... as the loss ofthe mother often means loss ofthe direct carer, while the loss ofthe father puts the household in a difficult financial situation HIV/AIDS stands out as a cause of orphanhood, ... Unlike other towns in South Africa, informal trade, whether in the form of food, clothes, etc., does not exist within towns except during the periods of grant payments and other similar points of ... talk to them, teach them Some of them need to be taught That’s the other part Most of them come from the farms and we teach them at the workshops To have workshops maybe twice a month with them...
... generalized forms ofthe Krasnoselskii theorem on fixed points forthe sum A + B of a weakly-strongly continuous mapping and an asymptotically nonexpansive mapping in Banach spaces These results ... a Banach space, Ω(X) is the collection of all nonempty bounded subsets of X, and W (X) is the subset of Ω(X) consisting of all weak compact subsets of X Let Br denote the closed ball in X countered ... of C with Î U, F(U)bounded and F : U → C a condensing mapping Then, either F has a fixed point in U or there is a point u Î ∂U and l Î (0,1) with u = lF(u); here U and ∂U denote the closure of...
... Proceedings ofthe National Academy of Sciences ofthe United States of America, vol 27, no 4, pp 222–224, 1941 T Aoki, “On the stability ofthe linear transformation in Banach spaces,” Journal ofthe ... obtain the existence of a mapping c : G → Y such that the following hold i c is a fixed pointof J, that is, c x F x, c η x ∀x ∈ G , 4.13 The mapping c is the unique fixed pointof J in the set ... particular case of Theorem 4.1 see also 39 We also show that the generalized stability of 3.1 can be obtained as consequence ofthe following theorem 12 Fixed Point Theory and Applications Theorem...
... and the first term on the right-hand sides of (46) and (51), however, as these data- dependent terms make up the bulk ofthe computational requirements ofthe procedure 4.4 Convergence ofthe single-unit ... because ofthe zero means and statistical independence ofthe elements of s(k) The theorem then follows by using the definition of κi in (11) si (k) − λi = × E uI = Under any other index subset of ... shows the average ICI ofthe six algorithms tested as a function of data- block length N As can be seen, our proposed methods perform better than either version of JADE and either version of the...
... secretion PG promote the production of gastric mucus and reduce the formation of gastric acid (p 160) Menstruation PGF2! is believed to be responsible forthe ischemic necrosis ofthe endometrium ... duration ofthe effect depends on the rate of enzyme resynthesis Furthermore, salicylate may contribute to the effect ASA irritates the gastric mucosa (direct acid effect and inhibition of cytoprotective ... exercise The set pointofthe body temperature is programmed in the hypothalamic thermoregulatory center The actual value is adjusted to the set point by means of various thermoregulatory mechanisms...
... understanding of “self ” and a sense of separation f rom others Our right brain creates a f eeling of “we,” that wonderf ul sense of connection with one another and the inef f able awe of living in the ... believe in the power of T he Force when his dad uses the remote-start f eature of a Volkswagen And it might never have run if we only relied on these tests and measures But in another study, ... hese are the seven steps: 1) Interrupt the Pattern 2) Create Comf ort 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) Lead the Imagination [Link to previous article] Shif t the Feeling Satisf y the Critical Mind Change the Associations...
... The CDC’s Office of Women’s Health + + The Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation ofthe Administration for Children and Families (ACF) + The Children’s Bureau ofthe ACF + The Office of ... survey data, these data are subject to sources of nonsampling error These could include misunderstanding of questions on the part ofthe interviewer or respondent, nonuniformity in asking the questions, ... in 1982 (17) These same women expected an average of about one additional birth before the end of their childbearing years for an expected total number of births of 2.3 The figure for 1995 was...
... that run in parallel on the distributed data nodes The key-value stores or NoSQL databases are the OLTP databases ofthe big data world; they are optimized for very fast data capture and simple ... big data infrastructure span data acquisition, data organization and data analysis The acquisition phase is one ofthe major changes in infrastructure from the days before big data Because big data ... upon entry into the system, and therefore thedata is highly varied SQL systems, on the other hand, typically place data in well-defined structures and impose metadata on thedata captured to...
... date of less than one year.18 The Department ofthe Treasury issues an annual survey of foreign portfolio holdings of U.S securities by country and reports dataforthe previous year as ofthe ... (4.9%) 19 The report is prepared jointly by the Department ofthe Treasury, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and the Board of Governors ofthe Federal Reserve System 20 Department ofthe Treasury, ... depreciate If the value ofthe dollar depreciated, the trade deficit would decline, as the price of U.S exports fell abroad and the price of imports rose in the United States.52 The magnitude of these...
... Straits of Singapore The Straits of Singapore The Straits of Malacca The South China Sea The South China Sea The Straits of Singapore The Straits of Malacca The South China Sea The Straits of Malacca ... Malaysia destruction of rainforests and water catchments, and the subsequent erosion of soils together with the heavily silted run-offs, pollutes the rivers These and other sources of land-based pollution ... is in the Andaman Sea at the northern tip ofthe Straits, while the shallowest is at the One Fathom Bank in the south The current predominantly flows in a northwest direction with rates of to...
... was not used in the training and selected forthe evaluation ofthe model We used the speech of four people forthe evaluation The evaluation results are shown in Table They are the accuracy (detection ... Corporation for letting us use the pictures (Figure 3, 4) of their news program forthe purpose of our research References Figure Captions in the picture Figure Captions outside ofthe picture Most ofthe ... B increase Therefore if we observe the likelihood at point B and it becomes bigger than a certain threshold, we decide it is the synchronisation pointforthe input data 1343 Speech Database We...
... Sri Lanka - The Emerging Wonder of Asia The income the dairy farmers earn from their cows’ milk depends on the market and the collection systems Based on the available data, the formal dairy ... following the successful ending ofthe conflict The doubling ofthe size of Sri Lanka’s economy, which is envisaged over the coming six years, will need to be accompanied by a shift in the structure of ... - The Emerging Wonder of Asia The country has the potential to produce all its tropical fruits and vegetables for its needs and also for export The policy ofthe Government is to increase the...
... defies the most ingrained human yearnings about the front: We all want to be there, at the front ofthe pack., the head ofthe line, the top ofthe class To the front-runner go the spoils In the ... forthe past thirty years remains the piece of paper we call the track sheet, in the hands ofthe individuals we call trackers Trackers are the field researchers ofthe science of shopping, the ... bottle ofthe store brand and reads the front label, then reads the price tag On the Pantene, then reads the price on the store brand, and then puts the store brand in her basket and exits the section...
... @ The degree of automation required; @ The amount of dilution necessary, and therefore the size ofthe digester; @ The investment in addition to the manure handling costs; @ The intended use of ... The burning of poultry manure is a very wasteful and ineffective way of processing the manure The incineration ofthe manure allows forthe escape of all the beneficial nutrients into the atmosphere ... company simply requires the farmer to sign a contract forthe rights to all ofthe poultry manure forthe life ofthe poultry house After the poultry manure has been delivered to the processing plant,...
... 5) These components are important in two regards First, forthe pressures they put on regulators in terms of how they conducted their own operations, and second forthe pressures they put on the ... assessments (CCA) both of which gained currency in Europe and the US during the late 1980s/ 1990s These techniques are part ofthe changes associated with the NPM and they form the basis of much risk-based ... been the subject of a deal of academic criticism For instance, the mathematical basis ofthe QRAs is disputed, especially where there are small numbers involved or where there are no reliable data...
... activity of one agent affects the well-being of another agent outside of any type of market mechanism—these are often not taken into account in decision making and when they are not accounted for, they ... estimates ofthe social cost of carbon the valuation ofthe damages due to emissions of one metric ton of carbon, of $30/ton of CO2 equivalent (CO2 e),20 with low and high estimates of $10/ton ... accounting forthe life cycle of coal Epstein et al emissions from coal mines, on the order of 3% ofthe stack emissions.110 There are also additional GHG emissions from the other uses of coal,...
... possibilities they had not conceived of before The quality ofthe scenarios depends critically on the expertise and wisdom ofthe scenario-building team The best scenarios highlight the possibility of structural ... themselves directly to risk analysis The consequences ofthe forecast (or of any actions based on the forecast), rather than the forecast itself, are the proper subject of risk and uncertainty analysis ... disappointment to WAES members, who regarded their study as “a call for action, not a cry of despair.” Another WAES disappointment was the failure ofthe study to reach the highest levels of the...
... to the wreck off Borneo Proper 135 CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XI Return ofthe Royalist from Borneo Proper with intelligence ofthe sufferers from the wreck ofthe Sultana. Effect ofthe arrival ofthe ... langan for tangon, arm; for ayer, water; menua for benua, country; komah for rumah, house; besi for besar, great "Like the rest ofthe Dyaks, the Sibnowans adorn their houses with the heads of their ... arise Even the Malays speak highly ofthe chastity ofthe Dyak women; yet they are by no means shy under the gaze of strangers, and used to bathe before us in a state of nudity "That these Dyaks...