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... investment and encourage employment of the poor. The strategy explicitly proposes cuts in irrigation and energy subsidies and privatization of the power sector to reduce the unsustainable debt of the ... weather port, well connected to the national road and rail networks. 28 It is a joint venture project of the Gujarat Mari- time Board and the Adani Group. The port is capable of handling dry and ... travel and to the greater availability of to these questions newspapers and other sources of information No significant differences between poor and nonpoor households Information and...

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... understand the composition and function of employee workgroups — both formal and informal They will then develop an understanding of how and why members of these groups resist the changes within the ... bureaucracy At the time of their argument, the Cold War was the center of world attention, making the issue of democracy both topical and compelling In the context of the global and technological ... 209 the changes in employees’ perceptions of their role and the groups within the organization that they identify with that are brought about by ICTenabled change, and the implications of these...

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... of the monetary union and the introduction of the euro A list of the variables used in the various regression models, as well as the sources of data, is presented in Appendix ... for the possibility of fiscal policy affecting economic growth; (ii) the long-term (sovereign) real interest rate, capturing the impact of inflation and the effects of the ... representing the views of the European Central Bank (ECB). The views expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the ECB. 1 We are grateful to participants of an ECB...

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... to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Colorado in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Department of Accounting and Business Law ... Paralleling the impact of the announcement of an SEC investigation, the bookend event: closure of the investigation indicated by the issuance of an AAER, may also impact a ... future research, and the appendix reviews a selection of papers related to the evaluation of the cost of equity capital measures and suggestions for improving the measures...

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... immigrants, and a high rate of morbidity and level of disability pensioning [25]. The working environment within the cleaning profession is also characterized by a rigid structure of leadership and work ... men and 374 women). After excluding the male respondents, 374 women comprised the final sample and were included in the analyses. The Committee for Medical Research Ethics of Norway and the Norwegian ... measure the frequency and intensity of symptoms during the past week, are scored on a scale from 1 (not bothered) to 4 (extremely bothered). The HSCL-25 total score was calculated as the sum score of...

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... on the performance of the Bypass-AODV as well as the original AODV. (1) The routing overhead ratio is the ratio of the amount in bytes of control packets transmitted to the amount in bytes of ... estimate the cost of introducing the new protocol. (2) The goodput of the TCP is the number of sequenced bits that a TCP receiver receives per unit of time. This measure will show the effectiveness of ... terms of number of hops for RPGM because of the strict movements of nodes. On the other hand, for FRW and MAN, the higher the node speed, the higher the tendency for short connection ( ≤3). This...

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... development and poverty reduction Since the 1970s and the identification of poverty with the rural population of the developing world, theory and research on the impact of ... support other programs designed to enhance the productivity and the welfare of the poor Transport and energy investments impact upon the income and nonincome dimensions of ... [...]... change, impacts of changes in service provision, impacts of transport modes other than roads, impacts of energy sources other than electricity, impacts of transport and energy...

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... [...]... change, impacts of changes in service provision, impacts of transport modes other than roads, impacts of energy sources other than electricity, impacts of transport and energy ... designed to enhance the productivity and the welfare of the poor Transport and energy investments impact upon the income and nonincome dimensions of poverty The case studies ... necessarily reflect the views and policies of the Asian Development Bank or the World Bank or their member governments, or those of the Japan Bank for International Cooperation or the United Kingdom...

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... Asia and the Pacific, the roles of growth and social development and of infrastruc- ture in poverty reduction, the impact of the PRS on coun- try-level operations and project designs, and the ... of opportunity: it is often due to disconnection, often geographical, from the wider economy and society (Datt and Ravallion 2002, Jalan and Ravallion 2002). The provision of infrastructure and ... advantage of these opportunities. The importance of linkages between farm and non- farm growth in the rural economy for the welfare of the poor has been known for some time (e.g., Hazell and Haggblade...

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... , due to changes in both demand and supply of labor;  the level and sources of wage and nonwage income;  consumption and market surplus;  use of transport;  demand for institutional services, ... impact on the employ- ment and incomes of the poor, and through the promotion of small contractors in the construction sector. Four World Bank poverty-oriented energy projects were approved in the ... scribes the socioeconomic profile of the study area prior to project implementation, and the benefits expected to accrue to the rural people arising out of the improved rural transport and trading...

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... change,  the impacts of changes in service provision,  the impacts of transport modes other than roads,  the impacts of energy sources other than electricity, and  the impacts of transport and ... PRC. The results of this study are reported in the Thailand country study (Chapter 6). Crosscutting Themes The central theme of the proposed research program is the impact of transport and energy ... poverty impacts;  environmental and social consequences of infrastruc- ture projects and their implications for the natural assets and social capital of the poor;  the changing role of government...

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... and the value of transport- and energy-related household assets as input variables. Case studies then looked more closely at the impacts of road and railway construction, the impacts of bus and ... Xian. From 221 BC to the Tang dynasty, Shaanxi was the center of political activity in China. The northern upland part of the province is on the loess plateau, where the climate and soils are unfavorable ... for 28% of the sample and the asset-based poor represented 30% of the sample However, these were not always the same households About 30% of the nonpoor by an income standard...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 10:23

... of the features of their village to and use of transport and energy services in greater detail The third module asked about perceptions of the impacts of transport and ... availability of free time were rather mixed, although little variation between the views of the poor and the nonpoor emerged... than the impact on the nonpoor and the less ... Table 6. 8 Road and Electricity Impacts on Education... welfare, and happiness Perceptions of Impacts Given the policy-oriented focus of the study, the Thailand study team set...

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... the equilibrium schedule of audit quality q n and from knowledge of the auditor’s level of skill n the quality of audit supplied There is no asymmetry of information between the auditor and the ... qŁ the quality of the standard audits adopted by employed auditors, whose levels of skill exceed nB PROOF: A proof of Proposition can be found in the Appendix The claim that the quality of audit ... cost of the audit, with the total cost of an audit being the sum of the direct cost C q, n and the expected loss arising from any litigation by the insolvency practitioner working on behalf of the...

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... Inuence of the hypothetical enzyme (E8) recycling ATP, on the rate of synthesis of inosine Application of the theoretical model was performed with the MATHEMATICA-3.0 program, as described in the ... measuring the consumption of glucose and the synthesis of ethanol in yeast cells treated with H2O2, which produced a decrease in both the consumption of glucose and synthesis of ethanol The apparent ... experimental conditions the eect of H2O2 on either the rate of glucose consumption or on the rate of synthesis of ethanol At the usual concentrations of both glucose (2%) and yeast cells (around...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 10:20

... Wojtczak L (1985) The apparent non-linearity of the relationship between the rate of respiration and the protonmotive force of mitochondria can be explained by heterogeneity of mitochondrial preparations ... according to the Newman–Keuls multiple comparison test A B Fig Effects of different concentrations of CsA and its analogs on the Ca2+-dependent induction of opening of the MPTP The data are representative ... NIM811 and PSC833 induce an increase in cytosolic [Ca2+] and production of ROS The discrepancy in the effects of PSC833 between GLC4 cells and isolated mitochondria versus the consistency in the...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 08:20

... healing’ We then tested whether HR12 treatment of Rat1/ras cells suppresses the ability of cells present at the edges of a ‘wounded’ Rat1/ras monolayer to move out of the layer and ‘repair’ the wound ... and with anti-actin Ig as a control The diagram shows quantification of the intensity of the p27Kip1 bands, calibrated to the intensity of the actin bands, where the zero time value was designated ... repression of p27Kip1 synthesis, mediated either by the Raf/Mek/Erk pathway [29], the PI3K pathway [26] or the Rho pathway [52] and (c) repression of p27Kip1 transcription through the activation of the...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 01:20

... [2,4] Nevertheless, these phosphorylation events appear to promote the interaction of both ATGL and HSL with the stored lipids, thus increasing hydrolysis of the latter Whereas CGI58 and perilipin ... contrast to the relatively large number of studies devoted to the elucidation of the phosphorylation sites in HSL and the regulation of its translocation, few studies have addressed the effects of PKA ... smoothed (using four neighbouring values) and normalized to the maximum fluorescence of the complex between phosphorylated HSL and the respective probes tions of SYPRO Orange, the fluorescence of...

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... especially in the presence of cytokines Natural ligands of ICAM- 1and LFA-1 are expressed on the surface of T and B lymphocytes, natural killer cells, monocytes, macrophages and granulocytes [33], and interaction ... examined the kinase activity of ERK, p38 and SAPK ⁄ JNK, the three major members of the MAPK family, in LPS-treated SCs Briefly, as illustrated in Fig 5A, phosphorylation of p38 and SAPK ⁄ JNK appeared ... BSA, and incubated for 20 in the dark with 100 lL tetramethyl benzidine solution The reaction was stopped by the addition of 50 lL of m H2SO4, and the absorbance of each well was measured at...

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... useful survey of the Philosophy of Religion since the mid-20th century, see The Ethics of Religious Belief: a Recent History’, in Andrew Dole and Andrew Chignell (eds), God and the Ethics of Religious ... truth in their practical reasoning will then influence their action and the decision-theoretic apparatus using the notion of expected utility is a way of making precise the operation of this influence ... natural theological approach to the epistemic defence of classical theism.² There has been less discussion, however, of an obvious response to intimations of the evidential ambiguity of theism—namely...

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