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... Aims ofthe Study The main aim ofthe thesis is to find the problems and offer solutions to improvingthe English language proficiency at COT - VNU In order to achieve this aim, the thesis sets the ... recognition ofthe importance ofthe language in their life and career Furthermore, 97% ofthe students claim to the self-study besides classroom hours with the help of modern means of communication ... and the feedbacks obtained from the students who attended the pilot course Design ofthe Study The thesis consists of three parts Part I is the introduction, which represents the rationales, the...
... people may also need different types of care, depending on whether they are still in school or whether they are married Indeed, the extent of sexual activity outside of marriage varies greatly In one ... will not provide them with services, either because they believe the centers cater exclusively to the needs of pregnant women, infants, and small children or because they think that the staff will ... Institute 1998) ■ Young people between the ages of 15 and 24 have the highest rates of STIs worldwide, with over two-thirds of all reported cases (Morell 1995) The proportion is even higher in developing...
... the coverage ofthe formal financial system It is further observed that 58% ofthe labourers and 20% of salary earners prefer to keep their saving at home The survey has observed the saving of ... 155516 post offices (March 2005) was one ofthe most widely spread post office systems in the world The number of post offices was more than two times the number of bank branches in the country ... Stashing cash at home: Thepoor men and women save out of their income and keep in the house sometimes in the backyard ofthe houses, in pots (ii) Keeping money with neighbours: Thepoor keep money...
... taxed by the production of extended texts Representations ofthe author's intended ideas, the meaning ofthe text as it is written, and even the possible meanings ofthe text as construed by the imagined ... Despite the importance of writing skills, the 2002 National Assessment of Educational Progress painted a dismal picture ofthe writing preparedness of American students Less than a third of students ... (1988) examined the biographies of 66 poets listed in the Norton Anthology of Poetry, locating their approximate starting date for reading and writing poetry For 83% ofthe sample, the earliest...
... entity For 98.0% ofthe named entities in the training data ofthe shared task in the 2004 JNLPBA, the label ofthe preceding entity was “O” Reduction of Training/Inference Cost The straightforward ... where L is the upper bound length of entities, N is the length of sentence and K is the size of label set And that of training in first order semi-CRFs is O(K LN ) The increase ofthe cost is ... Z(x) is the normalization factor over all the state sequences for the sequence x The model parameters are a set of real-valued weights λ = {λj }, each of which represents the weight of a feature...
... patients: positioning them, their newborns and their families at Toward Improvingthe Outcome of Pregnancy III the center of their care and making them an integral part of their health care decisionmaking ... together with the father or other identified partner, and others, family ofthe patient-baby In this aspect of perinatal care, the parents ofthe baby define the family and how they wish to be ... with the allocation of resources and the regionalization of subspecialty care Toward Improvingthe Outcome of Pregnancy, Recommendations for the Regional 10 marchofdimes.com Development of Maternal...
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... of persons employed in the administration ofthe state, he devised several new offices; such as surveyors ofthe public buildings, ofthe roads, the aqueducts, and the bed ofthe Tiber; for the ... containing the temple of Mars the Avenger, the temple of Apollo on the Palatine hill, and the temple of Jupiter Tonans in the Capitol The reason of his building a new forum was the vast increase in the ... distribution of corn to the people; the praefecture ofthe city; a triumvirate for the election ofthe senators; and another for inspecting the several troops ofthe equestrian order, as often as...
... sudden TheLivesofthe Twelve Caesars: vol 4, Caligula 15 commanded them to gather up the sea shells, and fill their helmets, and the folds of their dress with them, calling them "the spoils ofthe ... would order the back of their heads to be shaved, to make them appear ridiculous There was one Esius Proculus, theTheLivesofthe Twelve Caesars: vol 4, Caligula 12 son of a centurion ofthe first ... [409], from the calends of January for thirty days; the third [410], until the ides [the 13th] of January; and the fourth [411], until the seventh ofthe same ides [7th January] Of these, the two...
... money to buy themselves off they too had votes The Roman voters cared nothing for the wrongs ofthe Italians, or ofthe people ofthe provinces Like the rich, who lived on the revenues ofthe tax-collecting ... at them over the distance of time, judging them by their work and by what is left to us of their writings how the mixture of faults in their virtues explains the fall as well as the rise ofthe ... Penates which the head ofthe family tended and guarded Connected with this office was the sacred authority ofthe head ofthe family the paterfamilias His word was law for the members ofthe household...
... address the specific needs ofthe poor; while some aspects ofthe decentralization process may even increase the power of local elites at the expense ofthepoor majority Finally, while the diversification ... consistently aimed to increase growth at the expense ofthe environment, or to protect the environment without taking account ofthe basic priorities ofthepoorThe concept of ‘land reforms’ is a complex ... loss, and the uncertainty of existing data positing large-scale degradation of natural resources;21 The complex relationships between thepoor and the environment, and the limitations ofthe view...
... the Google model only requires n-gram counts to implement The Backoff Erk model is the best, using the Baseline for the majority of decisions and backing off to the Erk smoothing model when the ... is the set of seen head words filling the slot vd during training, and C(vd , n) is the number of times the noun n was seen filling the slot vd The similarity score sim(n, w) can thus be one of ... include the syntactic relations) Corpus counts covered years ofthe AP section, and we used the development set ofthe NYT section to extract the seen and unseen pairs Figure shows the percentage of...
... Heads of State to hold their peers, their partners, and themselves accountable Led by Suprotik Basu, Managing Director ofthe office ofthe UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Malaria, the ... Transmission of HIV from mother-to-child: Virtually eliminate the transmission of HIV from mother-to-child by the end of 2015 In collaboration with UNAIDS, PEPFAR, the countries suffering the greatest ... a serious reversal ofthe gains achieved MDG Health Alliance Priorities The first priority ofthe Malaria Pillar ofthe Health Alliance will be to support efforts to secure the necessary funding...
... coping with the environmental degradation occurring in many of their countries The realization of personal goals for these young women and men, and the economic and social development of their countries, ... having many children over the course of their lives As shown in Table 1, the countries in this chartbook include the largest in Africa and contain two-thirds ofthe population of sub-Saharan Africa ... Growth Also Impedes the Investment in Youth Necessary to Achieve the MDGs As shown in Table 2, the majority ofthe population in each of these countries lives on less than $2 per day The gross national...
... skin into the centre ofthe node or at the point of maximum fluctuance, and pull back on the syringe piston If no aspirate is obtained, move the needle in and out ofthe centre ofthe node while ... Association and the Damien Foundation have also provided their comments on the earlier version The document was reviewed by members ofthe Core Group ofthe global TB/ HIV Working Group ofthe Stop TB ... facilities) based on the epidemiology ofthe HIV epidemic and the magnitude of HIV-associated tuberculosis, and develop appropriate guidance for the implementation of these recommendations The recommendations...
... to the relatively robust definitions of ALRI, the measurement of exposure in the majority of these studies has relied on proxies, including the type of fuel used, stove type, exposure ofthe ... countries ofthe value of a statistical life Then the result is weighted by the income ratio between the developing country and the country in which the value of a statistical life was estimated These ... reported hours spent near the stove, and whether the child is carried on the |9 Addressing the Impact of Household Energy and Indoor Air Pollution on the Health ofthePoor Implications for Policy...
... homeowners free of charge or at a large discount These firms earned a profit based on the margin between the market price ofthe NGACs and the cost ofthe appliances The business model of purchasing ... advances in the efficiency of windows and doors, improvingthe exchange of heat, and increasing the tightness ofthe building envelope Improvements to the thermal envelope of a building can reduce ... case ofthe promised Australian national program and the proposed recast ofthe EPBD, even still under consideration Thus, systematic analysis ofthe effects ofthe policies is not yet possible There...
... important issues for both federal and state policymakers. Among these are: the collection and reporting of data on the health status of urban Indians and their access to health care services; the adequacy ofthe Title V program for serving the health needs of urban Indians; and the changes needed in the Medicaid ... preschool and 310 elementary school children. Because all children participated in the survey, Indian Health Service did not provide margins of errors for their estimates. Nonetheless, there is likely to be some margin of error in the estimates due to the sampling ofthe schools and other random factors. ... Tribal governments must be intricately involved in such efforts to assure the use ofthe data is culturally appropriate, acceptable, and meaningful in improvingthe health of their people. By reinstituting efforts that began in 1997 between the commission and the Washington State Department of Health through an American Indian Data ...