measuring the impact of ict on production

... regression model to test the main effects of two covariates and the effect of the interaction of the two covariates We extended this method to the functional linear model The comparisons of all ... bottom, with the time of day indicated on the X and the height of the spike indicating the raw activity level on the Y axis The plot (b) shows the activity averaged at each minute over the days (black ... BMI than found in the general population, so we cannot generalize our conclusions of the impact of BMI on circadian activity to the entire population Table Demographic information and sample characteristics...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:20

... and other parties outside the office The use of ICT for internal communication has been elaborated in the previous section Readers are referenced to the discussion there Here, we will concentrate ... concentrate more on the use of company’s ICT for non-work-related activities In conclusion, Information and communication technology (ICT) has a pivotal role in the society today ICT has speed up the structural ... transformation in different areas in the economic, social and cultural life One area where the ICT has also a significant impact is in the labor and work environment The development of ICT has contributed...

Ngày tải lên: 21/12/2013, 00:26

... your responses with the class The instructor will write the class consensus on a flip chart Use the space below for brainstorming Activity 7.2: Determining the Impact of Technology on a Windows ... Identify the level of impact — high, medium, or low — that each technology type would have on the given layer of a Windows DNA design Write your answers in the grid provided After completing the above ... Security After completing the above steps, you will discuss your responses with the class The instructor will write the class consensus on a flipchart THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK ...

Ngày tải lên: 21/12/2013, 06:16

... lending channel’ for the effects of monetary policy on the volume of credit in the economy is but one strand of research reflecting this widespread interest The impact of regulation on lending behaviour ... regulation, capital and credit supply: Measuring the impact of prudential standards In a review of the literature on the impact of Basel I capital regulations, Jackson et al (1999), conclude there ... (1995), The Impact of Monetary Policy on Bank Balance Sheets”, FRB Chicago Economic Note (2000), “What Do a Million Observations on Banks Say About the Transmission of Monetary Policy”, The American...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 10:20

... resolve the conflicting empirical results on advertising effects obtained in the marketing literature, and to clarify the confusion about alternative measures of the impact of advertising on consumer ... allows a flexible pattern of substitution at the aggregate level See Train (2003) for further discussion Construction of the likelihood function requires evaluation of the integrals appearing in ... reports the probability that a particular type of consumer buys the indicated brand on a particular purchase occasion, given the price of the brand is in the indicated range The unconditional purchase...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 08:20

... through communication, transportation, and trade The term is most closely associated with the term economic globalization: the integration of national economies into the international economy through ... flows, migration, the spread of technology, and military presence.”8 In other definition, globalization is considered as the expansion of global linkages, the organization of social life on a global ... LCC is one of many companies in many countries in the world have a positive impact of globalization 34 CHAPTER V: CONCLUSION 5.1 Implication of research 5.2 Conclusion 35 5.1 Implication of research...

Ngày tải lên: 13/03/2014, 14:20

... model It captures the effect of existing knowledge on the production of new knowledge There is no constraint on the range of θ If past knowledge offers the necessary foundation upon which to discover ... 1278-1286 13 their contemporaries, supports the notion that the true return to education may be twice that found through OLS estimation of the Mincerian wage equation.24 An ongoing examination of the ... determine the true impact of education on individuals’ incomes and economies’ growth rates V Microeconomic Theory Microeconomic analysis attempts to determine the effect of education on an individual’s...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 08:20

Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 12:20

... radiation of heat from the internal organs and muscles to the surface of the body Large body surface area increases the potential for convection, conduction, and evaporation In cold environments, ... indexes of human as height, weight index and so on The effects of climate on human variation in body size and shape conform to ecological ‘ruler’ of mammalian biological adaptation to the thermal ... relatively long in proportion to the size of the trunk of the body, assist in heat loss Low body volume decreases the amount of metabolizing tissue, and also decreases the distance required for the radiation...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 09:20

...  The impact of microfinance on the incomes of the poor b  The impact of microfinance on wider poverty/ wealth of the poor c  impact of microfinance on other non-financial The outcomes for the ... what is the impact of microfinance on poor people? discussion and budget By broadening the scope from the initially commissioned review on the impact of micro-credit on the incomes of the poor, ... positive impact on the health of poor people, and on their food security and nutrition, although the effect on the latter is not observed across the board The evidence of the impact of micro-credit...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20

... trade tensions for the sake of the overall relationship, seemed to be dissipating One could hear expressions of concern over the very future of the bilateral relationship, on both sides of the Pacific ... get together, the level of confrontation has been miniscule compared to the Framework period Also, on the security side, the US and Japan have reaffirmed the importance of the relationship The two ... administration these assumptions had clearly replaced traditional thinking The institutionalization of these assumptions led to a fundamentally different conception of the Japanese economy, and...

Ngày tải lên: 10/06/2014, 21:37

... Therefore, the objectives of the current qualitative study were to further describe the impact of FM on participants' sleep and to evaluate the content validity of both of these measures in the FM ... also spoke of no longer feeling refreshed upon awakening since having FM, regardless of the amount of sleep that they received When discussing the impact of FM on their sleep, half of the participants ... 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 open-ended queries,...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20

... of Khon Kaen Province in the Northeast Region (Isaan), the setting of the Thai arm of the RESILIENCE study The Isaan region, with a population of 19 million, is the largest of four regions in ... strong correlations among the subscales is supportive of the construct validity of the PIPP, given the expected relationship among the various aspects assessed None of the correlations were so high ... in wage labor because of their impairment, subsequently impacting on their endorsement of the item The construct validity of the PIPP was assessed using the Thai version of the EQ5D, which measures...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... of Khon Kaen Province in the Northeast Region (Isaan), the setting of the Thai arm of the RESILIENCE study The Isaan region, with a population of 19 million, is the largest of four regions in ... strong correlations among the subscales is supportive of the construct validity of the PIPP, given the expected relationship among the various aspects assessed None of the correlations were so high ... in wage labor because of their impairment, subsequently impacting on their endorsement of the item The construct validity of the PIPP was assessed using the Thai version of the EQ5D, which measures...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... Therefore, the objectives of the current qualitative study were to further describe the impact of FM on participants' sleep and to evaluate the content validity of both of these measures in the FM ... also spoke of no longer feeling refreshed upon awakening since having FM, regardless of the amount of sleep that they received When discussing the impact of FM on their sleep, half of the participants ... 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 open-ended queries,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... evaluated upon integration On the other hand, Equation (5) alone is interpreted without any further evaluation The positive sign of the thinning response rate parameter, r, in Equation (8) indicates ... that the age of maximum response depends on the age of the stand at time of thinning (At ) and k Details of the characteristics of this T RF can be found in Liu et al [7] Equation (5) has all the ... model validation In order to avoid the confounding effect of second thinning, only heights measured up to the fourth measurement were used for the evaluation RESULTS AND DISCUSSION The estimate...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:22

... level, the impact of the infection there is not root so pedunculate system The only exception high There was a relationship between crown status and infection However, there were a number of exceptions, ... between the two species, the relationship between the root infection index and the frequency of living roots was the same for and red oak in almost all parts of the to this was on the floor of cylinder ... or on a large horizontal root near the trunk base No C fusipes lesions were on peripheral roots in the absence of root collar infection As the infection increased, lesions quickly reached the...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:21

... maturation stage The lower proliferation but higher bone density through differentiation could explain the missing regeneration potential of BONJs In contrast, the non-nitrogen-containing bisphosphonate ... matrix production of collagen type I The enhanced bone density mediated by bisphosphonates appears to be caused by the stimulation of osteoblast differentiation Non-nitrogen-containing bisphosphonates ... osteonecrosis of the jaw [17,21,22] The objective of this in vitro study was to illuminate the impact of bisphosphonates on osteoblast proliferation and extracellular matrix production over a period of 14...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 20:20

... 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 reduction strategies ... improving sleep There are some limitations of the existing studies, including the lack of attention to other room acoustic conditions in addition to sound level, the combined effects of different ... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23

... logistic regression model The first model consisted of patient’s overall score on all variables of the APACHE-II score as the only predictive variable The second model, based on the data of the same ... Calibration plots of the APACHE-II model and of the APACHE-II model with delirium APACHE-II, Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation-II Page of Discussion The main finding of the present ... for the development of delirium may differ between patients, but these were not registered because the aim of the Page of present study was merely to investigate if the predictive value of the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 21:21