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... Kenya Uganda Iceland Rwanda Niger Costa Rica Viet Nam Pakistan Ghana Nicaragua Zambia Nigeria Nepal South Africa Benin Namibia Honduras Côte d'Ivoire Burkina Faso Togo Lesotho India Oman Indonesia ... Seychelles Cambodia Singapore Ireland Iceland Ukraine Turkey Venezuela Georgia Russia Myanmar Botswana Hong Kong SAR Sudan Equatorial Guinea Antigua Barbuda Dominican Rep Belarus Slovak Republic Bahamas, ... countries, and this has led to sharp depreciation 100 Poland Turkey Hungary Serbia Burundi Kiribati Australia Zambia Sweden Romania UK Pakistan Lesotho Swaziland Korea South Africa Iceland Ukraine Senegal...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 21:20

... Thus, a major goal for system designers is make these copy operations run as fast as possible Because of physical laws, larger storage devices are slower than smaller storage devices And faster ... is identified by a unique number, known as its address, and the set of all possible addresses is known as the virtual address space As indicated by its name, this virtual address space is just ... Stallman The result was a family of standards, known as the Posix standards, that cover such issues as the C language interface for Unix system calls, shell programs and utilities, threads, and...

Ngày tải lên: 04/09/2013, 22:05

... f S hang hai OTHERS Citic Ka Wah Bank Bank Mandiri Bank Ce ntral As ia S ing apo re S to c k Exc hang e Citibank in As ia Pac ific ING in As ia Pac ific China Life – DCC SOUTH EAST ASIA HuaXia ... 1979 Asia emerging countries • • • • Pakistan Bangladesh Sri Lanka Cambodia Brunei Nepal Maldives Laos Singapore, 1970 APJ HQ Australia 1967 Copyright ©2003 HP corporate presentation All rights ... and regional basis Business needs HP solution Business benefits Realignment of business processes through leveraging of IT implementation • Provide domestic and international customers and partners...

Ngày tải lên: 15/01/2014, 15:59

... is identified by a unique number, known as its address, and the set of all possible addresses is known as the virtual address space As indicated by its name, this virtual address space is just ... dubbed “Posix” by Richard Stallman The result was a family of standards, known as the Posix standards, that cover such issues as the C language interface for Unix system calls, shell programs and utilities, ... invoking a special function known as a system call that pass control to the operating system The operating system saves the shell s context, creates a new hello process and its context, and then passes...

Ngày tải lên: 19/01/2014, 18:20

... Thus, a major goal for system designers is make these copy operations run as fast as possible Because of physical laws, larger storage devices are slower than smaller storage devices And faster ... bytes in a word (the word size) is a fundamental system parameter that varies across systems For example, Intel Pentium systems have a word size of bytes, while serverclass systems such as Intel ... situations C pointers are a common source of confusion and programming errors C also lacks explicit support for useful abstractions such as classes and objects Newer languages such as C++ and Java...

Ngày tải lên: 19/01/2014, 18:20

... 14.50 Aaa/AAA/AAA Italy Sep 2014 Feb 2004 14.50 Aa2/AA-/AA France July 2015 Nov 2004 9.27 Aaa/AAA/AAA Germany Apr 2016 Mar 2006 5.50 Aaa/AAA/AAA France July 2020 Jan 2004 8.72 Aaa/AAA/AAA Greece ... Amount outstanding (EUR billions) Ratings Moody 's/ S&P/Fitch Italy Sep 2008 Sep 2003 13.40 Aa2/AA-/AA France July 2010 Apr 2006 3.30 Aaa/AAA/AAA Italy Sep 2010 Sep 2004 12.80 Aa2/AA-/AA France July ... less liquid than nominal bonds remains Similar observations are made in other mature markets where inflation-linked bonds are issued See for example also Sack and Elsasser (2004) ECB Occasional...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 02:20

... interactions between its components and is usually formulated using some diagramming technique such as causal loop diagrams or stock and flow diagrams (Sterman, 2000; Maani and Cavana, 2000) A causal ... causal loop diagram (and also a stock and flow diagram, which is an extension of a causal loop diagram) consists of a number of variables and causal relations between them A variable either describes ... calls a ‘hard’ approach to systems thinking According to Maani and Cavana (2000), in the ‘hard’ approaches the systems model is seen as a representation of the real world Further assumptions are...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 07:20

... a set of salaries, since several employees may have the same salary; an indexed set ensures that each employee 's salary is counted separately As a first approximation, Chat treats plural definite ... fit an existing database Rather the database should be designed to meet the needs of NL access If the database does not easily support the kind of NL queries the user wants to ask, it is probably ... a database rather than a linguistic issue, and to highlight the limitations of traditional databases, where all facts have to be stored explicitly Queries concerning time instants and intervals...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 20:20

... necessary and final analyses Fisher s exact Chi-squared test was used to examine associations of factors A p ≤ 0.05 was considered significant Methods Study design and population National Guidelines ... A sample of 105 respondents was randomly selected from the sampling frame The sample size was calculated using Epi Info 3.5.1 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA) Based ... individuals at all levels of the health care delivery system [4] Assessing access to quality of healthcare service delivery is complex and multidimensional and will depend on several aspects that are...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20

... differences apart – banking markets generally operate in a spatial vacuum Financial geographic analyses address specific areas such as investment or venture capitalists and their spatial distribution ... geographical area, they can also be bound to a non-spatial social context such as a business association In his functional area concept, CAMAGNI also separates geographical from socio-cultural proximity, ... countries Geographical overlap between savings banks’ business areas and administrative regions Savings bank returns and the regional economic situation in all savings bank areas in Germany (1999-2003)...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 10:20

... compared to the selfish case This is due to the fact that in the Stackelberg approach, operators take into account other operators’ strategies whereas in the selfish case, operators behave carelessly ... D P Palomar, and S Barbarossa, “Optimal linear precoding strategies for wideband noncooperative systems based on game theory—part I: nash equilibria,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, ... Scutari, D P Palomar, and S Barbarossa, “Optimal linear precoding strategies for wideband non-cooperative systems based on game theory—part II: algorithms,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing,...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 20:20

... twice a day achieves significantly longer progression-free survival [5] Two small retrospective studies have suggested that neoadjuvant Imatinib therapy may have a role in advanced GIST and have suggested ... 7, SD Inter N /A: No histological diagnosis available *: Metastatic disease **: locally advanced #: Imatinib was commenced years after the operation when patient was found to have recurrence SD: ... Discussion The role of surgery may need redefining in such patients This cohort of patients showed a significant variation in presentation and wide range of disease stages at presentation Most...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:21

... counter-regulation of spinal glial activation, PTX-sensitive Gi/o protein-mediated and MAP kinase-mediated signal pathways, and downstream processes [36] Self- appraisal The brain modulates processes involved ... area, locus coeruleus, accumbens nucleus, nucleus submedius, caudate nucleus, habenular nucleus, septal area and amygdale [33-37] These areas are also involved in emotional and reward processes ... and therefore led to false negative results Systematic reviews (e.g Cochrane studies) and meta-analyses based on the RCTs with false negative results may wrongly conclude that acupuncture has...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 15:21

... addition, the distinguishing features among proverbs, idioms, sayings, conventional phrases and phrasal verbs are also noted Meanings of proverbs are no less important so as to use proverbs appropriately ... tiền.) A woman who is married is like an employee who has a severe boss So is a married man The following two proverbs have proved that: “She that has a husband has a master.”; “He that has a wife ... meanings, or their purpose is to draw a lesson, and they are somehow more tightly associated with cultural discourse A saying is a well-known short statement, or a remark that expresses an idea...

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2015, 14:19

... semantics studies much of the area traditionally devoted to pragmatics as well as semantics As a matter of fact, Talmy (2000) states that cognitive semantics sees language meaning as a manifestation ... contrastive analysis is incorporated as a tool to investigate potential Vietnamese equivalents of the English in As James emphasized in his book (1980) that contrastive analysis plays an important ... metaphorical mappings and image schema transformation) demonstrating a natural and systematic organization of related senses 1.4.4 Polysemy and Spatial Prepositions Polysemy, according to Taylor...

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2015, 14:22

... has contributed more to the understanding of conversation than Discourse Analysis has, as a conversation has to be seen rather as an interactional product - as claimed by Conversation Analysis ... Conversation Analysis perspective as the examination of the organization of conversation and not of conversation as a kind of sentence, is the aim of this paper Also, Conversation Analysis certainly ... conversations were started within three rings and helped maintain the customer s eagerness and enthusiasm towards the call whereas nearly all customers when being asked said that they absolutely want...

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2015, 14:29

... expressions Language is also a system of signs that have a cultural value Speakers identify themselves and others through their use of language; they view their language as a symbol of their social identity ... conversation analysis has been closely linked to the analysis of telephone conversations Conversation analysis focuses on the common, everyday competencies that make everyday social interaction possible ... conversations so that identification from the voice sample aloe is “preferred.” If a name is given, a first name rather than first and last name is “preferred.” It appears that the less information...

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2015, 14:37

... so, what are the effects of those adaptations? In attempt to seek answers to these questions from discourse analysis perspective, this study focuses on one aspect of the programme: the judges’ ... this case, a disagreement is often considered a face-threatening action, which may damage both the speaker s and the listener s face because “depriving others’ face simultaneously damages one s ... for some particular examples, comments on lexicogrammatical features would be given to support the findings at the discoursal level A qualitative discourse analysis of some selected extracts was...

Ngày tải lên: 24/06/2015, 08:18

... the most evident cross-cultural differences In a subsequent phase, systematic comparison across languages was carried out by a quantitative analysis based on the core sequences framework presented ... conversations and also taught the conversational structures and options as well as formulaic expressions Telephone call openings represent an ideal object of study for cross-cultural pragmatics research ... differences in the ways particular activities are carried out and signaled Using Conversation Analysis (CA) as the methodology, this study illustrates the cultural characteristics of the format and...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2015, 19:52

... identification (RFID) possesses many of the above characteristics, thus making it a suitable candidate for analysis from a real options perspective 1.4 Research Questions There exists an established ... financial, technical and operational challenges may make it infeasible for many organizations, especially those whose supply chains are not rationalized and standardized (Asif and Mandviwalla ... element such as a coiled antenna that can communicate with the reader via radio frequency waves (Agarwal 2001) The tags can be active, passive or semi-passive Active tags possess their own power supply...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 09:02