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... trademarks of Information Resources, Inc All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners 13 [ The Impact of the recession on Value and Premium Goods ] SUMMARY Don’t think of the ... competition and encourage greater consumption? How they pick the right marketing and promotional strategies in such challenging business conditions? IRI has used its powerful Infoscan pointof-sale ... alternative to national brands Continually monitor consumer shopping behaviour and adapt store layout to maximise on current buying habits Look for opportunities to increase selection of private label...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 03:20

... largely reflective of the socio-demographic and economic conditions of HIV-infected persons throughout South Africa In addition, given the variation in years of education among our participants, ... to demonstrate the impact of childhood trauma on functional limitations in HIV The experience of childhood trauma proved to have a negative impact on QoL and functionality in this cohort of women ... social relations and procreation While many studies have been conducted on HIV and functional limitations, there are very few that examined HIV and early abuse and its combined impact Troeman...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... previous frame More complicated error concealment techniques consist of a combination of spatial, spectral, and temporal interpolations with motion vector estimation In [10] an error resilience transcoder ... transmission of I-, P-, and Bframes is sent with varying levels of FEC protection Some of the prior research works on error resilience for broadcast terminals focus on increasing FEC based on the ... (usually set to 3) and α is nonnegative constant (α ≥ 0) Figure depicts the worse delay in seconds for different combination of frame rate and the number of I-frames in a Group Of Pictures The graph...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 22:20

... investigation of the effect of the presence of coccidia on the tissue distribution of vaccine and vvIBDV In a previous paper, we documented indications of vvIBDV replication in lymphoid tissues of vaccinated ... lesions were assigned a value of 0, lesions involving between one and 25% of the follicles was assigned a value of 1, 26 to 50% was assigned a value of 2, 51 to 75% was assigned a value of 3, and ... lesions involved 1–25% of the follicles, a value of was assigned, 26–50% of follicles a value of was assigned, 51–75% of follicles a value of was assigned, and 76–100% of follicles a value of...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... Table Impact of HIV infection on length of stay and total cost of admission for patients with severe sepsis Outcome Impact of HIV/AIDS P value Adjusted impact of HIV/AIDS P value Length of stay (days) ... infection duration Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study Investigators JAMA 1998, 280:1497-1503 Survival after introduction of HAART in people with known duration of HIV-1 infection Concerted Action on SeroConversion ... LOS and lower hospitalization costs) and should have had more ICU utilization Sasse and Wachter and colleagues [24-26] speculated that there is clinical bias that stems from a conception of HIV...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 22:22

... size and audit committee quality IV TABLE OF CONTENTS DEDICATION DECLARATION ACKHNOWLEDGEMENTS ABSTRACT TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF TABLES LIST OF FIGURES LIST OF GLOSSARY AND ABBREVIATIONS LIST OF ... Studies on the Impact of Firm Characteristics and Corporate 105 Governance on Research and Development Disclosure Comparing Quantitative and Qualitative Research 142 Summary of sample Selection and ... Table 6.29 TABLE CAPTION PAGE Empirical Studies on the Impact of Corporate Governance on 76 Corporate Disclosure Empirical Studies on the Impact of Corporate Governance on 82 Intellectual Capital...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2015, 00:07

... precision of the estimates, we thus follow Goodhart and Bean (2004) and Kohn (2006) discuss the implications of lags for the use of monetary policy in the face of asset price bubbles Sutton (2002) and ... prices “over and beyond” what such changes imply for the path of aggregate demand and inflation (Borio and Lowe 2002, Cecchetti et al 2000) Proponents of this policy emphasise that episodes of financial ... consumption demand Third, the width of the confidence bands indicates that the responses of residential property prices are, statistically, about as well defined as the impact on real economic...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2012, 09:40

... fossil fuel burning and industry Both peak ozone concentrations and rising background concentrations have negative impacts on human health, crop production, tree and other vegetation growth • Reactive ... fossil fuel burning and industry Both peak ozone concentrations and rising background concentrations have negative impacts on human health, crop production, tree and other vegetation growth • Reactive ... Effects of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution to support the revision of the 1999 Gothenburg Protocol The following International...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 22:20

... education programs are financially supporting and often supplanting other programs.” Seth Finkelstein, professional programmer and consultant and 2001 winner of a Pioneer of the Electronic Frontier ... continue to rely on the traditional on- campus lecture model, for the sake of tradition as well as the value of communal learning and face-to-face contact with lecturers,” he responded “One of ... Alcaine, head of the International Telecommunication Union’s area office in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, noted, “A big issue is the relevance of the education to the professional future of a person Universities...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 00:20

... private foundations, and international and regional organizations, most of which are members of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) PARTNERS AND CONTRIBUTORS IFPRI ... Implementation of Propensity Score Matching Journal of Economic Surveys, 22(1): 31–72 Cameron, C., and P K Trivedi 1986 Econometric models based on count data: Comparisons and applications of some ... econometric evaluation estimator Review of Economic Studies 65: 261–294 Heckman, J., R LaLonde, and J Smith 1999 The economics and econometrics of active labor market programs In Handbook of...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 01:20

... ) Review of Business and Economics Vt Review of Business and Economics 2009 / 204 Federico Etro Calibration and Shock Calibration of structural parameters is standard and follows King and Rebelo ... each sector and to increase production and lower mark ups This will have a positive impact on consumption so as to contribute to the recovery of the EU economy Most of all, part of these effects ... SaaS) and on- demand to clients (from the clouds indeed) Its impact will be spectacular on both consumers and firms On one side, consumers will be able to access all of their documents and data...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 21:20

... occupations Sales and related occupations office and administrative support occupations Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations Construction and extraction occupations Installation, Maintenance, and ... Williams, Adriane, and Swail, Watson Scott (2005) Is More Better? The Impact of Postsecondary Education on the Economic and Social Well-Being of American Society Washington, DC: Educational Policy Institute, ... participation of Blacks and women in formally all white, male professions From page of Carnevale and Rose (1998): “the top tier of elite jobs holds the managers and professionals (with business professionals);...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 08:20

... mpact of pension support on pensioners’ food expenditure As many as 61% of pensioners responded that they used their pension money to buy more food An average of ZAR 93.00 was used to buy food monthly ... orphaned grandchildren.4,5 This demographic transformation has profound implications on the continued social integration and the provision of health and social services for the elderly The old people ... pension Apart from drinking alcohol, 44% of the pensioners interviewed also smoked, and, as a result, they spent some of the pension money on tobacco for themselves and others The mean extra money...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 14:20

... affect population health In this paper, we present one of the first investigations of the impact of small and moderate disasters on childhood morbidity, physical growth, and immunizations by combining ... differential impact of disasters by a child’s age is less clear On the one hand, infants may be less prone to nutritional deficiencies or adverse health effects from water or food contamination because of ... immunization regimen by four months of age, only children up to 15 months of age at the time of survey would have been “at risk” of not receiving the vaccination during the prior 11 months For...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 08:20

... reduction of construction, a construction of TGV station and highway interchange in front of Disneyland, the installment payment plan, and land cost discount Finally, they induced Disneyland to ... traffic control, set construction, accommodation, transportation, promotion, Busan citizens’ cooperation, etc (BFC,2002) Busan and film professionals thought if BFC offered perfect conditions to ... (Jo, Son & Yoo, 1999) 43 CHAPTER CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS This final chapter consists of a restatement of problems, a summary of methodology, a discussion of findings, recommendations for...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 10:20

... section contains a summary and conclusion 2 The impact of fodder trees on milk production and income among smallholder dairy farmers in East Africa and the role of research Conceptual framework and ... also presenting estimates of impact at nationally and regionally Section focuses on gender-differentiated adoption and impact, and section briefly discusses other impacts of the technology that ... of fodder shrubs on milk production and their value at the household and regional level and (2) the contribution of research by the World Agroforestry Centre toward strengthening the impact of...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 04:20

... reduction in the number of abandoned children Next, we use the variation in fertility and child abandonment at the regional level and find that the immediate impact of abortion legalization on child ... the issue of unwantedness Thus, in what follows, we only concentrate on the abandoned children and not consider the case of temporarily institutionalized children The proportion of abandoned children ... set of month of birth dummies (or a polynomial of the month of birth) of the child Our results (available upon request) are very robust to the inclusion of a linear monthly trend and month of...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 09:20

... infertility and sexual dysfunction can have on the emotional well-being of these women [23, 66, 68, 74] The provision of counseling based on emotional support, unconditional acceptance and recognition and ... focusing on the psychological implications of the impact of gynecological cancer on reproduction are scarce As such, psychological intervention on reproduction in the context of cancer constitutes ... decision of having a child based only on personal motivations, such as personal gratification, may put the normative tasks of transition to motherhood at risk The complexity of this transition requires...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 14:20

... compensation awarded by the firm The Information Role of Auditing and Cost of Capital As previously mentioned, one of the adverse effects of the separation of ownership and control is information asymmetries ... separation of ownership and control of the firm leads to information asymmetries between the owners and manager of the firm (Jensen and Meckling 1976) In addition rational expectation theory and agency ... Summary and Discussion 64 Conclusions 68 References 70 Appendix A - Detailed model derivation 78 Appendix B - Computation of the Economic Impact of Auditor Specialisation on...

Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2014, 14:04

... Alakeson, Aldrich & Geibler, 2003) contributed data on the environmental and social impact of electronic banking in the U.K Electronic banks reduced the use of paper by reducing the destruction of ... Hunley, and Simmons (2005) and Powell (2000) postulated that web design consists of four integral components of economics, form, function, and content A bank’s website should have some purpose Economics ... bank officers who were knowledgeable and were responsible for the operations of Internet banking strategy formulation, implementation, and operations (Furht, 1995) The accuracy of the information...

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