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- An Exploration of the Links Between Just-in-Time Manufacturing and Simultaneous New Product Development
- Innovation and speedy new product development is crucial for companies to gain competitive advantage in a global market. The main focus of this paper is to demonstrate that the principles of Just-In-Time (JIT) in manufacturing can be used to improve simultaneous New Product Development (NPD) process. Comparison and analysis of...
- White papers
- Is FDI Indeed Tariff-Jumping?: Firm-Level Evidence
- This paper analyzes the variations in modes of foreign market access for different levels of trade costs and firm specific assets. It first develops a simple model of this decision process to derive testable hypotheses and then study these hypotheses using firm level data on Swedish multinational corporations. The paper...
- White papers 2006-07-02
- More Power and Less Loads in Wind Farms: 'Heat and Flux'
- The paper considers a farm as a single energy extracting body instead of a superposition of individual energy extractors i.e. winds turbines. As a result it found two new hypotheses called Heat and Flux. Both hypotheses reveal that the classical operation of turbines in a wind farm at the Lanchester-Betz...
- White papers 2004-11-01
- Estimating the Proportion of False Null hypotheses Among a Large Number of Independently Tested hypotheses
- This paper considers the problem of estimating the number of false null hypotheses among a very large number of independently tested hypotheses, focusing on the situation in which the proportion of false null hypotheses is very small. They propose a family of methods for establishing lower 100% confidence bounds for...
- White papers 2004-10-14
- Healthcare-Associated Infections and Length of Hospital Stay in the Medicare Population
- This study uses cross-sectional analysis of huge Medicare hospital discharge databases to test the hypothesis that hospitals with longer inpatient average lengths of stay (ALOS) will have a higher healthcare associated infection (HAI) rates. This article offers hypotheses on the casualty of the ALOS-infection rate correlation and suggests ways to...
- White papers 2004-06-01
- Globalisation, International Finance and Political Islam in the Arab World
- This paper looks at one important aspect of globalisation in the Arab World, namely the provision of international finance by the USA, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank in support of economic liberalisation programmes. It outlines four hypotheses and assesses the preliminary evidence supporting the hypotheses as...
- White papers 2003-10-14
- What Drives Micro-Angel Investments?: A Large Sample Study of the Factors Explaining Micro-Angel Investments
- Despite of the significant role of informal venture capital in the financing of new entrepreneurial ventures, there is little research explaining the factors determining the propensity of individuals to make micro-angel investments. Building on a social psychological theory of planned behavior and economic theory on the determinants of demand for...
- White papers 2003-06-10
- The Longitudinal Effects of the ISO 9000 Certification Process on Business Performance
- This paper develops and tests several hypotheses relating to ISO 9000 quality system certification process using data collected in a cross-sectional study undertaken in Australia. Multivariate analysis is used to analyze the quantitative data and test the hypotheses. The findings show that there is a significant and positive relationship between...
- White papers 2003-02-21
- Law, Innovation and Finance: A Review
- A number of recent national and EU initiatives have sought explicitly to encourage innovative firms and venture capital finance. In keeping with the policy debate, this paper focuses explicitly on the role of law and lawyers in facilitating venture capital: that is, both supply by investors, and demand by entrepreneurs....
- White papers 2002-09-01
- Competition and Drug Pricing in the PBS: An Economic Interpretation
- The paper will describe and attempt to assess some of the evidence in relation to six hypotheses. It is very preliminary. In its subsequent development it will attempt to pull together evidence from international sources and other Australian studies, from case studies and from analyses of various data sources, to...
- White papers 2002-08-01
- The Effects of the ISO 9000 Certification Process on Business Performance Over Time
- This paper synthesises the literature on the ISO 9000 quality system certification process from which several hypotheses are articulated and tested in a cross-sectional study undertaken in Australia. Multivariate analysis is used to analyse the quantitative data and test the hypotheses. The findings show that there is a significant and...
- White papers 2002-02-07
- The Perception Of Time, Risk And Return During Periods Of Speculation
- This paper has derived the consequences of two hypotheses for the relationship between risk and return. The first hypothesis states that assets with the same risk must have the same expected return. From this, one derives the well-known invariance of the Sharpe ratio for uncorrelated stocks, as well as the...
- White papers 2002-01-10
- Insects Cause Double Stall
- Several large commercial wind turbines demonstrate drops in maximum power levels up to 45%, under apparently equal conditions. A number of hypotheses was formulated, three of which were useful. By performing stall flag measurements, as well as two other experiments, one of the three hypotheses was confirmed: the Insect Hypothesis....
- White papers 2001-09-26
- Managers in the Context of Strategic Content: Industrial Organization Theory and Resource-Based View Predictions for the Selection of Managers
- This paper analyzes if managers are recruited by matching their background with strategy requirements. The prediction power of existing industrial organization theory hypotheses and developed resource-based view hypotheses are tested on a sample of Swedish top managers. Results show that individual variables, such as an individual's demographic similarity to the...
- White papers 2001-05-01
- Evidence of Cycles in European Commercial Real Estate Markets and Some hypotheses
- This paper seeks to achieve four objectives. First, it provides some contextual material concerning the performance of the UK real estate market relative to stocks and bonds over a long period. Second, it provides UK û and some non-UK European - evidence of the tendency for property demand, supply, prices,...
- White papers 2000-05-12
- Did U.S. Bank Supervisors Get Tougher During the Credit Crunch?
- This paper test three hypotheses regarding changes in supervisory toughness' and their effects on bank lending. The data provide modest support for all three hypotheses that there was an increase in toughness during the credit crunch period (1989-1992), that there was a decline in toughness during the boom period (1993-1998),...
- White papers 2000-05-05
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- Prosecutors probe Alstom for contract corruption
- PARIS (AFP) — French prosecutors suspect engineering giant Alstom, builder of power stations and high-speed trains, of bribing foreign officials to win contracts, a judicial source said Tuesday. Prosecutors started an investigation on November 7 into suspected "corruption of foreign public agents" and "abusive use of assets," the...
- Articles 2008-05-06
- Modulation of Lymphocyte Proliferation by Antioxidants in Chronic Beryllium Disease
- Rationale: Occupational exposure to beryllium (Be) can result in chronic granulomatous inflammation characterized by the presence of Be-specific CD4^sup +^ T cells. Studies show that oxidative stress plays a role in the pathogenesis of chronic inflammatory disorders. Objectives: We hypothesized that Be-induced oxidative stress modulates the proliferation of Be-specific...
- Articles 2008-05-01
- Dyspnea and Emotion: What Can We Learn from Functional Brain Imaging?
- It is commonly accepted that emotion plays an essential role in the subjective experience of dyspnea. However, the involvement of emotion in the central processing of dyspnea is both complex and manifold (1). Emotion may induce dyspnea, either alone but generally together with physical stimuli, and may interfere with virtually...
- Articles 2008-05-01
- Study: Casual Video Games Demonstrate Ability to Relieve Stress, Improve Mood: Potential Clinical Significance Highlighted
- First-of-Its-Kind 6-month Research Project Establishes Effects of Puzzle and Word Games on the Human Body and Mind GREENVILLE, N.C. and SEATTLE, April 28 /PRNewswire/ -- East Carolina University's Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies today revealed the results of a six-month long, randomized, controlled study that measured...
- Articles 2008-04-28
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