theoretical framework and literature review

... findings, its contributions and its limitations 8 CHAPTER LITERATURE REVIEW AND HYPOTHESES 2.1 Introduction: This chapter mainly introduces theoretical background and research model of the study ... behavior literature to study consumer satisfaction, post-purchase behavior and service marketing in general 12 (Anderson and Sullivan; Dabholkar et al.; Oliver; Patterson et al.; Tse and Wilton, ... ordering, corporate and brand uniqueness, and product equity, assurance security, processing speed, product quality Aladwani and Palvia's (2002) instrument focuses on website design and content It...

Ngày tải lên: 13/04/2015, 09:43

... group from Thailand Organizing method: Variety : H2, 508, 246, 344, 741, 660 Density : 1.100 trees/ha (3 x 3m) Area : 0,05 Location: Central Highland Agriculture and Forestry Science and Technology ... from Thailand after years grwoing well but having not produced flowers and fruits yet - Grafted Macadamia intercropped with robusta, arabica and cocao after years growing normally and have no ... highland: meters msl 700 •Planted area about 15,000-20,000 rai (2,400-3,125 ha.) mainly in northern of Thailand Situation of Macadamia Nut in Thailand •1/3 of total trees planted is bearing and...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 06:20

... complexity and performance of the LS, SLS, SSLS, and MMSE estimators As illustrated in Table and Figures and due to lower number of multiplications and additions, the LS-based (LS, SLS, and SSLS) ... priori knowledge of the CH and M In Figures and 7, the performances of LS-based and MMSE estimators are compared in the cases of L = and L = 8, respectively The ZCZ-(16, 2, 4) and ZCZ-(64, 4, 8) sets ... the bandwidth is wasted when the training length is increased Figures and show the normalized TMSE of SSLS and MMSE channel estimators, respectively, versus SNR in the Rayleigh (κ = 0) and Rician...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 11:20

... generalized pseudodistances and τ-distances of Suzuki 32 , τ-functions of Lin and Du 33 and distances of V´ lyi 34 a By Remarks 6.5 and 6.6 and Definitions 6.3, 6.7, 6.9, and 6.10, the following ... Special cases are discussed and examples and comparisons show a fundamental difference between our results and the well-known ones in the literature where the standard lower semicontinuity assumptions ... ideas and the methods presented here are new for set-valued and single-valued dynamic systems in cone uniform, cone locally convex and cone metric spaces and even in uniform, locally convex, and...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 18:20

... complex mechanism and sensible to errors and inaccuracies within the individual estimation and transformation steps EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing noisy speech and aims to distinguish ... wheels, driving, and suspension and is influenced by road surface and wheel type Thus a rough surface causes more wheel and suspension noise than a smooth one Finally, buzz, squeak, and rattles generated ... Communication and Technology (Eurospeech ’03), vol 2, pp 681–684, Geneva, Switzerland, September 2003 Y Bar-Shalom and X R Li, Estimation and Tracking: Principles, Techniques, and Software, Artech...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 20:20

... project conduction and statistical analysis, Deborah Quail for statistical and data integrity review, and Pierluigi Crisà and Stefania Gemmi for their contribution to study coordination and data collection ... sponsored by Eli Lilly and company AR and AB are currently working for Eli Lilly Authors' contributions AR and AB made substantial contributions to analysis and interpretation of data, and in the revision ... standard deviation years and females were predominant (72.9% of total sample) Approximately half of patients were married and 34.4% were employed Table shows the patients' psychiatric history and...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:21

... procedure All treatment choices and follow-up care were at the discretion of the physician and the patient according to the physician’s clinical judgment and the local standard of medical care The ... version 2.0 [12] and the EQ-5D [13] Severity of anxiety and depression symptoms were scored using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) subscales: HADS-D (depression) and HADS-A (anxiety) ... for SF-36 and EQ-5D, at baseline, and months indicated HRQoL improvements at months and further smaller improvement at months, with the most positive effects observed for SF-36 MCS and EQ-5D...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:21

... and Hill (1990) proposed their algorithm for the case of equal design matrices and more than random effects in the linear model For the analyses described above, only random effects (animal and ... about sampling variances and; .culling, bias Estimates of variances and covariances of M, F and P in lactation 3, fpre were available from bivariate analyses L and L and l llple, J X from MV analyses ... parameters calculated for fat and protein content (F% and P% respectively), from using equation (1), is presented in tables X and XI Heritabilities for F% and P% were high and were fairly constant...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 20:20

... doctor The Hesperian Foundation, P.O.Box, 1692, Palo Alto CA,94302, USA,1992,506 pages Finnie Nancy Handling the young Cerebral palsy child at Home Penguin USA, P,O.Box 999, Dept.17109, Bergenfield,...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:22

... Therefore, they spend more time and money for travelling, and for relaxing in some Southern Eastern Asian countries: Thailand, Singapore, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam And the reason why the north ... We ordered a bottle of orange juice, drank and wait for a chance to access tourists And we got it Most of tourists here were very cheerful, very humor and very easy to get an open talk with them ... disappointed and did not want to go at all And we continued finding other guests, but not much tourist, so we could interview one to two travelers Most of them seemed too closed, to be friendly and warmhearted,...

Ngày tải lên: 25/04/2013, 15:42

... = dt.Rows.Count; else // Set number of rows to the lesser of the user entered // number of rows and the number of rows in the table numRows = Math.Max(numRows, dt.Rows.Count); // Column delimiter...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 05:15

... as greater than 0, // set the number of rows to export as the lesser of the number // specified and the number of rows calculated in the table // starting with the specified row if (rowCount >= ... Parameters tableArray Returns an array of field values corresponding to the values in the columns and rows selected from the table dt The DataTable to convert to the array rowCount The number of...

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 10:20

... shopkeepers and clerks, and caregivers who attended health facilities, village shops, and a mobile unit show; Field visits to Siem Reap and Pursat implementation sites and distribution points; and Four ... its use among caregivers and its network of private providers at 800 riel ($0.20) and to wholesalers and pharmacies at 1,000 riel ($0.25), and to commercial retailers and village shops at 1,200 ... training program of partners and providers on diarrheal disease, prevention, and treatment, and the DTK (content, mechanisms, and use) PSI/Cambodia trained its public and private partners to train...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 19:20

... Churchil and Belsey (2) performed large number of lobectomies and pneumonectomies for benign and malignant lesions of the lung They performed these procedures by dissecting and ligating the vessels and ... conducted using streptomycin and temporary sterilizing sputum and tuberculous cavity This resulted in lower mortality and morbidity rates Despite the presence of fibrous adhesions and fibrosis (as a result ... pneumonectomy and lobectomy in diseases other than TB, decision to use these surgical procedures for treating TB and or its complications such as infectious cavities, hemorrhages, and bronchopleural...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 13:20

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 12:20

... example, DeYoung and Roland [2001] and Stiroh [2004] In what follows, we refer to both BHCs and commercial banks simply as “banks” and note the distinction between a holding company and an individual ... Interest Rate Derivatives As emphasized, for example, by Gorton and Rosen [1995], Choi and Elyasiani [1997] and Purnanandam [2007], banks can, and in many cases do, actively use derivatives to alter ... the failure of the standard CAPM to its static nature; see, for example, Hansen and Richard [1987], Jagannathan and Wang [1996], and Gomes et al [2003] More recently, Avramov and Chordia [2006]...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 03:20

... continuity and interoperability from the standpoint of data stability, and considers issues in instrument calibration and data product validation 3 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Ground-based networks support and ... remote sensing programs and their ability to meet the science and policy needs for climate research and monitoring and the requirements for operational weather observation and forecasting —The panel ... humidity Lightning Land Land cover and land use change Vegetation dynamics Surface temperature Fire occurrence Volcanic effects Surface wetness Ocean Surface temperature Phytoplankton and dissolved...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 07:20

... (Imhoof-Blumer and Gardner, pi E, LXXVII) The god is bearded and fully clad; his right leg is drawn back; he holds a cantharus in his right hand and a long thyrsus in his left, and a panther stands at ... a shield, a spearand two things probably intended as a greave and the hilt of a sword The point, right hand rests on the shield and holds sword-hilt; the blade extended forwardand down The action ... the head is the right hand and wrist Height, 0.35 m The surface is almost perfectly preserved The head is encircled by a fillet and an ivy garland Both appear only in front, and the back of the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 06:20

... George Kinsman, Robert Anderson, James, Jr Lamb, David I Anderson, David, Sr Thompson, John (earlier) Fenton, James Anderson, Charles Ayton, David, Sr Boothby, Robert Brand, W Brand, W E Corstorphine, ... Plummer, Cyril Randall, C Sayers, George Thomson Somerville, John Andrew Stuart, Alexander Tait, Alexander G Tait, Robert White, John Hilton, Harold Horsfall Ball, John, Jr Herd, Alexander Kirkaldy, ... produced by the USGA, Royal and Ancient Championships 1860–1980 (with a supplement from 1981–1984) published by the Royal and Ancient Golf Club and edited by Peter Ryde, and the “History” pages of...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 08:20