societal aging and its impact on religious institutions

... on consumption and nutrition through its potential effect on income The rural financial institutions in Malawi covered in this study not offer financial products, such as consumption credit and ... composition, and distribution Asset ownership, composition, and distribution by credit program membership Loan transactions and their characteristics Distribution of formal and informal credit limits ... status Chapter considers implications for policy and future research CHAPTER CHAPTER The Rural Economy and Microfinance The Rural Economy and Institutions in Malawi Microfinance Institutions in Malawi...

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... organization (1999 dollars) Source: Reports of Condition and Income, National Information Center Database deposit share has come at the expense of regional and super-regional banking organizations, ... Index Source: Summary of Deposits, National Information Center Database II IMPACT OF THE CHANGES ON CONSUMERS Consumers have traditionally relied on nearby banks and branches for many of their ... there were few synergies on either the production or the consumption side (Ferguson) Another reason for doubting that financial integration will have a big impact on consumers is that, thanks...

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... fluctuation in temperature At present time, using our current understanding on the atmosphere that based on hypothesises and models, we cannot yet make accurate predictions on the future climate.Conclusion:Although ... level of CO2 concentration obtained in various stations in the earth, it is calculated that 52% of the 14 billion tones of carbon dioxide is being retained in the atmosphere per year; and 37% sinks ... climate.Conclusion:Although there are still many problems regarding the relationship of carbon dioxide and global climatic changes and even global warming itself, there is little question that climate...

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... Trade-Concentration in Latin America Trade-Concentration in Mexico Trade-Concentration in Citlalicalli V TRADE-CONCENTRATION IN CITLALICALLI 84 86 90 CAUSES OF RETAIL CONCENTRATION ... emerging economies Then, the status of trade-concentration in Citlalicalli is evaluated Once the presence of retail trade-concentration is established, causes of its occurrence and its effects on the ... causes and impediments for tradeconcentration I will now turn to how the term trade-concentration is used in this study What is trade-concentration? In this dissertation, retail trade-concentration...

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... International migration and health A paper prepared for the Policy Analysis and Research Programme of the Global Commission on International Migration, International Centre for Migration and Health, ... literature 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 ... living alone (single), non homeownership, low socioeconomic status were significantly related to social relationships dimension; poor educational and socioeconomic status, non homeownership and poor...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... t) ∈ I and Ex,k [·] stands for the expectation over the set of iterations (we can consider an arbitrary subset of all iterations) and the observation vector Once the autocorrelation function is ... implementation (5) We demonstrate the procedure on number of example applications EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking KLT Message Representation 3.1 Core Principle This section ... based on Fourier and Tikhonov parameterization were proposed in [14] The parameterizations are suited for the channels affected with strong phase noise The Fourier and Tikhonov parameterizations...

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... C., and Yassir, N A.Estimation of horizontal stress at the depth in faulted regions and their relationship to pore pressure variation SPE Formation Evaluation (1996) [2] Ambastha, A K., and Meng, ... W., and Teufel, L W Effect of Reservoir Stress Path on Compressibility and Permeability of Sandstones SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, Washington, D.C.(1992) [20] Ta, Q D., and ... The selections of fault models, fault friction, friction internal angle and Poisson’s ratio are very important to assess the influence of discontinuity on the reservoir compaction and subsidence...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 13:20

... self-selection bias and exercise effects due to the exercisers among the community controls, we also created groups of Ever-Runners and NeverRunners based on responses to the question at baseline: ... female community controls and 116 male community controls who completed all questionnaires In addition to time, group, and gender, presence of arthritis (p < 0.001) and education years (p = 0.036) ... for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Trends in aging: United States and worldwide MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2003, 52:101-104 Centers for Disease Control: The State of Aging and Health in...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:20

... Spinsterhood and its impact on disease features in women with rheumatoid arthritis Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:58 Authors’ contributions BA and NHH conceived the study, participated in its ... [1,13] Limitations in basic function in RA patients can undermine well-being and contribute to poor QoL, perpetuating limitations in important social roles and functions of daily life and increasing ... collected: age, educational level (subdivided into three groups: no formal education, primary education; and secondary education or more), socioeconomic status (determined by the monthly household...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:20

... post-transfection and VCM (Virion Containing Medium) was harvested/ concentrated 24 hrs later by centrifugation and filtration through 0.2 μm filters Lentiviral transduction, colony expansion and harvesting ... combinations with repeated units of comparable size and spacing to ours [45], and 7%, 20% and 87% for double combinations with adjacent non-shRNA repeated units 117, 284 and 971 bp long [37] ... single cell populations per combination which we expanded under G418 selection We were able to recover 100 expanded populations for 2.2, 5.3 and 6.3, but only 83 populations for 3.2, and 48 for 4.3...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:20

... differentiation and transformation [22,29] Its expression is controlled by DNA methylation [30,31], known to restrict the access of transcription factors to binding sites [32] The +1/+30 region of the ... binding Conclusion In summary, our study demonstrates a bidirectional interaction between HTLV-I and galectin-1 The data demonstrated that expression of galectin-1 was increased in chronically ... quantification of both transcripts was initiated with a denaturation step of 95°C for 10 seconds, followed by 50 cycles (denaturation at 94°C for seconds, 57°C for annealing during 15 seconds, and elongation...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 05:21

... prolonged pain and suffering for some patients, long waiting times, patient dissatisfaction, more ambulance diversions, lower physician and staff productivity and higher levels of frustration among ... missions, 1046 other regional (e.g.traffic accidents, sport events), national (e.g.storm, flooding), and international (e.g.terrorist actions, evacuation of Swedish citizens from war zones), incidents ... bed shortage and ED-overcrowding and consume huge regional resources The aim of this paper was to identify the causes of these incidents in the Region Västra Götaland (western region of Sweden)...

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... (i) The Law on Foreign Investment in 1987, its amendments in 2000 and its later unification with the Law on Domestic Investment in 2005; (ii) The Law on Enterprises in 1999, and its replacement ... Law on the State Bank in 1997 and the Law on Credit Institutions of 1997, amendments to both laws in 2003 and 2004 respectively; the new Law on the State Bank of Vietnam 2010; and the new Law on ... N.N. Thang / VNU Journal of Science, Economics and Business 27, No. 5E (2011) 12‐19 of the stock market and a transparent economy in Vietnam In the light of the both domestic and international attention paid to good...

Ngày tải lên: 02/01/2015, 17:33

... (i) The Law on Foreign Investment in 1987, its amendments in 2000 and its later unification with the Law on Domestic Investment in 2005; (ii) The Law on Enterprises in 1999, and its replacement ... Law on the State Bank in 1997 and the Law on Credit Institutions of 1997, amendments to both laws in 2003 and 2004 respectively; the new Law on the State Bank of Vietnam 2010; and the new Law on ... N.N. Thang / VNU Journal of Science, Economics and Business 27, No. 5E (2011) 12‐19 of the stock market and a transparent economy in Vietnam In the light of the both domestic and international attention paid to good...

Ngày tải lên: 06/01/2015, 19:47

... provinces and two case studies were selected - one on special education and one on inclusive education in Danang and Vinh Long respectively Data collection The survey was conducted with qualitative and ... implementation of the National Law on Disability [4] Law on Protection, Care and Education for Children (revised 2004) [5] Ordinance on Disabled Persons [6] Resolution 30a/2008/NQ-CP on 27/12/2008 ... ideas and suggestions for writing the paper References [1] The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities [2] National Law on Disability [3] Decree Nr.28/NĐ-CP on 10...

Ngày tải lên: 09/03/2015, 16:52

... (i) The Law on Foreign Investment in 1987, its amendments in 2000 and its later unification with the Law on Domestic Investment in 2005; (ii) The Law on Enterprises in 1999, and its replacement ... Law on the State Bank in 1997 and the Law on Credit Institutions of 1997, amendments to both laws in 2003 and 2004 respectively; the new Law on the State Bank of Vietnam 2010; and the new Law on ... Journal of Science, Economics and Business 27, No 5E (2011) 12-19 of the stock market and a transparent economy in Vietnam In the light of the both domestic and international attention paid to good...

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... variations of' substrates Especially in decisive reactor, the conditions of sludge concentration and oxygen should be strictly controlled Steady sludge concentration and aerobic situation are ... LJNITANK units 240 No Sludge concentration dynamic distribution and its impact on the performance of UNITANK ~~~~ Influent quality was considered stable during the tested half-cycle 2.3.1 Variations ... substrate's concentration ( m a ) and X is the sludge concentration (g/L) It should be mentioned that most NH3-N had been transformed into N03-N and the change trend of N03-N Table Partial precondition...

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... cumulative pollution concentration in the breathing zone and personal exposure - Impact of the source location 106 Figure 5.5 Concentration of tracer gas in the breathing zone - Impact of room ... cumulative pollution concentration in the breathing zone and personal exposure – Impact of table positioning 113 Figure 5.12 Concentration of tracer gas in the breathing zone – Impact of a seated ... air mixing The pollution source location had a considerable influence on the pollution concentrations measured in the breathing zone and on the extent to which the pollution spread to the surroundings...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 08:17

... dissertation "Chapter Three: Youth Narratives in Research Literature" begins with a short consideration of the denotations and connotations attached to the concept of "youth", and moves on to examine ... address the conditions and expectations underlying these assumptions, about how the respective modes of institutionalised knowledge are conventionally represented in opposition, and the kinds ... complicated Its impact on societal structures has been discussed in contexts as far back as in ancient China, where apparently "Confucianists disesteemed money handling, long hours of labour, and 35...

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