... terms of econometric technique and data.First, while King and Levine (1993a) and Levine and Zervos (1998) empirically assess the connectionbetween banking sector development and the sourcesof ... Loayza, and Montiel 1997). We use the inflation rate and theratio of government expenditure to GDP as indicators of macroeconomic stability. We use the sum of exports and imports as share of GDP and ... 5 is not22include the number of revolutions and coups, the number of assassination per thousand inhabitants, and a measure of ethnic diversity.24B. Finance and Economic GrowthThe results...
... Formulation of programme of implementation of the National Population Policy (NPP), mobilisation of domestic and foreign resources forimplementing population programmesxvii Formulation of Gender and ... years of age.iii. Increased awareness of the links and interrelationships between population, resources, the environment and development at all levelsiv. Expansion and/ or introduction ofpopulation ... Recognition and appreciation of the central role of the Government and fullparticipation of NGOs, the private sector, communities and individuals in population and developmentvi. Consideration of regional...
... aspects of HRQoL was reported in Mulder et al study (2001) with adult population in the Netherlands.16 Laaksonen et al (2006)10 studied a large population sample of the capital of Finland and ... risk and promotes the prevention and control of most chronic diseases.4,25 Excess consumption of alcohol increases the risk of several diseases and is associated with increased risk of injuries ... frequency of alcohol consumption and smoking. Multiple linear regression models were used to control for the effect of gender, age, schooling, work, area of residence and number of chronic...
... High prevalence of hypertension and low level of awareness and treatment of hypertension might have contributed in the higherprevalence of vascular complication.10,11 Burden of non-communicable ... behind rest of population of the state in other aspects of socio-economicdevelopment. The lower socio-economic condition of teagarden population was perhaps reflected in the highmagnitude of preventable ... status.Consumption of locally prepared alcohol and use of non-smoked tobacco was rampant in tea garden population. Hypertension, an important NCD in teagarden, showed association with consumption of alcohol and...
... the income source j(= 1, 2) and total income in the population. In other words, theratio of this covariance and the variance of total income may beinterpreted as the percentage contribution of ... thedistribution of source 1 may itself modify the covariance betweenthe incomes ofsources 1 and 2. In other words, the analyst must notoperate only at the level of the marginal distribution ofincome of one ... n2, y2; ; nG, yG) = IW+ IBwhere ng and mgstand respectively for the populationand income shares of group g within the whole populationand ¯I(. . .) is the inequal-ity between...
... Potter of NASA Ames, R. Atkinson of UC Riverside, and P. Harley and A. Guenther of NCAR are much appreciated.ReferencesAndreae, M. O., and P. Merlet (2001), Emissions of trace gases and aerosolsfrom ... n-butane.3.2.3. Global Sources [25] Because of the complexity ofsourcesand lack of observational data, our quantitative knowledge of OVOCTable 2. Mean Enhancement Ratios and Total Biomass Burning ... Studies, Graduate School of Ocean-ography, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, Rhode Island, USA.6Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of NewHampshire, Durham,...
... bene-fitted from the encouragement and advice of ourcolleagues and students in the Department of Political Science and the College of Law at theUniversity of Tennessee. In particular, we wish ... “prerogative writ” of mandamus.Rather, in 1803, mandamus power was still regarded as an inherent feature of the superintending authority of a supreme court. Thus, mandamus was implicitin the mandate for ... writ of mandamus had beenbased on Section 13 of the Judiciary Act of 1789. Section 13 granted the Court theauthority to “issue . . . writs of mandamus, in cases warranted by the principles and usages...
... availability of large scale computational lexi-cal resources such as WordNets (Fellbaum, 1998;Miller, 1990), the availability of large scale cor-pora, the existence and dissemination of standard-ized ... are incapable of capturing. Several of themare cases of metonymy in examples such as ”theEnglish are known ”, the sense of English hereis clearly in reference to the people of England,however, ... example.Other types of errors resulted from the lack of away to explicitly identify multiwords.Looking at the performance of TransCont wenote that much of the loss is a result of the lack of variability...
... (e.g, Yu and Hatzivassiloglou (2003)) and classifying thepolarity based solely on the subjective portions of the document (e.g., Pang and Lee (2004)). Moti-vated by the work of Koppel and Schler ... Computational LinguisticsExamining the Role of Linguistic Knowledge Sources in the AutomaticIdentification and Classification of ReviewsVincent Ng and Sajib Dasgupta and S. M. Niaz ArifinHuman Language ... dataset. Briefly,a positive review has a rating of ≥ 3.5 (out of 5) or ≥ 3 (out of 4), whereas a negative review has a rating of ≤ 2 (out of 5)or ≤ 1.5 (out of 4).614Finally, previous work has also...
... these sources into two major types, based on either understanding of the text or frequency characteristics of it. One kind of information relates to the under- standing of the meaning of the ... differ- ent sourcesof information. Aiming at high perfor- mance of automatic disambiguation it is important to know the relative importance and applicability of the various sources. In this ... ations and seleetional restrictions for syntactically related words. 1 Disambiguation Sources The resolution of lexical ambiguities in unrestricted text is one of the most difficult tasks of...
... part of both the smallholder and the large scale private sector operator to the poverty of the landscape of economic institutions. It reflects the lack of alternative finance institutions and ... of seeds and all other inputs, various tasks in crop husbandry, and all tasks in harvesting and transport. The efficiency of this service delivery depended much on the general management of ... share of small-scale producers has declined, and with that the volumes of company input credit to smallholders. 106. The second and even more important issue is the case of side-selling and...
... even a majority of instances of a particular cancer. Rather, weexpect that a number of exposures and characteristics of children each contributeto a proportion of instances of a particularcancer.No ... compris-ing one-fourth of the cases. The secondmost common type of cancer was malignanttumors of the central nervous system foryounger than 5 and 5-9 years of age, and lymphoma for 10-14 and leukemia ... US standard million population. Population data: Population estimates are obtainedeach year from the US Bureau of the Census at thecounty level by five-year age group (0-4, 5-9, , 85 and over),...
... structure of a hypothetical inflation-linked bond issued with a principal of $100 million, a coupon rate of 3% and a maturity of three years. The example shows whathappens to the value of the ... breakevens and nominal yields• Historical trading patterns• Valuation of real yields and breakevens given near term inflation outlook and seasonality• Effect on curve and levels of breakeven6 ... 1981, and they now represent approximately 23% of the UK’s totaloutstanding debt. US TIPS assets have grown to $560 billion sincethey were first issued in 1997 and have been a key source of growth...
... M1RI[M1R1 and R1MI[R1M1. Repairs False Positives Pauses after X (only) and FO of X less than FO of 1st M1 .00 .58 Pauses before X (only) and F0 of X greater than F0 of 1st M1 ... the repairs (N = 20) and the false positives (N = 20) was the interval between the offset of the first word and the onset of the second. False positives had a mean gap of 42 msec (s.d. = 55.8) ... interruption point of a repair. In a preliminary study of the cue words "no" and "well," we compared 9 examples of these words at the site of a repair to 15 examples of the same...