... not as remarkable as the revelation of the techniques used to manipulate the process and the data These two design parameters, the number of sources of data, and the number of cases studied, provide ... empiricist/subjective theory of being, the views of actors, as communicated through case studies, is the empirical point of departure Of course, there are very few who occupy either of these polar positions, ... the epistemological basis of the case study Many of the criticisms of the case study method relate to the highly labour intensive nature of this research strategy Miles (1979) suggests that the...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 11:20
... Aragon to Portugal Furthermore the conquest of the Canaries at the end of the fourteenth century and of Teneriffe and other islands in the fifteenth led to the bringing of many of their natives as ... leg of the voyage, and for leakage of ten per cent of the rum and five per cent of the molasses, and after charging off the whole cost of the ship's outfit and one-third of her original value, there ... Between the benevolence of the distant monarchs and the rapacity of the present conquerors, however, the fate of the natives was in little doubt The crown's officials in the Indies were the very...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 00:20
Understanding the Value of the MBA: A Program Type Comparison pdf
... Understanding the Value of the MBA, Bruce Figure shows the distribution of values for the MBA Degree scale and Figure 3, the distribution of values for the School/Program scale Figure Distribution of MBA ... quickly the investment is recouped, the higher the rating of the overall value of the MBA The overall value of the MBA is also related to the job satisfaction of alumni In MBA Alumni Perspectives ... of the multiple regression analysis show that both the MBA Degree and School/Program variables contribute significantly to prediction of the overall value of the MBA, regardless of the type of...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 02:21
Austrian Definitions of the Supply of Money pdf
... between M (the supply of standard cash) and M1 , the total of demand deposits.3 Why then did Mises, the developer of the Austrian theory of money, argue for including demand deposits as part of the ... yet, while each of these forms of money is generated quite differently, so long as they exist each forms part of the total supply of money in the country The same should then be true of savings deposits, ... part of "the money supply The operative difference, then, is not whether an asset is liquid or not (since stocks are Mises, Theory of Money and Credit, p 268 Austrian Definitions of the Supply of...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 10:20
Yield and value of the wild fishery of rice fields in Battambang Province, near the Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia pdf
... about 5% of the catch and the other seven main types of gears each caught less than 5% of the total catch 3.5 Value of the catch Over the period of the study fishers caught about 26,730 kg of fish ... Proportion of total fish catch Figure Proportion of the total value of fish Proportions of the total weight and total value of fish of different trophic guilds in the catches Appendix shows the composition ... Proportions of the total weight and total value of fish of different trophic guilds in the catches 21 Figure Composition of the total catch of fish each month, showing the six species comprising most of the...
Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 22:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "The prognostic value of the nodal ratio in N1 breast cancer" pps
... low Because the number of positive nodes is inevitably limited in the N1 category, however, the distribution of the NR is strongly affected by the number of nodes sampled While other studies ... for the appropriate criteria to discriminate between low- and high-risk groups of NR for breast cancer with 1-3 positive nodes In the current study, we evaluated the prognostic value of the NR ... chemotherapy showed a tendency of increased distant metastasis -8- Discussion The prognostic value of NR is supported by several studies [4-13] Vinh-Hung et al reported the superiority of NR...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:21
Báo cáo y học: "The changing landscape of the clinical value of the PM/Scl autoantibody system" pdf
... Arthritis Research & Therapy Vol 11 No Mahler and Fritzler Comments on the report of Hanke and colleagues Hanke and colleagues are the first to report the use of a novel LIA for the simultaneous ... incremental clinical value to the diagnosis and management of SSc patients Comparison with other methods: quality of PM/Scl-100 For reasons described above and in the closing below, the authors’ conclusion ... multiple clinical associations (especially the presence or absence of myositis) are needed for a consensus of the clinical value of PM/Scl, and especially of PM/Scl-75c, aabs Competing interests...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 13:22
Analysis of the supply chain design and planning issues models and algorithms
... for supply chain design and planning to enhance the efficiencies of the activities in supply chains It thus forms the focus of this thesis First of all, this thesis reviews the state of art on the ... review of the researches in this thesis is presented The review is classified into two sections: the review of domestic supply chain and the review of global supply chain The review of domestic supply ... Change of the fitness function values of the small example solved by the hybrid GA-LQP P-C method 70 Figure 4.5 Change of the fitness function values of the large example solved by the hybrid...
Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 08:18
Báo cáo khoa học: "The clinical value of daily routine chest radiographs in a mixed medical–surgical intensive care unit is low"
... antimicrobial therapy in case of unexpected infiltrates on the CXR; repositioning of tubes in case of malposition of orotracheal tubes (ignoring planned extubations); ultrasound of the thorax in case of ... as removal of intravenous lines) The observers were not involved in the daily care of the patients, and ICU physicians were not aware of this part of the observation As a consequence, the clinical ... look for other infections, and the absence of radiological signs of pulmonary congestion might have resulted in another fluid therapy regimen We did not score for the clinical relevance of the unexpected...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:39
Báo cáo y học: " the Value of Serum Biomarkers (Bc1, Bc2, Bc3) in the Diagnosis of Early Breast Cancer"
... since none of them alone is useful for the majority of the BC and none of them is specific for cancer or breast tissues No biomarker has been suggested to date for the early diagnosis of BC (24) ... Med Sci 2011, The results of the present study and the other three studies did not fully confirm each other Several hypotheses may be suggested to explain these differences First of all, Li’s ... subjects, the comparison of the benign and control groups did not yield a statistically significant difference None of the proteomics reach 154 reasonable AUC values for the discrimination of the BC...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:15
REVIEW OF THE FISHERIES SUPPLY CHAIN IN VIET NAM
... analysis method This thematic report contains the main following sections: I The definition of the supply chaiṇ II The supply chain of marine fishing products 2.1 The chart of the supply chain for ... changes, the supply chain is divided into three phases: (1) The values of products in the fishing production phase (2) The values of products in the middle phase: the product values of middle ... fishing in the near shore areas The prices of products at the end consumption phase depend on the distance of product transportation, the number of immediate trading stages and the values of the products...
Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2013, 13:51
Tài liệu An overview of the drinking water supply situation in the Mekong river delta, Vietnam pdf
... runoff, the tides and the depth of bars in the sea in front of the estuaries Otherwise, in early rainy season, nearly 1,6 million hectares of the delta are infected by the acidity water due to the ... The low discharge of river water also leads to the salinity intrusion and it becomes the major water use problem in the coastal lands of the delta Saline encroachment effects almost half of the ... cultivation but they are one of the drinking water treatment problems also The sediment load of the river isnot so high if compared with Red river in the North of Vietnam It is highest during the rise...
Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 19:15
Tài liệu Creating the value of life - By Fumihiko Iida ppt
... of perceiving, of thinking, of understanding and of interacting spring out of the boundaries of ”humanity,” spring out of the boundaries of ”nationhood,” and spring out of the boundaries of the ... strength) of the wave length According to survivors of near-death experiences, the higher the level of the spirit the brighter the light shines, and the lower the level the darker the light seems ... were of Old Norse, the language of the Vikings and the precursor of modern Icelandic, and these words were actually used by the Vikings The other twelve words were all related to seafaring, and of...
Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 13:15
Tài liệu Supply the correct form of the verbs1 docx
... a snake.were / wouldn't want 14 My brother managed to kill the snake just at the time when I (be) almost exhausted If he (be) a little late, I (kill) by the snake.was / had been / would have ... a snake 14 My brother managed to kill the snake just at the time when I (be) had been almost exhausted If he (be) had been a little late, I (kill) would have been killed by the snake 15 Had I ... in a snake 14 My brother managed to kill the snake just at the time when I were almost exhausted If he had beena little late, I would have killed by the snake 15 Had I know you were ill, I (visit)would...
Ngày tải lên: 23/01/2014, 07:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo " The extreme value of local dimension of convolution of the cantor measure" docx
... estimate We have Main result Main Theorem Let µ be the 5−fold convolution of the standard Cantor measure, then the lower extreme value of the local dimension of µ is α5 = | log 3.25 √ arccos 145 ... Thanh et al / VNU Journal of Science, Mathematics - Physics 25 (2009) 57-68 65 From (13), (14) and (15), the assertion of the corollary follows 2.2 The proof of the main theorem Lemma Let x = (x1 ... are the values in Corollary From Lemma 2, Corollary and Proposition 2, we have Theorem Let µ is the 5−fold convolution of the standard Cantor measure, then the lower extreme value of the local...
Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 03:20
Tài liệu The Supply and Demand Side Impacts of Credit Market Information pptx
... identifying the applicant from the population, then (2) identifying the selected from the applicants, and then (3) for the observed clients Because of the selection process, the conditional mean of the ... on the total loan to the members of the group, not on the individual share in the group loan, meaning that the recorded level of indebtedness is the total amount taken out by the group, and the ... bureau The randomized experiment allows to measure how knowledge of the rules of operation of the credit bureau affects the behavior of members of credit groups both with the initial microfinance...
Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 03:20
Tài liệu Dissecting the Eect of Credit Supply on Trade: Evidence from Matched Credit-Export Data pdf
... Most of the reduction in the value of exports was due to the collapse in international prices of Peruvian goods The total drop in the annual growth rate of the value of exports between the P ... consider the intensive margin elasticity for the volume of exports in Table 5, 0.23 In the case of the continuation margin, on the other hand, the elasticities change significantly with the size of the ... to the period July 2007-June 2008, prior to the beginning of the 2008 crisis The average debt outstanding of the universe of exporters as of December 2007 is $734,000 and the average level of...
Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 03:20
Tài liệu Global Retail Lending in the Aftermath of the US Financial Crisis: Distinguishing between Supply and Demand Effects ppt
... after the end of the sample period While both banks recorded profits for the first half of 2008 and gave a positive outlook for the remainder of the year, they publicly acknowledged losses after the ... interpreted as the effect of the financial crisis on the supply of loans We observe the same level of magnitude for the DD estimates of consumer and mortgage loans In Panel D of Table 4, we present ... section of Panel A of Table 5, which reports the DD estimate as well as the p -value from the Wald test under the null hypothesis that the DD estimate is equal to zero The coefficients on the control...
Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 10:20