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The Coalition Government is committed to building a more diverse, even and sustainable economy. As major engines of growth, our cities have a crucial role to play. But to unlock their full potential we need a major shift in the powers available to local leaders and businesses to drive economic growth. We want powerful, innovative cities that are able to shape their economic destinies, boost entire regions and get the nationa economy growing.

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Literature: When reading literature, students must demonstrate their capacity to pay special attention to the choices authors make about words and structures. Many literary effects depend on the order in which events unfold and the specific details used to describe characters and actions. Since these same strategies—order and use of detail—are equally critical in understanding the most demanding informational texts, reading literature helps students comprehend what they read in science, history and other subjects.

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In addition, the fact that there have been few studies investigating the efficacy of conversational implicature to enhance Japanese high school students’ communicative competence was another cause for me to start this research. Though some experimental studies have been done (see Bouton,1992; Broersma, 1994; Kubota, 1995; and Taguchi, 2007), the subjects of their research were university students and immigrants. Few people seem to have examined students’ development of communicative ability in Japanese high school.

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The cylinder is cooled so that, when it is heated by friction, the midpoint of the high and low temperatures will be at room temperature. In the first half of the experiment, therefore, heat will be transferred from the room air into the cooler cylinder. As the cylinder heats beyond room temperature though, heat will be transferred out of the cylinder back into the room atmosphere. By letting the change in cylinder temperature be symmetrical about the room temperature, the quantity of heat transferred to and from the cylinder and room should be approximately equal.

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Reports of the death of TV have been greatly exaggerated. Contrary to predictions that the digital age would drag people away from TV, we are watching more TV than ever. Rather than being eroded, people’s viewing experience is being enriched by social networks and dedicated social TV apps like Zeebox. Increasingly, the assumption that a laptop, and a tablet or mobile are the 'second' and 'third' screens will dissipate. It will not be enough to simply broadcast a hashtag and flag a few tweets on the television screen.

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Self-awareness allows individuals to have a sense of who they are in relation to society and culture. By reflexively adjusting one’s perception of self in reaction to society, people construct their individual identity. Approaches to identity abound, and they refer to many different ideas about the self, much of which is grounded in contemporary Western cultural values. Frequently, identity refers to at least two different aspects of the individual – that which is an internalized notion of the self, and that which is the projected version of one’s internalized self.

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To trust in one’s rational faculty means to question and to endure doubt. Sometimes the fear of doubt can be stronger than the fear of death, when extreme doubt leads someone to be receptive to the extreme certainty of a violent ideology – the most fashionable of which (though by no means the only one) is currently radical Islamism. The attraction of radical Islamism is similar to the psycho- logical appeal of other secular totalitarian ideologies of the 20th century, in that it dispels all doubt.

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Exceptions to the recommended criteria may arise in various circumstances. These include cases where equipment has to be assessed that when installed was compliant with safety and performance standards that predate the criteria/suspension levels presented here. In such cases, the equipment must be reassessed according to the criteria of this report including the risk assessment. Following that, the MPE must make a recommendation to the holder.

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∪ If P is a given subset of the universal set U, we can define a new set ˜ P called the complement of P as follows: P is the set of all elements of U that are not contained in P. For example, if, as above, Q is the set in which candidate A wins the first two primaries, then ˜ Q is the set {P7, P8, . . . , P36}. The shaded area in Figure 2.3 is the complement of the set P. Observe that the complement of the empty set ∅ is the universal set U, and also that the complement of the...

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It has long been realized that while absolute measures of firm growth lead to a bias towards large firms, relative growth measures lead to a bias towards small firms (Acs et al., 2008; Schreyer, 2000). Due to the wide-spread use of the absolute and relative measures, we use these two measures for all growth indicators in the empirical analysis. We also apply the so- called composite index, i.e., the combination of employment growth measured in absolute and relative numbers, as growth measurement in order to relate to previous literature (see table 1).

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The Federal Reserve did not hold the size of its securities portfolio precisely constant after it ended its agency purchase program earlier this year. Instead, consistent with the Committee’s goal of ultimately returning the portfolio to one consisting primarily of Treasury securities, we adopted a policy of re-investing maturing Treasuries in similar securities while allowing agency securities to run off as payments of principal were received.

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What has received much less attention is how mega-events are related to urban processes, for they often transform urban space through the erection of landmark structures or through the renewal of urban space such as plazas or parks or new housing/ retail developments. The extensive urban waterfront development in Barcelona for the 1992 Olympics is a particularly outstanding case in point (de Moragas Spa and Botella, 1994).

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In factor analysis, two factors emerged, an emotional factor and a cognitive factor. The cognitive factor was made up of the complexity,meaningfulness, interestingness, pleasantness, and familiarity scales. The emotional factor was made up of the warmth, emotionality, arousal, and dominance scales. The cognitive factor explained a majority (51.4%) of the variance in the art pictures and 14% of the variance in the emotional photographs. The emotional factor explained almost fifty percent (48.1%) of the variance of the emotional photographs and 13.7% of the variance in art pictures. ...

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Asset management industry in Thailand has followed the omega model as defined by Bogle (2004) by which the distribution of returns and benefits from managing mutual funds are explored. As Thailand is the bank base economy, major Thai asset management companies are commercial bank capital market arms. We defined asset management companies (AMC) associated with commercial bank as bank related (BR) AMC. Often, questions regarding products variety and competitive situation among Thai AMC are raised and there is no research explores or answers the aforementioned questions. ...

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Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) harnesses the processing power of multiple, interconnected servers on a cluster; allows access to a single database from multiple servers on a cluster, insulating both applications and database users from server failures, while providing performance that scales out on-demand at low cost; and is a vital component of grid computing that allows multiple servers to access a single database at one time. Oracle Database 11g also includes Automated Storage Management (ASM) and Oracle Clusterware.

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All these changes have a huge impact on the way the database query optimizer works. Having user-defined functions deep in- side the query plans makes cost estimation problematic. Having real data with high skew has always been problematic, but in this new world the relational operators are just the outer loop of a non- procedural program that should be executed with the least cost and in parallel. Cost-based static-plan optimizers continue...

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Finally, the requirements that a fund has to fulfill in order to be included in the SIF's listing of SRI funds are not stringent. For example, a fund could be on the list just by having a formal policy of excluding companies with interests in the tobacco business. If the constraints that SRI (as defined in our data set) imposes on fund managers are minor, the performance of SRI mutual funds should not be expected to be lower than that of conventional funds. It is important to highlight that the estimated performance differences between SRI and conventional funds cannot...

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The Commission, in the Single Market Act 13 (SMA) undertook to put in train several measures to ensure investment funds focused on funding social undertakings can flourish. The current proposal on a European framework for social investment funds is one initiative that delivers on that commitment. The principal aim is to increase the effectiveness of the fundraising by social investment funds, and to achieve a high level of clarity as to the characteristics that distinguish social investment funds from the wider category of alternative investment funds.

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ontological mode, wherever there are what might be called `modified objects' to which the modified meanings refer. And indeed, according to Meinong and Witasek, such is the case in the domain of `presentations' and other psychic phenomena. That which I experience when I `see' the sheriff on the screen is not strictly speaking, a presentation at all, for when I present to myself the sheriff in the throes of death, there is no (existing) object which is presented to me (and here it is irrelevant whether a certain person - an actor - was involved at an early stage...

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Obviously all different makes and models of cars use varying methods and locations for fixing bolts or screws for lights, bumpers etc., but with a little examination of the items concerned most mainstream models can be dismantled without too much trouble, rusted and hidden fastenings notwithstanding. Body side mouldings can be fastened by either press-on clips, nuts and screws from the inside of the panel, double-sided adhesive tape, or occasionally a combination of these.

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