the size and growth of the assisted living industry

... up-take and deployment of ICT One of the results of the study is that the preparation of the Ambient Assisted Living Joint Programme has experienced an important first impetus by the establishment of ... northern countries, only 20% can be found in southern ones There is a significant divide between old and new member states on the one hand and northern and southern member states on the other hand ... maintain the well-being of elderly people therefore consists in the question of how to meet the need of elderly people to fill the gap resulting from the loss of an These needs have led to the basic...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 16:20

... THE EFFECT OF SIZE AND GROWTH ON LEVERAGE: EVIDENCE IN THE FISHERY AND REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY IN VIETNAM In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of the Degree of MASTER OF BUSINESS ... different theories In particular, the following theories will be considered: (i) the ‘M&M theory’; (ii) the ‘Agency theory’, (iii) the ‘pecking order theory’ and (iiii) the ‘trade-off theory’ The decision ... Theories and empirical studies that relate to the correlation between growth and leverage 2.2.1 The trade-off theory The trade-off theory can be tested cross-sectional and used proxies for tax and the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/10/2015, 13:43

... contributions MHM designed and carried out the experiments and drafted the manuscript MA assisted the design of the experiment, participated in the discussion of the results and in revising the manuscript ... participated in the discussion of the results and in revising the manuscript CBS and JN supervised the study and revised the manuscript All authors read and approved the final version of the manuscript ... for growth of NWs The high lattice mismatch (≈12%) between InAs and Si does not suppress the growth of NWs, and in regime and NWs only grow perpendicular to the substrate We have investigated the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 00:20

... because of different age and thus the size and quality of seedling types For this reason, the growth of seedling types of neither of the tree species was statistically compared The risk of lower ... parameter is the condition of the root system, first of all the growth of new roots that facilitate the uptake of nutrients and water for rooting and bud-breaking of plants Advantages of using the containerized ... heterogeneity of the compared planting stock at the time of planting the assessment of growth parameters is problematic Perhaps height increment expresses the adaptation and growth response of plants to the...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 10:21

... while measuring the flow every s The entire sequence of flow measurements took about The flow was then plotted versus the applied pressure and R was calculated from the slope of the P to F linear ... by the presence of the net Our experimental set-up allowed to grow C- and I-plants under the same environmental conditions, the only difference between groups being the presence or absence of the ... Raimondo et al of horse chestnut seedlings either infested by the leaf miner or protected from the parasite attacks The final aim of the present study was to evaluate the risk of mortality in...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:21

... with air and sealed The bags were stored in darkness for and days (4DD, 6DD) or in the shade for and days (4DS, 6DS) The two other treatments consisted of direct planting of seedlings from the aeroponic ... land, having a moderately deep clay layer and poor drainage Plant growth rates were calculated from the height measured between the collar and the last living bud before transplanting and at and ... leaves and, under sunlight, the grass-green color of the stem turned to a more brownish color In some cases, the terminal bud died and growth began in the underlying bud An examination of the transplants...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:22

... tree and cork growth, make difficult the develop and validate growth and yield models for cork oak stands [16] For these reasons, we set up experiments with the aim of quantifying the effect of ... as the height to which the trunk is stripped, the total length of stripping, the surface area stripped, and the indices and coefficients of stripping which reveal the intensity of stripping The ... study: characteristics of the sample The choice of sites was made after a complete examination of the cork oak dehesas of Cáceres province The advantage of this type of woodland was that it allowed...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:21

... constant, regardless of the level of residual polygenic variance Figure shows the influence of the sires’ EBV on the DGV of validation bulls The R2 values of the regression of DGV on the sires’ EBV ... to 20% of the total genetic variance, the R2 value between the DGV of the son and the EBV of the sire dropped below 0.20 In contrast to DGV, corresponding R values for the sum of DGV and RPG remained ... all the other traits (data not shown) Table shows the observed variance of estimated DGV defined as the sum of SNP marker effects and the variance of DGVt, which was defined as the sum of DGV and...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:21

... up to 154 d of age They were then allotted to the various studies, including the present one The data analysed in the present study include growth performance of the 12 genetic types of animals ... lower their mean performance More generally, it may be asked whether usual growth measurements really estimate the lean growth potential of MS or whether they are only indicators of the strength of ... the relative growth disadvantage of MS females with LW during the growing period can also be related to the large difference in the rate of maturity between the two breeds The growth of MS was relatively...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 20:20

... results in the formation of the notochord, a column of cells that extend along the anterior-posterior axis of the embryo and defines the midline of the embryo Signals from the notochord induce the ectodermal ... capable of giving rise to all of the cell types of the CNS This includes the different types of neurons and glial cells in the different regions of the brain In the embryonic CNS, neuroepithelial ... chorion (the embryonic portion of the placenta), while the inner cells generate the inner cell mass (ICM) and form the embryo proper including the yolk sac and amnion The trophectoderm and the ICM...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 21:26

... acknowledgement of independent variations, and often avoid the direct labelling of the urban centres under analysis Nevertheless the sense of difference remains and the idea of the inland city versus the ... alternately as the desa (place of the ruler) or the kadatuan in Sumatra, the kraton of Yogyakarta and the pura of fourteenth century Java 39 The buildings were usually of wood and built off the ground, ... around the bridge, and said to be the site of the betrayal of the Portuguese factor that had led to the 1511 attack and the later execution of the Javanese rebel 43 The north bank: diversity and...

Ngày tải lên: 06/10/2015, 21:23

Ngày tải lên: 06/12/2015, 06:17

... considered as mode and product of mental action, of the power of apprehension and distinction and abstraction, and of the sway of consciousness over the whole Then, in the hearing of the word green ... living and lifeless ^ of a/nimal and vegotatle and mineral; oi fish and reptile and Tdrd and insect ; of tree and lush and herh / of rocic and p&bMe and samd and dust So with those of hody, life, mind, ... sign with the given group of and to understand and employ it as designating them ; and he learns to classify the infinity of hues under that and certain other signs, of like nature and shades,...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2016, 00:40

... oversees their analysis and interpretation In the analysis of data, a number of techniques may be employed to give the misleading appearance that the sponsor’s product is superior to others Calculations ... scientists had delayed publication of findings for longer than months at the request of the sponsor [15] In an analysis of 30 studies of drugrelated research, Lexchin and colleagues demonstrated that ... Research and Manufacturers of America; 2004 Bodenheimer T: Uneasy alliance — clinical investigators and the pharmaceutical industry N Engl J Med 2000, 342:1539-1544 Cho MK, Bero LA: The quality of...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 22:21

... nucleation and growth Fig a TEM image of hematite (a-Fe2O3) nanodiscs with inset of SAED pattern; and b The size distribution of the a-Fe2O3 nanodiscs shape The lattice fringes of the individual ... adsorption of CO and/ or O2 molecules and then reduce the catalytic ability On the other hand, the residues from PVP decomposition in the heating process might also affect the catalytic property of nanoparticles ... the one hand, no delayed nucleation occurred on the basis of the time-dependent nucleation and growth processes (Figs 3, 4) That is, the burst-like nucleation and the subsequent anisotropic growth...

Ngày tải lên: 20/03/2014, 13:08

... reasonable given the extremely rapid processes of evaporation and bubble growth When the bubble stops moving, the acceleration and velocity terms of Eq ͑4͒ are zero Therefore, the final bubble ... force in the direction of bubble growth This force is a result of high pressure within the vapor pocket, which is created by the laser pulse As the bubble expands, pressure is relieved and the bubble ... Bubble growth is evident for the 12 ␮m films FIG Bubble growth data and model results for spot size of 30 ␮m and ink thickness of 12 ␮m from 50 to 100 ns after the laser pulse, whereas the 50...

Ngày tải lên: 06/05/2014, 09:01

... OHR-data from the age of 20; the latter time limit due to the possibility of job release scheme from the age of 60; • male worker - the women will be left out of the study since they constitute ... proportion of white-collar employees in the larger enterprises The primary aim of the present study is to investigate the relation between enterprise size and injury rates in the Danish construction industry, ... of the injuries Moreover, enterprise size was not given in 13% of the reported injuries Another problem with the study was that there was no control for the occupational distribution within the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... CDI of the uneven-aged stand is greater than that of the plantation and the even-aged stand The same is true for the growth (i.e., CDI10) vs dbh model (Fig 2) Furthermore, the estimated stand-level ... crement of the uneven-aged stand is greater than that of all the other stands (Tab VII), although the basal area in the unevenaged stand is lower than in the plantation and the mature evenaged stand ... between the stands The growth of larger and taller trees was faster in the uneven-aged stand, the plantation and the mature even-aged stand This behaviour may be interpreted as a search for light and...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 16:21

... about the choice of best quality plants in the nursery without the necessity of destructive samples In order to analyse the effect of the Tubex® shelter on the development of the root and above ... both of them from the first spring With regard to the RCD, only significant differences existed between the T and the WT at the end of the trial (Oct 2002), that was greater in the WT From the ... outside the shelter However, the final destructive analysis and the correlation analysis of variables offer us crucial information for understanding the effects of the treeshelters upon the seedlings...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:22