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Whatever the debate about its nature and causes, almost all observers would agree that inner-city poverty is multidimensional, extraordinarily complex, and difficult to under- stand. Various disciplines and policy frameworks give rise to very different notions of poverty and of its sources. To economists, it is an issue of labor markets, productivity, incentives, human capital, and choice. Sociologists and anthropologists tend to emphasize social status and relations, behavior, and culture. For social psychologists, the issues may include self-image, group membership, and attitudes.

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Studies show that one concrete measure of readiness for college and careers is students’ ability to read and comprehend complex text independently. Many students who do not encounter sufficiently challenging texts in high school struggle upon entering college. In the twenty-first century, students may change jobs often; they must therefore be able to read a range of complex texts to be ready for an ever-evolving workplace.

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Another cultural difference frequently remarked on by Volunteers is amount of time spent in staff meetings. A former Volunteer in Ghana who later returned to Africa as a Peace Corps staff member, reminisced about his teaching days, saying: When I was in Ghana, I would rather have hat my tongue nailed to a tree than sit through any more staff meetings. Though I've come to realize that these meetings aren't inefficient or indecisive. What seemed to me repetitious and pointless was a finely tuned communication machine in action...

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Tham khảo sách 'listening & reading examinee handbook', ngoại ngữ, toefl - ielts - toeic phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả

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Tham khảo sách 'a theory of media politics', văn hoá - nghệ thuật, báo chí - truyền thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả

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The most obvious reason why school mathematics education should matter to university professors is that a continuing influx of mathematically in- competent students would decimate the university mathematics curriculum. One can look no further than the United Kingdom to have one’s worst fears confirmed. If the report [TM] released by the Council of the London Math- ematical Society in October, 1995, is to be trusted, then the UK is some five years ahead of us in a mathematics education reform remarkably similar to our own in its rhetoric. ...

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Even though we re-analysed data from the most representative data source available at this moment, the ECHP, there is no guarantee that what has been found in a single data set will be reproduced in other data sets. There is an urgent need for analysis of additional data sets, including data on new EU member states. In addition, systematic reviews or meta-analyses are needed to assess the causal effect of ill-health on earnings in the European Union.

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For this analysis it is useful to distinguish between roadway rehabilitation and expansion projects (Troth 2009). There is little controversy concerning the value of basic roadway rehabilitation, sometimes called fix it first (NGA 2004) or asset management (“Asset Management,” VTPI 2008). However, there is growing debate over the value of urban highway expansion (new road links, additional traffic lanes, expanded intersections, etc.) because they tend to induce additional vehicle travel and stimulate more dispersed, automobile-oriented land use development (sprawl). ...

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Or, to be more circumspect, it is the object from which the name art cannot logically be withheld. The Readymade therefore proved that an arbitrary object can be designated as art and that there is no argument available to refute that designation. Depictions are works of art by definition. They may be popular art, amateur art, even entirely unskilled and unappealing art, but they are able to nominate themselves as art nonetheless. They are art because the depictive arts are founded on the mak- ing of depictions, and that making necessarily displays artistry. ...

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Another kind of reductionism occurs with attempts to reduce percep- tion to brain processes or neural events (Ramachandran & Hirstein 1999). Evidently, the brain is necessary for perceptual processing. Yet, according to TSC, perceptual processes are constructed in real time in the interaction between agent and environment. As Harth (2004) remarks in discussing the relation between neurophysiology and art, a theory of artistic expression must take into account not only the human brain, but also the world at large.

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As documented in both panels of Table 5, AMCs related to large Thai commercial banks (LBs) dominate mutual fund industry. Large AMCs associated with Thai commercial banks (LBs) have largest market share in both fixed income and equity funds. For equity mutual funds, LBs possess 38.13% market share in 2006 and their market shares grow to 52.79% in 2010. The same pattern of high growth in market share of LB is also found for fixed income mutual funds, 58.14 to 2006 to 75.82% in 2010. Strong distribution channel of commercial bank is one of the mutual growth determinants.

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After the training phase, the table T can be used to generate syn- thetic data; given a key a,b,c it can return the likely x,y,z values of that key along with the probabilities. Equivalently, T can evaluate the probability that some value is correct. The neat thing about this is that the framework allows you to add your own machine- learning algorithms to this framework. This gives the machine- learning community a vehicle to make their technology accessible...

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The present publication builds off a 2009 FAO-ConCAP research study “Agricultural investment funds for developing countries” (“the study”). This research for this study, which focused primarily on Sub-Sahara Africa and transition economies, identified over 80 investment funds working in agriculture and rural development. It then selected 31 agricultural investment funds that primarily or exclusively focus on investing in agriculture of the developing world.

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We focus on the dynamics of active management skills, and how an investor might optimally choose active funds during varying business conditions. Building on studies such as Avramov and Wermers (2006) and Moskowitz (2000), we allow for the possibility of time-varying mutual fund alphas and betas among active managers in Europe. Following Christopherson, et al. (1998) and Ferson and Schadt (1996), we model such time-variation using a publicly available set of conditioning state variables.

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Most of the central transit area is floored with the exotic types of wood known as paduk, merbau and jatoba, that come from South-East Asia and the West Indies. The first wooden floor in the airport was laid in 1960 in the then brand new Terminal 2. This type of wooden flooring has since become the preferred flooring in many of the new buildings in the airport and creates a warm contrast to the glass, aluminium and steel. These woods, whose orange and red-brown hues almost shimmer in the light, are very suitable for building purposes, inside and out.

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However, part of this increase can be due to the inclusion of new lucky funds. As a consequence, the standard approach does not provide guidance on the location of funds with differential performance in the tails of the cross-sectional alpha distribution. For instance, suppose that the number of funds with negative estimated alphas increases by 50 as γ passes from 0.05 to 0.15. If all these 50 funds are lucky, we would conclude that the few funds with negative performance are located in the extreme left tail.

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In the single-payer system, the recurrent expenditure on health services is funded primarily through compulsory, non-risk-related contributions made by eligible individuals or from the state budget. The central government has almost exclusive power to formulate strategic direction and to issue and enforce regulations regarding health care. In 2009 Hungary spent 7.4% of its gross domestic product (GDP) on health, with public expenditure accounting for 69.

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The Originator makes a copy of the design documents and applies the check print stamp (Checked Exhibit) for all persons involved in the checking process to sign- off. The stamp also includes the design package/submittal number and date, check print number, and signature of the Originator of the document with the date. If all the individuals involved in the checking process will have consistent roles on the entire package to be checked, a cover sheet may be added to the package. A single check print stamp is applied to the cover sheet, instead of each individual sheet in the...

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Tham khảo sách 'project management plan grand calumet feasibility study', kinh tế - quản lý, quản lý dự án phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả

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Organisational Behaviour This unit helps managers to understand the dynamics of individual and group behaviour in organisations, and how different forms of organisational structure and leadership can influence that behaviour. It enhances managers’ ability to understand attitudes and to predict, explain and control behaviour in organisations. The unit links conceptual tools and experiential activities to understanding organisations and managing the change process.

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