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... 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 price of ... Customers, however, must know the price ofthe equivalent services from other cloud providers. This is the crucial performance measure. It is only this performance measure that constitutes a ... at play in the IT landscape. An example ofthe disruptive consumption rates is shown in the chart below. This chart presents the forecasted market growth-rate for cloud services (Forrester,...
... years before and after the reforms and anotherwhere the relevant window is +7,-7. The two samples consist of 15,960 and 12,294individuals respectively. Table 5 shows the summary statistics by ... MarketOutcomes’, The Review of Economics and Statistics 91(3), 478–489.Stowasser, Till, Florian Heiss, Daniel McFadden and Joachim Winter (2011), ”healthy,wealthy and wise?” revisited: An analysis ofthe ... and the IV estimates ofthe ”reduced form”. Using the ADS method, we find evidence of a negative and statistically significant gradient for females (−0.057) and of a positive, small and imprecisely...
... One aspect ofthe commercialisation ofthe microfinance industry is its formalisation, i.e. microfinance institutions (MFIs) transforming themselves into banks and turning to banks for funds ... Section 2 of this report.2. Synthesise what these studies tell us about: a. The impact of microfinance on the incomes of the poor b. The impact of microfinance on wider poverty/wealth ofthe poor ... axis comprising the financial service components (savings, credit and insurance) and the other axis the providers (informal, formal, and semi-formal providers). Rutherford (1996) based his...
... 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 ... forthe rule of law, respect for human rights and dignity, and liberation from all forms of oppression and injustice. TRIA JUNCTA IN UNO Shortly before the disappearance ofthe European Community,3 ... “circulation of a combination composed of a motorcycle and an unapproved trailer could be dangerous both forthe driver ofthe vehicle and for other vehicles on the road, because the stability of the...
... criteria forthe evidence they considered, so it is difficult to disentangle the beliefs and assumptions ofthe authors and the evidence they marshal to support theirclaims. In the third category of ... said, is it just meansthat change takes time, and that the grabbing atfeatures and the blending in ofthe new and the traditional may be on the road to a healthierHegelian synthesis type of thing.”On ... are in the process of developing standards (AFT, 2001) and at least 47 of these states have established standards for science education (Blank, Manise, and Brathwaite, 1999). The NSES and Benchmarks...
... following meanings: L isthe length ofthe string, h is the area of cross-section, E isthe Young modulus ofthe material, ρ isthe mass densityand P0 is the initial tension.Problem ( 1.2) began to ... Proof of Theorem 1.1In the proof of Theorem 1.1, we need the following estimate.Lemma 4.1. If uλ is a solution (positive) of problem T0, then uλ≤C for all λ ≥ 0,whereC>0 is a constant ... This equation extends the classical d’Alembert’s wave equa-tion by considering the effects ofthe changes in the length ofthe strings during the vibra-tions. The parameters in (1.3) have the...
... enjoyment of writing is related to attainment: for example, 49 per cent of pupils performing above the expected level for their age and 46 per cent of pupils who perform at the expected level for their ... knowledge was weak; for example, they considered linguistic features as good or bad rather than exploring how effective they could be in the context of writing. Analysis ofthe writing samples ... Torgerson, C. J. and Elbourne, D. (2002). A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effectiveness of information and communication technology (ICT) on the teaching of spelling. In Journal of Research...
... scientific and engineeringresearch, dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to theiruse forthe general welfare. Upon the authority ofthe charter granted to it by the Congress ... most ofthe course of this study, the EMSP was managed through a partnership between the DOE Office of Environmental Management (EM), which has primaryresponsibility forthe cleanup mission, and ... identify and plan disposition of these orphan and hard-to-treat wastes (Hulet, 2002). The National Academy of Sciences is a private, nonprofit, self-perpetuatingsociety of distinguished scholars...
... NewSletter The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Editor Search The American Society for Aesthetics is soliciting applications and nominations forthe position of editor ofThe Journal of Aesthetics ... from the Society. The editor is responsible forthe content ofthe journal. The editor is a member ofthe Board of Trust-ees ofthe Society and serves on the Executive Committee and all standing ... explore aesthetic theory in the Enlighten-ment, the reception of British aesthetic theory in Germany, and the significance of these ideas for contemporary debates in aesthetics and other elds.Speakers...
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... Mirimanoff RO: Effects of radiotherapy with concomitant and adjuvant temozolomide versusradiotherapy alone on survival in glioblastoma in a randomised phase IIIstudy: 5-year analysis ofthe ... University of California, SanFrancisco; (WHO): World Health Organization.AcknowledgementsWe thank Dr. L.E. Gerschenson for careful reading ofthe manuscript. Thiswork was supported in part by: The ... new additions to the standard of care therapy for high grade primary malignant brain tumors, the prog-nosis for patients with this disease is still poor. A small contingent of clinical researchers...
... account forthe histo-architectural diversity of thisregion [27]. The importance ofthe pregenual anteriorcingulate cortex (pACC) in MDD is supported by the pronounced effects ofthe glutamate ... and analysis of variance(ANOVA). QUIN data were not normally distributed, asindicated by the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. Therefore,Spearman’ s rank correlation coefficient, the Kruskal-Wallis ... of NMDA antagonists such asketamine. Further work in this area could lead to a greater understanding ofthe pathophysiology of depressivedisorders and pave the way for novel NMDA receptor therapies...