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Characteristics of statutory internal auditors and operating efficiency

Cho, Moon-Kyung; Lee, Ho-Young; Park, Hyun-Young - In: Managerial Auditing Journal 30 (2015) 4/5, pp. 456-481

internal auditors, namely, compensation, activity and expertise, based on 1,340 firm observations from 2009 to 2010 using …

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AN ANALYSIS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP ACROSS FIVE MAJOR NATIONALITY GROUPS IN THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

TONG, QINGXIA; McCROHAN, DECLAN; EROGUL, MURAT SAKIR - In: Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE) 17 (2012) 02, pp. 1250007-1

The paper investigates differences in entrepreneurial activity, attitudes, aspirations, connectivity and behavior among …. Sharing a common culture and language appears to play a part in increased entrepreneurial activity. Moreover, socioeconomic … factors like income and employment have a significant influence in determining entrepreneurship activity in the UAE …

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Exploring the Role of Transportation in Fostering Social Exclusion: The Use of GIS to Support Qualitative Data

McCray, Talia; Brais, Nicole - In: Networks and Spatial Economics 7 (2007) 4, pp. 397-412

Travel behavior data collection methodologies have not captured the why of demand nor unsatisfied demand. This has left a gap in the development of methodology that can adequately address the role that transport plays in fostering social exclusion. This paper presents one innovative technique...

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How to identify targets in the M&A banking operations? Case of cross-border strategies in Europe by line of activity

Slama, Mehrez Ben; Saidane, Dhafer; Fedhila, Hassouna - In: Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting 38 (2012) 2, pp. 209-240

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Self-organized percolation model for stock market fluctuations

Stauffer, Dietrich; Sornette, Didier - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 271 (1999) 3, pp. 496-506

In the Cont–Bouchaud model [cond-mat/9712318] of stock markets, percolation clusters act as buying or selling investors and their statistics controls that of the price variations. Rather than fixing the concentration controlling each cluster connectivity artificially at or close to the...

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Kinetic theory of situated agents applied to pedestrian flow in a corridor

Rangel-Huerta, A.; Muñoz-Meléndez, A. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 389 (2010) 5, pp. 1077-1089

-average activity with respect to specific parameters: comfort angle turn and frequency of angle turn of walking agents. The main …

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Indicators of health system coverage and activity in Ireland during the economic crisis 2008–2014 – From ‘more with less’ to ‘less with less’

Burke, Sara; Thomas, Steve; Barry, Sarah; Keegan, Conor - In: Health Policy 117 (2014) 3, pp. 275-278

A new Irish government came to power in March 2011 with the most radical proposals for health system reform in the history of the state, including improving access to healthcare, free GP care for all by 2015 and the introduction of Universal Health Insurance after 2016. All this was to be...

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Protective Factors for Subjective Well-being in Chinese Older Adults: The Roles of Resources and Activity

Dai, Bibing; Zhang, Baoshan; Li, Juan - In: Journal of Happiness Studies 14 (2013) 4, pp. 1225-1239

The purpose of current study was to examine the relationships between resources, activity, and subjective well-being in … integrated the constructs of resources and activity into a structural model of subjective well-being. In the model, the three key … resources, health, economic status and family relations, were specified as having direct effects on both activity and subjective …

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Participation patterns in elementary school-aged children with autism spectrum disorders and their typically developing peers

Ismael, Noor; Almhdawi, Khader; Jaber, Ala’a; … - In: Journal of Children's Services 18 (2023) 2, pp. 121-132

Purpose This study aims to investigate the differences in participation patterns between children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and children with typical development (TD) in Jordan. Design/methodology/approach The study used a cross-sectional comparative design and convenient and snowball...

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Actividad y desempleo femenino: un modelo bivariante

OSORNO DEL ROSAL, Mª P.; NAVARRO IBÁÑEZ, M. - In: Estudios de Economía Aplicada 14 (2000) Abril, pp. 117-136

En este trabajo se propone a nivel teórico y econométrico un modelo que permite analizar simultáneamente las variables que influyen en la decisión de una mujer de incorporarse al mercado de trabajo y en sus posibilidades de disponer de un empleo. El modelo consta de dos ecuaciones, una de...

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