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The Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence: Rewarding World-Class Practices
Chakravorty, Satya S.; Atwater, J. Bryan; Herbert, James I. - 2008
Established in 1988, the Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence recognises organisations in the USA, Mexico and Canada …
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Determinants of the Relations between Transitory Earnings and CEO Cash Compensation in the USA
Asthana, Sharad; Ye, Zhongxia Shelly - 2007
effect). This study has practical implications for regulators, corporations and investors, both in the USA and abroad. …
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A study of outsourcing of premedia services to India by US companies
Nayak, Rahul P. - 2009
Offshore outsourcing continues to gain prominence as the printing industrystrides into the future. With different segments of the industry looking at reducingcosts and, in exchange providing value-added services, more companies turntowards outsourcing services offshore as a solution. Although it...
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Food supply in the European Union from 1961 to 2003
Neier, Anna-Magdalena - 2009
In dieser Studie über die Nahrungsmittelverfügbarkeit in der Europäischen Union mit den Mitgliederstaaten von 2009, werden Food Balance Sheets (FBS) der Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) von 1961 bis 2003 analysiert. Obwohl die Zuverlässigkeit und Präzision der FBS Daten stark von der...
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The Influence of Health on Labor Productivity: An Analysis of European Conscription Data
Knapp, David - 2007
Height has been used in a growing literature as a measure of net nutrition throughout the first 20 years of life. This … paper builds on that literature by considering the influence that net nutrition has on a population’s labor productivity … nutrition in people’s first 20 years has had a significant and positive effect on labor productivity over the twentieth century …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475139
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Underlying Contextual Effects Leading to over Consumption: Extremeness Aversion and Bundling
Sharpe, Kathryn Michelle - 2008
Obesity is now a global problem. Within the U.S., the rise in obesity has been largely driven by the increase in caloric consumption. By specifically observing the practices in the fast food industry, this dissertation examines two factors, portion sizes and bundling, to answer the question,...
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Bargaining and household dynamics: The impact of education and financial control on nutrition outcomes in South Africa
Simister J.; Piesse J. - 2003
on child nutrition in developing countries has been more successful, and here consistent patterns have been found. There …
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Do Income Constraints Inhibit Spending on Fruits and Vegetables Among Low-Income Households?
Stewart, Hayden; Blisard, Noel; Jolliffe, Dean - 2003
This study assesses whether income constraints inhibit spending on fruits and vegetables among low-income households. If this is the case, then it is hypothesized that the distribution of expenditures on fruits and vegetables by low-income households should be stochastically dominated by the...
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Health and wealth: Dietary supplements, network marketing and the commodification of health
Dixon, Anna R - 2003
Dietary supplements overall constitute a multibillion-dollar industry in the U.S. today. This dissertation investigates a heretofore poorly-documented aspect of the burgeoning dietary supplements industry: network marketing. Network marketing, exemplified by companies like Amway as well as a...
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Descriptive epidemiology and health consequences of childhood obesity
Reilly, John - 2005
Obesity is now the most common disorder of childhood in the developed world, and its prevalence is still increasing. A large body of high-quality and consistent evidence shows that it is best defined using the body mass index (BMI) percentile relative to national BMI reference data. This...
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