... on the market orientation of the firm has developed as an operationalisation of the marketing concept A recent definition of market orientation as the set of crossfimctional processes and activities ... SUMMARY 167 CHAPTER SUMMARY, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 7.1 INTRODUCTION 170 7.2 SUMMARY OF CHAPTERS 170 7.3 LIMITATIONS 174 7.4 CONCLUSIONS 175 7.5 RECOMMENDATIONS 177 7.6 CUSTOMER SERVICE ... QUESTIONS) 131 SECTION D: UNDERSTANDING OF THE MARKETING CONCEPT BY MANAGEMENT IN THE TRAVEL AGENCY INDUSTRY (RATING QUESTIONS) 141 6.2.4 6.2.5 SECTION E: IDENTIFICATION OF THE MARKETING ORIENTATION...
... before 10 sessions after the surgery) HBOT encouraged new vessel formation at one week and new bone deposition at two week time points (37) Additionally, the spinal fusion rate and torsional strength ... Although HBOT is considered a valuable adjunct on the healing of bone lesions in different anatomical regions with ischemic perfusion, the current knowledge about its influenceon bone graft substitutes ... regions which were previously grafted using aforementioned types of bone substitutes (13) To overcome these issues, the fabrication of tissue engineered biomaterials, different combinations of...
... 1995) Although the DO condition in the mgN batch experiment is different from the test channels, the Fig Vertical distribution of mineralization profile of denitrification rate suggests that there ... Observation of aquatic biota Investigation of the biota was performed at each point of the both channels in October 2000 Preprocessing of each sample was performed by extracting a 20 cm section of ... mineralization, nitrification, and denitrification rate were calculated from these concentration changes All the experiments including the contrast experiment were performed at 20 ± 2°C in the dark condition...
... amount of amoA mRNA, then continuing care should be taken into consideration in order to make a direct correlation between mRNA detection and in situ activity of ammonia oxidation Amount of amoA ... RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Effects of the addition of polyferric sulfate on phosphorus removal and nitrification Phosphorus concentration was immediately decreased at the beginning of the experiment ... impact of polyferric sulfate on amoA mRNA expression for some species of ammonia oxidizers Therefore, in the activated sludge process of nitrification-denitrification with coagulant addition, Fe/P...
... using the equations of motion method [17] The equations of motion method of the dot Green function gives rise to an infinite order system of higher-order Green functions An approximation procedure ... system of equations, thus producing the closed set of equations To the truncation, we approximate the Green functions up to the second order of U This truncation ensures that most of the interaction ... the Fermi level, one electron from the ring should jump into the dot Conclusion In conclusion, we obtained the current expression as a function of the intradot Coulomb interaction and the AB phase...
... Discussion of results This table and chart shows the results of a questionnaire, this is the reaction of respondents In this section, respondents are asked to give their opinions about DLV„s use of ... the questionnaires, respondent‟s choice of yes or no to a question depends on the certain assumption in this question Respondent only need to tick in the blank of yes or no for each part of answering ... of using ABC lead to improve financial 47 performance? 4.3.3.1 General discussion 4.3.3.2 Figures 4.3.3.3 Discussion of the results 47 47 48 Chapter CONCLUSION 5.1 Conclusion 51 5.2 Limitations...
... on the surface concentration) with their subsequent utilization in a chemical kinetics simulation by numerical solution of the rate equations, (ii) to reproduce some key stages of a real physical ... form of a hemisphere of radius R) We note that the NW axial growth (elongation) rate is also expressed as a function of mean concentration of adatoms at the surface Therefore, without considering ... numerical solution of rate equations describing the growth of NWs The second two MC experiments reproduce a fragment of a Fig The MC simulations of the kinetics for spreading of the mobile atoms...
... PARAMETERS FOR THE GROWTH OF PECVD DIAMOND FILMS a set of 1-D heat conduction equations [15], [24] Details of the derivation process have been described in [15] The solution of in the gas can be the ... resistance of PECVD diamond films grown from BEN strongly depends on the structure of the nucleation layer and the quality of the nucleation/PD interface The thermal conductivity of the nucleation layer ... MEASUREMENTS R Fig (a) Nucleation/PD interface after 45 of nucleation The nucleation layer and the PD layer appear well connected (b) Nucleation/PD interface after 60 of nucleation Stress-induced voids...
... study to test the feasibility of questionnaire administration under field conditions, as well as the understanding of the content of the questionnaire under investigation Another 20 elderly people ... The oral health questionnaire recorded data on demographic information, perceived oral health conditions, satisfaction with oral health status, perceived general health conditions, and pain using ... areas were contacted to gain permission and co-operation Every participant received information on their measured oral and general health conditions Data analysis Each performance score of OIDP was...
... analysis ofperformanceof an approach of classification of both types of signals concurrently Therefore, this study investigates the performanceof several pattern recognition classification algorithms ... the classes of motion twice, in random order Each contraction was 10 s in duration, with s resting periods between consecutive contractions Each subject performed three sessions on the same day, ... Influenceof the training set on the accuracy of surface EMG classification in dynamic contractions for the control of multifunction prostheses Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2011...
... circulation, prevention of neurally mediated syncope in an early state of rehabilitation, decrease in spasticity, prophylaxis of osteoporosis and activation of the locomotion pattern generator of ... session on the traditional tilt table were in the second session treated on the tilt stepper In the second experiment, we investigated the effect of passively induced movements on circulation ... in the interactions (F (3, 18) = 8.68, p < 0.0009) For the group treated on the traditional tilt table, pairwise comparisons with the t-test with additional Bonferroni's correction showed a significantly...
... thus deserves closer evaluation in relation to 1,3-β-glucan, as horses sampled at the same occasions from this stable had significant upregulation of gene expression of inflammatory cytokines during ... detection limit for the assay was U/ml, which was the equivalent of U/m3 The respiratory health and fluctuation of markers of inflammation of the stabled horses were also examined at each of the ... summer conditions and assess whether air quality or season was associated with clinically detectable respiratory signs or alterations to selected biomarkers of inflammation and lung function in...
... directly as a function of flow conditions [6,7] Because alterations in flow conditions affect the chemical composition of wastewater in the influent and effluent of the STP in a number of ways, a significant ... approach of SPE and fractionation in the present study (Figure 3) relies on the survey by Kern et al [25] The combination of Oasis HLB with a cation and an anion exchanger provides the extraction of ... weather conditions This assumption is supported by the already demonstrated significant correlation between the toxicity of fraction with the concentration levels of the pharmaceuticals diclofenac...
... Discussion Timing and amount of precipitation had a strong influenceon ecosystem carbon fluxes Decreasing summer precipitation reduced RE by 45%, GEP by 75%, and NEE by 70% This reduction in ... SEP MONTHS Figure Monthly precipitation values during the growing season for 2002 and 2003 Average monthly precipitation is 70 year average (1939-2009) Polley et al 2010) Precipitation influences ... cascading mechanisms of C cycling-precipitation regimes altering canopy conditions (leaf area, biomass) which in turn controls ecosystem scale C fixation and or C efflux These functional differences...
... dispersion exhibit the lowest conductivity A better cluster distribution results in lower percolation threshold and higher conductivity for a given volume fraction Conclusions Four dispersion methods ... electrical conductivity of polymer composite films Exp Polym Lett 2010, 4:292 14 Paiva MC, Covas JA, et al: The influenceof extensional flow on the dispersion of functionalized carbon nanofibers ... distribution of agglomerates/clusters in the domain; a uniform distribution of the agglomerates/clusters throughout the matrix is said to be a good cluster distribution A sketch of distribution and...
... directly as a function of flow conditions [6,7] Because alterations in flow conditions affect the chemical composition of wastewater in the influent and effluent of the STP in a number of ways, a significant ... approach of SPE and fractionation in the present study (Figure 3) relies on the survey by Kern et al [25] The combination of Oasis HLB with a cation and an anion exchanger provides the extraction of ... weather conditions This assumption is supported by the already demonstrated significant correlation between the toxicity of fraction with the concentration levels of the pharmaceuticals diclofenac...
... Magnetoplasmons Magnetoplasmons are collective excitations of electron gas in magnetic field, occurring as poles of density-todensity response function In the random phase approximation, dispersion of ... transitions between 11 Landau levels, caused by Coulomb interaction, can change dispersions of the excitations in comparison with the lowest Landau level approximation Strength of Coulomb interaction ... Coulomb interaction in exchange channel treated as annihilation of electron and hole in one point of space and subsequent creation of electron-hole pair in another point Unlike electron gas without...
... analysis of the Gaussian approximation and its impact on the decoding process A confirmation of the analytical results in form of simulations is given in Section Conclusions are drawn in Section between ... demonstrate the impact of the Gaussian approximation on the performanceof the coded PDA system, in CONCLUSION The impact of the Gaussian approximation in the conventional PDA MIMO decoder on ... “Improving soft output quality of MIMO demodulation algorithm via importance sampling,” in Proc IEE 5th International Conference on 3G Mobile Communication Technologies (3G ’04), pp 387–390, London,...
... values of correlation coefficients of the regional residual index tree-ring chronology with the average monthly precipitation from May of the previous year (P) to August of the year in question in ... ARSTAN application The chronology has low values of autocorrelation The standard regional tree-ring chronology was also established The range of the created regional tree-ring chronologies is from ... values of correlation coefficients of the regional residual index tree-ring chronology with the average monthly temperatures from May of the previous year (P) to August of the year in question in...