday Harbor inside and outside marine protected areas (MPAs) Area names are as ... information not provided by traditional metrics Multivariate analyses clearly showed that spatial patterns of IGF1 and traditional biological measurements are different In our data, it appears that ... females compared with 97 males) and the lack of females collected in some sites, rather than a comment on lack of spatial variation In addition to examining spatial variation of IGF1, we wanted...
Ngày tải lên: 04/09/2015, 17:15
Chapter 08 EXERGY: A MEASURE OF WORK POTENTIAL
... Steam enters a turbine steadily at MPa and 450°C at a rate of kg/s and exits at 0.2 MPa and 150°C, (Fig 8–45) The steam is losing heat to the surrounding air at 100 kPa and 25°C at a rate of ... generated as a result The entropy generation is always accompanied by exergy destruction, as illustrated in Fig 8–27 Also note that heat transfer Q at a location at temperature T is always accompanied ... heat transfer and the maximum amount of heat that can be transferred Vary the final steam temperature from 80 to 21°C and plot the actual and maximum heat transferred to the room as functions of...
Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 08:41
Information Contagion and Inter-Bank Correlation in a Theory of Systemic Risk potx
... not always be the outcome of such an informational cascade It can also arise from a coordination game In our paper (as also in Rajan, 1994), herding is a simultaneous ex-ante decision of banks ... the commercial -bank clearinghouses in the U.S., and eventually for the Federal Reserve Chari and Jagannathan (1988), Jacklin and Bhattacharya (1988) also model information-based bank runs In ... Information Contagion and Inter -Bank Correlation in a Theory of Systemic Risk Abstract Two aspects of systemic risk, the risk that banks fail together, are modeled and their interaction examined:...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 09:20
The World Bank’s Genuine Savings Indicator: a Useful Measure of Sustainability? pptx
... compensate for depreciation of human made capital and depreciation of natural capital there But how is depreciation of natural capital caused by the Japanese economy around the world counted? See also: ... depreciation of natural capital which produce magic numbers Thus the economy of Japan appears at the top of the league in tables on weak sustainability because savings are very high and more than ... difficult Many analysts of globalisation argue that transnational corporations are able to play countries off against each other to bid down concession prices and corporate taxes when negotiating...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 09:20
measurement and comparison of credit risk by a markov chain an empirical investigation of bank loans in taiwan
... normal The 28 domestic banks include: (1) Agricultural Bank of Taiwan; (2) Bank of Taiwan; (3) Bank of Overseas Chinese; (4) Bank of Sinopac Company Ltd.; (5) Bowa Bank; (6) Cathay United Bank; ... such as AAA in Standard and Poor’s rating, defaulting in a given period is a rare event Although there are no transitions from AAA to default, there are transitions from AAA to AA and from AA to ... Bank; (20) Land Bank of Taiwan; (21) International Bank of Taipei; (22) Ta Chong Bank Ltd.; (23) Taiwan Cooperative Bank; (24) Taipei Fubon Commercial Bank; (25) Taishin International Bank; (26)...
Ngày tải lên: 13/07/2014, 21:13
Tài liệu Bank Credit - A Study of the Principles and Factors Underlying Advances Made by Banks to Borrowers docx
... Commercial Credit The Legitimate Scope of Bank Credit Extension 1 PART QUANTITATIVE ASPECTS OF BANK CREDIT II THE NATURE OF COMMERCIAL BANKING Banking Transactions and Accounts Expansion of Loans a ... days later, makes no essential difference; bank credit may take even the form of an overdraft The Bank Acceptance as Bank Credit The bank acceptance, which is a draft or bill drawn upon and accepted ... 5199) of the National Bank Act: The directors of any association may, semi-annually, declare a dividend of so much of the net profits of the association as they shall judge expedient but each association...
Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 01:20
Tài liệu The Benefits of Bank Deposit Rate Ceilings: New Evidence on Bank Rates and Risk in the 1920s (p. 2) docx
... Trust Company American Trust Company American Union Bank (0.835)* Bank of America Bank of Europe (0.808)* Bank of New York and Trust Company Bank of the Manhattan Company Bank of United States (0.791)* ... (0.791)* Bank of Yorktown Bankers Trust Company Central Hanover Bank and Trust Company** Central Mercantile Bank Central Union Trust Company** Chemical National Bank Commonwealth Bank Continental Bank ... Risk Appendix B S a m p l e Banks: State-Chartered Federal Reserve Member Banks in New York City Examined in - Month and Year of Examination Report Name of Bank Amalgamated Bank American Exchange...
Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 05:20
Tài liệu Financial crises and bank failures: a review of prediction methods docx
... Predicting bank performance with financial forecasts: A case of Taiwan commercial banks Journal of Banking and Finance, 28, 2353—2368 Karels, G V — Prakash, A J (1987) Multivariate normality and forecasting ... stochastic DEA Kao and Liu (2004) formulate a DEA model of interval data for use in evaluating the performance of banks Their study makes advance predictions of the performance of 24 Taiwan banks ... commercial bank failures via a multicriteria approach International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management, 9, 26—43 Kumar, R P — Ravi, V (2007) Bankruptcy prediction in banks and firms via statistical...
Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 06:20
Tài liệu World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, and Subregional Development Banks in Latin America: Dynamics of a System of Multilateral Development Banks ppt
... Basin, BDAN = North American Development Bank, AfDB = African Development Bank, AfDF = African Development Fund, AsDB = Asian Development Bank, AsDF =Asian Development Fund, BADEA = Arab-African Development ... Republic, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela); CABEI in Belize, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama; and Argentina and Colombia outside the ... subregion, and; CDB in Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St...
Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 06:20
Tài liệu BANKING ON OPPORTUNITY: A SCAN OF THE EVOLVING FIELD OF BANK ON INITIATIVES docx
... Miami, Newark, Providence, San Antonio, Savannah, and Seattle.32 Campaigns that Promote Savings and Financial Access The formation of AEIs and Bank On was happening at the same time when many ... quarters) Bank On St Pete 1,785 (5 quarters) Bank On D.C 2,600 (3 quarters) Bank On California45 214,236 (8 quarters) average balance of $970 average balance of $900 average balance of $246.74 45 Bank ... October 2009 Patty Avery Old National Bank 812-465-7278 Patty.Avery@oldnational.com www.bankonindiana.com/ US DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY Office of Financial Education and Financial Access Banking on...
Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 06:20
Tài liệu A structured approach to Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and the requirements of ISO 31000 ppt
... assessment of the sources of risk assurance available to the Board and the audit committee An evaluation of the level of assurance that has been obtained is also necessary Often, a major source of risk ... of risk, and some organisations have produced a risk appetite statement that is applicable to all classes of risk It is fairly easy for an organisation to confirm that it has no appetite for causing ... important that the organisation has a risk- based audit plan and undertakes appropriate risk reviews Other features of learning from experience include evaluation of audit reports and an assessment...
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