... face therefore several challenges in production, postharvest and marketing of fresh lychee. The study was designed to identify and estimate the effects offactors on lychee productionandthe ... sampling design and econometric analysis. In terms of econometric analysis, the Cobb-Douglas production function andthe binary logit model are used to evaluate the effects of factors on the lychee ... transportation cost and save time (Table 2). 4. CONCLUSION AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS There were several factorsaffectingthe lychee productivity andthe choices of fresh lychee marketing of producers...
... Simulations30 The growth in operating costs is ofthe same order of magnitude as the rise in the number of care personnel. The € 508 million operating cost ofthe domicileelderly care in the year ... services they need either from the keeper Simulations26 The actual coverage ofthe domicile services at target year depends on the number of elderly living home, their dependency andthe expected ... improve the quality of care.All the results are based on observed service usage at the end ofthe millennium.As the future cohorts are more wealthy and accustomed to a higher standard of living, the...
... the second of classmates and teachers and the third of more distant contacts. They found that 88% wereinfected in the first group 42% in the second group and 18%were infected in the third group. ... between TST positivity of contacts and gender, age, closeness to the index case, BCGscar presence and radiological degree ofthe disease of in-dex case. The rate of TST positivity of household contactsunder ... characteristics ofthe contacts wereshown in table 1. The mean age of contacts determined ac-tive disease was 24.4 ± 16.9. Twenty-one of them were fema-le and 14 male. The mean age of index cases...
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... that they can “understand the intricacies of business and accounting with less effort and increase their rate of success in completing the course.” A summary ofthe literature on Hispanics and ... composition and number of schools accredited by the AACSB since its foundation and the introduction in 1994 ofthe new “mission-related” standards and found that the 4 A detailed list ofthe current ... who took the test (n=368), regardless of their major. To the contrary of their hypotheses, the authors found a significant correlation between all of the GPA measures (i.e. Core GPA) and intellectual...
... Perception of their Level of Awareness and Understanding, Ease of Use, and Usefulness of Cost Accounting System In this part, authors base on the profile of respondents about profession andthe ... appriciate the difference in the accountants’ andthe managers’ perception of their level of awareness and understanding, ease of use, and usefulness of cost accounting system. The results of t-test ... 4.2. The Accountants’ andthe Managers’ Perception of their Level of Awareness and Understanding, Ease of Use, and Usefulness of Cost Accounting System 4.2.1. Perceived Level of Awareness and...
... U.K.Introduction The direction of growth of the main roots of a tree is an important determinant of the form of the root system. It affects the way the system exploits the soil ... downwards. The signal for the direction of the vector of gravity is given by the sedimentation of starch grains onto the floor of statocytes in the central tissues of the root ... the position of the vascular strands in the taproot. The taproot of Q. robur, forexample, has 4-5 strands (Champagnatet al., 1974), and the existence of 4-5 filesof...
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