ethical indexes, which, surprisingly, are not incrementally capable of explaining ethical mutual fund return variation. Ó 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. JEL classification: G12; G20; G23 Keywords: Mutual funds; Performance evaluation; Style analysis; Ethical investments * Corresponding author. Tel.: +31 10 408 2790; fax: +31 10 408 9017. E-mail address: c.koedijk@fbk.eur.nl (K. Koedijk). 0378-4266/$ - see front matter Ó 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.jbankfin
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The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0025-1747.htm Intellectual capital disclosure and intangible value drivers: an empirical study Philip Vergauwen Faculty of Applied Economic Sciences, Universiteit Hasselt, Hasselt, Belgium ICDs and intangible value drivers 1163 Received February 2007 Revised May 2007 Accepted May 2007 Laury Bollen Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Department of Accounting and Information Management
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DATA ANALYSIS for MANAGERS MScBA Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL) JOSÉ DIAS CURTO dias.curto@iscte.pt 2015/2016 i Contents Contents 1 Math introductory concepts 1 1.1 The real numbers system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.2 The concept of sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.3 Relations and functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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A Research on the Influence of Leadership Style and Job Characteristics on Job Performance among Accountants of County and City Government in Taiwan By Li-Chuan Chu, PhD, and Chun-Che Lai The objectives of this paper are to explore the effect of leadership style and job characteristics on job performance and examine the mediating effect of organization commitment on the leadership style, the job characteristics and the job performance as weii as to provide the management suggestions according the
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transmission. The measured results show the impact of copper dust on light absorption and transmission characteristics that can provide indication of transformers remaining health condition. This thesis presents the measurement of power transformers oil samples with different furan contents for remnant life estimation. Key words: Power Transformer, Copper Dust, Transformer oil, UV-Vis Spectrometer, Furan, Health Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Power Transformer Figure 1: A basic power transformer
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Torres 1 Luis A. Torres Group #11 USC Chemistry 322b Formal Lab Report 6th November 2015 I. II. Enzymatic Resolution of 1-Phenylethanol and Diastereomer Analysis Objective/Abstract Enzymatic transesterification reaction was performed to study the resolution of diastereomers using 1H-NMR analysis. The stereo-selectivity of acylase I, an enzyme, for a 50:50 racemic mixture of 1-phenylethanol was determined. In the first of a two-step reaction, 1-phenylethanol was reacted with vinyl
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divided into three parts. The first part examines the evidence that relates to the cross-sectional determinants of capital structure. This literature identifies and discusses the characteristics of firms that tend to be associated with different debt ratios. In the second part, we review the literature that examines changes in capital structure. The papers in this literature explore factors that move firms away from their target capital structures as well as the extent to which future financing choices
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NOTE AUDIT REPORT AND WORKING PAPERS OF M/s Global Industries, 609-560/1 & 2, Jigani Industrial Area, Bangalore – 562 106 UNDER EA - 2000 (AUDIT PERIOD: Sept 2011 to Sept 2012 Auditors Shri S.P.Vasan, Superintendent (Audit) and Shri Bhanu Srinivas, Superintendent (Audit) SUPERVISION & GUIDANCE Shri Shrawan Kumar, Addl.Commissoner (Audit) Shri B.N.Ramesh, Asst.Commissioner(Audit) CENTRAL EXCISE
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statistical manipulation of findings. In an experiment, the researcher attempts to control and/or manipulate the variables in the study. First, the trend data will have to be gathered for a number of years preceding the West Nile Virus threat. A trend analysis can be conducted to establish whether the trend was naturally moving toward the population shifting their sleeve length preference or not. This will establish a basis for the qualitative
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work hours, good relations between management and employees, good function of the group and work related to employees’ area of education. Design/methodology/approach – A random sample of 425 employees in the private and public sector and two stage cluster sampling is first used to collect primary data. Factor analysis is used next to identify the responsible factors for the correlation among a large number of qualitative and quantitative variables and their influence on productivity. Logistic
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