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... Atlantic Islands, based on the Falkland Islands and Ascension Island and maintaining a regular presence in South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands; and on Diego Garcia in British Indian Ocean ... Iraq and Afghanistan. This exceeded the planning assumptions that had set the size of our forces and placed greater demands both on our people and on their equipment than had been planned ... significant terrorist threat to the UK and its interests overseas comes from the Al Qaeda senior leadership based in the border areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan, and their aliates and supporters....

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... climate change and environmen- tal degradation, explosive urbanization and migration, ageing societies and the rising cost of health care, the HIV and AIDS pandemic, and humanitarian crises of increasing ... with an understanding of local cultural perceptions and social dynamics, especially those that create multiple forms of disadvantage for Ethiopia’s adolescent girls and rural youth. Many of ... may also diverge significantly from the age of majority. In many countries, a distinction is drawn between the age at which anyone may legally marry and an earlier age at which it is only possible...

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... “feel” of their experience with the product, and typically buy it to enhance their own image. The “image” of a brand is an integral part of the product, and determines the willingness to pay of ... product can reduce the value of the product to the customer. 50. The “image” of a brand is therefore an integral part of the product, and determines the willingness to pay of consumers. Manufacturers ... distribution of the products in question and thus to exclude any name whose image would be associated with an absence of or restriction in customer service and in standing and with a lack of attention...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 09:20

... with human users. 3.2 Examples of agent applications and entire agent systems Because of the fact that a lot of research is being done in the field of agents, and Intelligent Software Agents ... Telnet. Intelligent Software Agents in Practise collaborative teams of people, and manage their work products. One of the most popular and most heard -of examples of such an application is the ... Internet, and an example will be given to give an impression of the new forms of functionality it can offer. 4.3.1 Middle layer (agent) functions "The fall in the cost of gathering and transmitting...

Ngày tải lên: 08/10/2012, 15:22

... safety). Materials and methods Stavanger HEMS The Stavanger HEMS is part of the national HEMS system of Norway, and its primary areas of operation are the mixed urban and rural districts of Rogaland County, which ... reporting of data from pre-hospital advanced airway management. Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med 2009, 17:58. 20. Franschman G, Peerdeman SM, Greuters S, Vieveen J, Brinkman ACM, Christiaans HMT, ... on the quality and safety of anaesthesiologist-managed pre-hospital ETI in trauma * Correspondence: solste@snla.no 1 Department of Research and Development, Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation,...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 09:56

... credit. 1.2.2. The mechanics of letter of credit transaction The mechanics of the letter of credit transaction can be quite complex and has been standardized by a set of rules published by the ... receipt of the specified documents. Letter of credit rules typically describe the importer as the applicant and the applicant’s bank as the issuing bank or the issuer of the letter of credit. ... process and refusal of documents. This new regulation, beside the advantage of reducing time for banks to process documents, has revealed its short-coming. Indeed, the fixed period of “five banking...

Ngày tải lên: 27/10/2012, 16:40

... a scientific man must live in a little bit of style. I am quite sure an ordinary civil servant spends more in a year than I do. Peter Stockmann. I daresay. A civil servant a man in a well-paid ... brother), Mayor of the town and chief constable, Chairman of the Baths' Committee, etc. MORTEN KIIL, a tanner (Mrs. Stockmann's adoptive father). HOVSTAD, editor of the "People's ... with another, there is an excellent spirit of toleration in the town an admirable municipal spirit. And it all springs from the fact of our having a great common interest to unite us an interest...

Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2012, 14:12

... be called or Hank had just completed eighteen years of outstanding military service and was an E-8 Master Sergeant at age thirtysix. He was sure that he would retire as Master Sergeant-Major E-9 ... Nation and took asylum. Over the next one hundred seventy five years or so, many of them remained and were regarded as members of the tribe. When the Bureau of Indian Affairs started enrollment of certifiable ... able to keep their home and maintain a decent standard of living. There was no abundance of money and Adam learned the value of a dollar early on. During the two years of his father's convalescence...

Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2012, 16:13

... units of the material in terms of language points and language skills ( see Appendix 3). The language points in terms of grammar, vocabulary and the language skills (reading, writing, and speaking) ... document and material analysis. 3.2.2. The Suitability of the Material to the Content Requirements of the Course * Language points and macro- skills Language points and language skills are main ... plays an important part in the process of language teaching and learning. It makes the teaching materials more relevant to the needs of students and to the objectives of the course, and therefore,...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:50

... than its European counter-parties American index 3. The stocks of a highly liquid financial institution - UBS, that managed to maintain its high ratings notwithstanding the many mergers and ... below. Each of our options has a 4% probability of a payout of - 100 CHF and a 96% probability of payout of zero, and the underlying variables of the two options are independent of each other. ... estimates of the risk measures and the shape parameter (xi) of GPD. However, a closer look at the company's history shows periods of big financial distress. The worst case of loosing 56% of its...

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