concluding remarks and policy recommendations

... definition, and that there are a lot of pieces missing in its puzzle, AI has managed to make impressive achievements: concepts and techniques like fuzzy logic and neural networks have been used and incorporated ... time, and it will take a lot of trial and error, and a lot of experimenting to make it mature This is exactly the stage where we are at now, so you can't expect agents to already be advanced and ... development, also for governments and many others who want the Internet (and all the information and services that are available through it) to be easily accessible and operable for all What many...

Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2013, 13:20

... strategy and transparent policy for the modernisation of the overall R&D policy system in Georgia and to formulate recommendations to improve Georgian legislative framework towards EU standards ... assurance of the quality and standards of their programmes and awards; should develop and implement a strategy for the continuous enhancement of quality The strategy, policy and procedures should ... proposed recommendations on the elaboration of a modern, coherent, and sustainable strategy for the reform of Georgian R&D policy system and for the improved management of the country’s research and...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 05:22

... state to a diseased state, and back There is a need to understand the onset and course of the aging disability process, and to identify the factors and pathways leading to and away from disability ... implications for later health and aging DevelopAsian standards for sarcopenia and BMI Sarcopenia is muscle atrophy during aging and is characterized by decreasing muscle mass and function In 2010, the ... research into policy actions is a long and difficult process in most countries In Malaysia, sources which significantly influence policy are local advocacy groups at the grassroots level and feedback...

Ngày tải lên: 23/09/2015, 14:47

... published widely on ocean and environmental law and policy, including Canada and Marine Environmental Protection (1995) and Oceans Law and Policy in the Post-UNCED Era: Australian and Canadian Perspectives ... addressing land-based pollution Regional sea agreements relevant to land-based pollution of the Arctic Arctic regional initiatives addressing land-based pollution and activities Challenges and future ... volumes, The International Law Commission and the Future of International Law (with M Anderson, A V Lowe and C Wickremasinghe, 1998) and International Law and Sustainable Development (with D Freestone,...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 10:58

... energy policy, poor design and construction of digesters, wrong operation and lack of maintenance by users, poor dissemination strategies, lack of project monitoring and followups by promoters, and ... Greater Accra region [11, 12, 13, 14 and 15] A total of nineteen fixed-dome digesters comprising six 15 m3 and two 30 m3 Deenbandhu digesters, and eight 10 m3 and three 25 m3 Chinese dome digesters ... difficult to engineer, construct and operate [23, 24 and 25] In Ghana, Tandem plants have been constructed to treat sewage by BTWAL, BCEL, IIR, and BCL Most common tandem digesters found in Ghana...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:10

... International Transactions and Position Data for Policy Coordination," in William H Branson, Jacob A Frenkel, and Morris Goldstein, eds International Policy Coordination and Exchange Rate Fluctuations ... domestic consumers pay less for foreign products Exchange Rates and Relative Prices Import and export demands, like the demands for all goods and services, are influenced by relative prices, such as ... cancer research, and government funds spent on highway repair and education Government transfer payments like social security 299 300 PART Exchange Rates and Open-Economy Macroeconomics and unemployment...

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 15:15

... between price-level and output changes over 1929-1935 The countries with the biggest deflations and output contractions include France, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Poland, all of which ... Greece 130 - tries such as France and Switzerland that stuck with the gold standard Latvia Netherlands 90 • Poland • # 80 Belgium 70 - Italy • • Germany # New Zealand • • Spain Austria * •U.S • ... domestic goods and services cheaper relative to those sold abroad and also increases demand and output The policymaker can hold output steady at its full employment level, Y1, through fiscal policy or...

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 15:15

... describes what the policy achieves and any instructions as to how to apply the policy, and even circumstances where you shouldn’t apply the policy The Group Policy Editor The Group Policy Editor (GPE) ... removal policy (which kicks in when policy is removed), and so on Click Apply and then OK when you are done 4667-8 ch11.f.qc 5/15/00 2:01 PM Page 411 Chapter 11 ✦ Change Control and Policy and Workspace ... discuss the science and philosophy of change control and management 4667-8 ch11.f.qc 5/15/00 2:01 PM Page 375 Chapter 11 ✦ Change Control and Policy and Workspace Management Understanding Change Management...

Ngày tải lên: 21/12/2013, 05:18

... where: MD is the total demand for money, M1 is the sum of transaction and precautionary demands and M2 is speculative demand In this schedule, transaction and precautionary demand depend only on the ... Money demand MD Total demand for money M1 Sum of transaction and precautionary demands (narrow money) M2 Speculative demand (broad money) tc Transaction costs r Interest rate M/P = rm Demand for ... demonstrated by Granger and Newbold (1974) and Plosser and Schwert (1978), Hafer and Hein (1980) and Gordon (1984b) showed that it is preferable to estimate a money demand function such as (1.14)...

Ngày tải lên: 18/01/2014, 02:01

... Monetary and Fiscal Policy Monetary Policy Fiscal Policy Policies to Maintain Full Employment Inflation Bias and Other Problems of Policy Formulation Permanent Shifts in Monetary and Fiscal Policy ... Competition and Strategic Trade Policy Case Study: When the Chips Were Up Globalization and Low-Wage Labor The Anti-Globalization Movement Trade and Wages Revisited Labor Standards and Trade Negotiations ... Swaps Future and Options The Demand for Foreign Currency Assets Assets and Asset Returns Risk and Liquidity Interest Rates Exchange Rates and Asset Returns ' A Simple Rule Return, Risk, and Liquidity...

Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2014, 11:20

... Monetary and Fiscal Policy Monetary Policy Fiscal Policy Policies to Maintain Full Employment Inflation Bias and Other Problems of Policy Formulation Permanent Shifts in Monetary and Fiscal Policy ... Competition and Strategic Trade Policy Case Study: When the Chips Were Up Globalization and Low-Wage Labor The Anti-Globalization Movement Trade and Wages Revisited Labor Standards and Trade Negotiations ... Swaps Future and Options The Demand for Foreign Currency Assets Assets and Asset Returns Risk and Liquidity Interest Rates Exchange Rates and Asset Returns ' A Simple Rule Return, Risk, and Liquidity...

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 08:20

... which the supply and demand curves are functions of the market price Normally Home supply and demand will depend on (he price in terms of Home currency, and Foreign supply and demand will depend ... import demand curve and the Foreign export supply curve, which are derived from the underlying domestic supply and demand curves Home import demand is the excess of what Home consumers demand over ... demand curve MD is downward sloping because as price increases, the quantity of imports demanded declines At PA, Home supply and demand are equal in the absence of trade, so the Home import demand...

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 08:20

... government itself, and they may be paid for in different ways Public policy must consider what producers and long-term care services offer the best value for money, and design the regulations and incentives ... independent, reasoned and relevant public policy research of the highest quality is its chief asset, and underpins the credibility and effectiveness of its work Independence and nonpartisanship ... review by academics and independent experts drawn from the public and private sectors The Institute’s peer review process ensures the quality, integrity and objectivity of its policy research The...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 18:20

... power and interests, and the consequences of the policy for each player Networks and coalitions should be examined as well • Opportunities and obstacles Analyse the contextual opportunities and ... contains a method for assessing the financial, educational and management systems and policy context, essential for strategic planning and policy development for human resources for health This tool ... developing and evaluating political strategies for influencing policy: • Policy Define and analyse the contents of the policy changes and reforms that are selected to address the problems identified...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 09:20

... Strong policy capacity, on the other hand, implies ‘(…) an understanding of cause and effect in the policymaking process which might assist innovation (…) enhanced by policy learning prior to and ... information, and experience across time and place’ and ‘is about the mobilization of ideas and expertise to identify problems and propose solutions’ (Hemerijck and Schludi 2000: 131) Therefore, for policy ... motivations of policy- makers leading to a distinction between policy- seeking’ and ‘power-seeking’ actors Policy- seeking is usually described as the motivation to have an impact on public policy, and is...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 20:20

... Stupak and Peter M Leitner 91 Handbook of Public Management Practice and Reform, edited by Kuotsai Tom Liou 93 Handbook of Crisis and Emergency Management, edited by Ali Farazmand 94 Handbook ... The Art and Practice of Court Administration, Alexander B Aikman 130 Handbook of Globalization, Governance, and Public Administration, edited by Ali Farazmand and Jack Pinkowski 131 Handbook ... L Garnett and Alexander Kouzmin 64 Public Budgeting and Finance: Fourth Edition, edited by Robert T Golembiewski and Jack Rabin 67 Handbook of Public Finance, edited by Fred Thompson and Mark...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 19:20

... example, and I have little time to write letters My neighbor publishes school-books, and he wishes to be sending off letters, recommendations, puffs, &c., by the hundred and by the thousand This ... post-office reform, and reduction of the rates of postage, there are not one thousandconsiderate and reflecting people, in the Union, who desire or demand anything of the kind “The commercial and mercantile ... classes have not desired ‘reform;’ and the rural and agricultural classes, the planters of the South, and the corn and wheat growers of the West, the mechanics and laboring classes, are not disposed...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 02:20

... investors, servicers, mortgage market participants, and credit and homeowners’ counselors encouraged by the Treasury Department and the Department of Housing and Urban Development Page of 32 October 15, ... Treasury/FHFA and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to ensure the GSEs positive net worth; 2) a new secured lending facility which will be available to Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Federal Home Loan Banks; and ... Federal Reserve Press Release The FOMC expands existing swap lines by $180 billion and authorizes new swap lines with the Bank of Japan, Bank of England, and Bank of Canada Page of 32 September...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 21:20

... exposure to O3, and to H2SO4 and HNO3 in acid rain), and human health (through inhalation) Also important are free radicals and atoms in two forms: very reactive species like O(1D) and OH, and less ... chemistry and climate submodel is in turn driven by the combination of these anthropogenic and natural emissions This submodel includes atmospheric and oceanic chemistry and circulation, and land hydrological ... results and improve public understanding of climate issues, thereby contributing to informed debate about the climate issue, the uncertainties, and the economic and social implications of policy...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 22:20

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Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 23:20