... population and sexual and reproductive health and rights organisations. e bulletin is developed with input from key individuals and organisations intheAsia and Pacic region and the ARROW ... empowering women and girls and sensitising men and boys, are an important step in ultimately ending violence and achieving sexual and reproductive health and rights. 11Vol. 17 No. 2 2011Asian-Pacic ... MDG 6 and 3: Perspectives of women living with HIV in India, Philippines and Papua New Guinea, Bangkok, ailand. In UNESCAP, ADB and UNDP. 2010. Paths to 2015: MDG Priorities inAsia and the Pacic,...
... has changed over time and whether we can find any evidence of business cycle synchronization inthe region. We examine the following twelve countries intheAsiaPacific region: five Asian crisis ... activity, a substantial amount of the international capital (in the forms of foreign direct investment, equity and bond financing and syndicated loans) financing China’s economic expansion is raised ... underlying shocks inthe economy, etc.6 Using the data of twelve AsiaPacific countries, we find the following stylized facts of business cycles. First, business cycles inthe five Asian crisis...
... crises, such as the Asianfinancial crisis of 1997, banks are suffering from runs by their financialinvestors. Banks rely on short-term financing from other financial institutions fortheir daily ... to large declines inthe Asia- Pacific equity markets asinvestors cashed in their holdings. Financial-market contagion thus spread from the United States to the Asia- Pacific region. There was also ... behigher and the demand for their products would be lower owing to decliningconsumption in that country. Economies inthe Asia- Pacificregion remain highlyreliant on exports, both directly and indirectly...
... 46 The potential for harvesting seed of Panulirus argus (Caribbean spiny lobster)Andrew Jeffs1 and Megan Davis2AbstractThere is growing international interest inthe aquaculture of spiny ... ornatus is found in coastal environmentsthroughout most of the subtropical and tropicalSouthern and Northern hemispheres of the IndianOcean and western Pacific Ocean. It has an Australian distribution ... stretches of sand bottom. Hiding in the sand during the day and rising to surface waters atnight to take advantage of the inshore drift could be an effective strategy for pueruli to lower theirexposure...
... mobilisers are very involved inthe clinic arrangements every month. They visit every house inthe area and inform them beforehand of the clinic day. They also come on the day in case language becomes ... a single vaccination since their birth. So we had to start right from the beginning.” “Since then, we have seen a positive increase inthe interest of the mothers in their children’s health. ... sessions, including demonstration of cooking and feeding, to the group. After that they take on the responsibility themselves, cooking khichuri in their own houses and starting new groups of their...
... accident and left. If some-one uses the Internet to cause an injury in one State, the person causing the damage may be hauled into court inthe State where the injury occurred. In caseswhere the ... articles and delivered many lectures on elec-tronic commerce law inthe Philippines and inthe ASEAN region. 41FOR FURTHER READINGBaumer, David and J. Carl Poindexter. 2001. Cyberlaw and e-commerce. ... Effects. When one’s conduct in cyberspace though emanating from another Statecreates or results inan injury in another, courts inthe latter State can acquirejurisdiction over the offender. To illustrate:...
... discussed in detail in the following chapters. In some respects, the prominence of institutional crafting in the Asia- Pacific over the past decade echoes the way East Asia snewly industrializing states ... accompanied the decline andtermination of the cold war. The geographical focus of the series will primarily be Latin America, the Caribbean,Southern and Eastern Europe, and relevantexperiences in ... gov-ernments in Korea and Taiwan in 1987, before moving on to the resumption of civilian government in Thailand in 1992, the United Nations intervention in Cambodia in 1993, the fallof Indonesia’s...
... increase in the role of industry in two groups of coun-tries, and a decrease for industry and an in- crease for services inthe third.1.2.3 The CCEE and NIS The domestic economies of the CCEE and the ... than 50% in economicgrowth inthe 1980s and its overall conse-quences, along with other factors, con-tributed to the enormous changes in the CCEE and NIS at the end of the 1980s and the beginning ... Reducing the immediate threats to health and improving environmental health management, while supporting and influenc-ing economic transformation, should be vital issues in these countries.Making...
... sup-porting or training child health nurses to manage com-plex and difficult roles.‘ the focus for many years from the Ministry hasbeen on reproductive health and family plan ning andtraining ... undertaken in both the hospitaland the community.‘There was theory and clinical practice. We learned the theory and then we did the clinical practice and the competencies for assessment as well as theory ... avai-lable in Australia and the luxury setting’ but not in the Solomon Islands: ‘I think that the thing I want to say itthat they have to look at our setting, because in the course like the treatments...
... retainedearnings. From the perspective of an investor inthe United States, investments in subsidiaries located inthe Philippines, Japan, and India bear a higher tax burde nthan the domestic investment, ... for plant and machinery. For buildings an initial allowance of 25% is grantedTaiwan. If the declining balance method is used, the residual value of the asset is fixed at 10% of its cost and depreciation ... German and US outbound investments to the Asia- Pacific region, India, and Russia, and illustrates the respective ranking ofsubsidiary locations. For both, German and US investors, Hong Kong, Singapore,and...
... response cannot be linked back to the source. best inthe business inthe private sector. This type of The main issue then in is inthe feeling of anonymity. If benchmarking implies comparing customer ... of these issues is very important given the track record for customer surveys inthe literature thus farand the expansion of their use inthe Federal Government.Given the costs involved in ... obtained are many other factors which need to be considered in and the costs involved in obtaining it. It should also be determining whether a survey will or should be used tonoted that collecting...
... Performance Issues When using the LMS adaptive filter, one must select the filter length L and the step size µ(n) toobtain the desired performance from the system. In this section, we explore theissues ... • The speeds of convergence of the means of the coefcient values depend on the eigenvaluesiand the step size à. In particular, we can define the time constant τjof the jth termwithin the ... through the statistics of the input and desired response signals. In situationswhere the statistics of x(n) and/or d(n) are changing, the value of µ(n) that provides the bestperformance from the...