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Microfinance And Rural Development: A Long-Term Perspective, Henk A. J. Moll Dec 2005

Microfinance And Rural Development: A Long-Term Perspective, Henk A. J. Moll

Journal of Microfinance / ESR Review

The long-term perspective on microfinance starts with a discussion of three central issues: first, views and policies, with two opposing views: "credit for target group" and "pushing the financial frontier", second, the performance of microfinance institutions measured via two objectives: outreach and financial sustainability, third, microfinance and rural development. This latter issue is approached through analyses of the effects of financial services on rural households and analyses of long term national financial development. Both micro and macro studies show positive effects of an expansion of savings and lending services, financial deepening. The negative side of financial deepening, the apparently unavoidable …

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How The Justice System Responds To Juvenile Victims: A Comprehensive Model., David Finkelhor, Theodore P. Cross, Elise N. Cantor Dec 2005

How The Justice System Responds To Juvenile Victims: A Comprehensive Model., David Finkelhor, Theodore P. Cross, Elise N. Cantor

Crimes Against Children Research Center

The justice system handles thousands of cases involving juvenile victims each year. These victims are served by a complex set of agencies and institutions, including police, prosecutors, courts, and child protection agencies. Despite the many cases involving juvenile victims and the structure in place for responding to them, the juvenile victim justice system model presented in this Bulletin is a new concept. Although the juvenile victim justice system has a distinct structure and sequence, its operation is not very well understood. Unlike the more familiar juvenile offender justice system, the juvenile victim justice system has not been conceptualized as a …

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New Science And Technology Journals, Earl Mounts Dec 2005

New Science And Technology Journals, Earl Mounts

Sci-Tech News

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Characterization Of Gdp-Mannose Pyrophosphorylase From Escherichia Coli O157:H7 Edl933 And Its Broad Substrate Specificity, Yung-Hun Yang, Young Bok (Abraham) Kang, Kwang-Won Lee, Tek-Hyung Lee, Sung-Soo Park, Bum-Yeol Hwang, Byung-Gee Kim Dec 2005

Characterization Of Gdp-Mannose Pyrophosphorylase From Escherichia Coli O157:H7 Edl933 And Its Broad Substrate Specificity, Yung-Hun Yang, Young Bok (Abraham) Kang, Kwang-Won Lee, Tek-Hyung Lee, Sung-Soo Park, Bum-Yeol Hwang, Byung-Gee Kim

Faculty Publications - Biomedical, Mechanical, and Civil Engineering

GDP-mannose pyrophosphorylase gene (ManC) of Escherichia coli (E. coli) O157 was cloned and expressed as a highly soluble protein in E. coli BL21 (DE3). The enzyme was subsequently purified using hydrophobic and ion exchange chromatographies. ManC showed very broad substrate specificities for four nucleotides and various hexose-1-phosphates, yielding ADP-mannose, CDP-mannose, UDP-mannose, GDP-mannose, GDP-glucose and GDP-2-deoxy-glucose.

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Book Review: The Private Sector In Development: Entrepreneurship, Regulation, And Competitive Disciplines By Michael U. Klein And Bita Hadjimichael, Richard Norton Dec 2005

Book Review: The Private Sector In Development: Entrepreneurship, Regulation, And Competitive Disciplines By Michael U. Klein And Bita Hadjimichael, Richard Norton

Journal of Microfinance / ESR Review

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Commercializing Microfinance And Deepening Outreach? Empirical Evidence From Latin America, Francisco Olivares-Polanco Dec 2005

Commercializing Microfinance And Deepening Outreach? Empirical Evidence From Latin America, Francisco Olivares-Polanco

Journal of Microfinance / ESR Review

Does commercialization mean mission drift? Christen (2001) argues that commercialization, which is characterized by profitability, competition, and regulation, does not have any effect on large differences in loan size between regulated and nonregulated MFIs. I used data from 28 Latin American MFIs to conduct a multiple regression analysis to test for some of Christen's conclusions, as well as for other factors that, according to the literature on microfinance, may affect loan size. The results of the regression indicate first that the type of institution, in terms of NGO versus financial institution, regardless of being regulated or not, has no effect …

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Front Matter, Journal Of Microfinance Dec 2005

Front Matter, Journal Of Microfinance

Journal of Microfinance / ESR Review

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Nurturing Joint Forest Management Through Microfinance: A Case From India, K. K. Kaushal, J. C. Kala Dec 2005

Nurturing Joint Forest Management Through Microfinance: A Case From India, K. K. Kaushal, J. C. Kala

Journal of Microfinance / ESR Review

India has embarked upon a community involvement process to restock the state-owned forests through a recent approach called Joint Forest Management. But the success of the Joint Forest Management program lies in the provision of alternative livelihoods to woodcutters and grazers. This article presents how the forest department of a southern state of India devised a potent tool of microfinance promotion for weaning those who are dependent on the forest by implementing a massive externally aided Joint Forest Management Project. Based on a study of 27 program villages in the Tamilnadu state, this paper proves that the success of Joint …

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Data Standards For Connecting To Commercial Sources Of Capital, James Dailey Dec 2005

Data Standards For Connecting To Commercial Sources Of Capital, James Dailey

Journal of Microfinance / ESR Review

The importance of data interchange between commercial sources of capital and the microfinance sector is generally acknowledged, if not well detailed. But microfinance institutions (MFIs) and commercial sources of capital often need a different depth and breadth of information. As the industry grows and accesses more commercial capital, there is a need to enable standardized reporting from multiple MFIs to multiple sources of capital, rather than a proliferation of one-to-one reporting relationships. IT professionals and managers of microfinance institutions need to recognize this need and push vendors and industry associations to agree on specific standards of data elements, quality, and …

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Issues Of Processing And Multiple Testing Of Seldi-Tof Ms Proteomic Data, Merrill D. Birkner, Alan E. Hubbard, Mark J. Van Der Laan, Christine F. Skibola, Christine M. Hegedus, Martyn T. Smith Dec 2005

Issues Of Processing And Multiple Testing Of Seldi-Tof Ms Proteomic Data, Merrill D. Birkner, Alan E. Hubbard, Mark J. Van Der Laan, Christine F. Skibola, Christine M. Hegedus, Martyn T. Smith

U.C. Berkeley Division of Biostatistics Working Paper Series

A new data filtering method for SELDI-TOF MS proteomic spectra data is described. We examined technical repeats (2 per subject) of intensity versus m/z (mass/charge) of bone marrow cell lysate for two groups of childhood leukemia patients: acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). As others have noted, the type of data processing as well as experimental variability can have a disproportionate impact on the list of "interesting" proteins (see Baggerly et al. (2004)). We propose a list of processing and multiple testing techniques to correct for 1) background drift; 2) filtering using smooth regression and cross-validated bandwidth …

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Distinct Roles Of Different Homer1 Isoforms In Behaviors And Associated Prefrontal Cortex Function, Kevin D. Lominac, Erik B. Oleson, Matthew Pava, Matthias Klugmann, Martin K. Schwarz, Peter H. Seeburg, Matthew J. During, Paul F. Worley, Peter W. Kalivas, Karen K. Szumlinski Dec 2005

Distinct Roles Of Different Homer1 Isoforms In Behaviors And Associated Prefrontal Cortex Function, Kevin D. Lominac, Erik B. Oleson, Matthew Pava, Matthias Klugmann, Martin K. Schwarz, Peter H. Seeburg, Matthew J. During, Paul F. Worley, Peter W. Kalivas, Karen K. Szumlinski

MUSC Faculty Journal Articles

Homer1 mutant mice exhibit behavioral and neurochemical abnormalities that are consistent with an animal model of schizophrenia. Because the Homer1 gene encodes both immediate early gene (IEG) and constitutively expressed (CC) gene products, we used the local infusion of adeno-associated viral vectors carrying different Homer1 transcriptional variants into the prefrontal cortex (PFC) to distinguish between the roles for IEG and CC Homer1 isoforms in the “schizophrenia-like” phenotype of Homer1 mutant mice. PFC overexpression of the IEG Homer1 isoform Homer1a reversed the genotypic differences in behavioral adaptation to repeated stress, whereas overexpression of the constitutively expressed Homer1 isoform Homer1c reversed the …

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Latin America Bets On Chinese Lessons, Knowledge@Smu Dec 2005

Latin America Bets On Chinese Lessons, Knowledge@Smu

Knowledge@SMU

These days, all roads in international trade seem to lead to China, even in the case of a small country like Chile, which recently signed a free-trade agreement with the Asian giant. It was China’s first free trade treaty with a Western country, and it opens new international routes for its products. In addition, Chinese authorities say the agreement will make Chile a bridge for investments from China into the rest of Latin America. This much is certain: Both China and the dynamic Southeast Asia region are the focal point for Latin American exports. However, the road to Asia is …

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Atlantic Intersections: Early American Commerce And The Rise Of The Spanish West Indies (Cuba), Linda K. Salvucci Dec 2005

Atlantic Intersections: Early American Commerce And The Rise Of The Spanish West Indies (Cuba), Linda K. Salvucci

History Faculty Research

An Atlantic approach to the history of early American trade challenges traditional British opinions and, indeed, much Anglo-American scholarship regarding the commercial prospects of the new United States. Contemporary Spanish observations, in contrast to the more familiar and widely cited ones in English, correctly predicted the post-Revolutionary War integration of American and Spanish imperial markets. As political, diplomatic, and economic upheavals broke down the old mercantilist system, U.S. merchants quickly succeeded in exploiting their comparative advantage in the expanding Atlantic economy. The debate over the "decline" of the British West Indies is amplified by examining the concurrent "rise" of the …

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The Relationship Between The Number Of Shots And The Quality Of Gamma Knife Radiosurgeries, D Cheek, Allen G. Holder, M Fuss, B Salter Dec 2005

The Relationship Between The Number Of Shots And The Quality Of Gamma Knife Radiosurgeries, D Cheek, Allen G. Holder, M Fuss, B Salter

Mathematics Faculty Research

Radiosurgery is a non-invasive alternative to brain surgery that uses a single focused application of high radiation to destroy intracerebral target tissues. A Gamma Knife delivers such treatments by using 201 cylindrically collimated cobalt-60 sources that are arranged in a hemispherical pattern and aimed to a common focal point. The accumulation of radiation at the focal point, called a \shot" due to the spherical nature of the dose distribution, is used to ablate (or destroy) target tissue in the brain. If the target is small and spherical, it is easily treated by choosing one of four available collimators (4, 8, …

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Monte-Carlo-Type Techniques For Processing Interval Uncertainty, And Their Potential Engineering Applications, Vladik Kreinovich, J. Beck, Carlos M. Ferregut, A. Sanchez, George R. Keller, Matthew G. Averill, Scott A. Starks Dec 2005

Monte-Carlo-Type Techniques For Processing Interval Uncertainty, And Their Potential Engineering Applications, Vladik Kreinovich, J. Beck, Carlos M. Ferregut, A. Sanchez, George R. Keller, Matthew G. Averill, Scott A. Starks

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

In engineering applications, we need to make decisions under uncertainty. Traditionally, in engineering, statistical methods are used, methods assuming that we know the probability distribution of different uncertain parameters. Usually, we can safely linearize the dependence of the desired quantities y (e.g., stress at different structural points) on the uncertain parameters xi - thus enabling sensitivity analysis. Often, the number n of uncertain parameters is huge, so sensitivity analysis leads to a lot of computation time. To speed up the processing, we propose to use special Monte-Carlo-type simulations.

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Dayton Engineer, Winter 2005-06, University Of Dayton Dec 2005

Dayton Engineer, Winter 2005-06, University Of Dayton

Dayton Engineer

The Dayton Engineer, published out of the Office of Public Relations, later University Communications, then University Marketing and Communications, provided news from the University of Dayton School of Engineering to alumni and friends. It was published from the late 1990s to about 2010.

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Sociological Accessibility And The Institutionalizing Of Professional "Public Sociology", Ned Rinalducci Dec 2005

Sociological Accessibility And The Institutionalizing Of Professional "Public Sociology", Ned Rinalducci

The Journal of Public and Professional Sociology

The author discusses the concept of Public Sociology, how it compares to the approach of Professional Sociology, and how The Journal of Public and Professional Sociology can advance and serve the discipline.

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Public Sociology, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie, And Chevrolet, Mathieu Deflem Dec 2005

Public Sociology, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie, And Chevrolet, Mathieu Deflem

The Journal of Public and Professional Sociology

Public sociology is neither public nor sociology. Public sociology does not and cannot have an epistemology. Speaking only for and to itself, public sociology has no public. There is no debate with public sociology. Instead, public sociology has been successfully advertised and widely embraced among sociologists. Public sociology has consumers. Public sociology is the fast-food of social science. The influence of public sociology is visible and real as it has been institutionalized in various ways. I analyze the conditions of the institutionalization of public sociology and critically evaluate its dynamics and consequences.

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Western News, Dec. 1, 2005, Western Michigan University Dec 2005

Western News, Dec. 1, 2005, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Center puts focus on electronic portfolios; Engineering management program lauded; Obituaries for Henry Beukema, Thomas Slaughter, Carol Voytas; On Campus with Kathleen Keckler.

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Vol. 07 No. 2 Journal Of Microfinance, Journal Of Microfinance Dec 2005

Vol. 07 No. 2 Journal Of Microfinance, Journal Of Microfinance

Journal of Microfinance / ESR Review

No abstract provided.

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Microentrepreneurship And Job Creation: Multiple-Case Study Of Hud Microenterprise Development Assistance Programs In Upstate New York, James O. Bates Dec 2005

Microentrepreneurship And Job Creation: Multiple-Case Study Of Hud Microenterprise Development Assistance Programs In Upstate New York, James O. Bates

Journal of Microfinance / ESR Review

This multiple-case study explores local government's use of HUDfunded microenterprise development assistance for job creation and selfemployment of low-to-moderate-income individuals. Respondent information was reviewed and then supplemented with document analysis and interview materials from earlier research on HUD microenterprise development assistance programs in upstate New York. Because the number of local government respondents who self-identified as providers of microenterprise development assistance was small, it was not possible to generalize research findings to the overall public microenterprise development sector. However, the study of this phenomenon, although limited, does have implications for government microfinance instrumentalities and intermediaries and for future research on …

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Building Economic Self-Reliance: Trickle Up's Microenterprise Seed Capital For The Extreme Poor In Rural India, Jan Maes, Malika Basu Dec 2005

Building Economic Self-Reliance: Trickle Up's Microenterprise Seed Capital For The Extreme Poor In Rural India, Jan Maes, Malika Basu

Journal of Microfinance / ESR Review

The Trickle Up Program is a US-based organization engaged in microenterprise development for very poor households in 14 core countries, including India. Because it targets the most vulnerable sections of the population, such as the rural landless, women-led households, people with disabilities, and economically disadvantaged minorities, TUP employs a seed capital grant strategy to facilitate its clients' movement from absolute poverty toward economic self-reliance. TUP clients cannot risk taking a loan because they have no spare income to make payments if their enterprises do not generate an immediate profit. A conditional grant, in contrast to credit, exposes its recipients to …

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Insights, Fall, 2005, Utah State University Dec 2005

Insights, Fall, 2005, Utah State University

Discovery Magazine

Bi-annual alumni newsletter for the College of Science of Utah State University in Logan.

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A Look At 20 Academic Libraries Technical Services Web Pages, Deana Groves Dec 2005

A Look At 20 Academic Libraries Technical Services Web Pages, Deana Groves

DLTS Faculty Publications

The 21st century technical services librarian has access to a plethora of electronic and online work tools from which to choose to complete daily tasks. An assessment of the Western Kentucky University Libraries 19 benchmark institutions shows a great disparity of online work tools made available through university libraries technical services departmental web sites. Four areas (technical services, cataloging, serials, and acquisitions) are discussed. Outcomes indicate that 1) few of these institutions list online work tools and 2) of those that do, there is very little overlap. This paper investigates this phenomenon of inconsistent technical services online work tools.

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Panel Ii: Maurice Clarett's Challenge, Jay Moyer, Howard Ganz, David Feher, Gary Roberts Dec 2005

Panel Ii: Maurice Clarett's Challenge, Jay Moyer, Howard Ganz, David Feher, Gary Roberts

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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Information Outlook, December 2005, Special Libraries Association Dec 2005

Information Outlook, December 2005, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2005

Volume 9, Issue 12

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Loss Aware Rate Allocations In H.263 Coded Video Transmissions, Xiao Su, Benjamin Wah Dec 2005

Loss Aware Rate Allocations In H.263 Coded Video Transmissions, Xiao Su, Benjamin Wah

Faculty Publications

For packet video, information loss and bandwidth limitation are two factors that affect video playback quality. Traditional rate allocation approaches have focused on optimizing video quality under bandwidth constraint alone. However, in the best-effort Internet, packets carrying video data are susceptible to losses, which need to be reconstructed at the receiver side. In this paper, we propose loss aware rate allocations in both group-of-block (GOB) level and macroblock level, given that certain packets are lost during transmissions and reconstructed using simple interpolation methods at the receiver side. Experimental results show that our proposed algorithms can produce videos of higher quality …

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Open Access Federation For Library And Information Science, Anita Coleman, Joseph Roback Dec 2005

Open Access Federation For Library And Information Science, Anita Coleman, Joseph Roback

Faculty Publications

Self-archiving, the practice of depositing one's works in an OAI-compliant archive, is a key strategy for innovating scholarly communication and achieving open access. DL-Harvest, a subject service for Library and Information (LIS), based on the aggregation of OAI-PMH compliant metadata from both institutional and disciplinary digital repositories, including dLIST, is described. Additionally, results from two studies that explored LIS journal publishers' stances towards self-archiving as expressed in copyright transfer agreements (CTAs) and the scholarly communication behaviors of LIS scholars, with regard to self-archiving and searching, are presented and some implications for the development of federated subject services are highlighted.

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A Framework For Management Of Semistructured Probabilistic Data, Wenzhong Zhao, Alex Dekhtyar, Judy Goldsmith Dec 2005

A Framework For Management Of Semistructured Probabilistic Data, Wenzhong Zhao, Alex Dekhtyar, Judy Goldsmith

Computer Science and Software Engineering

This paper describes the theoretical framework and implementation of a database management system for storing and manipulating diverse probability distributions of discrete random variables with finite domains, and associated information. A formal Semistructured Probabilistic Object (SPO) data model and a Semistructured Probabilistic Query Algebra (SP-algebra) are proposed. The SP-algebra supports standard database queries as well as some specific to probabilities, such as conditionalization and marginalization. Thus, the Semistructured Probabilistic Database may be used as a backend to any application that involves the management of large quantities of probabilistic information, such as building stochastic models. The implementation uses XML encoding of …

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Editor's Introduction, Steve Meisel Dec 2005

Editor's Introduction, Steve Meisel

Organization Management Journal

No abstract provided.

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