Moving towards Universal Health Coverage: Initiatives and Challenges Submitted by Mohammad Abdul Mannan Abstract Since the 2005 resolution of World Health Assembly‚ universal health coverage has been increasingly seen as a central plank in the articulation of new health-sector strategies in countries. Universal Health Coverage (UHC) as it is conceptualized today‚ ensures promotive‚ preventive‚ diagnostic and rehabilitative health services without financial hardship. UHC is one of the
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REGIONAL REVITALIZATION IN AKIHABARA Kazuhito YAMADA Doctorate Course‚ Hosei Graduate School of Regional Policy Design ABSTRACT: This paper is a policy thesis aimed at the revitalization of Akihabara (Tokyo‚ Japan)‚ an area that has declined economically in recent years. Akihabara is known around the world for its concentration of electro-domestic retailing‚ but the reality is that there are a number of industries concentrated there. An important issue addressed in this paper is the mechanism
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Elements of Information Theory Thomas M. Cover‚ Joy A. Thomas Copyright 1991 John Wiley & Sons‚ Inc. Print ISBN 0-471-06259-6 Online ISBN 0-471-20061-1 Elements of Information Theory Elements of Information Theory Thomas M. Cover‚ Joy A. Thomas Copyright 1991 John Wiley & Sons‚ Inc. Print ISBN 0-471-06259-6 Online ISBN 0-471-20061-1 WILEY SERIES IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS Donald L. Schilling‚ Editor City College of New York Digital Telephony‚ 2nd Edition John Bellamy Elements of
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121-31. Lawrence‚ D. H. Lively‚ P. Hamel Hampstead: Prentice Hall. eds . 1989. Tokyo: Asahi Press. eds . 1995. 1920 . ’Adolf ’. In Okano‚ K. and H. Imaizumi. British and American Short Stories of Living Creatures. pp.59-71. 1978 . ’Corruption ’. In Kawabata‚ A. and K. Watanabe. Yellow Trains and Other Stories. pp. 66-98. Tokyo: Yumi Press. Lodge‚ P. and B. Wright-Watson. 1997. Fast Lane Level 3. Oxford: Heinemann English Teaching. McCarthy‚ M. and R. Carter. 1995. "Spoken Grammar: What Is It and How
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International Journal of Solids and Structures 44 (2007) 7049–7060 www.elsevier.com/locate/ijsolstr Buckling analysis of plain knitted fabric sheets under simple shear in an arbitrary direction Y.T. Zhang a b a‚* ‚ C.Y. Liu b‚ R.X. Du b Department of Mechanics‚ Tianjin University‚ Tianjin 300072‚ China Department of Automation and Computer-Aided Engineering‚ The Chinese University of Hong Kong‚ Hong Kong‚ China Received 22 December 2006; received in revised form 12 March 2007 Available
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LITERATURE “Literature is the mirror of the society” The adage above is one of the most commonly used definitions of Literature… cliché as it may sound‚ still‚ it is true. Literature traces the past‚ mimics the present‚ and sometimes‚ it also predicts the future. A piece of literature describes a milieu‚ a collection of it may describe an epoch‚ and the great ones determine what will be. Great as it sounds; literature’s power is still under the control of the human mind. A well written
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Books by Edward T. Hall THE SILENT L A N G U A G E THE HIDDEN DIMENSION H A N D B O O K FOR PROXEMIC RESEARCH THE FOURTH DIMENSION IN ARCHITECTURE: The Impact of Building on Man’s Behavior (with Mildred Reed Hall) THE DANCE OF LIFE: The Other Dimension of Time HIDDEN DIFFERENCES: Doing Business with the Japanese (with Mildred Reed Hall) BEYOND CULTURE ANCHOR BOOKS EDITIONS‚ 1969‚ 1990 Copyright © 1966‚ 1982 by Edward T. Hall All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC88925 o /http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/proceedings1990/v1-511.html Biological screening of natural products and drug innovation in China Abstract The use of and search for drugs and dietary supplements derived from plants have accelerated in recent years. Ethnopharmacologists‚ botanists‚ microbiologists‚ and natural-products chemists are combing the Earth for phytochemicals and “leads” which could be developed
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Composites Science and Technology 61 (2001) 1899–1912 www.elsevier.com/locate/compscitech Advances in the science and technology of carbon nanotubes and their composites: a review Erik T. Thostensona‚ Zhifeng Renb‚ Tsu-Wei Choua‚* a Department of Mechanical Engineering and Center for Composite Materials‚ University of Delaware‚ Newark‚ DE 19716‚ USA b Department of Physics‚ Boston College‚ Chestnut Hill‚ MA 02167‚ USA Received 1 May 2001; received in revised form 19 June 2001; accepted 21
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INVITED PAPER Modeling and Simulation of Electric and Hybrid Vehicles Tools that can model embedded software as well as components‚ and can automate the details of electric and hybrid vehicle design‚ need to be developed. By David Wenzhong Gao‚ Senior Member IEEE‚ Chris Mi‚ Senior Member IEEE‚ and Ali Emadi‚ Senior Member IEEE ABSTRACT | This paper discusses the need for modeling and simulation of electric and hybrid vehicles. Different modeling methods such as physics-based Resistive
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