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THE STATE OF MICROFINANCE INVESTMENT 2011: MicroRate’s 6th Annual Survey & Analysis of MIVs potx

THE STATE OF MICROFINANCE INVESTMENT 2011: MicroRate’s 6th Annual Survey & Analysis of MIVs potx

Ngày tải lên : 16/03/2014, 17:20
... Assets in Small MIVs MF Assets in Large MIVs MF Assets in Medium MIVs Share of Large MIV MF Assets (right axis) THE STATE OF MICROFINANCE INVESTMENT 2011 th MicroRate s Annual Survey & Analysis ... instruments, as has been the case for the last six years Of microfinance assets held by MIVs in 2010, debt investments represent 82%, followed by equity investments at 18% Guarantees represent ... microfinance investment vehicles (MIVs) Luminis is a web-based analytical service of MicroRate that provides professional investors and researchers with the necessary tools to identify, assess, and...
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The State of Microfinance Investment 2012 MicroRate’s 7th Annual Survey and Analysis of MIVs potx

The State of Microfinance Investment 2012 MicroRate’s 7th Annual Survey and Analysis of MIVs potx

Ngày tải lên : 23/03/2014, 12:21
... MicroRate s Annual Survey and Analysis of MIVs lighted by several funds However, despite the obstacles, MIV investment in SSA in 2011 recorded the largest increase of any region (79%), surpassing the South ... University of Zurich, 2010 “Start research study on Understanding the drivers of over-indebtedness of MFIs’ clients in Cambodia,” Incofin press release, 12 Apr 2012 THE STATE OF MICROFINANCE INVESTMENT ... Union countries www.luxflag.org 16 THE STATE OF MICROFINANCE INVESTMENT 2012 th MicroRate s Annual Survey and Analysis of MIVs The Next Step In response to investor interest in assessing the financial...
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Báo cáo toán học: "The Problem of the Kings Herbert S. Wilf" pot

Báo cáo toán học: "The Problem of the Kings Herbert S. Wilf" pot

Ngày tải lên : 07/08/2014, 06:20
... of length (m + 1)2m , whose entries are 0 s except for the entries in positions that correspond to pieces all of whose letters are 1 s and 4 s In those positions let the entries of y be 1 s Then ... Since there are m + possible values of j = 0, 1, , m, we are finished Now here is the ordering of the pieces Consider the set of all 2m m-letter words w of R s and L s Think of L as a “smaller” ... claim For in the word w one of the strings LR or RL must occur Suppose w contains LR The set of m + pieces in the class of w are parameterized by the number j of 1 s and 2 s that are in the maximal...
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The Problem of computer illiteracy

The Problem of computer illiteracy

Ngày tải lên : 26/10/2013, 17:15
... information in the course of information science  Unwillingness to learning  Lack of access to computer  Dissatisfactory school base  Insufficient allocation of application programs Alternatives  Correction ... Symptoms  Inability for searching information in the internet  Necessity to ask more advanced people for help  Waste time  Difficulties in employment assistance Causes  Lack of useful ... allocation of application programs Alternatives  Correction of information science course  Simplification of access to computer classes  Increase the motivation ...
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Connotative meaning in samuel taylor coleridge's poem the rime of the ancient mariner = nghĩa biểu cảm trong bài thơ the rime of the ancient mariner của tác giả samuel taylor coleridge

Connotative meaning in samuel taylor coleridge's poem the rime of the ancient mariner = nghĩa biểu cảm trong bài thơ the rime of the ancient mariner của tác giả samuel taylor coleridge

Ngày tải lên : 12/12/2013, 00:03
... experiences everyday setbacks and emotions, and the ship must endure everyday issues as well The ship carries the ancient mariner and his crew, just as the body carries the soul From these analyses, the ... meaning of words denoting certain symbols and images emerging in the poem Design of the study Part A: Introduction Rationale Aims of the study Scope of the study Methods of the study Design of the study ... Graduation thesis Table of contents Page s Acknowledgements Table of contents Part a introduction Rationale Aims of the study Scope of the study Methods of the study Design of the study Part b Contents...
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Tài liệu Laser-Optimized Fiber: Built for Price, Bandwidth, and Distance to Make the Most of Your Investment doc

Tài liệu Laser-Optimized Fiber: Built for Price, Bandwidth, and Distance to Make the Most of Your Investment doc

Ngày tải lên : 24/01/2014, 11:20
... happens when the laser beam launched into a small area of the fiber 's core splits into several modes of light traveling at different speeds DMD ultimately causes the transmission pulse to spread ... much of the installed base, the IEEE is exploring ways to run 10 Gigabit Ethernet over 300 meters of 62.5µm fiber with the use of a singlemode laser source The proposed standard, however, is slow ... transmission, design flexibility 10 Gbps 850 nm Laser Detector Core Detector Cladding Figure The Effect of DMD on Transmission 10 Gb /s reliable transmission, design flexibility 10 Gbps Because...
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Tài liệu Bell''''s Cathedrals: The Churches of Coventry pptx

Tài liệu Bell''''s Cathedrals: The Churches of Coventry pptx

Ngày tải lên : 19/02/2014, 11:20
... quatrefoils, at the spring of the arch The two windows of St Lawrence 's Chapel have a transom across the lights and a band of seven quatrefoils at the spring The buttresses of the Lady Chapel are rather ... feet inches towards the north-west On the walls of the tower two very large brasses record the names of the Vicars of the church since 1242, and of the Bishops in whose Dioceses Coventry has been ... sixteenth-century costume The matrices of brasses are still visible in several parts of the church Sir James Harrington, writing in the reign of James I, tells a curious story of their loss: The pavement of Coventry...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "A Practical Solution to the Problem of Automatic Word Sense Induction" doc

Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "A Practical Solution to the Problem of Automatic Word Sense Induction" doc

Ngày tải lên : 20/02/2014, 16:20
... misclassified This gives an overall accuracy of 85.6% Reasons for misclassifications include the following: Some of the top 30 associations are more or less neutral towards the senses, so even ... computing the main dimensions of a matrix through SVD solves the problem of sparseness and greatly improves clustering results Although the results that we presented in this paper seem useful even ... words closest to the geometric centers of the clusters should be good descriptors of each sense However, as matrices of the above type can be extremely sparse, clustering is a difficult task,...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "HOW DO WE COUNT? THE PROBLEM OF TAGGING PHRASAL VERBS IN PARTS" docx

Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "HOW DO WE COUNT? THE PROBLEM OF TAGGING PHRASAL VERBS IN PARTS" docx

Ngày tải lên : 20/02/2014, 21:20
... was also explored in order to test if this simple solution will be appropriate in all cases The accuracy of the tagging approaches was evaluated 3.2 RESULTS Table presents a sample of the pairs ... verbs When is this alternative needed? In the cases where PARTS had 10% or more errors, most of the verbs occur lnuch more often as nouns or adjectives This confirms my hypothesis that PARTS will ... have a problem solving the N/V ambiguity in cases where the lexical probability of the word points to a noun These are the very cases that should be treated as one unit in the system The lexical...
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MEED S.A. The Costs of Water Pollution in India potx

MEED S.A. The Costs of Water Pollution in India potx

Ngày tải lên : 06/03/2014, 15:21
... ILFS The subsidy effect in favour of SSIs may be increased in some cases when an industrial area gathers SSIs as well as larger polluting industries In these case, some cross subsidies may be set ... economies, these schemes also act as subsidies from public powers to small industries in order to allow them to respect the standards The minimum participation asked from SSIs in the CETP schemes implemented ... consent fees Nevertheless any fee levied by the SPCBs have to be sent to the central government The central government is then supposed to return 80% of the fees to the SPCBs 2.2.3 Assessment of...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "A Practical Solution to the Problem of Automatic Part-of-Speech Induction from Text" pdf

Báo cáo khoa học: "A Practical Solution to the Problem of Automatic Part-of-Speech Induction from Text" pdf

Ngày tải lên : 08/03/2014, 04:22
... word sense induction The results indicate that part of speech induction is possible with good success based on the analysis of distributional patterns in text The study also gives some insight ... vectors Otherwise we assumed that the differential vector was caused by sampling errors and aborted the process of searching for additional class assignments The results from this procedure are shown ... discover word classes, we simply compute the similarities between all pairs of rows using a vector similarity measure such as the cosine coefficient and then cluster the words according to these...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Constituent-Based Morphological Parsing: A New Approach to the Problem of Word-Recognition" pdf

Báo cáo khoa học: "Constituent-Based Morphological Parsing: A New Approach to the Problem of Word-Recognition" pdf

Ngày tải lên : 08/03/2014, 18:20
... using is due to Brunson (1986) This parser was designed to take as input a sequence of morphemes rather than a sequence of fully formed words as most syntactic parsers Such a parser embodies ... structure, consisting merely of the morphemes in their linear order with word boundaries, off to the syntactic parser The f'n'st task is to find the prosodic constituents, i.e to find where the ... does not provide such a mechanism Instead, it assumes that the problem of morphological recognition is one of matching some input string to a set of lexical strings Prosodic considerations not...
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SOLVING THE PROBLEM OF CHILDHOOD OBESITY WITHIN A GENERATION potx

SOLVING THE PROBLEM OF CHILDHOOD OBESITY WITHIN A GENERATION potx

Ngày tải lên : 14/03/2014, 09:20
... E S I T Y Regional Disparities Across the country, the prevalence of obesity has been found to be highest in southeast states such as Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, and West ... vegetables with an entrée unless the student switches to a less nutritious side dish USDA should support the development and demonstration of innovative strategies and schools should use them to ... implementation of the wellness policy, schools should consider establishing a health advisory council, as a number of communities have done These councils, comprised of school officials and staff, parents,...
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The Making of an Investment Banker: Stock Market Shocks, Career Choice, and Lifetime Income docx

The Making of an Investment Banker: Stock Market Shocks, Career Choice, and Lifetime Income docx

Ngày tải lên : 17/03/2014, 03:20
... probability (OLS) regressions that are the first-stage regressions in IV analyses below The results (in terms of the significance of the estimates and the marginal effects of the coefficients) are nearly ... Given the nature of the sample, the sample size gets smaller as the number of years since graduation increases Therefore, the estimates get less precise over time However, the estimated effect of ... bankers and use the career progressions of MBAs to draw conclusions about the sources of the investment bank compensation premium I show that, just as investment bankers are key drivers of financial...
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Earl Hubert''''s Daughter The Polishing of the Pearl docx

Earl Hubert''''s Daughter The Polishing of the Pearl docx

Ngày tải lên : 17/03/2014, 20:20
... upon the cross It simply means, that whenever Eusebio sees the shape of a cross in the hilt of his sword, the pattern of a woman 's dress, two sticks thrown upon one another, he stops in the midst ... basest superstition with some very strong plain common-sense The superstition was of the style set forth in the famous Spanish drama entitled "The Devotion of the Cross" the true Roman type of ... long?" "There were reasons, Magot." CHAPTER ONE The two Princesses exchanged smiles again, but there was some amusement in that of the Countess, while the expression of her sister was rather sad...
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Maintaining an Online Bibliographical Database: The Problem of Data Quality potx

Maintaining an Online Bibliographical Database: The Problem of Data Quality potx

Ngày tải lên : 30/03/2014, 13:20
... occurrences is hundred percent correct Data edits not focus on the comparison of records from different sources but make use of business rules These business rules are specific to the domain of the ... be resolved because of lack of information In many cases we are able to find the missing part of the puzzle — for example on personal "home pages" of the scientists themselfes, but often the information ... distance in the graph If the names of these nodes are very similar, we should suspect them to represent the same person: if StringDistance(name(a1 ), name(a2 )) < t then warning The StringDistance...
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CAN AESTHETIC THEORIES OF ART BE RESCUED FROM THE PROBLEM OF AVANT-GARDE AND OTHER NON-PERCEPTUAL ARTWORKS? – AN EXPLORATION OF NON-PERCEPTUAL AESTHETIC PROPERTIES pdf

CAN AESTHETIC THEORIES OF ART BE RESCUED FROM THE PROBLEM OF AVANT-GARDE AND OTHER NON-PERCEPTUAL ARTWORKS? – AN EXPLORATION OF NON-PERCEPTUAL AESTHETIC PROPERTIES pdf

Ngày tải lên : 30/03/2014, 16:20
... aesthetic theory of art is more sophisticated than either version of the first solution Shelley labels this theory the second solution’ and describes it as accepting propositions (S) (aesthetic ... that of the aesthetic This is inadequate as it avoids the issue and the need to explain why many people call avant-garde works ‘art’ James Shelley describes this strategy as the first version of ... and is compatible with Duchamp s view that to look at the aesthetic qualities of his works misses the point However, it is not a work s aesthetic properties that defines it as art This raises the...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Mechanical Translation and the Problem of Multiple Meaning" pdf

Báo cáo khoa học: "Mechanical Translation and the Problem of Multiple Meaning" pdf

Ngày tải lên : 30/03/2014, 17:20
... Bousett 's formula, then the assumption of the uncorrelativity of the random force will lead, in particular, to the results of the work (perhaps he means to the satisfying results?) The physical reason ... Meaning SIMULATED MECHANICAL TRANSLATION In the first works on the theory of the Brownian movement (see also ) the values of the velocity of the particle in the various moments of the time were assumed ... case (The list of sequences, with translations, is available on request.) By working with these 135 sequences it was found that the arrangement of meanings given in Table I is the best possible...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "On the Problem of Mechanical Translation" docx

Báo cáo khoa học: "On the Problem of Mechanical Translation" docx

Ngày tải lên : 30/03/2014, 17:20
... grammar is presented as a series of special schemes for the basic parts of speech: verbs, nouns, adjectives, numerals, etc The working basis of each scheme is dichotomic analysis, i.e., a system of ... Russian words and their place in the Russian sentence The resulting information is recorded by means of indices, thereby permitting passage to the second part of the program -"Synthesis of the ... Problems of Mechanical Translation considerably reduces this space The automatic translation program is divided into two main parts — analysis and synthesis In the first part, the form of the...
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