... interesting success in applying commercial principles to microfinance and innovating in commercial- informal financial linkages; and a challenge to the supervisory authorities in applying theregulatory ... providers of microfinance and, especially, their development into selfsustaining, commercial microfinance institutions capable of reaching growing numbers of poor clients, especially in rural areas These ... hiring employees to go out and gather the savings inthe manner of a susu collector The State Insurance Corporation first introduced such a “Money Backproductinthe 1980s, including a life insurance...
... nurses in all clinics across the province and the training offered as part ofthe intervention The details of these training programmes are described below Standard of care training in all clinics ... during the intervention: further developing the intervention in consultation with staff at management and clinic level; involvement in initial training and continuing support of nurse training ... implementing the integration of all six elements of HIV care into the primary care clinics Inthe other nine intervention clinics, the STRETCH team identified the need to integrate further elements of...
... mind ofthe consumer STRATERGIES FOR PROMOTION OF DEVELOPED PRODUCTS - cont’d • BENEFITS OF ADVERTIZING/Why advertise? • The objective of advertising is to increase your profit by increasing ... face The use of best practices and the elimination of barriers to communication are the main concerns forthe management of NPD process MARKETING A NEW PRODUCT/ UNIVERSITY PRODUCTS Stages of Marketing ... generation of revenue internally • The life line forproductdevelopment is innovation • Innovation is the platform which deals with diverse customer/consumer needs and transforming same to new products...
... briefly explores the theory ofthe University-Industry-GRI linkages inthe Innovation Triangle (Figure I.2) including linkage type in terms of formal as well as informal Then, a few points toward ... identify the strength ofthe individual linkage by determining the relative importance ofthe linkage types The goal is at the top ofthe model 4.4.2 The Actors Like the AHP model formulated for overall ... ofthe linkage can be categorized according to the degree involvement of institution or individual involvement inthe linkage Linkages are also classified into Formal and Informal types Formal...
... as the heart and goal of reading, since the purpose of all reading is to gather meaning from the printed page 2.1.3 The importance of Reading Comprehension: One ofthe main benefits of reading ... to the brain for it to interpret” (12,75) To understand this, we consider a blind person reading Braille, a system of printing forthe blind, in this case, the finger – tips transmit input to the ... key words often occur inthe text several times When they read the passage from the beginning, the meaning of a word may be clear in another sentence inthe passage or the words surrounding a word...
... measure the independence ofthe events of seeing the components ofthe phrase inthe text This method was found to be one ofthe best performing models in collocation discovery (Pecina and Schlesinger, ... vocabulary of plausible keyphrases, usually inthe form of a list of subject headings or a domain specific thesaurus The use of a vocabulary has the additional benefit of eliminating the extraction of incomplete ... reduce the size ofthe data set, possibly eliminating the training instances that will have the least negative effect on the usability ofthe data set The first step to reduce the size ofthe data...
... speak in words He must contemplate the particular in terms ofthe general, and touch abstract and concrete inthe same flight of thought He must study the present inthe light ofthe past forthe ... repeat the examinations within a certain limit of trials (like in Minnesota) In others, failure to pass may mean being suspended from the program Concluding or, the way ahead Before concluding, ... the U.S and other countries, were fascinated with the idea of enrolling in a Ph.D program in economics, but were missing the big picture ofthe process, as well ofthe outcome! For our case,...
... evaluating the performance of inhouse PCR on smear-negative PTB suspects in Uganda, a low income country with high rates of HIV/TB co-infection The sensitivity forthe in- house PCR inthe Table ... evaluated forthe diagnosis of smear-negative PTB inthe same setting Using LJ culture as the base-line test, this study evaluated in- house PCR for rapid diagnosis of smear-negative Page of PTB in a ... 1) In addition, demographic and clinical data were obtained from the 205 enrolled participants HIV testing HIV testing was performed for all the enrolled patients following the algorithm for the...
... Regardless ofthe evaluated CNBP form or the nature ofthe analysed probe, band-shift intensity increased along with the protein increasing amount Nevertheless, no significant differences in binding ... (2003) The zinc-finger protein CNBP is required for forebrain formation inthe mouse Development 130, 1367–1379 Abe Y, Chen W, Huang W, Nishino M & Li YP (2006) CNBP regulates forebrain formation ... affects the properties of a variety of proteins with common biochemical activities, such as the binding to single-stranded nucleic acids and the remodelling of their secondary structures A model involving...
... active people, leaving the elderly as caregivers instead of them being cared for Many elderly people are therefore faced with the dilemma of either living alone or having to take care of very young, ... total of 830 elderly pensioners The Pensioners’ names, sex, age and places of residence were obtained from the Pensions office ofthe Ministry of Finance in Maseru which is the capital town inthe ... Aiyuk Background ofthe tudy The Kingdom of Lesotho is an independent democratic nation situated inthe Southern part of Africa It is a landlocked enclave completely surrounded by the Republic of...
... for continually pushing the limits of NPD from your professorial offices Thank you Peter Senge for bringing home the systemic nature of new product development, both in your writings and in your ... The success ofthe PDMA’s effort to codify the knowledge of thought leaders inthe field of new productdevelopment was crucial to writing this book Robin wants to thank the PDMA for supporting ... 172 Table of Contents Phase 3: TheDevelopment Phase 172 Defining theproduct 172 Designing theproduct .175 Developing theproduct .176 Testing theproduct ...
... flexible Fear of needle injection Insulin will increase the risk of hypoglycaemia Insulin will improve health Insulin will cause weight gain 10 Insulin will be demanding to administer 11 Insulin means ... agreed that insulin causes weight gain, compared to 23% inthe insulin naïve The highest mean score for insulin-naïve patients was on the item pertaining to the belief that insulin signifies ... enjoy 12 Insulin means my health will deteriorate 13 Injecting insulin is embarrassing 14 Injecting insulin is painful 15 It is difficult to always inject insulin correctly 16 Insulin makes it...
... frequency 15 Hz); (b) Forthe ES-induced signal only, ES artifacts were removed from the EMG using a blocking window of 25 ms The blocking window started at a beginning ofthe stimulus artifact ... mandatory inthe scheme, and flexible blocks, whose inclusions inthe scheme are optional The effect ofthe flexible blocks was tested by their progressive inclusion into the processing scheme The ... different processing schemes The naked eye inspection reveals that the processing scheme including combfiltering and artifact blocking window gave the closest result to the original volitional...
... tested in dry eye subjects inthe US and Canada in an individual interview setting Half ofthe subjects in this phase had been involved inthe focus groups and the remaining half was recruited using ... extensively inthe decisions throughout the process ofdevelopment and finalisation ofthe questionnaire They gave their approval at each ofthe milestones ofthedevelopment and finalisation process The ... Chinese (Singapore), and Spanish for US The use ofthe IDEEL in other different studies will continue to provide further data to obtain further information on the importance of specific items for...
... flexible Fear of needle injection Insulin will increase the risk of hypoglycaemia Insulin will improve health Insulin will cause weight gain 10 Insulin will be demanding to administer 11 Insulin means ... agreed that insulin causes weight gain, compared to 23% inthe insulin naïve The highest mean score for insulin-naïve patients was on the item pertaining to the belief that insulin signifies ... enjoy 12 Insulin means my health will deteriorate 13 Injecting insulin is embarrassing 14 Injecting insulin is painful 15 It is difficult to always inject insulin correctly 16 Insulin makes it...
... Conception of creative thinking There are many conceptions of creative thinking from different angles but the common point of authors emphasized the role of independent thinking in proposing new ... develop indepence of creativity for students, contributing to the enhancement of chemistry teaching quality in particular and of training quality in technical university in general Tasks of research ... science development and meet the requirements of international economic integration inthe beginning of 21st century In Vietnam ‘s Education Law, the objective of higher education noted that : “The...
... crises and abort the social breakdown syndrome From the beginning of therapy, clinicians join patients in seizing opportunities for increments of intimacy in life-defining relationships The patients' ... obtained informed consent Then they administered the structured diagnostic interviews according to the DSMIV Forthe qualified subjects, the raters administered the various measures and then interviewed ... patients in new insights during crises, much of psychotherapy inthe intervals promotes the value of self-policing, self-soothing and welcoming others' help with the same Nonetheless, several...
... LPA 2-3 in younger plants and 3-4 in older plants, maintains that rate for several plastochrons, and then declines gradually Maximum net photosynthesis is maintained for a shorter time in leaves ... Maximum net photosynthesis was maintained for only a few plastochrons in leaf before it began to decline gradually Average net photosynthetic rate was higher in leaves ofthe same LPA on younger ... variation The simplest of these models is the linear regression which explained 98% ofthe variation and does a good job of predicting leaf area from length and width measurements Under our growing...
... has the advantage of preserving the shape and functions ofthe tongue Brachytherapy was historically performed with Ra-226, which involved exposure ofthe surrounding tissue To Page of minimize ... tongue carcinoma [4], with the elderly group accounting for 3% of all patients The age ofthe 21 patients ranged from 80 to 89 years (median 81) at the start of radiation therapy, and the male-to-female ... shown in Table Radiation therapy All implantation was done under local anesthesia For patients inthe LDR group, the treatment sources consisted of an Ir-192 pin for 12 patients, a Ra-226 needle for...
... tender point examination was carried out by applying the same manual finger pressure with a force of kg (until blanching ofthe fingernail bed) to each of nine paired anatomical locations The 18 ... variations, but no formal agreement analysis was made forthe purpose of this study The TPS was the total number of tender points The SAPS considered the pain 'experienced during the past week' in 16 non-articular ... values of more than 0.7 are commonly considered markers of a high degree of reliability We then examined convergent validity by correlating the scores ofthe index with the other measures used in the...