... chapter on ‘Chinese economic elites in Indonesia’ in a book titled The culture of the Chinese minority in Indonesia’ Only few of the scholars who specialised on the Indonesian Chinese minority attempted ... explain the power relations of Chinese big business and thestateThe New Order state From the point of view of classical class-based interpretations, the New Order in Indonesia constituted nothing ... class-interests’18, these critics of the instrumentalists reject the latter’s scope and maintain that the direct participation of members of the capitalist class inthestate apparatus and in the...
... liberty against corruption and to safeguard the equal individual rights of all citizens against each other and against thestate Together these institutions secure the republican virtues in government, ... and inspired a new interest in republican legal theory inthe period leading up to the bicentennial celebrations of the French and American Revolutions.11 The United States Constitution institutionalized ... “republic with a king at the head of it”.112 The French introduced most of the elements of the republican form of government into their constitution in 1791, but maintained their constitutional...
... examines some of the phenomena shaping the lives of children in urban areas, from their reasons for moving to the city and their experience of migration to the challenges of getting by inthe ... of all the world’s children Children’s rights in urban settings 15 The Convention on the Rights of the Child The Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted in 1989, was the first international ... is a virus of the poorest, making its final stand inthe most forgotten places, among the most forgotten people Reaching these people – the slum dwellers, the nomads, the migrants, the brick kiln...
... decline inthe poverty in five of these countries Srinivasan and Mohanty (2008) using three rounds of Indian DHS data, estimated the change in deprivation level in Indian states In India, the ... 25 points and inthe remaining states, the differences are small This brought out the interstate differentials in IMR and U5MR within the country However, there are four states (out of 29 states) ... combined to form a composite index, often referred to as the wealth index and the PCA is the most frequently used method in deriving the wealth index The utility of wealth index in explaining...
... up The total scores for each of the eight scales were then converted to points from to 100, with denoting the worst state of health and 100 denoting the best (10, 11) The following were the independent ... the sampled individuals by trained interviewers The questionnaire was organized into 19 subject areas including the scales of the SF-36® The variables analyzed pertained to two principal topics: ... for the instrument was used to obtain the scores (10, 11) A specific grade was attributed to each item based on the interviewee’s response The points for the questions and items in each of the...
... estimate of the outstanding global bond market size linked to key climate change themes, and examines future drivers and trends inthe short term In spite of the financial crisis, institutional investor ... demand from investors such as pension funds and insurance companies who need long-term fixed-income investments to match their liabilities Finally, institutional investors are extending the integration ... fixed income investments, December 2011 “Investor interest inthe links between bonds and climate change is growing” risk.3 In addition, changing asset allocation strategies are generating greater...
... deposit and lending interest rates These findings, more generally support the use of RRs as a policy instrument in an inflation-targeting regime in terms of their effectiveness in reinforcing monetary ... “lean against the wind”: (i) raising RRs during the upswing phase of the cycle to contain excessive credit growth and the associated build up of vulnerabilities and (ii) lowering them during the downswing ... Literature on the Latin America Experience In general, there are only a handful of studies examining the recent experience effectiveness of RRs inthe region.20 The analysis is hindered by the heterogeneity...
... expansion of industrial fisheries Hence catches, corresponding to the interest obtained from the savings, have continually dwindled We are now depleting the principal Inthe process, the productive ... with the requirement that the mesh size of nets inthe cod fishery be increased Nevertheless, the populations of cod, haddock and capelin inthe Barents Sea collapsed inthe mid-1980s, resulting in ... the groups to make it through the winter each year.26 The Inuits of the Arctic moved inland at the end of spring to hunt caribou or fish inthe lakes and moved back to the coast at the beginning...
... reawakened interest in improving working and living conditions inthe shipping industry The Office’s programme on decent work inthe maritime industry played a major role in improving the promotion ... of training and the fact that around one-third of trainees fail to complete their training 163 Inthe past 30 years, owing to its technical nature, the international regulation of the training ... organizations “study, examine and clarify the role of the ‘genuine link’ in relation to the duty of the flag States to exercise effective control over ships flying their flags, including fishing vessels”...
... Foundation and the European Commission, DG Environment The views expressed in this publication not necessarily reflect the official views of the funders and the EU institutions Factors in uencing the risk ... Factors in uencing the risk of breast cancer – established and emerging Established Risk Factors Theestablished risk factors for breast cancer may increase a woman’s chances of developing the disease ... be explained by genetic factors and therefore 73% of the risk was due to environmental factors52 The study’s authors said that their findings “indicate that the environment has the principal...
... processing the idiosyncrasy of Thai text and handling the tones interplaying with intonation are the topics that make the TTS algorithm for the Thai language differrent from others Inthe research, ... speech synthesis Most of the research in (1) done by the linguists are on the basic study of Thai phonetics e.g [13] In speech recognition, most of the current research [14] focus on the recognition ... Word Extraction with the C4.5 Learning Algorithm In forthcoming Proceedings of COLING 2000 [2] V Sornlertlamvanich Word Segmentation for Thai in Machine Translation System Machine Translation National...
... Recurring maintenance In order to maintain the quality of the Weidmoos bird habitat, regular recurring maintenance measures have to be undertaken, in addition to the re-waterlogging The following ... birds from northern breeding grounds fly south inthe winter, whilst others overwinter at their breeding grounds A number of individuals regularly spend the winter at the Weidmoos The ornithologist ... one of the indefatigable volunteers involved inthe execution of maintenance measures Photo: R Kaiser Many people help to maintain the Weidmoos The regular ripping-up of the ground creates the vegetationfree...
... live in different cages They forgave each other what they were ashamed of in their past, they forgave everything inthe present, and felt that this love of theirs had altered them both Then they ... challenging the norms themselves, instead of just rejecting or accepting them, is extremely rare The plural of spouse is spice —from Robert A Heinlein's Time Enough for Love (1973) In contrast to the ... only temporarily, from ordinary life, while assuring the that ordinary life will be there waiting when they return, as long as they succeed in hiding the transgression The transformative allure...
... by examining the relationship between health professions and thestatein a number of other countries in Europe—including Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Norway and the Czech ... to the discussion of the stateprofession interface in focusing on the gender balance inthe medical profession in Norway and Finland This has become an increasingly important issue as thestate ... herbalists in their dealings with the Ministry, in reality theGeneral Medical Council was treated by its officials as another department of thestateIn this period it was routinely involved in regulating...
... of individuals is increasing at the Northern boundary of the population Results show that there is an overall increase inthe number of Clouded Apollo in Estonia, with 73% of all sighting having ... proved impossible to finalise within the original time frame However, to maintain the momentum of EBIE and to link the ecological advances to conservation, we invited five of the principal authors ... the evolutionary biology of butterflies, it provided a springboard for their use as surrogates for other insects in other disciplines, including ecology and conservation These developments, in...
... they must prevent disclosure of anything other than the most routine information They have lost sight of the public nature of their role and the legitimate interest of the public inthe workings ... government information, including freedom of information and associated laws; • access to information about proceedings inthe courts, including suppression orders and the use of contempt laws; • the ... submissions to the inquiry into “A Certain Maritime Incident” (CMI), which investigated events behind a 2001 incident An Indonesian vessel was intercepted by the Australian navy in Australian...
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... examines some of the phenomena shaping the lives of children in urban areas, from their reasons for moving to the city and their experience of migration to the challenges of getting by inthe ... of all the world’s children Children’s rights in urban settings 15 The Convention on the Rights of the Child The Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted in 1989, was the first international ... is a virus of the poorest, making its final stand inthe most forgotten places, among the most forgotten people Reaching these people – the slum dwellers, the nomads, the migrants, the brick kiln...
... Shortages of Trained Professionals The projected increase inthe number of older baby boomers comes alongside another demographic certainty: The decline inthe size of the working-age population ... achieve the national goals in reducing health risk behaviors To meet these goals, the Merck Institute of Aging & Health and the National Academy on an Aging Society, the policy institute of The Gerontological ... Statistics System 08 The State- by -State Report Card on Healthy Aging This section includes the Report Card for the 50 states and the District of Columbia Table presents, for each indicator, the best- and...