... of permanent joint operating bases, including: in Gibraltar; in the Sovereign Base Areas in Cyprus; British Forces South Atlantic Islands, based on the Falkland Islands and Ascension Island and ... Island and maintaining a regular presence in South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands; and on Diego Garcia in British Indian Ocean Territory These bases give us andin some cases our allies wide geographical ... personnel (see below) • rationalisation of the defence estate including the sale of surplus land and buildings and associated running cost reductions (see below) and running cost savings across...
... urbanization and migration, ageing societies and the rising cost of health care, the HIV and AIDS pandemic, and humanitarian crises of increasing number, frequency and severity Far more so than ... illness all societies.” and substance abuse in parents, as well as marital violence, also place adolescents at increased risk, as does exposure to the social disruption and psychological distress ... communities must address their particular needs, and governments must invest in establishing adolescent-friendly health care services in hospitals, clinics and youth centres Studies show that adolescents...
... shortcomings of transfer and clients, may face a disadvantage of transfer and liabilities of expansion and alienness, and are less likely to face a disadvantage of foreignness and liability of ... transfer that were discussed previously, in this case the advantageous resources of the DCMNE are still advan- 24 Global Firms and Emerging Markets inanAgeof Anxiety tageous in the LDC, since ... ment process in South Korea and Taiwan, and the less successful industrialization experiences of Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico 6 Global Firms and Emerging Markets inanAgeof Anxiety In chapter...
... shortcomings of transfer and clients, may face a disadvantage of transfer and liabilities of expansion and alienness, and are less likely to face a disadvantage of foreignness and liability of ... transfer that were discussed previously, in this case the advantageous resources of the DCMNE are still advan- 24 Global Firms and Emerging Markets inanAgeof Anxiety tageous in the LDC, since ... ment process in South Korea and Taiwan, and the less successful industrialization experiences of Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico 6 Global Firms and Emerging Markets inanAgeof Anxiety In chapter...
... leaders Because of the nature of the business, insurers have already distinguished themselves in areas such as predictive modelling, and, now, because insurance is a customer-facing business, they ... manual intervention) for increasingly complex risks The advent of Big Data and sophisticated analytics has raised hopes that insurers can process business quickly and painlessly for customers ... other industries in the use of data processing and analytics, recent developments and innovations in this field point to a promising future As an information-driven business, insurance is perfectly...
... advertising, promotions and endorsements, andin making sure each product reflects and supports the brand image They so because customers positively value the image that is associated with the brand ... a brand is therefore an integral part of the product, and determines the willingness to pay of consumers Manufacturers of luxury goods invest heavily in preserving 25 For instance in the YSL perfume ... increased welfare) For instance Sass (2004) and Sass and Saurman (1993, 1996) find this result for exclusivity restrictions (i.e exclusive dealing and exclusive territories) for the distribution of...
... Understanding of Japanese KIPS understands Japanese program specifications in two phases The sentence analysis phase analyzes an input and generates an instance of a statement model The specification ... inan interactive programming system, KIPS, and proposed an "object-centered" approach The subsystem consists of sentence analysis and specification acquisition, and the task domain of each is ... with the user, is a set of instance-level objects belonging to both file and process classes T o realize a natural language understanding system using the models we are developing, objects in the...
... 1992–1999 from stations in the Tatra Mts Figure Age structure (%) of the stands in Polish (PL) and Slovak (SK) part of the study area, based on the percentage of stands in 20years age classes Figure ... Slovakia and 1488 in Poland).The Figure Distribution of the stands (%) in the mountain slopes in the study area in TANAP (Slovakia) and TPN (Poland) stands in the study area were characterised by ... 59 infestations in Krušne hory (Czech Republic) occurred on Sand SE slopes [16], andin Western Sudeten (Poland) – on Sand W slopes [8] 3.4.3 Distribution inage classes Tree mortality caused...
... continuing improvement Improving evaluation and understanding of the implementation and outcomes of such changes are essential to sustaining ongoing transformation and restricting any legacy of ... evaluated innovations may still be successfully replicated in the same setting because of unspoken shared understandings; but chances of it working again at another site within the system or elsewhere ... timely, and equitable, as called for by the Institute of Medicine [1] Although health systems are continually innovating in management and clinical practices, significant and sustained changes will...
... continuing improvement Improving evaluation and understanding of the implementation and outcomes of such changes are essential to sustaining ongoing transformation and restricting any legacy of ... evaluated innovations may still be successfully replicated in the same setting because of unspoken shared understandings; but chances of it working again at another site within the system or elsewhere ... timely, and equitable, as called for by the Institute of Medicine [1] Although health systems are continually innovating in management and clinical practices, significant and sustained changes will...
... Life See Table for definitions of the subdomains and corresponding instruments Statistical Analyses The relationships between the sections of the SGRQ and the sub-domains of the NIAF, as well as ... The SGRQ consists of three sections and a total score: Symptoms, measuring the frequency and severity of respiratory symptoms; Activity, measuring limitation of activities by breathlessness and ... Symptoms and Subjective Impairment, and not for exploring problems in other sub-domains of health status, such as aspects of quality of life Most instruments claiming to measure specific aspects of...
... city and Haidian District center, and has many places of interest and famous shopping areas (Beijing Municipal Bureau of Statistics, 2005b) One of the questionnaires was answered by a target household ... flushing, and 44% for watering plants On the other hand, over 80% households were not in favor of using reclaimed wastewater for washing machines, cleaning of pets, dish washing, showering and cooking ... 83-90 (in Japanese with English summary) National Bureau of Statistics of China (2005) China statistical yearbook 2005, China statistics press, Beijing, China (in Chinese) Shan D., He S. , Yang N.,...
... discussed Chapter III Implications and Suggestions This chapter will summarize major findings, suggest some solutions for teaching and learning prepositions of place AT, ON, INand suggest some ... secondary schools - Find the sources and causes of their errors - Suggest pedagogic solutions for teaching and learning prepositions of place at, on, in at secondary schools Subjects of the study ... prepositions AT andIN The preposition IN is used for continents, countries, provinces, towns, villages, squares, streets (sizeable territories of any kind) and any place which has boundaries or...
... marathons and triathlons, simplifying my life, eliminating my debt, starting up a successful blog and business, writing a few books, and much more This stuff works And it s tremendously liberating ... information and sensations, unable to rest That constantly stresses our minds in ways we’re not meant to handle We need the rest It s important in ways we don’t often think about We need to de-stress, and ... ads asking for yet more desires There s our home computer, asking us to more work, sending us more messages, more distractions, social networks and shopping and reading There are kids or spouses...
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... instance, makes it untouchable, utopian, and transcendental, and it is usually housed in special institutions—such as churches, cathedrals, and museums Such religiosity and creation of awe can ... transference of the aura takes place and where questions of desire and surrender to the image or possession of it arise The injunction against touching in churches, cathedrals, and museums ensures ... flux of its passing into inexistence (such as a melody, which is Husserl s paradigm case)” (para 2, online) Ross s concern is to link philosophy and this sense of “cinema” to raise the question of...
... professional use This is despite the fact that large corporations are struggling with issues of security, integration into existing IT environments, user support and more As consumers increasingly ... laptop) and its status as the latest innovation in consumer electronics as reasons for their purchase Perhaps most interesting, consumers in emerging countries are using tablet computers much more often ... electronics, such as the ones listed previously? Average spend vs average annual income in the past 12 months: Average Spend (USD): Japan Share of average annual income spent: Average Income (USD):...
... As a result, companies have increasingly directed incentives to spouses as well as employees (see Extending Wellness Incentives to Spouses, opposite page) Figure 27 Wellness incentives: Use and ... workforce planning, administration and finances This is an important time for employers to revisit their total rewards philosophy and strategy, and understand the kinds of changes that may be necessary ... programs and, over the last year, increased their analysis of care gaps and use of independent estimates of savings and ROI They also optimized plan and PBM efficiency through audits and fee...