the role of business strategy in enterprise

... when the enterprise is (was) not indebted now (in the past) Then it turns out that in 1996, two third of the enterprises declare they are indebted These indebted enterprises are much bigger: the ... evolution of the same type of variables; their judgement on their actual and future behavior, including the type of constraints they face Some sets of answers are strongly cardinal, as for the current ... been obtained on the basis of a smaller number of firms The total number of enterprises included here provides some reassurance against the risk of poor representativity The structure of the pool...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 08:20

... level business cycle patterns In face, most of the time the state level business cycles of this group lay on the opposite side of the national business cycle.Most of the states fall into the fourth ... dominant states play quite a signi cant role in the formation of the business cycle patterns of the formar group of states The business cycle patterns of the major oil supply states are distinctly ... which were facing recessionary phase of the business cycle Some recent business cycle studies start questioning about the aggregate measures of the business cycles and start looking into the state...

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 02:10

... talking to each other, are slowly giving way to the development of creative ways of interacting The emergence of new business models that tackle social problems while remaining profitable offers ... variety of foods, often of lower nutritional quality, reducing portion sizes, eating wild foods and seed stock (in rural areas), seeking credit or borrowing, begging and in time, starving These ... customers insights that if well harnessed, could leapfrog progress in addressing the food and nutrition crises Business could increasingly address the entire range of the agricultural investment...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21

... raising the profile of women in management However, during this period of research, there was an emerging recognition of the importance of a concern for people in the behavioural theories as being ... anything towards raising the profile of women in management, as the theory was constructed as a male model at a time when women were not visible in paid employment One of the off shoots of the ... enabling of others to help achieve the goals of the organisation Furthermore, the ability to control others is given no prominence in this recent definition of leadership A brief review of early...

Ngày tải lên: 08/10/2013, 15:56

... source of financing for enterprises, if their own capital is excluded In summary, the deepening process of the financial markets has rendered the dominance of the banking sector in the financial ... relies on the securities booking system of the CGSDTC and the bond trading system of the inter-bank lending centre The trading system of the national inter-bank lending centre provides pricing information, ... efforts in the application of information technology, in exploring on-line banking business as well as in promoting non-bank financial institutions Efforts should be made in upgrading financial...

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 07:15

... adults (39 ) The renewed interest in examining the indications for BCG vaccination in the United States included consideration of the wide range of vaccine efficacies determined by clinical trials ... explore the sources of the heterogeneity in the efficacy of the BCG vaccine reported in the individual studies Using a model that included the geographic latitude of the study site and the data ... efficacy of BCG vaccine in HCWs or b) the effects on efficacy of the vaccine strain administered Vol 45 / No RR-4 MMWR and the vaccinee’s age at the time of vaccination The protective efficacy of BCG...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 13:20

... understanding issues facing community banks I THE CURRENT ROLE OF COMMUNITY BANKS The banking system in the United States has always been unique in the sense of containing large numbers of small ... were not there, other financial services providers might readily step in to take their place This article examines the role of community banks in the U.S economy The first section of the article ... While community banks still comprise the vast majority of banks, the question arises whether their role in the banking system has declined to the point of insignificance This section shows that...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 11:20

... through the exchange between subunits of either their N-terminal, or their C-terminal ends [33–35] We found that the behavior with the model membrane of the dimer in which the C-terminal ends ... geometry of the hinge loop after ligation Also in this case no clashes were detected at Electrostatic interactions and antitumor RNases the dimer interface of the models or in the surroundings of the ... Nter are the C-terminal and N-terminal structural regions, respectively, of the two A and B monomers of the dimeric RNase The black circle between the monomers indicates the mass center of the dimer...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 06:20

... N-linked oligosaccharide side-chains are important for the GABA transport activity 1-Deoxymannojirimycin inhibits the GABA-uptake of GAT1 In order to gain further insight into the role of the ... misfolding of this protein, resulting in its partial retention in the ER and its rapid digestion thereafter [16,19] Accordingly, our results indicate that the intracellular trafficking of N-glycosylation ... Aliquots were used for measurement of the remaining [3H]GABA and [14C]sucrose The protein concentration in the supernatant was determined using the bicinchoninic acid protein assay reagent (Pierce, USA)...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 17:20

... t is the in interaction of the results of these asynchronous processes that the process of comprehension is defined 4.1 The processes are independent of the knowledge representations defined ... activation of a l l meanings of each recognized word in HOPE, the determination of the phonetic representation of a recognized word determines the breadth of active competition amon meanings for ... defined than through other methods, because i t enables one to develop a broader perspective of the questions within an analysis of the hypothesis in the cont e x t of a characterization of the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 20:20

... many of them have been pioneers in the Latin American microfinance industry As of today, out of 15 Latin American members are active in microfinance These members are involved in different ways in ... unrivalled in scale, and outreach continues to grow in terms of the number of microborrowers Institutions providing microfinance in Asia play a critical role in increasing the access to finance for ... very helpful in bringing microfinance into the spotlight not only in developing countries but also in the developed world The awareness by policy makers about the role of microfinance as a major...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 10:20

... meaning through sound (including music), taking into account the director’s – and, therefore, the composer’s – intentions, the narrative content of the film, and the overall strategy of the director ... ambiguous the meaning of the visual image, the more influence is exerted by the musical score in the process of interpreting the scene Music can convey the scope of a film, effectively communicating ... the relationship is invertible without changing the perceived meaning (i.e., it is equally valid to say that the music projects the meaning of the image or the image projects the meaning of the...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 14:20

... However, the mechanistic roles of several of these residues are not described well and there is no example of mutational analysis of all of these residues in the same enzyme To obtain an insight into ... 1), thereby confirming the crucial role of Asp142 Catalysis in family 18 chitinases (Eur J Biochem 271) 259 In most ChiB structures, Asp142 is clearly defined, being either in the ÔdownÕ or in the ... positioned in the ÔupÕ position rows and shows that in the presence of the substrate, rotation of Asp142 towards Glu144 lowers the pKa of the latter by 0.8 pH units The calculated effects of the D140N...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 14:20

... properties of the document containing the sentence and properties of the sentence itself Regarding the former type, two features come into play: the relevance score of the document (from the IR engine) ... evaluating answers to definition questions In HLT/EMNLP 2005 J Lin and D Demner-Fushman 2006a The role of knowledge in conceptual retrieval: A study in the domain of clinical medicine In SIGIR ... the findings of Monz (2003), who made the same observation in the factoid QA task There are a few caveats to consider when interpreting these results First, the test set of 25 questions is rather...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 02:21

... additional schooling, the estimated schooling effect could include both the impacts of schooling and the fact that those continuing in school could earn more in the absence of schooling.2 For the most ... income levels mainly though speeding up technological progress, rather than shifting the level of the production function or increasing the impact of an additional year of schooling In sum, the ... student in a school in Ghana or Peru would gain the same amount of knowledge in any year of schooling as the average student in a school in Finland or Korea? Still, using the quantitative measure of...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 08:20

... trees The largest plant height was obtained using linings of stone and marble During the first year of the study, when the lining served only as mulch due to lack of rainfall, an increase of 33.3 ... crop yields in rainfed areas, even in the more marginal rainfed environments The continued application of conventional breeding and the recent developments in non-conventional breeding offer considerable ... Considerations of risk may be very important in the initial decision of whether to adopt rainwater harvesting at an individual farm level Especially due to the low economic status of many of the farmers in...

Ngày tải lên: 09/03/2014, 00:20

... as Points of Access into the Financial System The Role of African Post Offices in Payments The Role of Post Offices in International Remittances The Role of Post Offices in Savings The Role of ... agreed between the ministries of finance, the IMF, and World Bank In the recent past in Africa, no distinction was made of the roles of the post as the mail provider, as owner of the post office network, ... Services The Role of Post Offices in International Remittances The Role of Post Offices in Savings The Role of Post Offices in Credit 5—Conclusion 16 17 17 17 18 19 20 21 21 21 Worldwide Landscape of...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 10:20

... rates only increase by 50 basis points, and the increase in inflation is 50 basis points less than in the baseline case A banking sector that remains well-capitalized can thus reduce the length ... capital increases the Additional evidence suggests that decreases in the capitalization of Japanese banks in the late 1980s had adverse effects on their lending and on economic activity in areas in the ... lending Over the business cycle, this mechanism implies that the dynamics of bank capital affect the propagation of shocks A second source of moral hazard is present in the model and affects the...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 10:20

... number of amino acid residues contribute to the binding of the substrate by hydrogen bonding and ⁄ or hydrophobic interactions Using the ligplot program [31], we investigated the specific interactions ... important role in ‘cycling’ the pKa of catalytic Glu during catalysis [24,38] The mutation of the D1 residue to Asn (D140N) in SmChiB caused a 500-fold decrease in activity [39] On the other hand, in ... almost identical, but the D524A mutation resulted in a remarkable change in the conformation of the Glu526 side-chain The 2Fobs ) Fcalc electron density of the Glu526 side-chain in the D524A–substrate...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 11:20

... presented from the US including the Tar-Pamlico Basin in North Carolina (case of point-point source trading also allowing for point-non-point trade), the case of Lake Dillon and the case of the Cherry ... Murray-Darling Basin (Australia) Interstate salinity trading came into force in 1992 as part of the Murray-Darling Basin Salinity and Drainage Strategy, administered by the Murray-Darling Basin Commission, ... managing economic and environmental aspects of the river The most prominent examples of salinity trading come from Australia, with the inter-state trading case in the Murray-Darling Basin, and the...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 16:20