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... explanation of the increase in measured profit efficiency from megamergers may be the specification of the profit finction. The standard profit function takes prices and fixed netputs as given and ... time-consuming for firms to change the size of their asset portfolio because of the size of their markets and/ or because of regulatory restrictions on their expansion. In this event, the ... Efficiency. We begin discussing the results with some information on the levels of profit efficiency of merging and nonmerging banks. The more rigorous comparisons of the 1 able fil uescrloes ...

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... between parents and other adults, the microcontext of interactions between parents and children, the macrocontext of the neighborhood one lives in and the availability of basic educational and health ... incidences of LBW among the population. There should be reason to anticipate similar effects on the level of the household with respect to cognitive and mental health outcomes. Despitethe importanceofhouseholdclimateandparentingbehavioron ... to “poverty” rather than, for example, low educational levels of parents. Once a convergence is reached on the net and correlation effects of poverty on a variety of indicators, the task ahead...

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... Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 ii Abstract The Effects of Land Use on the Mobility of Elderly and Disabled and Their Homecare Workers, and the Effects of Care on Client Mobility: ... identify the relationship between residential location, the transportation habits and needs of consumers and providers, and the extent of care consumers received. The six interrelated hypotheses ... traffic analysis zone (TAZ) and zip code. Note. Based on Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) data i The Effects of Land Use on the Mobility of Elderly and Disabled and Their Homecare...

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... THE EFFECTS OF CORRUPTION ON ECNOMIC AND POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT The purpose of this chapter is to show the impacts that corruption has on the economic and political development of Armenia ... (1997) the president of Armenia is the central person for the judiciary system. According to article 55 of the Constitution of Republic of Armenia the President of RA not only can appoint and ... societies. They Have discretion over the creation, proliferation, and interpretation of conterproductive regulations. Thus instead of corruption being the grease for the squeaky wheels of a rigid...

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... treatments. Ellison et al. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2013, 10:21 Page 7 of 9 http://www.ijbnpa.org/content/10/1/21 The lack of consensus on the impacts of menu ... Looking at the label and beyond: the effects of calorie labels, health consciousness, and demographics on caloric intake in restaurants. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical ... designing the research. BE and JLL conducted the research and DD oversaw management of the restaurant. BE had primary responsibility for analyzing the data and writing the paper, with all of the authors...

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... 583, and ,158. The patterns of the average residuals of the non-1967 devaluations are essentially the same as the patterns when the 10 1967 devaluations are included. The conclusions of the ... M2. Rather, it represents changes in the level of the domestic portion of high-powered money, the portion of high-powered money directly under the control of the monetary authorities. The effect ... (1) the higher the rate of devalua- tion, the greater the improvement in the reserve position; and (2) the higher the rate of domestic credit expansion following devaluation, the smaller the...

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... with the inhibition of bone formation (confirmed by bone histomorphometry) and lower concentrations of bone for- mation markers (especially OC) [60, 61]. By contrast, data on bone resorption markers ... Organization of the Skeleton, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1986. 5. R. Baron, Importance of the intermediate phases between resorption and formation in the measurement and under- standing of the bone ... the prediction of the accelerated bone loss in men similarly to the data found in women. Weakness of the association between the BTM levels and the rate of bone loss can depend on the methodological...

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... study. The translation task would evaluate the effects of pictures on students’ understanding of the texts and the questionnaire was used to assess student viewpoints on the effects of pictures ... speed on to the main road directly in front of the other car. The third picture showed that one car, although it braked hard, hit the motorcycle, and the other car hit the corner of the T-junction. ... pictures; on the other hand, students in T2 and T4 translated an English passage that contained pictures to Chinese and then completed a questionnaire to elicit their opinions of the effects of...

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... competitors. The levels of internationalization of the German and Japanese economies were much lower than that of the United States in the 1970s. Since then, the interna- tionalization pioneered on ... on the Domestic Capital Stock 43 of Capital 95 123 vii Relation of the Directors to the Work and Publications of the National Bureau of Economic Research 1. The object of the ... production locations, although the latter is also a motivation. Within multinational firms, the higher the share of overseas operations in the total production of the multinational, the higher the...

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... that, in both men and women, the cross-sectional dimensions of the long bones in the appendicular skeleton continue to grow throughout x Contents B. IGF-I and Maintenance of Bone Density IV. ... that the timing of peak values differs between the axial and appendicular skeletons and between men and women. In the axial skeleton, bone mass achieves peak values by the end of the second ... fractures and 100 matched community controls. Second is the use of the SF-36 as the QOL instrument. Comparing SF-36 scores of the hip- fractured men at the time of admission to nursing and residential...

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... Ochsman, and G. D. Weeks. Studies ifi interactive communi- cation: If. The effects of four communication modes on the linguistic performance of teams 133 THE EFFECTS OF INTERACTION ON SPOKEN ... rod with the red thing on one end and the green cap on the other end. Take that and then look in the other parts there are three small red pieces. Take the smallest one. It looks like a nail ... In research on telephone conversations, transmission and access delays 2 of as little as .25 to 1.8 seconds have been found to disrupt the normal temporal pattern of conversation and to reduce...

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... theories of International Relations (IR), which focus on the distribution of power in the international system, would point first to major changes in the external context of the US–Japan relationship. ... Regardless of whether one agrees with revisionist assumptions or not, the issue that concerns me is whether they had an important and concrete impact on policy assump- tions and choices. In the first ... this book. 25 Traditionalist Views and the Emergence of Revisionism Clinton and Japan eventually becoming adopted as core policy assumptions of the US government, and then exerting a concrete impact on a key international relationship. I...

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... have only inves- tigated the effects of indomethacin on cell proliferation and therefore no firm conclusions can be made regarding the effects of indomethacin on other metabolic processes. There ... number of mesenchymal tissues we have investigated the direct effects of indomethacin on the proliferation of tendon-derived cells. Results and Discussion: The results obtained were dependent on ... tendon healing and repair as tenocyte is the major cell type in ten- dons and is responsible for the production and mainte- nance of extracellular matrix. The negative dose response effect of...

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... properties of the bilayer, such as its thickness and fluidity, and in the related properties of spontaneous curvature and pressure profile across the membrane [6]; it is therefore conceivable ... attributed to the different spontaneous curvatures of PE and PC. How ever, studies of the effects of lipids with headgroups inter mediate between those of PE and PC, with one and two methyl ... fatty acyl chain compositions of the cells expressing connexin26 and connexion32 are slightly different. Collective physical properties Because high concentrations of anionic lipid are needed to...

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