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... light of the ongoing debate regarding the authority and independence/involvement of management accountants The final part of this paper presents our conclusions and the research implications of ... block of social systems and the summation of individual demands” (Katz & Kahn, 1966: 171)1 However, role cannot be observed in a Contrary to Katz and Kahn’s wishes, the great majority of research ... in France Nine subsidiaries have head offices in France, two have dual head offices in UK/Sweden and UK/Netherlands, and one has its head office in Switzerland All firms in our sample can be viewed...

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... tuberculosis skin testing and LTBI treatment, the prevalence and outcome of MTB infections, and the effects of patient factors and treatment on mortality from MTB infection PATIENTS AND METHODS plant ... rate of MTB reactivation,12 some transplant centers neither test for nor treat LTBI because of the perceived lack of efficacy and potential toxicity of drug therapy in liver transplant candidates.13-18 ... 886 titles of potentially relevant articles from our search of computerized databases and 58 additional references from our manual search of the bibliographies of retrieved articles Of the 944...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 03:20

... Choice and the Laws of Demand x The principle of rational choice leads to the law of demand q When the price of a good goes up, the marginal utility per dollar from that good goes down and we demand ... Theory and Individual Choice x A good beginning in understanding individual choice is to focus on the rational part of people's behavior © 2003 McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited 8-4 Utility Theory and Individual ... 8-9 Utility x Utility serves as the basis of economists' analysis of individual choice x It is personal and individual Utility cannot be compared across individuals x © 2003 McGraw-Hill Ryerson...

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... whose official sector definitions correspond to a U.K equity mandate Panel A of Table I shows the evolution of this group of funds The number of domestic equity funds grows from 425 at the start of ... by month, and calculate the difference between the average returns of the highest and the lowest 30% of firms.13 II Determinants of Money Flows To understand better how different types of investors ... Rouwenhorst (1998) and Nagel (2001) 96 The Journal of Finance Table III Regression of Components of Money Flows on Lagged Flow and Performance Each row of this table summarizes the results of 96 (January...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 12:20

... choice of border rule and should be used carefully, for these rules influence the performance evaluation of both systems and simulated applications IMPACT OF THE MOBILITY MODELS ON THE PERFORMANCE OF ... the aim of evaluating several charges in the network, 5, 10, and 20 pairs of CBR traffic sources were used in packets of 512 bytes per second rate These sources were randomly initialized and kept ... presented, under the influence of the RWP, SIMM, and GIMM models In this scenario, the traffic of 10 CBR sources randomly initialized was generated and maintained until the end of simu- lation (up to 1000...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... (adimensional), 1: inventory of November 1999, 2: inventory of November 2000 Table V Mean and standard deviation of individual trees characteristics in young growth stand per stem straightness classes ... explore the influence of environmental attributes (altitude, slope and exposure), stand attributes (N, BA, Dg, H0 and SI), individual tree attributes (DBH, DB, HT, A and BAL/BA) and upon the stem ... grouping and classes and and classes in order to facilitate the detection of tendencies pi ln   = Z i  p 4 where i varies between and 3; pi and p4 represent the probabilities of being...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 01:22

... from those observed, and intended to give com- pletely new stand structures and evolution The stand composition was needed for a better understanding of growth phenomena, and also as an important ... dependance of volume increment of individual trees on dominance, crown dimensions, and competition Forestry 42, 131-144 Hamilton GJ, Christie JM (1974) Construction and application of stand yield ... KJ (1969) Simulation of growth of evenaged stands of white spruce Yale Univ School For Bull 75, 48 Mitchell KJ (1971) Description and Growth Simulation of Douglas-Fir Stands Canadian Forestry...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:22

... quality of counseling, provider perceptions of task delegation, and women’s knowledge of maternal and newborn care To evaluate quality of counseling, providers’ content of communication and counseling ... Yves Armand Mongbo, and the Benin Ministry of Health for their support to the development and implementation of the study; to Mandy Rose for her work in the development of the job aids and training ... years of education; mean gestational age was six months; and mean number of previous antenatal visits was three The proportion of women who received group and individual counseling (79% and 74%)...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... reports an analysis of four different ways of dealing with the problem of relating the cognitions of individual members of a team of healthcare professionals to a shared outcome of their collective ... relate predictors of individual' s behaviour to measures of the behaviour of healthcare professionals [3] Commonly (at least within the UK and the Netherlands), data on the quality of care that patients ... study of the theory-based cognitions and clinical behaviours concerning the management of patients with diabetes of a sample of primary care doctors and nurses from northeast England, and primary...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... reports an analysis of four different ways of dealing with the problem of relating the cognitions of individual members of a team of healthcare professionals to a shared outcome of their collective ... relate predictors of individual' s behaviour to measures of the behaviour of healthcare professionals [3] Commonly (at least within the UK and the Netherlands), data on the quality of care that patients ... study of the theory-based cognitions and clinical behaviours concerning the management of patients with diabetes of a sample of primary care doctors and nurses from northeast England, and primary...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20

... of the indices of relatedness and the averages of mean and maximum correlations of returns for winner and loser portfolios, calculated across sales events The index of relatedness is higher and ... possible pairs of winners and losers within each of their respective portfolios Specifically, for sales event k, the index of relatedness and the mean and maximum correlations of the winner and loser ... logit of the probability of multiple sales as a function of ng and nl when pg = 0.148 and pl = 0.098.17 It shows that the logit of the probability of multiple stock sales increases with ng and...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2014, 00:31

... degree of motor activity and crying on the one hand and fearful behavior (defined by crying and fretting again) on the other hand These, however, seem to be more demonstrations of the stability of ... failure of extinction of social fears Thus, little is known of particular patterns of punishment (e.g types of punishment, their proportionality) and intimidation in the process of socialization of ... Dutton, & Liebel (1990), of a wide array of perceptions of parental attitudes measured, only perceptions of rejection and stern discipline on the part of the father and neglect (by both parents)...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... contributing factor in the number of turns taken and the distribution of speaking time; and Individuals from collectivistic cultures (e.g., Hong Kong, China, Japan, Indonesia) and individualistic cultures ... measure and explain the similarities and differences among national cultures (see for example, Hofstede, 1991; Triandis, 1995; Trompenaars, 1993) Individualistic cultures emphasize the goal of the individual ... turn-taking distribution was measured by the standard deviations (S.D.) of both collectivistic and individualistic cultures in terms of individuals’ turn-taking and speaking time distribution Smaller...

Ngày tải lên: 09/12/2013, 16:15

... Phosphorimager (+ and ++ in the case of TFIIIB represents and lg of protein) The quantification of the transcripts (done in Phosphorimager) in each of the lanes are shown on the right-hand side of the panels ... PC-B and PC-C as well as with the heparin–Sepharose fractions The reactions were maximally active at lg of both PC-B and PC-C (Fig 2B; lane 4) and at lg of TFIIIB and RNA pol III fractions (0.3 and ... even in the absence of TFIIIC [25] Recruitment of RNA pol III to the template requires prior binding of TFIIIB All individual mem- A Parthasarthy and K P Gopinathan Gly bers of the tRNA1 family...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 02:21

... solving and task strategy development of individuals and groups and on the design of reward systems which fit with existing task and goal interdependencies Prof Dr Martin Kleinmann, University of Marburg, ... and the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and served as chair of the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management in 1999–2000 Tracy M Kantrowitz, School of ... University of Amsterdam and the University of Konstanz One of her major research areas refers to expertise and excellent performance at work In several studies in the fields of software design and engineering...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 04:20

... expression levels of both SC and IgA (A) and the Mr of SC (80 kDa) and IgA (160 kDa) complexing of IgA and J-chain is a prerequisite for SC binding Therefore, the correlation between the IgA and SC levels ... generation of cells with a Fig Western blot of assembled IgA, pIgA and SIgA SDS/PAGE and Western blot of untransfected CHO-K1 cells (lane 1), IgA-29 (lane 2), pIgA-D (lane and 5) and SIgA-3 (lane and ... selected and analysed as described below Detection of IgA, pIgA, and SIgA expression and bound SC Transfected and fused CHO-K1 cells were analysed for production of IgA, pIgA or SIgA and IgA bound...

Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 01:20

... Generated Index (PGI) [6] and the Schedule for Evaluation of Individual Quality of Life (SEIQoL) [7] may prove useful in determining the impact of response shift on the assessment of treatment effects ... when comparing the preand then-test scores anterior mandible on radiographic assessment of at least cm, have the cognitive ability to understand the purpose of the study, and they had to provide ... the added value, if any, of implant supported dentures Individualised quality of life (IQoL) IQoL was measured using the Schedule for the Evaluation of Individual Quality of Life – Direct Weighting...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... (1994) 3D distribution of shoots and associated spherical clusters of leaves Kellomọki and Strandman (1995) 3D distribution of shoots and associated fo- Interception of direct and diffuse PAR by ... in which the size, shape and orientation (azimuth and inclination) of each leaf and shoot are specified In the models of Takenaka [123], Kellomọki and Strandman [51] and Perttunen et al [93, ... FRAMEWORK OF CARBONBASED MODELS OF INDIVIDUAL TREE GROWTH 2.1 Processes accounted for and common rationales used Whatever their objectives and levels of application, the carbon-based models of individual...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:21

... conceived of the study and drafted the manuscript, and carried out PCR and AFM YK carried out ISH AI and TO participated in the design of the study and coordination All authors read and approved ... calibrated the darkness of each point on the cell according to the average of the back- Figure Experimental overview of the SCN method and ISH Experimental overview of the SCN method and ISH The AFM ... results of the ISH and the SCN method The table summarizes the comparison between the average of IISH and the SCN method In this table, the averages of IISH were generated from the range of 1.4...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 00:22

... relationship and the predictability value of these individual layers, for commercially interesting traits have been reported [6] Detecting the thickness of individual layers non-invasively is of interest ... understanding of their role and potential for monitoring body composition While ultrasound permits evaluation of individual layers this is not normal practice Instead a single measurement is made of ... 1, and 3) approximately weeks apart Scans were performed as part of a larger study involving a computer tomography scan and the taking of blood samples and biopsies Sedation was thus required and...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:22