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Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 13:20

... 2.1.1) A paper prepared on strategies that have helped to reduce maternal mortality in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Gambia, Morocco, the Plurinational State of Bolivia and Rwanda was prepared, submitted and ... health 99 Linkages between sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS interventions 113 Men and sexual and reproductive health 119 Biostatistics and data management 125 Advocacy for sexual and ... potentially safer and easier to apply than forceps and vacuum extractor for assisted deliveries and a safe alternative to some caesarean sections in settings with limited surgical capacity and human...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 06:20

... Moldova Madagascar Mexico Macedonia Mali Malawi Nicaragua Oman Panama Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Paraguay Romania Russia El Salvador Slovakia Slovenia Syria Thailand Turkey Tanzania Ukraine ... 20.00 Sales( mln USD) 25.00 Table 1: Country-wise Data Summary Country Albania Argentina Armenia Bulgaria Bosnia & H Belarus Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Costa Rica Czech Rep Germany Egypt, Spain ... Financial Development and Innovation in Small Firms Siddharth Sharma∗† JEL Classification: G21; O16, O30 ∗ International Finance Corporation E-mail: SSharma1@ifc.org All views expressed are my own am...

Ngày tải lên: 21/04/2016, 07:23

... officials and policymakers from Central Asia, Caucasus, Black Sea, Central, Eastern and South Eastern European countries, as well as Mongolia, the Russian Federation and the Middle East and North Africa ... and the staff of small and medium enterprise stakeholder agencies such as chambers of commerce and business associations, NGOs, local development agencies and consultancies, and training organisations ... of financial resources and lack of capacity to handle complex business management issues as well as a complicated and bureaucratic environment present major obstacles As a result, there is an urgent...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 00:20

... contains all available data but such data are inconsistent leading to imbalances in the SAM accounts In such a situation, there is no balanced SAM available from a prior year, and hence no updating ... has been used to estimate SAM’s for a number of African countries (Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe) and a few other countries (e.g., Brazil, Mexico, North Korea, and ... Updating and Estimating a Social Accounting Matrix Using Cross Entropy Methods* by Sherman Robinson Andrea Cattaneo and Moataz El-Said1 International Food Policy Research Institute Washington,...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 22:20

... Romanosky, Rahul Telang, and Alessandro Acquisti, Do Data Breach Disclosure Laws Reduce Identity Theft?, JOURNAL OF POLICY ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT (forthcoming 2011), draft at 26, available at ... organizations follow the practices to which they are bound Auditing and accountability play a critical role Audits compare actual data use against specified uses, and accountability is the capacity ... Canada, India, Japan, Mexico, and South Korea—have enacted or updated data privacy laws These laws are mostly generally applicable to personal data irrespective of the industry in which the data...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 03:20

... the Association of Academic Physiatrists, the Foundation for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, the American Hospital Association, and the Federation for American Hospitals The same organizations ... financial support Major financial and staff support was provided by the American Medical Rehabilitation Providers Association (AMRPA) Additional sponsors included the American Physiatric Education ... measurement and performance indicator programs at CARF and spearheaded the research and development for uSPEQ: Giving Quality a Voice, CARF International's customer feedback service Keith began his affiliation...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... Department of Health and Aged Care (DHAC): National Physical Activity Guidelines for Australians Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing Canberra: Department of Health and Ageing; 1999 Vandelanotte ... supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (#519778) and National Heart Foundation of Australia (#PH 07B 3303) post-doctoral research fellowship Author details Centre ... analyses and manuscript development; WKM was involved in conceptualization, data collection and analyses All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:20

... tissue banking, and that institutions must have transparent and appropriate systems, and standards for the ethical, legal and operational governance of research tissue banking 64 The significance ... are usually associated with either an affiliated hospital or a research institution, and they may collect samples representing a variety of diseases Largescale population-based biobanks are also ... residual HBMs obtained from surgical activities or collected as pathological archived materials, and used for future research 1.2.1 What are residual human biological materials? As explained above,...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 11:33

... its population rises and per capita demand for energy increases The majority of the cuts will be generated in three target areas: the national energy mix; transport; and businesses and homes ... is a useful start The Energy Saving Trust estimates that just leaving gadgets and appliances on standby in homes wastes some £900m of energy annually8 Inevitably, interest falls as more substantial ... ahead of constant reform “In terms of carbon policy, the UK has a fantastic record of innovating in real ways, but it’s also a disaster, as it keeps changing all the time,” says Professor Leach...

Ngày tải lên: 06/12/2015, 23:04

... more than 30 research projects on solar radiation and solar thermal technology funded by national and international organizations As a result, he has published more than 50 original research papers ... international journals and book chapters and obtained one patent He has been recognized for successful development and implementation of solar dryers in Thailand and the development of solar radiation ... vegetables per batch As Thailand is situated in the tropics, the rainy season lasts approximately six months Apart from high loading capacity, the dryer has to be equipped with an auxiliary heater...

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Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 15:20

... outreach to make more educators, librarians, and rural health care providers aware of the programs and for evaluation to update and analyze data on program utilization and to assess impacts of USF ... systematically augment the range of services and available training and expertise around broadband services in rural regions The four factors that affect rural Internet subscription and use are: a) ... individuals, capability encompasses both formal and informal educational attainment and levels of technical sophistication and understanding, along with the willingness to adapt to new technologies and...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 19:20

... , A which we assume is constant over time and across banks Rather than make an arbitrary assumption about its value, we will give the data a chance to inform us about it and treat mOTH as a parameter ... liabilities (in years) Savings, demand, and transaction deposits are included at their contractual (that is, zero) maturity c As a share of interest-earning assets d As a share of total liabilities ... systematic risk Again, these effects—which 24 A number of authors have attributed the failure of the standard CAPM to its static nature; see, for example, Hansen and Richard [1987], Jagannathan and...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 03:20

... financial strength rating to AA, Credit Watch Negative Standard and Poor’s place Ambac’s AAA rating on CreditWatch Negative January 22, 2008 | Federal Reserve Press Release Page of 32 In an intermeeting ... authorizes a $330 billion expansion of swap lines with Bank of Canada, Bank of England, Bank of Japan, Danmarks Nationalbank, ECB, Norges Bank, Reserve Bank of Australia, Sveriges Riksbank, and ... will be available to Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Federal Home Loan Banks; and 3) a temporary program to purchase GSE MBS Page of 32 Loan Banks; and 3) a temporary program to purchase GSE...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 21:20

... the development of this paper Special thanks are extended to: Mariavittoria Ballotta, Nicola Brandt, Claudia Cappa, Paula Claycomb, Clarice de Silva e Paula, Peter Gross, Deepa Grover, Rachel ... services, such as ECI • Strengthen the capacity of parents’ associations and DPOs to provide care and support; undertake advocacy and public awareness initiatives; and participate in policy development, ... disabilities that addresses family support, community awareness and mobilization, capacity of human resources, coordination and service provision • Advocate for and seek sustainable financial and...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 15:20

... which are not asked, and also contain practical examples Human-powered answers often contain unrelated information and discourselike elements Additionally, the answers not always have a connection ... Hori, Takaaki Hori, and Sadaoki Furui 2003 Evaluation Methods for Automatic Speech Summarization In In Proc EUROSPEECH, volume 4, pages 2825–2828, Geneva, Switzerland Valentin Jijkoun and Maarten ... substantial In the field of automatic summarisation, the overlap of the automatic results and corresponding manual summarisations is generally much lower than the overlap between our answers (Chali...

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