... Granting Autonomy to Public Training Institutions The government of Zambia is changing the role it plays in training—from provider of training to financier, regulator, and coordinator As part of the ... premium inthe labor market Civil service pay scales are typically insufficient to attract or retain the best instructors Existing forms of instructor training also leave much to be desired Instructor ... market) In Kenya and Ghana, training institutions fought their conversion to support theinformalsector tooth and nail Existing vocational schools may be too expensive, too rigid, and too sophisticated...
... Health Training Most specialties have gathered, or are inthe process of gathering, data on the availability of international training in their disciplines These data show rising interest in global ... action of many other social and economic sectors in addition tothe health sector. 2 Citing the inequity of the current state of health care among the World‘s nations, the meeting of the World Health ... positive factor inthe ranking process, 58% perceived the need for additional training in an international setting, and 76% indicated a desire for increased international EM exposure in their current...
... defined by the ACGME The program of study and field training includes the following: • • • • • • • Clinical training in internal medicine, including ambulatory continuity clinic that is culturally ... emigrating physicians, the governance of the growing international health workforce, and the volatile issue of the “Brain Drain” are increasingly coming under global scrutiny Certainly inthe years ... cooperating to meet the multifaceted challenges to world health Each field is training individuals equipped to participate in these efforts Just as medicine is training doctors who specialize in international...
... beyond the training examples on which they were introduced The goal of this paper is to investigate if and how it is possible to benefit from scaling discriminative training for SMT to large training ... Online large-margin training for statistical machine translation In Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Mehtods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Language Learning ... Francisco, CA Kevin Duh and Katrin Kirchhoff 2008 Beyond loglinear models: Boosted minimum error rate training for n-best ranking In Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for...
... convergence Co-Training The type of learning described in this paper differs from the co-training method, covered, e.g., in (Blum and Mitchell, 1998) In co-training, learning centers on labeling a set ... Counter-training provides a framework in which other recognizers, training in parallel with a given recognizer , can label documents as belonging to their own, other categories, and therefore as being ... thought of having one view: the patterns that match on the data-point In both frameworks, the unsupervised learners help one another to bootstrap In co-training, they so by providing reliable...
... attention tothe degree of training that took place away from the formal system intheinformalsector itself The policy impact of the book lay in raising the profile of training in and for theinformal ... work intheinformalsector (Fluitman 1989), built on the ‘discovery’ of theinformalsector for the policy community by the ILO in Kenya in 1972 (ILO 1972) The contributors both charted the many ... training’ Colleges were enjoined to become more responsive tothe labour market (which, in part, dovetailed with the ILO argument about orientation towards training for theinformal sector) They...
... alcohol, and then stained by the routine Papanicolaou method 29 Manual for Cytology Staining Methods in Cytology Papanicolaou Staining Method Papanicolaou staining method is the routine staining procedure ... graduation/post-graduation in any of the life science subjects There are very few institutions in India accredited for conducting training in cytology The duties of the cytotechnologist include supervision of cytopreparation, ... staining and hence is not recommended 30 Staining Methods in Cytology e.Clearing Cells are not transparent while the smear is inthe staining or alcohol solutions During clearing, alcohol is being...
... that includes medical school and fellowship training The chapter begins by describing the benefits of incorporating research training into residency It then addresses the importance of linking ... clinical or research training Local institutions are in charge of such training If they are going to be successful at training new researchers, the individual programs themselves must strive to ... Factors Training Resources Issues associated with funding, mentoring, and resident scheduling appear to be the chief constraints on research training in residency Support for residency training...
... regret to say, boxes of the skins of humming-birds Over the see and and sea, inthe dissolves into white meanwhile, the sky begins to clear; the mist diaphanous clouds the slanting rays of the sun ... known IN BRAZIL in North-eastern Brazil as the caju rains, them in order to ripen and for the fruit of the cashew-tree needs fill with sap In December the rains cease, and the dry season begins The ... flew into morning my bedroom singing, in order to hunt for insects Inthe evening, when I was writing up my notes, my task was by no means easy, for every moment some insect flew in often the...
... corresponding tothe pipes, and one fluid for the water in its interior A vertical symmetry plane along the pipe was adopted to reduce the mesh size in one half, minimizing processing time The walls in ... during assembly 2.3 The measuring uncertainty The measuring uncertainties for the main parameters, obtained according to ISO (1993), were: 2.4C for the temperature measurements; 2.4 % of the ... transmitter Figure The test sections horizontal pipe after the thermocouples brazing, and detail of the measuring station Figure The internal thermocouples inthe Measuring Station I, and the Thermal Stratification...
... data techniques to analyze the behavior of the interest margins inthe country Specifically, our aim is to decompose the main determinants of the interest spread into microeconomic (inefficiencies ... these factors include the number of bank branches, the ratio of non-interest bearing deposits to total operational assets, the ratio of interest-bearing funds to total earning assets, operating ... loans, causing a sharp increase in bank interest spreads at the end of 1994/beginning of 1995 In addition to these measures, some other changes were also implemented, including the following: new...
... mortality include those relating to innovative financing measures; investment in human resources, both in terms of strengthening pre-service education and emphasizing in- service training for health-care ... by the Knowledge for Health project, are being disseminated to increase access to and use of the information in this guideline at the country level RHR supported a master training of trainers ... journal article The findings from six countries indicate that strategies that have worked in reducing maternal deaths are: – introducing innovative financing measures; – strengthening pre-service...
... with the highest unemployment, the working-class inner-city areas, who might have been expected to be absorbed into the service sector as manufacturing declined inthe city, are seemingly being ... retail, the survey found little training being offered or undertaken for the skills required in these industries Instead, training occurred in work in which the number of jobs are expected to decline ... According tothe Scottish Executive (1999) creating and sustaining employability is the responsibility of the state, individuals and training providers However, inthe UK there has been a shifting...
... function Inthe following, we sketch the new algorithm to optimize Eq 5: We compute the ordered sequence of linear intervals constituting for every sentence together with the incremental change in ... contrast tothe approach presented in this paper, the training criterion and the statistical models used remain unchanged inthe minimum Bayes risk approach Inthe field of natural language processing ... scoring point inthe parameter space by making a one-dimensional line minimization along the directions given by optimizing one parameter while keeping all other parameters fixed To avoid finding...
... threat tothe government’s counter-inflationary resolve Inthe event, the timing and scale of the interest rate increases inthe early months of the float were successful in shifting the economy ... balancing the risk of a return tothe old story of persistent inflation (if interest rates were left too low) against the danger of pushing the economy into a severe recession – not only costly in ... GDP in 1993, the peak inflation year, to percent in 1994, the year of the Real Plan (Cardoso, 1998) This appropriation of seigniorage from the banking sectortothe Central Bank helped to finance...
... are then left with the simpler task of explaining the change in pollution from the upstream point tothe downstream point as a function of the characteristics of counties in between the two points ... F To explain the change in water quality from B to F in 1991, the three variables of interest are the location of the upstream station relative tothe nearest exiting border (distance BD), the ... over the spending inthe larger county that they were a part of inthe previous year For the average county in Brazil, this translates into a 20% increase in expenditures Thus the story of water...
... financial institutions to increasing access to financial services Beginning with a range of microfinance institutions (including credit cooperatives), which have been increasingly regarded internationally ... financial sector activities, and which otherwise might help to contribute tothesector s development Such policies could extend beyond financial institutions themselves tothe overall infrastructure ... maturity inthe industry, to expand the funding base However, new regulations XXVI ACCESS TO FINANCIAL SERVICES IN BRAZIL would need to be introduced for attendant increases in risk, which would include...