... Narrative synthesis of findings relating to theimpactof microfinance on the wealth ofthe poor Appendix 4.3: Narrative synthesis of findings relating to theimpactof microfinance on the non-wealth ... strongest positive impacts of microfinance (Bateman 2010) Synthesise what these studies tell us about: a Theimpactof microfinance on the incomes ofthe poor b Theimpactof microfinance on wider ... this study therefore retains its status as a high quality evaluation This decision is discussed further in section 5.4 what istheimpactof microfinance on poor people? sy n thesis Synthesis...
... these teams are established, the barriers and facilitators to establishing and implementing teams and team initiatives, as well as the strength ofthe evidence about theimpactof team initiatives ... purposive sampling of key informants and efforts to assure sampling adequacy Only two authors [25,51] provided descriptions ofthe method of analysis There was limited discussion of how researchers assured ... determine the mechanism of change, or details regarding the Page of 12 robustness of interventions Beyond a narrative account of quality improvement efforts, additional inquiry regarding the weight of...
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... value AMS isthe paradigm where a predefined level of demand is managed internally and the remainder augmented with cloud services The apothegm is ‘Own the base and rent the peak’ Conclusion The customer’s ... health starts with an assessment of value The assessment of value of cloud services can only include a comparison against other cloud providers The comparison of cost between traditional IT investment ... simple as a mouse-trap The complication is that for most customers they already have an IT investment So the assessment of cloud value will involve a comparison between what other IT investments...
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... in the fields of aesthetics and the philosophy of art; building diversity and inclusiveness in these fields; raising the profile of aesthetics and the philosophy of art within the profession of ... experience is expected to be; scientists… provide a test of whether this criterion is fulfilled.”2 Or consider the case of neuroaesthetics This new branch of empirical aesthetics is often defined as the ... a monthly honorarium fromthe Society The editor is responsible for the content ofthe journal The editor is a member ofthe Board of Trustees ofthe Society and serves on the Executive Committee...
... the product ofthe inside probability ofthe item and its prior probability Any item with a score less than 10 −5 times of that ofthe best item is pruned fromthe chart Whatisthe Minimal Subtree ... seen, there may be several distinct derivations that generate the same parse tree The probability of a parse tree T is thus the sum ofthe probabilities of its distinct derivations Let tid be the ... probability of a tree: everything from counts of single-level rules to counts of entire trees This means that the model is sensitive to the frequency of large subtrees while taking into account the smoothing...
... to the market for the product concerned It is therefore, in my view, preferable to examine measures of that kind in the light ofthe Treaty rules rather than to remove them fromthe scope ofthe ... run high in the area ofthe free movement of goods.22 All of these three aspects feature in the trio of spectacular cases on the use of goods,23 which form the subject-matter of this 20 See LAURENCE ... within the European Union II PARADISE REGAINED? The first ofthe cases under discussion to come to judgment was Commission v Portugal,99 a decision ofthe Third Chamber ofthe ECJ In a model of orthodox...
... NOTICE: The project that isthe subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board ofthe National Research Council, whose members are drawn fromthe councils ofthe National Academy of Sciences, ... and chairs the IOM Clinical Research Roundtable, the Board of Scientific Counselors ofthe National Center for Infectious Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control, and the Board ofthe North ... readers may wish to turn to the first page ofthe Workshop Summary immediately, so as to get right to the heart ofthe issues Others may wish to finish reading the Preface, which provides further information...
... diverge fromthe overall patterns this analysis reveals The models and theories in this book are intended to raise important issues, synthesize numerous academic theories, and provide some ofthe ... the level and type of empirical analysis, and the target readership ofthe book Our final goal is a compromise that seeks to translate the academic content of this book to a broad readership Therefore ... range of questions surrounding development assistance and the environment The compilation and analysis ofthe PLAID database that forms the backbone of this book has put us in the debt of many...
... establish the interpretability ofthe SF6D, a new single summary preference-based measure of health derived fromthe SF-36 The SF-36 is one ofthe most widely used HRQoL outcome measures in the ... worsening of health (GRoC of or 2) the sign ofthe change in the SF-6D score was reversed (i.e multiplied by minus one) The MID was then taken as the mean change on the SF-6D scale ofthe patients ... SF-6D is a continuous measure of effect we used meta-analytic methods to estimate the weighted grand mean ofthe MID and to test the hypothesis of homogeneity of MID across the nine studies If there...
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... parameter isthe level of conditioned responses during the acquisition phase ofthe CPE assay Statistical comparisons of treated and untreated groups at the maximum value ofthe CR during the acquisition ... overpass the fifth trial, the level ofthe CR then starting to decrease Most often the level of CR reaches a maximum by the third trial This acquisition phase relies on the memorization process, the ... the treatments During the extinction phase, the level ofthe CR slowly decreased, back to the initial level of spontaneous response (B) This expresses the resistance ofthe bee’s response to...