the relation between performance and improved methods

... process for sales, the signs of the predicted relations and correlations (other than earnings changes) and the results are essentially unchanged The relation between sales and cash flow from ... test The exception is the correlation between the predicted and actual correlations between current changes in accruals and future changes in cash flows The sixth column of table reports the correlations ... a t-test for the mean of the pairwise differences between the actual and predicted correlations 47 Table Correlation between predicted and actual correlations at the firm level and portfolio...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 01:20

... the mass of the air enclosed in them may picture In the case of the electrified bodies to ourselves that we the connection between them and the ether around them is established in the following ... and that two balls C and D A A and B by rods hinged at and B, then the balls rotate about the rod they will tend to fly apart, and as the balls move further from the rod their are attached to ... finite mass and the system caused to rotate round A and B, the effort of the ring to get away from the axis distance between them and the law same as if A and B to approach each other, of approach...

Ngày tải lên: 04/06/2014, 12:23

... without the human immunodeficiency virus We had no language restrictions The titles (and the abstracts, when available) in the MEDLINE and EMBASE printouts, and the reference lists of all primary and ... post-randomization, whether cointerventions were described, whether the endpoints were assessed by investigators blinded to the intervention, and the outcome definitions employed Disagreements between ... relevant randomized trials We also used the Cochrane Library, searching the Clinical Trials Registry for randomized trials, and the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR) as well as the Database...

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Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 12:20

... changes in the level and the slope I measure the level of the Treasury term structure with the three-month Treasury bill yield, denoted YT,104, t , and measure the slope with the spread between the ... 2226 The Journal of Finance ues of the call options Therefore the relation between Treasury yields and yield spreads of callable corporate bonds should be more negative than the relation between ... medium-maturity and short-maturity bonds, the relation between yield spreads and the slope of the Treasury term structure is weaker, and the thirty-year yield no longer summarizes the relevant information...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20

... (Culotta and McCallum, 2004) is used H- CRF also computes the Monge Elkan distance (Monge and Elkan, 1996) between the relations predicted by O- CRF and R1CRF and includes the result in the feature ... indicate the relation among them Knowledge extracted by an open system takes the form of relational tuples (r, e1 , , en ) that contain two or more entities e1 , , en , and r, the name of the relationship ... example and then used to generate a prediction for the leftout example The meta-classifier is trained using the predictions of the base-level classifiers as features, and the true label as given by the...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 01:20

... the mathematical models and wrote the manuscript JG co-designed the experiment, assisted in the data processing and interpretation and writing of the manuscript KS conducted the experiments and ... differences between controls and patients and less interaction with disease grade (AS) For the triceps surae reflex torque, the opposite would occur: differences between controls and patients, and in between ... Freflex,tri and Freflex, tib the reflexive muscle forces from the triceps surae and TA respectively [N], and rachil(θ) and rtib(θ) the angle dependent moment arm [m] of the Achilles tendon and tibialis...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... effects on GR (top row) and on K (left row) versus the values of MAS for the elbow (left column) and ankle (right column) The scatter of the points and the low values of the correlation coefficient ... properties were estimated using the difference between the slope/intercepts of the paretic and the slope/intercepts of the nonparetic side Since abnormalities in the GR and K of the ankle joint in people ... of the points and the low values of the correlation coefficient (r2 < 0.31, p < 0.01) indicate that there was no significant relation between these variables, and consequently between our quantitative...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... results on the relation between holomorphicity of a valued-complex function and pluripolarity of its graph Namely we prove the following result Some Results on the Relation Between 277 Theorem ... Mau Hai and Phung Van Manh pluripolarity of graphs and the holomorphicity of Hartogs type and of Forelli type (see Theorems 3.2 and 4.1 below) The paper is organized as follows Beside the introduction, ... On the other hand, E2 = D2 \ A2 is pluripolar Hence fz1 = fz1 on D2 Thus f = f on D1 × D2 and the proof for the case N = is completed Now we assume that the conclusion of the theorem holds for...

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 05:20

... to the cohort in which the newly arising variation (i.e the Mendelian sampling term) is generated The product of the long term genetic contribution and the Mendelian sampling term quantifies the ... flow theory, asymptotic response from a single cycle of selection is calculated as the sum of the product of the asymptotic proportion of genes deriving from the different age-sex classes and their ... differential for the kth sex age-group expressed as a deviation from mean of the whole contemporary sex-age group and the sum is taken over all sex-age groups Furthermore, in conventional gene flow theory,...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:21

... handle tied failures, the likelihood ratio test to compute P values, the profile likelihood for the point estimate and 95% confidence intervals [16] We also decided to estimate the relation between ... regression (with the patient fitted as the stratum variable) The between- subject cross-sectional association between DDAVP and hypernatremia (with the 130 patients classified according to the occurrence, ... hypernatremia and ICU mortality Patients who died on days and of their ICU stay had the highest increase in daily average serum Na between days and 2, while receiving DDAVP more often than the others...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:21

... exchange rate and the balance of payments in Vietnam in the future New contributions of the thesis The thesis The relation between exchange rate and the balance of payments – The theory and reality ... general theories and analyse the reality of the causal relation between exchange rate and the balance of payments in Vietnam, the thesis proposes the orientation and solutions to improve the positive ... following issues: - First, the thesis examines overall theories on the relationbetween exchange rate and the balance of payments - Second, the thesis investigates the reality of the balance of payments,...

Ngày tải lên: 23/08/2014, 14:15

... companies in the sample frame and calculating the difference between the median 5-year performance for the sample firm and that of its matched comparison portfolio The relationships between lean and non-lean ... operations financial performance, and business financial performance (Figure 1.1) The first to be examined is the relationship between lean practice and either operations financial performance (L-O) ... propositions based on the literature Chapter describes the research methods used to test and analyze the positions Chapter discusses the results and potential threats to their validity and generalizability...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2014, 00:43

... comparative methods Scientific contributions of the thesis * Academic and theoretical contributions On the basis of the theoretical and empirical researches, the thesis analyzes and clarifies the reality ... analyze the relation between FDI and economic growth in Vietnam at both macroeconomic and microeconomic levels The thesis applies the VAR model to measure and analyze the relation between FDI and ... and space: - The thesis analyzes the relation between FDI and economic growth during the period 1990 – 2012 - The thesis evaluates the impact of FDI on local enterprises and on the input of enterprises...

Ngày tải lên: 30/12/2014, 21:57

... strengths and weaknesses, and can complement the cross-country studies These studies are of uncertain generalizability However, they allow one to: (i) study the association between governance and performance ... conflicting results Jackling and Johl (2009) study the association between board structure and firm performance in large Indian firms and find an association between board size and Tobin's q, but report ... research in other countries (Aggarwal et al., 2005; Ferreira and Matos, 2008) Zattoni et al (2009) and Singh and Gaur (2009) examine the association between business group membership and performance...

Ngày tải lên: 02/01/2015, 17:33

... highlights the significantly negative relationship between the likelihood of fraud and both the percentage of grey directors (p

Ngày tải lên: 02/01/2015, 17:34

... market power and negatively correlated with debt ratio and R&D intensity The correlation between ROA and market power and the Correlation between ROA and R&D intensity are expected, as the activity ... the number of elements, and multiply this ratio by 20 Thus, each subindex has a value between and 20 We define the overall standardized score as the sum of all the five subindices As the correlation ... with others, the Communication subindex is less correlated with other categories The lowest correlation (0.145) is between Communication and Audit Matters The significant correlation 14 between...

Ngày tải lên: 06/01/2015, 19:48

Ngày tải lên: 06/01/2015, 19:49

... the budget The paper analyzes the interdependence between the cohesion policy and the EU budget, indicating the direct connection between the expenses made from the communitarian budget and the ... design of the cohesion policy The paper presents the parallel evolution of the European Union budget, on the one hand, and of the cohesion policy, on the other hand At the same time, the changes ... repurchase the brand (“Will you repurchase the same brand next time?”) and the intention to recommend the brand (“Would you recommend the brand you bought last time to others?”) The data regarding to these...

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