... based on a single standard deviation of the recorded durations 11 PotentialImpactof the Gulf Oil Spill on Tourism Prepared for the U.S Travel Association Duration of Oil Spill Tourism Impacts Months ... 24 PotentialImpactof the Gulf Oil Spill on Tourism Prepared for the U.S Travel Association Introduction 1.1 Summary of Findings Tourism is one of the top economic drivers of the Gulf region ... that the impact endures beyond the resolution of the crisis itself due to brand damage and ongoing traveler misperceptions The potential economic impacts of the crisis could be cut by one-third...
... welfare Section discusses the impactof accession induced productivity gains in China on the countries in East Asia Section offers some concluding remarks Impactof WTO Accession on East Asia: ... the impactof accession induced technological change in China on the East Asian region The paper is organized as follows Section provides a qualitative analysis of the impactof WTO accession on ... focused on labor market issues and the design of safety nets, respectively Hertel, Fan and Wang (2002), and Chen and Ravallion (2002) conducted analysis of the impactof WTO accession on different...
... prescriptions; Monitoring, drug monitoring error; Others, errors in posology, concentration, contra-indication Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Available online http://ccforum.com/content/10/1/R21 ... Available online http://ccforum.com/content/10/1/R21 Table Descriptions of level of severity of medication prescription errors Major divisions Minor MPE Intercepted MPE Numeric scale 0,5 Description ... Dose, dosing error; Rate, wrong infusion rate of continuous medicaMPEs tion; Route, wrong route of administration; Name, error in drug name; Interaction, drug-drug interaction error; Allergy, known...
... euroarea countries.4 Only in the context of the worsening of the current crisis has attention turned to default risk in euroarea sovereign debt Both for trading as well as for hedging reasons, ... May 2010 in the euro area, when investors started large scale sell-offs of a variety of risky assets The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive analysis of the euroarea sovereign ... feature of asset pricing The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive analysis of the Euroarea sovereign CDS market by making use of information from the underlying bonds Our two main contributions...
... decisionmaking? This question required consideration of the choice of cutoffs, definition of categories, and combinations (or lack thereof) with other predictors What was the strength of the ... of the standards for appraising the quality of an economic analysis Based on the appraisal of these three studies, the overall body of evidence on economic outcomes was inconclusive Limitations ... the benefit of adjuvant chemotherapy In addition to the conclusions above, a series of other observations were made on the basis of what was learned in this investigation Assay Validation In general,...
... election in 1972 Nevertheless, commentators on both sides of politics have reflected on both the number and profile of recent controversies involving perceptions of public service politicisation.1 ... Departments of Defence, Immigration and the Prime Minister and Cabinet; the cases of the detention of Cornelia Rau and the deportation of Vivian Solon, involving the then Department of Immigration and ... legislative codification of standards of official conduct within the more devolved and flexible system The Public Service Board had already published Guidelines on Official Conduct of Commonwealth Public...
... evaluation, I can see that ABC can’t improve performance of plant by itself, and one of the ways to see overall impactof ABC is the implementation of WCM TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Declaration of Originality ... implementation will create the convenient condition for the implementation of WCM practices and from that, will increase the impactof WCM on plant performance 50 Table 4.1: the impactof ABC (percentage ... 4.1.2.1 Impactof Activity-based Costing on World-class Manufacturing 46 4.1.2.2 Impactof World-class Manufacturing on Plant Performance 47 4.1.2.3 Impactof ABC on Plant Performance: A Mediation...
... evaluation of consumer’s responses 45 4.4 Overall discussion 46 CHAPTER V: CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION 48 5.1 Conclusion 48 5.2 Recommendation ... Figure 4.7: Distribution of response from employee’s survey 39 Figure 4.8: Distribution of responses from consumer survey 41 Figure 4.9: Distribution of responses from consumer survey (percentage) ... Figure 4.4 Distribution of responses from management survey 29 Figure 4.5 Distribution of responses from management survey (percentage) 33 Figure 4.6 Distribution of responses from employees'...
... term as a conceptual transition from Moral contemplation to responsive action of Litz (1996): the 13 ―philosophical – ethical concept of corporate social responsibility…to the action oriented ... case of Vedan and Miwon in Vietnam TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Declaration of Originality and word count ii Acknowledgement iii Abstract iv Table of Content v CHAPTER INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of ... responsibility could not replace by responsiveness because of the conceptual inadequacy Responsiveness gives permissions without reflection or responsibility is not a better reinstatement of a concept...
... quarters of 2011, while the contribution of non-price terms and conditions hardly changed Looking ahead, 11% ofeuroarea banks (in net terms) expect a tightening of credit standards on consumer ... stabilisation in the conditions of access to wholesale market funding and less of a deterioration in securitisation conditions in the first quarter of 2012 The exacerbation ofbank funding problems ... A) Cost of funds and balance sheet constraints B) Pressure from competition Competition from other banks Competition from non-banks C) Perception of risk Expectations regarding general economic...
... quarter -on- quarter bank loan growth rate to non-financial corporations (3A), short-term (i.e up to one year) bank loan growth rate to non-financial corporations (3B), long-term (i.e over one year) bank loan growth ... outstanding ofeuroarea lending to euroarea residents On the contrary, at country level no weighting is applied, implying that each bank counts equally General documentation on the euroarea BLS ... questions and 17 EONIA Quarterly average of the EONIA overnight interest rate ECB GDP growth Quarter -on- quarter real seasonally adjusted GDP growth Eurostat MFI loan growth Quarter -on- quarter seasonally...
... Table of Contents Executive Summary Table of Contents Introduction Data and Methodology Economic Impactof the Rosemont Copper Project 3.1 Construction Impacts 3.2 Production and Post-Production Impacts ... $923 million and labor income of $100 million Table 1: Rosemont Copper Project –Summary of Economic Impacts on the Economy of Pima County, Arizona (Millions 2011$) Output Construction Total Annual ... duration of the production and post-production phases on the economy of Pima County is estimated to be 41,501 person-years of employment, gross regional product of $5.9 billion, output of $20,511...
... be a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions of 135 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent per year (not considering the impacts on landfill methane emissions, or the offsetting impacts of burning landfill ... Economic impactof the global forest products industry (2006) Trends in production of forest products, as fractions of 1990 production Global production of sawnwood, 2007 Global production of ... displacement factors ranged from a low of -2.3 to a high of 15.0 [tonnes of carbon of emission reduction per tonne of carbon in wood product], with most lying in the range of 1.0 to 3.0 The average displacement...
... Dedication I dedicate this work to the memory of Lucy Cotterell, fondly remembered and missed by our family and her many friends around and about East London iv TABLE OF CONTENTS DEFINITION OF PROBLEM ... existing theory on rights issues and their impacton share price performance To quantify the impacts of rights issues announcements on share price performance of companies listed on the JSE from ... checked for confounding events, as well as to establish the first date of announcement of the rights issue, generally preceding the date of the announcement of finalisation of the decision to proceed...
... They go on to investigate chronic conditions, such as asthma, other respiratory conditions, kidney disease, heart conditions, diabetes, digestive disorders, and mental health conditions Poor ... Good Fair Figure 13-15 Good Poor Having a chronic health condition and age of child Child Chronic Health Condition (CHC) Mean Chronic Health Condition 05 15 25 by age category 0-3 Geary WP/6/2007 ... comes of age Canadian Journal of Economics 2004; 37(3); 509-527 Currie J, Hyson R Is the impactof health shocks cushioned by socioeconomic status? The case of low birth weight American Economic...
... performance of five BCT configurations as defined in the ASB study These ranged from a “vanilla” configuration, with standard versions of the 20-ton Light Armored Vehicle (LAV) with Level III protection, ... research questions Finally, we summarize findings and tentative conclusions Definitions • Start -of- mission availability: Percent of equipment that, at the beginning of a mission involving maneuver ... effects of start -of- mission availability and during-mission reliability of Army ground equipment on combat capability This “first look” analysis used JANUS, a force -on- force simulation model,...
... are often restrictions on content use or distribution that the file itself is not configured to enforce point of sale (POS) data to establish the impactof freely available digital content on ... equipment) on a television screen 2.2 Book Publishing Points of View on Piracy The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has studied the presence and impactof online piracy for several years Its Online ... taxation, and other thoughts on the evolution of online distribution.” Summarized here, the lessons continue to guide O’Reilly in its thinking about the impactof free content: • Obscurity is a far...
... division of the patients based on the expression levels of MTSS1 yield a significant correlation with overall survival; (F) A three-way division of the patients based on the expression levels of ... series of in vitro studies Regulation of MTSS1 expression had an impacton oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma cell aggressiveness Effects of MTSS1 over-expression or knockdown on in vitro cell growth ... invasion (Figure 4D) Over-expression of MTSS1 in KYSE150 resulted in a dramatic reduction in the degree of invasion (p < 0.0001 versus controls) This was also confirmed by further determination on...
... condition has a stronger impacton QoL than hypertension Individualized care of patients with chronic conditions should consider both improving QoL and controlling risk for severe complications ... studies focussed on the impactof one condition on QoL As our results suggest it is important to assess several conditions and their impacton individual QoL This should be considered within ... number of comorbid conditions The most common comorbid conditions reported were hypertension and osteoarthritis with osteoarthritis having remarkable more impacton quality of life than hypertension...