AbstractThere are so many studies on the company's market value. However, most do not verify macroeconomic effect certain industries. Research as moderators in increasing value is still limited also. Therefore, macroeconomics (interest rates) presented this study a moderator to examine of company growth (increased sales) and financial performance (ROA) company’s (PBV). It expected provide addit...

This dissertation has been completed in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the dutch institute of systems and control (disc) for graduate study. Acknowledgments This thesis is the result of four years of research carried out at the Delft Center of Systems and Control (DCSC) of the Delft University of Technology. Looking back to these years, I feel deeply indebted to several people who h...

In today’s companies, particularly multi-national enterprises acting on a global scale, historically grown systems and application landscapes, as well as processes, lead to significant problems when systems (and even employees) need to communicate with each other, i.e. when entities are exchanged across processes and organizational units. What is needed is a common language and, hence, unambigu...

This paper studies the excess returns on stocks, associated to various company fundamentals on a panel of US stocks from 1979 to 2008. The returns premia are measured using a random coefficient panel data model on the individual stock level. We show that the HML and SMB factors in the Fama and French model probably have no particular economic meaning as sources of systematic risk other than bei...

Cloned Salmonella DNA, which has been immobilized irreversibly on plastic and agarose solid supports, can form hybrids in both single-layer and "sandwich" hybridization protocols. In single-layer hybridization, 3 micrograms of immobilized DNA bound at least 30 fmol of a specific 800-base DNA sequence (equivalent to 8.5 ng, or the amount of that sequence present in 4 X 10(10) organisms). In a 4-...

Shiga-like toxins (verotoxins) are responsible for the virulence associated with a variety of foodborne bacterial pathogens. Direct detection of toxins requires a specific and sensitive technique. In this study, we describe a mass spectrometry-based method of analyzing the tryptic decapeptides derived from the non-toxic B subunits. A gene encoding a single protein that yields a set of relevant ...

P140K-MGMT and G156A-MGMT genes encode two O-benzylguanine–resistant O-alkylguanine DNA alkyltransferase proteins that confer a high degree of Obenzylguanine and 1,3-bis(2-chloroethyl)-1-nitrosourea (BCNU) or O-benzylguanine and temozolomide resistance to primary hematopoietic cells. In this study, we directly compared these and three other O-benzylguanine– resistant MGMT genes for their abilit...

Performance analysis of Slotted CSMA/CA MAC protocol under different parameters for static IEEE 802.15.4 Wireless Sensor Networks Amol Patel and Raksha Upadhyay Institute of Engineering and Technology Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya Indore (M.P.), India _______________________________________________________________________________________ AbstractWSNs have emerged as an important area for research...

Declaration This thesis is a presentation of my original research work. Wherever contributions of others are involved, every effort is made to indicate this clearly, with due reference to the literature, and acknowledgement of collaborative research and discussions. In my capacity as supervisor of the candidate's thesis, I certify that the above statements are true to the best of my knowledge. ...