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today most of financial analyst believes that companies for creating value should have more return than cost of capital. this concept is operationalised by applying eva an ir. as a result of changes created by stewart in the ri concept, eva has become a new tool of financial performance management. stewart believes that for evaluating internal and external performance eva should be used instead...

BACKGROUND The aims of this study were to determine the optimal tracer kinetic model for [(11)C]-meta-hydroxyephedrine ([(11)C]HED) and to evaluate the performance of several simplified methods. METHODS Thirty patients underwent dynamic 60-min [(11)C]HED scans with online arterial blood sampling. Single-tissue and both reversible and irreversible two-tissue models were fitted to the data usin...

Renal infarction (RI) is frequently misdiagnosed or diagnosed late because of its rarity and nonspecific clinical presentation, which may result in irreversible damage to the renal parenchyma or increase the risk of other embolic events affecting additional organs. Multiple causal mechanisms and cases of idiopathic RI have been reported, but the causal factors are not clear in most cases.Here, ...

Recently Murdock (1960) has shown that in free recall RI, the total number of words recalled after one presentation, is a linear function of t, total presentation time. Nothing was said about the serial position effect, though this is a well-known phenomenon of free recall (e.g., Deese & Kaufman, 1957). However, given that there is a serial position effect, the simple linear relationship betwee...

The sensitivity of four groups of gonococcal strains to ampicillin (Am), penicillin (P), tetracycline (T), rifampicin (Ri), spectinomycin (Sp), sulphamethoxazole (Su), trimethoprim (Tr), and a combination of Su and Tr in the ratio 5:1 (Su/Tr 5:1) has been determined. The various groups of strains were isolated from male civilians (MC), female civilians (FC), and sailors (S) in Rotterdam (R) in ...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to explore the usefulness of the resistive index (RI) on spectral Doppler ultrasonography (US) in the detection of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). METHODS Seventeen ESRD patients with kidneys in which renal masses were suspected in routine US were subjected. They underwent computed tomography scans and additional Do...

At Asiacrypt ’10, Yang and Desmedt proposed a number of perfectly secure message transmission protocols in the general adversary model. However, there is a minor flaw in the 2-round protocol in an undirected graph to transmit multiple messages. A small correction solves the problem. Here we fix the protocol and prove its security. 1 Brief Introduction The aim of perfectly secure message transmi...

OBJECTIVE To assess the role of polymorphisms of the tumour necrosis factor (TNF) receptors, TNF-RI (p55) and TNF-RII (p75) in the susceptibility to and severity of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in Dutch patients. METHODS A total of 319 consecutive RA patients, and a cohort of 90 female RA patients with detailed 12-yr follow-up were genotyped for the TNF-RI exon 1 (+36 A to G) and TNF-RII 3' UTR ...