BACKGROUND The Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) are required to develop and report a national inventory of greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol. In the Asia region, "Workshops on Greenhouse Gas Inventories in Asia (WGIA)" have been organised annually since 2003 under the support of the government of Japan. WGIAs promote informatio...

Study habit, skill, and attitude inventories and constructs were found to rival standardized tests and previous grades as predictors of academic performance, yielding substantial incremental validity in predicting academic performance. This meta-analysis (N = 72,431, k = 344) examines the construct validity and predictive validity of 10 study skill constructs for college students. We found that...

Prior work has investigated time and inventory-level dependent pricing of limited inventories with finite selling horizons. We consider a third dimension in addition to time and inventory level that the firms can use in setting their prices: the information that the firm has at the individual customer level. An arriving customer provides a signal to the firm, which is an imperfect indicator of ...

The early eighteenth century in England, before the first published Medical Register of 1779, is for historians a great mystery in many crucial aspects of medical practice. Who practised where is fairly difficult to discover, while a man's patients, fees, possessions, books and equipment are even further hidden after over two centuries. What a physician, surgeon or apothecary was worth at death...

The triarchic model of psychopathy (Patrick, Fowles, & Krueger, 2009) was formulated as an integrative framework for reconciling differing conceptions of psychopathy. The model characterizes psychopathy in terms of 3 distinguishable phenotypic components: boldness, meanness, and disinhibition. Data from a large mixed-gender undergraduate sample (N = 618) were used to examine relations of severa...

A common refrain heard from many college and university biology instructors is that undergraduate science students do not seem to possess the same scientific habits of mind as their instructors, nor do they seem to have command of fundamental principles and concepts that structure the expertise of their instructors (Hestenes et al., 1992; Khodor et al., 2004; Wilson et al., 2006; Michael, 2007;...

The factors in self-report inventories measuring the five-factor model (FFM) correlate with one another although they theoretically should not. Study 1 showed, across three different FFM-questionnaires, that almost all of the common variance between factors can be attributed to a single general factor related to social desirability. In Study 2, simple rephrasing of items from a FFM-questionnair...

We study the role of inventories in explaining the decline in U.S. output volatility observed in recent years. Our analysis is motivated by two striking features in the data. First, as is commonly noted, output growth was more volatile than sales growth before 1984 but in recent years they have both become less volatile and about equally as volatile as each other. Second, the forecasting role o...

This study examines the impact of working capital management on firms’ performance and market value of the firms in Nigeria. A sample of fifty four non-financial quoted firms in Nigeria listed on the Nigeria Stock Exchange was used for this study. Data were collected from annual reports of the sampled firms for the period 1995-2009. This result shows there is a significant negative relationship...