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... precision instruments The rise of Finland in the ranking reflects these factors as well as the significant improvements in its business environment in recent years The slippage ofthe US confirms the ... sponsored by Cisco The Economist Intelligence Unit ranked countries’ innovation capacity and analysed the data The findings and views expressed in the report not necessarily reflect the views of ... workforces and large scientific establishments under socialism, and partly because these scientists and researchers have not moved with the times by integrating into the global economy This has resulted...
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... hour of birth Establishing good breastfeeding practices in the first days is critical to the health ofthe infant and to breastfeeding success Initiating breastfeeding is easiest and most successful ... children under They also discussed the benefits of exclusive breastfeeding in the first months of life and the risks of giving water instead of breast milk.119 Program-specific results are not available, ... Progress assessment by Save the ‡ Data are for the Sudan prior to the cession ofthe Republic of South Children Sources: Methodology, Countdown to 2015; AARR, Sudan in July 2011 UNICEF State of the...
... in the socioeconomic status of women and access to health care services among the states The high levels of maternal mortality are especially distressing because the majority of these deaths could ... marries, her family provides the husband s family with gifts (e.g., clothes, household goods, cash) In many instances, the demand for these gifts does not end with the marriage but continues, as the ... Pradesh have the highest proportion of undernourished children and Kerala has the lowest, consistent with the different levels of socio-economic development in these states Several studies have...
... facilitated the voices of 1,000 children in the Post Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA) process Childfriendly focus group discussions were held throughout nine ofthe country s departments Adolescents and ... account of adolescents, therefore, doubles the worldwide problem of children out of school Of these out -of- school adolescents, 54 per cent are girls The region most affected in this respect is sub-Saharan ... this report, the psychosocial effects are also enormous Girls are likely to find themselves in a position of powerlessness within the household of their husband s family, with no clear access...
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... required the USMS to ask permission each day the USMS needed to use the system Ultimately, the FBI disabled five USMS radios because it said there was too much traffic The USMS Chief Inspector for the ... status of these components' LMRs follows 19 For purposes of this audit, obsolete systems are systems that are no longer supported by the manufacturer or the manufacturer is unable to supply spare ... that they can be received by the other systems This allows the agencies to continue using their existing systems but requires twice as much spectrum because each system occupies separate channels...
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... HIV and AIDS to maternal deaths is difficult to assess since, despite the expansion of programmes to prevent mother-tochild transmission of HIV, the HIV status of many pregnant women is still unknown ... mothers and children that safeguards and promotes their rights The second chapter ofThe State oftheWorlds Children 2009 explores the fundamentals ofthe supportive environment and the ways ... levels of all three of these identified risk factors It comes as little surprise that most of these nations are among the least developed and lowest-income countries Even within these countries,...
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