... evaluation settings Their major drawback of evaluation is that they focus onthe estimation of cash flows and accounting criteria (Kim, Suh and Hwang, 2003) Nevertheless, traditional performance ... information systems and data warehouses been able to manage a great deal of data The challenge is to capture and measure soft and qualitative information For example, in the book The Experience Economy ... Skandia Navigator (Edvinsson and Malone, 1997) Value Chain Scoreboard (Lev, 2002) Description of measure Sets of human capital indicators are collected and bench-marked against a database Similar...
... [http://www.diabetes.ca/cpg2003/chapters.aspx?agrowing healthcareproblem.htm] Canadian Diabetes Association (CDA): Clinical practice guidelines for the management of diabetes in Canada Canadian Medical Association ... Limitations An inherent limitation of collecting data through chart audit is the documented data obtained may potentially underestimate actual care [112] Other methods of data collection, such as ... Loov LA, Martensson M: Leadership and climate for innovation in teams Economic and Industrial Democracy 2004, 25:301-318 Waldman DA, Bass BM: Transformational leadership at different phases of the...
... [http://www.diabetes.ca/cpg2003/chapters.aspx?agrowing healthcareproblem.htm] Canadian Diabetes Association (CDA): Clinical practice guidelines for the management of diabetes in Canada Canadian Medical Association ... Limitations An inherent limitation of collecting data through chart audit is the documented data obtained may potentially underestimate actual care [112] Other methods of data collection, such as ... Loov LA, Martensson M: Leadership and climate for innovation in teams Economic and Industrial Democracy 2004, 25:301-318 Waldman DA, Bass BM: Transformational leadership at different phases of the...
... two-tailed Spearmans coefficient (r) for non-parametric correlations A P value of less than 0.05 was regarded as significant Software package STATA 9.0 (USA) was used for the analysis Materials and Methods ... and after the initiation of NARP can be seen in table A negative correlation was observed between the ceftriaxone consumption and the prevalence of ceftriaxone resistant E.coli and Klebsiella ... financial cost and resistance patterns of leading nosocomial pathogens (gram) and number of boxes were calculated from two databases, 1) Hospital pharmacy computer databases, and 2) International...
... effects ofthe implementation ofthe SCP in daily clinical practice is lacking As such, both the IOM and Health Council also recommend studies for the evaluation oftheimpactof SCPs on patient and ... for them to be blinded to the group assignment The participants onthe other hand are unaware ofthe group assignment, as they are under the assumption that the hospital is providing usual care ... This questionnaire aims to evaluate the (satisfaction with) information received by cancer patients on different areas ofthe disease, diagnosis, treatment and care, and some qualitative aspects,...
... social dynamic data supplier RepRisk Finally, SAM analysts personally contact companies to clarify any issues that may arise from the analysis ofthe MSA, the questionnaire, and the company documents ... governance, so that the board can form an opinion about whether management is executing the strategy ofthe organization well Quality, comparability, and credibility of information and whether management ... Firms: A Model of Myopic Corporate Behavior Quarterly Journal of Economics 104: 655-669 Ullmann, AA 1985 Data in search ofa theory: a critical examination ofthe relationships among social performance,...
... International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the World Bank ... of Sudan Congo meter Cameroon 30 Eritrea Figure 3d Sub-Saharan Africa: GDP impacted Sudan South Africa Angola Sao Tome and Principe Somalia Madagascar meter Equatorial Guinea Tanzania Somalia ... Guinea-Bissau Guinea Senegal Liberia The Gambia Mauritania % Impact (Urban Extent) meter Togo Gabon Guinea Madagascar Benin Somalia Mozambique Sierra Leone Senegal Mauritania Guinea-Bissau The Gambia...
... and unnatural motion Given the good correlation with the subjective quality scores, the NTIA General VQM was adopted both as a national standard and as an international recommendation The model ... effects of PLR variation Based onthe performed analysis, an optimization ofthe quality assessment and ofthe monitoring system can be done The adoption of an objective model allows to determine the ... of an error concealment block at the receiver The analytical approximation ofthe residual PLR also for the 2D-FEC allows to evaluate the perceived quality as a function ofthe inserted redundancy...
... compare categorical data A mixed models analysis was employed using SAS Systems A repeated-measures ANOVA was used, where the year was regarded as the repeated measure and the factor was the variable ... that same year Neonatal transfers therefore spent longer in a particular status category than in any ofthe other categories This trend was seen in all but one ofthe status categories (mean ... before dispatching them It is suggested that in the case of neonatal and maternity incidents, the fact that these patients are already accommodated at a health facility has led many dispatchers...
... Cantabrian lowlands than in other locations at the Atlantic region, but less probable than in the Mediterranean region Thus, the climate at the Cantabrian lowlands could be defined as Atlantic ... Northern Patagonia, Argentina: the roles of substrate stability and climatic variation, Can J For Res 25 (1995) 1684−1696 [25] Kobayashi O., Funada R., Yasue K., Ohtani J., Evaluation ofthe ... plantations of eucalyptus and pine (more than 000 ha) The Caviedes forest is the largest among three remnants ofthe native oak and beech-oak forest, which actually occupied a total surface of...
... inflows of Laos had strongly positive relationship with indicators ofthe Transportation and Communication Table 22 FDI and Transportation and Communication Coefficient of Correlation Transportation ... FDI have a significant role on Human Capital of Laos? • Does FDI have a significant role onthe Energy and Natural Resources availability of Laos? • Does FDI have a significant role onthe Transportation ... income on international trade have increased significantly and have had a direct impacton national income as well as GDP growth 1.2 Rationale for the Research It has been suggested that Foreign...
... cognitive appraisal ofthe discrepancy, and (2) a distressed emotional state The cognitive appraisal refers to the victim’s assignment of culpability to the offender and the evaluation ofthe costs associated ... exploiting that trust Depending on these analyses, and theimpactofthe reparative efforts by the offender, the outcome ofthe relationship can range from restoration to recalibration to termination This ... generalize to many actual social situations As Deutsch (1973) explains: “Any social situation in which an individual may enhance his own satisfactions to the disadvantage of another by not adhering...
... Research Direction 121 REFERENCES 123 v ABBREVIATIONS AFTA Asean Free Trade Area AGOA Africasn Growth and Opportunity Act APTA Asia Pacific Trade Agreement ASEAN Association of ... East Asian Nations ATIGA Asean Trade in Goods Agreement BIT Bilateral Investment Treaty BOP Balance of Payments CAP Carribean African Pacific CEPEA Comprehensive Economic Partnership in East Asia ... their economic status as passing through one of five stages: the traditional society, the preconditions for take-off, the take-off, the drive to maturity, and the age of high mass- consumption...
... Does FDI have a significant role onthe Energy and Natural Resources availability of Laos? • Does FDI have a significant role onthe Transportation and Telecommunication infrastructure of Laos? 1.4 ... FDI have a significant role onthe Financial Capital? • Does FDI have a significant role onthe country's level of technology of Laos? • Does FDI have a significant role on Human Capital of Laos? ... per capita, financial capital, level of technology, human capital, energy and natural resources, transportation and communication • Does FDI have a significant role onthe GNI per capita? • Does...
... research method was aimed at providing information on students‘ attitudes towards, and opinions about, the genre-based approach that their teacher (also the researcher) used In addition to the ... three main parts: Part I is the INTRODUCTION In this part, the rationale ofthe research, the aims, objectives, research questions, methods ofthe research, and also its design Part II is the DEVELOPMENT ... 2 Aims and objectives ofthe research The research is aimed at investigating students‘ attitudes towards the genre-based approach, which was new to them, and examining whether this teaching approach...
... 3% are of AfroCaribbean or other non-white origin Unemployment rates are relatively high at nearly 2% above the national average The average wage is lower than the national average and 44% of ... Management Accounting and control Systems: an organizational and behavioral approach Wiley & Sons, Chichester Macintosh, N (1995), The ethics of profit manipulation: a dialectic of control analysis ... beginning to influence traditional budgetary practices • At the time ofthe research, modernisation seems to be associated with outsourcing rather than ona rational appraisal of make or buy which might...
... lowergrade bond universe increases In his most recent paper on junk bonds, Altman (1989) used a mortality rate concept to measure default rates conditional onthe age ofthe bond Altman found that the ... single day (9/14/89) many bonds lost 20% of their value The aforementioned studies measured annual default rates and therefore failed to account for the age ofthe bond As a result, these studies ... their capital This is supported by the fact that the bond market dwarfs the stock market by a ratio of three to one With more accurate information on default rates, investors can measure their asset...
... fundamental part ofthe overall corporate strategy to create shareholders’ value (Nazir and Afza,2008) A lot of financial managers in the world have researched impactof working capital management on firms’ ... profit and profitability of company and theimpactof working capital management onthe company profitability The third chapter is data and methodology This chapter discusses the data collection, ... main analyses Secondly, Pearson Correlation analysis are used to study the relationship between variables Thirdly, The researcher analyzed detail theimpactof working capital management on companies’...
... birth-related variables; it is true of maternal education if we assume, as virtually all mortality and fertility analyses of WFS and DHS data have done, that mother’s level of educational attainment ... oral rehydration therapy to treat diarrhoea, and use of professional services for prenatal care and birth assistance are probably greater in subSaharan Africa than in other developing regions ... breastfeeding are one aspect ofthe modernization of migrant behaviour in urban areas that confers a wide range of health benefits on children of migrants Onthe other hand, relatively low durations...