Targeting Behavior among Indonesian Firms: Two-Step Partial Adjustment Model Analysis

Promoting Entrepreneurial Behavior among Agricultural Students: A Two-Step Approach to Structural Equation Modeling

Increasing rate of unemployment among the graduates of Iranian higher agricultural education system has been developed into one of the major socio-economic problems of the nation. Entrepreneurship is one of the most important factors contributing to economic and social development, that is, it is a main driver for employment creation. As such, many policy initiatives in Iran attempt to pull agr...

Critical behavior of the two-dimensional step model.

E cient Two-Step Estimation via Targeting

The standard description of two-step extremum estimation amounts to plugging in a first step estimator of nuisance parameters in order to simplify the optimization problem and then to deduce a user friendly estimator for the parameters of interest. This two-step procedure often induces an e ciency loss with respect to estimation of the parameters of interest. In this paper, we consider a more g...

Two-step purification and partial characterization of an extra cellular α-amylase from Bacillus licheniformis

The aim of this study was production and partial purification of α-amylase enzyme by Bacillus licheniformis. B. Licheniformis was allowed to grow in broth culture for purpose of inducing α-amylase enzyme. Optimal conditions for amylase production by B. Licheniformis are incubation period of 120 h, temperature of 37 °C and pH 7.0. The α-amylase enzyme was purified by ion exchange chromatography ...

A Four-Step Faculty Compensation Model: From Equity Analysis to Adjustment

Among the varied analytical challenges institutional researchers face, examining faculty pay may be one of the most vexing. Although the literature on faculty compensation analysis dates back to the 1970s (Loeb and Ferber, 1971; Gordon, Morton, and Braden, 1974; Scott, 1977; Braskamp and Johnson, 1978; McLaughlin, Smart, and Montgomery, 1978), both conceptual and operational questions on how to...