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... 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...
... sentences, resulting in a total training set of 4,040k sentences. We believe that our result is quite promising for the future of unsupervised parsing. In putting our best f-score in table 4 into perspective, ... domain or the LA Times domain. Although the effect of adding LA Times data is weaker than adding WSJ data, it is noteworthy that the unsupervised induction of trees from the LA Times domain ... 3 indicates that there is a monotonous increase in f-score on the WSJ test set if NANC text is added to our training data in both cases, independent of whether the sentences come from the...
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... blood that there is no prostate cancer?Doesn’t the existence of any PSA means that the body is reacting with antibodies against cancerous cells inthe prostate.PSA starts out inthe fluid that ... sperm. PSA is a protein normally made in the prostate gland in ductal cells. These cells make some ofthe semen that comes out ofthe penis during sexual climax (orgasm). PSA helps to keep the semen ... In prostate tests PSA whatisthe difference between total PSA and free PSA? What isthe normal range? In addition, how can it be that if there is ANY prostate specific antigen inthe blood...
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