‘While participation in a Fairtrade supply chain can improve things for developing country producers, it is by no means a necessary precondition for producers to benefit from export opportunities.’ Labelling is an increasingly popular mechanism for differentiating products on the basis of their production or origin characteristics, reflecting a growing trend towards ethical consumerism – where ...

Being main teaching media and major source of comprehensive target language input, teacher talk plays an important role in learners' second-language acquisition. Under the trend of "learner-centered" teaching mode, some researchers think that the best teacher talk means less. But the author holds that, in Chinese second language classroom, it is not advisable to lay too much stress on the forma...

The trend in most of the industrialised counties is in the direction of decreasing labour force participation of older workers. The steady withdrawal of workers from the workforce at a younger age suggests that retirement income is gradually increasing and/or that older workers are increasingly being forced out of the labour market. Regardless of whether early retirement can be traced to the la...

The article analyzes the forms of public participation in implementation local self-government at various stages municipal reform. It studies consolidation federal laws on self-government. analysis data from annual Monitoring development government system has been carried out, which makes it possible to assess real prevalence participation. is shown that new Draft Law reinforces general trend t...

Most countries in the developing world have experienced rising female labor force participation over the past twenty years (Heath and Jayachandran, forthcoming). This trend provides the backdrop for my research, which focuses on labor markets in developing countries, with an emphasis on gender. In particular, I study how firms select workers—and how workers select the firms in which they seek w...

This paper reports a system constructed for our participation as a group of “keio01” of Keio University in the T2N (text to number) task at the NTCIR7 MuST (Multimodal Summarization for Trend Information) task. The constructed system uses newspaper article corpora, task description and domain specific knowledge, and the system outputs chronological statistics. The statistics are ternary data wh...

A recent trend in the German Asset Backed Securities (ABS) market is the securitisation of subordinated loans and profit participation agreements (PPAs) granted to medium-sized enterprises (MEs). This paper provides an overview of this growing market and analyses the benefits of such transactions for the portfolio companies as well as originators and potential investors. Simulations of ten rece...

i. The paper will try to identify the various concurrent factors which, in the last years, have contributed to the increasing attention paid to the issue of reusable linguistic resources for natural language processing. The role of various major Organisations (EEC, Council of Europe, DARPA, NEH, etc.) will be examined, taking into account the reasons which seem to have stimulated their active p...

Community based tourism can be defined as the concept of sustainable development. Local community participation is main focus in tourism, so that it have a positive impact social, cultural, economic and environmental fields. The Kaki Langit Tourism Village one tourist villages which becoming trend province Yogyakarta, therefore this research was conducted to identify forms local become an examp...

PURPOSE To evaluate the effects of tafluprost treatment for 3 years on intraocular pressure (IOP) and visual field performance. METHODS The IOP of 55 patients with normal-tension glaucoma was monitored every 1-3 months for 3 years. The Humphrey visual field test was performed every 6 months after treatment and results compared with before-treatment results. Visual field performance was also e...