... ownership; asset ownership and transactions; food and nonfood consumption; credit, savings, and gift transactions; wages, self-employment income, and time allocation; and the anthropometric status ... program was to analyze the determinants of access to credit in Malawi anditsimpacton farm and nonfarm income andon household food security The study also sought to quantify the relationship between ... Access to Credit andItsImpacton Welfare in Malawi Aliou Diagne Manfred Zeller Research Report 116 International Food Policy Research Institute Washington, D.C Access to Credit andItsImpact on...
... review, contributed to design, conducted and supervised data collection and drafted the manuscript EE contributed to design, conducted and supervised statistical analysis and contributed to the manuscript ... manuscript IS contributed to design and conducted the statistical analysis EB contributed to design, coordinated data collection and contributed to the manuscript ES drafted and edited the manuscript ... in access to health services anditsimpacton Quality of Life: a randomised population-based survey within Turkish speaking immigrants in London Kenan Topal1, Erhan Eser2, Ismail Sanberk3, Elizabeth...
... directly related to higher number of planned operations and simultaneous increasing in number of emergency cases These numbers changed in 2008 to 35% and 65% for bed and respirators shortage, respectively ... ambulance diversions, lower physician and staff productivity and higher levels of frustration among medical staff, are higher hospital costs and longer LOS [2,1113,21] In addition many patients in ... diversions to the nearest ED Fewer EDs and increasing number of patient visits over time, may also cause ED-overcrowding and consequent ambulance diversions [9,22] Ambulance diversion has a huge impact...
... your commitment to excellence and dedication to your work andto this book You took my nutritional theories and guidelines and translated them into the most delicious, satisfying, and practical ... Davina and Matt Small, Erica and Ted Howell, Vivian Leung and Michael Innis, Eric Swan, John Thacker, Mark Gillingham, Irene and James Paxton, Julie Hogan and Briscoe Rodgers, and the many other ... there is too much cholesterol and not enough The Liver Link 19 bile acids and lecithin to keep bile fluid, bile can become too thick and form gallstones In fact, gallstones are fairly common and often...
... function andits expansion determine both the form of the approximation and the coefficients In this way, the discretization of continuous fractional-order differentiator/integrator s±r r ∈ R can ... the system admits a constant of motion and the level curves are closed trajectories surrounding the fixed point Consequently, the levels of the predator and prey populations cycle and oscillate ... on Fractional Differentiation andIts Applications, University of Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain, October 2010 16 R Magin, X Feng, and D Baleanu, “Solving the fractional order Bloch equation,” Concepts...
... deficits in memory, cognition and learning [30], and decreased accuracy and reliability of contextual memories [6], thus contributing to behavioural adaptations to the responseto stress Prolonged ... thirst and cardiovascular mechanisms as well as in the organization of autonomic and endocrine responses The arcuate nucleus projects to preoptic LHRH neurons, and is involved in the regulation of ... autoimmune/allergic and inflammatory diseases that follow estradiol fluctuations Metabolic function Stress is understood to contribute to the pathogenesis of disease, and under chronic conditions contributes to...
... time to achieve Finally, it is essential to continue to monitor and build information and knowledge about the evolving opium economy, to engage in sound and careful policy analysis, andto utilize ... devoted to demand reduction in Afghanistan have been minuscule as compared with those devoted to eradication and interdiction While demand measures will not have a significant impacton the size and ... Afghanistan make decisions every year on whether to plant opium poppy, how much to plant, and how to organize the required labor and other inputs, as well as on when and how to sell (or store) the...
... language is a mono-language and most of its syllables not end in consonants (except some nasal and voiceless stop consonants), so this may result in the omission of - s plural and third person ... accurate than unplanned ones Foster and Skehan (1996) studied the impact of three different task types (personal information exchange, narrative, and decision making) as well as three conditions of ... happened during group planning andto seek the participants’ opinions and reflections on group talks and individual presentations they had engaged in The second questionnaire was administered...
... accurately than those in NP group in terms of EFVF and EFNF (in terms of tense, subject verb agreement and pronouncing morpheme-s in plurality ) Conclusions and Suggestions Group planning prior to individual ... Relationship between group work and individual presentation Objectives of the study contribute more theory to the understandings of group discussion find out the essentials of group discussion ... participants: 16 Number of participants in a group: Number of groups: ( No planning groups & Pre-planning groups) Records: All the group discussions and the individual presentations from No planning...
... designators correspond to the phrase pairs with j FL words and i English words For SU and SG , the majority of the phrases contain only one FL word, and the percentage of the phrases with more than ... and SB SU and SG yield low precision, high recall alignments In contrast, SI yields very high precision but very low recall SA and SB attempt to balance these two measures but their precision ... 10 notations distinguish between sure and probable alignment links, but English-Arabic annotations not The details of how the annotations are done can be found in (Ayan et al., 2005) and (Ittycheriah...
... broadleaf, Mixed cover, and Woodland; - Wooded grasslands; 8, - Closed shrublands, and Open shrublands; 10 - Grasslands; 11- Crop land; and Areal-Average potential evapotranspiration over basin 221 ... 0.950 and 0.001, respectively SRmax and SRmin are SR values corresponding to 98 and 5% of NDVI population, respectively Land cover classes of needleleaf deciduous, evergreen and shrub land thicket ... Land cover data and vegetation-related parameters The land cover data was obtained from UMD 1km Global Land Cover (http:// www.geog.umd.edu/landcover/1km-map.html) based on AVHRR and LDAS (Land...
... self-blaming stance), andan increasing ability to intervene Their emotional coping strategies (see pages 22 and 23) may also evolve and change Infants and Toddlers Babies and toddlers are too young to understand ... abuse andits emotional and financial consequences For many children, this “package” of adversities will compromise health, emotional well-being and academic success, in the short and/ or long term ... of Women Canadian society is changing: while many women and men today not buy into stereotypes and strict gender roles, some people still The Canadian Panel on Violence Against Women concluded...
... gene, consisting of six exons and five introns The Fig Comparison of the genomic organization of IL-18 and IL-1b genes in human, rainbow trout and the predicted Fugu/tetraodon organization GenBank ... that may have an important role in regulating IL-18 expression and processing in this species, the first report of such a phenomenon for this cytokine Materials and methods Cloning and sequencing ... region of exon 2, resulting in partial deletion of exon However, this deletion did not disrupt protein translation and thus the alternative spliced mRNA remained in-frame and potentially translated...
... lexical connection For example, Milan and Kucan are grouped as “Milan Kucan” since “Milan Kucan” is a key bigram concept; while Croatia, Yugoslavia, Slovenia, republic, and are joined due to the connections ... sentence containing “Milan Kucan” has a higher score than a sentence contains only either Milan or Kucan A sentence containing both Milan and Kucan but not in consecutive order gets a lower score too ... in content selection, we have started to p arse sentences containing key unigram, bigram, and trigram concepts to identify their relations within their concept clusters To enhance cohesion and...
... SSC-4(2):100–107 Andrew J Viterbi 1967 Error bounds for convolutional codes andan asymptotically optimum decoding algorithm IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 13(2):260–269 Jin-Dong Kim, Tomoko ... Tjong Kim Sang and Sabine Buchholz 2000 Introduction to the CoNLL-2000 shared task: Chunking Proceedings of CoNLL’00, pages 127–132 Fei Sha and Fernando Pereira 2003 Shallow parsing with conditional ... texts Proceedings of EMNLP’02 John Lafferty, Andrew McCallum, and Fernando Pereira 2001 Conditional random fields: Probabilistic models for segmenting and labeling sequence data Proceedings of ICML’01,...
... binding conditions using a chaperone exposed to either heat shock denaturation and aggregation (50–60 °C) or to a chemically induced conformational change in connection with long incubation times (1–20 ... Mg2+) a conformational change of Grp94 represented a major contribution to the overall SPR response The sensorgrams were therefore analysed by simple Langmuir binding ⁄ response isotherms, and the ... equilibrium responses (Req ¼ DRU at t ¼ min) as a function of the free analyte (A) concentration was used to determine the concentration at half-maximal response ([A]0.5) and the global Rmax(obs) by nonlinear...
... for Economic andPolicy Research University of Economics and Business, Vietnam National University Hanoi WP-05/2009 Regional Integration in East Asia andIts Impacts on Welfare and Sectoral Output ... for China, Japan and Korea due to the size of their economies (Ando and Urata, 2006; Lee and van der Mensbrugghe, 2008; Plummer and Wignaraja, 2007; Tsutsumi and Kiyota, 2000; Zhang et al., 2006) ... between ASEAN andits major trading partners Section reviews some theoretical arguments on FTAs and previous studies on East Asian FTAs Section describes the model and simulation scenarios Section presents...
... 185, 161, 201 and 202 for Permatang Rotan tributary; Units 160 and 200 for Permatang Rawa tributary and; Units 159 and for Ara River tributary (Fig 1) This paper focused on the upper storage areas ... variation of peak stage and flow between 0%, 50% and 100% urbanization in order to determine the impact of urbanization on the target/source areas From this analysis, the proportional relationship ... urbanization increased from 0% to 50% and 100% Both points showed a shift from negative skew values, –0.43 and –0.12 (0% urbanization), to positive skew values of 0.23 and 0.4 (100% urbanization)...
... information about the sites Thanks to A Jonshagen, H Göransson, M.B Larsson, M.L Gernersson and T Olsson for all their help with field and laboratory work S Belyazid, B Nihlgård, H Wallander and two anonymous ... therefore based on stands infection Maurel et al [35–37] and Fleischmann et al [17] demonstrated significantly reduced stomatal conductance and transpiration for seedlings of Castanea sativa, Fagus ... severely declining trees), and average values ± SD for stands with (Pq+) and without (Pq–) P quercina For stand and 2, leaf concentrations of P are missing For stand 9, concentration of P in the mineral...
... (Farina and Channon 1988; Alva and Sumner,1990) or dolomite (Munns and Fox, 1977; Adams, 1984; Kamprath and Foy, 1985) can also be used to neutralize acidity, to reduce the exchangeable A andto increase ... phenomenon has been accelerated by natural acidification of organic acids in litter, acid atmospheric deposition, cation uptake and biomass harvest (Andersson and Persson, 1988) High A concentrations ... objective of this study was to investigate changes in the pH, exchangeable cations and base saturation after the addition of different types and quantities of lime and gypsum, andto examine leachate...