... the baseline countries 12 The coefficient estimates for the interaction variables are added to the baseline coefficient, and we obtain the corresponding standard error taking into account the covariance ... residuals as indicated in ( c ) above The dashed line is obtained withthe subset of points shown in each plot The title indicates which group is presented in each of the four plots The coefficient ... Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand The Polity 98 scores for France dropped from 10 to in 1958 as the Algerian war of independence intensified andthe 4th Republic...
... to the positive and negative relationships between ICT andthe environment A number of international organisations and partnerships are involved in examining these relationships and proposing industry ... such as using online news media and magazines instead of newspapers; and using online movies and music instead of their physical analogues Other examples include reducing physical mail and paper ... explored inthe body of the report Individual Internet activities such as using the Internet for finding information about products, reading/downloading online newspapers/news magazines, Internet...
... statement and suggests that the RNA binding site is still available and its binding affinity is not altered by the presence of DNA inthe DNA binding site Interestingly, when nM RNA and 10 nM ... substrate failed to inhibit RNA splicing, even when in 50- and 400-fold excess over protein and RNA, respectively (Fig 6B) Interpreting the data as being inconsistent with a single binding site model ... competition experiments both involved a prebinding step in which either DNA or RNA substrates were incubated with I-AniI in a binding reaction containing either 1.5· or 1.1· the final concentration...
... further reduction inthe bargaining power of banks in setting retail rates for loans to larger firms These findings are in line withthe recent literature focusing on the current global financial ... presented in Table A1 inthe Appendix, fail in rejecting the null hypothesis of no cointegration between bank and interbank interest rates, further confirming the necessity of appropriately modelling ... level in favour of the alternative hypothesis of one cointegrating relationshipwith a structural break occurring in September 2008 in all the four bivariate models On the other hand, linear cointegration...
... of trust The study found that knowledge of the counterpart increased the willingness to invest intherelationship and, thus, increased interdependence intherelationship Indeed, if the firm has ... balancing act of positive actions and monitoring, joint decision making and guidance The basics of channel theory remain valid in China, but the need for building deep trust (ren quin) inthe relation ... relationships between German firms andtheir trading partners intheir home market and nine other countries: Sweden, Poland, Italy, France, USA, Brazil, South Africa, Japan andthe People’s Republic of China...
... backgrounds influence the risk for malignancies in RA patients, thereby suggesting a genetic link between these diseases Second, inthe case of lung cancer it would be very useful to improve the control ... ask whether similar patterns of risk would be observed in patients from other ethnic backgrounds Comparing the Swedish results with those of other studies might give an insight into whether different ... our understanding of malignancy in RA forward but raises many important questions for future research First, as much of the literature they cite (and most of the patients included inthe meta-analysis)...
... inandbetween individuals It was no surprise, therefore, that when we did the analyses on an individual patient basis, no differences inthe proportions of patients withand without spinal inflammation ... showed inflammatory lesions at BL as compared with those edges that had not been inflamed in either the BL or the 2yFU Nevertheless, our findings are in line with previous data of ours [26,28] and ... precise intherelationship of inflammatory activity in MRI and new bone formation of the same VEs in conventional radiographs, a VE in MRI was defined as 'positive' for inflammation if the inflammatory...
... convergent and discriminant validity across informants and reliability with respect to the diagnosis of clinical disorder Thus, using the broader internalising and externalising dimensions may therefore ... reviewing and contributed to the writing of the report HJM contributed to appraising the content andthe writing of the report CDS contributed to the supervision and conceptualisation of the project ... in nature), interacting with early environment gives rise to a tendency to dysphoric mood and low self-esteem that increases the risk of over-eating The reasons for the non-linearity of the relationship...
... key in determining whether a firm actually uses the practices implied The second reason for including these studies is to understand how archival financial data is analyzed in OM, accounting, and ... preliminary analysis of the Compustat data Letters to the respondents informed them of their company’s ranks with respect to several individual and summated operations and business measures The ... getting my survey done, I thank the Ohio State Center for Survey Research for their insights and assistance in collecting data I thank the Center for Excellence in Manufacturing Management for their...
... for the purpose of increasing their ranking Concluding Remarks By selecting a research sample consisting of all the companies included inthe S&P 100 Index and excluding the companies belonging ... standards, and best practices), and expanded coverage for corporations inthe U.K and Australia Based on these findings, we will consider the following research hypothesis: Taking the agency theory ... index ROB (reported by The Globe and Mail) andthe Tobin’s Q ratio when there is a separation between voting rights and cash-flow rights Using Deminor ratings for 1199 companies included in the...
... on theusers needs from the financial reporting inthe timeliness without declaration what are these need? And what is the suitable timeliness? Ahmed (2003) study the financial reporting delaying ... Although the interesting of the accounting literature inthe effective factors study inthe timeliness of financial reporting by the application on the securities market inthe developed industrial ... companies and both of the company volume andthe company activity andthe company profit, and it get to that these is no relation betweenthe company volume andthe delaying of the financial reporting...
... listen and how to cope withtheir listening problems inthe class Without interest and variation in teaching and learning in general andin teaching and learning listening comprehension in particular, ... giving the meaning of the words, by illustrating pictures and real objects, by writing them on the board and then giving the meanings of the words, asking them to listen and repeat words given in ... elaborate and transform what they hear by using their background knowledge and predictions to generate hypotheses on the text; integrating new information withtheir ongoing predictions; making inferences...
... for all i betweenand K, logical process LPi simulates the i-th time interval The initial state of the simulation is known and is used to initialize LP1 During the first run, the other initial ... idea, the PAND gates are simulated first andtheir results are inserted inthe simulation as they are replaced by a virtual component F (F,T,F) (T,T,F) PAND subtree remaining of the DFT PAND gate ... Markov chain of the PAND gate with two inputs Failure transitions are in black straight lines andthe repairing transitions in red dotted lines Right : a DFT with a subtree rooted by PAND gate...
... routinely confirm the facts in stories they learn about from other media and then run the stories without crediting the competition In another study, a prominent political blog, Instapundit, and ... the national television networks inthe United States Intermedia agenda-setting influence was also found in another study on the coverage of the issue of cocaine between 1985 and 1986, withthe ... exiting the Malaysian federation, which it joined upon gaining independence in 1959 from the United Kingdom Singapore experienced rapid economic growth and increasingly higher standards of living...
... there is a good degree of agreement about the overall parameters of the fibre formed by folding the zig-zagging chain of nucleosomes in inactive chromatin, the location of the linker histone in ... upregulation of the remaining variants, with only particular variants being able to compensate Third, there are differences inthe localization of the H1 variants within the nucleus, and there are ... great diversification inthe H1 variants within a single species such as H sapiens, predominantly inthe N-terminal and C-terminal tails, with, as stated, a conserved globular domain However, when...
... as well as the size of feeding tubes [36], their insertion site, where the tubes are located inthe gastrointestinal tract [37], feeding advancement schedules, andthe effect of prokinetic drugs ... allocation, the proportion of patients who were excluded post-randomization, whether cointerventions were described, whether the endpoints were assessed by investigators blinded to the intervention, and ... Although a causal relationshipbetween pneumonia and this secondary endpoint of aspiration of gastric contents has not been convincingly demonstrated, these trials are in keeping withthe gastropulmonary...
... near the building can lower the air temperature next to the skin of the building, thus reducing the conductive and infiltration heat gains In winter they, of course, reduce the desired solar gain ... space and plants within architectural sites can be easily found inthe process of making a Garden City in Singapore The idea of making Singapore a Garden City originated withthe launching of the ... reflected by the increasing population and increasing demands for housing (see Figure 11) Together withthe concentrated commercial buildings andthe scattered industrial 22 CHAPTER INTRODUCTION...
... DIMs inthe cell envelope raises the possibility that these compounds act in vivo by interacting with some component of the host cell and by modulating the host immune response to contain the infection ... postinfection, we observed a marked difference betweenthe number of CFUs of the wild-type strain and that of the PMM56 mutant strain in lungs andinthe spleen (Fig 7A) Indeed, both strains ... unknown, andthe specific roles of the various members of the DIM family, e.g DIM A and DIM B, in these functions have never been investigated The recent developments in our understanding of the biosynthetic...