... 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...
... And what about this one? This is a paid theme. What you just said makes it sound
like paid themes aren't needed. Is this a bad theme?"
"No, it's a wonderful theme," the ... The Matrix by The Wachowski Brothers, The Lord of the
Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien, The Legend of Zelda by Nintendo, Star Wars by George Lucas, The
Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, The Tragical History ... the old man said, "and tell me the answer on the last day."
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Table of Contents
The Zen of Blogging 1
What isthe Sound of One Hand Clapping? 2
Table of...
... research, the authors attend to two areas of
project management from nine existing areas, because of
the operation ofthe conceptual model. One is integration
management and the other is communications ... assuring
customer satisfaction (Kirsilä et al., 2007). By these
definitions, and due to theimportanceofthe role of
project management in the success of projects, the
authors consider related ...
feedback, the purpose ofthe conceptual model, some background
of the research that lead to the development ofthe model, and key
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Figure 5. Trend of project management...
... 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...
... ε
icgbt
(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 birth
cohort.
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 that
better educated males choose more intensive screening. Turning to the decomposition
of 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 ... firm
rejection of siren calls in favor oftheimportanceofthe unity of
the internal market within the European Union.
II. PARADISE REGAINED?
The first ofthe cases under discussion to come ... on
freedom of movement, namely the criterion of access to the
market.”
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This would be “based on the effect ofthe measure on
access to the market rather than on the object ofthe rules
involved.”...
... that establishes a reasonable link
between the NSES and the professional development system, then the evidence ofthe influence ofthe NSES on
the systemof professional development is variable. ... discussion ofthe quality ofthe empirical evidence base at
the end of each section.
TABLE 3-1 Matrix ofthe Quality ofthe Evidence and Different Components ofthe Professional Development
System
Quality ... the
model is a promising approach to capturing some ofthe policy and structural influences ofthe NSES on the
systems that undergird the delivery of professional development. Likewise, the Eisenhower...
... ofthe facets of Managed Preferences, making
your job as a system administrator easier.
CHAPTER 2: WhatIsthe Managed Preferences System?
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The Heart of Managed Preferences
The very short ... answer to ‘ what are managed preferences’’ is this: a managed
preference is XML that is applied to a user, group, or computer record that alters the
default behavior ofthesystem or of an application. ... CHAPTER 2: WhatIsthe Managed Preferences System?
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What Can You Manage?
You may be thinking, ‘‘Great! There’s a managementsystem built into OS X. But what
exactly can it manage?’’
The short...
... GLIMMIX, the result is independent of the
scale ofthe weights.
Terms were included in the statistical models if
they reduced the AIC value (Akaike 1985). Tests of
effects when all other selected ... Stenseth 1999). However, less
is known about the demographic mechanisms of the
regulation. Indeed, the ecological mechanisms of the
large variation in life histories of individuals within
many animal ... in the
laboratory, each observation was weighted with the
inverse ofthe estimated probability of survival in the
estimation (see Littell et al. 1996). Hence, the sum of
weightings of animals of...
... measure the quality ofthe legal system and enforcement (i.e., efficiency ofthe judicial system, rule of law, and corruption index). SIZE isthe book value of total assets at the
end ofthe fiscal ... We use the natural log ofthe size variable in the analysis. Financial leverage (LEV) is measured as the ratio of total debt to the sum of
total debt plus book value of equity. GROWTH isthe annual ... we benchmark the variability of operating earnings to the
variability ofthe cash flow from operations. Specifically, the measure is computed as the
ratio ofthe standard deviation of operating...
... laboratories. Therefore, we realise that theenvironmental
management must be is one ofthe important issues for our operation.
Our basic approach is to minimize the harmful impacts on the environment ... (ISO),
Genève.
ISO, Environmental Management: The ISO 14000 family of International Standards.
Kaisu Sammalisto, Torbjoărn Brorson, 2006, Training and communication in the implementation of ... from the management, staffs and all students to
participate in environmental management. The third is also very considerable, originated in the
social mission ofthe university. University is...
... 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.”
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