a model of dynamical coupling between internal growth and robot movement

... CEO age and tenure and CEO shareholdings were used as measures of CEO compensation while ROE was adapted as a measure of firm performance The results of the analysis of variance (ANOVA) indicated ... security and increases personal power, status, and salary Frydman and Saks (2007) argue that competition for scarce managerial talent may lead to high executive compensation in large firms Agency ... Center for Research and Security Prices, Standard and Poor’s Compustat database, and each firm’s annual reports CEO total cash compensation (salary plus bonus), stock option grants and exercise...

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... elements are awareness and recall — both for the brand itself and of specific ads These typically are measured by the percentage of the population as a whole, or of the target market, who are aware of, ... media, banner ads may lag behind TV and magazines for creating brand awareness, but they lead in increasing brand recall Comparison of US Media Effectiveness in Branding: TV, Magazines, Newspapers ... shows that banners, in some cases, can have a greater impact on brand recall and interest, versus awareness Mean Increase of US Banner Advertising: Awareness, Purchase Intent, Recall and Interest,...

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... allows a fuller and more powerful approach to analysis as there is considerable variation in the measures of the explanatory and dependent variables Last but not the least, as the study found that ... importance of each item on a 5-point scale After standardizing the responses to a zero mean and unit variance, a total of 20 of the 35 items with a minimum importance score of 3.5 were identified as ... voluntary information when they are family-controlled, have an audit committee, have independent board directors, and have a duality of board chairman/CEO There are several important implications of...

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... (Pl) captures clause (4) of (P0), and clause (iv) of (P1) captures clauses (5) and (6) of (PO) (P1) can be used to state what it means for an actor to have an invalid simple plan: G has an invalid ... difference between generation and enablement consists largely in the fact that, when an act a generates an act ~, the agent need only a, and will automatically be done also However, when a enables ... International, 1985 [13] C Raymond Perranlt and James F Allen A plan-based analysis of indirect speech acts American Journal of Computational Linguistics, 6:167-182, 1980 [14] Martha E Pollack...

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... not; and ii) the importance attached to the single activity (Q2) Q1 and Q3 – Data were available for both items on 396 patients at baseline, and 300 at 12 months follow-up A summary of these data ... changes in functional ability and changes in general health Similarly, if specific functional activities are considered an important element of day to day usual activities, an association between ... upon a broad amalgam of experiences e.g Assessment of general health status or overall change in condition Usual activities (spanning a range of functional tasks) Patient-identified single activities...

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... elucidate the mechanisms of response and nonresponse to INO in an endotoxin-induced animal lung injury model Materials and methods Animals After approval of the local Animal Research Ethical committee, ... infusion, and after 15 minutes of nitric oxide inhalation Data represent the mean ± standard deviation CO, cardiac output; MPAP, mean pulmonary arterial pressure; PVR, pulmonary vascular resistance; ... also caused a rapid release of inflammatory mediators and vasoactive substances Prostanoids, LTB4, ET-1, nitrates and cytokines increased in the blood The vasoconstrictor TXB2 (a metabolite of...

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... significant in relation with only either rational evaluation or emotional evaluation The different weights of the relationships between brand associations and brand evaluations, and between brand evaluations ... consisting of main components: 1) brand loyalty, 2) brand awareness, 3) perceived quality, 4) brand associations (which are driven by brand 11 identity: the brand as a product, the brand as an organization, ... are 10 factors extracted at Eigenvalues of 1.022 and total explained variance of 70.641 all factor loading are greater than the cut-off value of 0.4 The result of KMO and Bartlett's Test is also...

Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2012, 15:52

... network than before, again including the occipital, temporal, and the frontal lobes, but in particular bilateral orbital frontal corlex What the results of Kawabata and Zeki (2004) and Skov ef al (2005) ... neural correlates of preference and beauty, two variables that have affective and cognitive components The areas activated by Vartanian and Goel (2004b) may have highlighted those cOrlical structures ... expenence, and the interaction between cognitive and affective states Summary Vartanian and Goel (2004b), Kawabata and Zeki (2004), Skov ef at (2005) and Cela-Conde ef al (2004) were interested...

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... assessment Authority (VCAA) manages and awards school qualifications It administers and awards two senior school secondary qualifications known as the Victorian Certificate of education (VCE) and the ... program An alternative to either of these is the International Baccalaureate (IB) and a small number of schools, mainly private, offer the IB diploma Table reports some standard VCE statistics across ... school associations with ACC, APSV and AGSV all being significant in the IV model We also have discovered that the impact of the age of the school has a non-linear impact on fees and that the...

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... glutaminase reaction in the presence of 0.1 mM each of UTP and ATP-cS (data not shown) Apparently, the value of Ka, kcat,1 and kcat,2 were similar regardless of the active site being saturated with ... is calculated on the basis of data (Table 2) from GTP activation of the glutaminase activity in the presence of 0.1 mM each of UTP and ATP-cS and is shown for comparison ammonia-dependent activity ... [10], yeast [11] and mammalian [12,13] enzymes that all require the presence of UTP and/ or ATP to form tetramers Therefore, the L lactis CTP synthase is an attractive candidate for mechanistic and...

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... modern dance, abstract art and classical music are rather low on this dimension Situation and context are presumably more important in opera and theatre and less important in books and music and any ... forms of visual art is the combination of visual processing, extraction of meaning and resolution of ambiguity We assume that classical, representational art and most kinds of sculptures are processed ... Conceptual ideas, stylistic reflections and variations, as well as abstract concepts no longer apparent from the appearance of the artwork have become increasingly dominant in contemporary art This aspect...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 17:20

... Dulay and Marina K Burt 1975 Natural sequences in child second language acquisition Language Learning, 24(1) Susan Gass 1979 Language transfer and universal grammatical relations Language Learning, ... performance of our parser and mal-ruleaugmented grammar and the unique challenges “She is teach piano on Tuesdays.” Beginner: Inappropriate use of auxiliary and verb morphology problems “She teaches ... English In Mari Broman Olsen, editor, Proceedings of Computer-Mediated Language Assessment and Evaluation in Natural Language Processing, an ACL-IALL Symposium, pages 47–54, College Park, Maryland,...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 07:20

... them an operational interpretation.) The model has the advantage to give an explicit and simple definition of relations that not have the same semantic range (e.g CAUSE vs FROM vs AT) The analysis ... syntactic forms (that is how does each potential participant is grammaticalized) References [1] Anderson, J.M., 1971 The grammar of case, Towards a localistic theory, CUP: Cambridge [2] Bach, ... schematizations (1) and (2) express SOURCE and GOAL roles) With this model we were able to give an operational description of the difference between Max charge des briques dans le camion/Max loads...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 08:20

... represent natural variability in the yeast population, and we investigated the regions of parameter and variable space described by them Metabolic Fig Schematic of the model yeast glycolytic pathway ... population of 50 models, and the corresponding steady-state metabolite concentrations and fluxes, are shown in Tables and The fitted Vmax values occupy only a very small portion of the available parameter ... advantages of simultaneously fitting all steps in the model, and providing a population of candidate fits that, if the fitness landscape of the model resembles that of the experimental system, may...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 11:20

... substitutions, extra words, and transpositions), and each led to an associated alteration of the grammar PST accounted for children's omission of content words and the gradual increase in utterance length ... whenever a subgoal has been satisfied, and attempts to mark the supergoal as satisfied; it may be paraphrased as: STOP If you w a n t to d e s c r i b e node1, and node2 is in re/ation to nodel, and ... the past tense Berwick, R Computational analogues of constraints on grammars: A model of syntactic acquisition Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics,...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 19:21

... lexical entries and explain the meaning of HEAD, TEMP, and ADV As already noted, these are names of procedures that are executed after all the unsaturated arguments of the lexical entry have been ... "CA: XA TAKE XB" and two saturation instructions on XA and XB, respectively A noun like president has a SU "CA: XA PRESIDENT XB" and a saturation instruction on XB A saturation instruction on a ... extract a syntactically wellformed meaning from ENC and express it with the appropriate sequence of semantic and grammatical morphemes the system utilizes a vocabulary (VOC) VOC is a set of meaning/signal...

Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 02:20

... (NF-jB) activation, a mitogen-activated protein kinase cascade, and proteolysis leading to apoptosis Activation of the NF-jB pathway leads to recruitment and activation of IjB kinase kinase; the ... external factors, both chemical and mechanical Because the mechanical state of the endothelium is probably an important regulator of vascular homeostasis and leukocyte transmigration, many biophysical ... transendothelial migration K M Stroka and H Aranda-Espinoza 44 Osawa M, Masuda M, Kusano K & Fujiwara K (2002) Evidence for a role of platelet endothelial cell adhesion molecule-1 in endothelial cell mechanosignal...

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