... price of a mousetrap?Customers no longer need to know the price of servers, software and the rest ofthe parts making up the IT service stack. This knowledge is as useful as knowing the price of ... I discuss one functional transformation that has taken placed as a result of cloud services, namely; the impact on the assessment of value. This is a timely discourse as the vast majority of ... mousetrap. Customers, however, must know the price ofthe equivalent services from other cloud providers. This is the crucial performance measure. It is only this performance measure that constitutes...
... εicgbt(24)where X is a vector of controls, B the vector of behaviors, ε isthe error term, i denotes the individual, c the country, t the year ofthe interview, g gender, and b isthe birthcohort.Following ... males). While the precision ofthe estimates ofthe effects of behaviors declines with respect to the micro data, we cannot reject the null hypoth-esis that these effects are jointly statistically ... the case of males the positive effect of education on the number of diseases is driven by the fact thatbetter educated males choose more intensive screening. Turning to the decomposition of the...
... only these kinds of studies are rigorous, as will be discussed in Section 2 of this report.2. Synthesise what these studies tell us about: a. The impact of microfinance on the incomes of the ... brings together all these studies, and assesses the nature ofthe evidence ofthe impact of microfinance on the poor in SSA.Given this paucity, the particular nature of MFIs in SSA, and the policy ... poor b. The impact of microfinance on wider poverty/wealth ofthe poor c. The impact of microfinance on other non-financial outcomes for the poor. The volume and nature ofthe evidence is varied...
... analysis and the integration ofrenewableenergy based on the process temperatures and exergetic considerations rather than the existing utility system. The integration ofrenewableenergy ... identified. The results oftheenergy balances are brought together in a list of benchmarks and compared with aim-targets. Additional to theenergy balance, the thermodynamic minimal energy demand ... Within the Green Brewery Concept the key parameters based on this network of measurements need to be entered. The calculation ofthe thermal energy demand is done on a process level based on the...
... prevented them from trading quite as they wished, the cases on the use of goods discussed in this Article signal the end ofthe slippery slope approach of allowing any expansion ofthe type of measures ... on freedom of movement, namely the criterion of access to the market.”80 This would be “based on the effect ofthe measure on access to the market rather than on the object ofthe rules involved.” ... firm rejection of siren calls in favor ofthe importance ofthe unity of the internal market within the European Union. II. PARADISE REGAINED? The first ofthe cases under discussion to come...
... consider the case of neuroaesthetics. This new branch of empirical aesthetics is often dened as the study ofthe neural processes underlying aesthetic experience. In other words, the job of neuroaestheticians ... psychologist Rolf Reber recently suggested that “art theorists… dene the criterion ofwhatthe [aesthetic] experience is expected to be; scientists… provide a test of whether this criterion is fullled.”2 ... monthly honorarium from the Society. The editor is responsible for the content ofthe journal. The editor is a member ofthe Board of Trust-ees ofthe Society and serves on the Executive Committee...
... there may be several distinctderivations that generate the same parse tree. The probability of a parse tree T is thus the sum of the probabilities of its distinct derivations. Let tid be the ... in the derivation d that producestree T, then the probability of T is given byP(T) = ΣdΠi P(tid)Thus the DOP1 model considers counts of subtrees of a wide range of sizes in computing the ... t is converted into a context-free rule rwhere the lefthand side of r corresponds to the root label of t and the righthand side of rcorresponds to the frontier labels of t. Indices linkthe...
... aspects of different kinds of structures. This may result in a plan with the advantages of both and the disadvantages of neither - or vice versa! Make sure you understand at least the basics ofthe ... in the same place - AT THE BOTTOM - and everyone has the SAME chance to build a downline of their own. The major exception to this is in the theoretical case of "saturation." In this ... in the same place - AT THE BOTTOM - and everyone has the SAME chance to build a downline of their own. The major exception to this is in the theoretical case of "saturation." In this...
... 2009. [17] Ministry ofEnergy and Mining. RenewableEnergy in Serbia. Ministry ofEnergy and Mining, 2009. [18] Statistical Office ofthe Republic of Serbia. Energy Balance of Electricity ... invaluable for the development of this work. The content ofthe paper isthe sole responsibility of its authors and does not necessary reflect the views ofthe EC. Mrs. Charikleia Karakosta wishes to ... producers for their own purposes), transmission and distribution ofenergy exist [8]. 2.1 Electricity transmission and distribution The electric power transmission system of Serbia consists of a...