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... and other parties outside the office The use of ICT for internal communication has been elaborated in the previous section Readers are referenced to the discussion there Here, we will concentrate ... develop the next generation of wireless “ So, the team work in Texas Instrument is considered effectiveness team 3 .The impact of technology on team functioning within a given organization: a Technology ... “characterized by competition anf conflict in the personal relations dimension an organization in the task-funtions dimension” So members begin to communicate opener, more confidence and interact...

Ngày tải lên: 21/12/2013, 00:26

... your responses with the class The instructor will write the class consensus on a flip chart Use the space below for brainstorming Activity 7.2: Determining the Impact of Technology on a Windows ... Identify the level of impact — high, medium, or low — that each technology type would have on the given layer of a Windows DNA design Write your answers in the grid provided After completing the above ... Security After completing the above steps, you will discuss your responses with the class The instructor will write the class consensus on a flipchart THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK ...

Ngày tải lên: 21/12/2013, 06:16

... resolve the conflicting empirical results on advertising effects obtained in the marketing literature, and to clarify the confusion about alternative measures of the impact of advertising on consumer ... allows a flexible pattern of substitution at the aggregate level See Train (2003) for further discussion Construction of the likelihood function requires evaluation of the integrals appearing in ... reports the probability that a particular type of consumer buys the indicated brand on a particular purchase occasion, given the price of the brand is in the indicated range The unconditional purchase...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 08:20

... through communication, transportation, and trade The term is most closely associated with the term economic globalization: the integration of national economies into the international economy through ... flows, migration, the spread of technology, and military presence.”8 In other definition, globalization is considered as the expansion of global linkages, the organization of social life on a global ... LCC is one of many companies in many countries in the world have a positive impact of globalization 34 CHAPTER V: CONCLUSION 5.1 Implication of research 5.2 Conclusion 35 5.1 Implication of research...

Ngày tải lên: 13/03/2014, 14:20

... model It captures the effect of existing knowledge on the production of new knowledge There is no constraint on the range of θ If past knowledge offers the necessary foundation upon which to discover ... 1278-1286 13 their contemporaries, supports the notion that the true return to education may be twice that found through OLS estimation of the Mincerian wage equation.24 An ongoing examination of the ... individuals make their choice of schooling based on the knowledge of the earnings function.22 Both cases are violations of the OLS assumption that the independent variable (years of schooling) is...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 08:20

Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 12:20

... radiation of heat from the internal organs and muscles to the surface of the body Large body surface area increases the potential for convection, conduction, and evaporation In cold environments, ... indexes of human as height, weight index and so on The effects of climate on human variation in body size and shape conform to ecological ‘ruler’ of mammalian biological adaptation to the thermal ... relatively long in proportion to the size of the trunk of the body, assist in heat loss Low body volume decreases the amount of metabolizing tissue, and also decreases the distance required for the radiation...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 09:20

...  The impact of microfinance on the incomes of the poor b  The impact of microfinance on wider poverty/ wealth of the poor c  impact of microfinance on other non-financial The outcomes for the ... what is the impact of microfinance on poor people? discussion and budget By broadening the scope from the initially commissioned review on the impact of micro-credit on the incomes of the poor, ... positive impact on the health of poor people, and on their food security and nutrition, although the effect on the latter is not observed across the board The evidence of the impact of micro-credit...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20

... trade tensions for the sake of the overall relationship, seemed to be dissipating One could hear expressions of concern over the very future of the bilateral relationship, on both sides of the Pacific ... get together, the level of confrontation has been miniscule compared to the Framework period Also, on the security side, the US and Japan have reaffirmed the importance of the relationship The two ... administration these assumptions had clearly replaced traditional thinking The institutionalization of these assumptions led to a fundamentally different conception of the Japanese economy, and...

Ngày tải lên: 10/06/2014, 21:37

... Therefore, the objectives of the current qualitative study were to further describe the impact of FM on participants' sleep and to evaluate the content validity of both of these measures in the FM ... also spoke of no longer feeling refreshed upon awakening since having FM, regardless of the amount of sleep that they received When discussing the impact of FM on their sleep, half of the participants ... with a general discussion regarding the impact of FM on participants' lives and then moved to a discussion about the impact of FM on the participants' sleep Following these open-ended queries,...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20

... Therefore, the objectives of the current qualitative study were to further describe the impact of FM on participants' sleep and to evaluate the content validity of both of these measures in the FM ... also spoke of no longer feeling refreshed upon awakening since having FM, regardless of the amount of sleep that they received When discussing the impact of FM on their sleep, half of the participants ... with a general discussion regarding the impact of FM on participants' lives and then moved to a discussion about the impact of FM on the participants' sleep Following these open-ended queries,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... evaluated upon integration On the other hand, Equation (5) alone is interpreted without any further evaluation The positive sign of the thinning response rate parameter, r, in Equation (8) indicates ... that the age of maximum response depends on the age of the stand at time of thinning (At ) and k Details of the characteristics of this T RF can be found in Liu et al [7] Equation (5) has all the ... model validation In order to avoid the confounding effect of second thinning, only heights measured up to the fourth measurement were used for the evaluation RESULTS AND DISCUSSION The estimate...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:22

... maturation stage The lower proliferation but higher bone density through differentiation could explain the missing regeneration potential of BONJs In contrast, the non-nitrogen-containing bisphosphonate ... determine the effects of zoledronate, ibandronate and clodronate on cyclin D1 gene expression As shown in figure 1, treatment of human hip bone osteoblast [hOB] cells with ibandronate, zoledronate ... production of collagen type I The enhanced bone density mediated by bisphosphonates appears to be caused by the stimulation of osteoblast differentiation Non-nitrogen-containing bisphosphonates...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 20:20

... effectiveness of noise reduction strategies in ICUs have been reviewed These have shown: noise is just one of a number of factors that may disrupt the sleep of patients on the ICU; staff conversation and ... patients’ sleep, found that 58.8% of the patients in the intervention group and 25% of the patients in the non-intervention group voted noise as the main factor of their sleep disturbance Hweidi’s ... medical ICU, surgical ICU, and neuro ICU Available online http://ccforum.com/content/13/2/208 Conclusion Based on a number of original papers, the impact of noise on patients’ sleep and the effectiveness...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23

... patient’s overall score on all variables of the APACHE-II score as the only predictive variable The second model, based on the data of the same patients, consisted the variables of the APACHE-II score ... Calibration plots of the APACHE-II model and of the APACHE-II model with delirium APACHE-II, Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation-II Page of Discussion The main finding of the present ... as the SOFA score, warrants further investigations because in a substantial part of the patients delirium is detected after the first 24 hours after ICU admission as a result of worsening of their...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 21:21

... 12,5% năm 2005 lên 31,18% năm 2012 đánh giá theo dân số đô thị tương ứng 26,73%, 30,12% theo diện tích đất tương ứng với tốc độ ĐTH 26,25% 51,4% Trong tốc độ ĐTH chung nước 24,2% năm 2000, 27% ... tích để xếp trật tự phân tích vấn đề liên quan đến đề tài theo trật tự logic, xây dựng hướng cho đề tài Khung phân tích luận án xây dựng theo chiều từ việc phân tích khía cạnh, phương diện có liên ... bắt đầu bứt phá từ sau năm 2005, mà KCN đưa vào hoạt động kéo theo mức độ ĐTH đạt 79 điểm (mức ĐTH cao) 3.2.2 Phân tích đô thị hoá theo tiêu chí diện tích đất phi nông nghiệp lao động đô thị (phương...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2014, 19:43

... and because the GMI ratings are relative (i.e., the inclusion or deletion of firms affects the rating of all firms in the sample), we focus only on the last rating.3 This construction of relative ... cut-off point these stocks account for about 35% of the return of the portfolio) These firms had poor performances in the latter part of the sample and have a large impact on the total return of ... are constructed on the following bases: First, as any analysis of the performance of ranking-based portfolios is sensitive to the selected cut-off points (i.e., the percentage of firms in the...

Ngày tải lên: 06/01/2015, 19:48

... Singapore-Indonesia relations in the years 1965 to 1973 in the form of enduring lessons learnt about the other from the experience of the Confrontation years ii List of Abbreviations ABRI: Angkatan ... by the PAP leadership, was a wildcard which provided the impetus towards the resolution of Confrontation Finally, this dissertation examines how Confrontation affected the reorganisation of Singapore-Indonesia ... towards Confrontation From the Singaporean and Indonesian political leaderships’ perspective, the main issue in Confrontation was the contest over Malaysia’s “moral personality”, which centred on the...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 18:50

... when they considered the impact of the formation of Malaysia on the international politics of Southeast Asia Confrontation epitomised what Harrison describes as conflict is the source of the emergence ... through the explanation of why Malaysia fell apart with the secession of Singapore and the impact of this secession on Confrontation These two events are reminiscent of the idea that there is ... Indonesia transformed the nature of the bilateral relationship after the experience of the Confrontation years The lessons Indonesia and more crucially, Singapore, learnt from the Confrontation...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 18:50

... avoidance of war on the military front of Confrontation 151 Conclusions 163 Chapter 6: The separation of Singapore from Malaysia and the impact on Confrontation 165 6.1 Foundations of Malaysia’s ... national revolution, and the search for a post-colonial identity 45 2.3 Singapore and Confrontation as the continuation of the confrontation over West Irian 51 2.4 The fear of communism, the ... The political and military fronts of Confrontation, 1963-1965: Creating a new Southeast Asia 135 5.1 The systemic imperatives of the political theatre of Confrontation 140 5.2 The avoidance of...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 18:54