the innovation performance of canadian business

... City, 2) MSA 32 tlanta, the capital of the southeastern state of Georgia, is a regional economic hub, with one of the highest concentrations of Fortune 500 companies in the US The city has in particular ... Besieged by one of the highest levels of congestion in the US, the city is addressing the problem through some of the best policies on traffic management in the Index Although Chicago has the most comprehensive ... points enver is the capital of the western US state of Colorado Located in high plains at the edge of the Rocky Mountains, Denver earned the nickname the “Mile-High City” because of its elevation...

Ngày tải lên: 06/12/2015, 23:11

... homeowners free of charge or at a large discount These firms earned a profit based on the margin between the market price of the NGACs and the cost of the appliances The business model of purchasing ... represents a small fraction of the cost of doing business Given the low cost of electricity and the low market prices of NGACs, the process for earning an NGAC rarely warranted the effort (Lend Lease ... case of the promised Australian national program and the proposed recast of the EPBD, even still under consideration Thus, systematic analysis of the effects of the policies is not yet possible There...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 22:20

... number, the listing date, and the status of the listing In addition, whenever relevant, each record includes the expiration date of the listing, the accepted offer date, the closing date, and the ... withdrawal of the property from the market, or transfer of the property to the MLS platform The staff of FSBOMadison.com monitors listings on the MLS and extinguishes any listings that appear on the ... all the listings on the service since it started in 1998 For each listing, we know the address of the property, the last name of the seller, the date the property is put on the Web, and sometimes...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 03:20

... instruction of the homeowners Typical events that trigger removal include sale of the property, withdrawal of the property from the market, or transfer of the property to the MLS platform The staff of ... in the transaction, s/he deals with the listing agent to settle the terms of the transactions, and gets the share of the commission that would have otherwise gone to the seller’s agent When the ... subset of the stock of buyers The attraction of this option increases with the proportion of informed buyers, and declines with the number of sellers that list in F (sellers compete for the stock of...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 04:21

... founders of The Systemcenter, Inc were named the SBA Small Business Persons of the Year and featured on the cover of the May issue that year The Edwards’ went on to receive many awards in the ensuing ... educate the public about the detriments of the Jones Act, which some experts argue increases the cost of living in the islands by as much as one third The most important issue for me is the violation ... January 16, 2013 at the State Capitol (10 am) The Session will run until the first week of May This is a budget year and the primary business of the House and Senate will be adoption of a more than...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 18:20

... Glossary of Terms Foreword Foreword Foreword by the President of The Brewers of Europe I am delighted to welcome The Brewers of Europe’s first ever report on The Environmental Performance of the ... capturing the heat from the steam produced by boiling operations; the heat can then be reused for other processes Another example is the use of “wort-stripping” technology which increases the speed of ... and in the future, but also to meet the general public’s environmental expectations Therefore, The Brewers of Europe commissioned a study to describe the environmental performance of the brewing...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 22:20

... stronger the efficiency The form of the market is also dependent on the characteristics of the players, perceived security and the efficiency of available technology Each of these factors impacts the ... reporters was less than the mean value of risk of the sample of S&P 500 organizations for the period of January 1, 2002 to December 31, 2006 Hypothesis 2: H0: The growth of the group of Top Sustainability ... H1: The growth of the group of Top Sustainability reporters was greater than the growth of the sample of S&P 500 organizations based upon the distribution of return (growth) values for the for the...

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 00:48

... synthesis of the wide bandgap of TiO2, the small particle size of 10 to approximately 20 nm, the wide surface area of TiO2, and the porosity As stated above, these can increase the adsorption of ... nanofibers can be observed at the surface of the film, so the nanofiber-added TiO2 film has an advantage to having higher adsorption of dye molecules and also supports the penetration of the ... Assembly of the testing cells The Pt electrode was placed over the dye-adsorbed TiO2 electrode, and the edges of the cell were sealed The sealing was accomplished by hot-pressing two electrodes together...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... meet the challenge of energy crisis The performance of a thermoelectric material is quantified by the dimensionless figure of S 2σ T merit ZT = , where S is the Seebeck coefficient, σ is the electrical ... both G and λe of these two CNTs vanish around the Fermi level ( µ = ) since this area corresponds to the band gap of the systems When the chemical potential moves to the edge of the first conduction ... To further improve the thermoelectric performance of these CNTs, we have considered isotope substitution which is believed to reduce the phonon-induced thermal conductance without changing the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 17:20

... that the optimum value of β (minimizing the BER) depends on many parameters: the channel model, the system loads, and the mean SNR Note also the impact of an accurate choice of β on the performance ... for the fully loaded case, a reduction of the actual number of interferers implies an underestimate of the parameter 1/(Nu γ) in (12) towards the ORC scheme, thus emphasizing the effect of thermal ... and of the end-to-end aspects of each connection, such as the generation of the application-level traffic and the users’ TCP or UDP dynamics; at the corenetwork side, instead, the ULS takes care of...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 06:20

... where the majority of responses fall It might look like this: FIGURE I.2 Of course, there are probably a few outliers—a handful of Germans who fall to the right or the left of the hump—but their ... the middle right, with Argentina as one of the most direct of this cluster Further right on the scale fall most Asian countries, with the Indians as the most direct with their criticism and the ... simply a point representing the normative position of the hump, as shown in Figure I.3 In other words, the country position on the scale indicates the mid-position of a range of acceptable or appropriate...

Ngày tải lên: 27/07/2014, 07:55

... (1995), the concentration of N ranges between the normal and the optimal level irrespectively of the variant The concentration of P gradually rose from a low to optimal level in both variants The ... the high dosage, slow-release character of the ameliorative mixture and on the way of its application Therefore, if the laboratory results are relevant, the Ca and Mg decrease may reflect rather ... circle around the stem so that the circle of the soil sprinkled with this mixture was approximately 0.5 m in diameter The proportion of limestone and amphibolite in the mixture was equal The crushed...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 04:20

... of the DF after administration of the 1st GnRH analogue to the cows synchronized using PGF occurred in 75% of cows in the control group, 50% of the cows in the Ovsynch + GnRH group and 100% of ... concentration of the Ovsynch + GnRH group Values are the mean ± SD The progesterone (P4) concentration was positively correlated with the cross-sectional area of the CL (r = 0.89) (C) Summation of the ... between the Ovsynch + GnRH group and the Ovsynch + CIDR + GnRH group The length of the estrous cycle in one of the ovulating cows in the Ovsynch + CIDR + GnRH group was extended to 24 days, while the...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 20:24

... also enhance the sensitivity of the photosynthetic apparatus to high irradiances, leading to photodamage to photosystem II [25] Another potential limitation is the diffusion of CO2 from the intracellular ... the net photosynthetic rate at a given incident irradiance (I), θ is the convexity of the curve, ø is the photon yield based on incident irradiance, Rn is the dark respiration rate and Amax the ... 24% of the time (Fig 1e) Vapour pressure deficits (VPD) were ~ 30% lower in the shaded, compared to the fully exposed treatment, for the duration of the experiment (Fig 1a) 3.2 Acclimation of...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:22

... when evaluating the performance of the 1994/1995 stock Discussion There are two main aspects to the results of the study First, information is provided on the physiological status of Douglas fir ... range test The performance of cold stored stock was compared with that of the freshly planted stock of same lift date using a ttest Results 3.1.3 Shoot cold hardiness 3.1 The pattern of cold hardiness ... showed that the shoot system had a clear annual cycle of dormancy development However, the roots of the seedlings were mitotically highly active throughout the winter in the first years of observation...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:21

... efficiency of open centres decreased less, and in turn that the extent of the centre closure was larger The generality of this observation and its significance in the ecophysiological performance of the ... values recorded week after the begin- ning of the treatment A smaller decline was recorded in shade leaves of the same species No decrease was observed in either of the other species Interestingly, ... during the second experiment resulted in improved performance of seedlings from this species, together with increased chlorophyll contents; nevertheless, the levels attained by the two other species...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 18:21

... Page of (page number not for citation purposes) We agree with Umgelter and colleagues that the cardiac rhythm might influence the algorithm by which the COWave device calculates the CO The influence ... published At least we can state that, in our study, this was not the reason for the underestimation of and the wide range of LOAs, since during the study all patients had sinus rhythm at all measurement ... range of LOAs [1] In the study we observed a mean bias and a LOA of 0.6 l/min and from –2.2 to +3.4 l/min, respectively, for COPAC versus COWave Competing interests The author(s) declare that they...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20