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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Performance Decline"”.
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Corporate restructuring and turnaround : an exploratory study of the determinants and effectiveness of corporate restructuring strategies by troubled UK firms
… of restructuring strategy choice in response to performance decline 2. How effective are the prescribed turnaround strategies in contributing to corporate turnaround from performance decline? 3. Are the turnaround strategies equally applicable and effective to both poorly performing and …
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Who benefits from investment in universities? : institutions, university spillovers, and firm performance
… of co-location with universities affecting firm performance, taking advantage of a major policy reform in China, to identify distinct university-influenced regions between 1998 and 2005. Together with a unique dataset from the National Bureau of Statistics of China, I find evidence, which …
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Sleeping to Remember: Spontaneous Retrieval of Prospective Memories Across Sleep and Wake Delays
… wake delay. The results demonstrated a large decline in prospective memory performance after a 12-hr wake delay: relative to the short delay condition). Interestingly, prospective remembering was not only better following a 12-hr sleep delay than a 12-hr wake delay but performance in this …
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Investigation into performance of IPV4 and IPV6 transition mechanisms and distributed NAT-PT implementation
… and implemented. In this thesis, we conduct TCP performance testing of three kinds of typical transition mechanisms. According to Our experiment results, each technique does induce performance decline, but their effect degrees are not uniform. Tunneling techniques generally present better …
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Development of rapidly deployable structures for military applications : a system based approach to command post facilities
… Post (CP) as it did eight years ago. This decline in performance results in poor communication with forward units due to an increased distance between the units and the CP. This performance decline also increases the danger posed to command centers by enemy elements in the rear. Although …
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Age Differences in Working Memory Filtering of Distracting Information
… processes such as visual working memory (VWM) performance decline. One potential explanation for this age-related decline in VWM is that older adults have decreased inhibitory control relative to younger adults. This impairs older adults’ ability to ignore irrelevant information, which …
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Age Differences in Proactive Facilitation and Interference: The Role of Remindings
A common finding is that specific types of memory performance decline as a function of age. Among the situations that produce these differences are those in which proactive interference: PI) occurs. PI refers to impaired memory for new information as a result of previous learning of competing …
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An Appraisal of the Implementation Process of Sport Policy in Ghana
… Ghana have not succeeded to arrest the rate of performance decline. It appears that the implementation process is much more complex than the introduction of a few administrative adjustments. The focus of this study was to identify the strategies and problems of the implementation process of …
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Employment Effects of Corporate Takeovers
… chapter shows that acquired firms’ prior performance is the key variable in explaining post-takeover workforce adjustments: acquired firms’ poorer performance leads to greater workforce reductions post-merger. Industry relatedness also leads to higher levels of workforce adjustments. …
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Two Essays on Financial Condition of Firms
This dissertation includes two related chapters that analyze financial condition of firms. In the first chapter, I examine the relationship between the firms' level of cash holdings and governance. The findings show that higher levels of cash holdings are significantly related to strong governance. …
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Healing the Healer: Exploring UK-based doctors’ and nurses’ nutrition and dietary behaviours within the workplace
… sleep disturbances, weight gain, cognitive performance decline, and cardiovascular health concerns. Nutrition has been identified as a key factor in managing these risks. However, limited research has been conducted on the dietary intake and nutritional behaviour of DNs during shift work. …
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Hubungan antara kepuasan kerja dengan kinerja karyawan outsourcing PT. Dwi Jaya Kota Pasuruan
… is directly related to the employees performance. If job satisfaction is not met, then the impact on the performance decline which it will be detrimental to the employee and the company. Of these phenomenon, the formulation of the problems in this research is: (1) how level of job …
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Later Life Consequences of Subteratogenic Exposure to a Complex PAH Mixture in the Atlantic Killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus)
… enzyme activity, and swimming/cardiorespiratory performance following subteratogenic exposure to ERSE. I hypothesized that subteratogenic exposure to ERSE would impair cardiac ontogenic processes in a way that would be detectable via gene expression in embryos, and that the misregulation of …