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An investigation of mine closure : gold mine case studies on the East Rand in South Africa / J.H. Nel
Nel, Johannes Hendrik - 2008
conceptual closure plan and a draft rehabilitation plan with broad objectives, policies and strategies with detailed descriptions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009456012
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Earnings Smoothness and Investment Sensitivity to Stock Prices
Huang, Xiaochuan - 2011
Existing research suggests that market misvaluations affect corporate investment, often leading to suboptimal investment. I examine whether earnings smoothness reduces the impact of market valuations on corporate investment and in turn enhances investment efficiency. I find that earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009463410
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Progressing from identification and functional analysis of precursor behavior to treatment of self-injury.
Dracobly, Joseph Daniel - 2009
was completed. Ongoing measurement of problem behavior in two settings in the participant's natural environment was … natural environment. Treatment resulted in increases in the precursor behavior and decreases in self-injury in both the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475036
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An under-used yet easily understood statistic: the number needed to treat (NNT)
Hilton, D. J.; Reid, C. M.; Paratz, J. - 2006
Objectives Interpretation of the research literature can be difficult, yet it is essential in order for physiotherapists to convey the details of risks and benefits associated with therapeutic interventions to patients. The number needed to treat (NNT) statistic is one such statistic that is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448707
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Participatory development of a minimum dataset for the Khayelitsha district
Mash, B.; Mahomed, H. - 2000
Background. Traditional 'data-led' information systems have created excessive amounts of poor-quality and poorly utilised data. The Health Information Systems Pilot Project (HISPP), a Western Cape project that started in 1996, initiated a process in one of its three pilot sites to model an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009480471
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An exploration of the utility of motivational interviewing in facilitating secondary prevention gains in cardiac rehabilitation.
Hancock, Karen; Davidson, Patricia; Daly, John; Webber, D; … - University of Western Sydney; College of Social and …; … - 2005
cardiac rehabilitation (CR) in terms of increasing motivation among CR clients, promoting a client-centered approach and in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009482187
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The Effectiveness of Maintenance and Its Impact on Capital Expenditures
Labi, Samuel; Sinha, Kumares C. - 2003
also analyzed the relationships and trade-offs between maintenance and capital investments such as pavement rehabilitation … point, increasing maintenance leads to increased rehabilitation interval, while increasing traffic loads and weather … severity leads to reduction in rehabilitation interval, albeit at different rates for each pavement family. Marginal effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009430745
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Imbedding dynamic responses with imperfect information into static portraits of the regional impact of climate change
Yohe, G.W. - 2008
It is becoming increasingly clear, at least on a theoretical level, that modelers of the potential impacts of climate change must impose that change upon the world as it will be configured sometime in the future rather than confine their attention to considerations of what would happen to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435515
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Estimation of expected value for lognormal and gamma distributions. [Environmental pollutants]
White, G.C. - 2009
Concentrations of environmental pollutants tend to follow positively skewed frequency distributions. Two such density functions are the gamma and lognormal. Minimum variance unbiased estimators of the expected value for both densities are available. The small sample statistical properties of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435692
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Analysis of selected energy security issues related to US crude oil and natural gas exploration, development, production, transportation and processing. Final report, Task 13
2008
In July 1989, President Bush directed the Secretary of Energy to initiate the development of a comprehensive National Energy Strategy (NES) built upon a national consensus. The overall principle for the NES, as defined by the President and articulated by the Economic Policy Council (EPC), is the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435779