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The aim of this study is to investigate the nature, extent and determinants of risk information disclosed, using the context of corporate reporting in Malaysia. Key management personnel and controlling shareholders are chosen as the two types of players expected to influence corporate risk disclosure decisions. In terms of key management personnel, this study draws on upper echelons theory to develop hypotheses about the effects of demographic and other background influences of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chair of Audit Committee (CAC) on corporate risk disclosure.

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This project report is an analysis of the current situation, needs, and potential medium-and long-term strategies to develop agricultural research and extension in Viet Nam. The report provides a long-term road map for agriculture research and extension assistanceand it will be used as a basis for the development of a forthcoming ADB technical assistance, which will in turn be used as a basis for a proposed investment loan in Agricultural Science and Technology.

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Three pairs of parental (q + ) and established mitochondrial DNAdepleted (q 0 ) cells, derived frombone, lungandmuscle were used to verify the influence of the nuclear background and the lack of efficient mitochondrial respiratory chain on antioxidant defences and homeostasis of intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS).

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Reliable detection and identification of pathogens in complex biological samples, in the presence of contaminating DNA from a variety of sources, is an important and challenging diagnostic problem for the development of field tests. The problem is compounded by the difficulty of finding a single, unique genomic sequence that is present simultaneously in all genomes of a species of closely related pathogens and absent in the genomes of the host or the organisms that contribute to the sample background. ...

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ORGANIZATIONL CHANGE THROUGH THE MANDATED IMOLEMENTATION OF NEW INFORMATION SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY : A MODIFIED TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE MODEL A second shortcoming of the validity literature is more fundamental. In a world in which student background characteristics are known to be correlated with academic success (i.e. with both SAT scores and collegiate grades), it is quite difficult to interpret validity estimates that fail to take account of these background characteristics.

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PLANNING AN INTERNATIONAL AUDIT: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF INTERNAL AUDITOR JUDGEMENT With nearly as long a pedigree is the idea that these family background effects may operate above the individual level. The school-level association between average student background and average performance is typically much stronger than is the same association at the individual level.

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Three essays consider implications of the strong association between student background characteristics and academic performance. Chapter One considers the incentives that school choice policies might create for the efficient management of schools. These incentives would be diluted if parents prefer schools with desirable peer groups to those with inferior peers but better policies and instruction. I model a “Tiebout choice” housing market in which schools differ in both peer group and effectiveness.

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ARE BANK LOAN RATINGS RELEVANT? Moreover, the coefficient on the background index across MSAs—1.58 in Column C, and slightly higher in later columns—is nearly identical to that found within MSAs (Table 1.4, Column A). This is consistent with the claim that both coefficients measure primarily the peer effect (γ ), which might be the same across MSAs as within, rather than effectiveness sorting (θ ), which we would expect to see within but not across MSAs.

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GOODWILL : CHARACTERISTICS AND IMPAIRMENT When MSAs are weighted equally, for example, rather than by the number of SAT takers or by the 17-yearold population (not shown, but similar to the SAT-taker weighting in Table 1.7), the choice effect is about one third as large as that shown here and confidence intervals do not reject zero. Nevertheless, there is no indication that Tiebout choice is associated with higher SAT scores once student background is controlled.56

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ANALYSIS OF CREDIT RATING EQUIT” INDEXES: VOLATILITY COMPARISONS A OPTION CALIBRATION The positive correlation between choice and performance seems to result entirely from the omission of students’ background characteristics; when they are included in Column C, the coefficient becomes negative and significant.

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PERFORMANCE EFFECTS OF CORPORATE DWERSIFICATION: ROLES OF KNOWLEDGE RESOURCES, KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT CAPABILITY AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY The results presented in Section 1.5 offer no evidence that the allocation of effective schools is systematically different in high-choice than in low-choice markets. If Tiebout choice does not increase the probability that effective schools attract students from advantaged backgrounds, it is not clear how it can provide incentives that will lead administrators to exert greater effort....

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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EMPLOYEE TURNOVER AND CUSTOMER SERVICE QUALITY IN CASINO RESTAURANTS The remaining panels present models for measures relating to school continuation rates, defined as one minus the cumulative dropout rate. In Panel C, the dependent variable is the fraction of students from the NELS 8th grade sample who were still in school at the time of the 12th follow-up survey four years later.

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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN GREENLAND: A TIME SERIES ANALYSIS OF DEPENDENCY GROWTH , AND INSTABILITY Column A presents the coefficient from a regression of school average scores on an index of student quality, pooling all metropolitan schools in the NELS sample 44 and including a fixed effect for each MSA.50 As in the SAT data, peer effects and effectiveness sorting are together substantial, inflating the school-level background index coefficient by 90 percent relative to the coefficient of a within-school regression of individual scores on own characteristics....

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ECONOMETRIC STUDY OF THE DEMAND FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IN CANADA, 1976-1995 Column D tests a different aspect of the specification, the assumption that the background characteristics predicting SAT scores are identical to those indexing willingnessto- pay for desirable schools. To test this, I allow willingness-to-pay to depend on students’ self-reported family income, estimating the interaction between income and Tiebout choice while including the peer quality index to absorb peer effects. The interaction coefficient here is again negative and insignificant....

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The Social Return to Education Since model (1) excludes school resources, the term x jγ potentially captures both conventional peer group effects and other indirect effects associated with the family background characteristics of students at school j . For example, wealthy parents may be more likely to volunteer in their children’s schools, or to vote for increased tax rates to support education

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Cost and Processing Analysis for Retailers In view of the vast literature documenting the important role of family background characteristics—e.g. ethnicity, parental income and education—in student achievement (Coleman et al., 1966; Phillips et al., 1998; Bowen and Bok, 1998), I assume that ij x is positively correlated with willingness-to-pay for educational quality. In the empirical analysis below, I also estimate specifications that allow willingness-to-pay to depend on family income while other characteristics have direct effects on student achievement....

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Internship is fact-finding, understanding how to knowledge learned on the books to be applied in practice, find out the difference between theory and practice. It is important to students. It helps students learn how to apply their knowledge to actual work. It help students know how to work in the future.

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Background: Dercum’s disease (DD) is characterised by obesity and chronic pain ( 3 months) in the adipose tissue. The pathogenesis of DD is unknown, but inflammatory components have been proposed. In previous reports and studies, an inconsistent picture of the histological appearance of the adipose tissue in DD has been described. The aim of this investigation was to examine the histological appearance of adipose tissue in patients with DD, with particular focus on inflammatory signs. Methods: Fat biopsies were sampled from painful regions from 53 patients with DD.

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Background: To be useful for genetic display of foreign peptides a viral coat protein must tolerate peptide insertions without major disruption of subunit folding and capsid assembly. The folding of the coat protein of RNA phage MS2 does not normally tolerate insertions in its AB-loop, but an engineered single-chain dimer readily accepts them as long as they are restricted to one of its two halves.

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Background: Pancreatic cancer is one of the most aggressive human tumors due to its high potential of local invasion and metastasis. The aim of this study was to characterize the membrane proteomes of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) cells of primary and metastatic origins, and to identify potential target proteins related to metastasis of pancreatic cancer.

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