... will offer a collective interpretation of climatic impacts on populations of avian species across the USA whilst retaining the resolution ofthe state-level approach During the production of CIIs, ... validate them, this is contingent on their appropriate use and acknowledgement of their assumptions and limitations (Araújo & Peterson, 2012) SDMs often use presence-absence data for the distributions ... to assess biodiversity change corresponds to the distributions and populations of avian species Owing to the continued popularity of birds amongst the general public, these data are also being...
... hypotheses in section (5), section (6) summarises the research methodology, section (7) explains the contributions ofthe current study Finally, section (8) introduces the description ofthe thesis’s ... choosing a UK context, the R&D disclosure in annual reports, the time horizon, the study population, the sample selection, the characteristics ofthe disclosure index, the construction ofthe disclosure ... significant change in the extent of R&D disclosure practices over the period ofthe study Formulating the hypotheses and testing them using OLS regression and Tobit regression Research Hypotheses H1:There...
... of monetary policy onthe economy andon residential property prices (CGFS 2006) Onthe other hand, Tsatsaronis and Zhu (2004) conjecture that the prevalence of securitisation should reduce the ... triggered by the adoption of tight monetary policy in Germany to offset the aggregate demand effects of German Reunification The figure indicates that following the collapse ofthe “bubble economy” ... the large 16 To identify the monetary policy shock it is sufficient to determine the position ofthe monetary policy instrument; the ordering ofthe variables in the groups before and after the...
... coefficients ofthe marginal effects ofthe Poisson model can be interpreted as the proportionate change in the conditional mean if the jth regressor changes by one unit Finally, the Poisson model sets the ... at the whole income and asset portfolio rather than solely the poultry income, thereby providing a more accurate measure oftheimpactofthe disease If one looked only at theimpactof HPAI on ... Each one of these studies collected data onthe number of poultry kept by the sampled households in the study year and, in the case of Kenya, Nigeria, and Ghana, onthe number of poultry sold and...
... introduction ofthe student to the life of America andofthe modern world, the completion ofthe task undertaken by the grammar and high schools of equipping [that student] for the full duties of citizenship ... edge and are now asking what the education system—secondary and postsecondary—can to keep us on top ofthe economic pile.7 Although there is little evidence ofthe positive impactof increasing the ... occupations Sales and related occupations office and administrative support occupations Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations Construction and extraction occupations Installation, Maintenance, and...
... control for observable differences across children These include the child’s age, sex, birth order, age ofthe mother at the time of birth, the mother’s and father’s highest level of educational ... birth Mother: no education Mother: primary school Mother: secondary school Mother: higher education Father: no education Father: primary school Father: secondary school Father: higher education Muslim ... affect population health In this paper, we present one ofthe first investigations oftheimpactof small and moderate disasters on childhood morbidity, physical growth, and immunizations by combining...
... government of France suggested favorable conditions to Disneyland such as 50% tax reduction of construction, a construction of TGV station and highway interchange in front of Disneyland, the installment ... of tourism attractions to animate and interpret their products (Getz, 1997) 8 An event affects expansion ofthe tourist season and also the off-season Winter sports can be the basis of seasons ... study The economic impactof PIFF andthe ripple effect ofthe cinema industry produced positive results in Busan This study shows the transition of Busan from the point ofthe tourism and cinema...
... Canada, the European Union, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, the United Kingdom, the United States of America andthe World Bank The impactof fodder trees on milk production and ... (1) the effects of fodder shrubs on milk production and their value at the household and regional level and (2) the contribution of research by the World Agroforestry Centre toward strengthening ... calliandra trees they planted Onthe other hand, age, size of household, and size of landholdings were not related to adoption The study concluded that access to extension and participation in on- farm...
... reduction in the number of abandoned children Next, we use the variation in fertility and child abandonment at the regional level and find that the immediate impactof abortion legalization on child ... the issue of unwantedness Thus, in what follows, we only concentrate onthe abandoned children and not consider the case of temporarily institutionalized children The proportion of abandoned children ... Our second aim is to investigate the effect ofthe unexpected change in abortion policy on child abandonment, one ofthe most shocking outcomes ofthe abortion ban in communist Romania The complex...
... Barness and Johnson [77], decision-making depends onthe pre-existing views ofthe information recipient, their desires and wishes, the way the information is presented, the framing ofthe data, the ... infertility and sexual dysfunction can have onthe emotional well-being of these women [23, 66, 68, 74] The provision of counseling based on emotional support, unconditional acceptance and recognition and ... focusing onthe psychological implications oftheimpactof gynecological cancer on reproduction are scarce As such, psychological intervention on reproduction in the context of cancer constitutes...
... further examine theimpactof different attributes ofthe auditor andthe audit onthe cost of capital ofthe client firm I find that the cost of capital is inversely proportional to the length of ... itself in the CEO compensation awarded by the firm The Information Role of Auditing and Cost of Capital As previously mentioned, one ofthe adverse effects ofthe separation of ownership and control ... level of agent compensation Onthe one hand, better monitoring could reduce rent extraction by the agent, thus reducing the compensation level Onthe other hand, better monitoring might assure the...
... information regarding online services profitability andthe cost of return on investment (ROI) The second concern was how to reconcile and measure theimpactof Internet banking impactonthe banks’ ... market The introduction of new banking regulations in recent years andthe explosion ofthe Internet technology were some ofthe external threats to the banking industry in the U.S (Electronic Frontier ... model The large banks in the U.S based onthe information from the Internet Banking Office ofthe Controller ofthe Currency (OCC) offered traditional bank branch and online banking services This...
... in the decisions throughout the process of development and finalisation ofthe questionnaire They gave their approval at each ofthe milestones ofthe development and finalisation process The ... questioned regarding their general impressions ofthe questionnaire; its comprehensiveness; the clarity ofthe instructions, items and response choices; and their interpretations and opinions ofthe ... IDEEL dimensions andthe SF-36 (such as impacton work” of IDEEL and “role physical” of SF-36; “emotional impactof IDEEL andthe mental component (or some ofthe related scales) SF-36) The SF-36...
... approximation for the PDF of a sum L ´ l=1 ζl (t) of Nakagami-m processes and applying the concept of transformation of random variables [[40], Equations 7-8], the PDF p Ψ (z) ofthe squared sum of Nakagami-m ... branches of an MRC system increases the variance as well as the LCR ofthe channel capacity, while the ADF ofthe channel capacity decreases Onthe other hand, for the case of EGC, an increase in the ... can be found with the help of (4) and by employing the relation pg(z) = (1/gs) pΞ (z/gs) Thereafter, applying the concept of transformation of random variables, the PDF pC(r) ofthe channel capacity...
... differentiation, maturation and function of other antigen presenting cells – dendritic cells Other functions of vitamin D in the immune system include: regulation ofthe differentiation and activation of ... death andthe association between air pollution, vitamin D status and prevalence of so-called civilization-related diseases The second part includes theimpactof air pollution on plants and agricultural ... Christidou Part TheImpactof Air Pollution on Plants, Agricultural Sources and Methods of Resistance 239 Chapter 12 The Effects of Air Pollutants on Vegetation andthe Role of Vegetation in Reducing...
... envelopes and distributed to each respondent individually The respondents themselves sealed their responses in the envelopes before submission Consent to the survey was assumed onthe part of respondents ... derive from both the circumstances ofthe profession and nurses’ perception of their own social role Expressing bitter feelings is often considered by nurses and other medical professionals to be ... to one’s weaknesses and exposing one’s helplessness to others Nurses fear that disclosure of their weaknesses would damage their professional reputation, and this fear could be one ofthe reasons...
... supporting the association between the use of a group of evidence-based interventions, executed together, and improved outcomes In addition, the results suggest that if the association between use of ... study, each ofthe five interventions in the 6-hour sepsis bundle and each ofthe four interventions in the 24-hour sepsis bundle is backed by the SSC guidelines with grading recommendations of A to ... age, gender, sources of infection and type of specialties (Table 2) The two groups were not only comparable in their severity of sepsis at the points for interventions ofthe 6-hour sepsis bundle,...
... report on changes to the length ofthe thermal growing season that have happened in the recent past and also attempted to give projections on changes in the future They described the thermal ... between longitude and b1, but no significant correlation between either b0 or b2 and longitude 261 Figure 7-1: Map of Scotland and Northern England showing locations ofthe Griffin and Harwood ... The effect of soil moisture and temperature onthe rate of radial expansion of Trees 43, 15 and 66 at Griffin during 2010 292 Figure 7-21: The effect of soil moisture and temperature on the...
... tests compare a mandatory rotation condition against the no mandatory condition For example, the overall hypothesis of no association between mandatory rotation condition andthe use of a negotiating ... each ofthe four strategies in no mandatory rotation condition and mandatory rotation condition Both verifiers and managers submitted more messages in mandatory rotation condition than in no mandatory ... research method, Section ‘‘Results” presents the results, and ‘‘Discussion” section concludes the paper with a discussion ofthe results and limitations ofthe study Literature and hypotheses Auditor–client...