impact on industry performance and the provision of infrastructure services

... warranting of protection, the financial viability of the postal system itself comes into question, affecting the range of services offered, such as the provision of postal savings and other financial services ... sector in the provision of services formerly provided exclu- 10 sively by the posts and from the concomitant separation of different components of public services from the posts according to their ... Savings and the Provision of Financial Services widely seen as part of the agenda of Germany’s commercial banks to force the privatization and then take over the Landesbanks Even though the Sparkassen...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 09:20

... 97 A LP tuohtiw LP htiw tnangerp metI swoc oN swoc oN swoc oN swoc yriad ni )LP( ssol ycnangerp rof srotcaf ksir fo sisylana eht ni dedulcni atad eht rof scitsitats evitpircseD elba T elbaT selbairav ... eht gnirud LP htiw swoc eht rof )50.0 < ( rehgih saw etar siht dna %2.32 saw sitirtemodne fo etar ecnedicni naem eht ,LP gniwolloF LP rof srotcaf ksir eb ot dnuof ton erew nosaes eht dna locotorp ... noisufni eniretuartni eno htiw detaert erew LP gniwollof sitirtemodne htiw swoC ytivitca nairavo dna suretu eht fo noitulovni lamron rof kcehc ot yhpargonosartlu dna noitaplap latcer yb denimaxe saw...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 23:22

... Richardson and colleagues [27], after examining the impact of earplugs and eye masks on the critical care patients’ sleep, found that 58.8% of the patients in the intervention group and 25% of the ... surgical ICU, and neuro ICU Available online http://ccforum.com/content/13/2/208 Conclusion Based on a number of original papers, the impact of noise on patients’ sleep and the effectiveness of noise ... patients and duration of stay The impact of sleep disturbance on patients Jones and colleagues [17], according to their questionnaire outcome, indicated that the inability to lie comfortably was the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23

... numbers below 115 The index reflects the degree of unsaturation of the oil, i.e., the number of bonds available for oxygenation (the higher the iodine index, the higher the number of bonds suitable ... % of Premixed combustion % of Diffusion combustion Trend line of % of diffusion combustion Trend line of % of premixed combustion % of Premixed combustion 25 86 20 82 15 78 10 74 % of Diffusion ... hand, it may be believed that the lean flame out region (LFOR) is one of the main contributors to the HC concentration in the exhaust LFOR is the region that is nearer to the leading edge of the...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 15:28

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 02:20

... in Rn Proof of Theorem 4.1 The ubiquity version of Theorem 4.2 An auxiluary lemma 4.3 Proof of Theorem Proof of Theorem Proof of Theorem Proof of Theorem Various generalizations 8.1 Theorem for ... APPROXIMATION ON PLANAR CURVES 2.3 Proof of Theorem To a certain degree the proof follows the same line of argument as the proof of the convergent part of Theorem In par∗ ticular, it suffices to consider ... Proof of Theorem modulo Theorem This is trivial Given the hypotheses of Theorem 7, the hypotheses of Theorem are clearly satisfied Fix an interval I ⊆ I0 By Theorem 7, there exist constants δ0 and...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 09:20

... much spent time on it with the objective of studying the theory of connected marketing and then study the case of Vicongdong in marketing field Vicongdong is a for-runner project of Visky –FPT ... keep the outstanding point of the product, service It will leave the impression on the mindset of target customer and create the topic to discuss among the community, and then affect positively on ... thesis belongs to marketing topic which is theory of connected marketing In the name of space, the thesis studies the real status and problem within the project Vicongdong.vn of FPT Corporation Time...

Ngày tải lên: 09/01/2015, 09:41

... More on the Concept of Si 6.4 Nivison on the Concept of “Tui” 6.5 Im on the Concept of “Tui” 6.6 Xunzi and Mencius: A Brief Comparative Discussion on Active Emotional Control and Management of ... Motivation and Agency 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Van Norden on Mencian Moral Agency 2.3 Moral Desires and Proper Motivation 2.4 The Function of Si 2.5 Si and the Concentration of Zhia 2.6 The Congeniality ... distinction between having the capacity (keyi 可以) and having the ability (neng 能) in the context of self-cultivation, which attacks Mencius’ conflation of the two concepts, and contend that their...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2015, 10:49

... meteorological stations of the National Observatory of Athens (NOA) [8] and of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh) [9] The results for the two decades are compared and the existing differences ... values of CDD were increased The reduction in the yearly values of HDD was in the range of 9.5 to 22% in Athens, and in the range of to 9% in Thessaloniki, depending on the base temperature, with the ... for heating and cooling and on CO2 emissions In order to reach conclusions regarding the effect of temperature data changes on the energy consumption of buildings, the energy demands of a typical...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:10

... expectations of the possible size and composition of a new round of asset purchases by the Federal Reserve and their response to the November announcement clearly depended on these expectations Understanding ... Understanding the surprise component of these announcements is important in order to understand how much of their effect on the day of the announcement was already priced in In the case of the U.S ... in order to fully understand the direction and magnitude of the financial price responses To highlight the relation between the magnitudes of the surprise and response of interest rates, Figure...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 03:20

... large part to the visibility of the environmental indicators and the "transparency" of the information system on which they rest The construction and regular publication of environmental indicators ... governments in connection with UNEP and the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) to seek consensus on the need for and the uses of indicators internationally The United Nations Commission ... Environmental Indicators V POLLUTION/EMISSION: ILLUSTRATIVE CALCULATIONS OF INDICATORS AND OF A COMPOSITE INDEX FOR THE NETHERLANDS Climate Change Depletion of the Ozone Layer Acidification of the...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 16:20

... Canada, the European Union, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, the United Kingdom, the United States of America and the World Bank The impact of fodder trees on milk production and ... (1) the effects 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 ... calliandra trees they planted On the other hand, age, size of household, and size of landholdings were not related to adoption The study concluded that access to extension and participation in on- farm...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 04:20

... Introduction to the Problem Background of the Study Statement of the Problem 18 Purpose of the Study 19 Rationale 19 Research Questions and Hypotheses 21 Significance of the Study 24 Definition of Terms ... (operational) organizations of the business As such the PMO can provide such capabilities as analysis of capacity and performance of the operations and standardization of the methods and procedures used ... or interactions or the generation of alternatives and the objective evaluation of them (p 263) Another key element of the strategic planning process for which information generation and use is...

Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2014, 14:04

... The interviews started with a general discussion regarding the impact of FM on participants' lives and then moved to a discussion about the impact of FM on the participants' sleep Following these ... in the FM patient population Both of these PRO measures were developed prior to the current emphasis on the involvement of patients at the concept elicitation and item generation phases [25], and ... assessment of the impact of FM on their sleep Nineteen of the participants said that the instrument captured all of their sleep-related symptoms, indicating likely concept saturation of these symptoms...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20

... investigate the effect of STN stimulation alone, comparisons were made between DBS OFF (Deep Brain Stimulation turned off) and DBS ON after an overnight withdrawal of anti-PD medication The Wilcoxon matched-pairs ... person programmed the DBS to either ON or OFF In order to avoid any systematic differences and bias, there was a randomization performed before the start of the study Five patients were randomized ... defined the periodicity of stimulation shifts where each shift had random time duration from 0.8 seconds up to 6.4 seconds, which yielded an effective bandwidth of the test stimulus in the region of...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... The interviews started with a general discussion regarding the impact of FM on participants' lives and then moved to a discussion about the impact of FM on the participants' sleep Following these ... in the FM patient population Both of these PRO measures were developed prior to the current emphasis on the involvement of patients at the concept elicitation and item generation phases [25], and ... assessment of the impact of FM on their sleep Nineteen of the participants said that the instrument captured all of their sleep-related symptoms, indicating likely concept saturation of these symptoms...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... with the report of Borsberry and Dobson [2] Furthermore, the delay of days to first service in cows with retained placenta was similar to the results of Erb et al [17] On the other hand, the intervals ... development of retained placenta, with a higher incidence rate during the warm season for the first lactation and during the cold season for the second lactation Cow parity and calving season were ... by others [9,10,44] The occurrence of endometritis was greater in the retained placenta group than in the control group, which is consistent with previous studies [34,36] The condition of the...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 18:21

... between and 10 cm, 10 and 20 cm, and 20 and 30 cm at four locations positioned along the diagonal of the plots and m from the center The samples were dried, weighed and sieved to mm Then bulk ... For the main stems, contrast I was significant in the second growing season and contrast II was significant in the first growing season only, and none of the contrasts was significant for the ... RCD of secondary stems, contrasts I and II were significant only in the first growing season The differences between the 0.5 m spacing and the 1.0 m and 1.5 m spacings and between the 1.0 m and...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:21

... but expressing conditions related to the situational demands of the consultation that affect that high intention; future research should consider the implications of these 'conditionalities' Finally, ... facilitation and interference along a temporal dimension Despite the interviews focusing on perceived intergoal relations within a single consultation, the longitudinal and chronic nature of diabetes ... facilitate and hinder their performance of two particular behaviours within the diabetes consultation they are most involved in: provision of physical activity advice and prescription of anti-hypertensive...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21