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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...
... 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...
... 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...
... does this discussion leave the Bank in terms of a theory of LD or the ROL? The absence of a guiding theory inthe Bank’s work has been its main failing since it discovered thelawinthe early ... intuition from which the doctrine ofthe rule oflaw derives”, is that thelaw must be capable of guiding the behaviour of its subjects.” From this basic idea, he elicits a list of principles which ... part of the problem as campaigners inthe Peru project claimed, but as part of a possible solution. Indeed, the project proceeds on the basis that “strengthening theRuleof Law and increasing...
... 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...
... considers counts of subtrees of a wide range of sizes in computing the probability of a tree: everything from counts of single-level rules to counts of entire trees. Thismeans that the model is sensitive ... is converted into a context-free rule rwhere the lefthand side of r corresponds to the root label of t and the righthand side of rcorresponds to the frontier labels of t. Indices link the rules ... 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...
... 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 ... to the market rather than on the object ofthe rules involved.” The criterion would apply to “all types of rules, be they requirements relating to the characteristics of a product, selling...
... 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...
... "typically inthe range of 3–5points", although they also recommend caution in inter-preting 3–5 points on the SF-36 dimensions as the MCID.[23] The method of scoring the SF-36 is not based ... beinfluenced by the degree of homogeneity or heterogeneity in the sample. Distribution-based methods rely on ex-pressing an effect in terms ofthe underlying distribution of the results. Investigators ... test the hypothesis of homogene-ity of MID across the nine studies. If there was no statisti-cal evidence of lack of homogeneity, a 95% confidenceinterval for the summary estimate ofthe MID...
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