... to the costs incurred by the healthcare sector, there may be costs incurred by the patient and informal caregivers Further analysis could therefore be considered to expand the perspective of this ... expressed in this paper are solely those of the authors who have no conflicts of interest directly relevant to the content of the paper The sponsor did not have any role in design and conduct of the study; ... for the hospitalspecific unit costs, the economic burden of the infections in their contexts Results confirmed that hospital stay represents the most significant part of the overall costs in both...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22
... dealers The smaller the spread and the larger the size of the transaction that dealers are willing to undertake at the quoted spread, the more liquid the secondary market The liquidity of an asset ... against the seller “Breadth” connotes the diversity of participants and the heterogeneity of their responses to new information Both qualities are usually positively correlated with the size of the ... loss of the principal amount as well as promised interest payments The bond contract defines the obligations of the borrower and remedies in the event of default Usually, the key remedy in the...
Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2012, 09:40
IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON AGRICULTURE IN VIETNAM The case of Mekong River Delta, Vietnam
... because of the intensified drought, the saline water coming in, as well as the stormy weather They’ve all had a very negative effect on agriculture and as a result on the income of the farmers” The ... one of the most important two rice granaries of the country, alongside Red River Delta in the North, and one of the largest inland fisheries in the world (MRC, 2009) I first assess the impacts of ... temperature increase of 0.5oC in Can Tho (the largest city in Mekong River Delta), and the average sea level rise of mm per year in the water around the mouth of the Delta (ICEM, 4-5) The average FINAL...
Ngày tải lên: 23/01/2013, 22:00
Journal of Business Case Studies – November/December 2009 Volume 5, Number 6 13 An Apparel Brand‘s Channel Strategy: The Case of Oliver in Korea
... profits through the difference between the price they pay to their suppliers and the price at which they sell the product to their customers The majority of the famous department stores in the ... change the brand supplier selection procedure They will introduce the ‗Incubator Method‘ in order to identify promising brands, rather than the ‗Cut-off Method‘, which lays off brands if the brands‘ ... enter the discount store market Discount stores are, therefore, increasing their market share of apparel sales and have evidenced the highest levels of sales growth in the past couple of years This...
Ngày tải lên: 17/04/2013, 20:23
Thermal properties of the vernacular buildings envelopes: the case of the "Sassi di Matera" and "Trulli di Alberobello
... black-box methods, the thermal conductance of the wall With this particular type of construction of the monitored walls, it is not possible to use other methods of determination of thermal conductance ... directly withdrawn in situ The experimentation in the laboratory was aimed to determine the parameters necessary to validate the measures in situ of the thermal performance of the wall Through the TSP ... "natural regulators" of thermohygrometric comfort Constructive characteristics of the "Sassi of Matera" and "Trulli of Alberobello" In the South of Italy, the sites of the "Sassi of Matera" (Figure...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 14:58
Changes of temperature data for energy studies over time and their impact on energy consumption and CO2 emissions. The case of Athens and Thessaloniki – Greece
... in the range of to 9% in Thessaloniki, depending on the base temperature, with the highest changes observed at the lowest base temperatures The increase of the yearly values of CDD was in the ... meteorological stations of the National Observatory of Athens (NOA) [8] and of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh) [9] The results for the two decades are compared and the existing differences ... contrary, for the cooling period of the 1993-2002 decade, an increase of the energy demands of the building for both cities is observed compared to the 1983-1992 decade For Athens the increase...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:10
HOW TO IMPROVE LISTENING SKILLS IN TOEIC THE CASE OF questions and responses short conversations
... Design of the study The study is divided into three mains: Part one is INTRODUCTION that indicates the rationale for choose this topic, pointing out the aim, the scope as well as the methods of the ... Continuing - After that - The next step is to - The next thing you is - Once youve done that, then - When you finish that, then 3.2.4 Finish - The last step is - The last thing you is - In the end, 25 ... the food? 11 Its delicious! 12 Is there the party this 12 Yes, there is/No, there isnt evening? 5.2 Questions - (Excuse me) can could you tell me (the way to the station/ - Do you know (if they...
Ngày tải lên: 11/12/2013, 23:59
Tài liệu Resource Mobilization, Financial Liberalization, and Investment: The Case of Some African Countries doc
... restatement of the fact that financial saving is only one type of saving The main other types of saving are represented by the components of the leakage on the right hand side of the equation ... is used to calculate the switch variable on the assumption that it represents the equilibrium rate of interest Each of these variables are then used, together with the other explanatory variables ... accepted as a measure of the size of the informal credit market (see Shaw 1973 and Serieux 1993), on the grounds that the higher this ratio the larger will be the size of the informal credit market...
Ngày tải lên: 17/12/2013, 05:15
Tài liệu The importance of land tenure in African countries: The case of Uganda doc
... vào thiết kế th c dự án Ngược lại, kinh nghiệm không th c bước cụ th để đảm bảo phụ nữ tham gia hưởng lợi họ th ờng không nhận lợi ích Sự phân biệt giới tính cách có hệ th ng th ờng tồn hình th c ... nông dân lồng ghép phần kĩ thuật vào hệ th ng canh tác Kĩ thuật áp dụng phần, thay đổi tuỳ theo nhu cầu nông dân kĩ quản lý hưởng lợi từ kĩ thuật Một ví dụ tốt kĩ thuật nông – lâm canh tác ruộng ... phương pháp kĩ thuật khác quan trọng Khi coi việc áp dụng kiến th c mục tiêu tiêu chí th nh công, thay đổi nhỏ kĩ thuật đem lại lợi ích nhiều bị coi th ờng Mặt khác, trình phát triển kĩ thuật đa dạng...
Ngày tải lên: 16/01/2014, 21:20
Accounting for new organisational forms the case of subcontracting and outsourcing
... analysis of variance from the mean for the NHS, as compared to the others In fact, there are two variables that stand out as being significantly more important to the NHS than to the other organisational ... and to hold them accountable But there was also concern that appropriate KPIs that are relevant to the objectives of both the individual and FoodUK, otherwise there was the real risk of outcomes ... because of personal ties with the family owners, and the high percentage of their business conducted with Truststar It was reported that during the three-year duration of the contract, the agency...
Ngày tải lên: 27/01/2014, 10:49
Tài liệu Capitalizing On Innovation: The Case of Japan ppt
... on the possible misuse of ecosystem leadership on the part of the Microsoft and Intel The fear of anti-trust action further restrains Microsoft and Intel from aggressive behavior against the other ... rejected in the rest of the world The early choice allowed the operators to roll out advanced services far ahead of the rest of the world, without having to worry about interoperability (given their ... leaders’ first reflex is often, though not always, to band together against the alien, rather than seek a way to profit from the new investor The merger of Nissin and Myojo, both leaders in instant...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 00:20
Tài liệu The Case of Mrs. Clive ppt
... Congress, p 20 The Case of Mrs Clive [15] Cf James Ralph, The Case of our Present Theatrical Disputes (London, 1743), pp 3, 48 [16] _The Case Between the Managers of the Two Theatres, and their Principal ... themſelves But ſuppoſing the Expence of the Theatre too high, I am very certain it was not the Actors refuſing to ſubmit to a proper Reduction of them, which made ſo many of them quit the ... his players rather than pay fixed salaries He then led the Drury Lane players in revolt in the autumn of 1733 to the New Haymarket where they played without a license until March of the 1733-1734...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 09:20
Tài liệu Research "Increasing Quality and Equity in Education: The Case of Chile " doc
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 11:20
Tài liệu THE SEARCH FOR OBJECTIVE MEASURES OF AESTHETIC JUDGMENT: THE CASE OF MEMORY TRACES docx
... recognized by mistake This transfer effect will increase with the strength of the memory trace left by the stimuli presented during the learning phase Thus, we defined the strength of the memory trace ... with the target stimuli We believe that the marking of both the target stimulus and the specific distracter as previously seen is due to the fact that the scheme, or memory trace, produced by the ... artists with the intention of producing a work of art The experiment reported in this article is clearly in line with the latter trend Second, despite the fact that much of the effort put into the...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 17:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Long-distance interactions between enhancers and promoters The case of the Abd-B domain of the Drosophila bithorax complex pdf
... only the reporter gene situated on the same side, relative to the boundary, of the construct However, when the combination of the PTS and the boundary is placed 3¢ to one of the reporter genes, the ... together with the promoter appears to free the enhancers from a bond that tethers them to the Abd-B gene in cis, and allows them to regulate the expression of the Abd-B gene in trans (Fig 3) This observation ... chromosome depends on the pairing with its homologous region [14]) The degree of complementation in A7 depends on the size of the promoter deletion: the larger the deletion, the stronger the trans regulation...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 01:20
Tài liệu CASH MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES: THE CASE OF CASH FORECASTING IN MERCATOR pdf
... is the combination of the cost of administration, i.e the costs incurred for keeping track of the cash, and the opportunity cost of cash, which is the cost of not investing the cash elsewhere The ... Within this type of factoring the cost is low because the company bears all the risk The factoring company usually pays ca 95 % of the value of the receivables, collects the 100% value from the ... and it can sell it to recover the loan That way the credit risk is borne by the issuer rather than to the counterparty in the reverse repo With the goal to reduce the credit risk, government securities...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 16:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "UNDERSTANDING NATURAL LANGUAGE INSTRUCTIONS: THE CASE OF PURPOSE CLAUSES" doc
... effects of go with respect to the plan get x; notice that the (most direc0 connection between these two actions requires the assumption that the referent of the urn of coffee is in the other room Schematically, ... sequence of actions ,4 which generates Ex 10 Hold the cup under the spigot to fill it with coffee Notice that, in the same way that the generatee affects the execution of the generator, so the enabled ... that the joint occurrence o f a and C imply the occurrence o f / L In the case of the generation relation between flipping the switch and turning on the light, C will include that the wire, the...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 21:20
Tài liệu AGRICULTURAL TRADE IN THE GREATER MEKONG SUB-REGION: The Case of Cassava and Rubber in Cambodia pdf
... further tapping uneconomic The trees are then removed and replaced with new seedlings (Mead 2001) The older the tree, the more concentrated is the latex produced The time comes when known as the ... holds only a small When there is more rain, the bark becomes soft and the concentration of latex decreases, the At the end of the rainy season, the soil starts to dry and the rubber leaves start ... to the good prospects for cassava The cultivation of other crops in rubber plantations cannot be extended to more than three to four years before the trees start to shade most of the area Although...
Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 04:20
Measures for social inclusion of the elderly: The case of volunteering doc
... of the elderly: The case of volunteering people often want to voluntary work because they want to stay in touch with other volunteers they have met These people not identify themselves with the ... the median income level of people under 65 years of age in the 27 Member States of the EU (EU27) This must be viewed in the context of the fact that 90% of the active population are members of ... beyond the borders of the municipal district and the excellent networking of the initiative with the relevant actors at the local and communal levels must also be mentioned in this context Further...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 18:20