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... The financial year is not standardized and varies in keeping with the foundation date of each village bank An example of an actual annual financial report, by the village bank of Phaksapkau, is ... as a condition for receiving a loan or as collateral for a loan either as a percentage of the loan or as a nominal amount” (Art 2) As no loans are given by village banks in Vientiane Capital ... Phattana Savannakhet SCU Paksong Savannakhet SCU Huasae Chaleunouaxe Champasak 10 SCU Thoulakhom Vientiane Prov 11 SCU Mittaphap Vientiane Capital Performance of regulated MFIs Among eight MFIs21 for...

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... effects of climate change IAEA water resource projects are in operation in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America, addressing a variety of groundwater and surface water resource challenges For example, ... similar to traditional sunflower oil and l therefore suitable for human consumption Linola accounts for about 10% of all flax/linseed grown in Canada, a major flax producer GHANA — Cassava variety ... Goals — HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria — in 2017, according to the World Health Organization Nuclear Technology for a SUSTAINABLE FUTURE | A SAFE OPERATING SPACE FOR HUMANITY Humans have...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 22:20

... underlying basis is a theory of causal relationship among a set of variables relevant to the analyst Theoretical models of these causal relationships are mathematically formalised and then can either ... respect to past data and analysis of a system’s internal relationships A model is an abstract representation of a system, described through a series of causal links and "accounting" identities among ... use patterns and related assumptions (particularly those related to trends in global forest areas) are of significant importance in these scenarios: although in most of cases forest areas are assumed...

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... inflation in the years since 1982 The dramatic decline in inflation began at a time when many were forecasting that high inflation was a permanent part of America’s future The disinflation also ... savings accounts of the 1970s and earlier The many options available today can substantially increase an individual’s wealth and enhance retirement However, the new options also can mean more ... requires a disproportionate amount of resources for financial support, health care, and assistance with the activities of daily living Where Will the Wave Take Us? An aging population has consequences...

Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2014, 10:57

... affordable housing programs mainly in Latin America and Asia • Over 27,000 families have benefitted from affordable housing schemes A model affordable home being constructed in Nagarote, Nicaragua ... 2010 Promotion of sustainable construction through the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction • Platform to promote sustainable construction • Activities include: Holcim Awards competitions, ... from the Singapore Environment Council  Holcim Canada: - Material recycling (earth, concrete, asphalt) broadens offer range - Offers solutions to meet rapidly increasing demand for LEED certified...

Ngày tải lên: 26/07/2014, 21:43

... Osaka Cairo Karachi Shanghai Dhaka Mumbai Kolkata Manila Lagos Los Angeles Mexico City Jakarta Rio de Janeiro São Paulo Buenos Aires Served by Holcim today Cities with over 10 million inhabitants ... governance The business place Environmental performance Social performance At local level: Half of all Group companies have community advisory panels out of 10 conduct stakeholder dialogue A majority ... Holcim Ltd/Switzerland Safety at work is of paramount importance Vision, strategy & governance The business place Environmental performance Social performance Health and safety are vital to business...

Ngày tải lên: 26/07/2014, 22:16

... record and sustainability performance as a sales draw “We realised that we had an advantage and needed to sell it,” he says “Sales and marketing is being affected the most.” Sales and marketing ... quickly “Change management”, says Professor Kanter, “is a very broad term for a lot of different activities that are all a part of leadership” Such leadership will, as ever, be essential as business ... Leaders of change Companies prepare for a stronger future Change management in practice: a focus on sustainability The requirements of successful change management are often described in broad...

Ngày tải lên: 06/12/2015, 23:04

... DOING WHAT YOU LIKE One of the greatest advantages of solitude is freedom to what you desire You can read for as long as you want, watch that TV documentary about space without having to fight for ... heading in terms of your relationships, career, and spiritual evolution If you spend at least a half an hour each day looking back at the previous day and analyzing how you lived it, you’ll gain ... have to just sit there and contemplate? No, not at all! There are many activities you can engage in while you're alone 12 THE IMPORTANCE OF SOLITUDE FOR A BALANCED LIFE Here are some great activities...

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 18:20

... paper [BMR2] The main result is obtained for a regular Harish-Chandra central character, and the most interesting case is that of an integral Harish-Chandra central character; integral regular ... Azumaya ∗ algebras DX and τν (DX ) are canonically equivalent Proof Recall that to establish an equivalence between two Azumaya algebras A, A on a scheme Y (i.e an equivalence between their categories ... 0) Proof One of the characterizations of Azumaya algebras is that they are coherent as O-modules and become matrix algebras on a flat cover [MI] The map T ∗,1 X→T ∗ X (1) is faithfully flat; i.e.,...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 06:20

... Car Plan for a Greener Future aims to The automotive sector is a cornerstone of Australian manufacturing Australia is one of only about fifteen nations in the world today that can create a car ... million Australians and accounts for a tenth of our GDP We can’t have a balanced economy without it – and we can’t have a just society without it either Manufacturing is the mainstay of families and ... Agreed to assess proposals against a mix of quantitative and qualitative aspects Commercial application of technology should be a mandatory criterion 27 All organisations and individuals should...

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... Mortgage Saver / HeadStart / EasiSaver Accounts Not available for new applicants Available online All balances Instant Access Account e0.01 - e50,000 e50,000.01 + Gross*% 2.50 1.00 Regular Saver ... sites Annual Equivalent Rate (AER) illustrates what the interest would be if interest was paid and compounded each year Our AER calculation assumes that the account is held for a year and that the ... Gross Rate is the daily interest accrual rate AER (Annual Equivalent Rate) illustrates what the interest would be if interest was paid and compounded each year Our Annual Equivalent Rate (AER) calculation...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 01:20

... Annals of Mathematics, 162 (2005), 1377–1389 Formation of singularities for a transport equation with nonlocal velocity ´ ´ By Antonio Cordoba∗ , Diego Cordoba∗∗ , and Marco A Fontelos∗∗ * Abstract ... existence of singularities for the 1D analog (1.6) The system (1.4) and (1.5) with σ = has the very interesting property of being ill-posed for general initial data A linear analysis of small perturbations ... Constantin, P Lax, and A Majda, A simple one-dimensional model for the three dimensional vorticity, Comm Pure Appl Math 38 (1985), 715–724 FORMATION OF SINGULARITIES FOR A TRANSPORT EQUATION...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 07:20

... body fat and lean mass This has been shown to detect a range of 5–30% body fat mass with a correlation of 0.98 to values obtained by chemical analysis [49] The machine was calibrated before performing ... weight gain and weight loss Whether these elements form part of the cause of metabolic dysfunction leading to the accumulation of fat mass remains to be determined Available epidemiological data addressing ... formation in various tissues (lung adenocarcinoma, lymphoreticular tumours, hepatomas, mammary adenocarcinomas) [17] B [a] P has also been shown to display immunotoxic properties that affect macrophage...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 11:20

... source of o r ce ource of your raw materials? a eria ater als UPA - World Usability Day Title: Designing for a Sustainable World Author: Timothy Allan Keywords: Life Cycle Thinking, Sustainable ... environmental al l performance? Do you e? o y ? track the source of urce of r ce your raw materials? ter als eria s UPA - World Usability Day Title: Designing for a Sustainable World Author: Timothy Allan ... product/as life cycle and an a lyse the Competitors Assess your products environmental impact s to create a environmental performance against benchmark leading products and brands locus research UPA...

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 17:32

... Mean and Variance adjusted) which applies pair-wise missing data analysis using all individuals with observations for all possible pairs of variables in the data Individuals with partial data are ... extracted from the BWHHS database and recoded into binary categorical variables This model derived from the BWHHS data was replicated using data from the “usual care” arm of a large Kamaruzzaman ... was assessed using data that was only available in the MRC assessment study As there was no violation of the proportional hazards assumption in the BWHHS dataset, the hazard ratio for all cause...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... Messaoudi, SA, Tatar, N-E: Exponential and polynomial decay for a quasilinear viscoelastic problem Nonlinear Anal 68, 785–793 (2007) Messaoudi, SA: General decay of solutions of a viscoelastic ... for b = and b = and for a wider class of relaxation functions He established a more general decay result, for which the usual exponential and polynomial decay results are just special cases For ... sponsored for scientific innovation research of college graduate in Jangsu Province Grant No 181200000649 Author details Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory for Numerical Simulation of Large Scale Complex...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 00:20

... Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, P R China ∗ Corresponding author: wang-fanglei@hotmail.com Email address: YA: anykna@nuaa.edu.cn Abstract This article is concerned ... Existence and multiplicity of solutions for a fourth-order elliptic equation Fanglei Wang∗1 and Yukun An2 College Department of Science, Hohai University, Nanjing, 210098, P R China of Mathematics, Nanjing ... continuous and f has subcritical growth, the above functional is of class C in H We shall apply the famous mountain pass theorem to show the existence of a nontrivial critical point of functional I(u)...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 17:20

... p(x)-Laplacian, and becomes pLaplacian when p(x) ≡ p (a constant) The p(x)-Laplacian possesses more complicated nonlinearities than the p-Laplacian; for example, it is inhomogeneous The study of various ... thermo-rheological viscous flows of non-Newtonian fluids and in the mathematical description of the processes filtration of an ideal baro-tropic gas through a porous medium [3, 4] Another field of application of ... of the study, and participated in its design and coordination and helped to draft the manuscript RM participated in the design of the study All authors read and approved the final manuscript Acknowledgement...

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