u s and metric relationships index

... the MCS Access to Social Support We differentiate among household composition, instrumental support, and social integration Measures of household composition include both family structure and extended ... household composition (all ages), instrumental support (age only), and social integration (age only) Although we present and discuss the parameter estimates, changes in relationships across nonlinear ... “sub-degree” qualifications and certificates, and level includes university diplomas, teaching and nursing degrees and post-university education To measure family income, we include the household poverty...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 12:20

... Section compares the U. S credit-liquidity crisis and the subsequent Irish banking crisis highlighting the substantial, somewhat surprising, differences between them Section discusses the nationwide ... two countries, and discusses how this contributed to each crisis Section summarizes and concludes the paper Differences between the US and Irish Crises We begin by reviewing some key events in ... the securitization process is that it substitutes risks that are largely diversifiable for risks that are highly systematic Downward pressure in asset values and credit quality led to a decrease...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 14:20

... to handle any surge in demand Consequently, patients discharged from the hospital to make room for mass casualties or surges caused by infectious disease outbreaks may find that there is simply ... directives that in the opinion of both unions and individual workers could lead to absurd and possibly dangerous results In some instances, the directives were just confusing Some workers who had ... reassurance, and legal protections Such was the case with HIV/AIDS In the early 198 0s when the disease first gained notoriety, medical knowledge on basic issues such as risk factors, disease transmission,...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 05:20

... hexaflouride SO2 Sulfur dioxide SO3 Sulfur trioxide SOx Sulfur oxides STPS Ministry of Labor and Social Security, The (Mexico) TRI U. S Toxic Release Inventory UK United Kingdom xii UK-ETS United ... air pollutant emissions, the degree of exposure to various risks from these pollutants, and the consequences of such exposure Monitoring of pollution sources is critical for disseminating up-to-date ... primarily sulfur dioxide (SO2) and sulfur trioxide (SO3) SO2 forms when sulfur (all fossil fuels contain sulfur) is burned The resulting fine particulate matter pollution can inhibit visibility,...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 00:20

... Nishinippon Northpacific Ogakikyoritsu Oita Saitama Sakura Saningodo Sanwa Senshu Seventyseven Shiga Shikoku Shimizu Shinwa Shizuoka Sumitomo Sumitomotrustin Suruga Taiheiyo Taiyokobe Tochigi 30 ... exposure on various combinations of accounting measures Column and Column report the results from univariate regressions of estimated exposure on asset size and on Net, while Column reports the ... 1993 and requires all firms to provide disclosures on the market value of financial assets and liabilities, and on off-balance sheet disclosures In principal, these disclosures might be used to...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 13:20

... TABLE AND FIGURES TABLES Table 1: Answers for question1 of Vietnamese students and American students Table 2: Answers for question of Vietnamese students and American students Table 3: Answers for ... Figure 1: Iceberg model of Culture Figure 2: Answers for question of Vietnamese students and American students Figure 3: Answers for question of Vietnamese students and American students Figure ... Vietnamese students American students B C D 24 10 13 26 Table Answers for question1 of Vietnamese students and American students 22 Figure Answers for question1 of Vietnamese students and American students...

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2015, 14:26

... 2.3.1 Survey questionnaire 18 2.3.2 Audio tapes 18 CHAPTER III: FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION 20 3.1 Data analysis of the survey questionnaire 20 3.1.1 Question 20 3.1.2 Question 22 3.1.3 Question ... ABSTRACT TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF TABLE AND FIGURES PART I: INTRODUCTION 1 Rationale of the study Research questions Aims and Objectives of the study Scope of the study Methodology of the study ... 3.1.4 Question 25 3.2 Data analysis of the audio tapes 26 3.2.1 Situation 26 3.2.2 Situation 27 3.2.3 Situation 28 3.2.4 Situation 29 3.3 Discussions CHAPTER III: CONCLUSION 31 33 Recapitulation...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2015, 19:50

... monitors, such as inside versus outside directors (Baysinger & Hoskisson, 1990; Hillman, Nicholson, & Shropshire, 2008) Such studies, though, not deeply examine how differential access and processing ... propensity score matching and estimation based on robust standard errors found similar results for R&D; more mixed results for short-term expenses suggest greater sensitivity of short-term responses ... Data sources and sample of U. S and foreign cross-listed firms The data include annual panels of U. S public firms and a control group of foreign cross-listed firms in seven high-technology sectors...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 11:28

... quality of life [19], including diabetes mellitus [20], coronary artery disease [21], stroke [22] and arthritis [23] PD severity was assessed using UPDRS ADL and motor sub-scores (UPDRS II and ... as a whole using descriptive statistics The relationships between UPDRS scores and raw and log-transformed HUI-III utilities were assessed graphically We evaluated the association between baseline ... characteristics (including PD severity) and baseline HUI-III scores through construction of bi-variable least-squares regression models, with standard errors adjusted to account for multiple measurements...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... categories Results and discussion The following section presents selected results from the study and provides discussion and analysis with regard to overall GHG emissions for the various building ... and on-site emissions Each is discussed further below The climate influences a building s emissions due to the required HVAC equipment size, load, and runtime ASHRAE 90.1 Standard [21] has subdivided ... Deru s [23] “The Source Energy and Emission Factors for Energy Use in Buildings” were used in this study to account for the source emissions The rate of GHG emissions is different within these...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 15:28

... Therefore, FDA issuance of CGMPs for juice would be an approach that could assist manufacturers in the production of safe juices FDA encourages the juice industry to use CGMPs to help ensure the safety ... both residues over tolerance and residues with no tolerance Although there are no documented outbreaks of illness caused by unlawful pesticide residues, chronic exposure to pesticide residues that ... previous sections of this document is much greater than the conÞrmed number of illnesses PESTICIDES Pesticides are usually applied to plants to combat insects, plant diseases, and weed growth to assist...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 21:20

... timber based on the superstructure material for the main span Values shown in the “Total” columns include bridges constructed using other materials such as masonry, aluminum, cast iron and wrought ... bridges built The NBI lists the “Year Built” for each structure Where applicable, the “Year Reconstructed” is also given If the superstructure of a bridge is replaced, but the substructure is reused, ... main span superstructure In structures incorporating approach spans, the main span superstructure material may differ from the approach span superstructure material In this case, the contribution...

Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 20:15

... countries, American Depository Receipts (ADRs), American Depository Shares (ADSs), real estate investment trusts (REITs)1, closed-end funds, equity derivatives, and tracking stocks2 Initial public ... bankruptcy also are factors If a company buys a large stake in an S& P Index member and as a result less than 50% of the shares outstanding are held by outsiders, that Index member no longer meets ... insure this by choosing only stocks with sufficient liquidity to be included in its Indices The liquidity measure Standard & Poor s analyzes is a version of share turnover calculated as average...

Ngày tải lên: 17/01/2014, 03:20

... discussion of this topic is almost impossible in the United States because of the vituperative responses elicited by any discourse that questions the wisdom of unflinching U. S support for Israel, ... bits of intelligence output being scored as successes or failures not because they matter for U. S interests, but instead because they happen to be easy to score As chapter shows, some of the most ... of Iraq s oil and, in the crudest versions, that this control was sought in the financial interests of the U. S oil and oil services industries Closely related WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION AND THE...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 12:20

... history and wantedness Ever-use of methods, first method use, periods of nonintercourse (last years), method use each month (last years), method use with partners in past 12 months, wantedness ... does not attempt to demonstrate cause and effect relationships + Nonsampling error—Like all survey data, these data are subject to sources of nonsampling error These could include misunderstanding ... Across all years and population subgroups shown, NSFG data continue, as in previous cycles, to approximate the numbers of births recorded in the National Vital Statistics System The only group...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 10:20

... recognize physicians as consumers and realize and respect the necessity of their services As absurd as it sounds, can you imagine a community without a physician? Their contribution to each community ... non-essential bells and whistles that might influence a physician s purchasing decision Greenway and the EHRVA both have presented Use Cases and “Clinical Test Scenarios” to various Work Groups ... practices Greenway has also structured its offerings to physician practices into multi-year business plans mirroring President Bush s and former Secretary Thompson s own Framework for Strategic...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 13:20

... Innovation and Competitiveness table Six industry groups dominate U. S business R&D spending U. S business R&D spending and net sales by industry groups, 2007 ($ millions) NAICS Codes Businessfunded ... right-hand column in Table shows that U. S businesses are clearly the largest R&D spenders in absolute (purchasing-power parity) terms, spending more than twice as much as Japanese businesses, the second-largest ... including subsidies and incentives for business research Without such support, companies are likely to underinvest in research (from the standpoint of the economy as a whole) because the results...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 03:20

... relatively less mobile under unit banking The return on uninformed capital is exogenous and equal across states in either regime That makes sense in the United States, where savers have access to a ... firms in state A falls as a result These amplifying effects are absent under unit banking because bank capital is immobile across states under that regime In sum, cross-state banking amplifies ... This finding is consistent with our results, although it emphasizes the downside of integration While integration insulates an economy from shocks to its own banks, it simultaneously exposes an...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 10:20

... These accounts also provide estimates of holding gains and losses for assets such as real estate and corporate equities, including assets held indirectly through mutual funds, pension funds, and ... personal and business saving—is famous in economics (it is often called Denison s law, from Denison, 1958) Unfortunately, it does not successfully withstand serious empirical scrutiny.22 Figure ... Board, author s calculations of consumer durable goods by households as personal consumption expenditures has been a cause of dissatisfaction: At least a portion of household purchases of durable...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 11:20