... be related to the fact that we selected patients at an earlier stage of the disease than previous studies The different profile of associations between anxiety and HRQoL and depression and HRQoL, ... comorbidities; this adjustment reduces the possibility that the results could be attributed to factors other than psychological factors A clinically relevant finding of this study is the greater association ... Activity, and Impact The “Symptoms” domain relates to the frequency and severity of respiratory symptoms, the “Activity” domain relates to activities that cause or are limited by breathlessness, and...
... otherwise, they are non-stationary THE RELATIONSHIPBETWEEN INTEREST RATES AND AGGREGATE DEFAULT RATES This section describes the relationshipbetween interest rates and aggregate default rates, including ... is worth noting the differences between our study and the existing literature Most of the related academic literature studies the relationshipbetween credit spreads and interest rate The papers ... within the context of risk management While we ultimately want to understand the relationshipbetween credit risk, including the risk of default, migration and recovery, and interest rates Toward...
... one BAD The spectra of symptoms in these patients suggest that they have more than one BAD to diagnose and to treat [3,12,24,29] Interestingly our patients with BAD and without BAD did not differ ... [1,2,4,6,7,14,27] The knee-chest position may provide a better field of view than broadly used left lateral Sims’ position, as the buttocks fall to each side, and finger tips of both hands of the investigator ... tested in a two year pilot study, and adopted into routine use ten months before start of the study Findings were entered into a personal computer immediately after proctologic assessment of...
... The sensory term “fruity” was excluded from the data after the initial statistical analysis of taste attributes (during training) because of a low perceivable intensity of this attribute by the ... “sulfur,” “brothy,” “nutty,” “free fatty acid” and “catty” attribute terms (Young et al 2004) In comparison with results obtained in this research, flavor attribute terms such as “brothy” and “nutty” were ... These results were first based on differences among treatments (yeasty and salty) and then on panelists’ treatment interaction (whey, brothy, nutty, cowy and earthy) When the interaction plots among...
... paid to the firms’ CEO Debt-to-Asset Ratio The ratio of total debt to total assets This is an indicator of the leverage of the firm and the potential risks the company faces relative to its debt ... indeed, at some later date suggest: “Since I lost that battle, here’s half my land back.”(¶4) Statement of the Problem The main objective of this study is to investigate the relationshipbetween ... financial strength of the firm In other words, the debt- to- asset ratio reflects the proportion of assets that has been funded by debt and is an indicator of the extent to which the firm is utilizes...
... ABSTRACT This thesis investigated the relationshipbetween return and trading volume in the Vietnam’s stock market in the context of Granger causality test and GARCH model test The sample, ... downs of a developing market In the first five years, the market did not attract the public attention and made very little distribution to the economy due to the lack of merchandise and unattractive ... 25 4.1.2 Unit root test and Granger causality test Table 4.2 reports the ADF test results for the return and volume of two markets It shows that all the variables are stationary at 1% significance...
... document the nutritional status of the elderly in Pakistan and this type of important information thus remains fragmentary or absent Those nutritional surveys that have been conducted in the past, ... it can be assumed that the elderly might have an even more impaired nutritional status The present study, therefore, aimed to investigate the nutritional status and nutrient intake of Pakistani ... for important intellectual content was the responsibility of IA, AL and GP IA had full access to all the data in the study and takes full responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy...
... and the osmolyte The latter model assumes that the native state of a protein consists of inter-converting high (most compact) and low (less compact) activity state ensembles and also demonstrated ... constant that refers to the properties and the reactionof the free enzyme and free substrate [29] We have therefore estimated kcat ⁄ Km values of all the reactions in the presence and absence of ... it is expected that an increase in protein stability (DGD°) by an osmolyte due to the shift in the denaturation equilibrium, native state M denatured state, towards the left, must increase the...
... postaction control but a future-oriented control system It is not a post-mortem type assessment but a continuous examination of the progress made and comparing it with the cost standards and time ... negative relationshipand very weak relationshipbetween budgetary participation and motivation since the beta = -0.153 This indicates that budgetary participation is not effecting budgetary motivation ... qualitative and quantitative are used to analyze and evaluate to provide the results The relationshipbetween budgetary controls and performance in Gtel Mobile Results: The relationship between...
... important together with the parameter estimations On the other hand, Sargan test is a test of the validity of instrumental variables It is a test of the over-identifying restriction The hypothesis ... http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/essays/growth/growthcont.htm that capitalist compete for profit that led capitalist to adopt labour saving machinery He used the multi sectoral context and provided the steady state growth equilibrium ... investment and productivity are likely to be mutually dependent Growth of output is a function of R&D investment and R&D investment is a function of past output growth If the explanatory and dependent...
... solutions and complete this paper Without her and other teachers’ advices and helps, I could not come to the destination and attain this result Additionally, it is my great honor to receive the ... attention to Accountants often are less interested in corporate culture and its influences on the accounting innovations Therefore, the first step to build a strong corporate culture is that organization ... for the company 1.2 Research objectives The study concentrates on the concepts of corporate culture and the relationshipbetween corporate culture and the use of management accounting innovations...
... concomitant presence of Ca2+ and CPP for optimal aggregation) At the same time, they also demonstrated that the ability to aggregate, in terms of dimension and concentration of aggregates, relied ... the highest scattered intensity (Table 1), the relative concentration of CPP DMV aggregates in the same solvent was 35%, although with a solute concentration six times higher than that of b-CN(1–25)4P, ... aggregates in the correct conformation and concentration, and a suitable ratio between Ca2+ and CPP, this latter condition being in agreement with data determined in intestinal model studies...
... first calculate the magnitude of the change in our residential-sprawl index that would be required to move an individual from the top of the bottom third of the sample, to the bottom of the top third ... can tell us the correlation between landscape characteristics and obesity but does not provide consistent estimates of the effects of landscape if individual characteristics are determinants of ... concern relates to the possibility that our first-difference specification may only capture the “effect of treatment on the treated” (Heckman and Robb, 1985) This will not matter if the effect of sprawl...
... determined by plotting the differential, d(Int)/dT, against temperature effect on the overall stability of the catalytic domain of Cel7A (data not shown) The melting temperatures (Tm) for wild-type ... apart from the changed atoms of the mutated side chains In order to evaluate further the design of the mutations, it was of interest how the stability behaviour of the protein was changed by the ... indicative of the release of the substrate Comparison of the Cel7A unfolding with and without the substrate either at pH 8.0 (Fig 3A and B), or pH (Fig 3C and D) shows interestingly that the unfolding...
... that the state must also create intermediate institutions to “facilitate information flow between the bureaucrats and the corporate sector.” Chang and Cheema (2001) also contend that the State ... [its] mistakes and rapidly correct them.” This is where the role of institutions comes into play b) Institutional Conditions Institutional settings, interacting with politics, play an important role ... non-performers.” The authors also stress the 10 importance of intermediate institutions, which connect the state with the business sector These intermediate institutions will, first, devise concrete policy...
... I wanted to get a vivid fact to support the relationshipbetween customer satisfaction and service quality Thus the attributes of each of the service sectors were listed for the customers to choose ... reject and the alternative hypothesis is the statement we want to keep and it is the research hypothesis The decision of accepting or rejection the null hypotheses (Ho) of the statistical test were ... support the attributes Thus I asked the customers to rank each of the attributes in the order; very important, important and not important I used the reason for customer satisfaction in the questionnaire...
... saying that the current population structure and "dependency ratio" made provision for the elderly affordable in theory But this presumes redistribution between those that work and those that not This ... shows that per-capita the richest quintile gets almost the same as the poorest from total transfers The greatest difference is in international remittances, that amount to an average of 0.6 million ... of how the factors that determine entitlement interact To explore entitlement a regression model was estimated solely for elderly people to establish what factors stood out in multi-variate analysis...
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... background of the study, the statement of the problem, the purpose of the study, the rationale, research questions, significance of the study, definition of terms, assumptions, and limitations, and the ... States the wages per-capita are the lowest in the nation Florida is one of the largest states in the geography and it represents about 35% of the total workforce in the Southeast The quality of ... allowed my creativity to flow Table of Contents Acknowledgments iv List of Tables ix CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION Introduction to the Problem Statement of the Problem Purpose of the Study Rationale Research...