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... literature and then present our hypotheses and research framework The next section gives an overview of the core methodology used, and then the findings from the research are discussed At the end of ... stress These findings can provide the direction of reference for the supervisors of the banking institutions to improve their performances, as well as how to face the stress of their staffs and ... According to Porter and Lawler (1968), there are three types of performance One is the measure of output rates, amount of sales over a given period of time, the production of a group of employees reporting

Ngày tải lên: 09/07/2014, 08:25

... system design and implementation, and others, so that investors are fully informed about the types and magnitudes of these fees The SOX and the SEC’s regulations are apparently based on the assumption ... the total sample as well as on the sub-sample of firms with negative discretionary accruals Following ALM, we use the log of audit fees, the log of non-audit fees, the log of total fees and the ... Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory (Forthcoming, 2007) AUDITOR INDEPENDENCE : EVIDENCE ON THE JOINT EFFECTS OF AUDITOR TENURE AND NON-AUDIT FEES Ferdinand A Gul The Hong Kong Polytechnic

Ngày tải lên: 06/01/2015, 19:42

... compared to the alternative E1 and they should thus select E2. 9 Let the size of the alignable assortment be increased to three with the inclusion of the brand variant E3 in the assortment. The alignable ... information. The aim of the promotion focused consumers is to maximize the presence of positive attributes and minimize the absence of positive attributes in their chosen brand variant. The three brand ... feature. There were two alignable features in the brand variants - one contributing to the alignability of the assortment along the positive scale and the other one contributing to the alignability of

Ngày tải lên: 16/10/2015, 15:38

... SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM HO CHI MINH CITY THE HAGUE VIETNAM THE NETHERLAND VIETNAM - THE NETHERLANDS PROGRAMME ... ECONOMICS THE MUTUAL EFFECTS OF SHADOW ECONOMY AND FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT IN ASEAN COUNTRIES by Nguyen Hoang Phu A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of ... This thesis cannot complete without the support of my supervisor, Dr Pham Thi Thu Tra, who has spent the value time, efforts, and energy to guide me on the thesis during the time of completing the

Ngày tải lên: 04/12/2018, 23:58

... (Aiken and West, 1991) using survey data from Vietnam The results indicate the reliability and validity of the constructs in the model and the findings 4.2.4 Three-way interaction effects Hypothesis ... constructs and their interactions (Aiken and West, 1991) Then, the average scores of the indicators of constructs involved in the interactions are multiplied to form interactions The following ... generated The first model (Basic Model) estimates the effect of satisfaction, the baseline effects of switching costs, customer expertise, and controlled effects of sex, age, income and education

Ngày tải lên: 11/02/2020, 18:03

... examining the moderating effects of educational level and subject area on the effectiveness of CSCL The moderating effects of educational level were found not to be significant on the effectiveness of ... Emeritus Professor Educational Psychology at the Open University of the Netherlands, Guest Professor at the Thomas More University of Applied Science in Mechelen, Belgium and owner of kirschnerED ... past President (2010-2011) of the International Society of the Learning Sciences and former member of the Dutch Educational Council and the Scientific Technical Council of the Foundation for University

Ngày tải lên: 15/05/2020, 15:00

... dearth of agricultural knowledge in modern society, may promote misunderstandings of modern agriculture based on cultivation and knowledge-gap theory This study investigated the possible effects of ... Acknowledgements The author would like to thank her advisor, Dr Emily Rhoades, and Dr Susie Whittington for their wisdom and support Thanks also go to the rest of her Buckeye family in the Department of Human ... four-deep into small cages and veal calves struggling against short tethers collected by the Humane Society of the United States and disseminated across television screens and on the World Wide Web

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2023, 14:13

... Scope of the study 14 w n lo 1.4 Structure of the thesis 15 ad Chapter 2: Literature review 16 y th 2.1 Review of theory 16 ju The theory of shadow ... quoted from the work of others, the source is always given oi m  With the exception of such quotations, this thesis is entirely my own work, at nh and I have acknowledged all main sources of help ... This thesis cannot complete without the support of my supervisor, Dr Pham Thi t to Thu Tra, who has spent the value time, efforts, and energy to guide me on the thesis ng during the time of completing

Ngày tải lên: 28/07/2023, 16:21

... working space during theinternship and got their assistance in completing the questionnaire They can sendthis link questionnaire to the employees to expand the scope of the survey TheyTrang 28do, ... students and asked them for help They forwarded the author’semail to their collgues including the link to the questionnaire The author alsobuilt the relationship with HR department in the working ... All the collected data will be coded andtransferred into the SmartPLS 4.0 application for analysis The SmartPLS 4.0software will then process and analyze the coded data The primary data gatheredfrom

Ngày tải lên: 28/07/2024, 23:22

... Specifically, drawing on expectancy theory, we expect that both the strength of the pay-for-performance relationship for a plan, and the nature of the type of reward offered by a plan, influences employees’ ... actually support and strengthens one of our key points: it is the characteristics of the plan that cause it to affect performance levels, not the “name” of the plan It appears that in the company ... theoretical foundation Overall, we feel that the sum of the results supports the applicability of expectancy theory for understanding the sort of effects that we should expect from different

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2013, 11:44

... through Regulation: The Wage and Profit Effects of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency,” Journal of Law and Economics 30 ... tradeoffs between the health benefits of the regulation and the harm from the regulation’s income-reducing costs The costs of attaining EPA’s current ozone and PM2.5 standards ... “Protecting the Environment in the Spirit of the Common Law,” in The Common Law and the Environment: Rethinking the Statutory Basis for Modern... Nevertheless, the measures

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 18:20

... by evaluation of the optical parameters for the lipid layer before and after binding of peptide and subsequent aggregation, and of the layer composed of peptide (or a portion of the peptide) that ... (b-sheet like) and bound with their long axis perpendicular to the plane of the lipid membrane Furthermore, the 4.7 nm thickness of the peptide layer indicates that the hydrophobic tail of the peptide ... morphology of the surfaces of each of the bilayers This requires further study The differences between the membranes increased further with time after the initial binding process As noted above, and

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 11:20

... microscopy analysis of the FtsZ assembly reaction showed the formation of thicker and larger bundles of FtsZ proto- filaments in the presence of TMAO compared with the control (Fig. 6). The widths of the bundles ... 0.04 and 0.66 ± 0.05 in the absence and presence of 0.8 m TMAO, respectively. The reduction in the GTPase activity of FtsZ in the presence of TMAO may be partly due to the solvo- phobic effects of ... denaturing effects of urea and guanidium chloride on FtsZ. TMAO also protected assembly and bundling of FtsZ protofilaments from the denaturing effects of urea and guanidium chloride. Furthermore, the standard

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 16:20

... Brian, Doug, and many more family, friends, and colleagues. Finally, I offer my heartfelt gratitude to my mother, father, grandmother and grandfather, who shared their love of reading and learning ... of competition indicators 96 Results of hypothesis testing 99 Hypothesis 1 100 Hypothesis 2 101 Hypothesis 3 102 Hypothesis 4 103 Hypothesis 5 103 Hypothesis 6 104 Summary of hypothesis ... acceptable standards, and as such is fully adequate in scope and quality. It is therefore approved as the fulfillment of the Dissertation requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Business Administration.

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 00:59

... inhibitory effects of PGSE and the mixture of ginsenosides, we measured the percentage change of TNF-α induced-CXCL-10 mRNA after the pretreatment of 3 mg/ml of PGSE, or the mixture of ginsenosides ... intensity of all genes from the genechip, and then the normalized signal of each treatment was compared with the mock-treatment to determine the relative fold changes of gene expression. The threshold ... University and Prof Paul Tam of University of Hong Kong for their valuable advice and insightful comments. We also thank Genome Research Centre of The Uni- versity of Hong Kong for the technology

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 15:20

... near the coast and 2-3 km inland. Samples of bulk deposits were taken from pine trees (Pinus pinea L) from the section of the crown exposed to the sea and also from the ... those with the greatest impact on the system because of the amount of salt and surfactants they transport, occur rather infrequently within the total number of samples ... the absorption and accu- mulation of NaCl. The levels of Cl - in the pine needles are related to the concentra- tion of salt in the solution, whether the solu- tion

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 19:21

... at the end of the month prior to the start of the maintenance period that the operation falls under. Write-offs and provisions and return on assets are measured at the end of the year before the ... studies the data cross-sectionally. Section 5 presents the panel analysis and provides the main results of the paper. Section 6 concludes. The Appendix contains an overview of the structure of the ... mean of 1,144% and a standard deviation of 3,331%. It is highly skewed. The minimum is 86%, the median is 400%, and the maximum is 26,997%. Imbalance×nex has a mean of -208,065% 2 and a standard deviation...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 10:20

... depreciation. 2 The sudden stop episodes studied include the Latin American debt crises of the 1980s, the Mexican crisis of the first half of the 1990s and the East Asian and Russian crises of the late ... κp M t M t (8) using the value of final goods, the sum of all value added and the total income in the economy respectively. The last term in equation (8) is the income of the intermediary in the current period and ... market. We calculate the cost of credit for the median firm as the ratio of the real value of interest payments to the real value of the stock of bank debt. As observed in the figure, this real implict...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 22:20

... carboxy-terminal part of the reactive center loop of PAI-1 in the small cleft formed by the 60-loop and VR1 loop can be envisioned. The kinetics of the interaction of thrombin and TM were shown to ... can explain part of the effect of thrombin on the proliferation and migration of vascular SMC [4,34]. In the context of the vessel wall, TM might therefore function as a regulator of PAI-1 inactivation ... numerical integration of the rate equations that describe the mechan- isminFig.4wasperformedtoobtaintheoreticalinsight into the effect of the second-order rate constants and concentrations of TM and PAI-1 on the...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 17:21

... project offices of the Slum Development Department of the Dhaka City Corporation (Table 1 and Figure 1). Thus, for the ‘code name’, we used the initials of inundation duration, inundation type and ... occurs rather frequently. Respondent mothers easily understand its definition, and there is little variation of symptoms from mothers’ perceptions (Killewo and Smet 1989): the occurrence of 3 or ... influences are lower and higher at a cut-off age of 20. The team physician assessed the degree of dehydration according to the WHO criteria (WHO 1990). The severity of each diarrhoeal disease...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:15