A mixed bag of andesites

A Mixed Bag of Results: Village Elections in Contemporary China

While there is only little transformation to the absolute power of the party-state to be detected, some grassroots democratic experiments, however, are receiving enormous attention of the world, especially village elections. Nevertheless, this preliminary exercise of democracy is widely characterized as a mixed bag of results. Since its first conduction, it has experienced immense development a...

reflections on taught courses of the iranian ma program in english translation: a mixed-methods study

the issue of curriculum and syllabus evaluation and revision has been in center of attention right from when curriculum came into attention of educational institutions. thus everywhere in the world in educational institutions curricula and syllabi are evaluated and revised based on the goals, the needs, existing content, etc.. in iran any curriculum is designed in a committee of specialists and...

UNICEF's child injury league tables: a bag of mixed messages.

Getting the best out of a mixed bag

This paper discusses the development and implementation of an approach to the combination of Rule Based Machine Translation, Statistical Machine Translation and Translation Memory tecnologies. The machine translation system itself draws upon translation memories and both syntactically and statistically generated phrase tables, unresolved sentences being fed to a Rules Engine. The output of the ...

Front - Running by Mutual Fund Managers : A Mixed Bag ?

This paper evaluates the welfare implications of front-running by mutual fund managers. It extends the model of Kyle (1985) to a situation in which the insider with fundamentals-information competes against an insider with trade-information and in which noise trading is endogenized. Noise traders are small investors trading through mutual funds to hedge non-tradable or illiquid assets. The insi...