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...s and measures in question can be expected to affect the various trade transaction cost variables along the international logistics chain. Accord... ... SAFE Framework of Standards promotes uniformity and predictability in the global trade environment by safeguarding the end-to-end security of the in... ...lties. The data gaps need to be filled and the suite of KPIs need to include other variables that more explicitly target the transaction cost i... ...ly so aggregated that it throws little to no light on these particular transaction cost variables, which tend to be highly specific to particular typ... ...preparation In addition to the number of documents required to import or export, other variables such as average time taken to prepare these docume... ...tcomes on their own. They need to be accompanied by other KPIs that address each of the variables that shape those outcomes. For example, only one o... ... based on merchandise that is widely traded, non-perishable, and does not raise health, environmental, or security issues. The Trading across Bo...

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... diversified financial markets and real economy led to highly unstable macroeconomic environment which aggravated the susceptibility of economies to... ...of a robust payments system and sound settlement arrangements backed by certain legal environment and corporate governance regime, by reducing moral... ... needs to be formulated so that the private sector can plan appropriately. Regulatory environment reformed is necessary so that the probability of a ... ... more strict regulation; and not all losses have been written down to date. Under the environment, credit demand was weak and credit supply was cons... ...unications, mining and energy, increasing economic efficiency and regional business environment, capital markets inclusive is considered vital to ... ... Suseno, W 2008, “The Effect of Composite Stock Price Index Return and Macroeconomic Variables to Primary Sector Stock Return: GARCH Analysis”, Mast... ...y, the lag of SMCI (SMCI t-1 ), and Japanese SMCI, while 1.64% is influenced by other variables. Based on the testing of the F statistics, it is stat... ...other variables. Based on the testing of the F statistics, it is stated that the four variables provide a significant influence on the formation of ... ...ficant influence on the formation of SMCI simultaneously. The t-test shows that all variables have a significant effect on SMCI. If inflation incre...

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...rticular area of social marketing, such as family planning, antismoking, or better environment. Fine is the first person to write a book on the gene... ...ve the best interests of people-better nutrition, physical exercise, conservation, environmental protection-to the point where people might act on w... ...ng of social marketing is a book by Lazer and Kelley (1973). Another, focusing on environmental conservation factors is that of Perry (1976). Howev... ... classes, standard practice in research methodology; one converts intervally scaled variables into ordinal or nominal classes to meet particular anal... ...or news trading and to provide participants with a "cognitive map" of their social environment. Gossip exploited for purposes of influence is a man... ...rt and Postman 1947, p. 33). Interestingly, both importance and ambiguity are key variables in the Howard-Sheth model of buyer behavior (1969), a c... ...airment and so on, in the belief that mainstreaming provides the least restrictive environment. In many cases compliance has necessitated large expe... ....usually selected in advance, but also questions to measure other characteristics (variables) about the consumer. Together, the discriminating crit... ...riminating criterion as well as the other characteristics make up the total set of variables in the study. It is the average values on all these mea...

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... acknowledge that most thinking people assume that everyone thinks like they do. They‘re wrong. Genetics, neurotransmitters, hormones and our enviro... ...nest with complicated knots holding the twigs and hairs of the nest in place. Marais took some of these finch eggs and removed them from their enviro... ...s relating to ‗why we are who we are.‘ Do our genes predispose us to a certain type of personality? Is it our families and neighborhoods, our enviro... ...ing factor? Or, more likely, is it a combination of the two? To what degree are we limited or driven by our instincts, our heredity or by our enviro... ... 9 —―But doesn‘t Russell‘s thinking refute his theory? Did his atheistic beliefs and his mathematical genius grow from the input of his enviro... ...bsolute truths! And so with psychology! But with psychology we can start with evidence, like any science. But unlike the ‗hard‘ sciences, our variab... ...nts in water there is agreement that there are two hydrogen atoms and an oxygen atom. When physicists measure the speed of sound there are few variab... ...ome ideas about motivation and how behavior develops. Those ten billion brain cells in six billion people give us almost an infinite number of variab...

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..., or MAK), which channeled recruits into Afghanistan. 22 The international environment for Bin Ladin’s efforts was ideal. Saudi Ara- bia and the Unite... ...ries, decade after decade, had at least one positive effect: it created an environment in which managers and analysts could safely invest time and res... ...nemies.The cultural effects ran even deeper. In a more fluid international environment with uncertain, changing goals and interests, intel- ligence ma... ...94 to greatly enhance FDNY radio communications in the difficult high-rise environment of the Twin Towers.The Port Authority recommended leaving the r... ...04 1:24 PM Page 319 the limited capabilities of radios in the high-rise environment of the WTC and from confusion over which personnel were assigne... ...ect has been the subject of controversy.We believe that there are too many variables for us to responsibly quantify those consequences. It is clear th... ... to measure risk and vulnerabil- ity be developed that assess all the many variables? The allocation of funds should be based on an assessment of thre... ... For the callers, see Commission analysis of 911/PAPD calls.There are many variables to consider in deter- mining whether, and to what extent, stairwe...