... nutrition knowledge, interest in healthy eating SOC (base: E) Table 5 Determinants of nutrition knowledge and interest in healthy eating (regression). NUTRINDEX HEALTHINT GENDER (base: female) .04 26 ... 72% and 92%, indicating a high level of proficiency in using label information independent of the format in which this informa-tion appears Also, 74% of respondents interpreted the single GDA label ... measured using a variety of tasks dealing with conceptual understanding, substantial understanding and health inferences Understanding was high, with up to 87.5% of respondents being able to
Ngày tải lên: 30/08/2013, 09:25
... making mistake after mistake Inflation targeting was instrumental in bringing down inflation wide since the mid-nineties, especially in emerging countries Some ele-ments of inflation targeting ... adoption of inflation targeting, was very helpful in reducing inflation in emerging markets, particularly in Latin America, which was an inflation-prone region 1 The average inflation rate in Latin America ... N Batini, K Kuttner, and D Laxton, “ Does Inflation Targeting Work in Emerging Markets?, ” in World Economic Outlook , chap 4 (Washington, DC: International Monetary Fund, 2005) 2 International
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2018, 14:20
Tobler et al. Ecology in press Joint species occupancy model
... species (Latimer et al 2009, Ovaskainen et al 2010, Pollock et al 2014, Hui et al 2015, Warton et al 2015) These models estimate the strength of positive or negative residual correlations in the apparent ... presence-absence (Yamaura et al 2011, Yamaura et al 2012, Sollmann et al 2015) The original Dorazio-Royle community models do not contain parameters to capture residual correlations in occupancy probability ... measurement error in real ecological data into such JSDMs as well (Beissinger et al 2016, Warton et al 2016) Only a small number of papers have confronted the challenge of simultaneously modeling species
Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2022, 21:04
Deyle-et-al.-2007.-Florida-Adaptive-Planning-for-SLR
... add 0.35 meter to the Meehl et al (2007) range of 0.18 to 0.59 meter yielding a sea level rise increase by 2095 of 0.53 meter (1.7 feet) to 0.94 meter (3.1 feet) 1 2 Trang 27Hansen (2007) criticizes ... (Trimble et al., 1998) determined that water levels in coastal canals would need to be raised to provide additional recharge of the Biscayne Aquifer to offset saltwater intrusion from sea level Doing ... point in time Projections of global sea level rise between 1990 and 2100 presented by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in its Climate Change 2007 report (Meehl et al., 2007)
Ngày tải lên: 21/10/2022, 18:13
Van aken et al 2007
... research methodology They give the methodology for devel-analysing, describing and explaining that what is, focusing on the develop-ment of (usually general) knowledge In business problem-solving, ... concise introduction to the methodology of business problem-solving (BPS)is an indispensable guide to the design and execution of practical projects in real organizational settings The methodology ... definition, designing a problem-solving approach, and preparing a project proposal However the real learn-ing experience should be in the field: defining problems, capturing data andexploring
Ngày tải lên: 24/07/2023, 06:54
johansson et al. - self-organizing flow technology - in viktor schauberger's footsteps (2002)
... spiralling space curve along the pipe A thread that was hanging from the inlet was sucked into the pressure minimum, and formed a curve with increasing wavelength and decreasing amplitude along ... inspired the inhabitants of the place [11] Water certainly was central in Minoan mythology — and treated as something sacred The water supply system is especially interesting Conical pipes made ... obvious that (r) in some way reflects the forcing of the system Let's have a look at the trumpet shaped vessel We can imagine several ways of forcing or retarding the system: • Centripetal forces from
Ngày tải lên: 04/06/2014, 12:43
stuber et al., das allgemeine gleichbehandlungsgesetz in der betrieblichen praxis (2006)
... sichziehen und als deren Kehrseite Sie als ArbeitgeberIn eine ganze Reihevon Pflichten treffen hinsicht-1.2 Die sechs Gleichbehandlungsmerkmale Das Gesetz beinhaltet insgesamt sechs Merkmale auf Grund ... die Sie als Trang 192 Ihre Pflichten als ArbeitgeberInDiese Aufgaben bestehen in allen Geltungsbereichen des Gesetzes,nehmen allerdings in den verschiedenen Personalmanagement-Disziplinen unterschiedliche ... Betriebs oder Unternehmens spricht, erscheint die Einrichtung einer möglichst kompetenten und effizienten Stelle sinnvoll Mangels gesetzlicher Konkretisierungen haben Sie als ArbeitgeberIn einen
Ngày tải lên: 05/06/2014, 13:01
288 Tunnelling in weak rocks Jr = joint roughness number of Barton et al. (1974), f = correction potx
... lining in intra-thrust zone: (a) segmental lining; (b) flexible joint Trang 19306 Tunnelling in weak rocksconnected together by flexible joints Contrary to the above assumption, tectonic slip inthick ... Additional information was presented by Shome et al ∗This chapter is reproduced from the paper by Jethwa et al (1980). Tunnelling in Weak Rocks B Singh and R K Goel Trang 9296 Tunnelling in weak ... tunnel Finally, Jain et al (1975)presented an ingenious interpretation of the existing geological data and predicted theexistence of a series of tear faults (Fig 20.2b) between Chhibro and Kalawar
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 16:21
Recent Advances in Mechatronics - Ryszard Jabonski et al (Eds) Episode 1 Part 1 doc
... machines 2006, ISBN 80-85918-97-8, 2006 [4] Y Tagawa, T Yamashita, “Analysis of human abnormal walking using zero moment joint”, 2000 Quantifying the amount of spatial and temporal information in ... the final review of full lengths papers, with both reviews concentrating on originality and quality Finally, out of 182 papers contributed from over 15 countries, 136 papers are included in this ... quality evaluation: perceptual (sometimes called subjective) and computational (also referred to as objective) No matter what the method is, the crucial role in results of a coder evaluation is
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 02:20
Recent Advances in Mechatronics - Ryszard Jabonski et al (Eds) Episode 1 Part 2 pdf
... thermal processes modelling (final volumes method), see fig 1 3 Numerical calculation system of this model The Stirling engine model is represented by system of several non-linear differential ... real robots inertia momentums, masses, etc Mathematical model of industrial robot is highly nonlinear In this paper for assignment of model coefficients we will use neural nets Neural nets can approximate ... output θnn obtained from neural model for the testing data 5 Concluding remarks Neural nets were used for calculation of the Puma 560 robot model rameters Neural nets learning is difficult
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 02:20
Recent Advances in Mechatronics - Ryszard Jabonski et al (Eds) Episode 1 Part 3 pptx
... coincident in O point which is the instantaneous turning point of the ing robot Rotating speed of every point of the robot is ω equal to Trang 2in in outout s R V R V R 2/) ( b R l arctg in ... connected together as is shown in Fig 3 Internal structure connection of snake robot mechanism is shown in Fig 4 Complete movement is realized in block machine environment and is set into the kinematics ... Robotic Systems Including Walking Robots References [1] Matlab, Simulink - Simulink Modeling Tutorial - Train System [2] K Williams, „Amphibionics Build Your Own Biologically Inspired Reptilian
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 02:20
Recent Advances in Mechatronics - Ryszard Jabonski et al (Eds) Episode 1 Part 4 doc
... the global localization (the initial position of the robot is unknown) Pre-Computed Scan Match-ing method (PCSM) is presented in this paper The method was introduced track-in [1] PCSM method belongs ... with networks that have a 2-dimensional input vector and a 1-dimensional neighborhood In this case the input to the network can be regarded as coordinates in a 2- dimensional space: x and y Using ... self-organization in neural networks, 2opt algorithm and modifications applied to Self-Organizing Map Finally, the algorithm is compared with the lutionary Algorithm with Enhanced Edge Recombination operator
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 02:20
kowalewski et al - 2007 - corporate governance and dividend policy in poland [pcgi-tdi]
... not changed Finally, changing the conditioning information set has not affected our results Further increasing the set of explanatory variables included in the regressions with the sales’ growth, ... measure consisting of several sub-indices Our empirical strategy follows Bebczuk (2005), who splits the general index of TDI into several sub-indices and constructs the TDI using public information ... (1986) and Allen et al (2000) note that institutional investors prefer to own shares of firms making regular dividend payments, and argue that large institutional investors are more willing and...
Ngày tải lên: 02/01/2015, 17:33
carrera et al - 2007 - mandatory audit firm rotation in spain - a policy that was never applied [mafr]
... play in terms of opening up today’s international audit policy arena to critical, but constructive analysis Finally, although Spanish academic accounting research is assuming a growing international ... policy in Spain highlights the political nature of audit regulatory processes in Spain and also casts additional light on the professional status of auditors in Spain Finally, the case allows ... not work in Spain” by reviewing what really has happened in Spain in parliamentary and professional circles since such a requirement was first introduced in 1988 Instead of the traditional view...
Ngày tải lên: 06/01/2015, 19:41
kowalewski et al - 2007 - corporate governance and dividend policy in poland [pcgi-tdi]
... not changed Finally, changing the conditioning information set has not affected our results Further increasing the set of explanatory variables included in the regressions with the sales’ growth, ... measure consisting of several sub-indices Our empirical strategy follows Bebczuk (2005), who splits the general index of TDI into several sub-indices and constructs the TDI using public information ... (1986) and Allen et al (2000) note that institutional investors prefer to own shares of firms making regular dividend payments, and argue that large institutional investors are more willing and...
Ngày tải lên: 06/01/2015, 19:47
cheung et al - 2007 - do investors really value corporate governance - evidence from the hong kong market [hcgi]
... statistically significant in model (3), Table 5.16 Another control variable is an indicator variable representing whether or not a company is included in the MSCI, a principal international stock index ... index, the remaining questions constituting the non-transparency index We then examine the impact of corporate disclosure and transparency on market valuation Accounting information and market-related ... and market performance; however, his result is based on a small sample of 21 firms Drobetz et al (2003) follow the approach of Gompers et al (2003), developing a governance index and linking it...
Ngày tải lên: 02/01/2015, 17:33
qinghua et al - 2007 - audit committee, board characteristics and quality of financial reporting - an empirical research on chinese securities market
... Qinghua, WANG Pingxin, YIN Junming Introduction Quality accounting information and particularly, quality earnings information are important to market efficiency The generation of quality earnings ... role in supervising listed companies’ financial reporting process and the quality of financial reporting Strengthening the board of directors, such as enhancing the board’s independence, improving ... role independent directors have played in board (Dechow et al. , 1996; Chtourou et al. , 2001; Klein, 2002; Kao and Chen, 2004) Since the introduction of independent director institution into China,...
Ngày tải lên: 02/01/2015, 17:34
blouin et al - 2007 - an analysis of forced auditor change - the case of former arthur andersen clients
... residual from regression of annual returns on annual earnings (#18), and changes in annual earnings, both scaled by total assets (#6) and SIZE; TotalSales Segmenti COMPLEX ϭ N LN Segmenti TotalSales ... net income (#18) in current year less net income in prior year divided by ending total assets (#6); SIZE ϭ natural logarithm of total assets (#6); and I ϭ denotes industry as defined in Barth et ... reported total assets on Compustat since 1980; SIZE ϭ natural logarithm of total assets; INDUSTRY GROWTH ϭ total industry sales in the current year divided by total industry sales in the prior...
Ngày tải lên: 06/01/2015, 19:41
gul et al - 2007 - auditor independence - evidence on the joint effects of auditor tenure and non-audit fees
... auditor independence for a small cluster of firms which has a smaller market capitalization, lower book-to-market ratio, lower institutional holdings, and higher insider holdings 22 Overall Findings ... year’s total current accruals equal to net income before extraordinary items plus depreciation and amortization minus operating cash flows scaled by beginning of year total assets natural logarithm ... year’s total current accruals equal to net income before extraordinary items plus depreciation and amortization minus operating cash flows scaled by beginning of year total assets natural logarithm...
Ngày tải lên: 06/01/2015, 19:42
davis et al - 2007 - auditor tenure and the ability to meet or beat earnings forecasts
... discretionary accruals Using the amount of discretionary accruals as a measure of earnings quality, both Johnson et al (2002) and Myers et al (2003) find evidence suggesting that earnings quality suffers ... discretionary accruals that allowed the firm to move from below target to meeting or beating earnings forecast 10 We then examine whether this ability to use discretionary accruals to meet or ... Unlike Myers et al (2003), we allow for a non-linear relation between accruals and tenure by including both ordinal tenure and squared tenure, and unlike Johnson et al (2002), we define long tenure...
Ngày tải lên: 06/01/2015, 19:42