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Sistema de Información como Plataforma para la Gestión por Procesos

Juan J. Oliveira Maurera · Gabriela A. Lozada F. · 2012-January · Revista Tecnológica

El objetivo del presente trabajo fue desarrollar un sistema de información que sirva de plataforma para facilitar la gestión por procesos en una organización, tomando como caso de estudio el Departamento de Evaluaciones Financieras - Gerencia de Finanzas perteneciente a Petróleos de Venezuela, Exploración y Producción División Oriente (PDVSA EyP). El tipo de investigación de este trabajo fue proyectiva, de fuente mix…

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Barriers and facilitators to integrating care: experiences from the English Integrated Care Pilots

Tom Ling · Laura Brereton · Annalijn Conklin · Jennifer Newbould · 2012-7 · International Journal of Integrated Care

<strong>Background</strong>. In 2008, the English Department of Health appointed 16 'Integrated Care Pilots' which used a range of approaches to provide better integrated care. We report qualitative analyses from a three year multi-method evaluation to identify barriers and facilitators to successful integration of care. <strong>Theory and methods. </strong>Data were analysed from transcripts of 213 in-depth staff in…

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ANALISIS RELEVANSI LULUSAN PERGURUAN TINGGI DENGAN DUNIA KERJA

Ali Muhson · Daru Wahyuni · Supriyanto Supriyanto · Endang Mulyani · 2012-4 · Jurnal Economia

Abstract: A Relevance Analysis of University Graduates with World of Work. Education should be oriented to the competencies required by the workforce as a percentage of unemployment among the educated increase continuously. This study aims to examine the relevance of YSU Economic Education graduates. The study only focuses on the type of work and subjects taught. The subject of this study is the alumni of Economic Ed…

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JENIS INDUSTRI, KEPEMILIKAN SAHAM ASING DAN REAKSI PASAR MODAL AKIBAT SERANGAN BOM TERORIS

Cynthia Afriani Utama · Lina Hapsari · 2012-12 · Jurnal Akuntansi dan Keuangan Indonesia

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether the Indonesian stock market reacts to terrorist bomb attack, and whether the Indonesian stock market reaction to terrorist bomb attack is affected by industry type and foreign ownership. Using data of terrorist bomb attack from 2000 until 2006, event study test shows that generally Indonesia capital market reacts negatively to terrorist bomb attack. Further, the mul…

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FAKTOR-FAKTOR YANG MEMPENGARUHI MINAT BERWIRAUSAHA PADA SISWA KELAS XII SMK NEGERI 1 KANDEMAN KABUPATEN BATANG TAHUN 2011/2012

Fitriani Aprilia · 2012-10 · Economic Education Analysis Journal

Interest in entrepreneurship is an encouragement, a sense of� interest and the availability of � the individual to conduct a business without fear of� the risk will occur. Secondary vocational schools are educational institutions that prepare students to be a human resources that ready to work and have capacity for work independently (entrepreneurial) after graduate from this school. Factors originating from within t…

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Improving Income from Coconut Cultivation through Farm Level Value Addition – An Analysis

P. Anithakumari · 2012-10 · CORD

Coconut cultivation in India is mostly in small and marginal land holdings. Farm level coconut processing for value addition is one of the options for risk reduction and improving the income from such holdings. This study was conducted during 2009-10 with the objectives of analyzing the profile of farm level processors as well as the constraints faced by those who have adopted minimal processing at the farm-household…

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Financial Knowledge and the Gender Gap

Ann Woodyard · Cliff Robb · 2012-06 · Journal of Financial Therapy

Financial knowledge has been identified as an issue of importance to individual financial wellness. The FINRA Financial Capability Study provides data that make it possible to assess financial knowledge, and to analyze it in the context of financial satisfaction and participation in financial behaviors that are generally considered positive. This paper looks at these relationships by gender and by age group, identify…

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Social entrepreneurship for sexual health (SESH): a new approach for enabling delivery of sexual health services among most-at-risk populations.

Joseph D Tucker · Kevin A Fenton · Robert Peckham · Rosanna W Peeling · 2012-0 · PLoS Medicine

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INVESTMENTS FOR A SUSTAINABLE ENERGY FUTURE

Corina PIRLOGEA · 2011-3 · Business Excellence and Management

Taking into account that today the consumption of energy has grown six times since half a century ago, investments are needed for diversifying the sources of energy consumption and raising the efficiency of energy use. In this article authors concentrate on declaring trends in the energy field in the last decade, with emphasis on production, consumption and installed capacity. We also focus on shaping a view for Roma…

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El positivismo y las ciencias en el período finisecular del Chile decimonónico

Zenobio Saldivia M. · 2011 · Araucaria

Se analiza el aporte de la filosofía positivista a la ciencia nacional de fines del siglo xix en Chile, especialmente la contribución de sus principales exponentes: José Victorino Lastarria, los Hnos. Lagarrigue y Valentín Letelier entre otros; así como la posterior influencia de tales ideas en el marco sociocultural y político del período, en especial, en relación al manejo de las categorías de liberalismo, progreso…

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Theophrastus and His World by Paul Millett

Ivo Volt · 2011 · Aestimatio

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Peculiarities of individuals’Financial Behaviour

Daiva Jurevičienė · Eglė Gausienė · 2010-September · Business: Theory and Practice

The article deals with different interpretations of peculiarities of individuals’ financial behaviour. The adaptability of Efficient Market Hypothesis (rational and irrational investors’ behaviour and their influence on market efficiency) and Behavioural Finance (by separating into two building blocks: Cognitive Biases and Limits of Arbitrage) to individuals’ financial behaviour interpretation is summarized and compa…

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Rhinoplasty: why do I not use morphing?

M. Jorissen · 2010-March · B-ENT

Recent years have seen the emergence of software for pre-operative morphing in rhinoplasty. However, a number of issues persist, such as price, time investment, limited number of modifiable variables, reduction of complexity, false expectations, informed consent, medico-legal implications and classical ENT practice. The use of preoperative morphing cannot be recommended yet.

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The use of tax planning schemes based on the differential taxation of labor income and capital income. Tööjõu ja kapitali maksustamise erinevustel põhinevate maksude planeerimise skeemide kasutamine Eestis

Priit Sander · Mark Kantšukov · Velda Buldas · 2010-July · Eesti Majanduspoliitilised Väitlused

The current paper covers one of the tax optimization schemes popular in Estonia – full or partial replacement of labor income with dividends. Such scheme is used by some owner-managers as the regulation concerning emoluments of members of management body is very flexible. The main incentive to use the scheme is to reduce tax burden as dividends are only subject to income tax but emoluments to the members of managemen…

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THE LEADERS OF THE ECONOMIC POLITICS IN A STATE

Milorad Bejatović · Goran Bejatović · 2010-August · Pravo

Every economy is trying to be stabile and to be in progress. To try to reach this she needs to be based on Quantitative-qualitative coordinated process of reproduction. The economy is based on processes of production, trade, distribution and consumption, and all of this is to satisfy wide specter of social and economical needs. If there is a will to provide stabile function of wide reproduction, this processes must b…

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Liver biopsy for histological assessment - the case against

Sanai Faisal · Keeffe Emmet · 2010 · The Saudi Journal of Gastroenterology

Percutaneous liver biopsy (LB) remains an important tool in the diagnosis and management of parenchymal liver diseases. In current practice, it is most frequently performed to assess the inflammatory grade and fibrotic stage of commonly encountered liver diseases, with the diagnostic role relegated to secondary importance. The role of LB remains a vastly controversial and debated subject, with an ever-increasing burd…

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Un'applicazione delle programmazione lineare discreta alla definizione dei programmi di investimento

Pierluigi Morano · Antonio Nesticò · 2009-June · Aestimum

In the definition of the investment programs, the available procedures for the selection of the projects introduce inefficiencies due to the incomplete use of the financings and to the impossibility to implement some pointers of performance when the projects are correlated. In the present research is developed and tested a model of discrete programming aimed to reduce these limits. With the use of the model is possib…

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Economical analysis of FV power plants according installed performance

Peter Tauš · Marcela Taušová · 2009-9 · Acta Montanistica Slovaca

According prognosis of future development of power capacities in Slovakia till 2030 there is assumed increasing of the electricalenergy volume, produced from renewable energy sources from present 260 MW approximately to 2100 MW (Petrovič, 2008), thatpresents almost 800 % increasing! In Slovakia position of photovoltaic in this sector was due to the high investment cost and on the lastplace due to the low system effic…

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The Opinions of The Primary Education Supervisors in Relation With Strategic Management Approach in Continuing The Supervising Services About The Regions

Durdağı AKAN · Mahmut SAĞIR · Süleyman GÖKSOY · 2009-12 · Gaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi

In this study, it is aimed to reveal perception about the service regions of the primary education supervisors working in the five regions all around Turkey which are determined by the Ministry of Education, concidering the geographical situation, economical and social development level, transportation condition and service necessities. The primary education supervisors in the research, who were classified in accorda…

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Patient perception of pain care in hospitals in the United States

Anita Gupta · Sarah Daigle · Jeffrey Mojica · et al · 2009-11 · Journal of Pain Research

Anita Gupta1, Sarah Daigle2, Jeffrey Mojica3, Robert W Hurley41Pain Management Division, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA; 2Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, 3Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Division of Pain Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA; 4Medical Director of the Johns Hopkins Pain Treatment C…

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