... many of the prior state variables lead to large reductions in the sample. In particular, the experiences of the 1960s are sometimes lost with the use of the prior state variables: for the financial ... a The results reported on these sections use centered variables to avoid multicollinearity betweenthe first order terms and the interaction term. b ∆Capital(s-1) is not significant on the ... interpretation is that the effect of capital account liberalization is greater when preceded by higher values of the contingent variable. On the other among the studies because of the necessarily...
... illustrate the implementation of the model, they fit the model to use daily CDS prices of 22 firms from 8/21/00–10/31/00. With this data, they find positive correlations between instantaneous ... focus on the relationship between credit spreads and various interest rate variables. As far as we know, Fridson et al. (1997) is the only study that exclusively focuses on the correlation between ... implications. Using the changes in the 30-year Treasury bond yield and the changes in the bond yield using Moody’s corporate bond database from 1977–1992, they find negative correlation between the two...
... transferred from the N lone pair into the s* anti-bonding orbital of the SH bond. This transfer is facili-tated by the overlap of the N lone pair with the lobeof the s* orbital proximate to the S atom, ... proximate to the S atom, not the usual H as in an H-bond. This overlap is facilitated by the rotation of the SÀH bond some 1688 away from the N atom. Nonetheless, the latter HS···N noncova-lent ... were computed as the dif-ference in energy betweenthe dimer and the sum of the opti-mized energies of the isolated monomers, corrected for basis setsuperposition error by the counterpoise...
... regression. The only major difference in the analyses is the nature of the response variable. Inmultiple linear regression, the response is a continuous variable, while inlogistic regression, the response ... and also obtained six clusters of consumers. The majority of the consumers were in cluster 5 (44 consumers), followed bycluster 6 (29 consumers, Table 5). These two clusters were characterized ... revealed that the aroma attributes of these three Cheddar cheeses didnot relate well to the segments of consumers (P Ͼ 0.05) for five out of the sixconsumer clusters.CONCLUSIONIn conclusion, this...
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... the text, please use the electronic Table of Contents that appears alongside the eBook or the Search function. For citation purposes, use the page numbers that appear in the text. 19As the ... the activities on the previous page.Nature’s Paintbrushes. Small branches and twigs can be dipped in paint to be used almostlike pencils. But by flattening the end of the branch, the fibrous ... would not even be able to breathe.42Green plants help make the air we breathe. Theseplants get energy when the Sun shines on theirleaves. This gives them the food they need tomake more air.Treesandotherplantsaremanydifferentshapesandsizes.Butmostplantsaregreen.5150TheEarthishomeforalllivingthings.Plants...
... old long hours at the shop. The pressures arise primarily from the narrow focus on organizational goals and objectives to the exclusion of personal goals and objectives. In other words, if all ... organizations compete for a limited resource. The success of one means that it tends to get more of the resource, which then reduces the success of the others. The resource could be limited dollars ... divisions of a business. It could be limited praise of a teacher in a crowded classroom. Or it could be the limited time of a busy manager: At the top of the diagram, there is the reinforcing...
... (www.ebri.org/rcs/2001/01rcses.pdf).Household Financial Management: The Connection between Knowledge and Behavior 317annual percentage rate because they pay off theirbalances in full each month, but they may want tocompare other ... adopted for the knowledge quiz rather than the multiple-choice format used in many of the othersurveys. Once questions were drafted, they wereshared with a set of researchers who work in the areaof ... of the University ofKansas, prepared this article.Across the decade of the 1990s to the present, the issue of financial education has risen on the agendasof educators, community groups, businesses,...
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... citeinjection drug use as the cause of theirhealth condition. Their injection drug use isrelated to the emotional pain of sexual,physical abuse and isolated child and adulthoods. The women often ... to jail. On their workas prostitutes, the participants indicated thatthey had the “ability and power to insist on the use of a condom if they wanted.”49 Onlyone, however, always used a condom ... Stories AboutTheir Lives and their Health The projects demonstrate the value andstrength of participatory action research. The voices of the women in the reportsprovide real evidence of the challenges...
... the statistical methods used, detailing of the flow ofparticipants through the study and their baseline characteristics,and an interpretation of the results as they fit in the context of otherevidence ... clear on their criteria for selectingthese particular studies to the exclusion of others. All but one of the studies they discussed are randomized clinical trials, which areconsidered the strongest ... psycho-therapy on survival do not figure in CONSORT ratings. Theseinclude the use of mean rather than median survival time and the odd outcomes for the control group in Spiegel et al. (1989); the useof...
... calculated the “adjusted spread change” for interval [n1, n2] as the adjusted spread observation for day n2 minus the adjusted spread for day n1. When there was no observation on the adjusted ... business days before the event to 61 business days before the event. Other time intervals are defined similarly. The adjusted CDS spread on a day is the actual CDS spread less an index of the ... all adjusted spread levels We then counted the total score for all the observations in each category. The test of the significance of the results is the same as that given above for the Table...
... read: the self-teaching hypothesis 7Focus of the review 8 The Australian context 9Focus of Australian research intolanguage and literacy 10 The international context 15Current approaches to the ... into the nextstage of ‘reading to learn’.For the purposes of the evaluation, the children in Year 1 in the year preceding the introduction of the SWELL programformed the control group. Thesechildren, ... of the researchevidence relating to the teaching ofreading was required. This led to the constitution by theUS Congress of the National Reading Panel, charged with the task of assessing the...
... Industrial and Annual Research tapes. We use annual fmancial data because at this point in the development of the literature, we do not think the use of quarterly data is cost-effective. The ... industries. For each industry we calculate the simple average of the predicted and actual firm-specific correlations The fourth column in table 6 reports correlations betweenthe industry-average ... and estimated the correlation structure using the portfolio-level data. These results are not as strong as those reported in the paper. This might be due in part because the industry-level portfolios...