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... was used to rank the performance, measuring the dispersion and the stability of performance The finding revealed that the both banks did well for the above period Moreover, the liquidity level ... measures the profitability of the shareholder’s equity The ratio provides a measure of overall performance and is an indicator of the possible amount of dividends that may be expected The analysis ... statement, there was no meaningful difference Miniaoui and Gohou (2011) examined the performance of the main Islamic banks They used the balance sheets data for 37 banks of the UAE Their main

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... understanding of the concept of CSR; the relevant theories describe the relationship between CSR and financial performance as well as empirical studies of CSR and financial performance The relevant theories ... moving the rhetoric of their activism out of the realm of ―ethics‖ or good versus bad behavior, and into that of traditional issues of profitability, risk and shareholder value‖ The establishment of ... in the aspect of identifying the costs and benefits of CRS, how those costs and benefits will affect the accounting earnings or profits of the firms Those issues will be improved by the case of

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... decreasing the activation energy can contribute to faster reaction (desorption) rate, and consequently it can enhance the performance of the adsorption cycle This is one of the merits of using the microwave-activation ... can enhance the microwave energy absorption This phenomenon is observed in the experiment of the thesis (Section 4.6) With these advances, the microwave-activated adsorption cooling/heating system ... applications of cooling and heating process of an adsorption cycle Trang 241.2 Objectives of the Present Study The aim of the current work is to develop an in-depth understanding of the activated

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... include the amount of greenery, height of buildings and the width of the urban canopy It is the interaction between exposed urban surfaces and the ambient conditions that forms the basis of urban ... defined as the ratio of the solid angle of the sky patch visible from a certain point on a building’s facade to the solid angle of the hemisphere centred at the same point, and represents the “geometric ... 1EVALUATING THE ENVELOPE PERFORMANCE OF COMMERCIAL OFFICE BUILDINGS IN CITIES CHONG ZHUN MIN ADRIAN (B.Sc.(Hons.), NUS) A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE (BUILDING) DEPARTMENT OF

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... overall performance, the city could Belo Horizonte is the capital of the mineral-rich state of Minas Gerais Located in the interior of southeastern Brazil, Belo Horizonte sits at the heart of the ... was the charterpresident of the Solid WasteManagement Association of thePhilippines, and was recentlyelected back to the position ofpresident She was a member ofthe executive committee of theUnited ... initiatives These profiles rightly con-stitute the bulk of the report, because the aim ofthe study is to share valuable experience Trang 7par-What the Index measures: Testing commmon perceptionsThe 17

Ngày tải lên: 06/12/2015, 23:04

... was the charterpresident of the Solid WasteManagement Association of thePhilippines, and was recentlyelected back to the position ofpresident She was a member ofthe executive committee of theUnited ... island of Yumeshima in the city’s harbour Bangkok is promoting the use of biofuels The authorities aim to increase the proportion of gasohol — a mixture of gasoline and ethanol — in the fuel mix (the ... encroachment of “the Ridge”, adense forest known as the capital’s “greenlungs” The government is also building awildlife sanctuary and plans the forestation of2,100 acres of the southern part of the Ridge

Ngày tải lên: 06/12/2015, 23:07

... initia-tives These profiles rightly constitute the bulk of the report because the aim of the study is toshare valuable experience predicts it will decline another 14% in the nexttwo decades, even as the ... action plan, which is one ofthe strongest in the Index Across the other cate-gories in the Index Charlotte places in the bot-tom half of cities However, since the award ofthe federal energy grant ... points The city has one of the lowest proportions ofrecycled municipal waste in the Index, at 7%,compared with the Index average of 26% Inaddition, it has one of the lowest rates amongother cities

Ngày tải lên: 06/12/2015, 23:11

... Trang 1THE IMPACT OF OIL PRICECHANGES ON THEMACROECONOMICPERFORMANCE OF UKRAINEbyOleg Zaytsev A thesis submitted in partialfulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Trang 2Kyiv School of ... the ‘unexpected part of the rate of change in real oil price’ to thesquare root of conditional variance of the error term In other Trang 29words, given that certain value of the unexpected part(numerator) ... After all, if the system is to return to thelong-run equilibrium, the movements of at least some of thevariables must respond to the magnitude of the 7 Be reminded that for economic theorists and

Ngày tải lên: 11/12/2016, 11:13

... computed The results of CG disclosure rating for the Vietnamese companies are low, even lower than the figure of neighbor Asian countries in 2004 And the result of test is not in line with the hypothesis ... holding by the largest shareholder, the CEO being the chairman or vice chairman of the board of directors, and the largest shareholder being the government have negative effects In above, there are ... governance of the firm and the value creation of the firm to its shareholder, to decide if they will invest on that firm or not Trang 23The second measure of variable considered is the price/earnings

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2017, 21:11

... from the late Jack Marburger,the father of thefield of science of science policy He provided the impetus for the establishment of the Science of Science and Innovation Policy (SciSIP) program at the ... university, and the network organization of surgical care He is the Barger Leadership Institute Profes-sor of Organizational Studies, ProfesProfes-sor of sociology, Research ProfesProfes-sor in the Institute ... (5) The second is that the focus of data collection is on awards, which are not the appropriate unit of behavioral analysis Awards are the intervention of interest, and the activities of the

Ngày tải lên: 06/01/2020, 09:38

... testing of hypotheses The criteria that have been used to the measurement model were used again to measure the Goodness of fit (GOF) for the structural model The outcomes obtained of the GOF were ... shows the results of the mode fit of this study The last step is to check the proposed model hypotheses through the use of path analysis The results are shown in Table 3 The study hypotheses ... affected by the gender moderator The results showed that the impact of the factor of SI on females was more than males On the other hand, female students were more confident in the use of the e-book

Ngày tải lên: 10/01/2020, 09:07

... attention to their internet-enabled phones, also to what their peers think of them As the mental effects of the use of smartphones are ever present in the lives of the users, there also exist other impacts ... the same as the work they do inside of the classroom This observation is very important to the issue brought up in the study with regard to the responsibility or role of smartphones outside the ... students of the NWU is yet unknown Nevertheless, the use of smartphones has both positive and negative impacts on the students who use them 2.1 Role of smartphones in academic learning The role of

Ngày tải lên: 10/01/2020, 11:12

... sense, since in either case the economic impact on the state and, thus, the size of the state's economy, is the same After all, the source of the impact is the new job (an expansion of the economic ... for the position: one is a graduate of a local university and the other is a lifetime resident of another state According to the skill-base approach, if the firm hired the local graduate, then the ... measure the increase in a region's economic activity attributable to the presence of a college or university." The task of the researcher is to ask the hypothetical questions: What would happen if the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 19:20

... requirement of the THO complex for the expression of long genes [14], the GLAM ratios of the two THO mutants were dramatically reduced when compared with the wild type (Fig 6) The absence of effect of ... absence or in the presence of sublethal amounts of MPA (B) mRNA levels of the transcription units and strains analyzed in (A) cultured in the absence of MPA The relative values of the mRNA levels ... exclusively impairing the initial steps of transcription influence equally the Assay for gene length-dependent mRNA biogenesis expression of the reporters, independently of the length of their 3¢-UTR Results...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 12:20

... homeowners free of charge or at a large discount These firms earned a profit based on the margin between the market price of the NGACs and the cost of the appliances The business model of purchasing ... efficiency of windows and doors, improving the exchange of heat, and increasing the tightness of the building envelope Improvements to the thermal envelope of a building can reduce heating loads ... case of the promised Australian national program and the proposed recast of the EPBD, even still under consideration Thus, systematic analysis of the effects of the policies is not yet possible There...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 22:20

... number, the listing date, and the status of the listing In addition, whenever relevant, each record includes the expiration date of the listing, the accepted offer date, the closing date, and the ... withdrawal of the property from the market, or transfer of the property to the MLS platform The staff of FSBOMadison.com monitors listings on the MLS and extinguishes any listings that appear on the ... all the listings on the service since it started in 1998 For each listing, we know the address of the property, the last name of the seller, the date the property is put on the Web, and sometimes...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 03:20

... instruction of the homeowners Typical events that trigger removal include sale of the property, withdrawal of the property from the market, or transfer of the property to the MLS platform The staff of ... in the transaction, s/he deals with the listing agent to settle the terms of the transactions, and gets the share of the commission that would have otherwise gone to the seller’s agent When the ... subset of the stock of buyers The attraction of this option increases with the proportion of informed buyers, and declines with the number of sellers that list in F (sellers compete for the stock of...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 04:21

... Glossary of Terms Foreword Foreword Foreword by the President of The Brewers of Europe I am delighted to welcome The Brewers of Europe’s first ever report on The Environmental Performance of the ... capturing the heat from the steam produced by boiling operations; the heat can then be reused for other processes Another example is the use of “wort-stripping” technology which increases the speed of ... expectations Therefore, The Brewers of Europe commissioned a study to describe the environmental performance of the brewing sector in Europe This report presents the changes and trends in the environmental...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 22:20

... if they had to be purchased On the other hand, city dwellers get pleasure and satisfaction from their use of the parks If they had to pay and if they consequently reduced some of this use, they ... Second, the same photographs are then analyzed for the amount of perviousness of the rest of a city—in other words, the city without its parkland and not counting surface water (Pervious land in the ... marketplace The second is the health benefit—savings in medical costs—due to the beneficial aspects of exercise in the parks And the third is the community cohesion benefit of people banding together...

Ngày tải lên: 02/04/2014, 08:20

... stronger the efficiency The form of the market is also dependent on the characteristics of the players, perceived security and the efficiency of available technology Each of these factors impacts the ... reporters was less than the mean value of risk of the sample of S&P 500 organizations for the period of January 1, 2002 to December 31, 2006 Hypothesis 2: H0: The growth of the group of Top Sustainability ... H1: The growth of the group of Top Sustainability reporters was greater than the growth of the sample of S&P 500 organizations based upon the distribution of return (growth) values for the for the...

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