funding matrix dimensions of performance and competitiveness

... reason of higher BSFC of JOME and its blend was due to lower calorific value and the higher densities of JOME and blends caused higher mass injection for the same volume Figure Variation of BSFC ... waste land area suitable for Jatropha cultivation, it can supply large volume of biodiesel, in fact, nearly half a dozen states of India have reserve a total of 1.72 million hectares of land for ... properties of Jatropha biodiesel was compared with the Diesel fuel The fuel properties of Jatropha biodiesel were found to be higher than diesel fuel The Performance and emission parameters of JOME and...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:11

... third of all funding for ART roll-out [22] Several reports and other studies have pointed to a large and longstanding degree of rural-urban inequity in Zambia Only 52% of all health workers and ... of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia 4College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi Department of Global Health Development, Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and ... Division of Population Health Sciences, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland 2Centre for Social Research, University of Malawi, Zomba, Malawi Institute of Economic and Social...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... represents G The spectrum of a matrix M is the multiset of the eigenvalues of M, and is denoted by Sp(M) = {[λi ]mi : ≤ i ≤ m}, where λ1 , λ2 , , λk are the eigenvalues of M and m1 , m2 , , mk their ... remainder of the paper is organized as follows In Section 2, we recall the definition of the orthogonal matrix U and give a formula for its eigenvalues We define digraphs derived from powers of U, and ... are often conveniently represented using matrices, for example, the adjacency matrix, the Laplacian matrix, etc [5] Many important properties of a graph are encoded in the eigenvalues of the matrix...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 13:21

... complementary forms of assessment take place: the assessment of the significance of the findings and the determination of the causes (of increased performance or of the lack of performance where performance ... relevant costs and benefits 1.1.7 Performance Audit Criteria Audit criteria are reasonable and attainable standards of performance against which the economy, efficiency, and effectiveness of activities ... Have a reasonable good understanding of the expectations of the major stakeholders, and be aware of basic expert knowledge; and • Have a general knowledge of practices and experience in other relevant...

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2013, 11:07

... coefficient of determination 219 Growth Performance and Sperm Quality of Stress Negative Piétrain Boars and Their Hybrids with Duroc Table Production performance, Least square means (LSMSE) of PiDu and ... Summer, Autumn and Winter) were the only effects included in the model Table Results of the effect of genetic group (PiDu 25, 50 75, PiCC and PiCT) and season on growth performance and semen quality ... Carcass composition and meat quality of crossbreds between F1(LandracexYorkshire) sows mated with LandracexDuroc (omega) and PietrainxDuroc (Pidu) Crossbred Boars Journal of Science and Developement...

Ngày tải lên: 28/08/2013, 11:59

... lower limit for band detection was set by a relative intensity per lean of 0.5% of the total band intensity The presence or absence of bands in fingerprints of test systems A and B was used for ... labels a, b, and c are PCR-DGGE banding patterns of 16S rRNA gene in test systems A, B, and C, respectively; d, e, and f are PCR-DGGE banding patterns of C12O gene in test systems A, B, and C, respectively; ... bands in PCR-DGGE banding patterns of test systems A and B in Fig were selected for analysis The lower limit for band detection was set by a relative intensity per lean of 0.5% of the total band...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:15

... generation) The presence of hydroperoxides increases the risk of polymerization and acidification and of the appearance of insoluble sediments and gums, which can lead to filter plugging and deposits in ... Where, JT 80:20 = Blend of 80 % of jatropha oil methyl ester and 20 % of tallow oil methyl ester by volume, JP 50:50 = Blend of 50 % of jatropha oil methyl ester and 50 % of palm oil methyl ester ... volume, JT 50:50 = Blend of 50 % of jatropha oil methyl ester and 50 % of tallow oil methyl ester by volume, SFCt 50:50 = Blend of 50 % of sunflower oil methyl ester and 50 % of coconut oil methyl...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 15:28

... occurs in the month of March of 955.56 W/m2 at 13:00 and minimum in December of 705.56 W/m2 at 12:00 Whereas ambient temperature is maximum of 36.1oC at 13:00 in the month of May and minimum ambient ... conclusions of their work are that the multi-stage desalination of seawater is reliable, and the undesirable flow of steam that bypasses the condenser is quite harmful to the overall performance of the ... distillate yield by considering the effect of various design and operating parameters on the performance and thermal characteristics of the system Description of the multi-stage evacuated solar desalination...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:11

... indication of the number of times that load will be curtailed nor the extent of the curtailment and the average duration of such a curtailment This information can be obtained from a frequency and duration ... rated at 110 kV and above and associated with the transmission of electric power Forced outages of transmission lines and cables have been categorized into line/cablerelated outages and terminal-related ... adequacy of installed and planned generating facilities ( ) The basic probabilistic techniques and the ability of ERIS to provide the required data csn be briefly summarized as follows Loss of Load...

Ngày tải lên: 03/01/2014, 19:36

... about each of content, each of performance, judge causes which base of performance audit’ comments and performance audit’s petitions Two type of performance audit criteria have relation of identify ... point of departure Chapter 2: Real situation of Collecting and spending toll fee audit 2.1 An overview of performance audit and objectives of the State Audit of Vietnam in implementation of the performance ... exchange of views and knowledge and to facilitate a group understanding of the implications of objectives and targets? • Do targets and measures draw wherever possible on existing sources of performance...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 23:03

... visuospatial and tests of reasoning were the main contributors These included the Rosen Drawing Test [45], matching and recognition components of the Benton Visual Retention Test [4] and the Identities and ... 0.05 686 R Mayeux et al / Neurobiology of Aging 22 (2001) 683– 689 Table Relationship of Time of Follow-up and APOE-␧4 to Memory, Visuospatial and Language Performance in Healthy Elderly Over years* ... Neurobiology of Aging 22 (2001) 683– 689 visuospatial/cognitive and language performance over time Performance in neither of these two groups over time was related to the presence of an APOE-␧4...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20

... pursuit of the subject’s True nature, the origins of which can be found in Christianity and its hermeneutics of the subject, and on the other hand the constitution of the subject as obedient and ... which both Nietzsche and Foucault can be said to understand philosophy as an art of living www.parrhesiajournal.org 45 THE AESTHETIC AND ASCETIC DIMENSIONS OF AN ETHICS OF SELF-FASHIONING While ... been and to be unwilling and unable to conceive that a life in any way different would be a life of one’s own.41 www.parrhesiajournal.org 49 THE AESTHETIC AND ASCETIC DIMENSIONS OF AN ETHICS OF...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 17:20

... [Kif96] and later, Crauel and Flandoni [CF98] and also Bogensch¨tz and Ochs [BO99], using time-dependent TF u and Martingale arguments, considered random conformal repellers for certain classes of ... proof by Bowen [Bow79] was in the context of Kleinian groups and involved a finite Markov partition and uniformly expanding conformal maps Using TF he constructed a finite ON THE DIMENSIONS OF ... upper and lower box dimensions and is given by a natural generalization of Bowen’s formula For a random uniformly hyperbolic Julia set on the Riemann sphere we show that if the family of maps and...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 09:20

... of the rules VYr → y and VYr → 1−y ¯ to and VYr → y and VYr → − y to The rest ¯ of the weights for Sφj → Sφj−1 Aj are set to This assignment of rule probabilities results in a Viterbi parse of ... Casacuberta and de la Higuera, 2000; Lyngsø and Pederson, 2002; Udupa and Maji, 2006; McDonald and Satta, 2007; DeNero and Klein, 2008, inter alia) Of special relevance to this paper is Abe and Warmuth ... appearance of both rules of the form VYr → and VYr → cannot occur because all rules that appear in the Viterbi parse tree have probability For any r, an appearance of rules of the form VYr → and VYr...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 00:20

... (2002)’s database of coherenceannotated texts 3.1.2 Kinds of coherence relations We assume a set of coherence relations that is similar to that of Hobbs (1985) Below are examples of each coherence ... The first method consists of simply determining the in-degree of each node in the graph A node represents a sentence, and the in-degree of a node represents the number of sentences that relate ... their participation All were native speakers of English and were naïve as to the purpose of the study (i.e none of the subjects was familiar with theories of coherence in natural language, for example)...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 06:20

... four dimensions of the individual’s work environment: 1) the match between an individual and the characteristics of both the job and the organization, 2) the existing structure and supervision of ... 3) the existence of clear, meaningful goals for jobs and the organization, and 4) the nature and enforcement of the implicit contract between employer and employee The essence of the model is ... existence of and temptation of this low wage path is another obstacle to the diffusion of HPWS Conclusions High performance work systems are a form of organization in which workers are not agents of...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 08:20

... counterparts In the first part of this note we discussed the issue of differing risk-return trade-offs among different stages of venture investment, and mentioned that the tails of the return probability ... industry is because of the nature of the human capital: the influx of highly qualified immigrants resulted in a high incidence of entrepreneurship and as a result provided a healthy demand for venture ... the above factors Performance will be affected by both supply and demand side factors, and the two will act in concert to make a successful VC industry A number of researchers and practitioners...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 12:21

... Fellow and Head of FIPP at CEPS, Reinhard H Schmidt, Professor at the University of Frankfurt and Santiago Carbó Valverde, Professor at the University of Granada The research team is composed of ... one objective and standard of assessment is the impact that they have on the lives of their clients; and the other one is profitability Ultimately and over the long term, impact and effectiveness ... World War The general distrust of commercial banks, and even of markets in general, and the lack of long-term funds seemed to make state ownership of banks and heavy-handed banking regulation a pure...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 07:20

... approach and the results of our paper are closer to those of Statman (2000) and Bauer et al (2005) Statman (2000) compares the performance of a sample of SRI funds with that of a control group of conventional ... Review of Economics and Statistics 86, 91–107 24 Tables Table 1: Number and total net assets of SRI and conventional funds The table shows the number and total net assets (TNA) of SRI and conventional ... financial performance: Small company effects and fund size effects Journal of Business Finance & Accounting 24, 705–725 Gregory, A., Whittaker, J., 2007 Performance and performance persistence of ethical...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 12:20