... excess returns for borrowing in dollars, converting to the foreign currency, lending at the foreign interest rate, and converting the proceeds back to dollars The stock and bond indices are total ... and reprint inthe form of a different publication, whether printed or produced electronically, in whole or in part, is permitted only with the explicit written authorisation ofthe ECB or the author(s) ... returns in both the domestic country and the US for bonds Standard errors are reported in parenthesis J-Stat denotes the p-value ofthe Jstatistic to test the null hypothesis that the overidentifying...
... social inclusion, there is a strong business case for improving walking and cycling conditions As the UK report Making the Case for investment inthe walking and cycling environment8 shows, interventions ... and shopping behaviours of visitors to the Northcote shopping precinct to assist inassessingthe potential impact of a reduction in on-street parking resulting from the introduction ofthe tram ... Costs and benefitsof investing inthe walking and cycling environment Cost benefit analysis “Investments inthe walking environment are good value for money – even accounting forthe fact that...
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... collected information regarding inhaled and pump delivered insulin and thereby forming the basis forthe TRIM-Diabetes/ Device development project Information regarding the methodology forthe collection ... regarding the treatment impact of inhaled and pump delivered insulin This data was then combined with the information gained from the TRIAD measure interviews and a preliminary conceptual model of ... designed the study, conducted all interviews, assisted inthe analysis and drafted the manuscript MH and TC assisted inthe design ofthe study and inthe drafting ofthe manuscript SL assisted in the...
... collected information regarding inhaled and pump delivered insulin and thereby forming the basis forthe TRIM-Diabetes/ Device development project Information regarding the methodology forthe collection ... regarding the treatment impact of inhaled and pump delivered insulin This data was then combined with the information gained from the TRIAD measure interviews and a preliminary conceptual model of ... designed the study, conducted all interviews, assisted inthe analysis and drafted the manuscript MH and TC assisted inthe design ofthe study and inthe drafting ofthe manuscript SL assisted in the...
... any insulin therapy and potentially discriminate inhaled and injected insulin therapy, and perceptions ofthe device used to deliver inhaled insulin that could apply only to an inhaled insulin ... items formed only one factor; therefore only a single score was generated for each of these domains Items from the Perceptions of Insulin Therapy domain formed two distinct factors, one representing ... preference Additional items inthe current version ofthe IITQ are: several perceptions of insulin therapy (difficulty taking insulin at the right time, and effect of insulin on overall glucose control,...
... calling Perl routines from the Java API Perl routines take care ofthe bulk of querying encyclopedia entries to the MediaWiki software (which in turn queries the database) and efficiently parsing ... simple interface to create and access the encyclopedia page objects and compute the relatedness scores The information flow ofthe API is summarized by the sequence diagram in Figure The higher input/output ... articles inthe categorization graph Examples of programmatic usage ofthe API are presented in Figure In addition, the software distribution includes UNIX shell scripts to access the API interactively...
... The Economics of Cloud Computing Addressing theBenefitsof Infrastructure inthe Cloud The federal government is embracing cloud computing as a means of reducing expenditures for information ... estimate the potential absolute savings across the federal government (As part ofthe Information Technology Infrastructure Line of Business [ITI LoB] initiative, GSA is coordinating a benchmarking ... However, there will be a need for program planning and technical support, software engineering support for “porting” the applications over to the new cloud environment, and testing support for the...
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... The study population forthe demotions model was smaller than forthe two discharge models because 3106 Marines were demoted before ever deploying, making them ineligible for inclusion in either ... PTSD increased the risk of drugrelated discharges for all Marines is consistent with other literature, and a number of theories have been posited to explain the relationship, including the selfmedication ... and the dates of their occurrence were obtained from DMDC Individuals were classified as demoted if official records indicated a lowering of their paygrade Individuals were classified as having...
... mating or reproductive interactions Inthe case of D pseudoobscura and D persimilis, these traits are Finally, beyond enhancing our understanding ofthe details of reinforcement, the work of ... speciation involving regions of substantially reduced recombination such as chromosomal inversions Inthe new study, however, there is no evidence forthe role of inversions in reinforced mate discrimination, ... genomic information developed in other contexts - that evolutionary biologists can continue to make such great strides in understanding the genetic basis of, and evolutionary forces involved in, the...
... Quality of Training in Foreign Languages and Informatics 10 Library and Learning Resources Conceptual Framework forthe Study ofthe Management Innovations for Improving the Quality of Education in ... activities are interconnected inthe sense that output information from one activity is input information to another The same is true forthe activities of developing performance metrics or assessing critical ... and methodsof education The parents also recommended investing in teaching conditions and educational methodsfor their children g For potential investors inthe education sector, including the...
... uniform cost of annotating each item In this case, the ordering of annotated data A will depend entirely on the algorithm’s estimate ofthe expected benefit However, for AL in POS tagging, the cost ... Thus, in POS tagging both the benefit (increase in accuracy) and cost of annotating a sentence depend not only on properties ofthe sentence but also on the order in which the items are annotated Therefore, ... (1996) inthe implementation of vote entropy for sentence selection using these models When comparing the relative performance of AL algorithms, learning curves can be challenging to in6 7 terpret...
... function ofthe degree of biomagnification or trophic dilution that occurs in organisms of lower trophic levels inthe food web, thus regulating the concentration ofthe chemical inthe diet of upper ... probability interval ofthe empirical data rather than the more conventional 95% is that the majority ofthe BAF data inthe BAF data represent BAFs in lower trophic organisms For biomagnifying chemicals, ... rate The BAF-QSAR exhibits a ™parabolic∫ shape At low KOW, the BAF increases with increasing KOW in a linear fashion, as partitioning ofthe chemical between the water 342 Figure Calibration of the...
... heavily on the skill ofthe operator In order to improve the reproducibility ofthe methods, and to produce guidance forthe degree of improvement that could be expected when using themethodsin actual ... training aids and guidance for educating, training and certifying operators and inspectors The improvement techniques described in these Recommendations are intended for use under the following ... grinding technique, showing depth and width of groove inthe stressed plate Fig 3.3 The burr grinding procedure is illustrated in Fig 3.2 The burr is centred over the weld toe The axis of the...
... coordinated the training of 98 trainers and the commencement of 24 FFS across 12 provinces as according to the project logframe A schedule of training activities has been developed forthe FFS ... be investigated Other options that could be investigated forthe second year ofthe project are to invest more funds into each ofthe FFS, and instead of increasing the number of FFS by 100% (from ... PPD trainer gender balance Inthe central coast region, the ratio of male to female farmers participating inthe FFS is similar to that ofthe trainers However, inthe Mekong Delta region the proportion...
... implementation ofthe program for 2005 has resulted in 98 trainers being effectively trained and these trainers conducting FFS at 24 locations in provinces inthe Mekong Delta and provinces inthe Central ... Additional sources of funding are being investigated, but at this stage the likelihood of obtaining funding is not known Options At the review meetings the option of increasing the number of FFS by 50% ... envisioned inthe project document and as such their time is not included as part ofthein kind contribution The expertise of SOFRI researchers has greatly strengthened the scope of training provided...
... additional 111 being trained in 2006, resulting in a total of 209 trainers being trained II Over the years ofthe project a total of 2,245 farmers successfully completed training in FFS Of these 2069 ... curriculum for FFS The trainers then conducted FFS for a season incorporating adaptations for their particular regions during the course ofthe schools At the end ofthe season review meetings were ... to the training program providing lecturers forthe TOT program in 2005 and in 2006 This was not envisioned inthe project document and as such their time is not included as part ofthein kind...