... examine motives of FDI makers, the following section reviews some theories Explaining Foreign Direct Investment flows Theories explaining FDI assert that the basis for such investment lies inthe ... Ishigami, 1999) The most important theories explaining FDI are the following: Comparative Cost Advantage Theory According to the theory of comparative cost advantage (explaining the nature of imperfect ... relevant inthe electronics and automobile sectors, two ofthe most important recipients of FDI The influx of new foreign investments has benefited the country in terms of industrial growth, including...
... give us a kind of “upper boundary” of what is possible to achieve using QRs They include almost anything that is found inthe manual attributes and the named entities They also frequently include ... refinement: they represent the efficiency ofthe query when the user selects the best possible refinement for a given QR type We have split the results in three groups depending on the size ofthe target ... researcher) These cases widen even more the range of effective QRs The overall results of using tokens and ngrams are almost perfect for all clusters, but at the cost of considering every possible bit of...
... average of US $25 in low-income countries, US$ 50 in lower middle-income countries and US$ 139 in upper middle-income countries By contrast, findings from the second study by the WHO indicate that the ... mitigate this impact It brings together findings from two recently completed studies that can inform international policy dialogue, including the UN High-Level Meeting on NCDs Their findings shed ... gaps in our understanding of how to mitigate these challenges by highlighting recent findings about the social costs of NCDs and the resource needs for managing these conditions Specifically, the...
... used Self-financing ratio is greater than the debt to be paid and al of them decrease on ending ofthe year but the initiative ofthe company's debt rose at the end ofthe year Self-financing ratio ... assessment ofthe financial situation is a process of reviewing and examining the preliminary first step ofthe financial situation ofthe company This work will provide managers know the financial ... Thus the intensity of competition is identified not only by the number of firms inthe industry, but also by the similarity of firms' goods and services inthe same industry and in other industries...
... presentation ofthe results ofthe analysis; The discussion ofthe results including a brief discussion on the sensitivity ofthe forecast to the assumptions inthe model Linkages between disease and the ... disease on the economy through change in labour supply, or the opportunity cost of one unit of labour, and through theimpactofthe cost of treating chronic disease on savings; (3) The effect of chronic ... interventions to control the burden of chronic diseases This paper is an account ofthe initial exploration in ongoing work on the economic impactof chronic disease In this paper, we apply the...
... improved outcome It is indeed the next step in clinical investigation, but not quite ready for implementation into clinical practice before the hypothesis is definitively investigated in a controlled ... reviewed the paper ALW analyzed the data RDB supervised the project All authors read and approved the final manuscript COMPETING INTERESTS STATEMENTS None ofthe authors have any competing interests ... questioned whether it was indeed the BP differential that resulted in poor outcomes or rather an episode of hypotension during the early ED course that was the culprit When we compared the hypotensive...
... examining theimpactof CFS on earnings, Additional file 2, Table S4 summarizes its impact on earning controlling separately for the interaction with the reported educational attainment and the ... limitations ofthe survey design, we cannot a-priori generalize our findings beyond the study population However, our findings offer a benchmark for assessing the approximate magnitude ofthe burden of ... annual earnings, respectively In a separate analysis controlling for the interaction of CFS and the employment status, Table Age of CFS Onset and Educational Attainment (Finishing College) inthe Sampled...
... column in Business Week magazine The holding period decreases significantly over the period of trading, reflecting learning on the part ofthe brokers about the temporary nature ofthe Business ... 75% ofthe companies mentioned inthe column In other words, inthe six months preceding the brokers’ Business Week scheme, the IWS column had an impact on the prices of featured stocks In Panel ... day of informed trading After re-estimating the models with the control sample, we use these regression estimates to net out the effects of order imbalances from the data inthe informed trading...
... further study theimpactof these variables on Urbanization without conflict with the theoretic IV method, we verified the regression in Model 2, 3, and ofthe second stage by linking up Log of ... confirms the Capital formation covers all theimpact from these variables, and thus supports the method of Model 2, 3, and of second stage 4.2 Impactof Internet on Urbanization in China The results ... expected to appreciably raise our productivity and standards of living inthe twenty first century certainly, and quite possibly in some ofthe remaining years of this century.” Internet is indispensible...
... difference inthe extent of leaching of metals when the tailings are discharged in to the seawater A comparison ofthe leaching of metals from tailings of two base-metal mines, a zinc-lead mine on the ... these metals To explain the reactions to determine the pathways and the ultimate fate of these metals into the aquatic environment 2.0 SOURCES OF HEAVY METALS INTHE AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT 2.1 Introduction ... state build up inthe water column below the thermocline As a result of thermocline erosion, generally due to the high intensity wind stress, there could be continual production of hydrous metal...
... with the T-method utilizing the standard cutoff of 20% positive cells, as well as with the T/B Ratiomethod; inthe latter case, the cut-off of 3.0 identified inthe test set was chosen According ... as determined by the c index (Fig 2B) Inthe case ofthe T/B Ratio-method, in which ZAP-70 expression is evaluated taking into account T-MFI and B-MFI, the optimal cut-off value was again estimated ... entering the study No deaths were recorded inthe untreated patients or prior the start of therapy Treatments were established following National Cancer Institute-Working Group guidelines [16] The...
... initial inappropriate antibiotic therapy in these patients [1013] or to increased intrinsic virulence ofthe pathogen [14,15] Others have taken the alternative view that increased mortality in ... for Part ofthe controversy of whether involvement of MDR in nosocomial infection is an independent risk factor for mortality possibly stems from inclusion of different sets of covariates in regression ... diagnosis of VAP as the competing risk Recently some authors discussed the application of these recently developed models inthe specific ICU-setting where censoring due to discharge alive from the...
... Board ofthe Indiana University School of Medicine (Indianapolis, Indiana) Informed consent was obtained for key informant interviews, and all clinical investigation was conducted according to the ... Manager inthe Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine PB is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicines and Co-Field Director of Research ... notes and in confirming or disconfirming the codes and the subsequent themes Data triangulation was used by comparing the information reported inthe interview dialogue with clinic information...
... month after the completion ofthe study, the ICIS was implemented inthe two other remaining units Approval ofthe ethics committee was obtained; informed consent was waived A surgical ICU-independent ... overdose of a beta-blocker, where rapid intervention ofthe clinical pharmacist intercepted the administration of this overdose The nonintercepted potential ADEs were mainly dosing errors or incompleteness ... safety, they are not discussed in detail The incidence of intercepted MPEs was four times lower inthe C-U than inthe PB-U A few of these errors concerned problems with trailed zeros, but most of them...
... of ciprofloxacin and levofloxacin were not restricted for the first three days of therapy by NARP, the consumption of these quinolones was unsurprisingly high Besides that the use of oral quinolones ... before the initiation ofthe NARP Even in these selected centres already applying local antibiotic restriction policies the utilisation of many ofthe restricted antibiotics was decreased and the ... respectively) Inspite of increased consumption of piperacillin-tazobactam after the NARP, the resistance rates of E.coli and Klebsiella spp against piperacillin-tazobactam did not increase significantly...
... and the additional spreading is minimal or non-existent; this would be the case of a UWB system The choice ofthe spreading bandwidth will impactthe system in a number of ways, including the ... a linear relationship between the energy ofthe fading coefficient and the minimum spreading bandwidth Specifically, as the energy inthe fading coefficient increases, the minimum number of coherence ... produce the equivalent result of maximal ratio or equal-gain combining The advantage ofthe Rake receiver is that if the output of one ofthe correlators is corrupted by fading, the others may...
... that the sum of cost shares is equal to unity In other words, the value ofthe three inputs is equal to total costs Linear homogeneity inthe input prices requires that the three linear input ... empirical approximation ofthe theoretical Lerner index.3 Inthe literature, banks’ efficiency is often seen as proxy of competition The existence of scale and scope economies has inthe past been investigated ... PCM of all banks But since more efficient banks may have a higher PCM (skimming off the part of profits that stems from their efficiency lead), the increase of their market share may raise the industry’s...
... housing, retained Civic Economics to analyze the economic impactofthe 2006 commitment and to consider the prospective impactof another round of bonds to be issued in 2012 Summary of Findings The ... construction of housing made possible by the 2006 bond funds has produced an economic impactinthe City of Austin approaching $350 million in today’s dollars When the remaining funds are expended inthe ... economic impact approaching a further $420 million Inthe coming months, the people of Austin will consider committing a new round of general obligation bond funding to support affordable housing...
... liabilities Since immigrants typically are of working age at the time of their entry into the country, they enlarge the group of net tax payers and thus reduce the inter-temporal fiscal 53In Bonin (2001), ... over time due to the aging of populations Inthe following, we will apply the method of generational accounting in order to evaluate the fiscal impactof immigrants in Austria The method has been ... ofthe overall imbalance itself Smith and Edmonston (1997) contains another detailed evaluation ofthe future fiscal impactof immigrants inthe US along the lines ofthe generational accounting...