... convergence of the remaining parts of the chains to the equilibrium distributions This was done by computing the Gelman and Rubin shrink factors R [49,52,53] This diagnostic compares the "within-chain" ... since the correction dominates the tail of the distribution, the real normalization constant is numerically indistinguishable from λ We modeled the data by a minimizing a weighted χ2 using the ... distribution become visible in the tail The dotted lines show the original Gumbel distribution, when fitted to the region of high probability The inset shows the same data with linear ordinate L=M=40 0.0100...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 17:20
... that they attempted to irrigate the crop to the best of their ability Therefore farmers might continue irrigating after losing all hope of raising a successful crop In the shorter term, the next ... possibilities, in which a farmer is either constrained or unconstrained by well capacity For the unconstrained producer, water use is determined by the intersection of the marginal cost and benefit ... gain of planting either wheat or corn is equal Once the well capacity constraint is reached, there will be diminishing returns to planting the water intensive crop This occurs because the crop receives...
Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2016, 13:34
Factors influencing borrower’s behavior and decision making patterns in the success of a micro finance model
... debt financing On the other hand, the individual with low income and savings is more attracted towards debt financing The selection of income group and the means of income are very important The ... having 31% market share Other NGOs enjoy the remaining market share in micro financing After reviewing the literature on the positive impact of micro financing in developing countries like Bangladesh, ... financing by realigning their marketing mechanisms and strategies to attract less educated masses through staff trainings and holding open sessions in these localities and persuading them in their...
Ngày tải lên: 06/09/2013, 05:48
The use of hypothesis-testing statistics in clinical trials
... is just as relevant In fact, the two factors go together: the larger the sample, the smaller the data variability; the smaller the sample, the larger the data variability The benefit of large ... improvement in depression rating scale score) In general, the first approach is taken: the actual change in points is compared in the two groups This is a continuous scale of measurement (1,2,3,4 points ... variability of the data is the SD 51 Section 3: Chance The third factor, also frequently ignored, is the effect size: the larger the effect size, the greater the power of the study; the smaller the effect...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 11:20
Tài liệu Thought Vibration or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World doc
... of the mind to the will can be increased by properly directed practice That which we are in the habit of referring to as the "strengthening of the Will" is in reality the training of the mind ... are doing, saying and thinking It is astonishing how much interest we may find in the ordinary things of life if we will only wake up There are interesting things all around us - interesting events ... over the wireless telegraphy of the Mind The man who rises in the morning feeling "grumpy" usually manages to have the whole family in the same mood before the breakfast is over The "nagging"...
Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 06:15
Expansion and its realization in the short story “the law of life” by jack london
... analyzing the text Design of the study The study is designed into parts Part A introduces the reasons for choosing the topic, the aims of the study, the methodology, the scope, and the design of the ... is the part in which the Theme is developed According to Eggins (1994: 275) the Theme typically contains familiar, or given, information, i.e information which has been given somewhere in the ... complexes, while the ordinal numbers in brackets denote the number of clauses in the complexes The conjunctive signals are underlined As shown in the data, in the text given there are 49 clause...
Ngày tải lên: 29/01/2014, 14:44
Tài liệu CHEAP POSTAGE REMARKS AND STATISTICS ON THE SUBJECT OF CHEAP POSTAGE AND POSTAL REFORM IN GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES ppt
... only on the business of the country, but upon the intelligence, knowledge, and the exercise of the friendly and social feelings; and in the opinion of the undersigned, should be reduced to the lowest ... affinities, elevating our people in the scale of civilization, and binding them together in patriotic affection.” These are the objects for which congress is bound to maintain the post-office, ... $250,321; and the investigations made into the operations of the current year, indicate a further and an increasing decline, at the rate of about $300,000 a year Why this loss of revenue, when the general...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 02:20
Tài liệu In the know - Using information to make better decisions: a discussion paper docx
... However, the information needs for decisions have some things in common Some of the main processes involved in collecting data, creating information and using information for decision making are ... relevant, objective information to help them understand the consequences of the trade-offs inherent in the decisions that they have to take In the know | Information, information, information: relevance, ... 36 In the know | Information, information, information: relevance, quality and presentation 81 Information is inherently expensive The resources invested in gathering, storing, aggregating,...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 05:20
Tài liệu BEYOND THE LAW The Bush Administration’s Unlawful Responses in the “War” on Terror pptx
... enemy combatant detainees and their supporters captured during the U.S war in Afghanistan emerged within the Bush administration in 2002 The plan was developed within months after the United States ... message by the Secretary of Defense in the face of war crime abuse can abet criminal activity Writing in a prominent newspaper in May 2004, and with the then publicized criminal treatment and interrogation ... Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment has condemned the use of the following interrogation tactics as either torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment: (1) restraining in very...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 05:20
Tài liệu Constructing Civil Liberties Discontinuities in the Development of American Constitutional Law pdf
... the story in detail, we are slow in re-valuing the whole and reorganizing the broad outlines of the theme in light of these discoveries.” There remains a persistent “tendency to patch the new research ... other criminal process rights In resisting the progressive program concerning prohibition, the Court played a major role in inventing the modern constitutional doctrine of criminal procedure In ... quietly in the face of the disgorged evidence, Wilkes fought back against the manner in which his penning of the infamous North Briton #45 had been discovered by successfully suing the invading Crown...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 11:20
Tài liệu Definition in the Criminal Law docx
... from the side of the competing principle, it is a matter of deciding whether the principle in use (i) should be instantiated in this case, with the possibility of also delving into the principle ... principle, the application of the principle is a matter of fixing the content of the principle’s subject matter, and then considering whether the law should apply the outcome provided by the principle ... considering a single example The definition of theft in ss 1–6 of the Theft Act 1968 includes within its terms illustrations of the particularly Search for Principle 17 In such a case, the simplistic...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 12:20
Tài liệu Answering for Crime Responsibility and Liability in the Criminal Law ppt
... make in interpreting and applying the law (and of the laws that they are interpreting and applying), and that we can therefore identify as implicit in the law Such an identification would be the ... recognising the truth in the by now clichéd distinction between the law in the books’ and the law in action’: between the law as represented in statutes, codes, textbooks and treatises, and the ... controversies about the structure and scope of legal justifications Here again my interest is in the structure rather than the content of the criminal law, and in fleshing out the distinction between...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 12:20
Tài liệu MARRIAGE LAW AND PRACTICE IN THE LONG EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ppt
... borrowing the terminology of conveyancing,82 contract and completion In the conveyancing process, the contract signed by the parties binds them to the sale If either party attempts to renege on the ... in the results actually obtained Without giving away the ending, it is worth making the (somewhat obvious) point that the ability to ascertain that a particular marriage occurred depends on the ... entered in the Redgester, owing to his negligence, he being a very Drinking Man.61 The simple fact that the percentage of marriages traced rises in direct proportion to the information available indicates...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 13:20
Tài liệu The Environmental Element in Space Law pptx
... environmentalist thinking Part One also contains a presentation of the expanding spectrum of the various stakeholders in the modern space sector They generate increasing complexity in the management ... the costs The increasing role of the commercial space industry magnifies the problems since commercial actors largely follow the reasoning of any other investment decisionmaking The environmental ... legally binding international instruments.78 The expertise and contacts these groups gain at the international level are likely to further enhance their in uence,79 particularly if they are capable...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 14:20
Tài liệu Property and the Family in Biblical Law ppt
... ('redeem') their blood into the family And again, the outer limit of the right of inheritance is the mSphh While in theory the mSphh replcaes the old byt 'b of the deceased ancestor, the case of ... within the confines of the mSphh On the other hand, the theoretical legal validity of the tribe in the context of inheritance can be accepted for the presettlement narratives precisely because the ... O Divine one, I have [therefore] come Let my lord offer me the ruling in the case of the breaking of tablets in the absence of judges and the principal party to the case.' This document, then,...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 04:20
Tài liệu Cinema, TV and radio in the EU Statistics on audiovisual services pptx
... in 1895 The number of cinema theatres reached its maximum in Europe in the 1920s, starting to decline thereafter In the nineties the decline came to a halt and with the growth of multiplex cinemas ... Measured in yen, the Japanese ticket price increased by 6% during the nineties, compared to 25% in the EU and 28% in US Measured in euro, the ticket price in Japan increased 96% and in US by 76% during ... growth in cinema attendance in the EU In 2001, 19% of the cinemas in the EU-15 were multiplexes Cinema exhibition started more than 100 years ago The Lumière brothers opened the first cinema in Paris...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 14:20
Tài liệu recent trends in the law and policy of bioenergy production promotion and use docx
Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 05:20
Consumer Credit Law & Practice in the U.S. doc
... of the face value of the check, or otherwise based on the amount borrowed The lender then gives the borrower the amount of the check, minus the fee The lender agrees to hold the check until the ... requiring the borrower to pay another fee The TILA requires the cost of payday loans (including the amount of the finance charge) and APR to be disclosed to the consumer before consummating the ... new information about consumers to the credit bureaus, they generally use the SSN as a designator to indicate the individual person to whom the new information relates Next, the file includes information...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:21
Proposal for a COUNCIL DECISION authorising enhanced cooperation in the area of financial transaction tax potx
... within the Council in the foreseeable future Enhanced cooperation in the area of the establishment of a common system of FTT aims at ensuring the proper functioning of the internal market At the ... services bearing in mind the increasing number of uncoordinated national tax measures being put in place- with the consequent possibilities of distortions of competition between financial instruments, ... a proposal to the Council to that end EN EN 4.3 Furthering the objectives of the Union, protecting its interests and reinforcing its integration process The establishment of an internal market...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 19:20
A Modern Treatise on the Principle of Legality in Criminal Law doc
... role in strengthening the rule of law in England, it was not adequate to establish the principle of legality in criminal law.21 The modern principle of legality originates in the insights of the ... criminal law theory The supra-principle of criminal law theory is the principle of free choice According to the supra-principle, no criminal liability can be imposed on an individual unless the individual ... replacing the entire theory From the supra-principle derive the fundamental principles that break down the supra-principle into basic legal principles, which in turn guide the application of the...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 03:20