Most were partially privatised over the past two decades, letting in a small proportion of outside shareholders.
Neither did they find any relationship between company performance and other board characteristics, like the number of seats, the proportion of outside directors, directors' average ages or average length of tenure.
In particular, the proportion of outside directors, the number of board meetings, and the tenure of the chairman are associated with the incidence of fraud.
But in inner London, about half the pupils eligible for free school meals achieve five or more GCSEs at A* to C, double the proportion outside London.
Just 68% of first preferences of Birmingham families were met, while 13% did not receive any of their named preferences – the highest proportion outside the capital, along with Windsor and Maidenhead.
6 hours after release of synchrony, the proportion outside the territory had increased to 37%.
An observed proportion outside this interval means that the null hypothesis can be rejected at the (100-k)% significance level.
This expression can be derived by assuming constant rates of acquisition and loss of colonization outside the ward and that ν represents the long-term equilibrium for the proportion outside the ward who are colonized.
The proportion (χ = 0.65, p = 0.4) of urban and rural communities (22 and 36, respectively) within clusters did not differ from the proportion outside clusters (urban: 14; rural: 24).
Patients in both the periods were similar with regard to sex, age, proportion admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) and proportion referred from outside hospitals (table 1).
