 CHAPTER 4 DESCRIBES THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SAMPLE COMPANIES USING DATA FROM THE SURVEY AND THE...

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I found it reassuring in my conversations with Chairmen that they put great emphasis on their responsibility for ensuring that board relationships are built on trust. For them, personally, a trusting relationship with their Chief Execu- tives is essential. Equa[r]

From the data acquired, we observe that comparing the two sets of featured and standard metrics, featured metrics for oil and gas exploration and production companies[r]

Chapter 4 - Demand and elasticity. We begin in chapter 4 by exploring the concept of elasticity, which describes the sensitivity of demand and supply to variations in prices, incomes, and other economic factors.

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Chapter 4 - Elasticity. We begin in chapter 4 by exploring the concept of elasticity, which describes the sensitivity of demand and supply to variations in prices, incomes, and other economic factors.

In Haveri district of Karnataka, maize is preferred by the farmers. Hence, the impact of installation of maize extraction factory on maize growers economy has been studied using the randomly selected maize growers and primary data was collected from sample farmers by personal interview method with t[r]

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The relationship of serum antigen-specific immunoglobulin E (IgE) with cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) remains poorly understood. This study aimed to explore the association of antigen-specific and total IgE with CVDs using data derived from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANE[r]

While the reconstruction of transcripts from a sample of RNA-Seq data is a computationally expensive and complicated task, the detection of splicing events from RNA-Seq data and a gene annotation is computationally feasible.

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In the present work, the thermal hydraulic RELAP5-3D code was used to develop a model of this reactor. The model was performed using geometrical and material data from the Angra 2 final safety analysis report (FSAR).

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This study was conducted in companies (hotels and tour operators) from the hospitality sector in Vietnam. The respondents were selected based on convenience sampling. A cross-sectional survey design and questionnaire method was used for data collection.

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This survey study aims to investigate teachers and students’ beliefs of classroom interactions in non-English major large classes. The participants included 100 teachers of English and 100 non-English major students. The survey method, more specifically, the questionnaire was chosen as a data collec[r]

A study was conducted to know the clientele served and type of extension functions emphasized by the extension personnel of public extension organizations in Hyderabad – Karnataka region of Karnataka during 2013-14. A sample of 38 extension personnel from Krishi Vigyan Kendras under University of Ag[r]

This paper focuses on evaluating the performance of firms from the knowledge and learning perspective. The survey covered a random sample of 120 private manufacturing firms in industrial zones in the Yangon area. Two broad categories of learning are determined: Internal and external.

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