defining the gaps and finding the evidence

... to their improvement of their environmental performance; and (3) their responses to the current environmental standards and policies and the impacts on their economic competitiveness 25 With the ... regulations, like the US and EU markets, have to meet and anticipate these high standards But once satisfying these standards, they are more likely to have higher penetration rate and the companies’ ... impacts The thesis would bring some insights into the environmental legal regulation in Vietnam and the impacts they have on the industry I.1 Research questions The thesis aims to answer the following...

Ngày tải lên: 24/08/2013, 18:48

... Good Is the Evidence 1? 107 The quality of evidence depends on the kind of evidence it is Thus, to evaluate evidence, we first need to ask, "What kind of evidence is it?" Knowing the kind of evidence ... hesitate to answer these questions They know they have substantial support for their claims and, consequently, will want to share their evidence in the hope that you will learn to share their conclusions ... a fact The major difference between claims that are opinions and those that are facts is the present state of the relevant evidence The more supporting evidence there is for a belief, the more...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 15:20

... always the more reputable the source, the better designed the study So, try to find out all you can about the reputation of the source Other than the quality of the source, are there other clues ... Research Studies Apply these questions to research findings to determine whether the findings are dependable evidence What is the quality of the source of the report? Usually, the most dependable ... determine the structure of the argument How Good Is the Evidence 11? 133 Then, ask the questions to evaluate the argument Look for relevant similarities and differences Usually, the greater the ratio...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 15:20

... example between the whole TREE and the whole STRING (trivial), between the subtree 4(5(6),7) and the two occurrences of the substring "dog catcher" (nontrivial), etc We shall the same in the rest of ... correspondence he or she desires, and this is done in the rules, see later) We also note that the nodes in the TREE are simply concepts in the structural representation and thus the interpretation is independent ... (naturally) The STCG derives its formal properties from the Static Gra~mmar, but with more formal definitions of the properties In the passage from the Static Grammar to the STCG, the form as...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 10:20

... such as lactase, in the small intestine Beneficial bacteria help strengthen the immune system right in the gut where much of the interaction between the outside world and the body goes on Beneficial ... without the lignans is not very beneficial Some brands of flax seed oil retain some of the seed particulate because of the beneficial properties of the lignans Fruits and Vegetables One of the most ... quartile (1/4 of the population) who ate the least amount of fruits and vegetables had about twice the risk of cancer compared to those who in the upper quartile who ate the most fruits and vegetables...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 02:21

... forecast the timing of changes in the Fed funds target, and an ordered probit to predict the size of the change These methods can be cumbersome, however, and there is some debate as to the reliability ... all but the first and last days of the month When the change comes on the first day of the month, its expectation would have been reflected in the prior month’s spot rate, so the Evans and Kuttner ... to the next The only contamination is the day τ targeting error, and the revision in the expectation of future targeting errors.5 The expected component of the change is simply calculated as the...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 02:21

... pattern: the recovery from the Great Contraction in the 1930s; the recovery after the recession of the early 1990s and the present recovery The present recovery is strikingly more tepid than the 1990s ... pattern: the recovery from the Great Contraction in the 1930s; the recovery after the recession of the early 1990s and the present recovery The present recovery is strikingly more tepid than the 1990s ... characteristics of the recessions and recoveries Column reports the date of the cyclical peak, as determined by the NBER Column measures the steepness of the drop, and column shows the BORDO AND HAUBRICH...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 19:20

... If offered by suppliers, then the potential for competitive foreclosure and raising of barriers to entry is clear On the other hand, much of the empirical and anecdotal evidence suggests that such ... it and hence the ability to influence prices at least to some extent.3 Second, retailers have the ability to differentiate themselves through the services they emphasize, advertising, and other ... this theory, however, is that slotting allowances must rise with retailers’ cost of handling new products There is no evidence that this is the case, and in fact, Rao and Mahi offer survey evidence...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 13:20

... points (bp) for Germany and the highest one was 23 bp points for Greece For the same period, the lowest average bond spread was bp for both France and The Netherlands, and the highest average was ... CDS and the bond Specifically, the degree of liquidity in the CDS market is proxied by the bid-ask spread of the CDS premium The higher this spread is, the lower the degree of liquidity in the ... update the influence of the new observations quicker than the 1,000-day windows and to estimate the price-discovery metrics for the years 2006 and 2007 On the other hand, the 1,000-day windows...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 07:20

... development The data, analysis, and findings presented in the report represent the Task Force’s best understanding of the broad and constantly changing scope of the ICT sector and the use of ICT in the ... Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Ireland, Japan, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States and the ... roadmaps from the past to draw on The rapid transformations in the technological and financing trends for ICTD are reflected in the analysis and findings of this report The findings represent the key...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 19:20

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 03:20

... exposure to the war) and temporal (within a given region, the timing of whether a child was born during the war period) These variables are binary and indicate whether a child was born before the war ... for boys and girls born during the war in the war regions of Eritrea and Ethiopia, and the magnitude of the negative impacts appears comparable for boys and girls Additionally, both boys and girls ... for the rest of their life (Thomas, Lavy, and Strauss, 1996) We compute Z-scores for each child’s heightfor-age, where the Z-score is defined as the difference between the child’s height and the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 09:20

... have the funds to execute bilateral programs and can therefore not neglect the efforts of others if they want to achieve goals that are in line with the agenda set by the participants of the Cairo ... conference They are dependent on others because of their small size and they have to take into account the nature of the aggregation technologies which apply to specific public goods (Sandler and Arce, ... technology – the smallest contribution determines the quantity of the public good Putting the Theory to the Test The previous model highlights the elements which can be relevant in explaining the behavior...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 12:20

... carcinogen and childhood leukemia and other cancers Although the human evidence of the links between these chemicals and childhood cancer is weaker than it is for pesticides and solvents, the overall evidence ... products) We examine the evidence for each class of substance and discuss the strengths and limitations of the literature We conclude that there is sufficient human and laboratory evidence that exposure ... supporting evidence from laboratory animal toxicology and adult human epidemiologic studies The report concludes with an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the evidence presented and a discussion...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 16:21

... Finance and Trade (IMF-BAFT, 2009) This is explained by the existence of a time-lag between the production of the goods and their shipment by the exporter, on the one hand, and the reception by the ... the causes (see Baldwin (2009); and Chor and Manova (2009))" While most authors agree that the fall in demand has been largely responsible for the drop in trade flows, the debate focused on the ... by the importer, on the other This time-lag, as well as the opposite interests between the exporters and importers with regards to payment of the merchandises, justifies the existence of a credit,...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

... something; the therapist communicates something in response; the patient communicates and/ or experiences something different; and the therapist, patient and others like the change What the therapist ... plausibility of the mother’s story, how she responded to the child and vice versa, and what they could find out SCIENCE AND ART 17 about the family history Thus, the ‘science’ of clinical practice, the generation ... The guidelines will also feed into the standards set by the Social Services Inspectorate, and ultimately those produced by the General Social Care Council and the National Care Standards 28 THEORIZING...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 20:20

... (1) the degree of judicial enforcement and (2) the content of the law In Japan, since laws apply to the nation as a whole, the content of the law is uniform in all judicial districts However, the ... loan size Alessandrini, Presbitero, and Zazzaro (2008) used the last three waves of Italian firm-level data for the 1995-2003 period together with the ISTAT data and found that the efficiency ... with the theoretical result of Zazzaro (2005) Grant and Padula (2006) used Italian household data from Findomestic Banca for the 1995-99 period together with the ISTAT data and found that the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 20:20

... by the conference attendees and both the introduction and the post-conference material have been reviewed and approved for publication by the sponsoring research unit at RAND Research Gaps and ... April 6, 2011, and April 11, 2011 The panel consisted of 15 individuals—three from RAND and twelve from other institutions (see the list of panelists at the end of the document) Their combined ... know only online and with whom they have no other connection There is anecdotal evidence that during the course of this gaming, players often make sexist, racist, and other explicit and offensive...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 05:20

... into the earth, geophysicists would time the resulting echoes as they traveled back to the surface and then use the information from these signals to reconstruct a picture of the subsurface of the ... my sense of the scientific status of the problem was accurate—if there was no accepted or satisfactory theory of the origin of the first life—then a mystery was at hand And if it was the case that ... biology and, therefore, no good evidence for the existence of God According to Oxford evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and other New Atheists, the lack of evidence for design has made the idea...

Ngày tải lên: 08/06/2014, 09:00