assessing the costs of sampling

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 00:20

... pairs The results refer to the estimation of system (14) by one stage GMM estimation with the optimal weighting matrix being the unity matrix. The estimated coefficients of the system of equations ... the domestic country and the US for bonds. Standard errors are reported in parenthesis. J-Stat denotes the p-value of the J- statistic to test the null hypothesis that the overidentifying restrictions ... The US SDF and estimated expected excess returns The results refer to the estimation of system (16) by one stage GMM estimation with the optimal weighting matrix being the unity matrix. The...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 02:20

... from the method used to calculate these costs. The notion of cost is quite complex. Formally, it implies the comparison between two scenarios, and the assessment of the welfare of a group of ... report tries to summarize the information available about the different costs of water pollution in India. The variety of these costs comes not only from the variety of pollution dealt with ... significant costs. Nevertheless, even if underestimated, the figure of 4.53% of GDP for the total cost of pollution, with surface water pollution accounting for 59% of it has the merit of being...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 15:21

... Distribution of CO 2 emissions reported in the E-PRTR for the 20 facilities with the highest damage costs Emission (tonne) Number of the 20 facilities with the highest damage costs Total number from the ... 2 000 % of total damage costs Number of facilities 50 % of total damage costs 191 facilities 90 % of total damage costs 1 394 facilities 75 % of total damage costs 622 facilities thermal power ... one element of uncertainty with respect to short- term price fluctuations affecting the value of the marginal abatement cost. The year 2020 is also the end of the phase III period of the EU Emissions...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 16:20

... include the key variable(s) impacting fees across plans in the survey. The results of the statistical regression analysis pointed to the size of the plan and the plan’s percentage of assets ... representative of the universe results using the experience of the survey respondents, there is the question of whether to report results on a plan, participant, or asset basis. The answer to ... as compared with the universe. In the case of this Study, the share of large plans in the sample is higher than the share of large plans in the 401(k) universe. Thus, if the survey responses...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 13:20

... set of mechanisms that strengthen the progress of care including referrals and promoting regular utilization of services. The measurement of these components required the development of qualitative ... clinics themselves. A sampling frame was constructed of currently married women below the age of 50, and the sample of women from the community included users of the services of private doctors, ... many were unaware of several key structure and process indicators. For example, one third of the 31 managers did not know the workload of the midwife in terms of the number of pregnant women...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 15:20

... 70 per cent of the gross costs of employing them – within the limits opposite. You can include: • the costs of any employer’s National Insurance contributions you pay • the costs of any benefits ... postcode • their phone number • the name of the registration or approval body and registration number, if one was given to them as part of the registration process • the date of the change • the amount ... amount to the new provider, and give us: • their name • the date of the change • their address including the postcode • their phone number • the name of the registration or approval body and registration...

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Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 08:20

... possible risk if the substance enters the environment, with the degree (probability) of risk related to the hazardous nature of the substance and the amount of exposure that occurs. Therefore, substances ... L(E)C 50 selected for the classification of the metal substance. The mass loading that delivers the L(E)C 50 to the medium deter- mines the acute hazard classification of the substance. Although ... should assess: (1) the rate of metal release from the pure compound, and (2) the further interaction of the released metal with the soil or soil pore water. 3.4.3 COMBINATIONS OF COMMERCIAL COMPOUNDS Whereas...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 11:45

... Registered Office as above. 12 Assessing the quality of investment advice in the retail banking sector Section 2 – Key causes of poor advice about these failings as the majority of the mystery ... explained the nature of any restrictions clearly. However, in 6% of mystery shops we had concerns with the suitability of the recommended product for the length of time the customer wanted to hold the ... concerns with the quality of advice in the other quarter. In 11% of mystery shops we felt the advice was unsuitable for the customer and in a further 15% the adviser did not gather enough information...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 17:20

... step has the same number of possible paths, then the worst case computation, assuming each candidate SR has all the arcs, is of the order, 9 raised to the Nth. If the A term of the question ... to match the theorem with the consequent of the rule which is then proved if its antecedents are proved. It can be noticed that what is being accomplished is the definition of a theorem prover ... also has these possibilities, and the R term has a synonym, then there appear to be 2*2*9**Nth possible candidates for answers. The first factor of 2 reflects the converse by assigning the A...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 19:21

... Thus, the second route of calculating the additional costs of reaching the MDGs leads to a range of estimates that encompasses those from the first route (the cost of reaching the poverty ... together, we estimate that the cost of reaching the environment goal is between $5 and $21 billion. The above three estimates yield a rough breakdown of the additional costs of achieving the ... in the pursuit of the health goal of reducing infant mortality. Finally, the “City without Slums” program has estimated the cost of providing secure land tenure and upgrading The Costs of Attaining...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20

... achieving proficiency on the PSSA. It therefore has an ASA of 80. The school with the lowest level of student achievement across all tests has an average of 13% of its students achieving proficiency ... This section describes the analyses RAND conducted with the aim of identifying the school’s contribution to student achievement, thereby measuring the performance of the school. A methodologically ... substantial gains for the students they serve, but that also bring their students to high absolute levels of achievement. Initial discussions with the Board of Education of the Pittsburgh Public...

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Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 10:21

... manufacturers, who were then allowed to pollute in the pursuit of profit. Often, this pollution has been in the form of the discharge of hazardous effluents and the dumping of hazardous chemicals ... sources of drinking water. 86 The cantonal government of Jura also demanded the complete clearance of the dump, with the support of the Swiss national Environment Agency. 87 Following the occupation, ... the list of pollution hot spots by accepting nominations from around the world and assessing the severity of their impacts on health with the support of a Technical Advisory Board (TAB). The...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 14:20

... none of the changes are large enough to achieve statistical significance, the pattern of im- provement is fairly consistent. 5 Conclusions We investigated the consistency of human assessors in the ... Evaluat- ing content selection in summarization: The Pyramid method. Proceedings of the Human Language Tech- nology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ... val- ues for Readability are the lowest of all categories, and perhaps here removing noise has more impact. In the case of Pyramid, there is a small gain when we exclude the single worst assessor,...

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