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... marrying, having premarital sex by age 18, and having sex by 18 for young women living in 41 countries in 12 Africa (27), Asia (5) and Latin America (9) participating in the DHS in the 1990s.9 ... a decline in the percent marrying before 18 in 24 countries and no change in 3 countries. The percent having premarital sex by age 18 has risen in 20 countries, and remained unchanged in 7 countries. ... for boys and girls and that this trend is likely to continue as overall school participation and attainment rates continue to rise in response to rising rates of return to schooling and more...

... salinity, and diseases in estuarine environments are included in Chapter 3. Freshwater fish are reared in water that originates from streams orrivers, or in groundwater, and maintained in flow- through ... dichlorvos and trichlorfon in salmonid farming in Norway during1981–1988. Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica32, 1–7.Grave, K., Engelstad, M., Sóli, N.E. and Toverud,E L. (1991b) Clinical use of ... protein for humans is finfish. Theintensive culture of finfish has grown significantly since the 1980s partly because of thedramatic decline in the natural fish stocks and the increase in fish...

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... improvement in monitoring technology in the IF and FEC contractbrought about by a short-run decline in F and c: As indicated in Figure 3, defaulting probabilityof borrowers being unchanged, ... to an improvement of monitoringtechnology (decrease in a monitoring cost) in the interbank market (depicted in black line) and the lending market (depicted in red line).290 5 10 15 2000.0020.0040.0060.0080.010.0120.0140.016GDP0 ... of accuracy in public signal (decrease in a variance of public signal) and consequent decrease in riskiness ofborrowers in the interbank market (depicted in black line) and the lending market...

... training and trade or craftunions;5 low trust within industrial relations systems in much of British industry;6 prevalence of a low-wage system and fear that training will increase wagedemands;7 ... between training and career prospects;3 limited regulation of the training system, so that enterprises are not requiredto provide training and, in fact, many do not use available training systems;4 ... skills in areas important to the efficient managing of business and industry in Britain compared with France and Germany is clear in Table 6.1. It isnot surprising that enterprise trainers failed...

... validated in vitro andusedtoexaminethe branch-point kinetics in detail and to obtain insights intothe kinetic controls of methionine and threonine synthesis in plants.The branch-point between ... irreversible and inhibited by inorganic phosphate. The modelling procedureincluded an examination of the kinetic links, the determin-ation of the operating conditions in chloroplasts and theestablishment ... measure threonine and cystathionine flux. Threonine flux was measured usingpurified threonine deaminase and commercial lactate dehy-drogenase. Threonine deaminase transforms threonine intooxobutyrate...

... whereas in LDCs8Table 2.2. Pattern of mortality in MDCs and LDCs, in 2000 and 2020 (projected).Source: Based on data from Murray and Lopez (1996), baseline scenario in tables12a to 12h and 16a ... inadequate housing, high incidence of in- fectious and parasitic diseases, HIV/AIDS, etc. In MDCs, they argue, the maindisability risk factor is simply growing old (others include accidents and the ... 60 and above and 70 and above. The projections plotted with con-tinuous lines were derived using the fixed-prevalence rate approach. Those plottedwith dashed lines were calculated by combining...

... As Machine learning techniques, we use reinforcement learning to compute a good policy in a multi-agent system. Simultaneous decision making in a dynamic environment is modelled using multi-agent ... Madrid, Spain (2002) 27. [17] J.A. Boyan, M.L. Littman, “Packet routing in dynamically changing networks: A reinforcement learning approach“, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems ... Q- Routing algorithm and is tested for improving distribution of traffic on N-Best paths. The learning algorithm is based on founding N-Best paths in term of hops router and the minimization...