... 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 ofthe Planning ... 25 points and inthe 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 inthestateof Bihar and minimum inthestateof Kerala It follows the general stateof human development observed among the states of India (Planning Commission 33 2004)...
... after the interventions (P= 0.004) About 53% ofthe women aged 60-69 before the interventions have asserted that, they were happy most ofthe time and this percent had increased to 78 after the interventions ... was meaningful Having a meaningful life and a feeling of happiness in all age groups has increased after the interventions (P= 0.00) In women aged 70 and older, Not being worried about the future, ... and after the interventions In terms of food preferences, inthe women's group, in all age groups, the food most preferred before and after the interventions was bread but regarding the second...
... 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 ofthe ... appearance of normality inthe face of apparently discrepant information It is here, perhaps, that we can link the idea ofthe secret with the idea ofthe dyad The lovers are wrapped up in each other ... ruin accompany the public exposure of this most ordinary of circumstances Part ofthe thrilling significance of adulterous affairs is that they are not the subject ofthe mundane ubiquity of...
... they must prevent disclosure of anything other than the most routine information They have lost sight ofthe public nature of their role and the legitimate interest ofthe public inthe workings ... engaging inthe usual exercise of balancing the extent to which harm would be done to the public interest by the production ofthe documents against the extent to which the administration of justice ... government information, including freedom of information and associated laws; • access to information about proceedings inthe courts, including suppression orders and the use of contempt laws; • the...
... clashes between the minority Muslim community and the Thai state, the dominance ofthe Philippine state continues to be challenged in Mindanao and in Myanmar the hegemony ofthestate has been ... distinction between official rhetoric on the one hand and actions ofthe Myanmar state on the other hand The rhetoric ofthestate often is a good expression ofthestate s mindset and analysing ... government officials in order to enhance the well-being ofthe population Many interviewees felt obliged, inthe light ofthe inadequate actions ofthe government to respond to the needs of underprivileged...
... ROI of project managers (including salary & training costs) is 61% of project managers say their organization currently offers PM training for staff 89% of high-performing organizations value ... overrun of 70% 78% of business and IT executives say project requirements are “usually” or “always” out of sync with the business On average, out of projects are not aligned with business strategy ... know about the current stateof project management Organizations are losing $109 million for every $1 billion invested in projects and programs in IT projects has an average cost overrun of 200%...
... examines some ofthe 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 inthe ... as in a city Over the course of a decade, thestateofthe 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 thestateof all the world’s children Children’s rights in urban settings 15 The Convention on the Rights ofthe Child The Convention on the Rights of the...
... and the São Paulo State Secretary of Health for financing the fieldwork; to the Secretary of Health Surveillance ofthe Ministry of Health for financial support inthe data analysis through the ... up The total scores for each ofthe eight scales were then converted to points from to 100, with denoting the worst stateof health and 100 denoting the best (10, 11) The following were the independent ... Taboão da Serra; and the District of Butantã, inthe city of São Paulo (13) Thestateof São Paulo is the most populous inthe country and has the highest per capita income The areas studied are...
... estimate ofthe outstanding global bond market size linked to key climate change themes, and examines future drivers and trends inthe short term In spite ofthe 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 inthe 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...
... fisheries of northern Norway for cod, capelin and other fish appeared to go into decline after the opening ofthe country’s first whaling station inthe 1860s.19 Inthe early years ofthe twentieth ... “snapshots” ofthe abundance of different kinds of marine life there by visitors inthe 1500s and 1600s Among them were turtles in “inestimable numbers,” “an in nite number of them all over the sea”; ... and the increase ofthe fishing mortality to which they are subjected Summary view ofthe decline in populations of large predatory fishes inthe North Atlantic since 1950 36 Inflation plus 38 The...
... factor inthe livelihood of individuals While those that are single consider the wellbeing of not only themselves but also of other members ofthe household” These assertion was corroborated by the ... the level of impact ofthe effect of industrial pollution on the rural dwellers inthe study areas An interviewer assisted method was employed, after informed consent had been obtained from the ... state, Nigeria The Yorubas are the major inhabitants Farming and trading are the predominant occupations similar to the occupations of about 52% ofthe Nigerian population who are living in rural and...
... 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 Inthe research, ... synthesis Most ofthe research in (1) done by the linguists are on the basic study of Thai phonetics e.g [13] In speech recognition, most ofthe 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...
... TheStateof 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 ofthe findings across company expertise levels TheStateof Social Media Marketing Major Findings MAJOR FINDINGS ... and the rest of marketing and 35% - the need for better integration between marketing and the rest ofthe business Top Areas of Social Marketing Investment: Presence, Content Publishing, and Integration...
... examines some ofthe 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 inthe ... as in a city Over the course of a decade, thestateofthe 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 thestateof all the world’s children Children’s rights in urban settings 15 The Convention on the Rights ofthe Child The Convention on the Rights of the...
... and the knowledge of health professionals who care for them Executive Summary The mission ofthe 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 ofThe Gerontological ... improving the health ofthe 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...
... large-scale influx of poor households into the province, the percentage of informal dwellings inthe 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 ... ofthe country and is the southernmost part ofthe continent of Africa Before 1994, under the apartheid regime, it formed part ofthe Cape Province After 1994, the Cape Province was divided into...
... 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 inthe BASELINE system ... Klein 2007 Improved Inference for Unlexicalized Parsing In Proceedings ofthe Annual Meeting ofthe North American Chapter ofthe 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...
... first infectious clone of AAV serotype (AAV2) in 1982 [7] and the pioneering work on the successful cloning of AAV establishing the foundation of recombinant AAV vectors capable of expressing foreign ... advanced to the forefront of gene therapy inthe past decade The exponential progress of AAV-based vectors has been made possible by the advances inthe knowledge ofthe virology and biology of this ... 1980s, pioneering work on the successful cloning of AAV established the foundation of recombinant AAV vectors capable of expressing foreign genes in mammalian cells Since then, the AAV has been...
... occur further up inthe kinetic chain at the hip joint The Page of increase inthe range of motion ofthe ankle during stance was accompanied by a decrease in range of motion ofthe hip during stance ... consent inthe presence of one ofthe vascular surgeons when they were seen and evaluated inthe vascular clinic, while control subjects gave informed consent inthe presence of one ofthe secondary ... found in our study This is logical when considering the entire kinetic chain When motion at one joint is decreased, another joint inthe kinetic chain may have to increase movement to maintain forward...
... first infectious clone of AAV serotype (AAV2) in 1982 [7] and the pioneering work on the successful cloning of AAV establishing the foundation of recombinant AAV vectors capable of expressing foreign ... advanced to the forefront of gene therapy inthe past decade The exponential progress of AAV-based vectors has been made possible by the advances inthe knowledge ofthe virology and biology of this ... 1980s, pioneering work on the successful cloning of AAV established the foundation of recombinant AAV vectors capable of expressing foreign genes in mammalian cells Since then, the AAV has been...