β value in the gravity models

... of the marginal costs of an additional infected individual, as well as the (negative) value the infected value assumes due to increasing the age-interaction between risky individuals The indirect ... component The direct effect measures the value of the life of an additional individual and the indirect one the effect of the number of expected descendants Interestingly the indirect effect has the As ... value In our case the value of the system is expressed in terms of the value of the objective function (e.g if the objective function measures utility, the value of individuals is expressed in...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 16:20

... and the emergence of alternative business models Here are the main findings of the research The perceived link between sustainability efforts and long-term profitability remains strong In the ... of businesses are putting in place sustainability targets, measuring their performance against these targets using a variety of indicators, and publishing information about the progress they are ... versus 19% in 2011), owing in part to the growing volume of sustainability The challenge of measuring and reporting sustainability indicators 2 disclosure requirements there The reporting requirements...

Ngày tải lên: 04/12/2015, 00:15

... factors leading to the decline of property values, especially in economic crisis So the direction on determining the fair value accounting in Vietnam‟ enterprises is an essential issue in the current ... continue to develop, encouraging business more interested in the valuation experts - the experts in determining fair value Meanwhile according to United States Generally accepted accounting principles ... comparability of the value of financial instruments bought at different times In addition, financial disclosures that use FV provide investors with insight into prevailing market values, further helping to...

Ngày tải lên: 13/03/2014, 14:20

... whilst the prevalence of obesity was 14.3% in males and 20.1% in females These results are compatible with the prevalence of obesity recorded in other countries [7] Problems arising from the increase ... physical exercise other than walking and walking (Model 3), the lower HRQL was independ-ently linked to overweight only in females Similar results were obtained in model 4 which also included adjust-ments ... to ascertain the subtle differ-ences which contribute to a change in the perceived qual-ity of life in individuals with increased body weight, and particularly in the obese Conclusion The SF-36...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... will need the ability to redefi ne their planning continually, instead of only at the beginning of each budget cycle, in order to adjust the mix of programmes in their portfolio more quickly to ... agencies have to take a hard look at their spending in order to weed out the initiatives that are the least critical to their missions—in turn shifting the focus to how they evaluate programmes Just ... Currently, funding is by far the biggest driver The question is how to factor resource constraints into the decision-making process For the current fi scal year planning, well before the current...

Ngày tải lên: 06/12/2015, 23:06

... include the processes during admission, procedures during stay in hospital, and the procedures involved in the exit and discharge stage of the patient‟s stay in hospital 2.1.3 Facilities: In other ... on the models in the Literature review, the conceptual model was built The author justifies the mediating role of perceived value in the relationship between service quality and perceived value ... each of the interviewers The number of respondents is 177 people The average duration of the interviews was ten minutes The respondent is that of individuals over the age of 18, who used the hospitalization...

Ngày tải lên: 06/04/2017, 15:55

... shows the effect that changes in the three value drivers have on the step function increase in dividends when they are included in the analysis Changes in the value drivers are introduced in Year ... illustrate the concept of finding more value in multistage valuation models, including changes in key value drivers The seventh section shows a calculation of the terminal value, which leads to the ... paper is to use the growth in sales to drive the determination of resulting cash flows in the valuation analysis, and then to determine the effect of changes in the other three key value drivers...

Ngày tải lên: 16/01/2020, 17:52

... analyze the determinants of related party transactions affecting the firm value of the companies in the business group listed in the Indonesia Stock Exchange The determinants covered the types ... important role in determining the value of capitalization in the Indonesia Stock Exchange The business groups include the business groups which form large market capitalization consisting of Astra, ... transactions are the most common corporate actions occurring in the business groups in the Indonesia Stock Exchange that can influence firm value The market capitalization proportion of the business groups...

Ngày tải lên: 01/02/2020, 22:44

... of the role of service encounters in the interaction with customers, this study seeks to underpin the literature by providing more insights into the mechanism of service encounter–customer interaction ... cooperative, and the value co-creation is likely to be successful, raising the perceived value In short, as patients attempt to participate in the treatment process, their perceived value can be increased ... through the service) will play the key roles in measuring perceived value in this study 3 Proposed hypotheses 3.1 Provider interaction behavior, customer participation, and perceived value Interaction...

Ngày tải lên: 04/02/2020, 21:07

... The model is estimated by multinomial logit regression 4.2.5 DERIVING THE β VALUE IN THE GRAVITY MODELS The distance friction coefficient β is a key parameter in the gravity models, and deriving ... studies In this case, the methods are used in delineating hinterlands (in uential areas) for major cities in northeast China Delineation of hinterlands is an important task for regional planning The ... in China One may need to export the combined table from the first join, and then join the exported table to the polygon layer so that the fields contained in NearCity _id.dbf will not be lost in...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:22

... The reaction rate was determined at 25 C by measuring the linear increase in absorbance at 400 nm during the initial Control experiments were carried out in the absence of NAT2 The slope of the ... protonated His, increasing its pKa value and, therefore, increasing the nucleophilicity of active site Cys A similar interaction was found between the indole ring of an active site Trp177 and the imidazole ... imidazole of the catalytic triad His159 in the papain-like Cys proteinase [44] Mutations of the Trp to either Tyr, Phe, Ile or Ala (the strength of the Hisaromatic interaction decreases in the series...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 00:20

... standards.3/ Issues discussed included the challenges of measuring and auditing the fair value of complex financial instruments in an increasingly thin or illiquid market, including the availability and ... declines in the fair value of many debt and equity securities held by issuers The declines in the fair values of certain of such securities were significant, causing their fair values to decline ... nonpublic unless and until they result in a final disciplinary sanction taking effect Many of the Board's investigations involve, among other things, extensive fact-gathering, including review of relevant...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 02:20

... of the genomic regions containing Sp1 or AP-2a binding elements in the KCTD10 promoter, and representative ChIP-PCR results were shown in Fig The chromatin fragment containing Sp1- or AP-2a-binding ... is indicated by the arrow (PE means primer extension) Binding of Sp1 and AP-2a to the corresponding sites in the promoter of human KCTD10 in vivo To confirm that Sp1 and AP-2a bind to the authentic ... formation of the Sp1–DNA complex [23]; (c) competing model – the AP-2 and Sp1 binding sites overlap, and the AP-2 binding competes with the SP1 binding [22] Our results reveal that the repressive...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 02:20

... domain and the kringle contribute to the binding, but putative endocytosis receptor-binding residues in the kringle remain unknown The involvement of the growth factor domain readily explains the previously ... the residues involved in binding form a continuous, extended interaction surface spanning both PAI-1 and uPA (Fig 7) Together with the involvement of the uPA A-chain, these ndings argue for the ... proteaseserpin complexes and for the rst time implicate the SPD of uPA in the binding The residues that mediate the binding afnity of the A-chain of uPA remain to be established In the long term,...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 10:20

... Fixed Point Theory and Applications exactly is either impossible or has the same difficulty as the original problem 1.1 Therefore, one of the most interesting and important problems in the theory ... and the references therein In this paper, motivated by the research work going on in this direction, we continue to consider the problem of finding a zero of the maximal monotone operator T The ... theorem for 1.14 The results Fixed Point Theory and Applications presented in this paper improve the corresponding results announced by many others It is easy to see that in the case when γn...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 11:20

... pointing to the parking lot One of the parking lot corners with a building is in the camera view Another AR user is on the ground of the parking lot, the image captured by this user in shown in ... expected data included within the original design plans In case the user finds differences between the original and the obtained measurements, then some quick notes, draws or pictures denoting these ... between two points within the augmented image, the mouse is automatically snapped into the nearest outline instead of expecting a manual positioning of points by the user In this sense, the user’s...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 14:20

... frustration index l(Σ) and the generating function of switchings Σµ by |E− (Σµ )| The technique is to the electronic journal of combinatorics DS8 11 solve a Chinese postman (T -join) problem in the ... geometrically by observing that the number of k -colorings equals the number of points of {−k, −k + 1, , k − 1, k}n that lie in none of the edge hyperplanes of the signed graph The interesting part is ... (359.20004) Introducing the cohomological theory of two-graphs A two-graph τ is a coboundary in the complex of GF(2)-cochains on E(Kn ) [The 1-cochains are the signed complete graphs, equivalently the...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 05:23

... measures On the femoral condyle, the loss was found in the central and anterior sections, followed by the trochlear area These findings are in line with the work of Amin and colleagues [4] in patients ... between the loss of cartilage volume in the entire medial compartment and the JSW in patients with knee OA These findings were in line with the previous report of Amin and colleagues [4] However, in ... the loss of cartilage on the central portion of the tibial plateau is intriguing The level of significance of these findings for the WOMAC pain is greater than those previously reported for the...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20

... with placebo In the combined analysis, the improvement was evident at Week (first measured time point) and maintained throughout the 52 weeks of the studies After 52 weeks, the change in pre-bronchodilator ... to differences seen between therapy in other 1-year trials [17] This is consistent with the benefit in SGRQ resulting from the reduction in exacerbations Interestingly, roflumilast demonstrated ... increasing the ability of clinical trials to show a benefit In this regard, the analysis presented in the current report was used to design subsequent clinical trials that have demonstrated the...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 13:22

... in rural areas in the months of 2008 following the Nargis incident In urban and rural areas combined, the sanitary latrine coverage for the Nargis-affected population during 2008 was 76% in the ... year in the four pre-Nargis months of 2008; the rate increased to 798.81 in the post-Nargis months of 2008and declined in 2009 to 610.6 per 100,000 in the study area As shown in the figure, the ... acute respiratory infection (ARI), diphtheria, pertussis and meningococcal diseases were reported as associated with the overcrowding in the area Other diseases endemic in the region were tuberculosis,...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 15:21