café in ghana—using the swarm to police the swarm

... higher interest rates on their loans The pass-through from interbank market rates to lending interest rates, i.e., , which refers to the change in the lending rate over the change in the interbank ... (reflecting the cost of funding) to banks’ retail deposit and lending interest rates in Ghana, -6thereby providing valuable insight into the interest rate transmission process Section V concludes the ... MODEL The 2002 Bank of Ghana Act sets the stage for the transition to inflation targeting by recognizing the independence of the central bank to set interest rates.5 The Act mandates that the primary...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 14:20

... (black line) A linear relationship then exists between the two measuring values The distinct change in the regression curve (broken line) obtained when all the measuring points are taken into account ... able to fully use either for photosynthesis Errors caused by the above should, however, not be too great, at least not in the case of intense radiation, since a linear increase in photosynthetic ... within the a-Si:H caused by illumination is proportional to the third root of illumination time t and to the square of the third root of incident light intensity I: Under certain preconditions the...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 18:21

... high rates of childhood wasting and stunting in their rural villages The women were including in their cooking pots tiny shrimps and crabs, found in large numbers in rice paddies but not normally ... quantitative investigation The goal is to sample the universe of relevant organizations in order to attain a large, representative sample of the industry to which one is generalizing, thereby permitting ... differences in monitoring functions, reward systems, leadership styles) might influence the impact of various practices on the outcome Furthermore, such studies not delve into the variation within the intervention...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... high rates of childhood wasting and stunting in their rural villages The women were including in their cooking pots tiny shrimps and crabs, found in large numbers in rice paddies but not normally ... quantitative investigation The goal is to sample the universe of relevant organizations in order to attain a large, representative sample of the industry to which one is generalizing, thereby permitting ... differences in monitoring functions, reward systems, leadership styles) might influence the impact of various practices on the outcome Furthermore, such studies not delve into the variation within the intervention...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20

... assays using the SNPs of interest were designed by an automated multi-step pipeline [20] These steps include: (1) entering the sequence containing target SNPs; (2) checking for formatting errors ... by the "Grapevine Genome" project funded by the the Autonomous Province of Trento This paper is dedicated to the memory of Mario Libera References 10 The National Center for Biotechnology Information ... according to the manufacturer's protocol The success of the MDA reaction and the absence of product in the negative control samples were assessed by agarose gel electrophoresis SNP identification The...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 05:20

... the need of remeshing In addition, there is Modeling Damage in Composites Using the Element-Failure Method 20 Chapter 1: Introduction to the Modeling of Damage in Composites no need to redefine ... fiber/matrix interface; at the macro level, the focus is on the laminae such as delamination between the layers of the laminate These failure modes cause a permanent loss in structural integrity within the ... condition and computes the stress and strain distributions within the Modeling Damage in Composites Using the Element-Failure Method Chapter 1: Introduction to the Modeling of Damage in Composites material...

Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 15:55

... output Finally, any non-linearity in gain and phase will lead to further errors in the final output While these problems are not insurmountable, the result is that analog lock -in amplifiers tend to ... photo detector next to the wheel measuring the output from an index hole In this application, it is necessary to generate an AC signal to drive the bridge circuit and thus the strain gauges Therefore, ... discrete point in the sampling sequence For example, the Q signal is derived from multiplying the incoming data, one sample point at a time, by the cosine value of the ideal wave at that sample point...

Ngày tải lên: 11/01/2016, 16:45

... Register to “incoming book” - Actor Administration department - Purpose Register to “incoming book” - General description Insert document’s information into “incoming book” form and store into database ... Administrative activities could be able to divide into following types: • Internal activities which involved in individual or sub-ordinates: o Incoming document processing (register to incoming ... New incoming document processing package Uc9 Register into “incoming book” Uc10 Store into database Uc11 View new incoming documents Uc12 Decide destination Uc13 Public Uc14 Forward to subordinates...

Ngày tải lên: 23/11/2012, 15:04

... were administered during the class time Before the questionnaire was given to the informants, the researcher took time to explain the purpose of the questionnaires, the requirements of the informants ... speaking classes as uneasy experience because they find the speaking topics difficult and unfamiliar to them They reveal that sometimes they want to take part in speaking yet they find no way to ... accustomed to speaking in front of the crowd During the speaking classes, they just keep silent and listen to others speaking as they are too shy to express their ideas A number of informants...

Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:51

... answered that they are not accustomed to speaking in front of the crowded During the speaking classes, they just keep silent and listen to others speaking as they are too shy to express their ideas ... complain that the speaking activities are either boring or difficult In addition, the teaching way is not interesting enough These factors discourage them to be reluctant to join the speaking classes ... be devided into “intrinsic” and “extrinsic” ones in general learning theory.( Arnold, 2000:14) Intrinsic motivation is what learners bring to the learning environment that is their internal attributes:...

Ngày tải lên: 27/12/2013, 20:41

... grammar, in which the subtrees are specified in advance, in an adaptor grammar the subtrees, as well as their probabilities, are learnt from the training data In order to make parsing and inference ... adaptor grammar This PCFG contains a production for each adapted subtree in the parses of the other strings in the training corpus A final accept-reject step corrects for the difference in the ... adaptor grammars, since the grammar can learn the possible onset and coda clusters, rather than requiring them to be stipulated in the grammar In the unigram syllable adaptor grammar shown in...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 09:20

... Other countries are also gaining ground in higher education The United States has slipped to ninth in the share of students enrolling in college.‡39 In short, the new global economy increasingly ... parenting support or training, referral to social services, and information relating to nutrition.* Schools should also welcome parents by inviting them to participate in the classroom and providing ... CED’s previous work in early education by providing the economic evidence that justifies increasing investments in preschool In the 40 years since CED first recommended investing in preschool, it...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 20:20

... of the Hupki mouse A common polymorphism occurs at codon 72 in TP53, resulting in either a proline (Pro72) or an arginine (Arg72) This occurs in the region of the gene encoding the polyproline ... tempting to speculate that nitro-PAHs, including 3-NBA, may contribute to the induction of G to T mutations in lung tumours of nonsmokers Aristolochic acid-exposed human urothelial cancer The ... least in the spleen, are similar in both mouse strains [38] The Hupki mouse is useful for both in vitro and in vivo studies of TP53 mutations induced by carcinogens The nucleotide sequence of the...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 11:20

... getting to know them, showing an interest in both the learning and the personal interest of the students, trying to enjoy their company as a group and by showing that he is enjoying teaching them” ... This type involves interpreting either the textbook dialogue or reading text in the form of speech The main function of the text after all is to convey the meaning of language items in a memorably ... Angela and the other one is the post office clerk They should improvise the conversation using the prompts to help them Point out that the conversation should be similar to the one in the textbook,...

Ngày tải lên: 07/06/2014, 16:13

... reform the quota system This in turn paves the way for a more rational, integrated and needs-based approach to workforce planning in health Training Challenges in relation to training of the health ... workforce include the lack of intersection between pre-service vocational and in- service training, poor coordination between partners providing support for training, and the need to increase the level ... have the necessary technical perspective to discriminate between competing staffing needs in an environment of resource constraints, historical patterns tend to be maintained According to a staff...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... enrollees within 45–90 days of their enrollment into one of the three plans, in order to get baseline information about their health status upon entering the plan, before they had an opportunity to make ... process occurred at the time of the baseline interview Each interview took 30–45 minutes to complete and was conducted either in person at the study offices in New York City or on the phone, whichever ... life The main Dynamics of Care assessment occurred at the intervening three month interview, with brief follow-up questions occurring during the six month interview, including questions about the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... activation proteins are mediated by numerous regulatory proteins including CD59, clusterin, vitronectin, C1-inhibitor, C4-binding protein, decay-activating factor, and Factor H, which inhibit different ... in peripheral blood, but they are also synthesized in other organs including the brain [31] Protein fragments generated during activation of the system enzymatically cleave the next protein in ... and the molecular layer of the dentate gyrus [106,107], systemic administration of the excitotoxin kainic acid [108,109], or injection of the neurotoxin colchicine into the dorsal hippocampus [109]...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... used in groups of ten - The teacher chooses a story that is interesting enough to stimulate the students to start writing immediately and dictate the beginning of the story to them - After the ... the students open them and, in writing, join the fragments of information together to make it more interesting and logical - The students read the story aloud 3.4 Writing stories Procedure: - ... of one text to half of the class and the other text to the half - Ask them to list all the words in their text alphabetically - Ask the students to exchange their lists, but not their texts,...

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 19:15

... Register to “incoming book” - Actor Administration department - Purpose Register to “incoming book” - General description Insert document’s information into “incoming book” form and store into database ... Administrative activities could be able to divide into following types: • Internal activities which involved in individual or sub-ordinates: o Incoming document processing (register to incoming ... incoming document processing package Uc9 Register into “incoming book” Uc10 Store into database 18 Uc11 View new incoming documents Uc12 Decide destination Uc13 Public Uc14 Forward to subordinates...

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 21:38