e commerce and executive information systems a managerial perspective

... many wealthy and developed nations (Rombel, 2000) E- commerce and access to the Internet create an enormous disparity in wealth and a great need to spread and disperse this wealth and connectedness ... Electronic Commerce: A Managerial Perspective New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc U S Department of Commerce - National Trade Data Bank (1999) Panama Marketing U S Products And Services Available online at: ... for a new type of social drama to take place Remember in Ancient Greece, those who were in power and who had slaves and commerce, were the ones who had the fastest ships EDT utilizes these elements...

Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2014, 12:39

... individual ascribes a value to the observed effect Values are based on preferences, preferences can be measured and preferences should definitely be considered in health care decisions [6] Appraisals ... presumes that preferences can be measured and can be made available to the policy and decision makers The CATI technique seems to guarantee the fast and effective generation of these data In our study, ... health care providers and health care users express different preferences when they are confronted with identical information and are asked to decide according to their preferences Therefore,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... descriptive statistics were presented as means and standard deviations for continuous variables, and as absolute and relative frequencies for categorical variables DHP-18 scores were presented as means ... the health status and the management of patients treated for diabetes and living in France Briefly, subjects were randomly selected from the national health insurance system database which covers ... a single OHAs, less frequently treated for a cardiovascular disease and received an overall better quality of diabetes care [29] Our results may therefore underestimate the true impact of diabetes...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:21

... Indore Khoramabad Agra Al Ain Lanzhou Kolkata Van Xining Urumqi Faridabad Greater Cairo Mexicali Jabalpur Mumbai Dhanbad Ilam Allahabad Bushehr Kerman Jinan Beijing Patna Sarajevo Abu Dhabi Meerut ... Non-Asia Asia Source: ADB estimates based on UN (2012) Latin America and the Caribbean Africa São Paulo Hyderabad Shenyang Baghdad Cairo Ho Chi Minh City Asia Bangalore Tianjin Jakarta Tehran Manila ... indicators for ADB regional members Data are grouped into MDGs and regional tables Briefs and nontechnical analyses are also included for each group Data that were gathered from ADB regional member...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 09:20

... define the general soil degradation thresholds and then at the local scale we also need to address the specificity of the land management impacts, and define the threats associated to a specific ... soil management To so we consider the management thresholds According to Schjonning et al (2004) management thresholds can be defined as the most severe disturbance any management may accomplish ... use and management context, and may thus stress one of the general soil functions but not forget about the rest In table we present a list of selected indicators that are often used for assessing...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 08:20

... before lactate was measured Thus we reported the referral rate rather than an incidence rate, but it is likely that the referral rate approximates the incidence rate as all cases of suspected and ... hyperlactataemia was attributable to ART Patients were excluded if they had another acute illness that was more likely the cause of hyperlactataemia Reasons for exclusion were severe dehydration, ... lactate meter in primary care should be referred to the appropriate secondary level hospital for assessment and laboratory lactate measurement These guidelines were the same for all primary care...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21

... travel between their farms/home and the center several times in each season Easy reach to service center will increase the service lead time and center profit Transportation and also distance are ... Delphi–TOPSIS–FAHP approach Morteza Zangeneha*, Asadolah Akrama, Peter Nielsenb and Alireza Keyhania a Department of Agricultural Machinery Engineering, Faculty of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, ... the distance between farmers and centers But in agricultural areas the accessibility may related to centrality of centers location among villages, because farmers of around areas needed to travel...

Ngày tải lên: 25/04/2016, 07:23

... cross-channel experience, particularly within the coveted 18-to-34 age bracket That said, even the overall results from all age groups are impressive because there are still relatively few smartphones ... consistent brand experiences When consumers were asked how many different channels they typically use to research and ultimately purchase a product or service, 22 percent said they use one channel, ... avoid gaps where the sale could be lost Merchants needn’t necessarily serve up the identical experience in each channel, but rather they can optimize and connect channel interactions to deliver consistent...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 10:20

... confrontive coping that were appreciably weaker Discussion In patients undergoing elective cardiac catheterisation, we examined relationships between coronary artery disease severity and several measures ... as independent variables for outcome variables on a specified level For all dependent variable at each model level a regression model by all independent variables at that level was fitted For ... significant relationship between LVEF and any of the other HRQOL variables The absence of associations between LVEF and both physical function and general health, has also been reported by Mattera et al...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... changes Elevated transaminases and hyperlactatemia were the main causes of drug toxicities between weeks 32 and 48 of HAART One patient experienced an efavirenz hypersensitivity reaction between ... appropriate Negative HRQoL was defined as a decrease in PHS or MHS scores between pre-HAART and week 48 Univariate relationships were then explored between the outcome variables – negative PHS and negative ... life [13,14] Table 1: Demographic, baseline and on-treatment characteristics of female and male patients with any health-related quality of life data Variable Total Female Male P-value Number...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... content were correct and appropriate and reflected available drugs/resources in Malawian health centers Some of the feedback was solicited and received via email, reducing the need for travel and ensuring ... scene and desk blotter to ensure local references were relevant to Malawi The artist was provided with photographs of Malawians accessing care at health centres, and created a waiting room scene ... representatives of DI The second phase involved a detailed review of the most current versions of Malawian national treatment policies National disease-based (e. g., ART, malaria, TB) and Standard...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20

... insurance coverage All patient-level data can be arrayed in chronologic order to provide a detailed, longitudinal profile of all medical and pharmacy services used by each plan member The database ... initial therapy was defined based on time between the index date and the date of final receipt of such therapy, where the latter was designated based on the first pharmacy claim that was followed ... SD: Standard deviation; ED: Emergency department; IQR: Interquartile range Table Mean healthcare costs during pretreatment and follow-up Pretreatment Pharmacotherapy GAD related SSRIs SNRIs Benzodiazepines...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:21

... a a a a a a a a a Generalized SAD -0.22* a a a a a a -0.28* a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a Benzodiazepine use 0.23* a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a SPS (total) a a a a a a a a a ... Age: 35 yrs or older a a a a a a 0.41* a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a Living situation a a a a -0.32** a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a Employment a a a a a a a a a a a a -0.30* a a a ... 0.39* a 0.29* a a a a a a a a a 0.49** a a SIAS (total) SCL-90-R depression a a a a a -0.44** a a a a a a a a a a a a a -0.64** a a a a a a a a a -0.46** a a a a a a a a a a a a -0.32* -0.41* a -0.61**...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... Current alcohol/drug disorder Current smoker Interpersonal adverse life event Work or educational adverse life event Financial adverse life event Adverse life event within months Adverse life event ... Your research papers will be: available free of charge to the entire biomedical community peer reviewed and published immediately upon acceptance cited in PubMed and archived on PubMed Central yours ... intent to die before their death and 58 (30%) had left a suicide note The majority of deaths (124 cases, 64%) took place at the home of the deceased Univariate models There were differences between...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... universities (SAICA 2007b) whose undergraduate and graduate programmes are accredited by SAICA and whose syllabi are by implication also accredited by SAICA (200 7a) As far as could be ascertained, ... concepts and definitions are attended to because they are largely incorporated in the accounting standard AC000 Framework for the Preparation and Presentation of Financial Statements and are taught ... data, were gathered by means of a literature review This is an empirical approach A literature review and observations were the research techniques chosen for this study They have hopefully ensured...

Ngày tải lên: 04/11/2014, 22:20

... Online Interaction Iceberg The Online Interaction Iceberg • the tools and technology are the top of the iceberg; and • the social/cultural, and organizational/environmental factors are the bigger, ... is by their e- mail address or login name for a Web site But these may not always be the person’s real name and people can hide their names What does it mean in terms of communication and trust ... way you choose to use them and how members are supported in learning how to use them can influence a community’s success There will be more details later in the module but here are some general...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 20:20

... the interlaced format, the odd and even scanning lines of the picture are alternatively projected on the screen (Higher orders of the interlace factor have been proposed and evaluated, but a factor ... artifacts in the processed video sequence The main properties that are relevant for de-interlacing are summarized Detail in a picture is seen because of the contrast differences between small adjacent ... will be called original lines The remaining lines will be called interpolated lines Many de-interlacing algorithms have been reported in the literature and some are available in a commercial product...

Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2013, 14:15

... insignificant, even a small difference in the annual break-up rate could create substantial differences over decades [Table Here] Table presents a further effort to assess whether the way couples meet has ... respondents by gender in Figure 1, and report the few gender differences in a separate table (available from the authors) The most striking difference between the way same-sex couples meet and the ... the classic economic and game theoretic models of partner matching and mate selection (Becker 1991; Gale and Shapley 1962), the relative value of every potential mate is assumed to be already...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 21:20

... [37] take an entirely different approach: they advocate a single new flat namespace that can serve all present and future network elements A flat namespace has no inherent structure and so does not ... Dest (Target) Delegate Figure 1: EID-level delegation A source queries on a given EID and is given the IP address of a delegate The source could also be given the delegate’s EID or multiple EIDs ... choice between accepting the strictures of an existing but inappropriate namespace or bearing the overhead of creating a new one; instead, with a flat namespace, all new network elements can be effortlessly...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 22:20

... has been formulated at a level the user can understand and is relevant to the users’ needs I Sex-disaggregated—Data are collected so that analysis can be conducted separately for males and females, ... expected to cover I Understandable—The indicator should be simple to define and its value easy to interpret I Accessible—It uses data that are already available or are relatively easy to acquire ... attitudes HIV/ AIDS/ STIs Reduce incidence of HIV/AIDS and STIs Women are unable to take advantage of available services because of differential access to resources and information and restricted...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 12:20