... some of the practitioner value derived from academic research to the Trang 29front of the process, thereby improving the partnership between researchers and businesses 1.5 Organization of the Dissertation ... propositions based on the literature Chapter 4 describes the research methods used to test and analyze the positions Chapter 5 discusses the results and potential threats to their validity and generalizability ... Objectives and Map of Domain This study aims to capture and quantify the relationship between lean manufacturing management practices and financial performance at both the operations and business...
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... evaluating the question of why, over time, some nations grow quickly and others do not That is, the variation in the dependent variables comes from both the time series and the cross-sections, and some ... data, and note significant deviations between the PWT 6.0 and PWT 5.6 results The PWT 6.0 data contain more observations than the PWT 5.6 data, but when matched with the data for other variables the ... account the effect of other variables, and tell is little about the direction of relationships But, they do help us make the point that political economic variables are correlated in line with the...
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Tài liệu Measuring the Relationship between ICT and the Environment ppt
... Measuring the Relationship between ICT and the Environment July 2009 – MEASURING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ICT AND THE ENVIRONMENT ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT The OECD ... Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, the Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom and ... the United Kingdom and the United States The Commission of the European Communities takes part in the work of the OECD ©OECD 2009 MEASURING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ICT AND THE ENVIRONMENT - FOREWORD...
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Báo cáo khoa học: In vitro analysis of the relationship between endonuclease and maturase activities in the bi-functional doc
... investigation we biochemically char-acterized the endonuclease activity of I-AniI in vitro and utilized competition assays to probe the relationship between the RNA- and DNA-binding sites Despite functioning ... the only protein with which one can biochemically assay both DNA endonuclease and RNA maturase activities in vitro This investigation provides the first step in the study of the relationship between ... in about 45 min The substitution of either Na+for K+or acetate for Cl– ions, as well as the inclusion of 0.1 mgÆmL)1BSA did not increase the stability of the protein and slowed the reaction rate...
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The Relationship Between Bank and Interbank Interest Rates during the Financial Crisis: Empirical Results for the Euro Area pptx
... to their customers, therefore they have effects on the behaviour of borrowers and consequently on the real economy. On the other hand, prices set by banks influence their profitability and ... while the EURIBOR... 2008, the ECB, the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, the Bank of Canada, the Bank of Sweden and the Swiss National Bank, with the support of the ... interest the relationships between bank interest rates and the money market rate (proxied by the three-month EURIBOR) in the Eurozone for the period 2003(1)-2011(9), allowing for changes in the...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 23:20
Báo cáo y học: "Modelling the relationship between obesity and mental health in children and adolescents: findings from the Health Survey for England 2007" pptx
... case whether household income modified the relationship between obesity and reported emotional or behavioural symptoms There was no evidence of a moderating effect of household income on the relationship ... statistically significant and independent relationship between aspects of poor psychological adjustment and increased Body Mass Index (BMI) in children, though the nature and strength of these associations ... allow for the non-independence of observations from children nested within the same home Thus, a random intercept with covariates model was used to explore the relationship between the dependent...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:22
THE ‘WAR ON TERROR’ AND THE FRAMEWORK OF INTERNATIONAL LAW doc
... between IHL and human rights law 298 7A.4 Human rights obligations and terrorism 301 7A.4.1 Protecting human security: positive human rights obligations 301 7A.4.2 State responsibility and human rights ... APPLICATION OF HUMANITARIAN AND HUMAN RIGHTS LAW TO DETAINEES IN GUANTANAMO BAY 390 8B.2.1 The framework: international humanitarian law 8B.2.2 The framework: international human rights law Categories ... Counsel to Human Rights Watch, New York, and as Legal Director of the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Action, Guatemala She specialises in human rights and international criminal law She currently...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 13:20
Humic Matter in Soil and the Environment: Principles and Controversies - Chapter 1 ppt
... practicing, and producing medicines and fertilizers, and therefore enlarges the audience for this book beyond the scope of soil, agricultural, and chemical science The book starts by examining the concepts ... chelation, and bridging reactions, and deviations from the concepts are questioned as aberrations The importance of these interactions in soils, agriculture, and the environment are addressed, and the ... almost all of the biochemical compounds synthesized by plants and other soil organisms These substances are usually subject to further degradation and decomposition reactions, and are the main sources...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:21
Humic Matter in Soil and the Environment: Principles and Controversies - Chapter 2 pot
... during the years, has set the stage for the development of the concepts and types of humic substances followed today It triggered in the beginning a flurry of investigations and the ligno-protein theory ... Brazil, where the Rio Negro is one of the most striking examples, and in the coastal streams of Sumatra and Papua running between the vast expanses of peat deposits, to the rivers, lakes and marshes ... Africa, Scandinavia and the tundras in the arctic region Many of the coastal plain streams and swamps of the Southeastern United States carry also dark colored water, attributed to the presence...
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Humic Matter in Soil and the Environment: Principles and Controversies - Chapter 4 pot
... does this relate to the soil carbon sequestration theory? On the other hand, the monomers, as noted in Figure 4.14, can also react together as such They are then expected to form the smallest possible ... for differentiating the humic substances The lighter the color of the humic substance, the steeper the slope, whereas the darker the color the more horizontal tends to be the spectral line Fulvic ... derivatives, and often play a dominant role in the formation of humic matter Parts of the phenol-protein theory also tend to overlap with the ligno-protein theory Many of the precursors and their reactions...
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Humic Matter in Soil and the Environment: Principles and Controversies - Chapter 5 pot
... In the opinion of Schnitzer and Preston (1986), this discrepancy is attributed to the inclusions of amides and esters in the analysis by NMR spectroscopy On the other hand, lack of reactivity and ... substances used in the synthesis of humic matter By comparison with the elemental composition of the plant residue listed a t the bottom of the table, the carbon contents of humic and fulvic acids ... but these are neither of the oxygen containing nor of the acidic types Carboxyl Groups - The carboxyl or COOH groups give to the humic molecule its acidic characteristic Their presence is the...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:21
Humic Matter in Soil and the Environment: Principles and Controversies - Chapter 6 doc
... supported by the other two spectra from Suwannee River aquatic humic substances, where the spectrum of humic acid is also dominated by strong signals between 105 and 165 ppm On the other hand, the aquatic ... molecules and their spectra reflect the responses of the many different molecular species The use of poorly prepared humic samples and the publication of poorly resolved spectra have aggravated the ... band a t 3400 cm-l, a weak band between 2980 and 2920 cm-', a shoulder a t 1720 cm-' followed by a strong band at 1650 cm-l, and a strong band TM Copyright n 2003 by Marcel Dekker, Inc All Rights...
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Humic Matter in Soil and the Environment: Principles and Controversies - Chapter 7 pps
... distribution of these groups in the humic molecule The larger the concentrations of the functional groups, the higher will be the negative charges of the humic molecule The relative distribution of these ... is the electron-pair donor The latter is usually called a or ligand, and may assume the form of an anion (HK) a neutral molecule (NH,) The metal ion serves as the central atom, and the ligands ... usually a metal in the series of transition metals The ligand, therefore, fits the definition of a Lewis base and the metal is then the Lewis acid The compound formed is called a coordination compound,...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:21
Humic Matter in Soil and the Environment: Principles and Controversies - Chapter 8 pptx
... process, on the other hand N is being added in the humic structure These processes cause the C/N ratio of the humic substances to decline to the narrowest ratio at which C and N can exist together in ... indication of the reduction-oxidation status of the soils It affects the oxidation and reduction states of H, C, N, , S, Fe, Mn, Cu, Zn and many other elements, and as such controls the solubility and ... caused by the interaction between humic acid and clays and/ or by complex reactions between humic acid and A and other metal ions Since soil structure also infers a mutual arrangement of the three...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:21
Land-based marine pollution and the Arctic - polarities between principles and practice
... protection, and the effectiveness of compliance and enforcement This chapter examines the tensions between the principles of precaution and pollution prevention, on the one hand, and actual practices ... meetings and the growing number of well-meant programmes and agreements to specific management actions The 1998 report of the UN Secretary-General on ‘Oceans and the Law of the Sea’ recognised the ... including land-based and vessel-source (models include agreements for the Baltic, the northeast Atlantic and the Antarctic85); a stand-alone convention on Arctic land-based pollution; and a broader...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 09:20
Tài liệu Location and Rents: The Indifference Principle, Submarkets and Land Use Segregation pptx
... structures pt(d) = [Pt(d) –c/i]/q What about the price of land beyond the current border (b0) In t years from now the border will have expanded to b0egt Inverting, land at distance d> b0 will be developed ... multiple With no growth [g=0] the multiple is the inverse of the discount rate – at all locations More? Capozza/Helsley MIT Center for Real Estate 11) Like land rent, land price is a residual from ... MIT Center for Real Estate Empirical Studies of Location and Land Prices (e.g Waddell) Sometimes the relationships are complicated Land Rent Negative Value of Proximity Positive Value of Access...
Ngày tải lên: 09/12/2013, 15:15
Tài liệu The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations docx
... another to Oco-telulco, the third to Tizatlan and the fourth to Quiahuiztlan, that is to say, the men of the Mountains, the men of the Limepits, the men of the Pinetrees, and the Watermen; all these ... preserve the straight line radiating from the centre and headed by the chieftains The measure of the dance and of the chorus chanted by the participants was beaten by the drums and the musicians ... with the elements to which they seemed to pertain, and gradually to conceive the idea of an everlasting antagonism between the powers of the sky and of the earth, or light and darkness, and other...
Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 11:20
A SYSTEM OF LOGIC, RATIOCINATIVE AND INDUCTIVE, BEING A CONNECTED VIEW OF THE PRINCIPLES OF EVIDENCE, AND THE METHODS OF SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION pdf
... either in the best, or even in the most current, conception of the scope and province of our science The employment of the word Logic to denote the theory of Argumentation, is derived from the ... they appear at the time, and the size and color of the same or of similar objects as they appeared when close at hand, or when their degree of remoteness was known by other evidence The perception ... color.5 Of the science, therefore, which expounds the operations of the human understanding in the pursuit of truth, one essential part is the inquiry: What are the facts which are the objects...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 13:20
the importance and effective of the ethical principles within an organization (business) to curb fraudulent
... and the manager will then face either reporting truthfully and reversing their past entries, or continuing down the path towards accounting fraud Empirical and anecdotal 26 evidence support the ... During the investigation, the researchers discuss the ethics of accounting for the participants, and have studied by their experience according to: Ethical conflicts often arise in the relationship ... concern about” the important and effective of ethical principles within an organization to curb fraudulent” Hence there are some involving this theme What is the relationship between ethics and fraud?...
Ngày tải lên: 13/03/2014, 14:20
Đề tài " A Mass Transference Principle and the Duffin-Schaeffer conjecture for Hausdorff measures " pdf
... noting that f k the ratio of the radii of the balls Bi and Bi are uniformly bounded between positive constants and then adapting the proof of Lemma in the obvious manner In view of the above discussion, ... (ψ)) = Hf (Ik ) and this completes the proof of Theorem 3.2 The Jarn´ ık-Besicovitch theorem In the case k = and ψ(x) := let us write S(τ ) for Sk (ψ) The Jarn´ ık-Besicovitch theorem states that ... nevertheless rather unexpected consequences Theorem Conjecture =⇒ Conjecture Theorem together with Theorem PV gives: Corollary For k ≥ 2, Conjecture is true Theorem gives: Corollary Khintchine’s theorem...
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