Proxy measures

A salient way used to determine those effects is assessing the HDI (Human Development Index) of host country before and after receiving the foreign direct investment. HDI is calculated with regards to three aspects of education, longevity and income. Although, until now, HDI has its own drawbacks that need special attention. Therefore, since 2010, a new measurement called Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI) has been created and calculated by United Nations Development Program.

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Part 1 book "Animal personality the science behind individual variation" includes content: Non random behaviour; the history of personality; personality and welfare; measuring personality by proxy and by construction; experimental design and personality.

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Ebook Security technologies for the world wide web (Second edition): Part 1 presents the following content: Chapter 1 Introduction, Chapter 2 HTTP security, Chapter 3 Proxy servers and firewalls, Chapter 4 Cryptographic techniques, Chapter 5 Internet security protocols, Chapter 6 SSL and TLS protocols, Chapter 7 Certificate management, Chapter 8 Authentication and authorization.

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Part 1 of ebook "Knowledge management tools and techniques: Practitioners and experts evaluate knowledge management solutions" provides readers with contents including: knowledge management at accenture; building a knowledge-sharing network; power to the people - supporting collaborative behaviors for KM with online conferencing technology; a work in progress - the phoenix K-ecosystem at cable and wireless; schemes and tools for social capital measurement as a proxy for intellectual capital measures;...

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Electronic health record audit logs capture a time-sequenced record of clinician activities while using the system. Audit log data therefore facilitate unobtrusive measurement at scale of clinical work activities and workflow as well as derivative, behavioral proxies (eg, teamwork). Given its considerable research potential, studies leveraging these data have burgeoned.

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Up to 70% of nursing home patients with dementia suffer from sleep problems. Light is the main zeitgeber to the circadian system and thus has a fundamental impact on sleep-wake behaviour. Low indoor light levels in nursing homes have been reported, and in combination with age-related reductions in light sensitivity, insufficient light exposure is likely to contribute to sleep problems in this population.

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Walking speed is an important health indicator in older adults, although its measurement can be challenging because of the functional decline due to aging and limited environment. The aim of this study was to examine whether hand grip strength can be a useful proxy for detecting slow walking speed in this population.

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Proxies are mathematical calculations based on fasting glucose and/or insulin concentrations developed to allow prediction of insulin sensitivity (IS) and β-cell response. These proxies have not been evaluated in horses with insulin dysregulation.

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This study aims to analyze the relationships between corporate-governance mechanisms and audit quality of Vietnam listed firms. Based on a sample of 221 listed firms collected from FiinPro database, annual reports, financial statements and corporate governance reports from 2015 to 2017, this study examines the use of Big 4 auditors as a proxy to measure audit quality and applies the logistic regression method to analyse these relationships.

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This paper examines the impact of trade on household income inequality (measured using Gini index) under the condition of disaster (measured using various proxies). The paper uses panel regression on a balanced dataset of 48 countries for 2011-2017 to estimate the impacts, with data combined from World Development Indicators, World Income Inequality Database, and World Risk Report.

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The 6-minute walk test evaluates the effect of pharmacologic intervention in adults with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) but, for reasons of compliance or reliability, may not be appropriate for children at all ages.

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Childhood asthma prevalence is widely measured by parental proxy report of physician-diagnosed asthma in questionnaires. Our objective was to validate this measure in a North American population.

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"Ebook Fundamental analysis for dummies" presnet what fundamental analysis is and why you should use it; getting up to speed with fundamental analysis; measuring a company’s staying power with the balance sheet; tracking cash with the statement of cash flow; using financial ratios to pinpoint investments; mining the proxy statement for investment clues; looking for fundamental reasons to buy or sell; finding a right price for a stock using discounted cash flow; using the annual report (10-K) to see what a company is worth...

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Thisstudy aimed to translate and culturally adapt the self-report and parent-proxy Health-Related Quality of Life Measure for Children with Epilepsy (CHEQOL-25) into Vietnamese and to evaluate their reliability. Methods: Both English versions of the self-report and parent-proxy CHEQOL-25 were translated and culturally adapted into Vietnamese by using the Principles of Good Practice for the Translation and CulturalAdaptation Process.

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This study aims at determining the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) after the induction therapy, assessing the agreement between child self-reports and family proxy-reports HRQOL, and determining the factors related to this agreement, especially child age, family attendance, and children’s social relationships beyond the family.

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This study observes the factors affecting the changes of energy intensity in Indonesia and five selected Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries during the period (1971-2016) particularly measuring its impact during 1997 financial crisis. By employing the Logaritmic Mean Divisia Index, this study summaries that the changes in energy intensity in the ASEAN-6 economies was a result of the changes within industry energy intensity (intensity effect). The intensity effects also provide a proxy measure of energy efficiency activity at the sectoral level.

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The sample includes firms listed on Vietnam stock exchange during the period between 2010 and 2016. Two measures of earnings quality are the annual firm-specific absolute value of residuals from Dechow and Dichev’s (2002) model and from Dechow and Dichev (2002) as modified by McNichols’s (2002) model. The firms’ dividend policy is captured by dividend paying status. This is a dummy variable that takes the value of 1 if the firm pays dividends and 0 otherwise.

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This paper investigates the impact of corporate governance on firm value measured by Tobin’s Q. Different corporate governance proxies i.e. board size, board independence, audit committee and CEO duality are interacted with firm value.

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Considering sustainability disclosure become one important issue, while still there no universal agreement for the guidance, this study aims to examine Indonesia’s Sustainability Disclosure trend using GRI as quantity dimension, KLD for the quality, and readability and PROPER to measure how well they communicate. This study uses a sample of 224 firm-year observation from 2013 to 2017 based on GRI database. Descriptive analytic employed to figure disclosure trend in general, year to year, and industry base, and Pearson to explain correlation between measurements.

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This paper examines the relationship between the presence of the foreign chief executive officer (CEO) as a director of a firm and firm performance in Saudi Arabia. Performance is measured in terms of a business’ profitability proxy, return on assets (ROA), and the market performance measure, Tobin’s Q. Herein, we use a sample of non-financial companies that have been listed in Saudi Arabia between 2005 and 2016.

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