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Consumer attitudes towards food safety risks associated with meat processing
(2001)A focus group study with 37 residents of Manhattan, Kansas, was conducted to examine consumers risk perceptions of foodborne illnesses from beef. The four focusgroup sessions were designed to determine (1) relative ... -
Datenbasierte Indikatoren für potenziell abweichendes Interviewerverhalten
(2011)Die Datenqualität in Umfragedaten kann in vielen Fällen durch abweichendes Verhalten der Interviewer beeinträchtigt sein. Eine Fälschung liegt dann vor, wenn der Interviewer den kompletten Fragebogen oder Teile davon nicht ... -
Detection and visualisation of climate trends in China
(2003)Monthly precipitation and temperature trends of 160 stations in China from 1951-2002 have been analysed and interpolated. The Mann-Kendall trend test was applied to examine the monthly precipitation data. Significant ... -
Determinants of foreign direct investment of OECD countries 1991-2001
(2005)Using a fixed-effects panel data approach, FDI flows of 22 OECD countries are explained by gravity equations over the period 1991-2001. It is distinguished between all available observations, Intra-EU25 observations only, ... -
Determinants of primary school enrollment in Haiti and the Dominican Republic
(2011)Education is considered an important means of alleviating poverty and of improving an individual´s job and earnings prospects. Nevertheless, in Haiti and the Dominican Republic school enrollment is far from complete and ... -
Different background - similar strategies : recruitment in Tanzanian-African and Tanzanian-Asian companies
(2010)The literature on enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa provides evidence that there are significant differences between companies run by members of the majority population and those run by members of minorities. Differences ... -
Do German exporters PTM? : Searching for right answers in sugar confectionery exports
(2013)Pricing-to-market (PTM) evidence in German sugar confectionery exports is examined, combining the original fixed-effects model of Knetter (1989) and an errorcorrection specification (ECM) at three frequency levels, to ... -
Does the availability of secondary schools increase primary schooling? : Empirical evidence from northern Senegal
(2013)When parents in Senegal decide upon primary school enrollment of their children, they might consider future returns to education. These future benefits in turn heavily depend on a child's prospects to attend secondary ... -
Dos miradas sobre el espacio público en Cartagena (Colombia) y Quito (Ecuador) : de componente relevante conceptualmente pero relegado en la práctica a instrumento central de gestión urbana
(2015)Der öffentliche Raum lateinamerikanischer Städte kann als ein Konfliktfeld verstanden werden, in dem viele Akteure und deren Interessen zusammentreffen, und die dann auch die strukturellen Probleme der Stadt reflektiert. ... -
Education for all and for life? : An introduction into primary school education in Senegal
(2011)Generally, school participation in Senegal has achieved a lot of progress in recent years. However, several problems remain to be tackled for further improvement. Still, too many children never attend a school. An even ... -
Efficiency wages and negotiated profit-sharing under uncertainty
(2009)In this contribution a very simple model of profit sharing as an entrepreneurial instrument to create incentive-based productivity effects was presented. If efficiency gains result, a remuneration contract including shared ... -
Efficiency-enhancing effects of private and collective enterprises in transitional China
(2002)Private and collective enterprises are expected to increase overall efficiency in transitional China, partly because they are more efficient than state owned enterprises. More importantly, this paper argues, they induce ... -
Der Einfluss der Globalisierung auf staatliche Handlungsspielräume und die Zielverwirklichungsmöglichkeiten gesellschaftlicher Gruppen
(2001)Deutschland ist mit seiner traditionell exportorientierten Volkswirtschaft eine derjenigen Regionen der Weltwirtschaft, die in die zunehmende internationalen Verflechtung besonders stark eingebunden sind. In der ... -
Die Entscheidungen des "Dispute-Settlement"-Verfahrens der WTO im Hormonstreit zwischen der EU und den USA : Implikationen für den zukünftigen Umgang mit dem SPS-Abkommen
(2001)In diesem Beitrag sollen Auswirkungen des neuen Regelwerkes einschließlich seines Überwachungssystems auf Basis des in der Öffentlichkeit kontrovers diskutierten Hormonstreites erörtert und die Auswirkungen auf den Umgang ... -
Die Erwärmung bodennaher Luftschichten in Zentralasien : Zur Problematik der Bestimmung von Trends und Langzeitkorrelationen
(2005)Mit der Bestimmung des Trendwertes bezüglich der Klimaerwärmung in Zentralasien in der jüngeren Vergangenheit anhand herkömmlicher Verfahren der Zeitreihenanalyse (gleitende Mittelwerte, Regressionsanalysen) sind zwei ... -
The EU strategy for Central Asia and Kyrgyzstan foreign policy
(2010)Over the last two years the European Union has changed its attitude towards the countries of Central Asia. The EU has strengthened its relationship with the region since the adoption of The EU and Central Asia: Strategy ...