an application of health belief model

... cost of capital: Survey and synthesis’ Financial Practice and Education, 8(1) 13– 28 Chan, K.C and Chen, N.F (1991), 'Structural and Return Characteristics of Small and Large Firms' Journal of ... cross-section of expected returns’.Journal of Finance, 50, 157-184 Kothari, S.P., Shanken, J and Sloan, R.G (1995), ‘Another look at the cross-section ofexpected stock returns’.Journal of Finance,50, ... challenge the practical of the model Roll and Ross (1994) and Kandel and Stambaugh (1995) support for Roll’s view They argue that CAPM provides an adequate evaluation of beta only in an efficient market...

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... Boardman N.K., Comparative photosynthesis of sun and shade plants, Ann Rev Plant Physiol 28 (1977) 355-377 [6] Breckling B., An individual based model for the study of pattern and process in plant ... parts of the environment and the plant, and between the plant parts themselves, are ensured by a system of mutual references This system of reference variables is used to manage the exchange of ... via the transfer of information and materials [1] ALMIS includes an “environment part” and a “plant part” [6, 18] The model trees, represented by the plant part (figure 1), consist of the objects...

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... probit analysis, logistic regression) in evaluating an Egyptian bank’s personal loan data-set They compared the predicting ability of these models and came to the results that the ranking of models ... personal loans in a Belgian credit company The result shows that the company can adjust the cut-off point which depends on the percentage of loans they want to accept And Lawrence and Arshadi ... human error and provide a neutral and objective base of decision First, credit scoring models reduce the time spent in the loan granted process thus reducing the cost of banks in approving loans...

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... Haomin, Ye Jiandong, Wang Yang, Gao Xingsen, Ren Fangfang and Zheng Yi for their efforts in the typesetting, printing and binding of this thesis I Lastly and the most importantly, I wish to thank my ... following section of this chapter provides an analysis and summary of Porter’s Diamond system Related research is added into the model and the application of the model is evaluated However, online game ... production and maintenance work, and upstream skills for analysis and design Marketing and client service skills are closely associated with project management skills for the account building and management...

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... 0.00% ASEAN Intra-Exports as % of Total ASEAN Exports ASEAN Extra-Exports as % of Total ASEAN Exports ASEAN Intra-Imports as % of Total ASEAN Imports ASEAN Extra-Imports as % of Total ASEAN Imports ... (1973), Bergstrand (1985), Thursby and Thursby (1987) Frankel (1992), Frankel and Wei (1993), Frankel and Wei (1995), Frankel et al (1995), Frankel and Wei (1996), Montenegro and Soto (1996), ... Currency Union effect Another renowned application of Gravity model is a series of studies by Rose (2000a), Rose (2000c), Frankel and Rose (2002), Glick and Rose (2002), and Rose and van Wincoop (2001)...

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... equivalence and assessment 21 1.2.4 Translation of legal documents 24 CHAPTER APPLICATION OF HOUSE’S MODEL FOR TRANSLATION QUALITY ASSESSMENT 2.1 Presentation of the model 27 27 2.1.1 An overview of the ... the model 27 2.1.2 Operation of the model 28 2.2 Application of the model 31 2.2.1 Analysis of Source Text 32 2.2.2 Statement of function 47 CHAPTER DISCUSSION 49 3.1 Comparison of Target Text and ... “offence” is used eight times (the word is underlined): Offences, types of Offences are of kinds, namely, crimes, misdemeanours, and simple offences Crimes and misdemeanours are indictable offences...

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... Prof Uwe Schmock for all the help with the mathematical theory And last but not least, many thanks to all my friends and family for their help and support -2- Master Thesis: An Application of ... European indices, Nasdaq - the much more volatile than its European counter-parties American index And the stocks of a highly liquid financial institution, and the highly volatile stocks of ABB, ... table below Each of our options has a 4% probability of a payout of 100 CHF and a 96% probability of payout of zero, and the underlying variables of the two options are independent of each other...

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... the use of the target language as a means of instruction and communication in the language classroom, and by the avoidance of the use of the first language and of 14 translation as a technique ... study of different views of language learning It is said that language theory does not draw any significant distinctions between human learning in general and in language learning in particular Language ... part of teachers and led to the development of new techniques of language, such as demonstrations of pictures and objects, the emphasis on questions and answer, spoken narratives, dictation and...

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... and discussion – Mean, median, min., max., standard deviation – Round includes task-level data mean scores of candidates in bottom and top quartiles, and overall – Round includes percentage of ... C2 candidate would know the correct answer? Or • How many of 100 JQCs would know the correct answer? • Three rounds of judgments, with feedback and discussion – Mean, median, min., max., standard ... assistance • • • and prepared presentations Develops clear arguments with relevant examples on wide range of topics in field of interest Sustains conversation with degree of fluency and spontaneity...

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... capable of adopting the new behaviors (efficacy expectations) 177 THE HEALTH BELIEF MODEL The Health Belief Model (HBM)IÓ-18 hypothesizes that health- related action desimultaneous occurrence of three ... belief model and personal health behavior, Health Education Monographs 2:324-473, 1974 19 Maiman LA, Becker MH: The health belief model: Origins and correlates in psychological theory, Health ... planning programs, many health educators have found it useful to assess educational needs partly in terms of the beliefs described in the Health Belief Model Thus, they seek to ascertain how many...

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... Which Bank Is the “Central” Bank? An Application of Markov Theory to the Canadian Large Value Transfer System Morten L Bech, James T E Chapman, and Rod Garratt Federal Reserve Bank of New York ... of the LVTS and the Bank of Canada For the purposes of this study we exclude the Bank of Canada since it does not send any significant payments in Tranche 2.67 We discuss implications of this in ... obtain the sum of bilateral credit limits granted to bank i However, a bank’s initial payments cannot exceed this amount times the system wide Bank of Canada grants to other banks in Tranche As this...

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... interaction terms of individual SNP and pollutant The current version of MTP allows one to identify the significance of a group of candidate variables to reduce the false discovery rate meanwhile adjusting ... Epidemiology, and Risk Program, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health Boston, MA USA 2VA Normative Aging Study, Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System and the Department of ... Program/ Epidemiology Research and Information Center of the U.S Department of Veterans Affairs, and is a component of the Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center It is...

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... Kausik Chaudhuri and Bodhisattva Sengupta * Working Paper 49/2009 MNEs and Export Spillovers: An Analysis of Indian Manufacturing Industries Chiara Franco and Subash Sasidharan * Working Paper ... paper are indicative of local public‟s demand for higher quality and quantity of treated wastewater to minimize the high levels of environmental and health risks in the Ganga It should however ... cost–benefit analysis and discounting”, Ecological Economics, 69, 839-847 Birol, E., N Hanley, P Koundouri and Y Kountouris (2009b), “The optimal management of wetlands: Quantifying trade-offs between...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 01:20

... dilemma, and negotiations can effectively be considered as a process of moving away from less-than optimal outcomes towards increased payoffs, and the distribution of those payoffs In an era of growing ... understanding of negotiation as a phenomenon, and understanding of related conscious or unconscious managerial practices is important For creating such understanding, the clarity of concepts and ... Negotiation analysis 2.2.1 Theoretical roots of negotiation analysis Negotiation analysis can be characterized as an approach, which builds on the theory of games, decision analysis and behavioral...

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Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 11:20

... three of the following dimensions: variety, balance and disparity (produced and consumed) i) Variety and balance produced The variety of “languages” and of “countries of origin” can only be analysed ... 27 Iceland, Netherlands, Germany, Latvia Switzerland, Romania, Mexico, Lithuania, Lebanon, Hungary, Chile, Australia Austria , Estonia, Finland, France, Poland, Slovakia Iceland, Netherlands, ... Dominican Republic Egypt Estonia Finland France Germany Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran, Islamic Rep of Ireland Israel Italy Japan Kyrgyzstan Lao People's D.R Latvia Lebanon Lithuania Luxembourg...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 15:20

... description of text-leve] relations The use of FORTHand the Prolog formalism allowed f a i r ly easy development of the system even without the powerful structure manipulation capabilities of a language ... The major part of the system was b u i l t in the programming language FORTH, which is an interactive, incremental system with a low-level semantics which the user can easily and quickly extend ... suited to the specification of templates and the algorithms for instantiating them For ease of implementation, the compiler for the subset of Prolog u t i l i z e d in this application was written...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 18:20

... differences in the state of an object or phenomenon by observing it at different times (Singh, 1989) The change detection of land use and land cover of the study area was analyzed by cross-classification ... lack of an appropriate tool in terms of integrated spatial data on land use/land covers However, recently GIS and remote sensing has been using in several types of works in both government and ... this study applied GIS and remote sensing for analysis the land use pattern changes Statement of Problems • After 1999, the landscape in the study area has been changed cause of policy implementation...

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... "white noise", and simultaneously yields The root-mean-square Error minimum Therefore, we can considered it as the global optimal model of object The respective output response of the model is shown ... point of view References [1] G Christian, A Monfort, Times Deries and Dynamic Models, Cambridge University Press, 1997 [2] Nguyen Van Huu, Nguyen Huu Du, Statistic Analysis and Forecast, Hanoi ... generally and effectively under the random noise The optimal model of object determined by the estimation method for non-linear random model ensures the suitability according to probability and statistic's...

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... "white noise", and simultaneously yields The root-mean-square Error minimum Therefore, we can considered it as the global optimal model of object The respective output response of the model is shown ... point of view References [1] G Christian, A Monfort, Times Deries and Dynamic Models, Cambridge University Press, 1997 [2] Nguyen Van Huu, Nguyen Huu Du, Statistic Analysis and Forecast, Hanoi ... generally and effectively under the random noise The optimal model of object determined by the estimation method for non-linear random model ensures the suitability according to probability and statistic's...

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