... Third-party evaluation confirms that outcomes have been achieved before investors can be paid • Concept is relatively new and New York City will be the first in the nation to implement this innovative financing ... grant to MDRC to guarantee a portion of the investment; • MDRC oversees the day -to- day implementation of the project and manages the Osborne Association and Friends of Island Academy, the two ... providers that deliver the intervention; • The Vera Institute of Justice, an independent evaluator, determines whether the project achieves the targeted reductions in reincarceration; • The Department...
Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 13:20
... relationships and repeated transactions (Sharpe, 1997) However, even in the presence of small switching costs, the theory predicts that the smaller the proportion of customers that are new to the ... greater than the increase in the market interest rate to compensate for the decrease in the probability of repayment At some interest rate banks will not be able to increase the interest rate ... administrated to be zero Turning to Chart 1b, the maturity of the instruments also plays prima facie a role in determining the level of bank lending rates: the lower the maturity the higher the level...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 14:20
Consultation on Improving Access to Health Worker at the Frontline for Better Maternal and Child Survival pptx
... committees monitor, investigate, enquire into and make recommendations relating to any aspect of the legislative programme, budget, rationalization, policy formulation or any other matter it may ... delivery What the DRC had done was to work towards: One health sector strategy to reduce fragmentation One National Health Sector Strategic Plan to align partner interventions One M&E framework to reduce ... behalf of the countries Each of them appreciated the efforts put into organising and holding the Consultation, and all shared the hope that the outcomes of the Consultation would help drive the agenda...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 06:20
Báo cáo y học: "The genomic response to 20-hydroxyecdysone at the onset of Drosophila metamorphosis" ppsx
... depicted on the bottom The numbers at the top indicate hours relative to pupariation, with green bars representing the peaks of 20E titer A high titer pulse of 20E at the end of the third larval ... and the key Toll effector gene spätzle as downregulated at the onset of metamorphosis in a EcR-dependent manner, suggesting that central regulators of the Toll-mediated immune response pathway ... reflecting their normal coordinate downregulation at puparium formation (Figure 3b), and demonstrating that this response is mediated by EcR Within the 87 genes that overlap between the downregulated...
Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 15:20
Báo cáo khoa học: New insights into Fragile X syndrome Relating genotype to phenotype at the molecular level docx
... indicating that the effect of the mutation is not to completely unfold the protein The wild-type KH1-KH2 construct displays a cooperative and reversible (data not shown) chemical denaturation ... interaction in the cocrystal structure of the KH3 domain of NOVA bound to an in vitro selected RNA [17,18] Yet another hypothesis is that the I304N mutation causes FMRP to associate into ribonuclear ... to be a result of local perturbations in the vicinity of the introduced mutation, with the overall fold conserved The data presented here represent the first biophysical characterizations of the...
Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 15:20
Báo cáo y học: " An open letter to George M Philip, President of the State University of New York At Al" potx
... and hid himself in the leaves The other, being too far behind, threw himself flat down on the ground, with his face in the dust The bear came up to him, put his muzzle close to the man’s ear, and ... sniffed But at last with a growl the bear slouched off, for bears will not touch dead meat Then the fellow in the tree came down to his companion, and, laughing, said ‘What was it that the bear ... by Aesop of the Travelers and the Bear: two men were walking together through the woods, when a bear rushed out at them One of the travelers happened to be in front, and he grabbed the branch...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 22:23
A study on possible effective pre-reading activities to improve reading skills for 2nd- year english majors at the military science academy
... only to know how to read, to master the symbols, the sound, the language, the grammar etc, that used in the text but also to understand the ideas, the information expressed in that text or to develop ... explain that there is no time for these activities, and that their students’ level is already at the intermediate, they understand thoroughly what they have to do, and that there is no need to waste ... work and what they when they read They have to learn how to carry on a dialogue with the text The last thing for them to is learning not to cheat oneself, students who not want to learn to read...
Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:50
An action research on the use of continuous feedback to improve the first year students' pronunciation at the english department, college of foreign languages, vietnam national university, hanoi part 1
... beat them at the noble art of queuing The British actually look forward to spending their weekends in a queue, waiting for a shop to open or waiting for a parking space at the furniture superstore ... pairs and discuss the following topic (Students picked up one among the topics given) The best way to travel is by bicycle To what extend you agree with this statement? Money is the most important ... week d There was no pronunciation lesson but the teacher taught the pronunciation of new words and corrected students’ pronunciation mistakes during the lesson (If yes, how long approximately?...
Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:58
An action research on the use of continuous feedback to improve the first year students' pronunciation at the english department, college of foreign languages, vietnam national university, hanoi part 2
... to their surprise, they passed it The truth was that they passed the exam thanks to their exceptionally high marks in mathematics and literature rather than in English Question 5-8: Pronunciation ... who read the passage for the students to the exercises There was no cassette or CD player to assist the students Only 35% of the students said that they were allowed to listen to authentic English ... of others Intonation is such a sensitive issue that it involves practice rather than theory Therefore, it is always necessary to have a certain context to decide what words to stress and how to...
Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:58
Improving the factors to enhance sales activities at the website www.khoadaotao.vn
... customers of the website www.khoadaotao.vn,; therefore, the salespeople should be define the customers by seeking the information related to the them to have the understanding about the customer they ... the opinions about the services When the customer raises any question about the service, the salesperson will make the adjustment to balance the expectation of the customer and the right of the ... the customers often use the services of the website one time and not keep their use in the second time The sales force often fails to convince the customers to repeat the businesses because the...
Ngày tải lên: 22/08/2013, 15:48
TEACHING PRONUNCIATION TO THE FIRST YEAR STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATIONS a CASE STUDY
... illustrates the need to integrate pronunciation with communicative activities; to give the student situations to develop their pronunciation by listening and speaking The current research and the ... will be able to imitate the new sound, but if they cannot then the teacher needs to be able to give some hints which may help them to make the new sounds 1.6.3 Providing feedback Both the above ... pronunciation teaching in the context, specifying the shortcomings and then making suggestions to improve the teaching of pronunciation Aims of the study The aim of the study was to investigate how the...
Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:45
The effects of bottom up techniques in teaching listening skills to first year students at the university of fire fighting and prevention
... Literature review To provide a theoretical background to the study, this chapter is devoted to the reexamination of the concepts most relevant to the thesis’s topic Firstly, an account of the theory ... and their spoken forms As students listen, they usually apply the skills, the same uses in listening in their mother tongue, predict what they will hear and try to match them with the things they ... (1989) indicates that the attention should be given to the following factors in selecting postlistening activities: • the amount of language work the teacher wish to in relation to the particular...
Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:48
An integration of the four english skills in teaching reading texts to beginner learners at asemlink international language centre
... focus to another, now adopting a top-down approach to predict probable meaning, then moving to bottom-up approach to check whether that is really what the writer says” ( Nuttall 1996: 17) 2.2 The ... confident in their communication As a result, they will communicate more naturally In their real life, they can communicate naturally bacause they have already met the situation in their real learning ... And then they can understand the whole part of the reading The readers have to go from the smallest part to the larger one Rebecca Treiman has found out that : “Bottom-up processes are those that...
Ngày tải lên: 18/12/2013, 10:08
An investigation into the use of communicative activities in teaching english speaking to 10th graders at upper secondary schools in nghe an luận văn thạc sĩ giáo dục học
... opportunities to show oral communicative competence which reflects their ability to initiate conversations, to nominate topics, to ask questions, to control the conversations, and to change the subject ... shy of the attention that their speech attracts Nothing to say: Learners often complain that they cannot think of anything to say, or that they have no motive to express themselves beyond the guilty ... tend to use mother tongue because it is easier Moreover, they feel unnatural to speak to one another in a foreign language and because they feel less “exposed” if they are speaking their mother tongue...
Ngày tải lên: 18/12/2013, 10:08
Tài liệu New York Times - Looking Back At The Crash Of 1929Pdf doc
... that the board had reviewed the credit situation to determine whether the time had come to lower the rediscount rate to ease credit for business ventures The board has hesitated to act on the ... members of the board relative to the government's position Late in the day the board was reported to be awaiting a report from a meeting of the directorate of the New York Federal Reserve Bank The report ... announced at midday at the time of the first meeting of the banking group According to the announcement the institutions participating in the group, together with other leading banks of the city,...
Ngày tải lên: 21/12/2013, 01:20
Tài liệu The New Generation of Microsoft Certifications: What’s at the Core? pdf
... went back to the drawing board and created the latest generation of certifications based on industry and customer feedback with the goal of making them more targeted, relevant to the latest technologies, ... suite of certifications So, what are these all about and why is there a new generation of credentials? One of the problems today is that there are an abundance of credentials in the IT world, making ... What’s It All About? Focused and Flexible One of the positive changes to the new program is building certifications to reflect specific and well-understood job roles within organizations The new...
Ngày tải lên: 17/01/2014, 06:20
Tài liệu The New Generation of Microsoft Certifications: What’s at the Core? pptx
... went back to the drawing board and created the latest generation of certifications based on industry and customer feedback with the goal of making them more targeted, relevant to the latest technologies, ... suite of certifications So, what are these all about and why is there a new generation of credentials? One of the problems today is that there are an abundance of credentials in the IT world, making ... What’s It All About? Focused and Flexible One of the positive changes to the new program is building certifications to reflect specific and well-understood job roles within organizations The new...
Ngày tải lên: 17/01/2014, 09:20