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Setting hospital infection control policy : a decision-making framework incorporating health economics and healthcare epidemiology

Halton, Kate Amanda - 2009

Background: Reducing rates of healthcare acquired infection has been identified by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care as a national priority. One of the goals is the prevention of central venous catheter-related bloodstream infection (CR-BSI). At least 3,500 cases of...

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Development and description of GETT: a Genetic testing Evidence Tracking Tool

School of Biomedical Sciences

Background: The completion of the Human Genome Project has increased the pace of discovery of genetic markers for disease. Despite tremendous efforts in fundamental research, clinical applications still lag behind expectations, partly due to the lack of effective tools to systematically search...

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Sources of Funding for Australia's Entrepreneurs

Terjesen, Siri A.; Frederick, Howard - 2007

(from Introduction): It is often said that if entrepreneurs are the engines that drive new companies, then financing is the fuel that propels them. The best sources of funding for the newest firms in Australia are bootstrapping (creative ways of launching a business), informal investment...

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Inter-sectoral Water Use in South Africa: Efficiency Versus Equity

Juana, James S.; Kirsten, Johann F.; Strzepek, Kenneth M. - 2006

While water supply sources are dwindling in South Africa, the demand for the scarce water resource is increasing. This situation requires a switch from supply to demand management of water in the country. The study updates the 1999 social accounting matrix for South Africa, using the Trade and...

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Globalization Equity and Justice in Small Nation States

Jolly, Curtis M.; Bayard, Budry; Ligeon, Carel; Keelfe, … - 2007

The effects of globalization on smaller nation Caribbean states have not been thoroughly examined, and the trade performance of these states has not been evaluated since the WTO came into existence. In this paper, we report on a study that conducted a comparative analysis of selected Caribbean...

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Equity fund ownership and the cross-regional diversification of household risk

Becker, Sascha O.; Hoffmann, Mathias - 2009

-level information on consumption, income and portfolio holdings. Since equity fundsare typically diversified at the national or … international level, we use data on equity fund ownership to proxy for regional home bias. Cross-regional patterns of equity fund … holdings of equity funds (diversification’s intensive margin). Also, fund holdings increase withthe exposure of non …

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Making WKU a Fair Trade University

Vaughan, Matthew John - 2011

Many products consumed on college campuses such as coffee and chocolate come from developing countries where producers are often paid insufficiently and exploited. Fair Trade certification of products guarantees producers a fair price and other social benefits. The objective of my CE/T project...

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Equity capital and profit according to the German Commercial Code (HGB), IAS/IFRS and US-GAAP standards : an empirical study of German listed companies

Krüger, Kai - 2006

on data made available in that a company records two figures for equity capital and profit that have been determined … particular items, establishing their repercussions on both equity capital and profit. The third chapter targets at fitting the … hypothesising. Futhermore the forth chapter comprises the empirical study of German listed companies with a double profit and equity …

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Foundations for Cooperation in Social Dilemmas

Ahn, Toh-Kyeong - 2001

-selfish individuals' motivations are best described on a dimension of equity/fairness rather than being thought of as unconditional …

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Contracts versus Trust in Water Allocation: Growing & Sharing the Pie in Northeast Brazil

Pfaff, Alexander; Velez, Maria Alejandra - 2009

"We explore the efficiency and equity resulting from allocation of a fixed resource within a bargaining institution … and equity rise." …

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