CULTURAL BACKGROUND: DOES IT INFLUENCE MATURE TRAVELERS EVALUATION OF HOTEL ATTRIBUTES? ABSTRACT The mature traveler segment offers huge potential as they generally have more leisure time and fewer demands on their available income than younger travelers; therefore understanding their needs and desires is ever so important. The current study explores the impact of cultural background upon mature age travelers’ evaluation of 35 hotel attributes presented in a self-administered questionnaire
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Quantitative Validation of Rating Models for Low Default Portfolios through Benchmarking The new capital adequacy framework (Basel II) is one of the most fiercely debated topics the financial sector has seen in the recent past. Following a consultation process that lasted several years‚ the regulations formally took effect on January 1‚ 2007. The advanced approaches (the advanced internal ratings-based‚ or A-IRB‚ approach and the advanced measurement approach‚ or AMA) are scheduled to become operational
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Evidence from the credit ratings of Japanese firms Hiroyuki Aman a‚1‚ Pascal Nguyen b‚∗ a School of Business Administration‚ Kwansei Gakuin University‚ Uegahara‚ Nishinomiya‚ Hyogo 662-8501‚ Japan b Faculty of Business‚ University of Technology Sydney‚ P.O. Box 123‚ NSW 2007‚ Sydney‚ Australia a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received 15 March 2012 Received in revised form 4 October 2012 Accepted 11 February 2013 Available online xxx Keywords: Credit rating Cost of debt Funding
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¬¬¬ DECLARATION I hereby declare that the project work titled ‘Performance Appraisal using Behaviorally Anchored Rating Scale’ submitted to Mahatma Gandhi University is a record of the original work done by me and no part of it has been submitted earlier for any Degree‚ Post Graduation or similar of any other university or institution. Place : Pullikkanam Signature : Date Name : Anish Basheer
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Credit Ratings of Private Commercial Banks in Bangladesh (2007-2012) and long term deposit rate Where CRAB’s AA1 = CRISL’s AA+ Bank Name For 2012 CRAB --CRISL AA+ For 2011 CRAB --CRISL --For 2010 CRAB --CRISL --For 2009 CRAB --CRISL --For 2008 CRAB --CRISL --For 2007 CRAB --CRISL --- Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited Where CRAB’s AA2 = CRISL’s AA Bank Name For 2012 CRAB AA2 AA2 AA2 --------CRISL ------AA AA ----For 2011 CRAB ----------AA2 --CRISL --------------For 2010 CRAB ------------AA2
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The purpose of this study “Self Rating Of dependency/addiction regarding drugs‚ sex‚ love‚ food: male and female college students” was to see if drug addiction and dependencies were related to each other in any type of way. They also wanted to see if they were related to addictions and dependency in other areas such as love‚ sex‚ food‚ ect. Some questions they asked themselves to help conduct the study was “to what degree do addictions to drugs‚ sex‚ love‚ and food correlate with each other?”‚ “Are
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Public Salience and International Financial Regulation. Explaining the International Regulation of OTC Derivatives‚ Rating Agencies‚ and Hedge Funds by Stefano Pagliari A thesis presented to the University of Waterloo in fulfilment of the thesis requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Global Governance Waterloo‚ Ontario‚ Canada‚ 2013 © Stefano Pagliari 2013 I hereby declare that I am the sole author of this thesis. This is a true copy of the thesis‚ including any
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strength ratings: the case of the Middle East Abstract This paper aims to integrate the theory of bank financial performance with the practice of bank ratings. The paper studies the effect of bank capital structure and financial indicators in Middle Eastern commercial banks associated with high and low ratings issued by Capital Intelligence (CI). The authors also investigate how bank capital structure and financial indicators can be differentiated between banks with high and low ratings‚ using
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Emergency department patient satisfaction: Customer service training improves patient satisfaction and ratings of physician and nurse skill / Practitioner response falseMayer‚ Thom A; Cates‚ Robert J; Mastorovich‚ Mary Jane Press the Escape key to close ; Royalty‚ Deborah L; et al.Journal of Healthcare Management43.5 (Sep/Oct 1998): 427-40; discussion 441-2. Abstract (summary) The full text may take 40-60 seconds to translate; larger documents may take longer. Cancel Customer service
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Describe Holmes and Rahe’s (1967) Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS) and describe to what extent it is a valid taxonomy of the causes of stress. The top five stressful events‚ which can happen in an individual’s life‚ are categorised as ‘death of a spouse’‚ ‘divorce’‚ ‘martial separation’‚ ‘jail term’‚ and ‘death of a close family member’. Also‚ events such as ‘vacation’ and ‘change in eating habits’ are considered to be minor life changes on the scale. Each event is attributed to an arbitrary
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