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Firelight Foundation: An interim evaluation report of the Early Learning Innovation Fund

The Hewlett Foundation in 2014 selected Management Systems International (MSI) to implement a midterm evaluation of the Early Learning Innovation Fund. This evaluation explores the concept and design of the Fund; progress in achieving the Hewlett Foundation's four intermediary outcomes; and Firelight's implementation of the innovation fund with a focus on its approach to capacity building and expanding innovative programs. This evaluation also reviews the quality of the sub-grantees' monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems and explores the potential of conducting an impact evaluation of sub-grantee activities

Deterring true believers : perffect [sic] deterrence theory, capability and the problem of Al Qaeda

Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on June 4, 2010).The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file.Thesis advisor: Dr. Stephen Quackenbush.M.A. University of Missouri--Columbia 2010.During the Cold War, a large body of literature was compiled by scholars studying international conflict - that of deterrence. Since the attacks of 11 September 2001, however, a new body of literature has begun to grow - that of terrorism. Interestingly enough, these two literatures have only rarely been considered together. This paper seeks to do so. By utilizing perfect deterrence theory, a theory of general deterrence, I seek to explain why some terrorist networks are more deterrable than others. Specifically, I investigate a case involving the United States and Al Qaeda in an attempt to establish that terrorist networks of true believers are far more difficult to deter than other terrorist groups, because true believers' desire for conflict always outweighs their desire to maintain the status quo.Includes bibliographical references

The effect of consumption volume on profile and liking of oral nutritional supplements of varied sweetness: sequential profiling and boredom tests

Oral nutrition supplements (ONS) are routinely prescribed to those with, or at risk of, malnutrition. Previous research identified poor compliance due to taste and sweetness. This paper investigates taste and hedonic liking of ONS, of varying sweetness and metallic levels, over consumption volume; an important consideration as patients are prescribed large volumes of ONS daily. A sequential descriptive profile was developed to determine the perception of sensory attributes over repeat consumption of ONS. Changes in liking of ONS following repeat consumption were characterised by a boredom test. Certain flavour (metallic taste, soya milk flavour) and mouthfeel (mouthdrying, mouthcoating) attributes built up over increased consumption volume (p 0.002). Hedonic liking data from two cohorts, healthy older volunteers (n = 32, median age 73) and patients (n = 28, median age 85), suggested such build-up was disliked. Efforts made to improve the palatability of ONS must take account of the build up of taste and mouthfeel characteristics over increased consumption volume

The Effect Demographics Have On The Demand For Orange Juice

This paper investigates how the demand for orange juice is affected by the demographics of consumers. There are many variables in the orange juice demand equation and demographics are only one. Demographic variables are important in determining the tastes and preferences of different regions. The data that has been collected is weekly data over a two year period of time. The seemingly unrelated regression method will be used to examine the data. This project will be beneficial to orange juice advertising firms and companies that sell orange juice.Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety, Marketing,

On the Functional Determination of Lexical Categories

Nous présentons d’abord des données de l’anglais et du st’át’imcets (famille salish) qui nous amènent à conclure que les racines doivent être spécifiées pour la valeur de leur catégorie lexicale, et ceci indépendamment du contexte syntaxique où elles se trouvent. Puis nous examinons la variation paramétrique entre les systèmes catégoriels de l’anglais et du st’át’imcets. En anglais, il y a une corrélation entre la catégorie fonctionnelle D (déterminant) et la présence de N, alors qu'en st’át’imcets il y a une corrélation entre D et le statut argumental d’une expression. Nous proposons que la différence principale se situe dans la nature même des noms. Dans les langues salish, tous les noms sont comptables et donc dénotent des ensembles d’individus précis. Par contre, en anglais, tous les noms sont non comptables et sont individualisés à l’aide de la catégorie fonctionnelle Num (nombre).First, we provide evidence from both English and St’át’imcets (Lillooet Salish) that roots must be inherently specified for lexical category, independently of any syntactic environment they might appear in. Then, we address the parametric difference between the English and the Salish systems: in English, the functional category Determiner seems to correlate with the presence of a noun, while in Salish, D strictly correlates with argumenthood and has no correlation with nounhood. We claim that the core difference lies in the nature of nouns. In Salish, all nouns are count nouns which denote sets of atomic individuals. In English, all nouns are mass until made otherwise by an 'individuating' Num head (ɑ)