... and the São Paulo State Secretary of Health for financing the fieldwork; to the Secretary of Health Surveillance ofthe Ministry of Health for financial support inthe data analysis through the ... up The total scores for each ofthe eight scales were then converted to points from to 100, with denoting the worst stateof health and 100 denoting the best (10, 11) The following were the independent ... Taboão da Serra; and the District of Butantã, inthe city of São Paulo (13) Thestateof São Paulo is the most populous inthe country and has the highest per capita income The areas studied are...
... herein have enlightened the EOC epidemiology in Espírito Santo State, and due to theState miscegenated population could, in some extent, give broader hints ofthe disease profile On the other ... ofthestateof Espírito Santo, Brazil, are: i) mainly ofthe serous histological type followed equally by the mucinous and endometrioid types; ii) ofthe serous type in all cases diagnosed in ... to the need to revisit the standard clinical protocols in a way to increase the disease treatment success inthe cases of platinum-resistant EOC In conclusion, we have characterized the clinicopathological...
... examines some ofthe phenomena shaping the lives of children in urban areas, from their reasons for moving to the city and their experience of migration to the challenges of getting by inthe ... as in a city Over the course of a decade, thestateofthe world’s urban children has worsened The number of people living in slums has increased by over 60 million These are mothers and fathers, ... Only in this way can we truly advance thestateof all the world’s children Children’s rights in urban settings 15 The Convention on the Rights ofthe Child The Convention on the Rights of the...
... overall poverty is maximum inthestateof Bihar and minimum inthestateofKerala It follows the general stateof human development observed among the states ofIndia (Planning Commission 33 2004) ... 25 points and inthe remaining states, the differences are small This brought out the interstate differentials in IMR and U5MR within the country However, there are four states (out of 29 states) ... from the composite wealth index using the PCA The cut off point of poor in is 26% in urban areas and 28% in rural areas This cut-off point is equivalent to the poverty estimates ofthe Planning...
... estimate ofthe outstanding global bond market size linked to key climate change themes, and examines future drivers and trends inthe short term In spite ofthe financial crisis, institutional investor ... funding of project finance transactions Basel III could discourage banks from holding longer-term loans on their balance sheets, prompting increasing costs, reductions inthe term of loans and introducing ... investors such as pension funds and insurance companies who need long-term fixed-income investments to match their liabilities Finally, institutional investors are extending the integration of...
... fisheries of northern Norway for cod, capelin and other fish appeared to go into decline after the opening ofthe country’s first whaling station inthe 1860s.19 Inthe early years ofthe twentieth ... “snapshots” ofthe abundance of different kinds of marine life there by visitors inthe 1500s and 1600s Among them were turtles in “inestimable numbers,” “an in nite number of them all over the sea”; ... and the increase ofthe fishing mortality to which they are subjected Summary view ofthe decline in populations of large predatory fishes inthe North Atlantic since 1950 36 Inflation plus 38 The...
... microfinance services and to make the best use of them in lifting their families out of poverty The last frontier inthe provision of microfinance to the world’s poorest people has been the remote ... there were no microfinance institutions in Ethiopia, the new government stepped in, setting the stage for the development of a microfinance sector that today is one ofthe largest in Africa In ... this made the people very poor They had no culture of producing something Taking a loan and doing something inthe form of business and repaying the money – this was not the culture ofthe community...
... The American Indian Health Commission of Washington StateThe Washington State Department of Health The Urban Indian Health Institute – Seattle Indian Health Board Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board The following served as editors, contributors, and provided drafting assistance: ... for Indian people in Washington. In Section III A, one ofthe priorities identified for theState Tribal‐Urban Indian Health Collaborative is to begin this work by raising awareness of urban Indian health issues. ... collection and reporting of data on the health status of urban Indians and their access to health care services; the adequacy ofthe Title V program for serving the health needs of urban Indians; and the changes needed inthe Medicaid ...
... processing the idiosyncrasy of Thai text and handling the tones interplaying with intonation are the topics that make the TTS algorithm for the Thai language differrent from others Inthe research, ... synthesis Most ofthe research in (1) done by the linguists are on the basic study of Thai phonetics e.g [13] In speech recognition, most ofthe current research [14] focus on the recognition of ... Word Extraction with the C4.5 Learning Algorithm In forthcoming Proceedings of COLING 2000 [2] V Sornlertlamvanich Word Segmentation for Thai in Machine Translation System Machine Translation National...
... sharply in this type of affair TWOS AND THREES One traditional way of referring to these kinds of affairs is in terms of "the eternal triangle" involving a married couple and the lover of one ofthe ... appearance of normality inthe face of apparently discrepant information It is here, perhaps, that we can link the idea ofthe secret with the idea ofthe dyad The lovers are wrapped up in each other ... flavorless marriage The heroine of Kate Chopin's story, The Awakening, begins to escape the narcotic monotony of her marriage by breaking habits of relating: Another time she would have gone in at his...
... they must prevent disclosure of anything other than the most routine information They have lost sight ofthe public nature of their role and the legitimate interest ofthe public inthe workings ... engaging inthe usual exercise of balancing the extent to which harm would be done to the public interest by the production ofthe documents against the extent to which the administration of justice ... government information, including freedom of information and associated laws; • access to information about proceedings inthe courts, including suppression orders and the use of contempt laws; • the...
... TheStateof Social Media Marketing Table of Contents Letter from the CEO Foreward Major Findings Key Finding #1 Key Finding #2 Key Finding #3 10 Key Finding #4 12 Key Finding #5 15 Key Finding ... the bell curve distribution of responses, which we believe supports the validity ofthe findings across company expertise levels TheStateof Social Media Marketing Major Findings MAJOR FINDINGS ... and the rest of marketing and 35% - the need for better integration between marketing and the rest ofthe business Top Areas of Social Marketing Investment: Presence, Content Publishing, and Integration...
... examines some ofthe phenomena shaping the lives of children in urban areas, from their reasons for moving to the city and their experience of migration to the challenges of getting by inthe ... as in a city Over the course of a decade, thestateofthe world’s urban children has worsened The number of people living in slums has increased by over 60 million These are mothers and fathers, ... Only in this way can we truly advance thestateof all the world’s children Children’s rights in urban settings 15 The Convention on the Rights ofthe Child The Convention on the Rights of the...
... and the knowledge of health professionals who care for them Executive Summary The mission ofthe Merck Institute of Aging & Health is to improve the health, independence and quality of life of ... achieve the national goals in reducing health risk behaviors To meet these goals, the Merck Institute of Aging & Health and the National Academy on an Aging Society, the policy institute ofThe Gerontological ... improving the health ofthe older population, the Report Card focuses on 10 modifiable factors that have the greatest potential to promote healthy aging SUMMARY OF FINDINGS: • The nation met of the...
... large-scale influx of poor households into the province, the percentage of informal dwellings inthe province increased from 15.1% in 2002 to 19.1% in 2006 This is proportionately higher than the increase ... warming, posing acute demands on the planning framework 25 We begin by examining the interrelationship between planning, population and politics and by defining the types of planning in which the ... ofthe country and is the southernmost part ofthe continent of Africa Before 1994, under the apartheid regime, it formed part ofthe Cape Province After 1994, the Cape Province was divided into...
... runs using an optimal threshold (box 3) for the experiment as determined by using the test set In all remaining experiments, we learn the threshold from the training set as inthe BASELINE system ... Klein 2007 Improved Inference for Unlexicalized Parsing In Proceedings ofthe Annual Meeting ofthe North American Chapter ofthe Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT/NAACL 2007) J Finkel, ... essentially asking our coreference resolver to determine whether each member of class C is coreferent with each of its preceding CEs We then count the number of unique correct/incorrect links that the system...
... first infectious clone of AAV serotype (AAV2) in 1982 [7] and the pioneering work on the successful cloning of AAV establishing the foundation of recombinant AAV vectors capable of expressing foreign ... advanced to the forefront of gene therapy inthe past decade The exponential progress of AAV-based vectors has been made possible by the advances inthe knowledge ofthe virology and biology of this ... 1980s, pioneering work on the successful cloning of AAV established the foundation of recombinant AAV vectors capable of expressing foreign genes in mammalian cells Since then, the AAV has been...
... first infectious clone of AAV serotype (AAV2) in 1982 [7] and the pioneering work on the successful cloning of AAV establishing the foundation of recombinant AAV vectors capable of expressing foreign ... advanced to the forefront of gene therapy inthe past decade The exponential progress of AAV-based vectors has been made possible by the advances inthe knowledge ofthe virology and biology of this ... 1980s, pioneering work on the successful cloning of AAV established the foundation of recombinant AAV vectors capable of expressing foreign genes in mammalian cells Since then, the AAV has been...
... due the fact that the increase in biomass negatively affected the growth and survival ofthe clams Inthe bigger stocking size (1.7 cm), the final production oftheclam was significant increased ... negatively The high value of percentage of biomass gained confirmed the stocking biomass was barrier ofclam development However, the increasing ofthe biomass gained as well as final production indicated ... constraint inthe development ofclam industry in Vietnam The main cost inclam culture is seed One ofthe objectives of this project is to develop clam hatchery technology and prepare the hatchery...
... that states how the inputs enter the linear combination yielding the output ofthe system It is called the direct link matrix and its size is s × r In many cases the inputs not enter the linear ... SYSTEMS Thestate equations of dynamic systems are often nonlinear The reasons for the presence of nonlinearities may differ, owing to the presence of elements behaving in an intrinsically nonlinear ... taken into account inthe expression ofthe kinetic energy ofthe vehicle Since the steering angle is small in normal vehicle use, the trigonometric functions of δ will be linearized when computing...