assessing the social impact of rural energy services in nepal

... Immediate feedback Programming by trial and error • 1965 - The introduction of the mini-computer • The beginning of the period of computing as a “public utility” - for the privileged few 2000/11/17 ... • The early machines - one-off, isolated 1950: UNIVAC - the first multi-frame machine 1955: IBM 650 - the first University machine 1960: IBM 1620 - the first College machine The period of the ... computers begin to have an effect on people? • • • • • • 1970s - The microcomputer for enthusiasts 1975 - Computers in the office 1980 - The IBM PC 1984 - The Macintosh The period of the “HOME”...

Ngày tải lên: 29/10/2014, 07:10

... gaps in our understanding of how to mitigate these challenges by highlighting recent findings about the social costs of NCDs and the resource needs for managing these conditions Specifically, the ... mitigate this impact It brings together findings from two recently completed studies that can inform international policy dialogue, including the UN High-Level Meeting on NCDs Their findings shed ... average of US $25 in low-income countries, US$ 50 in lower middle-income countries and US$ 139 in upper middle-income countries By contrast, findings from the second study by the WHO indicate that the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 19:20

... presentation of the results of the analysis; The discussion of the results including a brief discussion on the sensitivity of the forecast to the assumptions in the model Linkages between disease and the ... disease on the economy through change in labour supply, or the opportunity cost of one unit of labour, and through the impact of the cost of treating chronic disease on savings; (3) The effect of chronic ... employed? The sensitivity of the model to many of the assumptions was tested, focusing on two main types of sensitivity: model sensitivity to the assumptions, and the uncertainty in the assumptions The...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 20:20

... examining the impact of CFS on earnings, Additional file 2, Table S4 summarizes its impact on earning controlling separately for the interaction with the reported educational attainment and the ... limitations of the survey design, we cannot a-priori generalize our findings beyond the study population However, our findings offer a benchmark for assessing the approximate magnitude of the burden of ... annual earnings, respectively In a separate analysis controlling for the interaction of CFS and the employment status, Table Age of CFS Onset and Educational Attainment (Finishing College) in the Sampled...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... caregiving relationships if, for example, the mother seeks work outside the home; a termination of breastfeeding at the time of the move as the mother adjusts to new economic and social constraints; ... In assessing the impact of rural- urban migration on child survival, one can differentiate three types of young children who may be affected by their mothers’ migration: those left behind in the ... of the increasingly small number of deaths at older ages Table presents the number of births of rural- urban migrant and rural and urban nonmigrant women in the ten years preceding each survey These...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 11:20

... implementing the MCH services? How the RHU workers assess the system of implementing the MCH services as to: 3.1 adequacy in terms of their number in providing these services; 3.2 their competence in providing ... means that there are times when budget and supplies to support these services are inadequate Again, this supported the claims of the clients of the inadequacies of these services in the health ... of the respondents (N=348, 71.46%) get the information from the BHWs This indicates that the BHWs are doing their responsibility of informing the community where they are assigned about the services...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 11:20

... Addressing the Impact of Household Energy and Indoor Air Pollution on the Health of the Poor Implications for Policy Action and Intervention Measures Table of Contents Preface | Introduction of the ... of ALRI, the measurement of exposure in the majority of these studies has relied on proxies, including the type of fuel used, stove type, exposure of the child to smoke during peak cooking times, ... near the stove, and whether the child is carried on the |9 Addressing the Impact of Household Energy and Indoor Air Pollution on the Health of the Poor Implications for Policy Action and Intervention...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 16:20

... level in distribution services with that of other services sectors and with that of other ASEAN nations in the distribution sector The paper ends by making conclusions about the level of Vietnam’s ... Vietnam’s efforts in implementing freer flows of services within the region Vietnam can contribute more to realizing AEC 2015 by continuing opening franchising services (04D) and promoting freer commission ... consumers in the distribution services within the region In the future, Vietnam might maintain this level of commitment The commitment levels of Mode are relatively high and different between the MA...

Ngày tải lên: 26/03/2015, 08:42

... effectiveness of the training The thesis explains the deployment of TFEL in the reform of vocational teaching activities for rural workers The analysis of the characteristics and nature of the learning ... shown the factual situation of the preparation and design of teaching activities; the using of teaching methods , techniques of teaching; the reality of organizing the teaching activities of the ... force in rural areas in Vietnam in recent years has been 11 at all levels and sectors of interest focus, especially in the matter of raising the quality and effectiveness of training The quality of...

Ngày tải lên: 15/09/2015, 15:17

... on the nature of the association They have analysed the share of service in GDP in the course of economic development In their research they use the percentage of services in GDP as dependent They ... (2011) they estimate growth in value added of different services in India, for the period 1980-2007 Some of the independent variables to explain the growth are the tradability of the service, whether ... and India exports a lot of services, most notably in the IT sector Before reviewing the literature, concepts regarding the service sector will be explained to gain some insight into the sector The...

Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2015, 06:41

... of the model in assessing the English version of the Law on Investment 2005 of Vietnam and conclusions based on the findings Finally, implications for translating Vietnamese legal documents into ... strategies Generally speaking, the process of translation involves three steps: - analyzing the ST to identify: the intention of the text, the intention of the translator, text styles, the readership, ... attitude, setting, the quality of the writing, connotations and denotations, and the cultural aspect of the text; 18 - translating into TL: before starting the actual work of translating, the translator...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:36

... promoting the social inclusion of students with special needs in inclusive settings can be documented In addition, the findings highlight whether the teachers are implementing the strategies they ... assist in the preparation for children to participate in customary adult social situations; including feeling independent, fitting in to varying social settings and being comfortable in work ... treats them as an equal member of the classroom culture rather than segregating them by, for example, placing them in the back of the classroom with a paraprofessional (Jordan & Stanovich, 2001) There...

Ngày tải lên: 06/04/2013, 11:26

... advantage of CSP (day2) in combination with (stored) hydropower (night) Moreover, by increasing installed capacity and by increasing the load factor of the already installed capacity within the SING ... fired) thermal units, the construction of CSP could potentially reduce the high level of energy import dependency of the country In addition, there would be an increase in energy security of supply ... Grid (SING) provides 37,4 % of electricity and mainly supplies the copper mining industry The remaining % of installed capacity is shared between small subsystems in more isolated areas the Aysén...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 14:58

... SciRes In addition, considering the lack of the previous research, this study developed the social dimension as one of the variables of job satisfaction The social dimension consists of three ... characteristics as presented in the literature review This study also investigates these factors of job satisfaction by using the sample of flight attendants Therefore, the following hypotheses are proposed ... 60.05%, and the KMO (Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin Measure of Sampling Adequacy) value was 0.93 The result of Bartlett test of sphericity resulted in the p-value of 0.000 Table shows the result of exploratory...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2013, 11:44

... China What you think of this? Do you think there will be any changes to the way people buy things in the future? Do you think a high rate of consumption can be maintained into the future? FQ In ... you think is the dominant language in the world today? Why (or how) you think English has become the dominant language in the world? FQ What you think of (= how you feel about) the dominance of ... paintings in the same way? • Compare artists (painters) and photographers Do they use the same skills? • Tell me about the visual arts in China, for example, painting * Photographs in Advertising...

Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2013, 17:20

... generated by the politics of fetal risks, and the problematic nature of the idea of individual causality in discussions of fetal harm Social constructions of maternity and paternity In Western industrial ... reports did begin to appear in journals, Koren and Klein (1991) found a similar predisposition in the press against reporting negative Wndings The sense of social distress created by images of addicted ... in the dominant paradigm of fertility and reproduction, a shift generated by the development of the ‘seductive egg’ theory 119 120 C.R Daniels The ‘seductive egg’ theory The ‘seductive egg’ theory...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... examine motives of FDI makers, the following section reviews some theories Explaining Foreign Direct Investment flows Theories explaining FDI assert that the basis for such investment lies in the ... Ishigami, 1999) The most important theories explaining FDI are the following: Comparative Cost Advantage Theory According to the theory of comparative cost advantage (explaining the nature of imperfect ... relevant in the electronics and automobile sectors, two of the most important recipients of FDI The influx of new foreign investments has benefited the country in terms of industrial growth, including...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 23:15

... housing, retained Civic Economics to analyze the economic impact of the 2006 commitment and to consider the prospective impact of another round of bonds to be issued in 2012 Summary of Findings The ... construction of housing made possible by the 2006 bond funds has produced an economic impact in the City of Austin approaching $350 million in today’s dollars When the remaining funds are expended in the ... coming years total construction impacts will reach $384 million, assuming comparable leverage Operating and maintaining these housing units produces an annual economic impact in the City of Austin...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 13:20

... the fuel savings and the lasting impact of the training Because of the multiplier effect, approximately million German novice drivers annually come on the road “ecotrained” via train -the- trainer ... is in the interest of society and business to reduce the uncertainty and increase the predictability of policy frameworks and market conditions around the issue of climate change Therefore we intend ... Ford began training drivers in 2000, in partnership with the German Federation of Driving Instructor Associations and the German Road Safety Council Several versions of the training are available...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 00:20

... competitive in the tight job market These practical, in -the- world experiences are being augmented by online meetings and classes, tying together the learnings in the classroom and the learnings in the ... schools—think Ivy League conglomerate.” The saving of fuel, time, and distance play a big part in taking the class out of the classroom Whether a student is in India, China, or rural West Virginia, they ... (77%) of respondents said their institution offered online course offerings Half said they believe that The modern universities of Europe first came into existence at the end of the 1000s with the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 00:20