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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"UK Market"”.
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Dynamics of corporate profitability: A study of the UK market (1981-2000)
… below and when it is further from its mean. The market to book value contains information on the profitability of a firm. Highly profitable firms are found to operate in less competitive environments.
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A UK Market Town Maintaining Identity Amidst Urbanizing Sprawl: A Learning History
English market towns greatly reflect British culture through unique traditions, architecture, and other characteristics. Market towns are often secluded from the outside world, located in rural areas of England with less significant roadways and very few railways leading into the towns. Despite the …
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UK market efficiency and the Myners review: a univariate analysis of strategic asset allocation by industrial sectors.
… suggested in 2001 that various sectors of the UK equity market may be suitable for active investment management, tacitly assuming that some sectors are efficient whilst others are not. The validity of this assumption is tested against 29 industrial sector indices within the FTSE All Share …
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Evaluation of the design, construction and operation of a gas fuelled, engine driven heat pump, and its possible role in a UK market
… pump and its possible role in a future U. K. market. In 1977 a joint venture was embarked upon by the Open University Energy Research Group, Lucas Aerospace and Milton Keynes Development Corporation to design, manufacture and install a gas fuelled heat pump in a rented house, and to monitor …
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European Student Housing: Sector Capitalization, Drivers and Investment Characteristics
… to 2017, created a hedonic index for both the UK and Europe which was used to compare to other real estate sectors. Results indicate that student housing acts as a diversifier owing to its non-traditional drivers. The sector had representation only in the UK-based mixed asset portfolios while …
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Financial stability of the banking sector - interbank contagion, market discipline, and macroeconomic roots of crises
… First, it simulates the contagion impact of the UK interbank market. Subject to a number of assumptions (netting agreement, seniority, etc), it finds that the contagion is much severer if the simulation uses consolidated data than using unconsolidated data. Second, the thesis tests whether the …
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Basis risk and property derivative hedging in the UK : implications of the 2007 IPF Study of tracking error
… risk affects property derivative hedging in the UK market, based on the tracking error (basis risk) report from the Investment Property Forum study in 2007 (the IPF Study). The thesis first analyzes the risks relevant to hedging and defines the basis risk. Considering hedgers with different …
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Generation, Characterisation and Potential Health Effects of Tyre Wear Particles
… that nearly 80 kilotonnes of tyre wear enter UK environments per annum, with 4 kilotonnes entering the atmosphere, 28.1 kilotonnes reaching water, and 23.9 kilotonnes depositing in soils. What is lacking is an understanding of the composition of tyre wear particles, both elementally and …
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Process orientation and information technology:customer engagement at Xerox (UK) Ltd
… Engagement activity is informed by the "Go To Market" strategy, and "Intelligent Coverage" sales philosophy. The realisation of this philosophy necessitates a sophisticated level of Market Understanding, and the effective integration of the direct channels of Customer Engagement. Sophisticated …
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Sea-based Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture: Investigation of a fish, bivalve and macroalgal co-culture system.
… few regulatory food safety constraints within a UK market.<br/>The scarcity of aquaculture resources, partly through inefficient use, was explored. sIMTA is presented as a method which could possibly alleviate some of these resource-use inefficiencies when ambient environment supports, and as …
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Financial integration of stock markets in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries
… of integration that exists among the GCC stock markets and between GCC stock markets and major international markets. The research defines market integration in terms of co-movement of stock prices. Markets are considered to be integrated if national stock prices share a common long-run …
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Economics of military outsourcing
… procurement have yielded reductions in UK aggregate military expenditure. The best model suggests that increased outsourcing is associated with lower aggregate military spending in the long-run, but a number of issues arise which raise concerns about the validity of demand for military …
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Issues of image and identity for electric vehicle drivers
… greenhouse gas emissions around the world. The UK Government has highly ambitious aims for developing a strong domestic market to meet the targets of the 2008 Climate Change Act, and achieve a steep decrease in carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. BEV technology has now evolved to the point where …
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Probiotic characterization of Bifidobacterium spp. isolated from commercial fermented milk in the UK
… in fermented dairy products from the UK market throughout their shelf- life and carry out in vitro studies on some of the probiotic criteria and potential functional properties of the isolates including resistance to stomach-intestine conditions, antimicrobial activities, antibiotic …
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Real estate performance measurement in markets with thin information
… used to represent the behaviour of real estate markets. They can be grouped into four main categories: valuation based indexes and transaction-based ones, synthetic measures ( e.g . created by using prime rents and yields) and vehicle-based performances (property companies and Real Estate …
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The chemical and physical characterisation of illicit tablets and development of a statistical model to identify populations within the illegal supply chain
… were not pharmaceutically manufactured for the UK market. This was supported by chemical analysis using GC-MS and HPLC, which indicated that only 39 of the 63 cases analysed contained diazepam as the main active ingredient, with diazepam levels varying between 8 – 48 mg and more potent …
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Market orientation, competitive strategy type and performance in independent retail businesses : a contingency analysis in a market town context
… of independent retail businesses located in UK market towns as they face up to new patterns of competition and demand. However prior to this study there has been only a very limited understanding of the factors that contribute the success and failure of these individual small businesses. This …
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Third sector telephone housing options service for older people : a realist evaluation
… for more substantive discussion. The current UK market and structure of I&A provision, both hampered by neo-liberal influences, are not conducive to older people reassessing their home. Firstly, this research further underlines the need to increase the supply of specialist housing. Secondly, …
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A microeconomic study of exporting and innovation activities and their impact on firms: a resource-based perspective
… on. Using establishment-level data covering all UK market-based sectors in 2000, the findings show that all these factors have a large impact upon the propensity and/or intensity of establishments’ exporting and/or R&D activities, with an especially noticeable role in breaking down entry barriers …
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