... Buchholtz (1978) find no significant relationship between CSR and firm value Confirming this result, Aupperle et al (1985) not find a relationship between social responsibility and financial ... from fixed firm attributes may blur the relationship Hillman and Keim (2001) test the influence of stakeholder management and social issue participation on shareholder value They conclude that ... firm and profit is the return on assets of a firm EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS (i)Descriptive statistics Table reports the descriptive statistics of the applied variables The mean of Tobin’s q (tq) equals...
Ngày tải lên: 04/11/2014, 22:20
... continuing education fellowships and internships supported We will prepare people to participate effectively in by NCI, go to cancer.gov/researchand cancer prevention as a multidisciplinary process that ... to cancer research that combines multiple disciplines and taps the best available resources is essential Studies in molecular epidemiology identify the multiple and com plex causes of cancer ... elucidate the relationship between cancer and other diseases We will continue to support both investigator-initiated research and large, directed interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary programs as...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 00:20
Báo cáo y học: " Study protocol: The development of a pilot study employing a randomised controlled design to investigate the feasibility and effects of a peer support program following discharge from a specialist first-episode " pdf
... take place in EPPIC and represents a partnership between EPPIC, the Orygen research centre and the youth participation program Participants Participants will be approximately 36 young people, ... integrated research centre The service treats individuals with both psychotic and non-psychotic disorders There is also a youth participation program which comprises consumer advocacy, consultation, ... the effect of peer support groups on people with psychosis [16] and although this lead to an improvement in the social relationships of participants, it was limited in several ways Firstly, it...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22
Báo cáo y học: "Response of the mouse lung transcriptome to welding fume: effects of stainless and mild steel fumes on lung gene expression in A/J and C57BL/6J mice" pot
... fumes weeks post-exposure to GMA-MS: IPA analysis IPA analysis is unbiased and independent of the study design The networks generated from the input of transcriptional data yields networks based ... near the selected fold change cutoff for IPA; the significant induction was confirmed by real time RT-PCR supporting the expression value chosen for IPA Similar corresponding validation was found ... time point were quantified at the same time The MouseRef-8 v1.1 beadchip contains > 24,000 well annotated RefSeq transcripts and allows samples to be interrogated in parallel To minimize array...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:22
Tài liệu Global action plan to control the spread and impact of antimicrobial resistance in Neisseria gonorrho pdf
... involving multidisciplinary groups at global, regional and national levels At the national level, there needs to be adequate funding, leadership and cooperation among various disciplines working ... Tetracyclines rapidly met the same fate as penicillins Fluoroquinolones, such as ciprofloxacin, became the drug of choice for treating gonococcal infections from the mid-1980s, but the first treatment ... (UNAIDS)/WHO: Sexually transmitted diseases: policies and principles for prevention and care (9), which outlines the policies and principles for the prevention and care of STIs, to offer guidance...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 15:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Combining a Statistical Language Model with Logistic Regression to Predict the Lexical and Syntactic Difficulty of Texts for FFL" potx
... implies agreement on the difficulty scale In the US, a common choice is the 12 American grade levels corresponding to primary and secondary school However, this scale is less relevant for FFL education ... for an automatic way of measuring text complexity for FFL learners participating in an educational programme, an obvious choice was the difficulty scale used for assessing students’ levels in Europe, ... most informative number Some psychological work (Howes and Solomon, 1951; Gerhand and Barry, 1998; Brysbaert et al., 2000) suggests that there is a strong relationship between the frequency of words...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 21:20
PMTCT STraTegiC ViSion 2010–2015: Preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV to reach the UNGASS and Millennium Development Goals docx
... comprises seven principal strategic directions (see Appendix C for elements and activities in support of the strategic directions): Collaboration Strengthen commitment and leadership for achieving ... Commitment Strengthen commitment and leadership for achieving full coverage of PMTCT services Experience indicates the importance of strong commitment and leadership to achieve rapid scale-up of PMTCT ... focus on the following seven strategic directions: Commitment: Strengthen commitment and leadership for achieving full coverage of PMTCT services WHO’s global, regional and country support efforts...
Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 09:20
Deepening Regional Integration to Eliminate the Fragmented Goods Market in Southern Africa docx
... also had an FTA since 2000 Trade between FTA3 and non-FTA4 COMESA countries is conducted on reciprocal terms under the Preferential Trade Agreement The next step in COMESA‟s regional integration ... cotton cake, poultry, batteries, sugar, coffee, ostriches 2.5% Customs-related Wine, electronic equipment, copper concentrate, salt, cosmetics, medicines 5.2% Source: Authors calculations based on ... markets and may hamper regional integration In particular, it risks South Africa‟s neighbors reciprocating with similar measures that will force South African drivers working in these countries...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 10:20
báo cáo hóa học:" What works to meet the sexual and reproductive health needs of women living with HIV/AIDS" pdf
... Kachipapa E, Mphande C, Potani C, Kayoyo V, Maseko B, Mawindo P, Kadiwa M, Mvalo T, Chibwe J, Hoffman I, Hoseinipour M, Martinson F: Uptake of family planning among Malawian women participating ... collaboratively revised the manuscript with JG CH wrote the section on cervical cancer, as well as compiling references All authors have read and approved the final manuscript Authors’ information JG ... Rights; Engenderhealth; FHI360; Guttmacher Institute; HRW; ICW; International HIV/AIDS Alliance; IPAS; IPPF; NIH; OSI, PAI; UNAIDS, and WHO In addition, experts were consulted on each topic, both...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20
Báo cáo nghiên cứu nông nghiệp " Increasing the capacity of the Food Crops Research Institute to enhance the Production and Management of Potatoes in the Red River Delta " pot
... the National Potato Programs from Vietnam and the Philippines, the CIP and SAPPRAD to further investigate opportunities to develop relationships with the potato industries of South East Asia In ... This proposal was to test the performance of CIP varieties by first importing pathogen free foundation material into Australia, for subsequent multiplication and re export to Vietnam The results ... Appropriateness rating Survey of grower practices with stratified cluster sampling and multiple regression analysis of relationships Planning, implementation and analysis of the agronomy trials based on the...
Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 13:20
Báo cáo y học: " Act In case of Depression: The evaluation of a care program to improve the detection and treatment of depression in nursing homes. Study Protocol" pptx
... methods, and protocolized treatment that combines psychosocial, psychological and pharmacological interventions Cooperation between the disciplines is prearranged As the ability of nursing staff ... program, a behavioral management strategy developed by the psychologist and psycho education - especially of relatives Apart from that, psychological treatment is offered: the clinical experts involved ... depression [27] for all participating residents on the unit If according to the scores on the scale further screening is indicated, nursing staff contacts the psychologist who takes over the coordination...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22
Báo cáo y học: " Relatives Education And Coping Toolkit - REACT. Study protocol of a randomised controlled trial to assess the feasibility and effectiveness of a supported self management package for relatives of people with recent onset psychosis" pdf
... Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK 6Division of Clinical Psychology, School of Psychological Sciences, S29 Zochonis Building, University of Manchester, Brunswick Street, Manchester, ... with a recent onset psychosis was developed and finalised First, a systematic review of studies of psychological interventions for relatives of people with recent onset psychosis was conducted ... first episode of psychosis: the experience of relatives Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 2003, 108:285-289 Raune D, Kuipers E, Bebbington PE: Expressed emotion at first-episode psychosis: investigating...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22
Báo cáo y học: "Using protein complexes to predict phenotypic effects of gene mutatio" pps
... Saccharomyces sensu stricto spp and 'ChIP-chip' (chromatin immunoprecipitation-chip) binding data at P < 0.005 in order to call a promoter as bound by a particular transcription factor Pfam domains present ... [10,11,18,19], and two published classifications of gene 'modules' or functional relationships defined using multiple data sources [16,20] We then devised a test to use each of these data types as a ... Protein Sequences (MIPS) complexes Note that although many green bars are significantly higher than the paired red bars, no green bars are significantly higher than the MIPS complexes (rightmost)...
Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:20
Báo cáo y học: "Tiling microarray analysis of rice chromosome 10 to identify the transcriptome and relate its expression to chromosomal architecture" pptx
... multiple independent probes (Figure 2), they can detect the transcriptome in a comprehensive and unbiased way [19-21,23-25] The tiling microarray analysis of rice chromosome 10 detected transcription ... microarray facility, the maskless array synthesizer (MAS) platform [24,26,28,29] was chosen for our rice transcriptome analysis Here we report the construction and analysis of two independent sets ... and identified a large number of transcriptionally active intergenic regions These results, coupled with comparative gene model mapping and reverse transcription PCR (RT-PCR) analysis, allowed...
Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 14:21
Applying macromolecular crowding to promote the expansion and adipogenic differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells in vitro; an effect of matrix reciprocity
... of 3T3-L1 cells into preadipocytes and mature adipocytes Matrix Biol (6):419-430 111 Gimble JM, Morgan C, Kelly K, et al 1995;Bone morphogenetic proteins inhibit adipocyte differentiation by ... 1983;Fibronectin modulation of cell shape and lipogenic gene expression in 3T3adipocytes Cell (3 Pt 2):657-666 basal lamina molecules expression in human subcutaneous white adipose tissue Eur J Histochem (3):183-188 ... Werb Z 2002;Metalloproteases and adipogenesis: a weighty subject Am J Pathol (5):1551-1554 88 Mauney JR, Volloch V, Kaplan DL 2005;Matrix-mediated retention of adipogenic differentiation potential...
Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 09:16
Appendix 1 To Chapter The Savings and Loan Crisis and Its Aftermath potx
... recognize that the relationship between voter-taxpayers and the regulators and politicians creates a particular type of moral hazard problem, discussed in Chapter 8: the principal–agent problem, which ... that differ from those of their employer (the principal) and so act in their own interest rather than in the interest of the employer The Principal–Agent Problem for Regulators and Politicians ... ultimately agents for voter-taxpayers (principals), because in the final analysis, taxpayers bear the cost of any losses by the deposit insurance agency The principal-agent problem occurs because the...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20
vegetables. how to grow the tomato and 115 ways to prepare it for the table
... of ripe tomatoes that have stood chopped over night hot green peppers, seeded and chopped cups of chopped celery 1/2 cup of salt ounces of white mustard seed cups brown sugar large onions chopped ... NO 45 TOMATO CATSUP UNCOOKED, NUMBER TWO Take: peck of ripe tomatoes, peeled and chopped bunches of celery, chopped fine large cupful chopped onion 1/4 cup salt tablespoons mustard seed tablespoons ... IT FOR THE TABLE NO 53 TOMATO CHOPPER PICKLES Use: 1/2 gallon chopped green tomatoes 1/2 gallon shredded cabbage bunches of celery, chopped fine green peppers, chopped fine quart tender beans,...
Ngày tải lên: 20/04/2014, 13:47
The Financial Times Guide to Options: The Plain and Simple Guide to Successful Strategies (2nd Edition) (Financial Times Guides)_2 pptx
... contracts, like their underlying contracts, have contract multipliers Both contracts usually have the same multiplier If the multiplier for the above contracts is $100, then the actual cost of ... of December 250 call with multiplier included 87.50 56.25 25.00 1.16 1.10 0.90 — 1.33% 1.96% 3.60% — Days until expiration (DTE) Price of December 220 call with multiplier included Cost of time ... at 100 would actually be $1,000 In the options markets, prices quoted are without contract multipliers When trading options, it is important to know the risk/return potential at the outset In...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20