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... by principally emphasizing the Foreword vii insufficiency of domestic savings, rather than the excess of investment In hindsight, the investment boom and its excesses inthe late 1990s in fact ... at the 3rd annual conference between RAND and the China Reform Forum, held in Beijing in November 2000, on The Challenges of Globalization Straddling Economics and Politics The phenomenon recalls ... don’t really understand it! Other definitions include the following, more or less in order of increasing complexity: “[Globalization is] the intensification of worldwide social relations in such...
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... attitudes is more likely to help youth practice health enhancing behaviors Skill development is more likely to result inthe desired healthy behavior when practicing the skill is tied to the content ... healthy living These skills include identifying the influence of family, peers, culture, media, and technology on health behavior; knowing how to access and use valid health information; and using communication, ... decision-making, goal-setting, and advocacy skills to engage in healthenhancing behaviors Further, the effectiveness and quality of health education programs have been linked to adequate instructional...
... health-related knowledge and attitudes is more likely to help youth practice health enhancing behaviors Skill development is more likely to result inthe desired healthy behavior when practicing the skill ... healthy living These skills include identifying the influence of family, peers, culture, media, and technology on health behavior; knowing how to access and use valid health information; and using communication, ... decision-making, goal-setting, and advocacy skills to engage in healthenhancing behaviors Further, the effectiveness and quality of health education programs have been linked to adequate instructional...
... Divide CBA – Final Report October 2004 service providers At the same time there will be factors preventing the overall cost per user from falling more rapidly: • operators will be introducing new broadband ... deployed before 2004, which are being still being depreciated The annual costs also include operating expenditures based on the number of broadband users in that year These include ongoing per-user ... considerably between different country group Rural areas will be less well served during the period to 2013 and the demand remaining unserved in these areas is of most interest As shown in Figure 2.15, in...
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... with your personal finances, including saving, managing your debt, budgeting, reducing expenses, maintaining your insurance, and, of course, investing wisely and well after the terrible drubbing ... postpone them (You can rely on other members of your community to boost the economy by buying things they neither need nor can afford.) Get Your Financial Act Together • 15 INVESTING Summarize your investments ... understand But there is a lot more involved in surviving the Great Recession than investing I will help you if and when you become a victim of the slow economy—if you lose your job or fear that you may...
... offering a training program coordinated by a medical physician However, this is in its infancy and much needs to be worked out This does indicate a growing level of interest in this kind of training, ... developed independent lists of overall themes and concepts subsumed within the general themes Once completed, the investigators came together to collapse their lists of themes into one set of themes ... process involved examining themes for commonality, classifying them for uniformity, and then reaching agreement on the final list of six key themes Once the themes were set and subordinate concepts...
... made by the investigators to reinforce MET concepts or to assess how well the MET concept was implemented Furthermore, the MET was called in only 30% of cases when criteria for activating the MET ... anticipated These factors significantly reduced the power of the study Based on their findings, the authors estimate that more than 100 hospitals would be needed to show the 30% difference they sought ... self-evident that the goal of identifying and treating patients early inthe course of their illness is preferable to waiting until more serious signs and symptoms have developed Certainly, at the University...
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... confidential it means that you are linked to your response but you are being protected An anonymous response cannot be linked back to the source The main issue then in is inthe feeling of anonymity If ... say, these rates are not high The decision to more comprehensive follow-up has to be evaluated in terms of the quality of the additional information obtained and the costs involved in obtaining ... customer surveys inthe literature thus far and the expansion of their use inthe Federal Government Given the costs involved in designing and conducting these surveys and the importance of the decisions...
... on the nature of the input signal statistics and not on the magnitude of the input signal All of the sufficient stability bounds on µ as shown in Table 19.1 can be put inthe form of (19.26) Because ... statistically independent The input signal model in (19.5) is useful for analyzing the behavior of the LMS adaptive filter, as it allows a particularly simple analysis of this system Spherically Invariant ... defined in (19.10) The excess MSE is the power of the additional error inthe filter output due to the errors inthe filter coefficients An equivalent measure of the excess MSE in steady-state is the...
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... Precambrian crystalline basement rocks (including basalt and granite) cropping out inthe mountainous terrain along the Albertine Rift from Lake Tanganyika to Lake Edward, as well as inthe lower Congo ... their watersheds.37 Other key tenets of the Water Code include the user pays principle, the polluter pays Water Issuesinthe Democratic Republic of the Congo principle, the precautionary principle, ... is hindering development inthe DRC There are only an estimated 1,000 deep-drilled wells inthe DRC, providing service coverage for a small proportion of the population.28 Most of these wells...
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... downloading them over the Internet The purpose of the MINERVA prototype was to gain insights into the practical issues involved in collecting and organizing selected Web sites, and to understand how the ... not in fact supposed to bethe main thrust of the Act It drafters intended the CDA to introduce new criminal offences of knowingly creating, sending, transmitting or displaying obscene or indecent ... ‘publishing’ the statement on the website is not the author, editor or publisher because they not fit the respective definitions in s.1(1)(a), or because they are merely involved in “processing, making...
... 2010] MEDICAL MARKETING INTHE UNITED STATES 291 Moreover, theMedical Marketing Act will likely meet the Court’s tailoring requirement192 because it carefully proscribes only marketing conduct ... marketing practices and explains the effect this marketing has on doctors’ decisionmaking Finally, this Part illustrates the dramatic impact medical marketing has on the cost of medicine A Medical ... address the pitfalls of medical marketing by issuing their own guidelines Two organizations in particular have issued broad regulations pertaining to medical marketing: the American Medical Association...