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Zinc adequacy in the UK population
… and globally accepted biomarker and/or index of adequacy. An initial analysis of the National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS) showed that in the UK population average Zn intake ranged from 4.18 mg/day to 10.56 mg/day; and that, based on the current UK Zn Dietary Reference Values (DRVs), a …
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Assessing the functional adequacy of children's phonological systems
… developed the idea of assessing the functional adequacy of children's phonological systems which are restricted in terns of their contrastive potential. A phonological system is considered functionally adequate if it differentiates between the lexical items in a lexical system which is its …
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Determining the Adequacy of Bufferyards in Springfield, Missouri
This study reviews the installation and maintenance of and establishes a methodology for the planning of bufferyards within planned developments (P.D.'s) in Springfield, Missouri. Field research involved visiting nineteen sites to determine if the bufferyards followed the site plans. …
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Superintendent's Perceptions of Adequacy in Illinois School Finance
<p>This qualitative research study investigated superintendents' perceptions of school finance in the State of Illinois. An online survey instrument, distributed via email, was used to collect the results. Superintendents that chose to participate answered questions about themselves as well as the …
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Predicting the Results of School Finance Adequacy Lawsuits
All but one state constitution contains an adequacy clause, which holds the state to some minimum standard of education that must be provided. Typically, when citizens allege that a state is violating its constitutional duty to provide an adequate education, the dispute winds up in the courts. This …
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Bank capital: definition, adequacy and issue announcement effects
… regulatory and market views of bank capital adequacy and the relative predictability of security type. Where possible, the dissertation is set in both UK and US contexts. The dissertation has four principal research components; (1) a review of historical and contemporary bank capital …
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Determinants of the Wife's Perception of Income Adequacy
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T15:33:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7811302.pdf: 3544933 bytes, checksum: 97cfb9d9f469da27c646087b101940bb (MD5) Previous issue date: 1978
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Resource adequacy in grids with integrated renewable resources
… the world, their impacts on the grid’s resource adequacy become issues of growing concern. The marked intermittent and rapidly time-varying nature of RRs cannot be appropriately represented in the widely used time- invariant resource adequacy evaluation approach. In this thesis, we describe the …
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Adequacy in Faculty Standards of U.S. Regional Accreditation Commissions
Adequacy of full-time faculty is an indicator utilized by regional accreditors in the United States to ensure quality instruction since studies have shown that a high percentage of contingent faculty may have a negative impact on student performance. U.S. regional accreditors of colleges and …
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Squatter upgrading in Zambia : adequacy of the institutional framework
… research titled Squatter Upgrading in Zambia: Adequacy of the Institutional Framework, undertook to examine the extent to which the existing institutional framework was adequate for initiating and supporting squatter upgrading. The research draws on an analysis of data gathered from in-depth …
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Determining capital adequacy for a community bank's agricultural loan portfolio
… The objective of this thesis is to determine the adequacy of Pinnacle Bank’s equity capital relative to the agricultural loan portfolio. This process begins by employing binary logit regression in an effort to determine the probability of default for the bank’s agricultural loan portfolio. With …
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Adequacy of Federal Marine Salvage Policy in the United States
Marine casualties that threaten the environment can impose large private and social costs. One means of reducing these costs is to maintain a professional salvage capability. In the United States this service is provided primarily by the private sector. In order to preserve the public interest, the …
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Adequacy of diet & cost of food in an epileptic colony
Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science. Dept. of Institutional Management. Division of Home Economics, 1937
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Ultrasonic stress measurement for evaluating the adequacy of gusset plates
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] A significant challenge in determining the safety margin for gusset plates is determining the level of stresses carried in the plate. Present technologies are unable to evaluate the dead, live and residual stresses maintained in …
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Statistical Adequacy and Reliability of Inference in Regression-like Models
Using theoretical relations as a source of econometric specifications might lead a researcher to models that do not adequately capture the statistical regularities in the data and do not faithfully represent the phenomenon of interest. In addition, the researcher is unable to disentangle the …
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Adequacy of Training of Iowa Principals for Administration of Negotiated Contracts
The problem. Since Iowa has a relatively new collective bargaining law, are principals adequately trained to implement master contracts negotiated under this law? Procedure. Literature was reviewed to determine training needed for contract administration. Principals were interviewed concerning …
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A Study of the Adequacy of Post Functional Definitions of Art
In this thesis, I investigate the adequacy of post-functional definitions of art, including institutional, historical, disjunctive and buck-passing definitions. I evaluate these definitions with respect to their extensional adequacy, intentional adequacy, and informativeness. Philosophers of art …
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Organizational Complexity, Plan Adequacy, and Nursing Home Resiliency: A Contingency Perspective
… between organizational complexity, disaster plan adequacy and organizational resiliency. The unit of analysis, the skilled nursing facility proved vulnerable, therefore justifying the need for a written emergency management plan and affiliation with a disaster network. The main purpose of this …
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