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... for mothers and children that safeguards and promotes their rights The second chapter ofThe State ofthe World’s Children 2009 explores the fundamentals ofthe supportive environment and the ways ... way of strengthening health systems The World Health Organization launched the World Health Report 2008, which also addressed the theme of primary health care, on the eve ofthe conference The ... occur in the first 28 days of life Three quarters of neonatal deaths take place in the first seven days, the early neonatal period; mostof these are also preventable.2 The gap in risk of maternal...
... Convention stem from the 1924 Geneva Declaration ofthe Rights ofthe Child, the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the 1959 Declaration ofthe Rights ofthe Child The Convention applies ... advance the state of all the world’s children Children’s rights in urban settings 15 The Convention on the Rights ofthe Child The Convention on the Rights ofthe Child, adopted in 1989, was the ... Oneofthe targets of MDG – to ensure environmental sustainability – focuses specifically on improving the lives of at least 100 million ofthe 14 THE STATE OFTHE WORLD’S CHILDREN 2012 A mother...
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... he offered me $1000.00 to interview some ofthe top supplement “gurus” including the CEO ofoneofthe largest nutrition companies in the world I was then to write a two-page article about the ... they visualize their workouts or they see themselves successfully completing a lift or performing aerobic training They also see pictures of their bodies the way they want them to look when they ... principles on Earth The proof as they say, is in the pudding! Be patient in the beginning – all the information in the early chapters will come together in the end It took me 14 years of work and study...
... mix them But the outstanding performance of Mobil will be reduced by diluting it 18 Can I mix one litre of Mobil with three or four litres of conventional oil to enhance the performance ofthe ... from the day you drive off the showroom floor 14 Can I use Mobil as break-in oil for a rebuilt engine? Yes, but the timing of your first oil change will depend largely on the quality ofthe rebuild ... converter failure The lead vehicle was summoned to pull over as the converter was glowing red and on fire Even though the engine was subjected to themost severe abuse, and the oil hadn’t been...
... place in the collection of health data, driven by the child survival revolution ofthe 1980s, the 1990 World Summit for Children, the Convention on the Rights ofthe Child and the push for the MDGs ... after the First World War had the goal of protecting child labourers, mostof whom were over the age of 10 These included the International Labour Office (ILO) Convention No 6, Night Work of Young ... treaties Mostof them are also covered under the Convention on the Rights ofthe Child, and adolescent girls are also protected under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination...
... bootstrapping The large engineering question is how one can turn the size ofthe task—constructing MT systems for all the world’s languages simultaneously—to one s advantage, and thereby consume ... published corpora from the LDC, ELRA and dozens of other sources—a total of 85,000 items—are already documented in the combined catalog ofthe Open Language Archives Community,3 so there is no need ... chosen the “Human Language Project” as a more inviting title for the undertaking The product is a Universal Corpus,1 in two senses of universal: in the sense of including (ultimately) all the world’s...
... is therefore the measure ofthe minimum number of bits that is required to communicate the information about the entire inventory through the transmission channel The lower the value of FE the ... comparing the RRs ofthe real and the random inventories The results show that 107 Figure 2: The scatter-plot ofthe redundancy ratio RR of each ofthe consonant inventories (y-axis) versus the inventory ... Table 4: The results ofthe t-test comparing the distribution of RRs for the consonant and the vowel inventories Figure 5: The scatter-plot ofthe redundancy ratio RR of each ofthe vowel inventories...