This research was carried out to compare the productivity performance of three lines local quail. The results showed a significant superiority in daily gain weight (3.76 g/day/quail) and marketing (167.2 g/quail) for brown quail over other colors. Also, differences were found dressing ratio between males (67.8%) females (65.76%). As egg production quail, it desert colors number eggs produced, a...

OBJECTIVES To present data on the comparative and interactive workplace costs of depression relative to other health problems in the workforce of a large employer. METHODS The World Health Organization Health and Work Performance Questionnaire was used to assess self-reported health problems and work performance. Survey data were linked to medical-pharmacy claims data. Regression analysis was...

This paper evaluates the comparative performance of adaptive and conventional square law detectors for inputs consisting of finite bandwidth signals in white Gaussian noise. The comparative perfOrmance of two distinct ALE augmented detector implementations will be provided. Performance is determined on the basis of ROC curves for a range of signal bandwidths, ALE bulk delays, ALE time constants...

background and objectives: constant monitoring of healthcare organizations’ performance is an integral part of informed health policy-making. several hospital performance assessment methods have been proposed in the literature. pabon lasso model offers a fast and convenient method for comparative evaluation of hospital performance. this study aimed to evaluate the relative performance of hospit...

this comparative study investigates the iranian exporters and the u.s. importers perception of persian carpet branding strategy in the u.s. market. wong and merrilees conceptual model of international branding strategy (2007) is used as the base model. two separate models for these communities are extracted. results indicated that the two models are different together and with the base model du...

according to resource curse theory, not only the revenues from selling natural resources do not result in economic growth, but also have some unpleasant effects on economy. this study shows that natural resources cannot be considered curse by itself , but it is the management of revenues which is important. the foreign reserves fund was established to control the effects of oil price volatiliti...

Background CE-MARC established the comparative diagnostic performance of cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) and single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) in patients with suspected coronary heart disease. However, there are no prospective, prognostic data comparing the two modalities in the same patient population. Our objective was to establish the comparative ability of CMR and ...