alternatively we use the average inflation rate in europe from 2003 to 2010 of 2 1875 in a robustness test 2f because it could be argued that 10 may be too high furthermore we use different definitions for computing tobin s q in order to further

does csr reporting destroy firm value

does csr reporting destroy firm value

Ngày tải lên : 04/11/2014, 22:20
... inflation rate in Europe from 20 03 to 20 10 of 2. 1875% in a robustness test, because it could be argued that 10% may be too high Furthermore, we use different definitions for computing Tobin s q in order ... this definition instead of total assets, because total assets are also included in the denominator of Tobin s q and might thereby lead to simultaneity problems However, in a robustness analysis, ... environmental and social needs of potential customers A firm can demonstrate its sensitivity to welfare issues in order to stand out against its competitors War for talents As assumed by Waddock and Graves...
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The NCI Strategic Plan for Leading the Nation To Eliminate the Suffering and Death Due to Cancer pdf

The NCI Strategic Plan for Leading the Nation To Eliminate the Suffering and Death Due to Cancer pdf

Ngày tải lên : 15/03/2014, 00:20
... perspectives Research that improves our understanding of its causes and mechanisms — from assessing cancer risk to elucidating the process of metastasis — is essential to our ability to develop and apply ... environmental carcinogens > Advanced statistical techniques assist scientists in analyzing the impact of the macroenvironment on cancer Assays for biomarkers, for example, are used in research to assess ... > Advance research to assess behavior change resulting from health campaigns that promote the availability of healthy foods in a variety of settings, such as fast food restaurants and schools,...
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Báo cáo y học: " Study protocol: The development of a pilot study employing a randomised controlled design to investigate the feasibility and effects of a peer support program following discharge from a specialist first-episode " pdf

Báo cáo y học: " Study protocol: The development of a pilot study employing a randomised controlled design to investigate the feasibility and effects of a peer support program following discharge from a specialist first-episode " pdf

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 16:22
... contain qualitative and quantitative items; the quantitative items will be analysed at the cessation of the study to evaluate the intervention during each of the phases while the qualitative items ... the study coordinator regarding the group allocation The RA, who carries out the assessments, will be blind to group allocation The success of blinding will be assessed at the follow-up assessment ... Scale (VECS) and the Verona Service Satisfaction Scale (VSSS) for measuring expectations and satisfaction with community-based psychiatric services in patients, relatives and professionals Psychol...
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Báo cáo y học: "Response of the mouse lung transcriptome to welding fume: effects of stainless and mild steel fumes on lung gene expression in A/J and C57BL/6J mice" pot

Báo cáo y học: "Response of the mouse lung transcriptome to welding fume: effects of stainless and mild steel fumes on lung gene expression in A/J and C57BL/6J mice" pot

Ngày tải lên : 12/08/2014, 11:22
... ran the arrays and the IPA analysis and drafted the manuscript MLK and SL were responsible for the statistical design, data management, statistical analysis and clustering analysis for these studies ... tissue The same lung RNA samples were used for both RTqPCR and microarray gene expression analysis Data were analyzed by one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) generating a least squares means table ... the arrays The labeled cRNA samples were then assessed for quality and quantity To ensure consistency for the array hybridization, all cRNA samples for each time point were quantified at the same...
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Tài liệu Global action plan to control the spread and impact of antimicrobial resistance in Neisseria gonorrho pdf

Tài liệu Global action plan to control the spread and impact of antimicrobial resistance in Neisseria gonorrho pdf

Ngày tải lên : 18/02/2014, 15:20
... National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Bethesda, United States of America Jo-Anne Dillon, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada Kevin Fenton, National Center for ... exist, methods for AMR testing for STIs are often lacking Furthermore, there is variation in the methods used for AMR testing This makes it difficult to compare data between laboratories and between ... it causes longer duration of illness and treatment, often in hospitals; and it increases health-care costs and the financial burden to families and societies AMR risks taking the world back to...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Combining a Statistical Language Model with Logistic Regression to Predict the Lexical and Syntactic Difficulty of Texts for FFL" potx

Báo cáo khoa học: "Combining a Statistical Language Model with Logistic Regression to Predict the Lexical and Syntactic Difficulty of Texts for FFL" potx

Ngày tải lên : 08/03/2014, 21:20
... formula is still used to assess the readability of articles in journalism studies This example also shows that the French-specific formulae are not much used, probably because of their complexity ... parameterising the data should nevertheless be tested in further research tokens, as is traditional in readability formulae, but the in ected nature of French suggests that lemmas may be a better alternative ... the assets and flaws of each of the statistical models considered This paper has proposed the first readability “formula” for French as a foreign language using NLP and statistical models It takes...
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PMTCT STraTegiC ViSion 2010–2015: Preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV to reach the UNGASS and Millennium Development Goals docx

PMTCT STraTegiC ViSion 2010–2015: Preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV to reach the UNGASS and Millennium Development Goals docx

Ngày tải lên : 14/03/2014, 09:20
... diagnostics and CD4 tests) • Work with partners to secure an adequate supply of affordable medicines and diagnostics of assured quality and other commodities such as condoms • Strengthen national capacity ... systems and for improved data management • Support countries to improve the quality and use of data through data quality assessments, critical reviews of performance indicators and surveys and disease ... 30% 29 28 20 % 14 10% 17 21 19 East, South and South-East Asia 0% Sub-Saharan Africa 13 12 Latin America and the Caribbean Europe and Central Asia 15 Total low- and middleincome countries Source:...
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Deepening Regional Integration to Eliminate the Fragmented Goods Market in Southern Africa docx

Deepening Regional Integration to Eliminate the Fragmented Goods Market in Southern Africa docx

Ngày tải lên : 23/03/2014, 10:20
... as maintaining safety Voluntary standards should be used in all other cases, including indicating quality attributes But in several Southern African countries, scarce public resources are being ... affects unrelated issues such as the minimum thickness of the plastic to be used as well as the size of the text that could be printed on the bags While regional efforts to harmonize standards in SADC ... liberalized by 20 12 (20 15 for Mozambique) A sub-set of five SADC members have already established a customs union under SACU COMESA has also had an FTA since 20 00 Trade between FTA3 and non-FTA4...
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báo cáo hóa học:" What works to meet the sexual and reproductive health needs of women living with HIV/AIDS" pdf

báo cáo hóa học:" What works to meet the sexual and reproductive health needs of women living with HIV/AIDS" pdf

Ngày tải lên : 20/06/2014, 08:20
... rather than by referral to an outside clinic [17] Because many people still not know their HIV status, and because negotiating condom use is not always possible, expanding access to a range of ... most in the USA, found that motivational and behavioural skills building concerning sexual risks increased condom use [45] A number of studies in the USA also found that interactive group sessions, ... modeling found that DPMA use was marginally associated with an increased risk of HIV acquisition while oral contraceptive use was not; however, young women under age 24 using DPMA were at increased...
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Báo cáo nghiên cứu nông nghiệp " Increasing the capacity of the Food Crops Research Institute to enhance the Production and Management of Potatoes in the Red River Delta " pot

Báo cáo nghiên cứu nông nghiệp " Increasing the capacity of the Food Crops Research Institute to enhance the Production and Management of Potatoes in the Red River Delta " pot

Ngày tải lên : 22/06/2014, 13:20
... fungal and viral diseases including powdery scab It is used because it is cheap and has been recently harvested, whereas Vietnamese seed is often stored for months between seasons prior to use The ... seasons Annexes 2, and detail these changes The project was carried out with considerable savings being made from the use of soil and plant analysis facilities in Vietnam These facilities enabled ... visit to WA of the study tour group 3.7 Management of constraints, issues, risks and change Initially the project was constrained by the lack of agreement between the WADA and ITC/AusAID as to...
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Báo cáo y học: " Act In case of Depression: The evaluation of a care program to improve the detection and treatment of depression in nursing homes. Study Protocol" pptx

Báo cáo y học: " Act In case of Depression: The evaluation of a care program to improve the detection and treatment of depression in nursing homes. Study Protocol" pptx

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 15:22
... and DSC units separately The GDS-8-scores and CSDD-scores will be used in the primary analysis Age, sex, cultural background and cognitive status will be used as covariates The EQ5D will be analyzed ... usual care and care according to the care program AID Depending on the skewness of the parameter distributions, statistical testing of differences between strategies will be of a parametrical ... parametrical nature The impact of deterministic variables, such as cost prices for volume parameters that are incremental cost drivers will be investigated using sensitivity analyses on the basis...
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Báo cáo y học: " Relatives Education And Coping Toolkit - REACT. Study protocol of a randomised controlled trial to assess the feasibility and effectiveness of a supported self management package for relatives of people with recent onset psychosis" pdf

Báo cáo y học: " Relatives Education And Coping Toolkit - REACT. Study protocol of a randomised controlled trial to assess the feasibility and effectiveness of a supported self management package for relatives of people with recent onset psychosis" pdf

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 15:22
... ‘testing’ of the analysis by discussion amongst the entire team so as to meet accepted criteria for trustworthiness of the analysis In addition, we will assess the validity of the final analysis ... worries about safety, their satisfaction with support offered and ease of obtaining information 8) The Relatives’ Satisfaction Questionnaire (adapted from CSQ-8 [21 ]) is used to assess satisfaction ... This is a rapidly growing area and a recent meta-analysis of studies evaluating such approaches for depression shows promising results [10] Greater effectiveness is associated with using a ‘guided’...
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Báo cáo y học: "Using protein complexes to predict phenotypic effects of gene mutatio" pps

Báo cáo y học: "Using protein complexes to predict phenotypic effects of gene mutatio" pps

Ngày tải lên : 14/08/2014, 08:20
... results in 11% (10/ 92; listed in the Additional data file 1) of all gene pairs satisfying these criteria being pairs known to cause the same disease We note that 11% may be an underestimate, because ... because many physical interactions and disease genes are yet to be discovered; alternatively it may be an overestimate, because of biases in the scientific literature (see Discussion, below) All ... (Affymetrics Inc., Santa Clara, CA, USA) as the platform because this microarray has more raw data (2, 6 42 CEL files) deposited in the Gene Expression Omnibus database [33] than any other (we did not attempt...
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Báo cáo y học: "Tiling microarray analysis of rice chromosome 10 to identify the transcriptome and relate its expression to chromosomal architecture" pptx

Báo cáo y học: "Tiling microarray analysis of rice chromosome 10 to identify the transcriptome and relate its expression to chromosomal architecture" pptx

Ngày tải lên : 14/08/2014, 14:21
... unusual compositional and structural features, as well as the lack of EST coverage for a large interactions Analysis intergenic TARs of japonica chromosome 10 Figure of Analysis of intergenic TARs ... japonica intergenic TARs possess a significant coding capacity (more than 50 amino acids) Selected intergenic TARs were used as probes in RNA gel-blot analysis to confirm expression of these TARs ... regions A sliding-window-based approach was used to systematically identify intergenic TARs (see Materials and methods) Through this analysis, 574 and 522 intergenic TARs in indica and japonica were...
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Applying macromolecular crowding to promote the expansion and adipogenic differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells in vitro; an effect of matrix reciprocity

Applying macromolecular crowding to promote the expansion and adipogenic differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells in vitro; an effect of matrix reciprocity

Ngày tải lên : 11/09/2015, 09:16
... JE, Santoro SA 1995 ;The spatial and temporal expression of the alpha beta integrin and its ligands, collagen I, collagen IV, and laminin, suggest important roles in mouse mammary morphogenesis Differentiation ... developmental and ovarian steroid regulation in the normal mouse mammary gland Endocrinology (7): 321 4 322 2 100 Salasznyk RM, Klees RF, Williams WA, et al 20 07;Focal adhesion kinase signaling pathways regulate ... JA, Aota SI, et al 1997;Defining the topology of integrin alpha5beta1-fibronectin interactions using inhibitory anti-alpha5 and anti-beta1 monoclonal antibodies Evidence that the synergy sequence...
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Appendix 1 To Chapter The Savings and Loan Crisis and Its Aftermath potx

Appendix 1 To Chapter The Savings and Loan Crisis and Its Aftermath potx

Ngày tải lên : 22/03/2014, 21:20
... incentives to act in their own interests rather than in the interests of taxpayers Because of the high cost of running campaigns, American politicians must raise substantial contributions This situation ... attracted deposits away from healthy S& Ls by offering higher interest rates Because there were so many zombie S& Ls in Texas pursuing this strategy, above-market interest rates on deposits at Texas ... seen, the principal-agent problem for regulators and politicians creates incentives that may cause excessive risk taking on the part of banking institutions, which then cause substantial losses to...
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vegetables. how to grow the tomato and 115 ways to prepare it for the table

vegetables. how to grow the tomato and 115 ways to prepare it for the table

Ngày tải lên : 20/04/2014, 13:47
... ideas was that nature "has a way of evening things out" because it creates no waste He illustrated that the mastery of economic plant life and the maintenance of soils came from finding useful ... and set the same as for seedlings They will begin bearing almost as soon as they begin growing well They are preferable to seedlings In making the cuttings half of each large leaf should be taken ... The above is for rots, molds, mildews, and all fungus diseases BLACK MOLD (Macrosporium tomato) This disease attacks the tomato itself, beginning at the blossom end Tomatoes with rough skins and...
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The Financial Times Guide to Options: The Plain and Simple Guide to Successful Strategies (2nd Edition) (Financial Times Guides)_2 pptx

The Financial Times Guide to Options: The Plain and Simple Guide to Successful Strategies (2nd Edition) (Financial Times Guides)_2 pptx

Ngày tải lên : 20/06/2014, 20:20
... situation is different for options on stocks Because a call is an alternative to buying stock, the call holder has the use of the cash that he would otherwise use to purchase the stock The cost of ... underlying is a stock, many investors purchase these calls because they approximate price movement of the stock, yet they are less expensive than a stock purchase 1  The basics of calls For both stocks ... 104 the profit from the call equals the amount gained by XYZ Between 100 and 104 a partial loss results, equal to the difference between and any gains in XYZ Below 100 a total loss of is realised...
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