the role of information and communication technology in rural development

... recruiting large enterprises with tax breaks, financial incentives, and other induce- ments. Instead, they are relying on building businesses from the ground up and supporting the growth of existing ... well. They include constraints on the supply of labor and other inputs, upward pressure on wages and rents, congestion of infrastruc- ture, and (if fiscal incentives are provided to the locating ... to long chains of command and subsequent communication inefficiency , inflexibility , and loss of managerial coor dination. F ur ther , small firms, to the extent that they operate in more competitive...

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... & Lynch, K. (1999).Offeringa hand to pragmatic understanding: The role of speech and gesture in comprehension and memory. Journal of Memory and Language, 40, 577–592. Lansing, C. R., & McConkie, ... gestures and facial cues seeking the most infor- mative cue according to the content of the lecture. The results of the questionnaire revealed that the majority of those who reported they paid ... minimal reference to the outline during recording. The first part of the lecture covered definitions of terms and a brief history of ceramics, which tended to be done in narrative form. Most of...

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... mainly individuals and small businesses, the traditional target client group of savings banks. By capturing and channelling more of the remittances into the financial system and intermediating ... out of the savings banks movement, have done a   Bringing the Hidden Giants to the Footlight: the Role of Savings and Retail Banks in Increasing the Level of Access to Financial Services Chris ... for disbursing of loans and collecting loan repayments. Another promising track for savings banks is to invest their savings deposits in microfinance institutions by specialising  in wholesale...

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... be built, maintained and accessed using these techniques. 8.1. Emulating Operating System Environments During the 1960’s the notion of a virtual machine base for operating systems development ... outperform 4.3bsd in several benchmarks of overall system performance [1]. A key and unusual element in the design of Mach is the notion that communication (in the form of message passing) and virtual ... validation - Finally, the kernel informs the hardware physical map module of the new virtual to physical mapping. With the exception of the hardware validation, all of these steps are implemented in a...

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... 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) ... in the case of Indri. These results are consistent with the findings of Monz (2003), who made the same observation in the factoid QA task. There are a few caveats to consider when in- terpreting ... Association for Computational Linguistics The Role of Information Retrieval in Answering Complex Questions Jimmy Lin College of Information Studies Department of Computer Science Institute for Advanced...

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... of GSK3 (using Li or SB-415286) appears to be sufficient for inducing activation of GS in muscle and fat cells, and that inhibition of the kinase potentiates insulin action in muscle of insulin-resistant ... increases in glucose uptake and glycogen synthesis allowing for more effective ÔchannellingÕ of glucose into glycogen in response to insulin. However, one of the potential difficulties in interpreting ... phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase, p70, S6 kinase and glycogen synthase kinase-3 activity in L6 muscle cells: evidence for the involvement of the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway in the L -leucine-induced up-regulation...

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... 1,068.0 36 2012 The Little Data Book on Information and Communication Technology High income Belgium 2005 2010 2010 High- income group Country data vThe Little Data Book on Information and Communication ... includes indicators covering the economic and social context, the structure of the information and communication technology sector, sector efficiency and capacity, and sector performance related ... data.worldbank.org or the Web site of the Information and Communication Technologies Department at www.worldbank.org/ict. For more statistics on information and communication technology infra- str uc...

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... accumulating school savings may have effects apart from financing school. Conley (2001) finds that a doubling of net worth results in an 8.3% increase in the probability of attending college. Further, ... for their youth. Youth savings. Youth were asked in 2002 whether they had a savings or bank account in their name. If they had an account, they were also asked whether they were saving some of ... None of the existing research examines the effect of youth savings on college attendance, and only one study examines the relationship between parent school savings and college attendance. Theoretical...

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... phenylalanine was therefore mutated to Ala, Leu, Trp or Tyr. These mutations may in uence the shape and volume of the acyl binding pocket and thereby alter the binding mode and affinity of the enzyme ... PAA and derivatives thereof, while maintaining the hydrophobicity of the binding site. To test the effect of the mutations on the specificity for phenylacetylated substrates, the steady-state kinetic ... k cat represents the rate of acylation and K m equals the binding constant of the substrate to the free enzyme. The results then indicate Ó FEBS 2002 Role of active-site phenylalanines in penicillin acylase...

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... suggested by the lack of coincidence of the changes in relative fluorescence intensity and in  k and by the hysteresis of the reversibility process (Fig. 4). At the end of the transition, the intrinsic ... that of the wild-type; however, the integrity of the calcium bind- ing site formed by Asp287 and Glu53 is essential for interaction with the cation in 7.9 m GdmCl. An interesting finding of the ... observed for the wild-type, indicating the involvement of Glu53 and Asp287 in the interaction with the cation (Fig. 1E,F). The regain of aromatic chirality at 295 nm and in the 260–270 nm region for...

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... critically involved in blood pressure regulation due to its action in generating angiotensin II and in inactivating bradykinin [1]. The enzyme also has a role in the development of vascular pathology and ... for the central role of ADAM10 and confirming that TACE has a minor role in the a-secretase cleavage of APP in human cells. During the course of the present study it was reported using an RNA interference ... acid-based metalloprotease inhibitors [14] in the presence or absence of APMA. In the majority of cases there was little difference between the effect of inhibitors on the constitutive shedding of ACE and the APMA-induced...

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... monitoring and evaluation) and the same proportion was involved in AFP surveillance. On the other hand, in Zambia, nurses and midwives were involved in the full range of functions for SIAs and AFP ... general information on EPI and sup- plementary vaccination activities in the district; (2) over- all numbers and categories of health workers in the district; (3) the role of nurses and midwives in ... managers of health programmes. The finding that the nurses in Sudan were less involved in planning of activities (15.2% in polio and in measles) compared to 72.7% for polio and 90.9% for measles in Zambia,...

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... ts and HRQoL on the Psychological Well-being and School Environment dimensions and the Overall score in boys, and on the School Environment and Physical Well-b eing dimen- sions in girls. In the ... measures of LEs in order to take into account also their effect in previous HRQoL. Conclusions The experience of LEs did impact the HRQoL of adoles- cents and youths in this sample, although the effect ... Spain. Authors’ contributions JMV, LR, and JA participated in the conception and design of the study. EVO, SRF, GV and JAPV analyzed the data. EVO, JMV, MH, MF, LR and JA participated in the...

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... of Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientic and engineering communities. The Council is administered jointly by both Academies and the Institute of Medicine. ... president of the National Academy of Engineering. The Institute of Medicine was established in 1970 by the National Academy of Sci- ences to secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions ... distinguished scholars engaged in scientic and engineering research, dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare. Upon the authority of the...

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... that the use of the content contained in the work will not infringe on the rights of third parties. The risk of claims resulting from such infringement rests solely with you. The findings, interpretations, ... team, the work was the result of close collaboration between the staff of the Development Data Group of the Development Economics Vice Presidency and the Transport, Water, and Information Communication ... guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this work. The boundaries, colors, denominations, and other information shown on any map in this work do not imply any judgment on the part of The World...

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