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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"HDI"”.
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Kemiskinan berterusan dalam kalangan masyarakat miskin berdasarkan dimensi indeks pembangunan manusia (HDI)
… Pembangunan Insan (Human Development Index, HDI). Penerima bantuan dari dua agensi pembasmian kemiskinan dijadikan sebagai responden dalam kajian ini menggunakan kaedah persampelan berkuota bagi memastikan 50 peratus responden dipilih mewakili setiap agensi. Temubual turut dilakukan untuk …
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Life Expectancy as a Development Indicator: Liaoning Province, China, 2000
… health indicators, the Human Development Index (HDI) as a composite indicator, has drawn the attention of researchers and administrators alike. For China the HDI is available at national and provincial levels only, while at the sub-provincial level, for prefectures specifically, it has almost …
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Finite element simulation of creep behavior in enhanced refractory material for glass furnace
… (ORNL) is utilizing High Density Infrared (HDI) technology. This technology, which is relatively new to materials processing, is increasingly being researched in the development of coatings and surface modifications for refractory materials.;This thesis studies the creep resistance …
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The Social Impact of the International Monetary Fund: Structural Adjustment Programs in Latin America from 1980-2000
… by the United Nation’s Human Development Index (HDI), health, education, and GDP per capita. Overall, I found that the impact of IMF lending on all of the variables was measurably small, but it was also statistically significant for three of the four variables. The results were also mixed, with …
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New Sampling and Analysis Method for Isocyanates in Spray-Painting Operations
… is based on 1,6-hexamethylene diisocyanate (HDI) and contains the isocyanurate or the biuret of HDI. Exposure to isocyanate vapor and aerosol in spray paintings is known to cause a range of disorders in humans. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has already set …
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Digging for Growth? Which infrastructure development should African countries prioritise?
… in Power and the Human Development Index (HDI). These results suggest a need for reform in policies and planning. African states will be required to invest time in planning their infrastructure investment in advance with clear timelines and funding requirements. To attract Foreign Direct …
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Capillary Zone Electrophoresis Analysis of Isocyanates in Spray-Painting Operations
… of airborne 1,6- hexamethylene diisocyanate (HDI) monomer and polyisocyanate during Spray-painting operations. NIOSH Method 5521, OSHA Method 42, NIOSH Method 5522 and Capillary Zone Electrophoresis (CZE) methods were compared. The results obtained from the CZE analysis method and the HPLC …
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Synthesis and characterization of silk-inspired thermoplastic polyurethane elastomers
… between aliphatic hexamethylene diisocyanate (HDI) hard segments and poly(tetramethylene oxide) (PTMO) soft segments, to enhance the size and orientation of the interphase. The mixture of diisocyanates reduces the crystallinity of the HDI hard segments, allowing the polyurethane to form more …
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Spatiality and Human Development in the Western Cape of South Africa
… into the traditional Human Development Index (HDI), while focussing on pertinent strategies to transform the inherited colonial and apartheid spatial patterns to enhance human development. Significantly, the research arrived at a model that incorporates the spatiality dimension into the …
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Structure-property relationships in polyurethanes from lignin
… explosion lignin, hexamethylene diisocyanate (HDI) and tolylene diisocyanate (TDI), were used for the study. It was found necessary to use stoichiometric excess amounts of diisocyanates in the synthesis of the thermosetting polyurethanes. The investigation primarily addresses the effect of …
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Diet, inflammation and skeletal muscle mass in women
… Diet score (MDS), Healthy Diet Indicator (HDI), Diet Quality Index (DQI), Alternate Healthy Eating Index (AHEI), and DASH-style score was significantly associated with measurements of muscle mass, with associations ranging between 1-3% between quintiles. Furthermore, a number of nutrients …
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Hyvinvointimittareiden ja koetun hyvinvoinnin välinen kvantitatiivinen vertailu Suomessa 2002–2016
… Tarkastellut hyvinvointimittarit ovat HDI, HPI, SSI, Gini-kerroin, ISEW, GPI ja BKT. Koetun hyvinvoinnin aineistona käytetään Eurooppalaisen sosiaalitutkimuksen elämäntyytyväisyyden tilastomuuttujaa. Tutkielman tulokset osoittavat, ettei hyvinvointimittareiden antama kuva Suomen …
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Improved Modeling of Adhesion and Friction in Sub-5 Nm Ultra-Low Flying-Contacting Magnetic Storage Head -Disk Interfaces
… the flying/contacting dynamics of sub-5 nm HDIs in direct relation to roughness and electrostatic force were investigated using a 2-degree-of-freedom dynamic model, which incorporates the basic elements developed in the first part of this thesis. Then, design-of-experiment method was …
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The contribution of official development assistance to poverty reduction in Zambia
… with the IMR, and numerically compared with the HDI and poverty headcount. The research produced a number of key findings. For nine of the fifteen years examined, Zambia received an average of 260.57 per cent of all ODA it requested. There was evidence that the association between pro-poor …
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The role and function of e-mail as a form of computer mediated communication for research purposes : a comparative study
… that at Historically Advantaged Institutions (HDI's) in the same region. The University of Fort Hare represents a typical HDI and the University of Port Elizabeth a HAL
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Avaliação estatística do índice de desempenho do sistema único do SUS
… in addition to other variables such as HDI and variables related to diseases, directly aftect the quality of the overall indicator of the cities, according to region. It is expected that this work has direct impact to point out evidence about the health services.
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Importance of utilization of social capital in agro-based poverty reduction strategies in smallholder farming area in North-Eastern Zimbabwe
… poverty index (HPI) and human development index (HDI) were calculated. The extent to which four primary social capital scales predicted the total mean monthly expenditure per capita (serving as a proxy measure of poverty) was determined using the multiple regression analysis technique. This study …
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Napraforgó olajat tartalmazó poliuretánok előállítása és karakterizálása
… napraforgóolaj és a hexametilén-diizocianát (HDI) arányát fokozatosan változtattam. A vizsgálat elsősorban a minták mechanikai tulajdonságaira irányult, különös tekintettel a sűrűségre, a térhálósodás mértékére és a szakítószilárdságra. A cél az volt, hogy feltárjam, miként módosítják az egyes …
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Structural studies of supramolecular host-guest systems
… of a soluble poly-CD material (known as HDI-1) revealed that the solution behaviour of such polymeric hosts are sensitive to the presence of guest compounds such as p-nitrophenol (PNP) (i.e. chemo-responsive), as well as temperature variations (i.e. thermo-responsive). The host-guest …
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