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... name," the old man said. "While the words don't make sense, they have a nice ring to them. They roll off the tongue and flow with the blog." "I see. And what about this one? This ... voice," the old man said. "Because of the nature of the blog, the readers are expecting a more formal tone. The blogger understands the target audience and writes the way that best speaks to them." "I ... put his hand on the hilt of his sword. "Do not try my patience, fool, for I will not have you make a mockery of blogging!" And then, the corners of his mouth betrayed him, as for the...

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... price of a mousetrap? Customers no longer need to know the price of servers, software and the rest of the parts making up the IT service stack. This knowledge is as useful as knowing the price of ... Customers, however, must know the price of the 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 of the disruptive consumption rates is shown in the chart below. This chart presents the forecasted market growth-rate for cloud services (Forrester,...

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... years before and after the reforms and another where the relevant window is +7,-7. The two samples consist of 15,960 and 12,294 individuals respectively. Table 5 shows the summary statistics by ... Market Outcomes’, 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 of the ... and the IV estimates of the ”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...

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... One aspect of the commercialisation of the 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 of the 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...

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... but this is nothing more than what the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (and previously the EC Treaty) actually envisages, and is the logical consequence of a finding that the ... for the 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 of the European Community, 3 ... “circulation of a combination composed of a motorcycle and an unapproved trailer could be dangerous both for the driver of the vehicle and for other vehicles on the road, because the stability of the...

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... criteria for the evidence they considered, so it is difficult to disentangle the beliefs and assumptions of the authors and the evidence they marshal to support their claims. In the third category of ... said, is it just means that change takes time, and that the grabbing at features and the blending in of the new and the traditional may be on the road to a healthier Hegelian 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...

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... following meanings: L is the length of the string, h is the area of cross-section, E is the Young modulus of the material, ρ is the mass density and P 0 is the initial tension. Problem ( 1.2) began to ... Proof of Theorem 1.1 In the proof of Theorem 1.1, we need the following estimate. Lemma 4.1. If u λ is a solution (positive) of problem T 0 , then u λ ≤C for all λ ≥ 0,where C>0 is a constant ... This equation extends the classical d’Alembert’s wave equa- tion by considering the effects of the changes in the length of the strings during the vibra- tions. The parameters in (1.3) have the...

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... 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 of the 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...

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... scientific and engineering research, dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare. Upon the authority of the charter granted to it by the Congress ... most of the course of this study, the EMSP was managed through a partnership between the DOE Office of Environmental Management (EM), which has primary responsibility for the 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-perpetuating society of distinguished scholars...

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... NewSletter The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Editor Search The American Society for Aesthetics is soliciting applications and nominations for the position of editor of The Journal of Aesthetics ... from the Society. The editor is responsible for the content of the journal. The editor is a member of the Board of Trust- ees of the 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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... item in the chart equal to the product of the inside probability of the item and its prior probability. Any item with a score less than 10 −5 times of that of the best item is pruned from the chart. 4 ... a treebank and then investigates fragment restrictions to discover the set of relevant fragments. From this perspective, the DOP approach can be seen as striving for the same goal as other approaches ... context-free rule r where the lefthand side of r corresponds to the root label of t and the righthand side of r corresponds to the frontier labels of t. Indices link the rules to the original subtrees...

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... Vitamin A of Carrots the Vitamin C of Oranges 17 times the Calcium of Milk 15 times the Potassium of Bananas 25 times the Iron of Spinach 9 times the Protein of Yogurt 4 times the Vitamin A of Carrots 7 ... thought for a moment, and then gently replied, The life of the bird is in your hands.” Like the living bird in the parable, the life-saving promise of the Moringa tree is in your hands. Please ... with wisdom. 5 Gram -for- gram comparison of nutritional information 1 7 times the Vitamin C of Oranges 4 times the Calcium of Milk 3 times the Potassium of Bananas 2 times the Protein of Yogurt 4 times...

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... Mirimanoff RO: Effects of radiotherapy with concomitant and adjuvant temozolomide versus radiotherapy alone on survival in glioblastoma in a randomised phase III study: 5-year analysis of the ... University of California, San Francisco; (WHO): World Health Organization. Acknowledgements We thank Dr. L.E. Gerschenson for careful reading of the manuscript. This work 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...

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... account for the histo-architectural diversity of this region [27]. The importance of the pregenual anterior cingulate cortex (pACC) in MDD is supported by the pronounced effects of the glutamate ... and analysis of variance (ANOVA). QUIN data were not normally distributed, as indicated by the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. Therefore, Spearman’ s rank correlation coefficient, the Kruskal- Wallis ... of NMDA antagonists such as ketamine. Further work in this area could lead to a greater understanding of the pathophysiology of depressive disorders and pave the way for novel NMDA receptor therapies...

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