learning from civil society initiatives

... amanuensis Rabbi Judah the Prince (c 135–217 AD) said, ‘Much have I learnt from my teachers, more from my colleagues and most of all from my students’ I not always name the products made on the plants ... responsible Many of these demands have come from people and publications that have shown sympathy for thieves, vandals and other lawbreakers We should Learning from Accidents understand, they say, the ... recommendations from other works and departments In particular, design departments should have a procedure for making sure that they consider recommendations made by the works 10 • • • Learning from Accidents...

Ngày tải lên: 04/06/2014, 13:21

... the scene Construction overview Influential reports Recommendations from professional bodies Learning from case studies Learning from project failures 10 Relevant observation 11 Conclusion 11 Questions ... record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Potts, Keith F Construction cost management: learning from case studies / Keith Potts ... www.tandf.co.uk/builtenvironment Alternatively our books are available from all good bookshops Construction Cost Management Learning from case studies Keith Potts First published 2008 by Taylor & Francis...

Ngày tải lên: 17/08/2013, 10:57

... nothing to with them and that their ideas have not been wanted Learning from the project 201 Example 17.1 Lessons for the organization from a project The project manager of a project that had required ... conditions from which the lessons had been drawn, and spent time in agreeing how to avoid these and similar pitfalls in future project working One of the problems with identifying learning from a ... still be effective, sometimes with people in each team Learning from the project 203 pairing up and also with the whole team working with the learning whole team When projects have been successful...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 08:20

... dependency path from the nearest verb to the year expression The following snippet will include the feature, ‘expected prep in pobj 2002’ http://nlp.stanford.edu/software 101 Finance Article from Jan ... Using the Verb Path example above, the bigram feature Hu Jintao is included Learning Time Constraints This section departs from the above document classifiers and instead classifies individual emphyear ... must not include duplicates from the test set We adopt the intuition behind the experimental setup used in other NLP domains, like parsing, where the entire test set is from a contiguous section...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 18:20

... “Dialogue on Civil Society Engagement in Public Accountability.”3 The conference brought together representatives of civil society organizations and officials from public audit institutions from six ... collaboration between civil society groups and auditors The different degrees of collaboration between auditors and civil society organizations can be classified into three categories Civil society organizations ... institutions and civil society This may influence donors to direct funding towards civil society activities designed to audit governments and to collaborate with audit institutions Finally, civil society...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 20:20

... www.it-ebooks.info Learning from jQuery Callum Macrae www.it-ebooks.info Learning from jQuery by Callum Macrae Copyright © 2013 Callum Macrae All ... Nutshell Handbook logo, and the O’Reilly logo are registered trademarks of O’Reilly Media, Inc Learning from jQuery, the image of a green broadbill, and related trade dress are trademarks of O’Reilly ... writing a program that uses several chunks of code from this book does not require permission Selling or distributing a CD-ROM of examples from O’Reilly books does require permission Answering...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 00:20

... of semantic class learning, under a variety of different names and with a variety of different goals Given the great deal of similar work in information extraction and ontology learning, we focus ... web Several techniques for semantic class induction have also been developed specifically for learning from the web (Pasca, 2004) uses Hearst’s pat¸ terns (Hearst, 1992) to learn semantic class ... web pages 3 Semantic Class Learning with Hyponym Pattern Linkage Graphs 3.1 A Doubly-Anchored Hyponym Pattern Our work was motivated by early research on hyponym learning (Hearst, 1992), which...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 02:20

... out-of-favor nobody will touch them He stays away from the buzz-generators As a “life-long technophobe” (as he confesses on the Berkshire website), he stayed away from the high-tech companies when they ... shutting down Or an accounting “mistake.” Some investors like to see margins improve from quarter to quarter, or at least from year to year That’s important if operational margins are below 15% It’s ... we’d choose a car everybody hates And, being the cautious buyers we are, we’d look only for a car from a manufacturer with a reputation for making quality vehicles that last If we play our cards...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 03:20

... a new transfer learning method to fuse the information from multiple pyramid levels and different types of features ADAPTIVE MULTIPLE KERNEL LEARNING Following the terminology from prior literature, ... Differences from Related Learning Work A-SVM [50] assumes that the target classifier f T ðxÞ is A adapted from existing auxiliary classifiers fp ðxÞs However, our proposed method A-MKL is different from ... conducted at first before model learning Appearance-based approaches employed space-time (ST) features extracted from volumetric regions that can be densely sampled or from salient regions with significant...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 13:20

... 3] 4.2.2 : Learning factor Next, we set the relation factor =1.8, we inspect the performance with the learning factor  ranging from to =1 means that the ranking scores learn from the semantic ... Learning from Title Given the document semantic network represented as a phrase hyper-graph, one way to make better use of the semantic information is to rank phrases with a semi-supervised learning ... two factors So we apply a gradient search strategy At first, the learning factor is set to =0.8 Different values of  ranging from to are examined Then, given that  is set to the value with...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 16:20

... of Western Civilization The Life Cycle of Western Civilization Features Common to Civilizations PART II A Social Analysis of Civilization The Politics of Civilization The Economics of Civilization ... Civilization The Sociology of Civilization Ideologies of Civilization PART III Civilization Is Becoming Obsolete 10 World-wide Revolution Disrupts Civilization 11 Western Civilization Attempts Suicide ... western society during its current "time of troubles" has not had an easy row to hoe What has western civilization done to human society as such? Western civilization has urbanized its society...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 17:20

... animal Not only the individual advances from infancy to manhood, but the species itself from rudeness to civilization Hence the supposed departure of mankind from the state of their nature; hence ... Men are to be estimated, not from what they know, but from what they are able to perform; from their skill in adapting materials to the several purposes of life; from their vigour and conduct ... distinguish what is right from what is wrong He enjoys his felicity likewise on certain fixed and determinate conditions; and either as an individual apart, or as a member of civil society, must take...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 17:20

... efficient in online classification, but also adapts only slowly 1.4 Online learning This paucity of research on online learning from issue tracker streams is rather surprising, given that truly incremental ... individual learning rates for each feature as proposed by Duchi et al (2010), McMahan and Streeter (2010) This is appropriate when there are many sparse features, and is especially useful in learning from ... appropriate learner for the scenario of learning from data streams, we can achieve much better results than by attempting to twist batch algorithm to fit the online learning setting Even a simple and...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 03:20

... Ivey, Lois T Grady, and Kara P Kunkler-Peck Learning from My Mother’s Voice: Family Legend and the Chinese American Experience Jean Lau Chin Learning from My Mother’s Voice Family Legend and the ... and bestows its power in the form of the seasons, bringing water from rain, warmth from the sunshine, wind from the seas, and soil from the earth The dragon is the ultimate representation of the ... Foreword The very title of Jean Lau Chin's book Learning from My Mother's Voice—both honors her mother, a courageous woman who immigrated to the United States from China, and indicates her mother's primary...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 04:20

... civil society are in development.11 On the other hand, efforts to create a new formal mechanism for global civil society engagement have not been reciprocated by interest from international civil ... refers only to civil society organizations that have chosen to engage in dialogue with the Bank in order to influence it 40 Civil Society Efforts to Influence Bank Policies Civil society efforts ... Participatory Decision Making: Discussion Paper on World Bank -Civil Society Engagement." Civil Society Members of the World Bank -Civil Society Joint Facilitation Committee (JFC): ActionAid International,...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 07:20

... Transnational Times Asserting Citizenship: The Public Sphere and Civil Society in the Internet Era From Voice via Web to Civil Society Action? Conclusions   Ă Ê  ÂÂÂ  ... Ê  Â [ó ỷ Ê ỷ Ê Ê Ê  Đ ó Ê  Â  Â    Introduction Civil Society in the 1990s: The Quest for Associational AutonomyAlong with its Limits Enter the Internet:...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 20:20

... of 25 clusters of news headlines collected from Google News2 , and the citations datasets have 25 clusters of citations to specific scientific papers from the ACL Anthology Network (AAN)3 Each ... probability from any gory, where most headlines cover at least factoid about the story and a random ranker performs reanode u to node v at time T Then, sonably well Table shows top headlines from rankers: ... growing interest in mining news stories and headlines because of its broad applications ranging from “meme” tracking and spike detection (Leskovec et al., 2009) to text summarization (Barzilay...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 21:20

... Protection Agency, from Douglas S Giles and Peter N Lodal of Eastman Chemical Company, from Dr Trevor A Kletz , from Nir Keren of the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center, from Catherine Vickers ... significant problems with static electricity The information in this book came from a number of sources including: stories from my experiences in the now defunct Louisiana Loss Prevention Association; ... Process Safety TLFeBOOK This page intentionally left blank TLFeBOOK Chemical Process Safety Learning from Case Histories 3rd Edition Roy E Sanders TLFeBOOK Elsevier Butterworth–Heinemann 200 Wheeler...

Ngày tải lên: 02/04/2014, 16:30

... American’s Edward Bell The Society of Illustrators has selected that painting for inclusion in its 42nd annual exhibition, being held at the society s gallery in New York City from February 12 through ... run or bathroom break is thus keyboard from the computer-human interface Cats may then creep on their kept safe from cat curiosity How PawSense tells a cat from a per- silent haunches back to their ... the Mars Society and the National Space Society have been casting about for new ways to run a space program The most fully developed plan is the work of ThinkMars, a group of students from the...

Ngày tải lên: 12/05/2014, 16:01

... Learning from Common Mistakes Get it right with the Cambridge Learner Corpus! What can I with this booklet? This booklet is designed to help you take your next steps in learning English ... learn) and when to use a verb + -ing (recommend learning) after a verb Circle the correct alternatives below Example:  I hope to hear / hearing from you soon We spent the whole day to prepare ... the importan I’ve been looking at / watching our holiday photos these sentences from thefew days * Heusing look, from the computer screen to a reading text looked away of something and you you...

Ngày tải lên: 23/05/2014, 22:25