... 12(4):273-279 Damanpour F: Organizational innovation: a meta-analysis of effects of determinants and moderators Acad Manage J 1991, 34(3):555-590 Oranta O, Routasalo P, Hupli M: Barriers to and facilitators ... note, and document data had yet to be adequately operationalized and thus realized as a routine, day -to- day activity It is also of note that the two top leaders at the beginner site, comparable to ... accountability, if you don't hit that target again and again and again, what does that mean' (formal leader two) More broadly, there was a clear orientation at the role model site to knowledge and...
... 12(4):273-279 Damanpour F: Organizational innovation: a meta-analysis of effects of determinants and moderators Acad Manage J 1991, 34(3):555-590 Oranta O, Routasalo P, Hupli M: Barriers to and facilitators ... note, and document data had yet to be adequately operationalized and thus realized as a routine, day -to- day activity It is also of note that the two top leaders at the beginner site, comparable to ... accountability, if you don't hit that target again and again and again, what does that mean' (formal leader two) More broadly, there was a clear orientation at the role model site to knowledge and...
... Administrative Science Quarterly article titled 'Qualitative data as an attractive nuisance' that research based upon casestudy was unlikely to transcend story-telling Is casestudya valid research ... research process is very important if other researchers are to be able to repeat a research programme: It is for this reason that researchers like Yin are especially adamant that acase database ... itself Qualitative research as preparation - As mentioned above, qualitative research has a long standing history as an exploratory strategy Comments of researchers that qualitative research is...
... The casestudy applied the BSC for analyzing stakeholder value that accrued from adopting Internet banking in participating banks (Kaplan & Norton, 2004; and Southard & Siau, 2004) The casestudy ... reports, and third party databases to augment the survey There was no monetary support from the bank or its affiliates The casestudy utilized two questionnaires to gather data from the participating ... communicating All the information is transferred to all the parties involved in the auction transactions via email Amazon has an extensive customer database and it has started offering its credit cards...
... PASS validation should be performed with a statistical analysis aimed for calculations of non-parametric data, besides traditional statistical methods As far as we know, newer statistical analysis ... [15] PA measures exact agreement (diagonal) Additionally, due to this fact and to the ordinal nature of data, the rank-invariant method for inter-scale comparison, described by E Svensson, was applied ... such as rank- invariant method has not been used to explore the PASS before The aim of this study was to assess the intrarater and the interrater reliability for the grading of postural balance using...
... paretic hand via a magnetic marker placed either in the palmar surface of a glove or directly onto the dorsum of the hand at the 3rd metacarpal head Both visual and auditory feedback indicates successful ... design, data analysis and interpretation, and drafted the manuscript SY, YJ, HJ, and LL participated in system design and data analysis MW and SC designed and coordinated the experimental protocol ... The author(s) declare that they have no competing interests and assisted with data collection, analysis, and interpretation MM and AR conceived of the study and helped in system design, data analysis,...
... characteristics as gender, race/ethnicity, educational attainment, marital status, smoking status and history as other national data sources on persons 55 to 75 Also, because this was a cross-sectional study ... work limitation and occupational disability in an international study Chest 2003, 124(3):1153-1159 Saarinen K, Karjalainen A, Martikainen R, Uitti J, Tammilehto L, Klaukka T, Kurppa K: Prevalence ... were also omitted from the estimations This may account for the finding that advanced age was significantly, although weakly associated with a decreased hazard of leaving work These limitations...
... ultrasound propagation and its relation to tissue harmonic imaging workshop 4th International Workshop on Ultrasonic and Advances Methods for Nondestructive Testing and Material Characterization 2006 ... International Ultrasonics Symposium 2009, 1334-1337 Elnokrashy AF, Elmalky AA, Hosny TM, Ellah MA, Megawer A, Elsebai A, Youssef ABM, Kadah YM: GPU-based reconstruction and display for 4D ultrasound ... F, Ramalli A, Cachard C, Tortoli P, Basset O: Fundamental and second-harmonic ultrasound field computation of inhomogeneous nonlinear medium with a generalized angular spectrum method IEEE Trans...
... is automatically taken into account, as well as the spatial distribution of the material through the Li matrices As a result, full cells are heavier and stiffer than partially empty cells, and ... Modal Analysis The method for FEM model [17] is adapted from realtime deformation to modal analysis In particular, the modal parameters are extracted in a preprocessing step by solving the equation ... modal analysis prevents it from being used for realtime rendering As an example, the actual cost of computing the partial eigenvalue decomposition usinga tetrahedralization in the case of a bowl...
... relative span weighted localization in order to estimate the location of a transmitter with minimal information available at a set of receivers Our approach adapts the concept of moving average ... suggests a candidate area for the location of a transmitter While open-form solutions may localize a node within an area with a suitable degree of granularity for certain types of applications, ... reliance upon a nearly-ideal radio propagation environment, with little signal noise, as well as the availability of multiple transmitted messages so that the signal fluctuations can be averaged...
... Characteristics Related to Success Rodriguez (1999) examines projects in Latin America – Buenos Aires Suburban Railway, BA Subway, BA Access Roads, Sao Paulo State Busway, Sao Paulo Municipal ... General Taxes, Fees Real Estate Taxes and Related Value Capture Direct and Indirect Service Charges – Fares, Parking Fees, Tolls, Fuel Taxes General Taxes, Fees Special Vehicle Sales Taxes – Denmark, ... contribution Maintenance costs should be recouped on a variable impact basis (standard axle kilometers) At minimum, wear and tear cost incorporated partly in fuel tax & partly in vehicle category related...
... Adapted from Carney (1998) Note: H - human capital; S - social capital; P - physical capital; F - financial capital; N - Natural capital Figure The Sustainable Livelihood Framework In particular, ... that labor availability is a crucial factor that allows the households to pursue income diversification and nonagricultural strategies Educational level Educational level is also an important ... correlations with their livelihood assets including natural capital, human capital, physical capital, financial capital and social capital Those households who have more livelihood assets tend to...
... randomised trials 52 trials: no qualitative data 10 trials: qualitative data collection referred to but not available Figure Flow chart trials: qualitative data collection carried out pre-trial ... data collection methods and/or data analysis In at least four of these six cases, the qualitative data were not the only focus of the paper In these 14 trials, lay health worker programmes had ... out Data collection and analysis was led by an experienced qualitative researcher The main author of the randomised trial was also involved in the qualitative study While the randomised trial illustrated...
... PASS validation should be performed with a statistical analysis aimed for calculations of non-parametric data, besides traditional statistical methods As far as we know, newer statistical analysis ... [15] PA measures exact agreement (diagonal) Additionally, due to this fact and to the ordinal nature of data, the rank-invariant method for inter-scale comparison, described by E Svensson, was applied ... such as rank- invariant method has not been used to explore the PASS before The aim of this study was to assess the intrarater and the interrater reliability for the grading of postural balance using...
... Additional data files The following additional data are available with the online version of this paper Additional data file is a table of P values for all OR genes in all tissues Additional data file ... probe-sets Additional data file provides supplementary materials and methods Supplementary file region probe-sets Analysis of (in log RT-PCR validation scale) for methods RMA and all materials andectopically ... functional annotation as odorant receptors In contrast, at least 32 predicted human OR genes may not be odorant receptors, as they appear to be expressed exclusively in non-olfactory tissues A caveat...
... Table 1.1: Advantages and disadvantages of the deductive approach to teaching grammar Table 1.2: Advantages and disadvantages of the inductive approach to teaching grammar Table 1.3: Relationship ... presents advantages and disadvantages in the following table Table 1.1 Advantages and disadvantages of the deductive approach to teaching grammar Advantages The deductive approach goes straightforwardly ... grammar and teaching grammar are crucial parts in language learning As Brown (1994) stressed that the teaching of grammar besides vocabulary has always been a central aspect of foreign language...
... politically weak peasants As local governments resort to land sales to finance urban infrastructure, the requisition of rural land at low cost has become an easy and vital means for them to amass land ... froma GDP per capita of around 5,000 yuan to over 70,000 yuan – Shaoguan, Shantou, Zhaoqing, Shanwei, Heyuan, Dongguan and Zhongshan – saw a staggering growth Ho and Lin, “Non-Agricultural Land ... peasants were resettled.60 The scale of land use change and land expropriation in Guangdong makes it an ideal site for investigating how agricultural land has been taken away from peasants to...
... jurisdiction to spur urbanization that may not be predicated on demographic changes, they also have to supply land to accommodate the demands arising from such changes Large-scale processes such as urbanization ... urbanization, broadly understood as the shift from rural-agricultural activity to urban-industrial activity and measured by different indicators, has a more ambiguous relationship with non-agricultural ... non-agricultural land use in China than what scholars perceive First, some common indicators of urbanization, such as the size of the urban built-up area and industrial land, are not appropriate for analyzing...
... Conversion from 1988 onwards Table 3.5 Land Taxes and Tax Rates Tax Arable land use tax Taxable Item Area of arable land occupied Fixed asset investment adjustment tax Land appreciation tax Sum of ... Business tax Urban maintenance and construction tax Stamp duty Contract tax Urban land use tax Tax Rate yuan to 50 yuan per square metre 0% to 30% Transfer of land use rights and attached structures ... taxes, attesting to the observation that a fall in a tax revenue source is compensated with a rise in another to make up for the shortfall in earnings Urban land use tax and urban maintenance and...
... draw businesses and tax-payers to pay tax in a locality, some townships may give a 20 to 50 percent rebate on the tax contribution to local coffers Others may reduce tax rates to attract tax-payers ... city area since a city in China is an administrative concept and may encompass large areas of villages and agriculture, meaning that the area of a Chinese city is often larger than its urbanized ... Binghua and Li Xian, “Yueji, chongfu shangfang yuanyin ji duice qianxi” (“Appeals that bypass immediate leaders and repeated appeals: an analysis of causes and counter-measures”), Juece tansuo...