This study identified stable components of Type A behavior as usually defined, and examined their relationships with more traditional psychological constructs. Overall scores on the most popular Type A measure (a version of the Jenkins Activity Survey) were moderately associated with ambition but largely unrelated to measures of adjustment. An item analysis yielded s~~bcomponents of Drivenness ...

Toxocara canis is an intestinal nematode affecting dogs and cats that causes human infestations by ingestion of embryonated eggs excreted in dogs' faeces. Humans are transport hosts, in whom the larvae do not develop to adult worms, but may migrate to various tissues and organs, and survive for several years, giving rise to several clinical symptoms, which include allergy-like presentations. We...

The implementation of Law Number 32 2004 concerning regional autonomy required Indonesia to change its economic development system from centralized decentralized. One form was fiscal decentralization which aimed promote social welfare and independence. However, the growth several regions fluctuated, even though instrument issued by central government continued increase. provinces in that have i...

abstract present study used translog cost function for determining break point of paddy farms. requested data set include inputs’ prices and quantities, and production amounts had been acquired from 500 rice farmers of guilan province at 2009. model used in this study is seemingly unrelated regressions (sur). the results showed that labor and pesticides had the highest and lowest share of produ...

The linear and nonlinear seemingly unrelated regression problem with general error distribution is analyzed using recent likelihood theory that arguably provides the definitive distribution for assessing a scalar parameter; this involves implicit but well defined conditioning and marginalization for determining intrinsic measures of departure. Highly accurate p-values are obtained for the key d...

There are growing climatic concerns of global warming due to increase GHG emissions in the Earth’s atmosphere. is a dire need energy conservation and reduction by minimizing losses bringing efficiencies all processes including transportation sector which has major share. The business as usual case from road transport with manual toll system significant impacts not only on atmosphere but also no...

UNLABELLED Despite ongoing efforts to develop new treatment options, the prognosis for patients with inoperable esophageal carcinoma is still poor and the reliability of individual therapy outcome prediction based on clinical parameters is not convincing. The aim of this work was to investigate whether PET can provide independent prognostic information in such a patient group and whether the tu...