... consultant forthe World/Panamerican Health Organization, UNESCO, the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the Economic and Social Commission for Latin America andthe Caribbean ... Economic and Social Rights Academic Network, UK and Ireland (ESRAN-UKI) She has worked with and acted asan expert advisor to a wide range of international and national organisations and bodies working ... Rights, andasthe Co-Director ofthe Department of International Law and Human Rights ofthe United Nations-mandated University for Peace in San Jose, Costa Rica She has also served asa consultant...
... Korea, Malaysia and many African countries have moved, on the one hand, towards expanding higher education and, on the other, towards diversifying the providers and programmes of study and towards ... Australia, andthe Business School ofthe Netherlands have branch campuses in several countries of Africa India has several foreign institutions in operation, mainly from the UK andthe USA A ... China has reduced its reliance on the USA; the shift was initially to Australia but later on the shift was towards Japan India andthe Republic of Korea continue their reliance on the USA for...
... Siberia-Russia Oil and gas mines are at high level of concentration at West Siberian Delta, Central Asia, Sakhalin island and Japan In China, oil concentrates in basins such as Tarim, Saidam, Dungari, ... continental shelves 10 of South “East Sea”, Indonesia, Myanma, Indo-Ganges Delta, Mesopotamian Plain and along the Persian Gulf are the areas with leading reserves in Asia African countries have very ... 1%, increases (decreases) 0.9% if the education standard increases (decreases) 1% and FDI increases (decreases) 0.13% if the political stability increases (decreases) 1% Financial crisisand FDI...
... as Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Central Asia and other agendas? Is regional cooperation a canard? Or is there room for real synergy? Is its current resilience to be taken for granted? Is the ... progress and discussions to expand and strengthen regional safety nets—like the Chiang Mai Initiative Multilateralization and its surveillance arm, the ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic and Research Office—to ... shock as 26 How Can Asia Respond to Global Economic Crisisand Transformation? during the Asian financial crisis Moreover, since global rebalancing implies a generalized exchange rate appreciation...
... defence ofthe realm, there is no duty as important as maintaining the rule of law; and just as every fundamental aspect ofthe defence ofthe realm must be real and practical, so must every fundamental ... videolink, as already happens And I should add that, while, like the late lamented Lord Bingham, I have my doubts as to the value fora judge of normally relying on the demeanour ofa witness asan aid ... important part today, and I am sure they will continue to play an equally important part in the development ofthe law in the future And, rather than dwelling on the past, I thought that I would...
... WTO Asian, Caribbean and Pacific countries Asian Development Bank Commonwealth of Independent States European Bank for Reconstruction and Development European Central Bank European Union Food and ... human hardships and anguish, it also enfeebles the social fabric ofa country, adversely affects the psyche and self-confidence ofa nation, and makes harder for it to rise again and leap forward ... about the sustainability ofthe pace of growth and saw it more asa blip than a trend Paul Krugman, for example, recalled asan analogy the experience of Japan where preliminary reports in early...
... Historical and Theoretical Considerations 21 that will enhance and force further economic, financial, and political integration The fact that the performance ofthe Euro Index could be compared and analyzed ... Euro asan International and Global Currency,” is twofold: to analyze if the euro has become (a) an international and (b) a global currency This chapter shows that the creation ofthe European ... chapter therefore presents, on the one hand, four self-made foreign exchange indexes, the Euro Index, US Dollar index, the New Zealand Index, andthe Australian Index, and, on the other hand, an innovative...
... relevance of several classical axioms for understanding the real world The classical ergodic axiom that assumes that the future is known and can be calculated asthe statistical shadow ofthe past ... Oxford ABOUT THE DISCUSSANTS John Aisbitt Chairman ofthe Man Group plc and former partner at Goldman Sachs Gerald Holtham Managing Partner of Cadwyn Capital LLP and Visiting Professor at Cardiff ... the market In markets without a market maker, on the other hand, there can be no assurance that the apparent liquidity ofan asset cannot disappear almost instantaneously Moreover, in the absence...
... simultaneous heat and mass transfer 1.2.2.2 Wavy fin -and- tube heat exchanger Jang and Chen (1997) numerically simulated the heat transfer and fluid flow in the wavy fin -and- tube heat exchangers, and ... diameter on the thermal and hydraulic characteristics, and developed the empirical correlations based on a total of 74 samples, the mean deviation ofthe heat transfer correlation and that for ... performance ofa fin -and- tube heat exchanger (Yang et al., 2006b) Seker et al (2004) analyzed numerically the 14 Chapter Introduction and Literature Review unsteady heat and mass transfer characteristics...
... also gratefully acknowledged Notes See Alesina and Ardagna (1998); Alesina, Favero, and Giavazzi (2012); Ardagna (2004); and Giavazzi and Pagano (1990), among others There is some evidence of additional ... help and encouragement The financial support provided by the European Social Fund andthe Greek Ministry of Labour and Social Insurance as part ofthe Development of Human Manpower program is also ... years “Marshall Plan” scenario The results ofthe LIMG simulations ofthe baseline troika plan andthe alternative deficit target and GDP target scenarios are not encouraging Asthe evidence has...
... in the last paper 3D depth estimation anda fast implicit distance function-based region growing are first employed to extract the initial shape estimation An explicit surface evolution is then ... consists ofa stereoscopic camera part, image processing device for stereoscopic video recording, andthe stereoscopic display To reduce eyestrain and viewer fatigue, the authors apply a preexisting ... recover the finer geometry details ofthe recovered shape The final result is further improved by several iterations between depth estimation and shape reconstruction We would like to thank all of the...
... 25 Abbreviations ADB – Asian Development Bank ADF – Asian Development Fund AIFI – Asian Infrastructure Financing Initiative ASEAN – Association of Southeast Asian Nations CGIM – credit guarantee ... risk participation and/ or guarantees on a portfolio basis rather than on a transaction-by-transaction basis; and Box 7: Trade Finance Facilitation Program ADB has expanded its Trade Finance Facilitation ... ability to fight back East and Southeast Asian governments and central banks moved quickly to expand local demand, spur job creation, and stabilize financial markets, easing monetary policy and...
... loans and assets and forcing the revaluation of some assets which had undergone bubble inflation The pain that this caused in Thailand, as in many other countries, was of course significant and, ... the EAEM as it has been manifested in the case of Thailand, asa means of helping to understand how the economy needs to change in response to current and probably future changes in the global ... It then goes on to describe and analyse the stimulus package and other measures taken by the Thai government asa means of combating the economic crisisand then provides a critique of that response...
... study and participated in the acquisition of data and qualitative analyses He revised the manuscript critically and gave final approval for publication ES and BM organized the study data, contributed ... is also the Pediatrician-InCharge forthe AMPATH Pediatric HIV Care Program andthe Neonatal Unit of Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital ES is a Data Manager for AMPATH, based in Eldoret, Kenya ... care of by the uncle They stay in Langas Langas was, let me say, it was the heat ofthe violence there This boy is on second line medication, and at the time ofthecrisis they tried to travel back...
... between the random DA andthe random DR Denote the random DA by X andthe random DR by Y Given a text corpus, let nij be the accumulated count that Ri occurs in a sentence labeled as Aj From ... sources are collected for this work The first type of data, called A- data, is a travel information data set harvested from the databases available on the web, e.g., Wikipedia and Google Map A- data consists ... Kashioka, and S Nakamura 200 9a Recent advances in wfst-based dialog system In Proc INTERSPEECH, pages 268–271 C Hori, K Ohtake, T Misu, H Kashioka, and S Nakamura 2009b Statistical dialog management...
... service standards and procedural handbooks can be an important tool forthe national human rights institution to ensure, communicate and be accountable for high standards of achievement Self and public ... Human Rights, the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights andthe European Social Charter Similarly, the European Union andthe Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe are also ... and international institutions such asthe World Bank and any other third parties or nonState actors are subject to the relevant legal obligations and can anticipate the enforcement ofthe law...
... for Land and Natural Resource Management District Organization for Land and Natural Resource Management Village Unit for Land and Natural Resource Management 2.3 Land use rights of villages and ... was created classification types: agricultural land, forest land, water area areas, industrial land, communications land, cultural land, national defence land, national peace and security land, ... integrally regenerate, plant and expand, develop the forest and forest land according to the regulations and laws ofthe state and guarantees that the forest will increase” A new Land Decree was...
... a national bank and fell under the supervision ofthe OCC Michigan protested Wachovia’s announcement, and Wachovia sued Michigan The OCC, the American Bankers Association, andthe Mortgage Bankers ... of Lehman Brothers andthe impending collapse ofthe insurance giant American International Group (AIG) Panic fanned by a lack of transparency ofthe balance sheets of major financial institutions, ... thousands of concerned Americans through their letters and emails And we are grateful to the hundreds of individuals and organizations that offered expertise, information, and personal accounts...