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... engine, we separate the training phase from the recognizing phase in order to reduce the system resource used in T-Engine The training phase is implement in a PC with speech data from T-Engine, ... data, and the complexity of f0 balancing considerably But the quality of speech is not very good, especially with “~” and “?” tones such as "bão" and "bảo" because of the very complicated changing ... human-machine interaction product using T-Engine However, in Vietnamese there are some specific characteristics that make the speech synthesis a little difference than in other languages Following...

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... biological and psychological science provided no warrant for the easy assumption of racial superiority.27 And in Smuts and J.H Hofmeyr they found politicians whose appreciation and understanding of science ... can read This “popular science has now become a best-selling genre in developed countries It makes for exciting reading, certainly more gripping and mind-expanding than many of the turgid tomes ... that the spirit and direction in every subject taught must correspond to the Christian and National life- and world-view and that in no subject may anti-Christian or unchristian or anti-national...

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... reach-back modification of the original approach is analyzed and explained A case study implemented on 802.15.4 Zigbee scheduling and coordinated duty cycling in order to enhance the battery lifetime ... Monitoring Using Petri-Nets Petri-nets have been previously largely used in the areas of systems modelling and simulation In this article Prickett et al employ this concept as a process monitoring and ... Journal on Embedded Systems to manage the vehicle components heterogeneity and to provide a plug and play support The proposed approach is expected to ease setup, service provisioning, and enable...

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... overworking and underpaying her 61 In sum, abuse cases involving FDWs are often handled by authorities on an ad-hoc basis This „handsoff‟ approach and the lack of consensus in regulating domestic ... training standards, including infant care, cooking, and spoken English The agency also emphasizes its ethical and efficient operation through accreditation schemes, simultaneously guaranteeing ... (LFPR) in services and manufacturing rose from 19.3% in 1957 to 24.6% in 1970.18 As Singapore moved beyond manufacturing to consolidate its position in Asia as a financial and communications hub in...

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... could include budget and financial management; personnel management, including performance management; procurement and distribution for drugs and other commodities; information management and knowledge ... summarize current thinking on, and future action points for, strengthening leadership and management in low-income countries Output A leadership and management framework Leadership and management are ... leadership and management resource institutions and individuals active in the field; iii) Creating a clearing house/knowledge centre to review and increase access to simple and effective leadership and...

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... frames in fig 1, are position RVs, a and b, which encode the current positions in the source and target strings resp.; source and target symbols, s and t; the hidden edit operation, Z; and consistency ... Wison, and E.R Hancock 2000 Bayesian graph edit distance IEEE Trans on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 22:628–635 M Neuhaus and H Bunke 2004 A probabilistic approach to learning costs for ... lexicons For testing we randomly divided STP data into 9495 training words (corresponding to 9545 pronunciations) and 912 test words (901 pronunciations) For the Levenshtein and MCI results only,...

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... Department investigations began in 1959, and a grand jury handed down indictments in the next year As the result of successful prosecution under the Sherman Act's section I,2 conspiring companies and individual ... alleged price signaling in turbine generators during the 1960's In 1963, GE announced major changes in its turbine-generator pricing policies, issuing a revised price book and eliminating price escalation ... 8) Westinghouse also followed GE' s lead by adopting a priceprotection policy and publishing outstanding orders and quotations in that same year Citing internal company documents, Justice interpreted...

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... acquisition and interpretation GI was involved in data acquisition and interpretation, and manuscript drafting SB and AB were involved in data acquisition AF was involved in data interpretation and manuscript ... obtained and maintained using antegrade intermittent blood cardioplegia After completion of the CPB and removal of the cannulas, heparin was reversed using protamine sulfate at a 1:1 ratio During ... than 450 seconds was achieved Additional heparin boluses were used to maintain an activated clotting time in this range before and during CPB Double venous cannulation of the superior and inferior...

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... needs and the actions of other team members by offering an immediate and internalised understanding of how team members coordinate behaviour and choose different actions without explicit demands ... JE and GB Data collection and synthesis was completed by HKW and IR Manuscript preparation was performed by HKW, JE and BHJ Final proofing of the manuscript was by HKW, JE, BHJ and GB Competing ... higher-performing teams and 13 lower-performing teams when measured by Performance Score, and 18 higher-performing teams and nine lower-performing teams based on their Medical Management The inter-rater...

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... Cataloging in Publication Data applied for This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes ... supporting me, and all of my family and friends, particularly my parents Christine and Colin for their unerring patience Colleagues and students also need a mention, since intellectual influence ... motivating and disciplining, providing moral leadership and proving a clarion call against the neglect of the poor, diseased and incapable As a social project it carries all the great meanings...

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... and huge demand led to ‘large and profligate lending outside the limits of banking probity, inability by borrowers to repay and to service loans; a threat to international banking stability and ... important for institutional underpinning of macroeconomic and financial stability Evaluation, performance and governance reviews are now replete in type and coverage of economic performance, financial ... control over global financial systems and institutions We return to our two grand narratives – ‘crisis but salvation’ and ‘resistance but subordination’ – and find them both wanting: the failure...

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... Conversely, and again despite the good intentions of debt campaigners, an absence of surveillance means that debt cancellation can provide a one-off rent for elite consumption: even in Tanzania and Uganda, ... welfare and social policy, saving lives and humanitarian assistance, through to providing equity subsidies to major global companies and enforcing the types of markets they wish to work in through ... sector and the public sector in the form of development finance, and has examined the intimate relationship conceptually and practically between flows of money called ‘investment’, ‘debt and debt...

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... Page 50 MONEY AND POWER business cultures in their management of risk, in addition to financial instruments and sensitivity testing, and other modes of quantification and provisioning In this there ... bank, providing an insurance for convertibility in an ‘IFC-led and -syndicated “liquidity backstop” feature’, and by so doing contributed to greater integration and cross-provisioning in the international ... MONEY AND POWER The International Finance Corporation and sovereign economies Large companies in the core states have currency and interest rate swaps made available to them by international investment...

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... infrastructure and natural resources; banking and fund management; and human resource development In the late 1980s privatisation was being talked about, and an early institutional change was to create, in ... and Netherlands development agency was the Kilombero Sugar Company in Tanzania in 1960, a project later transferred to the Tanzania Government due to financing problems related to the IFC being ... enterprises, and more latterly from direct involvement in financial companies in- country, and becoming instead a private equity emerging markets ‘fund of funds’, choosing to place its own funds in other...

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... state and an account of the changing role of the CDC in managing investment and liquidity The case study shows how one dominant core lender in the global interstate system, Britain, worked within ... funding), which offered a ‘profound and promising change in the way international development is financed and conducted’ USAID has ‘embraced this change’ and adopted the ‘Global Development Alliance ... The political consequences of Ferguson’s corrective is that: the most challenging political demands go beyond the claims of political independence and instead involve demands for connection, and...

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... finance institutions (DFIs), in directly sponsoring and underwriting an economy and set of activities in supply and procurement which delivers goods and services to the development industry In ... companies in the same Anglophone African countries for language reasons, as well as from Scandinavian engineering firms and French and German firms whose employees are increasingly multilingual ... French and British, as illustrated in Table 6.3 Meanwhile, Japan, a more recent major power in the international economy and with less historic influence in international financial and trading affairs,...

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... (European Investment Bank), FMO (Nederlandse Financierings-Maatschappij voor Ontwikkelingslanden), IFC (International Finance Corporation), IFU (Industrialiseringsfonden for Udviklingslandene), ... Predators retain a leading role in listing stock for companies, and in sponsoring financial institutions and instruments The IFC set up its Capital Markets Department back in 1971 and initiates a ... proportion’ of financial sector interventions itself, as an advisor and investor, and sees its role in the financial sector as transmitting efficiency to the economy as a whole, and of changing ownership...

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... involvements are predominantly exportoriented or in the financial sector, illustrating well the role of DFIs in providing institutions and structures for the export, and then recycling, of finance ... Tanzania, Malawi, Uganda and Zambia In Tanzania, Malawi, Uganda and Zambia structural adjustment was used to build the strength of the CDC portfolio, but again, not predominantly in cutting edge new ... held debt in 1999 Existing Controlled and owned by Alcan Inc Headquartered in Montreal (e) Managed by Venture Fund Management USAID and UNIDO involvement Refinanced periodically Existing, manages...

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