... levels of philanthropic giving, attitudes toward and challenges to philanthropy in Asia, and the future ofthe field inthe region The key findings ofthe report are: •Philanthropic giving in Asia ... dream of becoming the number one philanthropist inthe world” The 400 Richest Chinese,” Forbes.com, Oct 27th 2010 Something’s gotta give Thestateof philanthropy in Asia Low levels of giving The ... give Thestateof philanthropy in Asia expense of those outside Other constraining factors are tied to the level of development ofthe charity sector and how it is perceived by the public In China,...
... analyzed to explore the integration of REDD+ inthe socio-ecological systems ofthe affected communities Finally, the last part of this thesis will deal with the role of CBFM in REDD+ and BSM Could ... devastating stateof forests and the natural environment inthe 1980s, Our Common Future (WCED 1987) was one ofthe first influential documents which coined the term sustainable development Sustainable ... tragedy ofthe commons Namely, these arrangements prove that institutions and rule-making matter in sustainably managingthe commons, and that the tragedy ofthe commons is not necessarily inevitable...
... understand the importance of social mechanisms inmanagingthe marketing channel upon the occurrence of declining and growing channels, such as department stores and discount stores 21 Journal of Business ... distribution, business-to-business marketing, and global marketing channels He has publications in Journal of Business-to-Business Marketing, Dr Sungmin Ryu is an associate professor of school of business ... to their suppliers and the price at which they sell the product to their customers The majority ofthe famous department stores inthe United States and European countries purchase all kinds of...
... examines some ofthe 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 ... as in a city Over the course of a decade, thestateofthe world’s urban children has worsened The number of people living in slums has increased by over 60 million These are mothers and fathers, ... Only in this way can we truly advance thestateof all the world’s children Children’s rights in urban settings 15 The Convention on the Rights ofthe Child The Convention on the Rights of the...
... from the composite wealth index using the PCA The cut off point of poor in is 26% in urban areas and 28% in rural areas This cut-off point is equivalent to the poverty estimates ofthe Planning ... 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) ... overall poverty is maximum inthestateof Bihar and minimum inthestateof Kerala It follows the general stateof human development observed among the states of India (Planning Commission 33 2004)...
... and the São Paulo State Secretary of Health for financing the fieldwork; to the Secretary of Health Surveillance ofthe Ministry of Health for financial support inthe data analysis through the ... up The total scores for each ofthe eight scales were then converted to points from to 100, with denoting the worst stateof health and 100 denoting the best (10, 11) The following were the independent ... Taboão da Serra; and the District of Butantã, inthe city of São Paulo (13) Thestateof São Paulo is the most populous inthe country and has the highest per capita income The areas studied are...
... estimate ofthe outstanding global bond market size linked to key climate change themes, and examines future drivers and trends inthe short term In spite ofthe financial crisis, institutional investor ... funding of project finance transactions Basel III could discourage banks from holding longer-term loans on their balance sheets, prompting increasing costs, reductions inthe term of loans and introducing ... 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 of...
... fisheries of northern Norway for cod, capelin and other fish appeared to go into decline after the opening ofthe country’s first whaling station inthe 1860s.19 Inthe early years ofthe twentieth ... “snapshots” ofthe abundance of different kinds of marine life there by visitors inthe 1500s and 1600s Among them were turtles in “inestimable numbers,” “an in nite number of them all over the sea”; ... and the increase ofthe fishing mortality to which they are subjected Summary view ofthe decline in populations of large predatory fishes inthe North Atlantic since 1950 36 Inflation plus 38 The...
... tighter binding of cadmium than zinc in metallothioneins and the preference of zinc inthe more flexible b-domain In addition to the already described differences in flexibility ofthe b-domain in MT ... 260 nm is reduced clearly after the addition of NO, indicating the breaking of cadmium-cysteine bonds and therefore release of cadmium The presence of GSH reduces the metal release almost completely, ... Still, the suppression ofthe NO–MT2 interaction by GSH may be a result of faster reaction with glutathione [54], the binding of GSH to MT2 or a combination of both GSNO which is formed inthe Ó...
... 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, ... synthesis Most ofthe research in (1) done by the linguists are on the basic study of Thai phonetics e.g [13] In speech recognition, most ofthe current research [14] focus on the recognition of ... 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...
... sharply in this type of affair TWOS AND THREES One traditional way of referring to these kinds of affairs is in terms of "the eternal triangle" involving a married couple and the lover of one ofthe ... appearance of normality inthe face of apparently discrepant information It is here, perhaps, that we can link the idea ofthe secret with the idea ofthe dyad The lovers are wrapped up in each other ... flavorless marriage The heroine of Kate Chopin's story, The Awakening, begins to escape the narcotic monotony of her marriage by breaking habits of relating: Another time she would have gone in at his...
... they must prevent disclosure of anything other than the most routine information They have lost sight ofthe public nature of their role and the legitimate interest ofthe public inthe workings ... at the request ofthe Senate was a genuine claim of public interest immunity According to Evans, in 1994, under the then Labor government, the Leader ofthe Government inthe Senate told the ... 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...
... TheStateof Social Media Marketing Table of Contents Letter from the CEO Foreward Major Findings Key Finding #1 Key Finding #2 Key Finding #3 10 Key Finding #4 12 Key Finding #5 15 Key Finding ... the bell curve distribution of responses, which we believe supports the validity ofthe findings across company expertise levels TheStateof Social Media Marketing Major Findings MAJOR FINDINGS ... and the rest of marketing and 35% - the need for better integration between marketing and the rest ofthe business Top Areas of Social Marketing Investment: Presence, Content Publishing, and Integration...
... examines some ofthe 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 ... as in a city Over the course of a decade, thestateofthe world’s urban children has worsened The number of people living in slums has increased by over 60 million These are mothers and fathers, ... Only in this way can we truly advance thestateof all the world’s children Children’s rights in urban settings 15 The Convention on the Rights ofthe Child The Convention on the Rights of the...
... and the knowledge of health professionals who care for them Executive Summary The mission ofthe Merck Institute of Aging & Health is to improve the health, independence and quality of life of ... 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 ofThe Gerontological ... improving the health ofthe older population, the Report Card focuses on 10 modifiable factors that have the greatest potential to promote healthy aging SUMMARY OF FINDINGS: • The nation met of the...
... large-scale influx of poor households into the province, the percentage of informal dwellings inthe province increased from 15.1% in 2002 to 19.1% in 2006 This is proportionately higher than the increase ... warming, posing acute demands on the planning framework 25 We begin by examining the interrelationship between planning, population and politics and by defining the types of planning in which the ... ofthe country and is the southernmost part ofthe continent of Africa Before 1994, under the apartheid regime, it formed part ofthe Cape Province After 1994, the Cape Province was divided into...
... with the estimated doubling time of EL4 cells in logarithmic growth No major variation inthe mRNA half-life of cyclin mRNAs inthe cell cycle In order to test whether changes in mRNA steadystate ... the cell cycle [11–15] Certain transacting proteins such as HuR were proposed as regulators of changes in mRNA stability during the cell cycle [15] In this context it is of interest that during ... the changes in mRNA half-life may explain almost fully the accumulation ofthe short A2 and B1 transcripts as well as partially the 3.0-kb A2 transcript In contrast, the greater increase of the...
... runs using an optimal threshold (box 3) for the experiment as determined by using the test set In all remaining experiments, we learn the threshold from the training set as inthe BASELINE system ... characteristics including the number of documents, annotated CEs, coreference chains, annotated CEs per chain (average), and number ofdocumentsinthe train/test split We use st to indicate a standard train/test ... Klein 2007 Improved Inference for Unlexicalized Parsing In Proceedings ofthe Annual Meeting ofthe North American Chapter ofthe Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT/NAACL 2007) J Finkel,...
... first infectious clone of AAV serotype (AAV2) in 1982 [7] and the pioneering work on the successful cloning of AAV establishing the foundation of recombinant AAV vectors capable of expressing foreign ... advanced to the forefront of gene therapy inthe past decade The exponential progress of AAV-based vectors has been made possible by the advances inthe knowledge ofthe virology and biology of this ... 1980s, pioneering work on the successful cloning of AAV established the foundation of recombinant AAV vectors capable of expressing foreign genes in mammalian cells Since then, the AAV has been...