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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Top Quartile"”.
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Gender Differences at the Highest Levels of Mathematics Achievement: A Texas Based Study
… to determine if gender differences exist in the top quartile of mathematics achievement in Texas as measured by STAAR. Performance data for 6,358,500 Texas students on the mathematics STAAR in grades 3-6 for the years 2016-2019 were examined in this quantitative study. The percentage of male and …
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Benchmarking and management behaviours of top sheep and beef cattle farmers
… in the current management practices of top performing sheep and beef cattle farmers in the South Island of New Zealand. The more specific objectives were to understand the management behaviours of a selected group of top performing farmers along with a study of the role of information in …
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Value creation through operating improvements in portfolio companies : the case of 3G Capital
… engineering generates higher returns than top quartile competitors. We will then analyze the performance of three companies owned by the Brazilian trio, show that these companies have been able to outperform their peers since they were acquired and point out the key operational drivers that …
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Analysis of the relationship between size and returns in private equity
… in the Private Equity industry. We show that for top quartile funds, an increase in size is associated with a decrease in performance. Furthermore, we show that this increase in fund size is also associated with an increase in performance of the lowest performing funds, leading to a less volatile …
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Life in the Uncanny Valley: Workplace Issues for Knowledge Workers on the Autism Spectrum
… people on the autism spectrum who are in the top quartile of American wage earners. It also recounts the reaction of the participants to a major employment lawsuit filed by a knowledge worker with Asperger’s. In addition, the subjects describe what they believe are the strengths that they …
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PCAOB INTERNATIONAL INSPECTION AND AUDIT QUALITY
… negative operating cash flows or clients in the top quartile in the bankruptcy probability distribution. The cross-sectional models indicate that blacklisted clients have significantly higher abnormal and total accruals, lower value relevance and a lower likelihood of receiving a going concern …
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Incidence of heart failure in an urban population
… risk for HF hospitalization. In addition, the top quartile compared to the bottom quartile of red cell distribution width had a significantly higher risk for HF hospitalization after adjusting for other risk factors. In conclusion, there are substantial differences in risk of hospitalization …
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What drives private equity performance in emerging markets? An African perspective
… over the period 1996 to 2019. Not only have top quartile funds outperformed the index, but so have the average, median, and bottom quartile funds - implying better relative performance than has previously been reported for PE in emerging markets. These results explain the recent increases in …
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THE VASOPRESSIN SYSTEM IN DIABETES MELLITUS, OBESITY AND THE METABOLIC SYNDROME
… we examined the association of increasing quartiles of copeptin (lowest quartile as reference) with prevalent diabetes (DM) and other components of the metabolic syndrome (MetS) at baseline, and incident DM, measures of obesity and microalbuminuria at follow up, using multivariable logistic …
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Benchmark indices, alpha creation and performance persistence
… alphas in 61.2% of the cases. In terms of fund quartile rankings, 30% of winner funds lose that status when the prospectus benchmark is substituted with a more suited one. In the remaining performance quartiles there is no clear advantage of using S&P 500 as a prospectus benchmark. The …
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Essays On Wind Energy Integration And The Costs Of Intermittency
… for just the hours when wind speeds are in the top quartile, the frequencies rise to 21% and 13%. Finally, I show that the frequency with which negative price observations exceeds tax credits and therefore generation would be unprofitable for wind producers is uncommon. In chapter 3, I introduce …
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Differences: The Effects of Teacher Efficacy on Student Achievement in an Urban District
… t-test revealed no significant differences in top quartile and bottom quartile schools in math achievement for Title I and Non-Title I schools. An independent sample t-test was used in order to determine whether there was a significant difference between the overall efficacy levels and efficacy …
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Actions, Practices, and Workplace Conditions that Characterize High-Engagement Workgroups in a Hospital Environment
… Gallup’s Q12 survey. Some groups scored in the top quartile and became the sample for the study. The purpose of this study was to learn from the high-engaged teams about individual actions, practices, and workplace conditions, which contributed to high engagement. The research questions guiding …