... probability of having
a condition conditional on screening, P (D|S). We speculate that in the case of males
the positive effect of education onthenumberof diseases is driven by the fact that
better ... small contribution of health behaviors tothe overall education gradient not
because health behaviors have a small mediating effect but because we have ignored
the contributions of health behaviors ... education
Γ(E, Z), where Z is a vector of cost of education shifters, is convex in the years of
education, optimal education is given by
V
E
(E, p, à, X) =
E
(E, Z) (9)
3.1 The Contribution of Health...
... providers, with thenumberof MFIs
likely to increase. This suggests that the proliferation of
MFIs
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micro-credit, and not an indication of its ... us about:
a. The impact of microfinance onthe incomes of
the poor
b. The impact of microfinance on wider poverty/
wealth ofthe poor
c. The impact of microfinance on other non-financial
outcomes ... negative reasons.
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By October of that year
regulation ofthe microfinance industry through the
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customizations made."
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... increase in
the useof connectives to introduce suspense and the elaboration ofthe
resolution through dialogue.
However, there was also a significant proportion of pupils who used one of
these ...
action’; the elaboration ofthe main event through action’; theuseof
exclamations for impact’; theuseof adventurous vocabulary’.
There was also a low initial level of use, followed ... proportion of pupils:
the conversations took part onthe basis of forming a collaborative, trusting
relationship, exchanging ideas, aspirations and concerns.
The evidence also suggests that most of...
... phone subscriptions as just one example ofthe
exponential and tectonic forces currently at play in the IT landscape.
An example ofthe disruptive consumption rates is shown in the chart below. ... servers, software and the rest ofthe parts
making up the IT service stack. This knowledge is as useful as knowing the price of a mousetrap.
Customers, however, must know the price ofthe equivalent ... end -of- life IT services, mobility moves, etc? Who
wants to bet on a probabilistic extrapolation of demand, based upon exponential or other disruptive
consumption rates? The figure below displays...
... receives a monthly honorarium from the Society.
The editor is responsible for the content ofthe journal. The editor is a member ofthe Board of Trust-
ees ofthe Society and serves onthe Executive ... committees. The
editor makes an annual report tothe Board of Trustees onthe operations ofthe Journal. The book
review editor is selected by the Board of Trustees onthe recommendation ofthe editor, ...
knowledge ofthe localization of brain function—in this case it relies
on the identication ofthe mirror-neuron system—and that it ison
the basis of that knowledge that the hypotheses can be tested....
... t is converted into a context-free rule r
where the lefthand side of r corresponds to the
root label of t and the righthand side of r
corresponds tothe frontier labels of t. Indices link
the ... applied to parsing the ATIS portion
in the Penn Treebank (Marcus et al. 1993), it is
extremely time consuming. This is mainly
because thenumberof random derivations that
should be sampled to reliably ... a
restriction ofthenumberof words in the
fragment frontiers to 12 and a restriction of the
depth of unlexicalized fragments to 6. No other
constraints were warranted.
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maximal...
... “common to all restrictions on
freedom of movement, namely the criterion of access tothe
market.”
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This would be “based onthe effect ofthe measure on
access tothe market rather than onthe ... REGAINED?
The first ofthe cases under discussion to come to judgment
was Commission v. Portugal,
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a decision ofthe Third Chamber of
the ECJ. In a model of orthodox application ofthe basic ... scope of
a principle may havetobe met by concessions onthe assessment
of proportionality. The solution in Commission v. Portugal and in
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... points of his
own: the common themes among the NSES, the
AAAS Benchmarks, and other related documents
set forth a vision ofwhat science education
should be; the NSES themselves must continue
to be ... that establishes a reasonable link
between the NSES and the professional development system, then the evidence ofthe influence ofthe NSES on
the system of professional development is variable. ... include a discussion ofthe quality ofthe empirical evidence base at
the end of each section.
TABLE 3-1 Matrix ofthe Quality ofthe Evidence and Different Components ofthe Professional Development
System
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... 4).
Since the SF-6D is a continuous measure of effect we used
meta-analytic methods to estimate the weighted grand
mean ofthe MID and to test the hypothesis of homogene-
ity of MID across the nine ... heterogeneity
in the sample. Distribution-based methods rely on ex-
pressing an effect in terms ofthe underlying distribution
of the results. Investigators may express effects in terms of
between-person standard ... defined. All
responders tothe original SF-36 questionnaire can be as-
signed SF-6D score provided the 11 items used in the six
dimensions ofthe SF-6D have been completed. The SF-6D
preference-based...
... needs tobe considered
against the current situation of advances in cutting tool
materials and their selection – this will bethe theme of
the next section.
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of Cutting Tool ... a consistent application, for the production of ma-
chined components – more will be said on this latter
point in the next section on Optimisation.
.. Optimisation
By consolidating the tooling, ...
and can be automatically indexed to this tool, to minimise
down-time when changing tools. Such a ‘sister tool’ , can be
pre-programmed into the CNC controller ofthe machine
tool, to either change...
... task of managers to promote organization to operate better.
2. Conflict resolution
There are many kinds of conflict, a good manager is a person who can
aware what are the best ways to resolve ... when to let something go.
2. Conflict resolution
The manager haveto help their staffs aware that if they
suppress selfish ego to accept differs and toward to
general “we”, the work will become ... eliminate chaos. Essentially, they help you focus onwhat
needs tobe done in the order in which it needs tobe completed.
1. Good organization
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... edge red if the two tournaments agree onthe direction of that edge, or blue if the
two tournaments disagree onthe direction of that edge. The problem is then to minimise
the numberof monochromatic ... not ofthe form described.
Theorem 8 The sequences just described have exactly M
k
(n) monotone subsequences of
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there be? We write m
k
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... although this
may reduce the need for contacting the subjects to perform
further investigation to confirm the nature of detected lesions.
Conversely, it is possible that we have overestimated the prev-
alence ... increasing useof MRI in this manner, no informa-
tion onthe prevalence of such lesions found incidentally on
knee MRI performed on healthy subjects is available. We
describe the prevalence of potentially ... within a study, the researcher per-
forming the measurements may not be an MRI radiologist: they
may be unable to detect abnormalities. Thus, the decision
must be made whether to require that...