... Faculty ofthe Graduate School of The University of Texas at Austin in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy The University of Texas at Austin ... and the type of electronic 16labor, and where t is the number of years in business. t is included inthe model to control for the maturity of a company. Companies operating inthe Internet ... migrate many of their business activities to the Internet, can they also benefit from insights regarding productive and unproductive activities in an online world? In the late nineties, online traffic...
... with guidelines from the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India. Based on the Planning Commission, Government ofIndia estimates of 2004-05 (uniform recall period), 27% ofIndia s ... poliomyelitis. These vaccines have been integrated into the public health program of many developing countries including India. Usually, the date and type of vaccination of a child are recorded in a ... services by the mother were significant factors inthe reduction of infant and child mortality inthe 1990s (Rutstein 2000; Hatt L.E and Waters H.R 2006). Inthe Indian context, improvement in the...
... as possible, inthe Indian context. Under the auspices ofthe WHO, Chakraborty re-estimated the burden of disease in The Indian Journal of Tuberculosis ESTIMATING THE BURDEN OF PULMONARY ... ignore the findings of surveys, wherein the initial screening was 'symptom elicitation'. Disregarding the findings of these surveys had led Dye et al to estimate of prevalence of bacteriological ... providing an estimate ofthe tuberculosis burden in India 4. It is presently intended to discuss some of the problems here, in arriving at the estimate ofthe tuberculosis burden inthe country....
... actors. This is the availability of such information, and the way it is being analysed and used inIndia that we tried to assess. It appears that the availability of this kind ofinformation has ... industries inIndia conducted by the IEG during the years 1996 and 2000. For the sugar industry, the data include information about 60 firms for the year 1994-1995 and about 120 firms for the years ... disutility of water pollution is linked to an hypothetical increased risk of contamination of drinking water, the rural disutility caused by the same degradation can be expressed in terms of loss of...
... properties of the document containing the sentence and properties of the sentence itself. Regarding the former type,two features come into play: the relevance score of the document (from the IR engine) ... Surprisingly, adding1Since the count variant of POURPRE achieved the highestcorrelation with of cial rankings, the nugget score is simply the highest fraction in terms of word overlap between the ... acquiring nuclear weapons?”, which are the focus ofthe AQUAINT program inthe U.S., andopinion questions such as “How does the Chileangovernment view attempts at having Pinochet tried in Spanish...
... utilization ofthe produced byproducts and sustaining animal production. The futureof animal protein in poultry diets in reality lies within the decisions made by the industry itself and the consumers ... United States beginning in 1986 following the first confirmatory diagnosis of BSE inthe United Kingdom, has resulted in no cases of BSE found in U S cattle nor have any cases of the human form, ... “Measures inthe U.S. that are most effective at reducing the spread of BSE include the ban on the import of live ruminants and ruminant meat and bone meal from the United Kingdom (since 1989)...
... from the aforementioned groups, organizing the logistics of mail-outs and meetings, and sharing inthe writing and editing ofthe many versions of the FMEC Collective Vision.Thank you,Nick Busing, ... Residency.9All of thesehave informed the FMEC process. Building on Success: AFMC and the Faculties of Medicine A starting point for implementing this vision can be found inthe efforts ofthe CanadianFaculties ... Flexner in 1910.1Since then, myriad changes inthe practice of medicine and a widevariety of societal influences have resulted in a state of continuous evolution. Societal changes—such as increasing...
... andChina.Implications for Export Controls The rise oftheinformationtechnology sector in China, combinedwith concerns about the modernization ofthe Chinese military and the possibility of ... increasing integration oftheinformationtechnology (IT) sectors of Taiwan and the People’s Republic of China. This report examines the economic and political implications of cross-Strait IT and investmentflows, ... in China; and(3) to evaluate the implications ofthe findings for U.S. governmentpolicymaking, particularly inthe area of high -technology exportcontrols.RESEARCH APPROACH In the course of...
... going to be introduced below.* The Internet The Internet can be used inthe forms of email exchanging or Web pages in teaching and learning reading ESP. First of all, we mention Web pages. The ... because of their limited proficiency of English. At HNUE, the non-English-major students rarely search ESP information on the Internet for study; they often search their professional informationin ... lecturers ofthe Faculty of English and students ofthe Faculty of Agro-biology raised the quality of teaching and learning reading English for Biology with IT recently? In fact, the students of the...
... 1995). In the past few years, there has beenan increase inthe reported inci-dence of torture — cruelty by the husband and the husband’s rela-tives. The reported number of incidents of torture increased ... reproductive years. The health of Indian women isintrinsically linked to their status in society. Research on women’sstatus has found that the contribu-tions Indian women make tofamilies often are ... 1996,“Violence Against Women in India: The Law as Protector?,” paperpresented at the Association of Women in Development Interna-tional Conference, Washington, DC.Kelkar, Govind, 1992, ViolenceAgainst...
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... ofthe Sphinxtoward the father. Working through these feelings and symptoms in psychoanalysis involved lifting the repression barrier and gaining insight into the unconscious origins ofthe ... unity. These three aspects correspond to the current use ofthe term in psychology (with the meaning of purpose), in medicine (with the meaning ofthe mode of healing and integration ofthe body), ... manner of living together in a ow of coordination of coordinations of consen-sual behaviours or doings that arises in a history of living inthe collaboration of doing things together.”...
... teach how to find the precoordinated string than to teach how to think up all ofthe individual facets thatneed to go into a Boolean combination.) Increasing the granularity of searching tokeyword ... existence or the extent ofthe other important parts–or how theyfit together. Finding “something quickly,” in each case, proved to be seriously misleading totheir overall comprehension ofthe subject. ... subject. In a very similar way, Google searching leaves remote scholars, outside the research library, in just the situation ofthe Blind Men of India: it hides the existence and the extent of relevant...
... trees. The largest plant height was obtained using linings of stone and marble. During the first year ofthe study, when the lining served only as mulch due to lack of rainfall, an increase of ... to improve the HI of wheat, 9 The harvest index is defined as the ratio of grain to total crop biomass” (Cassman 1999). The Role of Rainfed Agriculture intheFutureof Global Food ... Considerations of risk may be very important inthe initial decision of whether to adopt rainwater harvesting at an individual farm level. Especially due to the low economic status of many ofthe farmers...
... maintain an expansive outlook in their work, seeing it in terms of offering something of real value to the world rather than merely making money. In this way, corrosive office politics and interpersonal ... another eight years to really get there through the releases of Windows 3.1, Windows 95, and Windows 98. And in that time, of course, the vision itself continued to expand, as seen inthe ... bug against the cartons of milk inthe free drink coolers. He noticed that the chocolate milk failed to list the ingredient “cocoa” whereas the plain 2% milk did. An intense discussion in RAID...