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... increased between 1990 and 1992 from 17 million shares to 272 million shares, an increase of 15 times From 1993 to 1996, it declined from the level reached in1992 with an increasing trend From ... These results imply that as the size of a firm increases, the magnitude of abnormal return associated with the market reaction to the decreed stock split increases, while as the book to market value ... reduce shareholder liquidity from different perspectives The first two studies report increases in the bid-ask spread after a split, whereas the third study reports a decrease in the mean market-adjusted,...

Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2015, 16:34

... even increased by 2005 and in the last two years has begun to decrease Also, the number of farms between 2-5 has increased, and at the same time the number of farms larger than 15 has increased The ... Poland, and rural areas in general, as well as a discussion of their public good characteristics 2.1.2 Public infrastructure Many publications emphasize public infrastructure as a strong factor ... literature regards the new rural policy measures as new forms of coordination and participation between many different actors in rural areas, starting from local governments, associations, and enterprises...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 08:21

... AP was the primary military contact for this project He assisted in project development and design as well as instrument development and design He oversaw implementation of the project He assisted ... item as a measure of health status was assessed using health behaviors which are traditionally http://www.hqlo.com/content/4/1/57 important indicators of military fitness for duty such as smoking, ... have only smoked on one or two occasions in the past; (3) I smoked regularly (at least once per day), but quit in the past months; (4) I smoked regularly (at least once per day), but quit between...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... is a renewable or non-renewable resource [10-15] Drug resistance raises the cost of treatment for infectious diseases, sometimes manifold, as well as increasing morbidity and mortality from such ... to overseas (right axis) 20000 5000 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 Source: CEIC Data Inc Figure Travel to and from China has increased tremendously over the past decade ... few years later in 2000, linezolid was launched as a new antibiotic to combat both MRSA and VRSA But only one year later, Boston researchers reported the first case of linezolid-resistant MRSA in...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... abstaining from tobacco and nicotine altogether [3-6], but complete abstinence is still achievable [4,7] There is now evidence that ST use has started to become popular among Swedish women as well, ... for ST products was quite negative A ban on broadcast advertising of ST had been established as early as 1986 [27], so the estimated $170 million spent by manufacturers in 1999 was restricted largely ... were classified as former users [12] The cancer control module also asked subjects if they had ever used chewing tobacco or snuff In the cancer control module, 3,622 male current smokers were asked:...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... harm reduction actors [44] Harm reduction training for police has also been conducted in other parts of East and Southeast Asia as well as the Ukraine [45,46] Trainings directed at harmonizing law ... public health practitioners are increasingly forging partnerships with law enforcement that are mutually beneficial to those organizations as well as society as a whole [31-35] Perhaps because ... these feasibility trainings As a point of departure for the design of the curriculum, modules used in training police in New York and New Mexico were utilized together with knowledge gained from...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... conclusions from the experiments mentioned above: power sports (including boxing and wrestling, as well as martial arts) were associated with elevated levels of violent behavior as well as nonviolent ... examined, as the outcome variable, teachers' ratings of children's behavior The null hypothesis was that participation in martial arts has no effect upon the change in classroom behavior from one measurement ... children from 1,277 kindergarten classrooms of public, Catholic, and non-Catholic private schools across the United States Informed consent was obtained from each family The sample was increased...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21

... linguistics builds on some basic assumptions that distinguish it from other linguistic theories: As opposed to the Chomskyan paradigm that separates language knowledge from language use, interactional ... is goal-based or task-oriented This means that 22 it involves an orientation by at least one of the participants to some core goal, task or identity (or set of them) conventionally associated ... IU In this case, jiushi is still an adverb that modifies the following constituent, which is often a verb, an adjective or an adverb As far as this case is concerned, its function as a modifier...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2015, 17:16

... story, 53 Inventing stories: from a broken story, 57 from extreme moments, 58 from pictures, 56 from questions, 54 from real objects, 58 from the end of another story, 54 from two words, 56 Maps of ... with no preparation the learner as storyteller Activity In this activity, the class invent half the story based on basic information you give them Divide the class into groups and then tell them ... What was the inside of the UFO like? How many rooms did it have? Did you see robots? You take a trip around the Earth with them Questions: What was the Earth like from the UFO? How fast was the...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 18:20

... classified as plantation at any survey time Leafarea change: plot classified as forest at both survey times; plot not classified as plantation at any survey time Deand re-forestation: plot classified ... gave increases Crucially, however, the region of rapid increases in isoprene emissions in the southeast was common to all six models, as expected from the clear landscape-level increase in isoprene ... the function (in many cases, this choice was moot because only one study was available, and in many other cases the parameters from different studies were very r 2004 Blackwell Publishing Ltd,...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 08:20

... around this value which was the same pH range as that using lower CO2 flow rate As the growth recovered at the same time during the gradual increase of pH, it was evidence from this result that ... lipid content as well as lipid productivity was measured Other conditions of incubation such as light intensity, pure CO2 gas flow rate and temperature were all the same as the corresponding normal ... solvent phase was evaporated in a rotary evaporator under vacuum at 60oC The procedure was repeated three times until the entire lipid was extracted The effect of drying temperature was investigated...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 10:20

... around this value which was the same pH range as that using lower CO2 flow rate As the growth recovered at the same time during the gradual increase of pH, it was evidence from this result that ... lipid content as well as lipid productivity was measured Other conditions of incubation such as light intensity, pure CO2 gas flow rate and temperature were all the same as the corresponding normal ... solvent phase was evaporated in a rotary evaporator under vacuum at 60oC The procedure was repeated three times until the entire lipid was extracted The effect of drying temperature was investigated...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 10:20

... contracts may make it easier to prevent villagers from misusing village bank funds as well, for a number of reasons, I suspect that the policies are primarily tools that make it easier for village ... even wealthier in the past in the Northeast The median past wealth of northeastern village bank members is 171% that of non-members In the Central region, comparisons of past and current wealth ... paper As was clear from the household data, village banks are more prevalent in the relatively poor northeastern region Sixty-four percent of the village banks are located in the Northeast Banks...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 10:20

... They interpret their findings as evidence that IAS and U.S GAAP accounting measures are not substitutes However, as Pownall and Schipper [1999] point out, evidence from 20-F reconciliations is ... providing earnings forecasts) was obtained from IBES Forecast dispersion is the standard deviation of the seven-month consensus forecast for the fiscal years 1999 and 2000 Asterisks indicate that ... the New Market In this section I analyze firms’ standard choices for two reasons First, as New Market firms choose between the two standards, the previous results may suffer from selection bias...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 16:20

... apparently seen as less reliable and may only increase interest rate volatility The interest rate projection of the RBNZ is based upon the bank’s macroeconomic model as well as on the judgement ... interest rate projections: Evidence from New Zealand Gunda-Alexandra Detmers and Dieter Nautz ∗ Freie Universit¨ t Berlin a June 3, 2011 The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) has been the first central ... rate Apparently, forecasting the future interest rate track is not an easy task, particularly during the financial crisis As a consequence, the projections substantially change from one MPS publication...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 23:20

... 25 Table 7: New and Used Cars: Implicit Discount Rates Market Assumed Demand Elasticity NHTSA VMT, NHTSA Survival Rates Used New New New New Used New New New New Used New New New New NA -2 -3 ... East Coast, Midwest, Gulf Coast, Rockies, and West Coast 20 In the new car specification, changes in tastes are captured by the car type fixed effects since any particular car type sells as a new ... standard errors at the DMA level Table 1: Gasoline price coefficients from new car price specification Variable GasolinePrice*MPG GasolinePrice*MPG GasolinePrice*MPG GasolinePrice*MPG Coefficient Quart Quart...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 10:20

... (GalNAc) were purchased from Sigma The Re mutant of LPS (E coli D31m4) was from List Biological Laboratory Inc (Campbell, CA, USA) Peptidoglycan (from S aureus) was purchased from Fluka Binding ... BSA) was added at 50 lL per well, and binding was allowed to occur for h at room temperature, before washing as described by Yu & Kanost [22] Bound hemolin was measured by first incubating wells ... and yeast Hemolin was labeled with 125I using Iodobead (Piece) as an iodination reagent One Iodobead was washed with 500 lL iodination buffer (100 mM sodium phosphate buffer, pH 7.0) The washed...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 09:20

... the HbO2 tetramer 210 J p Yasuda et al (Eur J Biochem 269) As for the dimer, as well as the tetramer, effect on the oxidation rate, our explanations are as follows At basic pH, both isolated a ... our experimental conditions (10±25 lM as heme), the monomeric form (87%) was predominant in the a chain, while the tetrameric form (99%) was for the b chain This estimation was made on the basis ... monophasic The bu€er used was Mes for pH 6.2 and Caps for pH 9.2 these computations, the initial value for each of the rate constants was taken from the corresponding slope of a biphasic curve (as...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 15:20

... daily hires (bidan harian lepas) Across doctors, nurses and midwives, the proportion of PNS has increased from 53% in 2006 to 65% in 2008 and for contract staff has fallen from 39% to 28% over the ... PNS has increased and, as many of those converted to PNS have been replaced by additional local contract staff, the total number of health staff has increased There was a small increase in the ... Kesehatan Masyarakat (Puskesmas)) 57 57 Auxiliary health center (Puskesmas pembantu (Pustu)) 98 110 Health center (Pusat Kesehatan Masyarakat (Puskesmas)) 51 51 Auxiliary health center (Puskesmas pembantu...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... metastases to major organs such as the liver, adrenal glands, pancreas and the lungs For laboratory studies, ml of blood was harvested from ear vein on the day before tumor cells inoculation as ... maximal CRS was performed on d in the same fashion as in the CRS alone group, which was immediately followed by HIPEC just before the closure of abdominal cavity Open HIPEC was performed, as this ... 100% NA Gastric perforation 28.6% 8.3% 8.3% P = 0.246 Greater omentum cake 100% removed removed NA Liver metastases 100% 96.7% 38.5% P = 0.000 Ulcerative gastric cancer Pulmonary metastases 0.0%...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 03:20