... strategic advantage Intended Audience The primary audience for this Manual is in-country RH and HIV/AIDS program managers and technical staff of USAID cooperating agencies (CAs), governmental organizations ... access to and use of family planning information and services; supporting the purchase and supply of contraceptives and related materials; enhancing quality of family planning information and services; ... increasing demand for family planning information and services; expanding options for fertility regulation and the organization of family planning information and services; integrating family planning...
... to Sandra Jordan and Lora Wentzel, also of that office, and to Diana Prieto, gender advisor in USAID’s Office of HIV/AIDS, for their invaluable review and suggestions I am grateful also to Charlotte ... this Manual include RH program managers and technical staff of USAID and its implementing partners, as well as governmental organizations (GOs), and international and local nongovernmental organizations ... implementation, and evaluation The Manual promotes greater understanding of how gender relations and identities affect the capacity of individuals and groups to make informed choices about their sexual and...
... engineering and management practices, restoration of coastal areas, habitat restoration in upland areas, water quality efforts, watershed analysis/planning, and habitat creation The councils and NMFS ... caught and landed per year) alone are not very useful Landings can fluctuate up and down fora variety of reasons A trend of decreased landings may be a cause for concern, but the amount of effort ... fish habitat Water pollution, loss of coastal wetlands and seagrasses, destruction of spawning areas, and changes in freshwater flows are some habitat alterations that have led to habitat reduction...
... data for validating the model of land-use and land-cover changes (Chapter 4) Christian Loris collected the data and processed a part of them for validating the fisheries model (Chapter 5) Gay ... 1.2.3 Integrated management and policy analysis Integrated management Rapid changes of objectives and methodological approaches towards the management of natural resources and environment can be observed ... evaluation A key step in the policy formulation, which aims at identifying, analyzing and evaluating management strategies, is that of policy analysis 22 Chapter1 Policy analysis and rapid assessment...
... and teaspoon another adverb Basing on the data analysis, we found that adverbs of vanilla essence manner, adverbs of time and adverbs of degree are three main kinds of adverbs used in EIUFs and ... attempt to make a detailed study of linguistic exact and deep understanding of the way of using words and writing features of EIUFs and VIUFs in terms of lexical, syntactic, and semantic sentences ... products as well as What are lexical, syntactic, and semantic features of instructions for use of foodstuffs in English and Vietnamese? What are similarities and differences of instructions for use of...
... interaction proteomics Anal Chem 74, 4725–4733 Kagebayashi C, Yamaguchi I, Akinaga A, Kitano H, Yokoyama K, Satomura M, Kurosawa T, Watanabe M, Kawabata T, Chang W et al (2009) Automated immunoassay ... Mahal LK (2007) A ratiometric lectin microarray approach to analysis of the dynamic mammalian glycome Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 104, 11534–11539 14 Tateno H, Uchiyama N, Kuno A, Togayachi A, Sato ... knowledge of human glycosylation, glycan structural analysis systems, the bioinformatics capability and the databases that we have developed over the years, and animal models of aberrant glycosylation...
... measurable goals Chapter 10, “Program Evaluation and Organizational Learning,” emphasizes the importance of evaluating a business ethics program as an integral part of organizational learning andof ... with: American Chamber of Commerce in Russia Casals and Associates, Inc Center for Business Ethics and Corporate Governance Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Romania and Bucharest Municipality ... terms and addressing global standards and best practices, through evaluating the business ethics program as a part of organizational learning Chapters build on each other, but they may be read...
... Oh, yeah, and you’ve got to write twenty pages today, not just ten, since you didn’t write anything over the weekend. That’s what ‘real’ writers do, and if you can’t do it, that means you’re just a faker anda fraud.” It’s a stream of selfabuse, guilt, shame, and blame: I call it the “mean mommy” ... news is that, once you do that, progress can happen very quickly! Below, and in the next few chapters, we examine the three most common fears at the heart of procrastination: fear of change, fear of failure and fear of success. Fear of Change A key difference between successful and unsuccessful people is that successful ... Chapter 7 Fear II. Fear of Failure “You have to have the courage to fail.” Russian political activist, and former world chess champion, Garry Kasparov Garry Kasparov is one of my heroes: a former world chess champion who, after ...
... state, and local specialty and subspecialty organizations (e.g., AAFP, ACP, AAP) e Nationally recognized charitable organizations (e.g., American Lung Association, American Heart Association) ... California, San Francisco, Joint Medical Program, Berkeley, and Chief of Geriatrics and Palliative Care in the Department of Medicine at the Alameda County Health Center, Oakland, California Alexis ... BA, is a Research Technician with the Program in Medicine and Human Values, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, California J Westley McGaughey, BA, is Research Analyst, Grants and...
... storage showed similar kinetics as for mMCP-5 In contrast, CPA protein was detected as early as after days of culture, anda maximal plateau of storage was already seen at day 12 Both proCPA and ... radioactivity As an internal standard, 200 lL ofa mixture of unlabeled heparin (4 mgÆmL)1) and CS -A (5 mgÆmL)1; Sigma, Stockholm, Sweden) was added to each sample before anion exchange chromatography analysis ... experiments As shown in Fig 3A, SG core protein mRNA was already expressed at day However, maximal MC protease accumulation was not obtained until about day 26 (Fig 3B), a finding that may appear contradictory,...
... bind a ligand [11], both the FixL PAS domain and PYP are activated by ligands; in FixL, oxygen binding at the heme binding PAS domain controls the activity ofa histidine kinase domain [12]; and ... These are glycines 224 and 251 that substitute Phe96 and Val120 in PYP, and Phe98 and Leu127 in HERG [16] For both FixL and PYP, structures are known for the inactive and active signaling states ... neither photoaf®nity labeled by a dioxin analog, nor activated by b-naphto¯avone in a yeast system [20]; the rainbow trout AhRa that binds TCDD [21] and the Microgadus Tomcod AhR also activated by...
... maintain capital value rather than their financial planning and sales agent advertising growing that value Capital maintenance is important, packages and offer the sales force incentives and tools ... Insurance mitigates risk Pensions grow capital Formal Financial Products and their Purposes Financial Leve rage Capital Pre se rvation Risk M itigation Capital Appre ciation Chart 1: Formal Financial ... President of ICICI Bank in India; Mr Vijay Kalavakonda, Financial Analyst, The World Bank; Mr Dyson Ziviso Mandivenga, Head Microfinance, Commercial Bank of Zimbabwe Limited (The Jewel Bank) in Zimbabwe;...
... they are written for the Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced levels The backs of the Flash Facts are blank Teachers may use this area to translate the facts into the native language(s) of the ... away items rather than throwing these items into the waste stream Fora large number of unwanted items, students can hold a garage sale They can also be encouraged to shop at garage sales before ... recycle rate was just 10% and 90% of MSW was being combusted with energy recovery or disposed of by landfilling Batteries are recycled at a rate of 99%; paper and paperboard at 50%, and yard trimmings...
... RDQ scales and physician symptom severity ratings for regurgitation, heartburn, and dyspepsia at baseline and at visit A positive correlation was found between physician severity ratings and RDQ ... indicators for all patients by esomeprazole and placebo treatment RDQ Scale Effect size Standardized response mean Esomeprazole Heartburn Regurgitation Dyspepsia GERDa aHeartburn Placebo Esomeprazole ... the translated RDQ High levels of internal consistency across the translated RDQ scales would be evidence of the amenability to translation Analysis revealed that, regardless of language, all but...
... uniformly distributed salt and pepper noise at different densities for evaluating the performance of the algorithm Three images are selected They are Lena, Cameraman, and Boat image A quantitative ... and μx are mean intensities of original and restored images, σr and σx are standard deviations of original and restored images, r p and x p are the image contents of pth local window, and G is the ... autocorrelation for lags and Sort the 1-D array Z and calculate the median value Assuming stochastic approximation for maintaining simplest computational complexity Replace the noisy pixel by the median value...
... properties For example, confusion matrix and probability of error have properties (a) , (b), (c), and (d), but not (e) or (f); figure of merit has (a) , (b), (c), and (e); and normalized distance and expanded ... some kind of uncertainty could appear In this work, real images are used to obtain the ideal segmentation Although the creation of the ideal segmentation of each real image must be manual, and thus, ... (6), where P(O) and P(B) are a priori probabilities of objects and backgrounds, and P(O/B) and P(B/O) are the probabilities of error in classifying objects as background and vice versa: PE = P(O)P(B/O)...
... Lipid Kinase Assay F.1.3 Protein Kinase Assay F.1.4 Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase Assay F.1.5 Alkaline Phosphatase Assay F.1.6 Caspase Assay F.2 Functional Assays F.2.1 Apoptosis Assay F.2.2 XTT ... biochemistry and need a headstart The protocols are written as a handy guide that can be carried as a pocket guide for easy reference The protocols are easy to follow with each step explained in layman terms ... between and 100 µg protein in a 100 µl sample (2) Prepare standards containing a range of to 100 µg BSA in 100 µl volume (3) Add an equal volume of 1M NaOH and vortex (4) Add ml dye reagent and incubate...
... hand side of the above equation, and v is smooth by the distinctness of the αi s and βi s (⇐) Any smooth vector can be written as the sum of ±1 multiples of characteristic vectors of intervals ... divide the argument into cases based on the dimension of v and the sequence of ρi ’s This argument is inductive; for all cases after Case we are assuming that no smooth vector of smaller dimension ... we can make an approximation of L ≈ 22001865 with an error of less than 1.5 · 10−7 Inequality (10) can certainly be used to obtain more precise approximations of L the electronic journal of...
... Herman JL: Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror New York, USA: Basic Books; 1997 Freyd JJ: Betrayal trauma: traumatic amnesia as an adaptive ... Fisher's exact test, and age using the t test A correlation matrix was performed to examine for any associations between the demographic variables and the total score of the BPRS, BSI, and Client ... administered the various measures and then interviewed the staff Finally, they obtained the medication regimen of each subject for before and after admission Raters, subjects and clinical staff at all three...