explored. Utilizing Battese and Coelli specification‚ we estimate stochastic frontier production function and SCP equations with output and efficiency measures as endogenous variables. An empirical application to U.S. trucking carries over the period 1994-2003 with emphasis on the agricultural commodity and refrigerated food products carriers is examined. Results reveal that the variables average haul‚ average load and market concentration significantly affected the efficiency of firms with 2-8 number
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friendships that our friends are listed in. We as the readers don’t realize it but her article is very true. We all have friends in each of these categories. Marion‚ in this article‚ listed several types of friendships. There are buddies‚ who go the extra mile for you and would do anything you would ask of them and in return you would do the same. There are the relative friends. This friend is a family member with whom you just click with. Your opinions about every family member are the same and they can
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more than 800 miles from the northern end of the Gulf of California through western California‚ passing seaward into the Pacific Ocean in the vicinity of San Francisco. Tectonic movement along the fault has been associated with occasional large earthquakes originating near the surface along its path‚ including a disastrous quake in San Francisco in 1906‚ a less serious event there in 1989‚ and a strong and destructive quake centered in the Los Angeles suburb of Northridge in 1994 that occurred
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The Chihuahuan desert is large area of the northern Mexico and runs into the southern part of the United Stated which include west Texas. The region of the desert has a high altitude of 1000 to 1500 meters which fall to about 350 meters along the Rio Grande River. Summers are very hot and the winter are somewhat cool‚ which some night frosts. Rainfall in this area is about 20-30 cm which mostly happens during the summer time. In most of the Chihuahuan Desert most of it has calcareous soil that
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University‚ Grahamstown‚ South Africa. Edwards‚ D. J. A. (1998). Types of case study work: A conceptual framework for case-based research. Journal of Humanistic Psychology‚ 38‚ 36-70. Elms‚ A. (1994). Uncovering lives: The uneasy alliance of biography and psychology. New York: Oxford University Press. Foner‚ E. (1994). Slavery and freedom in nineteenth-century America. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Green‚ S. (2006). Karen Horney: A psychobiographical study. Unpublished master’s treatise‚ Rhodes University‚
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THE ROLE OF MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING IN ORGANIZATIONAL CONTROL SYSTEMS: PRELIMINARY EVIDENCE OF AN ORGANIC APPROACH Associate Professor Chris Durden School of Business James Cook University PO Box 6811 Cairns‚ Qld 4870 Australia Phone: +7 4042 1015 Fax: +7 4042 1474 chris.durden@jcu.edu.au Professor Hector Perera Department of Accounting and Finance Division of Economic and Financial Studies Macquarie University‚ Sydney Australia hperera@efs.mq.edu.au THE ROLE OF MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING IN ORGANIZATIONAL
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The evolution from corporate social responsibility to supply chain responsibility: the case of Waitrose The Authors Laura Spence‚ Centre for Research into Sustainability‚ School of Management‚ Royal Holloway‚ University of London‚ Egham‚ UK Michael Bourlakis‚ Business School‚ Brunel University‚ Uxbridge‚ UK Acknowledgements The research on which this paper is in part based was funded by the Institute for Business Ethics. The authors would like to thank seminar participants at Cardiff Business
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Ebola is the name of a group of viruses belonging to the genus Ebolavirus‚ family Filoviridae‚ and for the disease that these viruses cause‚ Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever. Ebola‚ and its close relative Marburg are unique in the microbiological world in that they are the only viruses that are long and stretched‚ resembling pieces of string or as "spaghetti that had spilled onto the floor‚" as stated by author Richard Preston of the non-fictional book "The Hot Zone." that a sample of Ebolavirus and Marburgvirus
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academe: How schooling obscures the life of the mind. New York: New York University Press. Hargreaves‚ A. (1994). Chapter 4: Postmodern paradoxes: The context of change‚ Changing teachers‚ changing times: Teachers ’ work and culture in the postmodern age. (pp. 47-92). London: Cassell. Huberman‚ M.‚ Thompson‚ C. L.‚ & Weiland‚ S. (1997). Paradigmatic Accounts of Teaching Careers. In M. Huberman & C. L. Thompson & S. Weiland (Eds.)‚ International Handbook of Teachers and Teaching (pp. 64-77). Dordrecht:
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Pregnancies‚ Study Finds". Health Behavior News Service: Translating Evidence Into News. The Annenberg Foundation and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation‚ 19 March 2008. Web. 3 Oct 2012. <http://www.cfah.org/hbns/archives/getDocument.cfm?documentID=1676>. Huberman‚ Barbara. "Parents as Advocates for Comprehensive Sex Education in Schools." Advocates for Youth. Advocates for Youth‚ n.d. Web. 27 Nov 2012. <http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/storage/advfy/documents/advocate.pdf>. "Implementing Sex Education
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