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Where Have All the Criminals Gone

Where Have All the Criminals Gone

Cao đẳng - Đại học

... the fall of crime. Then there is an opposite argument—that we need more guns on the street, but in the hands of the right people (like the high-school girl above, instead of her mugger). The ... than 15 per-cent of the crime increase of the 1980s. In other words, the net effect of crack is still being felt in the form of violent crime, to say nothing of the miseries the drug itself continues ... contributed to the drop in crime. The others are, for the most part, figments of someone’s imagination, self-interest, or wishful thinking. Further hint: one of the greatest measurable causes of the crime...
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Tài liệu CLIMATE CHANGE AND TOURISM: WHERE WILL THE JOURNEY LEAD? docx

Tài liệu CLIMATE CHANGE AND TOURISM: WHERE WILL THE JOURNEY LEAD? docx

Ngân hàng - Tín dụng

... northern Europe – the chance of having “good weather” is one of the most importantmotives behind the choice of a holiday destination. If in the future the climate – i.e. the “statistical weather” ... generated in the north(including the Alps, the coasts and Tuscany) and the centre of the country, including Rome. According to the Italian office of statistics(Istat), southern Italy and the islands ... exclusivelyborders the cooler Atlantic. Nevertheless, the Algarve could also benegatively affected by climate change. The tourist sector is one of the major employers in the region – particularly in the high...
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Tài liệu The Silence of Congress pdf

Tài liệu The Silence of Congress pdf

Tài chính doanh nghiệp

... during the passage through their jurisdic-tion, with duties which would fall on the makers of the latter and the consumers of the former.”12As a consequence, animosities would be cre-6 The Silence ... unless the concernedtribe has entered into a gaming compact with the governor of the stateproviding for the collection of state excise taxes on the reservations. The chapter also examines the ... was the danger the confederation would dissolve.In 1787, James Madison wrote “a breach of any of the Articles ofConfederation by any of the parties to it absolves the other partiesfrom their...
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WORKING PAPER SERIES NO 868 / FEBRUARY 2008: PURDAH ON THE RATIONALE FOR CENTRAL BANK SILENCE AROUND POLICY MEETINGS pptx

WORKING PAPER SERIES NO 868 / FEBRUARY 2008: PURDAH ON THE RATIONALE FOR CENTRAL BANK SILENCE AROUND POLICY MEETINGS pptx

Ngân hàng - Tín dụng

... happening in the future, adding: "One of the main features of the future is the decline of the savings rate in American households since the mid-1980's." " ;The rest of the world, ... stressed the other side of the U.S. economic dichotomy comes from " ;the volatility in the stock market (that) may trim the growth in consumer and business spending to some degree." " ;The ... of the two parts of the purdah or whether they took place in the inter-meeting period outside the blackout period. The right-hand columns indicate whether the coefficient estimates are statistically...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Who, What, When, Where, Why? Comparing Multiple Approaches to the Cross-Lingual 5W Task" pptx

Báo cáo khoa học

... English-function used the function tags from the parser to map parser constituents to the 5Ws. First the Who, When, Where and Why were ex-tracted, and then the remaining pieces of the sen-tence ... English-treebank trained parser, the Charniak parser (Charniak 2001). After the parses were both converted to the 5Ws, they were then merged, favoring the system that: recognized the passive, filled more ... line. The What question was the hardest, since it requires two pieces of information (the predicate and object). The When, Where and Why ques-tions were easier, since they were null most of the...
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SUSAN SONTAG THE AESTHETICS OF SILENCE pptx

SUSAN SONTAG THE AESTHETICS OF SILENCE pptx

Thời trang - Làm đẹp

... one common, but dubious, version of the notion of silence, which invokes the idea of the ineffable.” The theory supposes that the province of art is the beautiful,” which implies effects ... confounded by the treachery of words, the activity of the artist is cursed with mediacy. Art becomes the enemy of the artist, for it denies him the realization, the transcendence, he desires. Therefore, ... the most active metaphors for the spiritual project is “art.” The activities of the painter, the musician, the poet, the dancer et al, once they were grouped together under that generic name...
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Lessons Learned from the Field: Where do we go from here? docx

Lessons Learned from the Field: Where do we go from here? docx

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... estimate the burden of disease. The unit cost of an additional DALY is the measure of an intervention's cost-effectiveness; the lower the number, the greater the value for money offered by the ... alone, and to review these reports in combination with the medical exam sheets. In the former case, they determined that 61 percent of the women had RTIs; in the latter case, the figure rose to ... predictive of the occurrence of RTI. We then tried to determine whether these results might relate to the fact that the women did not know what to look for in terms of symptoms and/or to their behavior...
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Where Do Older Americans Live? Geographic Distribution of the Older Population potx

Where Do Older Americans Live? Geographic Distribution of the Older Population potx

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... population, followed by the Northeast (78%), South (69%),and West (55%). This further suggests that the trends of out-migration of youngworkers and aging in place in the Midwest and Northeast have had ... andnon-metropolitan areas in the South, a large proportion of non-metropolitan elderlyreside in the Midwest and Northeast. Compared to other regions, the non-metropolitan Midwest has the largest proportion ... impact on the agedistribution of the population in some states in the Midwest and Northeast,particularly as young workers have left work in the farming and mining industries.In some of these states,...
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WHERE IS THE Wealth of NATIONS? pptx

WHERE IS THE Wealth of NATIONS? pptx

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... around the use of resource revenues. In principle, the government should seek to reinvest royalties on exhaustible resources in other assets—thereby maintaining the total wealth of the nation. The ... sheries. To the extent that countries profi t from these resources, their value is implicitly included in the total wealth aggregate and, hence, ends up in the intangible capital residual. The services ... 2000 WHERE IS THE WEALTH OF NATIONS?20 The Richest and the PoorestAggregate wealth estimates are presented in tables 2.1 and 2.2, which highlight the 10 wealthiest and poorest countries. The...
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Microfinance services by savings banks in Africa - The sleeping giants have started moving, but where are they going? potx

Microfinance services by savings banks in Africa - The sleeping giants have started moving, but where are they going? potx

Ngân hàng - Tín dụng

... proportion of the vulnerable non-poor, the poor and the poorest”.Critics of postal savings banks recognise that their products are affordable to the mass market but often argue that these are basic ... in the region can maintain productivity, and at the same time overcome funding and management constraints to building up their institutional capacity, the market is set to grow further. The ... responding to the unbanked segments. However, the microfinance sector is still relatively small and weak compared to other global regions and despite the huge potential market. In this context, the role...
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''''The Worst Place in the World to be a Woman or Girl'''' – Rape in the DR Congo: Canada, Where Are You? docx

''''The Worst Place in the World to be a Woman or Girl'''' – Rape in the DR Congo: Canada, Where Are You? docx

Khoa học xã hội

... camps to the mandate of the peacekeeping mission. Rather, the GoC demanded the UN Security Council to terminate the mission altogether. This was granted despite calls from NGOs and within the UN ... that the Congolese embodied this relationship in the popular expression: civil azali bilanga ya militaire, the civilian is the [corn] field of the military.’115 The Kivu Provinces in the ... buy their own uniforms. Though the FARDC is expected to provide security to the country, the conditions under which the soldiers live are a source of insecurity as they turn to prey on the...
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The Geek Atlas: 128 Places Where Science and Technology Come Alive pptx

The Geek Atlas: 128 Places Where Science and Technology Come Alive pptx

Hệ điều hành

... single pixel (where the warp and the weft intersect). The cards are then strung together and run through the loom in order. The parallels with modern computing are clear: the output of the loom is ... visitors to see into the boat from the top deck to the keel. There’s even a model rat in the bilges. Directly behind the boat is a steam-powered tug from the 1930s, and the rest of the room is filled ... airbase north of the city center) and the other covering ground transportation (the “Verkehrszentrum,” situated close to the Theresienwiese where Oktoberfest takes place). The main Deutsches...
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Where is the energy spent inside my app? Fine Grained Energy Accounting on Smartphones with Eprof pot

Where is the energy spent inside my app? Fine Grained Energy Accounting on Smartphones with Eprof pot

Kế toán - Kiểm toán

... over the network. The app performsCPU computa tion during the 3G tail which elongates the 3Gtail; the tail could have been shorter if the app uploaded the next photo sooner. Further, the above ... after the entity exitsand another e ntity starts, until the wakelock is released bythis other entity. Following the last-trig ger policy, the energyconsumed by the comp onent during the period ... During the second phase, the routine invocationtrace is play ed back while a t the same time the sy stem calltrace is used to drive the FSM power model to replay the energy activ ities. The energy...
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