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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Proxy indicators"”.
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Proxy indicators as a measure of economic dispositions in South Africa
… high quality up-to-date data by the use of ‘proxy indicators’. The dissertation seeks to explore whether it would be possible to use proxy indicators to measure local economic conditions and to identify a set of proxy indicators that accurately portray the economy. The study commences with an …
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Rates of natural climate change : a study of speleothems
Speleothems (cave calcite) provide many different proxy indicators for palaeoclimatic changes during the Quaternary era. Generally, the occurrence of growing speleothems is a strong proxy for global palaeoclimate, both geographically and through time. A database of speleothem U-Th ages shows some …
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The Influence of Corporate Social Responsibility on Business Practice: The Case of International Certifiable Management Standards
… Certifiable Management Standards (ICMS), as proxy-indicators of CSR related practices and draws on an inter-disciplinary approach. In contrast to previous research suffered from narrow analytical insights and lack of empirical evidence, this study contributes to existing knowledge by adopting …
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Interrelationships Between Urban Travel and Other Infrastructure
… social media and electricity consumption as proxy indicators of travel demand. First, it shows that sentiment derived from geo-tagged Twitter posts can be structured into covariates that significantly improve forecasts of telecommuting prevalence, particularly during disruptive events such as …
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Understanding good ecological status: a palaeolimnological approach
The current study uses multiproxy palaeolimnological analysis of sediment cores to reconstruct the long-term (10² to 10³ years) nutrient status of Upper Talley and Llyn Pencarreg, two closely adjacent, moderately nutrient-enriched lakes in Carmarthenshire, South Wales. The use of diatoms, …
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The Struggle for Power and Pay: Implications of Board of Directors' Power on Monitoring Effectiveness and Pay for Performance Sensitivity
… and composition characteristics can be used as proxy indicators of board power. Using data from 37, 066 directors of 950 firms resulting in 3,581 firm-year observations between 2000-2006, I find the ratio of the average outsider's prestige power to insiders' associates positively with total …
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Identifying Optimal Sites for Aquaculture in Southern Ontario Aggregate Pit Lakes: A Sustainable Post-Mining Land-Use Alternative
… that includes social, technical and economic indicators derived from publicly available data. Finally, to further facilitate the decision-making processes, we developed a pre-screening model that assigns compatibility scores to each site. Our pre-screening model leverages a multi-criteria …
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Objective physical activity and sleep characteristic measurements using a triaxial accelerometer in eight year olds
… academic behavior, and weight status are proxy indicators for health and psychosocial outcomes in this study. Current guidelines in place for sleep and physical activity in childhood are the result of data collected in the form of self-reports. Quantification and qualification of physical …
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Iceberg-keel ploughmarks on the seafloor of Antarctic continental shelves and the North Falkland Basin: implications for palaeo-glaciology
The use of iceberg-keel ploughmarks as proxy indicators of past and present iceberg morphology, keel depth and drift direction has seldom been approached in the southern hemisphere. Using high-resolution multi-beam swath bathymetry of the mid-shelf Pine Island Trough and outermost Weddell Sea shelf …
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The Impact of Financial Inclusion on the Nigerian Economy
… of the economy; arguing on the premise that proxy indicators in existing research have failed to provide a clear picture on the impact of financial inclusion on the economy, thereby failing to provide stakeholders with a strong motivation to pursue financial inclusiveness in the country. The …
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‘To be bent without breaking …’: Resilience to Water Scarcity in an Informal Settlement in Lima, Peru
… in an environment of rapid change along three proxy indicators; perceptions, control and flexibility. Resilience is holistically defined as pertaining to both individuals and their supporting environments; and with a focus on positive, long-term outcomes. The study provides empirical evidence …
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Relationship between Ideal clinic status determination and measures of PHC performance, utilisation and expenditure per PHC facility headcount
… impact of early implementation of the ICRMP on indicators of primary care quality have yielded mixed results, suggesting minimal meaningful impact of the programme on patient waiting times, patient perceptions of quality of care, or on other proxy indicators of quality. The objective of the …
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An analysis of the user fee policy for health care in Eritrea
… it is advisable to do a prospective means test. Proxy indicators of indigence should be developed given the income data constraints that make the income-related assessment more difficult. Furthermore, geographical price discrimination is worth considering as the ability to pay of different …
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Palynology, palynofacies and hydrocarbon potential of the Cretaceous rocks of northern Egypt
… significance have been<br/>used as proxy indicators for identifying palaeoclimatic and palaeoceanographic<br/>conditions in both borehole regions.<br/>In general, the lower part of the Abu Tunis 1x succession (consisting of shale<br/>and sandstones) was deposited in deltaic settings …
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The Ups and Downs of the Holocene: Exploring Relationships between Global CO2 and Climate Variability in the North Atlantic Region
… reconstruction shows a remarkable similarity to proxy-inferred solar activity changes, which may suggest that CO2 responded rapidly to these changes via responses in climate.