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... levels of philanthropic giving, attitudes toward and challenges to philanthropy in Asia, and the future of the field in the region The key findings of the report are: • Philanthropic giving in Asia ... dream of becoming the number one philanthropist in the world” The 400 Richest Chinese,” Forbes.com, Oct 27th 2010 Something’s gotta give The state of philanthropy in Asia Low levels of giving The ... give The state of philanthropy in Asia expense of those outside Other constraining factors are tied to the level of development of the charity sector and how it is perceived by the public In China,...

Ngày tải lên: 06/12/2015, 23:13

... analyzed to explore the integration of REDD+ in the socio-ecological systems of the affected communities Finally, the last part of this thesis will deal with the role of CBFM in REDD+ and BSM Could ... Degradation (REDD+) programme is offering developing countries financial incentives by creating financial values for the carbon stored in forests The main aim of this initiative is to combat climate ... devastating state of forests and the natural environment in the 1980s, Our Common Future (WCED 1987) was one of the first influential documents which coined the term sustainable development Sustainable...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2016, 14:20

... organizational learning: Representing and maintaining knowledge in an experience base, in Proc Tenth Int Conf on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE98, 1998 44 T Dingsứyr, A lifecycle ... ask whether the introduction of a knowledge management system improves the quality of software, only one of the studies, from the Software Engineering Laboratory gives a clear answer Asking if ... according to the subject of study; in software engineering it can be either a process to produce software or a software product In an article on research methods in software engineering [30] we...

Ngày tải lên: 16/01/2014, 16:33

... examines some of the phenomena shaping the lives of children in urban areas, from their reasons for moving to the city and their experience of migration to the challenges of getting by in the ... as in a city Over the course of a decade, the state of the world’s urban children has worsened The number of people living in slums has increased by over 60 million These are mothers and fathers, ... Only in this way can we truly advance the state of all the world’s children Children’s rights in urban settings 15 The Convention on the Rights of the Child The Convention on the Rights of the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 15:20

... from the composite wealth index using the PCA The cut off point of poor in is 26% in urban areas and 28% in rural areas This cut-off point is equivalent to the poverty estimates of the Planning ... 25 points and in the remaining states, the differences are small This brought out the interstate differentials in IMR and U5MR within the country However, there are four states (out of 29 states) ... overall poverty is maximum in the state of Bihar and minimum in the state of Kerala It follows the general state of human development observed among the states of India (Planning Commission 33 2004)...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 10:20

... and the São Paulo State Secretary of Health for financing the fieldwork; to the Secretary of Health Surveillance of the Ministry of Health for financial support in the data analysis through the ... up The total scores for each of the eight scales were then converted to points from to 100, with denoting the worst state of health and 100 denoting the best (10, 11) The following were the independent ... Taboão da Serra; and the District of Butantã, in the city of São Paulo (13) The state of São Paulo is the most populous in the country and has the highest per capita income The areas studied are...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20

... estimate of the outstanding global bond market size linked to key climate change themes, and examines future drivers and trends in the short term In spite of the financial crisis, institutional investor ... funding of project finance transactions Basel III could discourage banks from holding longer-term loans on their balance sheets, prompting increasing costs, reductions in the term of loans and introducing ... investors such as pension funds and insurance companies who need long-term fixed-income investments to match their liabilities Finally, institutional investors are extending the integration of...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20

... fisheries of northern Norway for cod, capelin and other fish appeared to go into decline after the opening of the country’s first whaling station in the 1860s.19 In the early years of the twentieth ... “snapshots” of the abundance of different kinds of marine life there by visitors in the 1500s and 1600s Among them were turtles in “inestimable numbers,” “an in nite number of them all over the sea”; ... and the increase of the fishing mortality to which they are subjected Summary view of the decline in populations of large predatory fishes in the North Atlantic since 1950 36 Inflation plus 38 The...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 18:21

... tighter binding of cadmium than zinc in metallothioneins and the preference of zinc in the more flexible b-domain In addition to the already described differences in flexibility of the b-domain in MT ... 260 nm is reduced clearly after the addition of NO, indicating the breaking of cadmium-cysteine bonds and therefore release of cadmium The presence of GSH reduces the metal release almost completely, ... Still, the suppression of the NO–MT2 interaction by GSH may be a result of faster reaction with glutathione [54], the binding of GSH to MT2 or a combination of both GSNO which is formed in the Ó...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 15:20

... processing the idiosyncrasy of Thai text and handling the tones interplaying with intonation are the topics that make the TTS algorithm for the Thai language differrent from others In the research, ... synthesis Most of the research in (1) done by the linguists are on the basic study of Thai phonetics e.g [13] In speech recognition, most of the current research [14] focus on the recognition of ... Word Extraction with the C4.5 Learning Algorithm In forthcoming Proceedings of COLING 2000 [2] V Sornlertlamvanich Word Segmentation for Thai in Machine Translation System Machine Translation National...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 07:20

... sharply in this type of affair TWOS AND THREES One traditional way of referring to these kinds of affairs is in terms of "the eternal triangle" involving a married couple and the lover of one of the ... appearance of normality in the face of apparently discrepant information It is here, perhaps, that we can link the idea of the secret with the idea of the dyad The lovers are wrapped up in each other ... flavorless marriage The heroine of Kate Chopin's story, The Awakening, begins to escape the narcotic monotony of her marriage by breaking habits of relating: Another time she would have gone in at his...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 15:21

... they must prevent disclosure of anything other than the most routine information They have lost sight of the public nature of their role and the legitimate interest of the public in the workings ... engaging in the usual exercise of balancing the extent to which harm would be done to the public interest by the production of the documents against the extent to which the administration of justice ... government information, including freedom of information and associated laws; • access to information about proceedings in the courts, including suppression orders and the use of contempt laws; • the...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 04:20

... The State of Social Media Marketing Table of Contents Letter from the CEO Foreward Major Findings Key Finding #1 Key Finding #2 Key Finding #3 10 Key Finding #4 12 Key Finding #5 15 Key Finding ... the bell curve distribution of responses, which we believe supports the validity of the findings across company expertise levels The State of Social Media Marketing Major Findings MAJOR FINDINGS ... and the rest of marketing and 35% - the need for better integration between marketing and the rest of the business Top Areas of Social Marketing Investment: Presence, Content Publishing, and Integration...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 04:21

... examines some of the phenomena shaping the lives of children in urban areas, from their reasons for moving to the city and their experience of migration to the challenges of getting by in the ... as in a city Over the course of a decade, the state of the world’s urban children has worsened The number of people living in slums has increased by over 60 million These are mothers and fathers, ... Only in this way can we truly advance the state of all the world’s children Children’s rights in urban settings 15 The Convention on the Rights of the Child The Convention on the Rights of the...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 09:20

... and the knowledge of health professionals who care for them Executive Summary The mission of the Merck Institute of Aging & Health is to improve the health, independence and quality of life of ... achieve the national goals in reducing health risk behaviors To meet these goals, the Merck Institute of Aging & Health and the National Academy on an Aging Society, the policy institute of The Gerontological ... improving the health of the older population, the Report Card focuses on 10 modifiable factors that have the greatest potential to promote healthy aging SUMMARY OF FINDINGS: • The nation met of the...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 20:20

... large-scale influx of poor households into the province, the percentage of informal dwellings in the province increased from 15.1% in 2002 to 19.1% in 2006 This is proportionately higher than the increase ... warming, posing acute demands on the planning framework 25 We begin by examining the interrelationship between planning, population and politics and by defining the types of planning in which the ... of the country and is the southernmost part of the continent of Africa Before 1994, under the apartheid regime, it formed part of the Cape Province After 1994, the Cape Province was divided into...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 00:20

... with the estimated doubling time of EL4 cells in logarithmic growth No major variation in the mRNA half-life of cyclin mRNAs in the cell cycle In order to test whether changes in mRNA steadystate ... the cell cycle [11–15] Certain transacting proteins such as HuR were proposed as regulators of changes in mRNA stability during the cell cycle [15] In this context it is of interest that during ... the changes in mRNA half-life may explain almost fully the accumulation of the short A2 and B1 transcripts as well as partially the 3.0-kb A2 transcript In contrast, the greater increase of the...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 20:20

... runs using an optimal threshold (box 3) for the experiment as determined by using the test set In all remaining experiments, we learn the threshold from the training set as in the BASELINE system ... Klein 2007 Improved Inference for Unlexicalized Parsing In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT/NAACL 2007) J Finkel, ... essentially asking our coreference resolver to determine whether each member of class C is coreferent with each of its preceding CEs We then count the number of unique correct/incorrect links that the system...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 23:20

... completion Either way, we have the predicament of remaining powerless in the face of acknowledged shortcomings The point of such considerations emerges in the context of the following challenge: ... correctly) staked knowledge claims, specifically including the theoretical claims that we endorse in the domain of the sciences Thus K * is the body of our putative knowledge, including all of the claims ... book culminates in prioritizing the fourth sort of knowledge It portrays the pivotal use in practical terms, pivoting on the question of how we go about the business of inquiry of securing tenable...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:56