Savedoff for their helpful comments. The views expressed herein are those of the author and do not reflect the official position of the Inter-American Development Bank. Foreword ECI programs represent an important area for government intervention since they have the advantage of " killing two birds with one stone " in the fight against poverty. Participating children are provided critical extra...

A diagnostic study was done on Melia azedarach L. in relation to atmospheric pollutants in Córdoba city, Argentina. The study area receives regional pollutants, and it was categorized taking into account traffic level, industrial level, location of the sample point in relation to the corner, treeless condition, building type, topographic level and distance to the river. Water content and Specif...

In this paper we provide an overview of the ACL European Corpus Initiative (ECI) Multilingual Corpus 1 (ECI/MC1). In particular, we look at one particular subcorpus in the ECI/MC1, the trilingual corpus of International Labour Organisation reports, and discuss the problems involved in TEI-compliant structural markup and preliminary alignment of this large corpus. We discuss gross structural ali...

Although the motivation for ECI was an accepted body of research demonstrating the long-term benefits of particular kinds of ECE programs, the way in which the initiative was intended to operate was novel in two important ways. First, ECI aimed to create a countywide system of high-quality ECE services rather than just a small-scale pilot program. Second, it aimed to put the various ECE program...

BACKGROUND Thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) is used to detect primary hypo- and hyperthyroidism. Current guidelines for TSH assays recommend a functional sensitivity of < or =0.02 mIU/L. The protocol for determining the functional sensitivity of TSH assays specifies analyses of serum samples with two reagent lots over a 6- to 8-week period. METHODS We determined the functional sensitivities ...

We present a suite of software for the complete and easy deposition of NMR data to the PDB and BMRB. This suite uses the CCPN framework and introduces a freely downloadable, graphical desktop application called CcpNmr Entry Completion Interface (ECI) for the secure editing of experimental information and associated datasets through the lifetime of an NMR project. CCPN projects can be created wi...

INTRODUCTION Listeria monocytogenes is an important foodborne pathogen and the 4b serotype is responsible for many cases of human listeriosis reported in Brazil. Several listeriosis outbreaks worldwide have involved a small number of well-defined clonal groups, designated as epidemic clones (ECs). METHODOLOGY We studied 71 strains of serotype 4b, including 25 isolates from human cases of list...

This paper establishes economic complexity as a powerful predictor of environmental attitudes. While the index (ECI) has been associated with series outcomes, yet there not link in literature between ECI and research pushes forward hypothesis that shapes cultural values beliefs. The method used is multilevel empirical analysis associates aggregate ECI, at country level, individual responses rel...