... raised by respondents was the difficulty involved in bringing technology to remote regions and to people living inthe poorest conditions. Craig Partridge, internet pioneer and chief scientist ... social networking, for connection. Innovations such as Wikipedia, MySpace, Flickr and Second Life are showing the power of individual participation and creativity andthe wisdom of crowds. In ... companies in an initial discussion of the request. At this point in time, internet companies generally keep such information as sites visited, email 23 French, H., As Chinese Students Go Online,...
... in writing task in general and isan important step in writing an essay, which students will learn inthe following section oftheir major writing course. The course is fulfilled within in fifteen ... main point of the problem, they write a lot but the 7 Literature review I. 1.Teaching Writing. I. 1.1. Researchers’ opinions about writing.There are various opinions of writing given by different ... these writing activities inthe class tend to resemble communicative writing tasks in the real life. I. 2. Teaching paragraph writing I. 2.1. Definitions of ParagraphThere are various definitions...
... investing in relationship (Cetorelli/Gambera 2001: 621). The more intensive the competition of banks in a region is, the smaller is the readiness of banks to invest inthe acquisition of information. ... andthe significant number of financial market crises have shown, privatisation and liberalization aiming on high competition intensity do not necessarily contribute to high stability inthe ... correlation coeffi-cient is marginal. On the other hand the coefficient representing the relationship be-tween regional wealth and interest margin of savings banks (last row inthe table) is meaningful,...
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... lives in slum conditions; in Africa, the proportion is a staggering 6 in 10. The impact on children living in such conditions is signicant. From Ghana and Kenya to Bangladesh and India, children ... and cost considerations limit the construc-tion of individual latrines in slums. Public facilities are frequently overcrowded, poorly maintained and contaminated. Special provision for children ... examine more closely some of the challenges and opportunities that children face in cities, and discuss initiatives that seek to improve life for children in an increasingly urban world. The...
... from dis-tinct sources and from distinct time periods(early nineties vs. mid-nineties). Many topic- and time-specific dependencies can only bemined from more similar corpora. The experiments ... co-trainingfor statistical parsers. In Workshop on the Con-tinuum from Labeled to Unlabeled Data in Ma-chine Learning and Data Mining, ICML.Mark Johnson and Stefan Riezler. 2000. Ex-ploiting ... (without Collins) are given inthe first lines. #is the size of the test set. The baselines are 73 .1% (RC) and 51.4% (PP). The combined methodperforms better for sm all training sets. There is...
... combination of group sessions, individual sessions and visits or outings, giving participants the opportunity to put their ideas into practice. Twenty-nine sessions are included inthe manual based ... settings or populations included inthe studies. Summarising the evidence and making evidence statements The review data were summarised in evidence tables (see full reviews). The findings ... disadvantaged will include those with physical or learning disabilities, those on very low incomes and those living in social or rural isolation, including older people from minority ethnic groups...
... and bottlenecks inthe folding of specific proteins, forexample those containing disulfide bonds or requiringcofactors, multidomain proteins, fusion proteins. In the following we summarize recent progress in ... b-Lacto-globulin carries five cysteine residues, four of whichlink in disulfide bridges, raising questions about the role (if any) of the free thiol during in vivo folding.Upon overproduction in E. coli ... where its accessibility and binding to FIAsHwill depend on the folding state of the protein. In thisway, FIAsH fluorescence reports on protein stability and aggregation within cells [41]. Other...
... y 2i .It may be interesting to decompose the change inthe inequalityof total income into what is due to the changes inthe means andin the inequality of income sources 1 and 2. The preceding ... offset by migration and changes in labor-force participation (as inthe Indonesian case). Arise in household income inequality arising from increases in the labor-force participation rates of ... within the population is of obvious importance. Shorrocks (1982) shows the way in which total inequality I yat apoint in time can be decomposed into the inequality coming from the various income...
... out¯owingwater is discharged into an artiđcial lake, 32 ha in size.Sampling locations for in ow and out¯ow samples, and forsediment and water column samples are indicated in Fig.2b. The soil landscape ... described bacterial mortality in each of the microcosms, with the exception of ENT in outlet wetlandsediment, in which the mortality rates were very low. The lower detection limit for determining concentrations ... the duration. The survival of TTC and ENT in closed-bottle sedi-ment microcosms over a period of 28 d is shown in Figs 6 and 7.In each microcosm there was a signiđcant generaldecline in concentration...