... area where they have lived The Sinhalese are concentrated in the South and the West of Sri Lanka The majority of the Sri Lankan Tamils live in the Northern and Eastern Provinces, while the Indian ... Until the British completed the re-occupation of Malaya, there were bloodbaths up and down the peninsula Thereafter, the Chinese guerrillas returned to the jungle to fight the British and the largely ... to my attention and forthe able supervision, comments, and suggestions that have led to the completion of the thesis I also owe a debt of gratitude to other members of the thesis committee, Professor...
... community-based forestry Forthe first time, it recognizes the forest userights of households, communities and other sectors as well as their ownership of plantation forest It provides a framework forthe ... progress in the formal titling of forestry land and: 73 percent of ethnic minorities who have forestry land have a land use certificate for all their forestry plots, with the allocation of forestry ... households in the Central Highlands have long-term use rights to forestry land These data reflect the continued importance of the SFEs in controlling the use of forestry land in the Central Highlands...
... which they live The correlation analysis, however, has one problem Because the values of most of the variables (including the number of physicians) depend on the size of the population or the size ... population or the size of the area of the municipality, most of the variables correlate well with the number of physicians, whether they represent attractiveness or not For example, the number of kindergartens ... distribution The degree of the arc of the Lorenz curve corresponds to the degree of inequity Finally, we calculated the Gini index, which is the area between the Lorenz curve and the complete...
... supported by the permutation tests) 52 These are available from the authors For example, forthe Best-Set MRA estimated using the Random Effects model, the following variables all pass the permutation ... the statistics forthe All-Set, while column reports the statistics forthe Best-Set All the averages are positive However, it is also clear that there is significant variation in the reported ... Accordingly, we find proxies for these inputs in order to explore the heterogeneity in the reported results They will serve as the moderator variables in the MRA to trace the source of differences...
... to them In one study, patients trusted therapists who used clear consent forms more than therapists with unclear forms; they believed that the clear forms were more relevant, even though the ... of the text A study of cancer patients in Australia (Butow), asked participants to examine five chemotherapy booklets and choose the most relevant and informative Patients uniformly chose the ... and remember information • Materials should aim for a Grade reading level on the Flesch-Kincaid scale However, readability formulas cannot predict whether patients will understand the material...
... However, it uses as the basic source the WCE and, therefore, it is subject to most of the same biases There are several examples in the economic literature where the EB is used as the source to construct ... c(x)=(1/2)x The basic element of any rent-seeking model is the contest success function, which defines the probability of success We are going to use the traditional ratio form forthe contest success function ... In general, the ratio form of the contest success function takes the form p 1/p 2=(x 1/x 2)z where z defines if there are diminishing returns (zV1) to competitive efforts (x) or there are increasing...
... logical results of the theory, as is the case, for example, with the centipede game.6 The heart of the difficulty lies in reconciling two different conceptions of the use of game theory Either one sees ... took forthe most part before the work on TGEB, was based on the obstacles encountered in the application of the method adopted in TGEB forthe analysis of economic interactions Provided the value ... perspective, the general theory of strategic games is found in the theory of zero-sum games, itself already present in the theory of the zero-sum two-person game The notion of the general theory of...
... financing for rebuilding and for workforce development programs forthe city The LISC created opportunities to address specific needs in the community and provide skills forthe forgotten workforce ... as mechanisms for valued contacts for growth These statements are the basis forthe research that will be conducted on the impact of community, education, and business on the workforce in order ... growth among the workforce, this includes the monitoring of the human capital components for education, training and workforce-ready individuals Additionally, the theory includes the impact of...
... after radiation therapy forthe intermediate risk group [15] as well as forthe high risk group after concomitant chemoradiation [16] Nonetheless, patients requiring adjuvant radiotherapy after ... simultaneous chemotherapy, especially if PI was < 0.82 However, the clinical use of PI as the unique parameterfor predicting further treatment may be questionable because the significant overlapping ... Acknowledgements The study was approved by Institutional review board There was no funding source for this study The corresponding author had full access to all data of the study and has the final responsibility...
... but the plans have not succeeded so far It is commendable that countries have reacted so quickly, given the time lag for these packages to reach the real economy Nevertheless, the impact of the ... Office for Asia and the Pacific: The fallout in Asia: Assessing labour market impacts and national policy responses to the global financial crisis, prepared forthe forum Responding to the Economic ... developing countries in the event of global crises, possibly through the creation of a global jobs fund Unlike the IMF rescue packages, this fund would be anti-cyclical The global jobs fund would not...
... charged in the domestic market by the foreign suppliers is below the price charged forthe same product in other markets (i.e., the "pricebased" method) (2) By showing that the price charged in the ... include the capital Athens, the northern Chalkidiki peninsula, the Ionian island of Corfu and the island resorts of Myconos, Santorini, Paros and Crete For these reasons, Greece is one of the best ... imports for these commodities, and American consumers are becoming familiar with them This provides further motivation for Vietnamese producers to boost their exports to the U.S Unfortunately, the...
... bladder in the United States J Urol 2003; 20:327 Dallosso HM, Matthews RJ, McGrother CW, Donaldson MM, Shaw C and Leicestershire MRC The association of diet and other lifestyle factors with the onset ... Risk factors for OAB http://www.medsci.org Int J Med Sci 2010, 394 CONCLUSION The prevalence of OAB in the male urologic veterans is almost five fold higher than that reported forthe general ... reported forthe general population Since OAB is a compilation of lower urinary tract symptoms, the prevalence of LUTS should be higher Irwin et al.2 in their 5-country population study reported the...
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