“The Malaysia Modified Budgeting System (MBS) provides greater managerial flexibility and accountability...it performs on par with international best practice and is being used in some developing countries as a model.” (World Bank report (1999) on Public Expenditure Management in Malaysia: How Malaysia Performs. The Integrated Results Based Management system incorporates a long-term macro-plann...

Optimal planners in the classical setting are built around two notions: branching and pruning. SAT-based planners for example branch by trying the values of a selected variable, and prune by propagating constraints and checking consistency. In the conformant setting, a similar branching scheme can be used if restricted to action variables, but the pruning scheme must be modified. Indeed, prunin...

this research explores the effects of three computer-mediated feedback modalities, that is, elicitation, recast, and meta-linguistics, on the learning of english participial, gerund, and infinitival phrases among iranian intermediate-level efl learners. the overriding focus of the present study was to investigate whether different types of feedback given through form-focused computer-human exch...

although explicit and implicit knowledge of language learners are essential to theoretical and pedagogical debates in second language acquisition (sla), little research has addressed the effects of instructional interventions on the two knowledge types (r. ellis, 2005).this study examined the relative effectiveness of explicit and implicit types of form-focused instruction (ffi) on the acquisit...

In Turkey, the understanding of planning focused on timber production has given its place on Multiple Use Management (MUM). Because the whole infrastructure of forestry with inventory system leading the way depends on timber production, some cases of bottle neck are expected during the transition period. Database design, probably the most important stage during the transition to MUM, together w...

BACKGROUND Until recently, family planning researchers and service providers had focused almost exclusively on women. Men are often seen as uncooperative and uninterested in family planning or reproductive health. OBJECTIVE To investigate the contraceptive knowledge, attitude and practice among married market men. DESIGN A cross-sectional survey. SETTING llesa Main Market, Osun State, Nig...