tce as drivers of firm boundaries

... the firm creates a demand for a summary measure of firm performance This measure can be used to evaluate management and as a source of information to investors and creditors on the firm s cash ... net cash flows and cash from operations to reflect firm performance Net cash flows will fluctuate with cash inflows and outflows associated with the firm s investment and financing activities as ... associated with firms’ operating, investment, and financing cash flows Therefore, earnings are predicted, on average, to be a more useful measure of firm performance than either cash flow measure...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 03:20

... facilitating the types of exchanges, as well as the size of the pool of actors involved in exchanges In this way, the specificity of the elements of the institutional environment (e.g., rules of exchanges ... its phase of development than countries such as China, Brazil, and Russia Nevertheless, Vietnam has achieved a high rate of economic growth (on average of 7.2%) during the last decade, and has recently ... Srivastava, & Bhargava, 2009) Please cite this article as: Ngo, V.D., et al., Domestic institutional attributes as drivers of export performance in an emerging and transition economy, Journal of...

Ngày tải lên: 16/12/2017, 15:12

... earnings as reported by COMPUSTAT; Last Analyst Forecast is the date of the last consensus analyst forecast of earnings per share as reported by I/B/E/S; and First Analyst Forecast is the date of the ... Office of Graduate Studies of Texas A&M University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Approved by: Chair of Committee, Committee Members, Head of ... cash-flow-to-price; earnings-to-price; book-to-market; and value-to-market Akbas et al (2008) measure public news using the database of news headlines from Chan (2003) The database consists of...

Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2015, 16:58

... luminescence for ATP detection was assessed using a MicroBeta Trilux (PerkinElmer) A standard curve was used to determine the amount of ATP in mg of protein measured from the number of cells per well After ... Fluorescence emission was recorded at 460 and 580 nm After a 20 sec baseline reading, 0.1 ml of PBS containing 10 µM of the compound investigated was added, and the fluorescence signal was recorder for ... depolarization, as measured by FRET, was calculated As shown in Figure 3, a statistically significant linear relation between the changes in membrane potential and the transport activity of the cells was...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 10:04

... them, the software outsourcing stands out as one of the most profitable and fast-growing industry This paper studies the current situation of software outsourcing development, some of the favorable ... organizations The packaged software domain includes all software sold as merchantable products In terms of the software outsourcing activities, we have other kinds of classification such as business process ... traditional reason for offshore development Low-level tasks such as coding and software testing can be performed in less-developed countries at costs as low as ten percent of domestic ones Software outsourcing...

Ngày tải lên: 27/10/2012, 16:41

... faced a historically high flood, as severe as that of 1961 which was the most destructive flood in past 70 years The flood in 2000 was extreme not only in terms of its very high peak level and ... areas are as important as safety helmets for people driving motorbikes on the highways In recent years, hundreds of children have drowned due to lack of life vests Children in the flood areas ... consideration of the activity effectiveness of structural and non-structural measures and analysis of human behaviour on flood risks in the Mekong River Delta REFERENCES Asian Disaster Reduction...

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 12:15

... Carbon-Rich Biomass Wood gas (or synthesis gas) is another form of biogas produced by thermal gasification of woody biomass or other carbon-rich materials in a gasifier or wood gas generator Usable ... switchgrass, barley, hemp, kenaf, potatoes, sweet potatoes, cassava, sunflower, fruit, molasses, corn, stover, grain, wheat, straw, cotton, biomass in general as well as many types of cellulose waste ... mixture of ethanol is added to gasoline (as is common in E10 gasohol), aldehyde emissions increase by as much as 40%, and these components are not regulated in emissions laws The use of alcohol...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 05:20

... more easy, than try itself to understand it Waste time - is the main problem of student who spend a lot of time and force for solving a problem, which can be solved with the help of PC faster ... of the problem of computer illiteracy is the lack of useful information in the course of information science The second cause is unwillingness to learning - many people think that easier to ask ... computer literacy is on of the main requirement at employment Thus we see that the problem of computer illiteracy is one of the main problems for business-students because of it we waste time, we lose...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2013, 17:15

... patterns of membership and participation in international professional associations are an aspect of the static permeability of those boundaries Interethnic marriages and friendships are aspects of ... interactions of assortative mating, labor force participation decisions and job acquisition As in the case of the problem of friendship formation, the Marxist tradition of class analysis has little ... permeability of ethnic boundaries, while the problem of ``salad-bar ethnicity'' and the intergenerational transmission of ethnicity are aspects of the dynamic permeability of those boundaries Interdisciplinary...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 07:20

... must be affirmed As applicant points out, in any likelihood of confusion analysis, two key considerations are the similarities of the goods and the similarities of the marks Tricia Guild Associates ... action in support of the final refusal were copies of a number of third-party trademark registrations on the Principal Register based on use In each registration, the list of goods includes skin ... vitamin supplements of herbal or organic compounds,” in Class 5, that confusion would be likely In support of the refusal to register, the Examining Attorney included copies of excerpts retrieved...

Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 23:15

... schoolchildren of working or studying parents, or in cases where the child has an individual need A place should be offered as close to the child’s home as possible As in the case of pre-school ... qualifying task has been complemented with its socializing task But as Isling claims, in the struggle between these two tasks the qualifying assignment has been dominant The double requirement has resulted ... that play has for learning as strongly as Fröbel had done Play June 28, 1840 was the date of the inauguration of the public German kindergarten This day was chosen by Fröbel because it was the 400-year...

Ngày tải lên: 16/01/2014, 16:33

... premium associated with investing in highly inefficient firms (much like Fama and French's value premium argument) Interestingly, the authors document that over time the efficiency level of the ... time the efficiency level of the most inefficient firms tend to increase This coincides with Fama and French (1995) argument that the worst firms are forced to improve in order to survive in ... opportunity for further expansion: With respect to Asset Pricing Models: Since current asset pricing models (CAPM, 4-factor and 5-factor by Pastor and Stambaugh) fail to explain the inefficiency...

Ngày tải lên: 24/01/2014, 00:20

... desire to share ideas and experiences as an af icionado of the brands core purpose In other words the strategic purpose in the brand story is based in resonance and relevance Method Of course brands ... Let’s explore how these drivers work f rom both the brand and the customer perspective: Purpose T he most basic purpose or reason f or brands to tell their story is usually ... to product innovations and important events on one hand, to more dif f icult issues of public relations disasters on the other Brands can be proactive or reactive in this regard For customers,...

Ngày tải lên: 09/02/2014, 20:33

... structure of Met8P has shown that this protein has an aspartate residue (Asp141), which is important for both chelatase and dehydrogenase function [17]; interestingly, this aspartate, Asp129, is also ... the in vivo nitrite reductase activity as seen by the accumulation of large Tota l Influence of variations of conserved residues on the in vivo activity of NirF te amounts of extracellular nitrite ... demonstrated that Asp129 of NirF could not be essential for any function similar to that in Asp141 of Met8P The idea of NirF being a dehydrogenase is appealing because of the presence of a putative nucleotide-binding...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 01:20

... probability of default to be negatively correlated with the firm' s cash flow Instead of relying on the absolute cash flow, the study uses the cash flow margin which is computed as the sum of quarterly ... increases with the amount of the outstanding debt The results of the cash flow variable show a strong negative correlation between the cash flow margin and the risk of default The probability of ... rate concept to measure default rates conditional on the age of the bond Altman found that the cumulative bond mortality increases with the age of the bond and can reach as much as 32 percent for...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 13:20

... abnormalities (such as the absence of a well defined water vascular system) As mentioned earlier, normal sponge growth typically includes the production of a distinct water vascular system with a less ... Because of their simple morphological construction, many cells come into direct contact with the surrounding water as the sponge pumps Thus, a sponge's mode of feeding results in high levels of exposure ... life cycles of freshwater sponges (Life of the Freshwater Sponge) The running time of the film is 28 minutes, and it shows sponges in their natural environment and in the lab The film was produced...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 04:20

... kon and koff were measured at 25 °C with the Biacore instrument, with MalE–E3-H6 in the immobile phase and Fab4E11H6 in the mobile phase The mean and associated SE values of koff in measurements ... for the side chain (sc-ASA) of the wild-type residue in column 1, as measured in a three-dimensional model of Fv4E11 (see Fig 4) Column 5, variation DDG of the free energy of interaction between ... whereas those of H-CDR1, L-CDR1 and L-CDR3 were similar but not identical to canonical structures Structural classes exist only for the base of H-CDR3 The H-CDR3 loop of mAb4E11 had a kinked base,...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 07:20

... Disease Registry (ATSDR) ATSDR has health-related responsibilities pertaining to hazardous waste sites and releases of chemicals The committee was charged to review and evaluate the usefulness of ... incomplete, as is often the case, assumptions based on scientific judgments are made to calculate potential exposures and effects Specifically, when direct observations of the effects of environmental ... identify diseases related to chemicals in the environment Systematic collection of such data in disease registries can help to identify unusual clusters of deaths, cases of disease, or cancers...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 11:20

... polymerization in two kinds of assay In the first assay, the formation of fibrin was followed directly after the addition of thrombin In the second assay, previously prepared fibrin was dispersed and then ... inhibitor of the final step of blood coagulation, fibrin polymerization, and can be used as the basis for the design of new class of antithrombotic agents We found that the mechanism of C-192 inhibition ... 2C) The lag-time was also increased strongly in the presence of C-192, indicating either an decrease of the rate of protofibril formation or, conceivably, an increase of protofibril critical length...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 00:21

... was ever before explained, and we realize at the same time that Croce is quite as independent of Hegel as of Kant, of Vico as of Spinoza Of course he has made use of the best of Hegel, just as ... physic– Critique of the theory of the beauty of the human body–Critique of the beauty of geometrical figures–Critique of another aspect of the imitation of nature–Critique of the theory of the elementary ... AESTHETIC Critique of the verisimilar and of naturalism–Critique of ideas in art, of art as thesis, and of the typical–Critique of the symbol and of the allegory–Critique of the theory of artistic and...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 12:20