... (2004), Dwyer and Korablev (2007), and Dwyer and Qu (2007). 12 between credit spreads and interest rates (level and slope) differ based on the maturity, credit ratings, andthe sign of the relation ... importance, the exact nature of therelationshipbetween credit and interest rate risk is not quite clear. For example, consider therelationshipbetween default and interest rate. If the economy ... slow the economy. Therefore, we may conjecture that therelationshipbetween default risk and interest rates is sensitive to some measure of where the economy is in the business cycle and/ or other...
... (Murray and Delahunty 2000) and the Cheddar cheese lexicon (Drake et al. 2001). Some of the referenceterms, definitions and food references from these lexicons were screened and modified bythe panel ... According to the eigenvalues (percent-age by which variation is explained in the biplot), 70% of the variation isexplained by dimension 1, and almost 15% of the variation is explained by dimension ... CHEESE acid, diacetyl and methional. In the aroma attribute terms used in the descrip-tive analysis, these can be described as “free fatty acid,” “buttery” and “sulfur”aromas. The principal component...
... Because of this reason, the research focuses on understanding the value of the corporate culture, in particular, understanding therelationshipbetweenthe corporate culture andthe innovation of ... behavior”. Below, there are three components of the model, which describes therelationship between basic assumptions, espoused values and artifacts. 2 Declaration of Originality and Word Count ... accountants about therelationshipbetween corporate culture andthe use of management accounting innovations. Moreover, this survey also focuses on the purpose and role of this relationship. To...
... particular. First, the physical characteristics of the built environment, such as the separation between residences andthe ease with which onecan walk between them, and second, the neighborhood ... pass on their genes and many of their attitudes to their children. Since their genes and attitudes also determine the parents’ neighborhood choices, this will in itself create a relationshipbetween ... want to estimate therelationshipbetween bmi and landscape while allowing for the pos-sibility that bmi may be explained both by an individual’s observed characteristics andby his orher unobserved...
... found, which both change the pH optimum, and at the same time improve the thermostability at the new pH optimum. Whether these changes can be achieved by a rational design or by directed evolution ... study-ing the alkaline stability of the wild-type Cel7A and mutantprotein.Materials and methodsProtein production and purification The purification of wild-type Cel7A enzyme andthe E217Q and E223S/A224H/L225V/T226A/D262G ... from the changed atoms of the mutated side chains. In order to evaluate further the design of the mutations, it was of interest how the stabilitybehaviour of the protein was changed bythe mutations,particularly...
... levels and sources for elderly people(aged 60 and over) and for the non-elderly and compares these to the Vietnamese average. The officialincome definition developed by GSO is used. On average, the ... co-residence, giving them money and receivingback both nominal and in kind resources from the elderly in the process.336. Summary and Conclusions 30 The RelationshipBetween Old Age and Poverty in ... education, the receipt of remittances, household business and trade (compared to agricultural income) and living in the Northern provinces and in the Mekong Delta and inurban areas, however the association...
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... the specific steps as follows: (1) Choose the theme based on the scope and object of the study appropriate to the individual study purposes. (2) Search for and study the works and paper by ... with the satisfaction of thecurrent visit to the same destination, and then the feeling of satisfaction in thecurrent visit affect intention to revisit in the future.A recent study by Zabkar ... organization to give confidence and trust to the clients.- Empathy: the intimacy with the clients and understanding of their individuals’ feelings and problems.Inheriting the theory on service quality...
... indicated by the slope) with the density and extractable content. There was nosignificant difference betweenthe treatment slopes for the density measurements, although there were indications that the ... extractable content and fibre length(Fig. 2 and Tabs. IV and V). The second eigenvector, whichaccommodates the remaining 36% of the variation, is a con-trast betweenthe active alkali and fibre coarseness ... for theiradvice with respect to the sampling procedures and interpretation of the results obtained from the pulp and paper tests. J. Male, A.Havenga, J. Retief and D. Gama of the Forestry and...
... measures the strength and indi-cates the direction of therelationship [54].ResultsCorrelation between Self-Esteem ScalesIn thecurrent study, the correlation coefficient between the two self-esteem ... 0.001), and edu-cational status (p = 0.01) for the JF scale, and educationalstatus (p = 0.003) and sex (p = 0.007) for the Rosenbergscale.Discussion The present study examined therelationshipbetween ... psychiatric patients. Of these, the most significantwere the presence of a psychiatric disorder, the exact psy-chiatric diagnosis, the age of the patients, andthe genderof the patient. Educational...
... examine the roles played by a number of parameters thatmay mediate therelationshipbetween physical activity and knee OA. We focus on the role of physical activity in the riskfor developing OA, and ... examining therelationshipbetween physical activity andthe risk fordeveloping knee OARecommendation Details1 There is evidence to indicate the importance of investigating the role of the following ... symptomatic type, intensity Among persons with BMI above the median, there was no relationshipbetweenthe from the Framingham risk for knee OA andthe following: walking (≥6 miles/week; OR 0.84, 95%...
... pleuralcavity[8].To our knowledge, there are no publications in the medical literature evaluating therelationship between fluid appearance andthe results of cytological evaluation and chemical laboratory ... suggested that the appearance of pleural effusions (i.e., the presence orabsence of blood) might help to establish the etiology of the effusions. Th is study explores the relationship between pleural ... and Preventive Medicine and Community Health, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX,USA.3Department of Anesthesia and Preoperative Medicine, The Universityof Texas M. D. Anderson...
... ut the methods and sources of the questionn aires andthe standardisation of the tests used in the PAC-COPD study has been pre-viously published [14,16].Statistical analysisDepending on the ... Of the 342patients included in the PAC-COPD study, 337 (98.5%)had anxiety, depression, and H RQoL measures, and therefore were included in the present analysis. The study was approved bythe ... that therelationshipbetween anxiety and/ or depressive symptoms and HRQoL in COPD patientscould be modified by certain socio-demographic and functional characteristics of the patients. The...
... addition to the work by Vanden-broucke and colleagues, three further studies by otherinvestigators also used autopsy material to look at the rela-tionship between FV Leiden and PE and found no associa-tion ... found the prevalence of prothrombin G20210Avariant and FV Leiden to be similar to that found in the general population. The relationshipbetween PE and DVTAs noted by Bounameaux [21], therelationship ... inter-mediate betweenthe two other groups. In comparison, the prevalence of FV Leiden in the control group was approxi-mately 3.0%. These data demonstrate that the relative riskfor PE in the individuals...