microfinance and peer to peer lending

semantic web and peer-to-peer decentralized management and exchange of knowledge and information

semantic web and peer-to-peer decentralized management and exchange of knowledge and information

... services and Grid infrastructures rely on Peer- to -Peer service communication and the only way to discover appropriate services and exchange meaningful content is to join Semantic Web and Peer- to -Peer ... has to be connected to a physical network (e.g the Internet) to participate as peer in a logical Peer- to -Peer network However, in the Peer- to -Peer network the peer forms logical connections to ... Databases (VLDB), Toronto, 2004, 2004 W Nejdl, W Siberski, and M Sintek Design issues and challenges for rdfand schema-based peer- to -peer systems SIGMOD Record, September, 2003 Peer- to -Peer and Semantic...

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 02:00

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Báo cáo y học: "Depressive symptoms from kindergarten to early school age: longitudinal associations with social skills deficits and peer victimization" potx

Báo cáo y học: "Depressive symptoms from kindergarten to early school age: longitudinal associations with social skills deficits and peer victimization" potx

... behavior and peer rejection were shown to be overlapping risk factors for the development of children's internalizing problems A study by Dill and collaborators demonstrated that peer rejection and ... negative peer relations and that peer rejection and victimization may play a causal role in the development of depressive symptoms The interplay of social skills, peer victimization, and depressive ... citation purposes) Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2009, 3:28 peer group, and thus also become less attractive to their peers The quality of their peer relations might therefore...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21

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Tài liệu Formal and informal institutions’ lending policies and access to credit by small-scale enterprises in Kenya: An empirical assessment doc

Tài liệu Formal and informal institutions’ lending policies and access to credit by small-scale enterprises in Kenya: An empirical assessment doc

... traders and farmers will most likely lead to the development of an informal unit to meet that demand Informal credit therefore seems to develop in response to an existing demand Aryeetey and Udry ... access to the formal sources Enterprises that want to expand beyond the limits of self-finance but lack access to bank credit demand external finance, which the informal sector is unable to satisfy ... access Aryeetey and Gockel (1991) examine some of the factors that influence demand for formal savings and lending facilities in Ghana and observe that incomes, bank formalities and banks’ preference...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 10:20

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Friendship Quality and Peer Attachment as Predictors of Adolescents'''' Subsequent Academic Achievement

Friendship Quality and Peer Attachment as Predictors of Adolescents'''' Subsequent Academic Achievement

... lumped together and can be most clearly understood The current research seeks to answer several questions regarding peer effects and academic achievement One aim of this study is to assess peer ... assessed, and are important to consider if the complex relationship between peer influence and academic achievement is to be understood In conducting this research, interactions between gender and peer ... elements of adolescent friendships to determine which are salient to academic success If peer rejection can prevent a student from wanting to go to school, and peer neglect does not cause academic...

Ngày tải lên: 11/12/2016, 11:05

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The effect of task meaning and peer effects on labor supply and cheating

The effect of task meaning and peer effects on labor supply and cheating

... the peer effect from the actual presence of peer and to less extent from the interaction This aspect is something to be taken into account by future research 38 The effect of meaning and peer ... level of meaning and the presence of peer We conducted a controlled laboratory experiment where test subjects performed a tedious and repetitive task and were randomly assigned to one of the conditions ... Engineering, Health and Social care, Hotel and Tourism management, Social science, Economics and Law, Teaching and Scientific subjects The experiment took place in week 12 and 13 Test subjects...

Ngày tải lên: 11/12/2016, 20:44

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Lean Manufacturing Tools, Techniques, and How To Use Them

Lean Manufacturing Tools, Techniques, and How To Use Them

... manufacturing into our lives and why should we care to participate? Answers to these questions are required in order for people to become engaged in the change process How we handle the responses to these ... practices To provide some level of insight into this gap, one need only to look at the landmark MIT study conducted by Womack, Jones, and Roos (see The Machine That Changed the World) to understand ... understand their roles on the team and why they were selected for the assignment When assessing project team candidates, it is important to keep in mind selection criteria and to have an understanding...

Ngày tải lên: 07/02/2013, 09:23

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Relative clauses in English and Vietnamese, and  how to translate them into Vietnamese

Relative clauses in English and Vietnamese, and how to translate them into Vietnamese

... books to reports, brochures, contracts, journals and magazines, instructions, and advertisements; its topic ranges from literature to every type of information with great emphasis to science and ... of interest not only to linguists, professional and amateur translators, and language teachers but also to electronic engineers and mathematicians A great number of books and articles have been ... problems and discussed the way of translating English relative clauses into Vietnamese in some typical examples in some books and in the story “ Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” to prove...

Ngày tải lên: 09/04/2013, 17:43

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ENGLISH PHRASAL VERBS AND HOW TO STUDY THEM EFFECTIVELLY

ENGLISH PHRASAL VERBS AND HOW TO STUDY THEM EFFECTIVELLY

... out to spend a lot of money on something, which is very pleasant but which you not need *Travel _Take off _ (aircraft) to move from the ground and begin to fly _Touch down _ (aircraft) to land ... wrong I am for not allowing children to watch TV too much! _ Look forward to / Look up to / Long for I’m looking forward to her arrival Schoolboys usually look up to become great athletes _ Ask someone ... _Come round _ to become conscious again _Keep down _ to be able to eat or drink something without vomiting _Pass away _ to die _Look after _ to take care of someone _Pick up _ to get an infectious...

Ngày tải lên: 14/04/2013, 23:25

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UV-disinfection Reactor Validation by Computational Fluid Dynamics and Relation to Biodosimetry and Actinometry

UV-disinfection Reactor Validation by Computational Fluid Dynamics and Relation to Biodosimetry and Actinometry

... β = V0/V (10) RED J/m Where: V= required volume of reactor to achieve same N/N0 as piston flow reactor; V0=volume of a piston flow reactor 450 400 350 300 250 200 150 100 50 0.00 0.50 1.00 1.50 ... 110 cm high and the reactors equipped with and lamps were made from a 210.3 mm (ID) stainless steel column 110 cm high, respectively Tap water was used as the feed to the UV reactors The tap ... Samples were taken before and after passing through the UV reactor at a range of measured flow rates The ratio of survivors to initial numbers was compared to Equation (8) and RED for each flow rates...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 09:08

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Anchorage and resistance to uprooting forces of eelgrass (Zostera marina L.) shoots planted in slag substrates

Anchorage and resistance to uprooting forces of eelgrass (Zostera marina L.) shoots planted in slag substrates

... plants to uprooting due to hydraulic forces (Handley and Davy, 2002) In their study, Handley and Davy (2002) suggested that the size of substrate particles and closeness of packing were likely to ... Addition of DS to slag or sedimentation of fine particles to slag may be beneficial to root establishment up to a certain extent and too much of it may not exhibit significant effect anymore and on the ... expected to prefer substrates similar to their natural habitat ACS and CGS on the other have rounded structure, making roots difficult to anchor due to low sediment cohesion - 95 - Journal of Water and...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 09:38

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Overview of the PSTN and Comparisons to voice over IP

Overview of the PSTN and Comparisons to voice over IP

... PSTN Services and Applications As with almost every industry, it is usually better and easier to acquire additional business from current customers than it is to go out and get new customers The ... them to bypass such IXCs as AT&T and MCI and keep the money they normally pay them for long-distance service More recently, new competitors to LECs, CLECs, and IXCs have emerged These competitors ... attempt to offer business customers both voice and data over a highspeed data infrastructure Meanwhile, a traditional CLEC might attempt to offer high-speed access to both residential customers and...

Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2013, 05:20

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PRESENT PROGRESS AND BEGOING TO

PRESENT PROGRESS AND BEGOING TO

... going to - Call pupils to go to the board to write the the use of the complex sentences using the present simple and the present formation of each structure progressive tense - Ask the others to ... Ask pupils to work in groups to discuss about the differences of the formation and the uses of the two tenses - Call on some pupils to talk about the differences in expression - How to make a ... groups to discuss present progressive and the present simple tenses - Talk about the differences in expression c The future form of The present progressive - Ask pupils to give examples to illustrate...

Ngày tải lên: 10/10/2013, 10:11

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7Types of Hard CISSP Exam Questions and How To Approach Them

7Types of Hard CISSP Exam Questions and How To Approach Them

... courses and enhanced, hands-on labs offer practical skills and tips that you can immediately put to use Our expert instructors draw upon their experiences to help you understand key concepts and ... difficult to find the question But when we feel rushed, it is easy to overlook the question and simply move forward and create an equation to fit the available data The questions are ready for you and ... correct 1.3 Too Much Information Questions Description This is a type of question that gives you too much information The candidate is sometimes fooled into finding an appropriate equation to use...

Ngày tải lên: 22/10/2013, 15:15

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The Six Driving Forces That Affect Your Business Plan _ And How to Focus on the Best One for Your Company’s Needs

The Six Driving Forces That Affect Your Business Plan _ And How to Focus on the Best One for Your Company’s Needs

... Business Plan HOW 169 TO FIND A SINGLE FOCUS TO DRIVE YOUR COMPANY TO SUCCESS Paying attention to the six drivers is critical to move from mission to vision To be fully functional and get the most ... companies to examine its processes, reduce the cost of those processes, and pass the savings to the consumer Wal-Mart did not see the necessity to pay anyone in the middle to handle the product The store’s ... catalog The late Bo Randall and later his son Gary remained true to their purist designs as custom knife-making caught on in the late 1960s Prior to that only a handful of custom knife makers could...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 09:20

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Vision and Mission The Two Key Anchors That Add Passion and Purpose to Your Story

Vision and Mission The Two Key Anchors That Add Passion and Purpose to Your Story

... connect employees and customers to a product and a higher-order emotional appeal Complete both of these components with details for your story Be able to explain both to employees And finally, include ... company customers will turn to for help in resolving their difficult business situations I To be rated among the top 100 companies to work for in North America Vision and Mission 93 I To build ... in today’s business world Leaders throughout history have recognized and used rally points to bring people together Finding a common enemy is a tactic often used to rally everyone Translated to...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 09:20

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HOW GOOD IS THE EVIDENCE - INTUITION, PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, TESTIMONIALS, AND APPEALS TO AUTHORITY

HOW GOOD IS THE EVIDENCE - INTUITION, PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, TESTIMONIALS, AND APPEALS TO AUTHORITY

... (Christopher Cerf and Victor Navasky, 1998, Rev Ed., Villard Books, New York) "It is once and for all clear that the earth is in the middle of the world and all weights move towards it." Ptolemy, ... position to have access to certain facts and to have special qualifications for drawing conclusions from the facts You encounter appeals to many forms of authority on a daily basis And you have ... appealing to authority—sources that are supposed to know more than most of us about a given topic—so-called experts When communicators appeal to authorities or experts, they appeal to people...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 15:20

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FOCUS ON - phrasal verbs and should and ought to

FOCUS ON - phrasal verbs and should and ought to

... flies from Florida to Boston every year in April, and it's April now Jim will very probably travel to Boston soon It almost always gets cooler in October, and it's October 1st today, so it will ... such a huge and powerful army The United States is of people from many different races and cultures It was too hard to work and go to school at the same time, so Todd had to ... invent a story to entertain or fool people, you make the story up When you invent a lie to deceive people, you make the lie up 174 My son asked me to make up a story about monsters Hank told his...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 12:20

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