... processing, carried out the analysis, drafted the manuscript andthe interpreted the findings SR made a major contribution to the conception of the study, the design, data collection and interpretation ... 0.699) between qualification and months to 0.073 (95% CI to 0.200) between qualification and years These variables were therefore retained in all models where they were antecedent to the dependent ... intentions and working as a nurse The relationships between intentions expressed at earlier time-points and current intentions were all statistically significant (Table 3) and therefore the secondary...
... correlation was identified betweenthe increase in the interpersonal and transcendental connectedness of the patients and their psychological wellbeing and functions The present study documented ... the greater the use of the specific coping strategy The brief COPE scale has good internal consistency and test-retest reliability, and concurrent validity has been established The validity and ... Patients may cope by adjusting their social role to fit the demands and challenges associated with the illness, or they may cope by trying to reframe their experiences viewing the situation in a more...
... disorders had the highest selfesteem [17] Therelationshipbetween alcohol dependence and lowered self-esteem has also long been recognised [1,18,19] A relationshipbetweenthe use of drugs and low ... group was not randomly selected, and its size was small in comparison to the patient population Furthermore, they were not the primary focus of the psychiatric assessment, and hence, the presence ... pathway to the development of depression [37,42] The present study further confirms the close relationshipbetween lowered self-esteem andthe presence of depression but is not able to further clarify...
... in the same health care plan prior to and 12 months after the date of the index prescription Given the duration of the preindex and postindex periods, as well as the data collection period, the ... interpretation of the data, and drafting of the manuscript MJL made substantial contributions to the analysis of the data, interpretation of the data and drafting of the manuscript Acknowledgements The authors ... 0.90 (OR 0.71, 95% CI 0.54 to 0.91) As a test of the robustness of the results reported here, therelationshipbetween medication adherence, andthe risk of hospitalization or an ER visit with...
... Figure shows that the positive relationshipbetween π and expression variation is strong for the coding regions and 3'UTRs, weak for introns and 5'UTRs, and is absent for CPRs These results are ... for the putative 5' CPR (see Materials and methods for definition) This relationship extends beyond the genes exhibiting We have done our best to remove the possibility that therelationshipbetween ... extent, introns (Table 1) However, therelationshipbetween expression variation and heterozygosity is quite different from therelationshipbetween expression variation and sequence divergence for...
... find out whether there exists a mutual set of language learning strategies among these students and whether there appears a relationshipbetween their language learning strategy and their English ... employed to carry out the research Chapter – Results and discussion – presents and analyzes the findings that the researcher discovered from the data collected, and compares them with the findings of ... themselves, they can face with any problem now and then, or “they may be empowered to manage their own learning” (Griffiths, 2003, p.1) Aware of the significance of the “How” rather than the “What”,...
... tables and figures iv List of abbreviations/ acronyms vi CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Statement of the problem and rationale for the study 1.2 Aims and objectives of the study 1.3 Scope of the study ... strategy use and proficiency: Therelationshipbetween patterns of reported language learning strategies (LLS) use by speakers of other languages (SOL) and proficiency with implications for the teaching/ ... RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 4.1 Frequency of language learning strategy use 36 4.2 The correlation between students’ language learning strategies and their English proficiency 46 4.3 Key strategies and...
... On the other hand, Ballmer has reduced a level of management to manage more easily and efficiently Microsoft structure is less flat therefore, the span of control is narrower andthe gap between ... entrepreneurial style and spirit, good judgment and consensus building skills…etc Therelationshipbetween an organization’s structure and culture andthe effects on business performance: As we ... integrity, and respect”, Ballmer guides employees and promote their behavior in Microsoft environment To be considerable positive mind, from these core values, Ballmer takes relationship with the rest...
... firm performanceand thus stock price decreases is not conducive to stockholder theory and implies that in agency theory there is a conflict of interest betweenthe CEO andthe shareholders they ... managers andthe governance of corporations in the United States and legislators and regulators have been quick to respond to the latest corporate scandals Despite the debate among the academic and ... theory, labor theory, and others have attempted to explain therelationshipbetween CEO compensation and firm performance Furthermore, managerial discretion as defined by Hambrick and Finkelstein...
... framework,” and “Baldrige model” are used to embody the causal relationships andthe skeleton of all frameworks. Because the relationships andthe skeleton of the frameworks are the same, the business and non‐profit framework is used hereon as a representation of the ... everything else but rather posited the relationships as such. This also implies that there is a recursive causal relationshipbetweenthe Baldrige system andtheperformance results. The BPM Framework The acronym BPM in this study stands for business performance management, not to be ... with one‐directional arrows pointing to the latter. This suggests that there are recursive causal relationships betweenthe system categories andtheperformance results. Figure 6: The 2008 MBNQA framework at the category level There are many specific relationships among the criteria categories. No studies have ...
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... companies in the sample frame and calculating the difference betweenthe 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 therelationshipbetween lean practice and either operations financial performance (L-O) ... study aims to capture and quantify therelationshipbetween lean manufacturing management practices and financial performance at both the operations and business levels The literature review...
... investigated therelationshipbetween ISS corporate governance sub-indices and PER, we could not validate the model Thus, the hypothesis of a positive relationshipbetween corporate governance and firm performance ... corporate governance and firm performance Data and Sample Selection In order to investigate therelationshipbetween corporate governance and firm performance, we used a random sample of 155 U.S ... no relationshipbetween Corporate Governance Quotient and ROA and ROE The last performance measure we have used was price-earnings ratio Thereby, there resulted a statistically significant relationship...
... released and enforced Hence the primary purpose of the study by Muniandy et al (2010) was to evaluate whether there was any association betweenthe corporate governance variables and firm performance ... a relationshipbetween CEO-Chairman duality and company performance? Research Question 3: Is there a relationshipbetween staggered boards and company performance? Research Question 4: Is there ... there a relationshipbetween board size and company performance? 28 Research Question 5: Is there a relationshipbetweenthe presence of a board remuneration committee and company performance? ...
... grow quickly and others not That is, the variation in the dependent variables comes from both the time series andthe cross-sections, and some pooling of data is necessary to address the questions ... data, and note significant deviations betweenthe PWT 6.0 and PWT 5.6 results The PWT 6.0 data contain more observations than the PWT 5.6 data, but when matched with the data for other variables the ... and liberalization, on the one hand, and growth and growth volatility, on the other, were tradeoffs in democracies We explore briefly both lines of inquiry as a guide to further research 13 The...
... importance, the exact nature of therelationshipbetween credit and interest rate risk is not quite clear For example, consider therelationshipbetween default and interest rate If the economy ... slow the economy Therefore, we may conjecture that therelationshipbetween default risk and interest rates is sensitive to some measure of where the economy is in the business cycle and/ or other ... literature studies therelationshipbetween credit spreads and interest rate The papers addressing therelationshipbetween default and interest rates are relatively scarce and results can be...
... three-digit random numbers and served under identical conditions to the trained descriptive testing Consumers ranked the three cheeses in their order of preference, and then evaluated them using ... compared with the other cheeses (7- and 12-month) The 12-month-ripened cheese had the lowest mean score of liking of 5.75, which is categorized as between “like slightly” and “neither like nor ... AGED 7, AND 12 MONTHS acid, diacetyl and methional In the aroma attribute terms used in the descriptive analysis, these can be described as “free fatty acid,” “buttery” and “sulfur” aromas The principal...