conceptual articles and empirical articles

... 1“You don't really understand something until you can explain it fo your grandmother.” Albert Einstein Trang 2DYNAMIC TIME-BASED POSTPONEMENT: CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT AND EMPIRICAL TEST DISSERTATION ... a higher cost and products are differentiated Later in the life cycle, uncertainty of demand is to a considerable extent dissipated and the focus is cost minimization as for a standard product ... fun day and with whom i shared both exiting and frustrating moments To the staff of the Department of Marketing and Logistics, at the Graduates Office at the Fisher College of Business, and at

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2014, 00:30

... theories and pedagogies related to collaborative learning (Please see Anderman et al.(2006), Leidner and Jarvenpaa (1995), and Mayes and de Frietas (2004) for further details of learning theories and ... reflect on own assumptions and thought processes, and social and team skills are developed through the give-and-take of consensus-building This is in agreement with Johnson and Johnson (1998) who ... Jinpei, Samuel and Siew May… for their fellowship and support o Church friends: Grace, Kerrie, Weixiang, May, Gabriel, April, Peijun, Yanyi, and Naomi for their encouragement and concern • The

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 15:51

... Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Pro-cessing, pages 234–243. Levy, R and Andrew, G (2006) Tregex and Tsur-geon: tools for querying and manipulating tree data ... is significant in both by-participants and by-items ANOVAs (both p < 0.05) and in a linear mixed-effects analysis with participants- and item-specific random interactions (t > 2; see Baayen ... Davidson, D J., and Bates, D M (2008) Mixed-effects modeling with crossed ran-dom effects for subjects and items Journal of Memory and Language, 59(4):390–412. Bar-Hillel, Y., Perles, M., and Shamir,

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 21:20

... (2002, 2005), Alsop and Heinsohn (2005), Petesh, Smulovitz and Walton (2005), and Alsop, Bertelsen and Holland (2006) have converged upon a common conceptual framework for understanding empowerment, ... getting (or not) education and health, deciding whether to participate in the labour market and in which type of job, and freedom of mobility Obtaining a full and nuanced understanding of agency requires ... large market and hire men to do their bookkeeping), but they are sexually and socially submissive to their husbands in the domestic arena and peripheral to the political process Empirical evidence

Ngày tải lên: 02/06/2014, 09:22

... friendship and encouragement To the memory of my grandparents To my great-grandfather Prof Jorge Monjardino and to my uncle Prof Fernando de Oliveira Pinto whose academic careers inspire and challenge ... production and maintenance (US Department of Transportation 1998 and 1999) While traceability in the mail and packaging industries is voluntary and motivated by consumer demand, in aviation it is mandatory ... et al 2004; James, Klein, and Sykuta 2005) Another is the concern with the level of information and transparency on food quality and safety, origin, and production and processing technologies

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 02:17

... acceptance Fully formattedPDF and full text (HTML) versions will be made available soon A survey of American neurologists about brain death: understanding of the conceptual basis and diagnostic tests ... distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Trang 2A survey of American neurologists about brain death: understanding the conceptual basis and diagnostic ... resistance of entropy and maintenance of internal homeostasis, is lost, leaving a mere collection of tissues and organs [1-4] For medicine, law, and ethics, this is the written standard rationale

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 19:20

... money demand Money... seminal contributions to this literature are Leroy and Porter [90] and Shiller [127] 92 CHAPTER 3 THE MONETARY MODEL = ∞ X ψ j Et ∆ft+j (3. 18) j=1 (3. 17) and (3. ... ωt and c = λ and use (2.101) to represent (2.100) as q t = a cos(ωt + λ) =cos(ωt)[a cos(λ)] − sin(ωt)[a sin(λ)]. Next, build the time-series q t = q 1t + q 2t from the two sub-series q 1t and ... into successively more subintervals and are cramming more ω j into the interval [0, π]. Since each u j and v j is associated with an ω j , in the limit, write u(ω)andv(ω) as functions of ω. For future

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 13:20

... exogenous domestic output and yt is the exogenous foreign put The evolution of output is given by xt = gtxt−1 at home and by out-yt = g∗ tyt−1 abroad where gt and g∗ t are random gross rates of changethat ... be the euro price of y, and St be the exchange rate expressed as the dollar price of euros Mt is theoutstanding stock of dollars, Nt is the outstanding stock of euros andthey evolve over time ... weight of φ to the homeindividual and 1− φ to the foreign individual The planner’s problem is to allocate the x and y endowments optimally between the domesticand foreign individuals each period

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 13:20

... production functions for the home and foreign counties,with normalized labor input N = N∗ = 1 (5.30) and (5.31) are thedomestic and foreign capital accumulation equations, and (5.31) is thenew form of ... Open-Economy Measurementsto 1996.4 and have been passed through the Hodrick—Prescott Þlter with λ = 1600. the same capital shares and Cobb-Douglas form of the production tion, and identical utility Let ... How thatcapital is allocated between the home and foreign country depends onthe realization of the idiosyncratic shocks ˜At+1 and ˜A∗t+1 Trang 14and investment rates are˜it = γ˜kt+1− (1 − δ)˜kt,

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 13:20

... 1/(1 + λ), and ψ = λγ, and λ is the income elasticity ofmoney demand The process that governs the fundamentals are known by foreign exchange market participants and evolves according to arandom walk ... exogenous state variables, the forms of the utilityfunctions and production functions and so forth In short, they knowand understand everything that we write down about the economicenvironment ... positions of home funda-mentalist and home noise traders be given by λft and λnt respectively.Similarly, let foreign fundamentalist and foreign noise trader positions be λf∗t and λn ∗t The total portfolio

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 13:20

... Sweden,Finland, Austria, and Spain They deÞne output by the “manufac-turing” and “agricultural, hunting forestry and Þshing” sectors to betraded goods Nontraded goods are produced by the “wholesale and ... retail trade,” “restaurants and hotels,” “transport, storage and commu-nications,” “Þnance, insurance, real estate and business,” “community social and personal services,” and the “non-market services” ... root in pN − pT and in xT − xN, and that they are cointegrated, and there is reasonably strong evidence that PPP holds for traded goods Trang 6Size Distortion in Unit-Root TestsEmpirical researchers

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 13:20

... system and its response to monetary shocks, we will want to phase diagram the system Going back to (8.58) and (8.61), we see that ús(t) = 0 if and only if p(t) = ¯ p, while ú p(t) = 0 if and only ... taxes Tt, and T∗ t tive values of Ttand T∗ Nega-t are lump—sum transfers from the government toresidents The budget constraints of the home and foreign governmentsare Aggregate Demand Let average ... constraints (9.16) and (9.17) are G = T and G∗ = T∗ By(9.26), the steady state real interest rate isno international debt and no government spending We call it the steady state’ and indicate it

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 13:20

... and assume PPP, pt = st Output is given by aquasi-labor demand schedule which varies inversely with the real wage wt− st, and with a shock ut iid ∼ N(0, σ2 u) yt=−α(wt− st)− ut (11.23)Firms and ... cd = cr = 0, and the depreci-ation rate is δ = 0 Substituting real wage w− s0 = δe and output δe= w− s0 and collecting terms gives δ = λ α[αδ e+ ¯y + u] (11.32)Equating (11.31) and (11.32) you ... 0 and 2cd > λ[αδe+ ¯y + u]2 It will andrevalue if u < 0 and 2cr > λ[αδe+ ¯y + u]2 The rule can be writtenmore compactly asλ[αδe+ ¯y + u]2 > 2ck, (11.36)where k = d if u > 0 and

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 13:20

... primary and secondary psychical process and repres-sion) and an attempt will be made to hypothesise their physiological correlates This will be followed by a sum-mary of 'Mourning and melancholia' and ... Patients and their families reported 'renewed interest and pleasure in social and family activities, decreased apathy and anhedo-nia, as well as improved ability to plan, initiate, and com-plete ... [22,24,27,32]) and recent evidence suggests that the mPFC exerts the principal causality within the network [33] The PCC and IPL have been associated with propri-oception [34,35] and the PCC and medial

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:20

... Bayesian and EBLUP was similarly affected by joint effect of phenotypic or BLUP selection and randomly missing pedigree information For both methods, bias and MSE of estimated breeding values and ... consisted of 10 males and 40 females which were assumed to be unrelated, unselected, and randomly sampled from a conceptually infinite population The base animals were mated at random (four females ... equally decreased by randomly missing PI and by both phenotypic and BLUP selection The joint effect of selection and missing PI produced the smallest rank correlations for both RM and MM data sets

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:21

... west and Pacific region of US in job satisfactory survey 50 2.3 Posterior means, standard deviations, 2.5% quantile, medianand 97.5% quantile of α0, βcand σ simulated from BayEL byHMC and corresponding ... by empirical fre-quencies 81 Trang 113.5 The table presents the posterior mean (PM) and standarddeviance (SD) of βi, (i = 1, , 5) as well as the ordinaryleast square (OLS) and their standard ... least square estimates and standard errors are obtainedfrom R function lm 813.6 Posterior means, standard deviations, 2.5% quantile, medianand 97.5% quantile of α0, βc and σ simulated from BayEL

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 08:17

... image”), and are most financially able to participate in contemporary and expanding forms of body work Trang 17Having conceptualized “executive body work” (EBW) based on relevant theory and underpinned ... requirements and individual differences, in how they perceived managerial demands, constraints, and choices Demands are non-negotiables; constraints are the factors limiting what the jobholder can do; and ... self-esteem and EBW - 64 The relationship between self-monitoring and EBW - 66 The relationship between action orientation and EBW - 67 The relationship between work identity and EBW - 69

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 09:57

... clearly understand how each technological feature can contribute to the improvement of negotiation processes and Trang 20outcomes, we need advanced theoretical conceptualizations and empirical underpinnings ... (e.g., Maule and Hockey, 1993; Pruitt and Drews, 1969; Stuhlmacher and Champagne, 2000), and 2) through a discounting function of utility (e.g., Contini, 1968) In the first way, high and low time ... processes and outcomes (Fulmer and Barry, 2002) However, the role of cognitive ability is not clear as far as empirical work is concerned Rubin and Brown (1975) review early bargaining research and

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 08:18

... Bearing and raceway wear and tear present initially as general roughness and progresses to metal fatigue, and ultimately spall and chip on the surface of the rolling elements [93] Figure 2.4 and ... Rehman and Dr D.P Mandic for making the Noise-Assisted Multi-variate Empirical Mode Decomposition MATLAB code publicly available at http://www.commsp.ee.ic.ac.uk/~mandic/research/emd.htm, and Dr ... supervisors, Prof Xu Jianxin and A/Prof Sanjib Kumar Panda for their encouragement and advices Their profound knowledge and experiences in the field of machine learning techniques and machine system are

Ngày tải lên: 03/10/2015, 21:57

... Bearing and raceway wear and tear present initially as general roughness and progresses to metal fatigue, and ultimately spall and chip on the surface of the rolling elements [93] Figure 2.4 and ... Rehman and Dr D.P Mandic for making the Noise-Assisted Multi-variate Empirical Mode Decomposition MATLAB code publicly available at http://www.commsp.ee.ic.ac.uk/~mandic/research/emd.htm, and Dr ... supervisors, Prof Xu Jianxin and A/Prof Sanjib Kumar Panda for their encouragement and advices Their profound knowledge and experiences in the field of machine learning techniques and machine system are

Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2015, 07:58