... in the region of the target volume should be carefully modelled since the mammary gland has a quite complex structure as well Aim of the present study is the assessment of the dosimetric impact ... from the HU values read in the CT dataset of the patients Table reports the correspondence matrix for the segmentation from density to human tissues for the two versions of Acuros XB used in the ... Lung_OUT (being Lung the entire lung structure, that is also the union of Lung_IN and Lung_OUT) Lung_IN is the lung portion falling geometrically inside the projection of the edges of the two tangential...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:21
... demonstrates the simultaneous impact of financial management practices and financial aspects on SME profitability In addition, the research study provides a model of SME profitability, in which profitability ... increase profitability Effective financial management can save expensive of the business This lead to following hypothesis: H1: Profitability of SMEs is negatively related to the cash ratio H2: Profitability ... determining the financial position of the firm The firm is considered 18 financially weak when its profitability is sliding or the profitability is weak compared to other firms in the industry In their...
Ngày tải lên: 16/07/2014, 07:11
impact of financial management on the profitability of small and medium trade and service enterprises in thai nguyen province
... areas of financial management practices, financial aspects, and profitability of SMEs and to build a model of the impact of financial management practices and financial aspects on SME profitability ... Section 2.8 provides the model of impact of financial management and financial aspects on SME profitability Lastly, section 2.9 develops a model of the impact of financial management practices and ... contribution of SMEs as well as the recent promotion and supporting policy on developing SMEs, this research study the Impact of Financial Management and Financial Aspects on the Profitability of Small...
Ngày tải lên: 09/05/2016, 16:40
IELTS Part 2 and Part 3 Topics and Questions -The Cultural Impact of Overseas Travel
... quality or the safety of the food? • (Similar to above) In general, are people in China concerned about such matters as the nutritional value of the food or the contents of the food they buy (for ... to the food)? FQ (This question might include: the packaging and the origin of the food) • What are the possible results if all (or the majority of) the people were not very concerned about the ... about the contents of the food they eat? (假设的问题) • (Similar to above) What could happen if all (or the majority of) the people were not very concerned about the contents of the food they eat? Food...
Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2013, 17:20
Tài liệu THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN AUSTIN ppt
... Austin non -profit that advocates for affordable housing, retained Civic Economics to analyze the economic impact of the 2006 commitment and to consider the prospective impact of another round of bonds ... of these costs, we elected to take a conservative approach b The costs of these supportive services are here treated as positive in terms of local economic impact There exists a strong body of ... 3.6 THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING MAY 2012 Map Civic Economics THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING THE ECONOMIC IMPACT...
Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 13:20
Tài liệu SICK WATER? THE CENTRAL ROLE OF WASTEWATER MANAGEMENT IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT pdf
... events from the origin of the wastewater to the consumption of the produce (e.g the farm-to-fork approach of the HAPPC method in food safety); • the design of a combination of health risk management ... personal-care products and pharmaceuticals The impacts of these are wide-ranging In the north east of Australia, run-off of agricultural herbicides caused the loss of 30 km2 of mangrove between 1999 and 2002 ... 2010) The impacts of eutrophication can result in profound environmental change and impact the ecological integrity of aquatic systems e.g Agricul43 tural run-off exacerbating the spreading of dead...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 10:20
Tài liệu Ford Report on the BUSINESS IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE docx
... program to offset the CO2 emitted from the production of our hybrid vehicles in the U.S The purchase price of the offset is applied to a project that reduces or sequesters the emission of CO2 elsewhere ... recovered in the sales price Third, the GHG footprint of the in-use phase of light duty vehicles must be measured on a well-to-wheels basis, that is, the total emissions from the production of the original ... senior management, the Office of the Chairman and Chief Executive (OCCE) as well as the Environmental and Public Policy Committee of the Board of Directors What you will read in the following pages...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 00:20
Tài liệu The future impact of the Internet on higher education: Experts expect more-efficient collaborative environments and new grading schemes; they worry about massive online courses, the shift away from on-campus life docx
... is the relevance of the education to the professional future of a person Universities need to strengthen the causality between an education and a professional future, and given the nature of the ... are “working in the trenches” of building the web Most of the people in this latter segment of responders came to the survey by invitation because they are on the email list of the Pew Internet ... other tech and science publications, said, The key challenge of the next five years—I say the because of the importance of education for the entire global labor force and the importance of...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 00:20
Tài liệu The Fiscal Impact of Immigrants in Austria – A Generational Accounting Analysis ppt
... native of the same age and gender The overall fiscal effect of immigration is found positive, under the assumption that the age and fiscal characteristics of future immigrants resemble those of the ... over time due to the aging of populations In the following, we will apply the method of generational accounting in order to evaluate the fiscal impact of immigrants in Austria The method has been ... that is, the present value of their taxes paid less their benefits received over their lifetime For previous applications of generational accounting on the estimation of immigrants’ fiscal impacts...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 01:20
Tài liệu A NOTE ON MEASURING THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION ppt
... sense, since in either case the economic impact on the state and, thus, the size of the state's economy, is the same After all, the source of the impact is the new job (an expansion of the economic ... 1) The Economic Impact of the University of Northern Iowa on the State of Iowa Cedar Falls, IA: Department of Economics, The University of Northern Iowa Butler, T E (1980) An Estimate of the ... for the position: one is a graduate of a local university and the other is a lifetime resident of another state According to the skill-base approach, if the firm hired the local graduate, then the...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 19:20
Tài liệu From Burden to “Best Buys”: Reducing the Economic Impact of Non-Communicable Diseases in Low- and Middle-Income Countries pdf
... incurred as a result of its use The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this overview not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the World Health ... society and the private sector with key economic insights needed to help reduce the growing burden of NCDs: • A global analysis of the economic impact of NCDs by the World Economic Forum and the Harvard ... The content of this report stems from the work published in two separate reports, one led by the World Economic Forum and the Harvard School of Public Health, and the other developed by the...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 19:20
Tài liệu The high price of pain: the economic impact of persistent pain in Australia pdf
... estimates of the number of cases in the category (‘n’) and the average cost for that category The product is the total cost (eg the wage rate for lost earnings multiplied by the average number of days ... (effects) of two or more courses of action Deadweight loss: is the loss of consumer and producer surplus, as a result of the imposition of a distortion to the equilibrium (society preferred) level of ... the first study that established the prevalence of chronic pain in a general sample of the Australian adult population, and one of the largest reported in the literature (Blyth et al, 2001) The...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 20:20
The Economic Impact of Cloud Computing on Business Creation, Employment and Output in Europe pdf
... mainly on the theoretical impact of this innovation on the creation of new firms and products, on the empirical evidence about the impact of its introduction for the European economy and on the implications ... and in the creation of new firms through the stock market The number of firms follows the equation of motion: where N E , t is the number of new firms and is the exogenous rate of exit The real ... decreasing in the number of firms The latter follows the equation of motion: Nt (1 ) Nt N E,t where N E , t is the number of new firms and is the rate of business destruction The real value of a firm...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 21:20
THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF COUNTERFEITING AND PIRACY ppt
... published on the responsibility of the Secretary-General of the OECD The opinions expressed and arguments employed herein not necessarily reflect the official views of the Organisation or of the governments ... and magnitude They are of concern to governments because of (i) the negative impact that they can have on innovation, (ii) the threat they pose to the welfare of consumers and (iii) the substantial ... apparent to the consumer The size of the secondary market depends in large part on the difference in the price of the counterfeit or pirated article from the genuine item There is likely to be virtually...
Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 08:20
The Economic Impact of Stimulating Broadband Nationally docx
... quantified the direct impact of ConnectKentucky as the intervening factor in Kentucky Additionally, the paper extrapolates this impact to other states to quantify the potential national impact of pending ... ConnectKentucky impact on adoption Applying the growth rate of the nation to the starting point in the KY time series demonstrates that had Kentucky performed similarly to the rest of the country in terms of ... estimate the direct availability economic impact for Kentuckians of the increased growth in broadband adoption It then extrapolates from these results to estimate the potential economic impact to the...
Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 10:20
The Economic Impact of the Iraq War and Higher Military Spending pptx
... structure of the Global Insights model, it likely understates the negative impact of military spending relative to other models The next section of this paper describes the key projections of the Global ... Budget Office produce its own projections of the economic impact of a sustained increase in defense spending The Economic Impact of the Iraq War and Higher Military Spending Introduction The Iraq ... model Other models will show somewhat different projections, but it is unlikely that the direction of the long-term impact on any of the key variables will be different In fact, because of the structure...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 20:20
The Economic Impact of Environmental Regulation pptx
... Look, the public benefits from our products They use them and they get jobs Part of the price of this benefit is the impact we have on the environment That should be born by the public, not the ... policy The scores across each of the policy areas were then summed Since the 1982 and 1990 lists were scaled differently by their respective creators the scores for each period I standardized them ... say, the effects of coffee drinking on heart disease, they must take into account other factors that might influence their results For example, they may “control for” differences among the study...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 20:20
The Economic Impact of The Higher Education System Of the State of Oklahoma doc
... otherwise noted, are in terms of the difference from the baseline scenario Therefore familiarity with this scenario allows the reader to better judge the magnitude of the economic impacts of the ... simple example of opportunity cost is choosing between buying a book or a movie ticket The choice of one implies the loss of the other: the opportunity cost In the case of our analysis, the opportunity ... different question, the answering of which is the privilege and responsibility of the people of Oklahoma 13 V Results and Analysis As mentioned in the previous section, the impacts of Oklahoma’s higher...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 20:20
An estimation of the economic impact of chronic noncommunicable diseases in selected countries ppt
... presentation of the results of the analysis; The discussion of the results including a brief discussion on the sensitivity of the forecast to the assumptions in the model Linkages between disease and the ... and the full-income models to explore the economic impact of chronic diseases are rare, despite the burden that they pose to countries and regions The few studies that have explored the impact of ... computed by the model and the GBD projected estimates The impact on the estimates is subtracted out of the estimates of lost income Model assumptions The characteristic model assumptions for the simple...
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