scientific literacy a conceptual and empirical review

... Growth Rate Loan Supply Growth Rate Annual Growth Rate Annual Growth Rate Ratio, Interest Rate Source: National Bank of Poland, Central Statistical Office (GUS) and the authors’ calculations. 35 (15) ... loans. The exogenous variablesofbothloandemandandsupplyfunctionsand their expected signs are as follows. The loan interest rate, IL t ,isdefinedasanarithmeticalmeanof3-month, 6-month and 1-year weighted ... of the traditional interest rate channel. An important explanatory factor of amplification and attenuation eff ects is the sensitivity of banks and firms to loan and market interest rates. But...

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... bladder in- continence, and sexual dysfunction 1,20 . However, in- flammatory reaction against the dead parasite is as- sociated with perilesional edema, which can damage medullar parenchyma and ... intramedullary cysticer- cosis at T4 and T5 vertebral level and discussed its diagnosis and treatment with literature review. Case Report A 40-year-old female patient was transferred to our department ... patients whom are highly suspected as intramedullary cysticercosis and whose clinical courses are stable. The potential ad- vantages of medical therapy alone include avoidance of surgery and...

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... disadvantage noncompliance. Law is also similar to what Wiener and Doescher (1991)'term a structural solution, that is, a political act that mandates individual behavior. For Taylor and ... have changed dramati- cally in the past years, and as a result, policy with respect to managing tobacco usage behavior also has changed. The re- lationship of behavior management and externalities ... 1 Applications of Education, Marketing, and Law Social Dilemmas and Social Traps Social dilemmas (Dawes 1980; Wiener and Doescher 1991) are characterized as situations in which each individual...

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... as Canada [19] and the United States of America [20] have realised the impor- tance of teaching undergraduate medical students about international or global health issues and this teaching has become ... public health and international health teaching in German medical education. In doing so, we will assess the state of global health in German medical education and evaluate the applicability of ... determinants of health, health inequities and inequalities, global health organisa - tions and governance, human rights, medical peace work, environmental threats and climate change have become increasingly...

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... Childcare programmes as an entry point for maternal and child health components of primary health care. Geneva: Maternal and Child Health and Family Planning Division of Family Health, World Health ... child care, and nutritional status of 12-18-month-old children in Managua, Nicaragua. Social Science & Medicine. 46(3), 403-414. Lee, E. (1997). Globalization and labour standards: A review ... the last several decades. If remittances from absent fathers are adequate, children can benefit, but separation may instead weaken the traditional ties, financial as well as emotional, of fathers...

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... Accoramboni (VA) and the first chapter of a novel by Balzac, Le P~re Goriot (LPG) (Table 1). VA, available as plain text, under- went manual tagging of paragraphs, sentences and boundaries ... Coreference: a Conceptual Frame and its Application Andrei POPESCU-BELIS, Isabelle ROBBA and G6rard SABAH Language and Cognition Group, LIMSI-CNRS B.P. 133 Orsay, France, 91403 {popescu, robba, gs}@limsi.fr ... understanding by a computer program (c). Such a program has to build and manage, in theory, a RWc and a RWc(s), using information about the world, the message itself, and possi- bly a deictic...

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... Senegal, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Vietnam, Zambia and Zimbabwe – and mainly over cereals—maize, wheat, sorghum, millet and teff (see Tables 2 and 3). Table 2. Dataset description: ... Ethiopia, Ghana, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Malawi, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Senegal, ... Mitigation and Adaptation in Sub-Saharan Africa. Rome, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. World-Bank. 2006. Sustainable Land Management: Challenges, Opportunities, and Trade-offs....

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... Expand and train the workforce to protect the Nation’s competitive advantage; and • Help organizations and individuals make smart choices as they manage risk. Increase Public Awareness Broad ... mod els. A group of academics organized by NSF cited DARPA’s grand challenges, the Malcolm - - Baldrige National Quality Award, and the competition to create the Advanced Encryption Standard as other ... ENCOURAGING INNOVATION greatly expand coordination of these strategies with industry and academic research efforts to avoid duplication, leverage and synchronize complementary capabilities and agendas,...

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... linguis- tically and culturally constructed, I thus accept the traditional anthropo- logical assumption that certain patterns of grief and mourning are transcultural and transhistorical. If social “power” ... to proclaim – and to proclaim it so clearly that no hearer in heaven or earth could miss it – that there was but one faith and one salvation. David Dewey had lived a life so clearly stamped with ... chivalry toward the dead is a familiar impulse among early Americanists, veterans of a longstanding struggle to get our period and our writers taken seriously. Puritanists in particu- lar have...

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... with normal urination and bowel function and good daily self-management. Physical examinations showed that superficial sensation was gradually diminished and muscle power of upper and lower ... that a foramen magnum arachnoid cyst induces compression of the spinal cord and syringomyelia, and currently there are few treatment experiences available. Here we reported the case of a 43-year-old ... syringomyelia and tonsillar herniation after poste- rior fossa arachnoid cyst excision. Case report and literature review. Neurocirugia (Astur). 2007;18:227-31. 18. Martínez-Lage JF, Ruiz-Espejo A, ...

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... such methods as descriptive, analytic, comparative and contrastive are also utilized to describe and analyze, to compare and contrast the database so as to bring out similarities and differences ... technology. It includes Canada and Northern States of the USA. Although English and French are legitimated official languages of Canada, the Canadian respondents are native speakers of English, either ... Vietnamese. The combination of pragmatics and CA takes advantage of the strengths and reduces the limitations of each approach. 6.2. Data from questionnaires and naturally occurring conversation For the...

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