... smoking, drinking, ex-ercising and the body mass index - contribute to explaining the gradient. The size of this contribution is larger when we consider the entire history of behaviors ratherthan ... behaviors inthe immediate past. Inthe former case, we find that the effects of education on smoking, drinking, exercising and eating a proper diet account for atmost 23% to 45% ofthe entire effect of ... countries.Defining P (D) as the probability of reporting a condition, this probability is the product ofthe probability of undergoing screening P (S) and the probability of havinga condition...
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... know the price of a mousetrap?Customers no longer need to know the price of servers, software and the rest ofthe parts making up the IT service stack. This knowledge is as useful as knowing the ... undertaking a Return on Investment (ROI) without taking into consideration the time value of money, or where applicable, foreign currency exposure. The title of this ebook hints at the error in this ... against their cloud services costs. This is best seen as a ‘generation one’ performance measure. This measure is no longer suitable for the assessment of value from cloud services. It is akin...
... on what entails success inthe microfinance industry also makes a systematic review of the evidence ofthe impact of microfinance timely.And inthe latter half of 2010 the microfinance industry ... Details of 35 studies included inthe map 83Appendix 4.1: Further details of 15 studies included inthe in- depth synthesis 85Appendix 4.2: Narrative synthesis of findings relating to the impact of ... Robinson 1995). One aspect ofthe commercialisation ofthe microfinance industry is its formalisation, i.e. microfinance institutions (MFIs) transforming themselves into banks and turning...
... It is therefore, in my view, preferable to examine measures of that kind inthe light ofthe Treaty rules rather than to remove them from the scope ofthe Treaty.79 In the light of these ... but this is nothing more than whatthe Treaty on the Functioning ofthe European Union (and previously the EC Treaty) actually envisages, and isthe logical consequence of a finding that the ... access plays the central role inthe argumentation, the intention ofthe ECJ is not to revise its view ofthe certain selling arrangements as expressed in Keck, nor to revise the conditions...
... series of case studies of nine ofthe SSI projects. In a report of a secondary analysis of all nine case studies, Clune (1998) identified the goals ofthe study astesting the central thesis of systemic ... perspective ofthe landscape, I believe this is afair representation ofthe state of knowledge inthe field. Adding further pieces of high-quality work wouldcertainly influence the details ofthe story ... is at these other levels one must look to deter-mine the impact ofthe NSES on the science curriculum inthe nation’s schools. 82 WHATISTHE INFLUENCE OFTHE NSES?Student AccountabilityThe...
... is initial rationalisation policy has the twin benets of minimising tooling sup-pliers with their distinct varieties of tools, while en-abling bulk purchase of such tools from the remaining ... inthe nal product isthe result of ‘wetting’ by the liquid present upon sintering. e extent of this ‘wetting’ during liquid-phase sintering, being depen-dent upon molten binder metal dissolving ... consist of: ã Pure ceramic – this isthe traditional tooling in- sert material, consisting of aluminium oxide. e alumina is white in colour and is produced by cold pressing powder in the...
... Staff training is an integral part ofthe overall development strategy ofthe business. Staff are not trained or not trained fit isthe main cause leading to the current state enterprises are ... how to maintain working atmosphere. Because the performance of an individual in a large organization where the air is due to work or the work culture ofthe organization that brings3. Increase ... sequences of routines in every single area of everyday living or working. ãOrganisational skills are sequences of routines in every single area of everyday living or working. ãOrganizational skills...
... explored the teaching of ‘syntax’. Of these 16, 12 provided a conclusion about theeffectof syntax teaching on the accuracy and quality of pupils’ writing. None of these 12 reviews ofthe teaching ... complementary in- depth reviews inthe field of sentence-level grammar: theeffectof teaching syntax on accuracy and quality in written composition (in 2003-4); theeffectof teaching sentence-combining ... for in- depth reviews ã Whatistheeffectof teaching syntax in English on 5 to 16 year olds’ accuracy and quality in written composition? (the current review) ã Whatistheeffectof teaching...
... Pacific islands, the interior Ama-zon River basin and certain parts ofthe Caribbean (Haitiand the Dominican Republic) [2]. In Italy, the prevalence of HBV infection is set under 2%from the beginning ... blood screening and the use of precautions in medical setting), besides vaccination campaign, couldhave contributed to the decrease of HBV infections.According to the joinpoint analysis of SEIEVA ... as a whole, and such as the otherSouthern Mediterranean European regions, horizontaltransmission isthe main way of acquiring infection thusdetermining the highest HBV incidence rates amongadults...
... differentcolor.gaining in network layer performances. This is intuitivelyexpected since, the larger the SNR operating point, the larger the power levels ofthe nodes, and therefore, the higher the accuracy ... According to the exponential path loss modelgiven in (1), the scaling of G by a factor of 1/κ (or 1/θη) is equivalent to the scaling of node distance matrix D by afactor of θ and the scaling of ... dij is the distance from the transmitter of link i to the receiver of link j, d0 is the far-field reference distance beyondwhich this model is applicable (i.e., dij>d0)[25], η is the path...
... always remains selfish. By denying the existence of genuine kindness, however, these theories miss out on the greater truth emerging from a juxtaposition of genetic self-interest and the intense ... recog-nize them inthe dark, Gerald Wilkinson noticed that mother bats often regurgitate blood to their offspring. While this is not too sur-prising, the investigator saw other combinations share ... reciprocal altruism? A: I became aware of Hamilton's paper in 1966 or 1967, which explained altruism among kin. It immediately raised the issue ofwhat other kinds of altruism there might...
... work inthe elds of aesthetics and the philosophy of art; building diversity and inclusiveness in these elds; raising the prole of aesthetics and the philosophy of art within the profession ... explaining what kind of object wine is, what kinds of objects are tastes, aromas, and whatisthe differ-ence between taste and tasting. Then from an epistemological point of view: what does ... consider the case of neuroaesthetics. This new branch of empirical aesthetics is often dened as the study ofthe neural processes underlying aesthetic experience. In other words, the job of neuroaestheticians...
... parsing models use linguisticintuitions to find this minimal set, for example byrestricting the statistical dependencies to the locality of headwords of constituents (Collins1997, 1999; Eisner ... to the product of the inside probability ofthe item and its priorprobability. Any item with a score less than 10−5times of that ofthe best item is pruned from the chart.4 Whatisthe Minimal ... be the case that DOP's gain in parseaccuracy with increasing subtree depth is due to the model becoming sensitive to the influence of lexical heads higher inthe tree, and that this gaincould...
... 4).Since the SF-6D is a continuous measure ofeffect we usedmeta-analytic methods to estimate the weighted grandmean ofthe MID and to test the hypothesis of homogene-ity of MID across the nine ... scales. They conclude that the MCID for the SF-36 is "typically inthe range of 3–5points", although they also recommend caution in inter-preting 3–5 points on the SF-36 dimensions as the ... worsen-ing of health (GRoC of 1 or 2) the sign ofthe change in the SF-6D score was reversed (i.e. multiplied by minusone). The MID was then taken as the mean change on the SF-6D scale ofthe patients...