... firm-years rather than simply firms See Carpenter and Guariglia (2003), Bond and Meghir (1994), Kaplan and Zingales (1997), Guariglia and Schiantarelli (1998), and Guariglia (2000) for a similar approach ... plant and machinery, and 2.5% for land and buildings These are taken from King and Fullerton (1984) For each observation, we then calculate the proportion of land and building investment, as ... we can see that those firm- years characterized by a relatively high ratio of trade credit to assets are generally smaller and more indebted, and display a much higher sales growth, and a higher
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 08:20
... grateful to Orazio Attanasio, Jean-Marie Baland, Leo Feler, Fred Finan, Sarah Green, Seema Jayachandran, Dean Karlan, Ethan Ligon, Craig McIntosh, David McKenzie, John Strauss, Dean Yang, Chris ... two anonymous referees, and participants at numer- ous seminars and conferences. We thank Jack Adika and Anthony Oure for their dedication and care in supervising the data collection, and Nathaniel ... in Busia district, Kenya. Bumala Town is a rural market center located along the main highway connecting Nairobi, Kenya, to 3 Kampala, Uganda, and it has a population of around 3,500, making it
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 10:20
Air pollution and Climate Change - Report from a workshop under the Swedish EU Presidency doc
... security and social equity • Behavioural and demand management measures lead mostly to win-win situations for air pollution and climate change, energy efficiency and fuel mix & quality measures ... pollution and green-house gas emission standards The levels of air pollutants and green-house gases are currently independent from each other and EURO standards do not differentiate air pollution standards ... Martinez, CEMAGREF/France Luke Redmond, AP EnvEcon/Ireland Manfred Ritter, UBA/Austria Trang 23Mark Barrett, UCL/UK Nadine Allemand, CITEPA/France Pieter Hammingh, PBL/NL Rafael Borge, UPM/Spain
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 16:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Antimicrobial peptides from hylid and ranin frogs originated from a 150-million-year-old ancestral precursor with a conserved signal peptide but a hypermutable antimicrobial domain pot
... GLWSKIKEVGKEAAKAAAKAAGKAALGAVSEAVa DRSB3 ALWKNMLKGIGKLAGQAALGAVKTLVGAE DRSB4 ALWKDILKNVGKAAGKAVLNTVTDMVNQa DRSB6 ALWKDILKNAGKAALNEINQLVNQa Agalychnis callydryas DRP-AC1 GLLSGILNTAGGLLGNLIGSLSNGES DRP-AC2 ... for caerin 1.1, 5¢-CTAAGTGCTCAGCAATGACG-3¢ for caerin 1.11, 5¢-AGCATAACTGGAACGTGGG-3¢ for caerin 1.12, 5¢-CAGCAATAAGTGGAACAACG-3¢ for for caerin 1.14 and 5¢-AGCAACGGATCCTAGGA CAC-3¢ for caerin ... B, H and G and brevinins 2Ta and 2Tb are from Rana temporaria, brevinins 1E and 2Ef and esculentin 1B from R esculenta, ranalexin from R catesbeiana, gaegurins 4 and 5 from R rugosa, and ranatuerin-2P
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 17:21
Parental Education and Child Health: Evidence from a Schooling Reform pot
... that parental education may affect child health indirectly via parental behavior, parental health and parental financial resources By investigating the causal impact of education on these parental ... health, parental education and child health can also be related in non-causal ways Indeed, endowments that are transmitted across generations can cause a positive association between parental ... that parental education might affect child health through different mechanisms We therefore also examine whether parental education causally affects parental behavior, parental health and labor
Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 09:20
báo cáo hóa học: " The comparative burden of mild, moderate and severe Fibromyalgia: results from a cross-sectional survey in the United States" pdf
... unpaid help from caregiver) Statistical Analysis Means, standard deviations (SD), medians, and ranges were calculated for continuous variables and frequency counts and percentages were calculated ... < 59 was classified as moderate, and 59 to 100 was classified as severe [20] Statistical significance was evaluated at the 0.05 level The data were held and analyzed by Covance Inc All analyses ... Meghan Hufstader1, Rebecca Baik1, Michael McNett3, Don Goldenberg4, Robert Gerwin5and Gergana Zlateva2 Abstract Background: Fibromyalgia (FM) is characterized by chronic, widespread pain, fatigue,
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20
báo cáo khoa học: " Global Health Initiatives and aid effectiveness: insights from a Ugandan case study" doc
... Trang 1R E S E A R C H Open AccessGlobal Health Initiatives and aid effectiveness: insights from a Ugandan case study Valeria Oliveira Cruz1*†and Barbara McPake2† Abstract Background: ... operation in Uganda as well as the responses of the government Methods: The study adopted a qualitative and case study approach to investigate the governance of aid transactions in Uganda Data ... the overall balance was towards integration and coordination and two years further down the road and the arrival of alternatives in the form of the Global Fund and other projects has actually dee-pened
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21
liu and liu - 2008 - auditor switching, earnings manipulation and auditor independence - evidence from a-share listed companies in china
... companies from 1999-2004 as initial samples All data used in the present article were from China Stock Market Financial Database (CSMAR) After deleting involuntary auditor switch cases (such as ... Evidence from A-share listed companies in China © Higher Education Press and Springer-Verlag 2008 Abstract Based on data from Chinese A-share listed companies between 1999 and 2004, this paper examines ... however, auditor-switching companies’ discretionary accruals grew dramatically The means of DA1 and DA2 were increased by 0.009 and 0.011 respectively, the medians of DA1 and DA2 rose by another
Ngày tải lên: 06/01/2015, 19:43
A study on meanings of the english prepstion “ in “ and its VietNamese equivalents from a cognitive semantic perspctive
... meanings occurs by means of image-schema transformations and metaphorical mappings from spatial domains to non-spatial and abstract domains In addition, it is interesting to note that in can ... senses of a preposition are highly arbitrary and are not related to one another As a matter of fact, both dictionaries and grammars provide long lists of unrelated senses for each preposition and its ... framework of cognitive semantics and in this way immensely understand what native English speakers conceptualize spatial relations of the physical world objects and how they map from these spatial
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2015, 19:47
Current status quo and proposed legal reform from a commercial perspective
... paper mainly discusses vertical legal relationships and horizontal legal relationships in tourism activities and the tourism industry as defined above Separately, as international legal relationships ... vast landscape and diverse cultural heritage of China Due to geographical and social reasons, the unique features of the tourism industry in each province vary As a result, it may be necessary ... uncertainty of legal rights and obligations, unfair competition and illegal practices, dual systems of rating for hotels and the failure of FDI laws to catch up with the changing landscape of
Ngày tải lên: 03/10/2015, 21:58
A contrastive study on the meanings of the verb “run” in english and “chạy” in vietnamese from a cognitive semantic perspective
... analytic approaches In this thesis, only quantitative and qualitative approaches were applied As far as the term suggests, quantitative research is concerned with the collection and analysis of data ... image schemas as “dynamic analog representations of spatial relations and Trang 3118 movements in space.” Unlike Lakoff and Langacker‟s definitions which focus on the spatial structure of image ... understanding a wealth of image schemas Image schemas play an important part of human knowledge of the world According to Johnson [26, p.29], image schema is “a recurrent pattern, shape and regularity”
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2018, 22:32
MEANINGS OF PREPOSITIONS OVER, ABOVE, UNDER, BELOW IN ENGLISH AND THE VIETNAMESE EQUIVALENTS FROM a COGNITIVE SEMANTICS PERSPECTIVE
... literal, the primary, and the basic meaning all seem to refer to the same thing - it is a spatial meaning that relates the trajector and the landmark to each other Taylor and Evans (2003) also ... and organization were Wallace Chafe, Charles Fillmore, George Lakoff, Ronald Langacker, and Leonard Talmy Each of these linguists began developing their own approach to language description and ... Cognitive semantics approach to prepositions 15 2.5.1 Spatial domain and dimensionality 15 2.5.2 Spatial characteristics of trajectors (TR) and landmarks (LM) 16 2.5.3 Categorization and semantic
Ngày tải lên: 17/01/2019, 22:47
Bitcoin internals a thorough explanation of bitcoin and how it works from a technical perspective
... only a logarithmic number of hashes.[6] In a hash tree, or Merkle tree, hashes are taken of all chunks as in a hash list, but then these hashes are paired and the hash of each pair is taken,and ... data, it is possible to later confirm that the data was not tampered with by rehashing the data and making sure that the hash comes out the same Figure 3.1: Calculating the SHA-256 hash of a ... wallet is a file that contains a set of addresses and keys that can be used to send or receive bitcoins An address is like a bank account number, except you can easily make as many as you want
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2019, 08:37
Rethinking the treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome—a reanalysis and evaluation of findings from a recent major trial of graded exercise and CBT
... reports, and evaluate the conclusions from the trial as a whole Summary of the PACE trial PACE was a large randomised trial whose primary aim was to assess the effectiveness of GET and CBT as treat-ments ... important stratification variables that were unavailable in the FOIA dataset However, it appears unlikely that their inclusion would substantially alter the result, and our analyses remain the ... measures, again treating them as separate, con-tinuous variables [7] Analyses of these measures, based on an available case approach, failed to yield any signifi-cant effects of treatment group
Ngày tải lên: 10/01/2020, 12:24
MEANINGS OF PREPOSITIONS OVER, ABOVE, UNDER, BELOW IN ENGLISH AND THE VIETNAMESE EQUIVALENTS FROM a COGNITIVE SEMANTICS PERSPECTIVE
... Spatial domain and dimensionality 15 2.5.2 Spatial characteristics of trajectors (TR) and landmarks (LM) 16 2.5.3 Categorization and semantic structure 17 2.5.4 Metaphor and ... literary works that are represented by the tables and figures They were grouped and analyzed through using image schemas (analyzing spatial senses) and metaphorical structures (analyzing metaphorical ... like a well-trained mask came down over his face and he smiledgallantly 5.One more victory and the war wasover! 6.And above all the voices, Gerald’s boomed All Scarlett could hear was “States’
Ngày tải lên: 25/04/2020, 13:52
A study on meanings of the english preposition in and its vietnamese equivalents from a cognitive semantic perspective
... to pragmatics as well as semantics As a matter of fact,Talmy (2000) states that cognitive semantics sees language meaning as a manifestation ofconceptual structure: the nature and organization ... literal, the primary, and the basic meaning all seem to refer tothe same thing - it is a spatial meaning that relates the trajector and the landmark to eachother The secondary literal meaning can ... (1987), Langacker (1987, 1991a)and Lakoff (1987), namely experiential realism and image schemas, prototype and radialcategory, metaphor as a mechanism for meaning extension, polysemy, perspective andsubjectivity
Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2020, 12:08
Phonics sentences diphthongs and r controlled vowels from a teachable teacher
... Then read each sentence Color a smiley face each time you read the page Read the page three times The lion roars. The kite can soar. I see the oar. The boar is big. The hay is coarse. Name :!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ... underline all of the word family words Then read each sentence Color a smiley face each time you read the page Read the page three times He takes a bow. He has two eyebrows. She wears a crown. ... read each sentence Color a smiley face each time you read the page Read the page three times She loves to draw. Why does he yawn? We play on the lawn. The saw cuts it. He drinks with a straw.
Ngày tải lên: 19/11/2020, 16:07
The rise of China - opportunities and challenges for Asian from a Vietnam perspective
... markets of China and Japan, as these have been produced by American or Japanese companies in China before they are exported back to American and Japanese markets Table 5 China and ASEAN: share ... fields as trade liberalization and FDI ion are useful and applicable for new ASEAN members = Challenges for ASEAN As developing economies, China and ASEAN have similarities in terms of trade structure ... general, and ASEAN in particular 2 Opportunities and challenges for ASEAN ASEAN countries have been getting opportunities as neighbors of a fast- Trang 5 _+.=TA means investors can come to ASEAN,
Ngày tải lên: 31/05/2022, 04:47
John.Wiley.And.Sons.Marketing.Insights.From.A.To.Z.eBook-LiB.pdf
... Intel as a time in the life of a business when its fundamentals are about to change.” Banks had to make changes with the advent of automated teller machines (ATMs), and major airlines have to make ... manufacturer. Caterpillar’s brand personality triggers such associations as hardworking, resilient, tough, bold, and determined. So Caterpillar has been able to launch Cat jeans, sandals, sunglasses, watches, ... marketing. A company can always outsource its manufacturing. What makes a company ing the problem more carefully. Peter Drucker says that his greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask...
Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 17:33
John.Wiley.And.Sons.Marketing.Insights.From.A.To.Z.eBook-LiB - phần 1
... think that brands are well man- aged. Here is his plaint: “Brands do not have to die. They can be murdered. And the marketing Draculas are draining the very lifeblood away from brands. Brands are ... votes. Great brands are the only route to sustained, above-average profitability. And great brands present emotional benefits, not just rational benefits. Too many brand managers focus on rational incentives ... the bathroom is large. How are brands built? It’s a mistake to think that advertising builds the brand. Advertising only calls attention to the brand; it might even create brand interest and brand...
Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 08:20
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