Location and climate have large effects on income levels and income growth through their effects on transport costs, disease burdens, and agricultural productivity, among other channels. Geog-raphy also seems to affect economic policy choices. Many geographic regions that have not been conducive

Abstract There is growing incentive to reduce the power consumed by large-scale data centers that host online services such as banking, retail commerce, and gaming. Virtualization is a promising approach to consolidating multiple online services onto a smaller number of computing resources. A

Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 1 hour per response, including the time for reviewing instruction, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of information. Send comments

resolution land surface monitoring. These higher order data products have been designed to remove the burden of certain common types of data processing from the user community and meet the more general needs of global-to-regional monitoring, modeling, and assess-ment. The near-daily coverage of moderate

I am perhaps not the only one who feels that the concept of scaffolding has become so broad in its meanings in the field of educational research and the learning sciences that it has become unclear in its significance. Perhaps the field has put too much of a burden on the term, and we need a more

reimplementation of common workflows and ad-hoc selection of parameters such as price to pay per task. We describe how we have integrated crowds into a declarative workflow engine called Qurk to reduce the burden on workflow designers. In this paper, we focus on how to use humans to compare items for sorting

and warmth can be a powerfully therapeutic family intervention as well (Jacelon, Connelly, Brown, Prouix, & Vo, 2004). Human touch and humor can also be very powerful ways of being with persons with dementia, when used appropriately. Family members need to balance their multiple demands

THE ECONOMIES of eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union (FSU) escaped communism with a heavy burden. When central planning collapsed, they continued to suffer from widespread political control of economic activity. Such politicization had to be reduced significantly for small business formation

Powerful Tools for Caregivers (PTC) is a psychoeduca- ■ tional programme grounded in the model of self-ef-fi cacy. PTC is designed for caregivers of persons with chronic illness for the purpose of teaching manage-ment of emotions, effective communication and deci-sion-making skills. The programme

proposes to empower users with more powerful data finding tools, such as unified search spaces, provenance, and ranked file system search. By returning the responsibility of file management to the file system, we enable scientists to focus on their science without the need for a customized file