... paper provides a brief introduction to asset -based approachesto poverty reduction in a globalized context The aim is to show the added value of asset -based approaches, in terms of both better ... Asset -based research approaches Carter, May; Hoddinott ; Adato Asset -based assessments BASIS CRSP Tools to identify poverty traps Asset building Sherraden; Ford Foundation Asset building and community ... Georgetown University, Washington DC Amy Liu, Deputy Director, Metropolitan Policy, Brookings, Asset -based Approachesto Katrina Disaster and Reconstruction 34 Lilianne Fan, Advocacy Coordinator,...
... generation to the same, young women told us they want to work to build a better future for themselves and those around them We spoke to 50 young women in inner-city Winnipeg, Manitoba Located ... the community, and is guided by the community in a long term strategy toreduce poverty This research was developed with community workers who identified the need for more analysis on how to support ... they already access can start to work with young women as individuals to prepare them to enter into the waged economy If young women are to share equally in efforts toward CED, the gendered implications...
... baseline 2.2 Word -based approaches Word -based approachesto summarization are based on the idea that discourse segments are important if they contain “important” words Different approaches have ... was done to control for the effect of paragraph information on human sentence rankings 4.1 Materials for approaches the coherence -based In order to test the tree -based approach, we took coherence ... tree- and non-tree based In order to illustrate both data structures, consider (9) as an example: (9) Example text Susan wanted to buy some tomatoes She also tried to find some basil The basil would...
... she may be too lazy to enroll in a 401(k) when she really wants to, and she may just as well be too lazy to choose not to enroll when she has a very good reason not to enroll But regulators not ... reason represented her interests To assume otherwise—or worse, to act coercively on that assumption—would be to fail to respect her dignity and autonomy, and to treat her as less than a full ... order to align their actions with those of consumers and create the miracle of economic coordination that enables them to provide the desired shirt to a customer who happens to walk into a particular...
... Brookside's community history as told by its’ residents 336 Table 36 Sitio Pajo's community history as told by its’ residents 337 Table 37 PSHAI's community history as told ... Tagumpay's community history as told by its’ residents 338 Table 39 Sub-Urban's community history as told by its’ residents 338 Table 40 Masagana's community history as told by ... the development community and is leading to more purposeful efforts to incorporate adaptation responses into development initiatives One such response is Community- Based Adaptation to Climate Change...
... minimized non-specific binding of proteins to the glass surface, rendering it possible to eliminate the blocking step using BSA In addition, a novel fluorescence -based approach for quantitative detection ... antiphosphotyrosine antibodies was developed Due to its sensitivity, high specificity and the short incubation time needed to detect phosphorylation, this antibody -based approach presents obvious advantages ... site-specific immobilization of proteins is even more critical since their active site needs to be accessible to the substrates By arraying C-terminal biotinylated proteins on avidin functionalized...
... protein, which may interfere with proper folding of the protein.20 Furthermore, avidin is known to be toxic to cells, making the expression of avidin-fused proteins a difficult task.21 4.1.3 Intein-Mediated ... chemical synthesis The intein -based purification protocol has found wide applications in protein engineering where the expressed protein ligation (EPL) strategy is utilized to incorporate non coded ... sequences into a protein sequence (Figure 4.2 a).24,25 This strategy has been extended to modifications of proteins at their C-termini with a number of chemical tags.26 Recently, Tolbert et al...
... Chapter 3.1.2 Microarray -Based High Throughput Kinase Study More recently, peptide -based microarrays have also been developed for screening of kinase activity.9,10,11,12 Compared to the SPOT technology, ... ligand-receptor interaction and so on.13,14 However, the development of these technologies is still in its infancy since some issues remain to be addressed For efficient kinase assay to be performed, ... serious threat to human health.9,10 Furthermore, the long exposure time (usually hours to days) needed for sensitive detection of 32 P upon substrate phosphorylation does not lend itself to high-throughput...
... etched into the substrate in a dilute HF/NH4F bath Because the photoresist used to mask wet etches does not adhere well to glass, a sacrificial layer that adhere well to both glass and photoresist ... with sacrificial layer Photoresist Photoresist coated UV light photomask Photoresist exposed Photoresist and sacrificial layer removed in mask pattern Glass etched Photoresist and sacrificial ... positive photoresist is spin-coated on top of the substrate, and the channel design is transferred to the substrate using a photomask Following exposure and development of the photoresist, the...
... can efficiently be transferred to the microchip format in which case capillaries need to be derivatized to remove the electroosmotic flow to allow for efficient size based separation of nucleic ... techniques together with the separation step onto a single chip is not taken into account and often one or several of the steps are still performed off-chip Chapter 1.1.4 Limitations, Issues to Be ... organisms The goal is not simply to provide a catalogue of all the genes and information about their function, but to understand how the components work together to direct cells and organisms Among...
... how to evaluate and present corpus patterns to language learners; how to manage decontextualized data; and how to connect surface forms to meaning English subject curricula should take into account ... general corpora -based EFL textbooks, such as the volumes published in CUP’s Touchstone series (e.g McCarthy et al 2005) According to CUP’s promotional description for the series, Touchstone draws ... corpus -based approachesto language teaching (Wichmann et al 1997; Burnard and McEnery 2000; Granger et al 2002; Kettemann and Marko 2002; Aston et al 2004; O’Keefe et al 2007; Aijmer 2009, to name...
... things together) is believed Page of 15 toreduce stress in children (unpublished IDEFICS data) Based on face -to- face discussions with the intervention centres, it was therefore decided to address ... appeared to be a long process that needs to be done systematically Sufficient time, human resources and finances need to be planned in advance to be able to develop an intervention that is evidence -based ... local and relevant community members (local municipality, social services and welfare sector, private actors) had to be represented Special emphasis was placed on the inclusion of community members...
... Participatory research methods and community- based monitoring and evaluation efforts are important tools for communities to learn about and assume responsibility for these behaviors Ibid CommunityApproaches ... to get to the nearest health facility 10 CommunityApproachesto Child Health in Malawi management and supervision of health services by community committees, and collaboration on community- based ... cost-effective way to improve 15 CommunityApproachesto Child Health in Malawi community access to essential drugs and treatment Under the first project, DRF volunteers were community- based volunteers...
... price to encourage a switch to lower-fat milk, it may be possible to provide vouchers to mothers of young children to enable them to obtain it at the lower, pre-tax price This would be costly to ... reducing obesity will depend on the extent to which it encourages people toreduce consumption of fatty food, and the extent to which fatty foods and snacks have contributed to the rise in obesity ... to change production processes toreduce fat content in order toreduce the tax liability their products would face One possible argument in favour of the tax is that consumers are unlikely to...
... contributed to tobacco prevention and control, pricing policies for food may be more complex to implement a Compared to tobacco and alcohol, it is more difficult to identify specific foods on which to ... policies to nutrients than to particular types of foods; however, defining, identifying, and assessing special taxes and prices on them may be difficult and costly to implement In contrast to tobacco ... seen to actually giving food to patients (54) Thus, while food provision appears to result in short-term weight loss, the 15 What is known about the effectiveness of economic instruments to reduce...
... ETIOLOGY OF PEDIATRICOBESITYTo understand the epidemiology of childhood obesity in the US To review the underlying etiologies of childhood obesity EPIDEMIOLOGY AND ETIOLOGY To review the role ... the assessment OF PEDIATRICOBESITY and management of obesity in children THE EXPERT COMMITTEE CHILDHOOD OBESITY GUIDELINES THE 2007 2007 EXPERT COMMITTEE CHILDHOOD OBESITYTo become familiar ... recommendations GUIDELINES from the Expert Committee To learn how to assess obesityOBESITY identify obesity- related morbidities ORAL HEALTH AND risk and To know the specific eating and physical activity...
... the topic “Some solutions to protect and restore communitybased mangrove forest in Hau Loc, Thanh Hoa” to share experiences and discuss solutions to protect and restore the mangrove forest based ... and forest owners - District provides community with some fund to protect forest according to the law of the Government, to create opportunity for communityto participate in forest plantation ... transferred to local people In addition, there is a need to assist community in developing a forest management system based on communities It is necessary to expand this model into other regions,...
... mangrove forests Some pictures of damages by storm in 7/2005 Farmer was worry about storms Objectives of Community Forest Management Environmental objectives To increase the area of mangrove forest, ... social evils Improve awareness of communityto protect mangrove forest, protect the coastal landscape Strengthen agreement within the community, and contribute to retain security and defense Economical ... authorities, fish and sea food harvesters to discuss and comment on the plan to plant, tend and protect mangrove forests To mobilize participation of local people to promote their experience and creativeness...
... brings [Community- based participatory research] begins with a research topic of importance to the community with the aim of combining knowledge and action for social change to improve community ... methods of community- based research (CBR) and KTE; to compare the potential of CBR to link research evidence to action to those efforts more commonly discussed in the KTE literature; and to develop ... be used to determine strategic areas to help expand upon CBR to develop a strategy for communitybased KTE CBR provides several useful tools and strategies for linking research evidence to action...
... Charlotte Hispanic community; to develop a community- based intervention that positively impacts the chosen condition and improves overall community health; and to disseminate findings to all stakeholders ... between community members and health providers An essential step to achieve these goals is the use of community- based participatory research (CBPR) within a practice -based research network (PBRN) to ... tools can also be used effectively to evaluate patterns of healthcare access and to define community service areas [39] GIS models of provider penetration into a community are robust enough to...