america apos s experience with participatory budgeting

... systems, 79% for carbon dioxide systems, 81% for foam systems, and 88% for halogen systems (Wet chemical systems may be included with dry chemical systems or with other special hazard systems.) ... fires reported to U .S fire departments, excluding buildings under construction.) Keywords: fire sprinklers; fire statistics; automatic extinguishing systems; automatic suppression systems Acknowledgements ... chemical systems and may include some miscoded portable extinguishers), Carbon dioxide systems (which may include some wet chemical systems and some miscoded portable extinguishers), Foam systems (which...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 09:20

... vectors are estimated by the simple two-step estimator (S2 S) As Brüggemann and Lütkepohl (2005) show, this estimator produces relatively robust estimates in short samples The lag length is set ... aggregates The loss of access to foreign borrowing, the contraction of deposits, interest rates increases as well as the decline of the demand for loans during the severe recession caused decreasing ... components: currency outside banking system, transferable deposits and other deposits Currency outside banking system includes currency issued by the Bank of Russia into circulation less currency...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20

... patients with PPT to detect recurrence at an early state, since successful salvage therapy is possible Pineoblastomas are classified as PNETs The main indicators of prognosis for PB seem to be histopathological ... biopsy only, none of the patients underwent open resection This increases the likelihood of misdiagnosis, since in small tissue samples potentially less-differentiated tumor cells might be missed ... neurofilaments (less aggressive) from those with or more mitoses and a lack of neurofilament staining (more aggressive) In the pineocytoma patients of our series histological diagnosis was reached by stereotactic...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:20

... This did not impress James Grant, who noted that, since the Great Depression, the United States had experienced 29 market bubbles—strong rises in the prices of securities or other assets Twentyseven ... imposes costs on investors because of the associated increased risk of financial distress and bankruptcy.32 It had simply become cheaper to use other people s money than your own, and businesses ... the surpluses found their way to U .S stocks, bonds, bank accounts, direct investments—and above all Treasuries However, this did not lead to more investments Instead, it made U .S households save...

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... Classes and Members 124 Declaring a Class 125 Classes Versus Objects 126 Defining an Object 126 Accessing Class Members 126 Assign to Objects, Not ... thought of as consisting of a set of tasks Any task that is too complex to be described simply is broken down into a set of smaller component tasks, until the tasks are sufficiently small and self-contained ... Versus Protected Class Members 333 Constructors and Destructors 335 Passing Arguments to Base Constructors 337 Overriding Functions 341 Hiding the Base Class Method...

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2013, 17:15

... 11.1: Experience with User Interfaces Exercise 1: Identify characteristics of user interfaces ! Identify characteristics of user interfaces Consider items you use regularly As a class, discuss how ... Consider items you use regularly As a class, discuss how well suited the user interfaces of these items are The instructor will write your answers on a flip chart ...

Ngày tải lên: 17/01/2014, 09:20

... decisions, this option would tend to compromise any consistent, coherent USN policy towards MSSR 34 Next Steps • Continue assessment of hypotheses • Explore possible options for reducing costs, speeding ... agencies As discussed below, some services and some Navy SYSCOMs took full advantage of the MSSR option to transfer PA For this reason much of the data we use in our later analysis come from sources ... has proceeded more slowly in NAVAIR and NAVSEA than in the other Navy SYSCOMs and other services 13 Pre-Reform Mil-Spec/Stds and MSS Dispositions by Organization Sources: Various reports on MSSR...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 08:20

... benefit to society of disseminating those ideas This analysis suggests that policy needs to address not only the general (and somewhat amorphous) dissemination of ideas, but also the specific practice ... It is an archive of some 28,000 user-submitted guitar tablatures as well as guitar lessons and other aids to guitarists The site, formerly hosted by the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, was highly ... makes delivery possible For example, news is provided on the Web in databases, as a fax service, in customized editions, as an e-mail service, as a real-time service, as a radio-distributed service,...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 01:20

... (Reynolds, 2002) and suffer most psychological distress at this stage (Bates Gaston, 10 1991) A study using prospective annual assessments of women s mood state during the menopausal transition ... and anonymously to the research team s mailbox, and exported to SPSS via Snap Survey Software for subsequent analysis It is not possible with web-based survey to ascertain precise distribution ... satisfied/very satisfied/extremely satisfied with their job 50% Percentage of Women 45% 43% Extremely dissatisfied Very dissatisfied 40% Dissatisfied 35% Neither dissatisfied nor satisfied 30% Satisfied...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 13:20

... information was collected by means of specifically designed questionnaires, after each session Statistic analysis: it was descriptive and used average results for quantitative variables and absolute ... education in prisons: assessment of an experience with diabetics low levels of knowledge, regarding issues of special importance such as their health, is a helpful means of relevant teaching so that ... with his disease and has stated to be unconcerned with correcting his habits (although he admits them) and in future sessions would supposedly not be susceptible to working with the rest of the...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 22:21

... Case Studies of Participatory Budgeting 134 78 Contents vii Conclusions and Lessons Learned 143 Annex: Achievements, Challenges, and Lessons from Participatory Budgeting Processes in Case Study ... People s Council This council, which is made up of accredited businesses and NGOs, serves as the peoples’ representative It plays an active role in the legislative budget process Despite the success ... First, none of the normative approaches to participatory budgeting accurately describes its results, which vary extensively across cases Participatory budgeting does not always strengthen the state...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 10:20

... benefits Section discusses how well it coped with exogenous shocks - a supposed weakness of currency board systems Section describes how the system came to an end Section provides an overall assessment ... independent or post-socialist states in Europe This paper reviews this experience and assesses the degree to which the period may be considered a success There are six sections Section provides an account ... excess returns vis-a-vis sterling before the EMS It is also clear that, in the years before the EMS began, Irish and UK assets displayed predominantly negative excess returns compared with DM assets...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 14:20

... management) so as to ensure that the latter fulfils its tasks For this reason, in some cases, it is known as a supervisory board This means that the board has no executive functions In other countries, ... This audit plan is based on a methodical control risk assessment A control risk assessment documents the internal auditor s understanding of the institution s significant activities and their associated ... the systems established to ensure compliance with laws, regulations, policies and procedures; • the operational audit, the aim of which is to assess the quality and appropriateness of other systems...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 19:20

... post-modifying phrases (In this view a sentence is just a big verb phrase, with modifiers such as subject, objects, adverbs, and subordinate clauses.) In its simplest form this metric can be considered ... grounds, this tree is to be preferred ~ KMod(Sc°reMod+l) Mods where the lowest score is considered to be the best This formula says that the score associated with a phrase is equal to the s u m ... parsing of the sort typically used with A T N ' s , also node m a r k e d with an asterisk is the head of its respective phrase In this form of flat parse tree a prepositional phrase is displayed...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 18:20

... Noncontiguous Blocks of IP Addresses Now Can Be Assigned to an Organization (The first block of IP addresses, shown in red, was assigned to the organization initially The second block of IP addresses, shown ... these, system administrators strive to optimize the storage provided to users in such a way as to provide the best storage services at the least cost to the organization VMware vSphere 5.0 (vSphere ... What s New with VMware vCloud Director 5.1 Administrators now can assign noncontiguous blocks of IP addresses to the organizations using the cloud services This enables the cloud administrator...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 19:20

... Supervisors in some countries organise sector-based discussions with internal auditors about a wide variety of issues of common interest such as developments in supervisory regulation and its ... audit aims to assess the quality and appropriateness of the systems established to ensure compliance with laws, regulations, policies and procedures; • an operational audit aims to assess the quality ... information system and electronic banking services; - the application and effectiveness of risk management procedures and risk assessment methodologies; the systems established to ensure compliance with...

Ngày tải lên: 11/03/2014, 02:20

... WIN A PRINCESS 'S HAND Cast ourselves into a kingdom, a kingdom ruled by the king and queen, a kingdom with jesters, princes, and princesses, with dragons, dreams, and damsels in distress In our ... than the tale 's oddness, the answer, as readers may have guessed, is that Prince Not So Clever wins He gets on with his task, slays the dragon, and marries the princess What goes wrong for Prince ... obviously be so much easier than all the messy effort of slaying Prince Not So Clever sighs, accepting that his slow- wittedness means that he will have to the slaying 'This is pointless and silly,'...

Ngày tải lên: 11/03/2014, 18:31

... Property Service Essentials Query Service Essentials Relationship Service Essentials Security Service Essentials Time Service Essentials Transaction Service Essentials Chapter 9—Essentials of CORBAfacilities ... Licensing Service Essentials Life Cycle Service Essentials Naming Service Essentials Object Collections Service Essentials Object Trader Service Essentials Persistent Object Service Essentials Property ... Well-Formedness Constraints Guideline 9: Adhere to Validity Constraints Guideline 10: Consider Special Local Situation Some CORBA Design Issues Some XML DTD Design Issues Some HTML Design Issues Some...

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