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Labor Migration from Myanmar: Remittances, Reforms, and Challenges

Having emerged from a long era of military rule, Myanmar's leaders and many citizens are looking outward. In particular, with Burmese labor migration abroad on the rise, policymakers are examining ways in which to harness remittances as a vehicle for economic development, particularly in impoverished rural areas. This article explores Burmese labor migration flows, financial reforms, and challenges on migration and development.




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Japan’s Labor Migration Reforms: Breaking with the Past?

Japan is hoping to bring in as many as 350,000 medium-skilled foreign workers over five years to fill labor market gaps in its rapidly aging society. Yet does this system of Specified Skilled Workers represent an effort to secure a workforce without making long-term settlement possible? And considering its linkage to a Technical Intern Training Program much criticized for abusive practices, does this change represent real reform? This article examines these and other issues.




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How repaying loans with social service transforms communities | Angie Murimirwa

What if you could repay loans through volunteering and mentorship instead of money? Activist Angie Murimirwa shares how a game-changing economic tool known as "social interest" is reinvigorating sub-Saharan communities once trapped in cycles of poverty. Join her as she explains how this approach to lending is creating opportunities for thousands of African women and girls -- and shows why this model can be replicated anywhere with lasting effects.




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Nevada forms panel to help develop plan to reopen schools




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Nevada forms panel to help develop plan to reopen schools




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Nevada forms panel to help develop plan to reopen schools




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California Reforms Accountability

California just made school accountability much more complicated. And that's good.




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Mobile elevating work platforms (MEWP) guidelines.




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Diabetes : its various forms and different treatments / by George Harley.

London : Walton & Maberly, 1866.




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The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species / by Charles Darwin.

London : J. Murray, 1877.




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Diseases in animals (tick fever) : progress report on teh reproductive forms of the micro-organism of tick fever, with some observations on the relationships and nomenclature of that disease (16th December, 1897) / by J. Sidney Hunt.

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1897?]




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Epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis and its relation to other forms of meningitis : a report to the State Board of Health of Massachusetts / Report made by W.T. Councilman, F.B. Mallory, and J.H. Wright.

Boston : Wright & Potter Printing Co, 1898.




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Kymatio: Scattering Transforms in Python

The wavelet scattering transform is an invariant and stable signal representation suitable for many signal processing and machine learning applications. We present the Kymatio software package, an easy-to-use, high-performance Python implementation of the scattering transform in 1D, 2D, and 3D that is compatible with modern deep learning frameworks, including PyTorch and TensorFlow/Keras. The transforms are implemented on both CPUs and GPUs, the latter offering a significant speedup over the former. The package also has a small memory footprint. Source code, documentation, and examples are available under a BSD license at https://www.kymat.io.




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Variance Prior Forms for High-Dimensional Bayesian Variable Selection

Gemma E. Moran, Veronika Ročková, Edward I. George.

Source: Bayesian Analysis, Volume 14, Number 4, 1091--1119.

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Consider the problem of high dimensional variable selection for the Gaussian linear model when the unknown error variance is also of interest. In this paper, we show that the use of conjugate shrinkage priors for Bayesian variable selection can have detrimental consequences for such variance estimation. Such priors are often motivated by the invariance argument of Jeffreys (1961). Revisiting this work, however, we highlight a caveat that Jeffreys himself noticed; namely that biased estimators can result from inducing dependence between parameters a priori . In a similar way, we show that conjugate priors for linear regression, which induce prior dependence, can lead to such underestimation in the Bayesian high-dimensional regression setting. Following Jeffreys, we recommend as a remedy to treat regression coefficients and the error variance as independent a priori . Using such an independence prior framework, we extend the Spike-and-Slab Lasso of Ročková and George (2018) to the unknown variance case. This extended procedure outperforms both the fixed variance approach and alternative penalized likelihood methods on simulated data. On the protein activity dataset of Clyde and Parmigiani (1998), the Spike-and-Slab Lasso with unknown variance achieves lower cross-validation error than alternative penalized likelihood methods, demonstrating the gains in predictive accuracy afforded by simultaneous error variance estimation. The unknown variance implementation of the Spike-and-Slab Lasso is provided in the publicly available R package SSLASSO (Ročková and Moran, 2017).




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Post-crisis international financial regulatory reforms: a primer

This paper reviews post-crisis financial regulatory reforms, examines how they fit together and identifies open issues. Specifically, it takes stock of the salient new features of bank and CCP international standards within a unified analytical framework.




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A fresh look at classical dance forms – Telegraph India

A fresh look at classical dance forms  Telegraph India



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Human Traffickers Continue to Use Popular Online Platforms to Recruit Victims




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Zoey Roy first Indigenous author to participate in NAC's #CanadaPerforms

Last month, the National Arts Centre launched #CanadaPerforms, an initiative that pays musicians and writers to perform from their living rooms. Poet Zoey Roy gave an intimate performance from her living room in Kingston. 




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Post-crisis international financial regulatory reforms: a primer

Bank for International Settlements BIS Working Papers by Claudio Borio, Marc Farag and Nikola Tarashev




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God transforms a family

A woman and her husband accept the Lord after hearing the gospel from an OM team visiting the island of Sante Marie.




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Baseball transforms lives and communities

The impact of baseball as an outreach tool is growing far beyond the first teams that began nine years ago in Érd.




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Timeline: Party Platforms & Charter Schools

A look at the two major political parties' platforms since the first charter school law was passed shows how Democrats' positions on school choice have evolved, including increased calls for accountability.




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Special Education Reforms at Center of New Settlement Agreements

The Berkeley, Calif. school district and the state of Ohio have said they will do more to provide services and to ensure students with disabilities are educated in inclusive settings.




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Developers Can Now Sell One App for All Mac/iOS Platforms

Buy a universal purchase app for macOS or iOS and use it across all your devices on all Apple platforms including iPadOS, tvOS, and watchOS devices.




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Twitter and Facebook Are Publishers, Not Platforms

Social networks are calling themselves platforms rather than publishers to skirt around legal issues, and it has to stop.




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Schuylkill Speaks: Eric Thompson transforms tragedy into life of service

Penn State Schuylkill biology student Eric Thompson will graduate with honors on May 9. After surviving pediatric cancer in his early teens, Thompson has transformed a tragic situation into a passion to help people. This fall, he will embark on a new academic journey at Thomas Jefferson University’s Sidney Kimmel Medical College, where he will commit himself to earning his M.D. and delivering medical expertise to underserved communities.




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Facebook versus Others: Social network losing sheen to native content platforms

With TikTok, Dailyhunt, ShareChat and even OTT players Zee5, Amazon Prime and Hoichoi letting users post, watch and share content in the language of their choice, few are spending considerable time on Facebook.




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Netflix, Eros Now, other OTT platforms tie up with airlines to tap large user base

OTT platforms are partnering with travel agencies, airlines and cruises to tap on-the-go audiences




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Why new-age publishers are partnering with affiliate platforms

Online publishers often lack the knowledge and familiarity to leverage online tools to monetise content




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Ed-tech platforms cash in on pandemic; posts surge in users and time spent

As per a report by BARC India and Nielsen, there has been a 30% increase in the time spent on education apps on smartphones since the lockdown




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FormsAuthentication.SignOut in ASP.Net MVC

Here Mudassar Ahmed Khan has explained with an example, how to use FormsAuthentication.SignOut method for implementing Logout functionality in ASP.Net MVC Razor. This User Login form will be implemented using Custom Forms Authentication and Entity Framework in ASP.Net MVC Razor.




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Implement Login and Registration forms in ASP.Net MVC

Here Mudassar Ahmed Khan has explained with an example, how to build a simple user Registration and Login forms in ASP.Net MVC Razor. The user Registration and Login forms will be built using SQL Server Database. The Database connection and operations for user Registration and Login forms will be performed using Entity Framework in ASP.Net MVC Razor.




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Use Coronavirus crisis to push reforms: PM Modi tells CMs

Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat said businesses should start operations in a phased manner, after taking precautionary measures.




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Fresh infusion: Jio Platforms gets $750 million from PE firm Silver Lake

The Silver Lake infusion values it at an equity value of Rs 4.90 lakh crore.




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BMW 8 Series Gran Coupé, M8 Coupé to launch in India on digital platforms tomorrow

BMW 8 Series line-up will be positioned above the 6 Series Gran Coupe and will come in two variants - the 840i Gran Coupe and the M8 Coupe.




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Thailand Extends Visa Reforms to Chinese and Indians Visitors

Acting on the proposal of Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn, Tourism Minister Thailand The cabinet resolved for extending the fee waiver on visit visas in respect of visitors of India, China, and other countries. The program has a run beyond October 31 2019 until…




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Denmark new reforms to international recruitment

Denmark government along with the opposition party leaders have achieved political agreement to improve the nations international recruitment policy, which will facilitate the county’s enterprises to have easy access to highly qualified professionals…




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How to Set Up an NDK Project to Compile for Multiple Target Platforms

  Golden Hammer Software took a trip earlier this year to New York to attend the Intel Android CodeFest.  We updated Big Mountain Snowboarding, Trick Shot Bowling, and Scribble Worm to run natively...




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Tutorial: How to implement H.265/HEVC for Intel Atom Based Android Platforms

  The H.265/HEVC standard is becoming more and more popular in the mobile market. Online video providers, mobile Internet users, and broadcast/TV operators are the beneficiaries of this new video revolu...




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Slow auto sales due to govt indecision; let sector reforms flip-flop not kill the industry

One of the reasons is bunching together of several regulatory changes announced by the government in a very short span of time without realising their full implication, a classic case of ‘reform for reform’s sake’.




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Test-prep platforms start online live classes

TIME, the test-prep institute, has started online courses. These include CLAT + IPM, BBA and CAT etc.




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Vista Equity Partners to invest Rs 11,367 crore in Jio Platforms

The rise in Jio’s ARPU (average revenue per user) during Q4FY20 was lacklustre, analysts said despite the fairly sharp 14-53% hike in tariffs in early December.





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Kenya Treasury chief ramps up reforms to grow investment

Kenya’s cabinet secretary for the national treasury and planning, Ukur Yatani, discusses the country’s agenda of fiscal reforms and the importance of constructing an east-west Africa highway.




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Reforms could unlock African development, reports McKinsey

Continued African development could hinge on public finance reforms.




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Insight – Industry 4.0 transforms prospects for Australian manufacturing

Across the world, the pace of innovation is increasing and transforming the way services are delivered and goods produced.




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Updated: What the Proposed US Energy Tax Reforms Mean for Renewables

For those clamoring for (and against) the year-end-expiring legislation, and anyone in favor of some tax-code simplification, today the government has offered an early holiday present: proposed reform for some key areas including the production tax credit (PTC) and investment tax credit (ITC).




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Further Reforms to Compulsory Purchase

Many of the reforms to the compulsory purchase system that were first consulted on back in 2015 are finally being implemented. However, the introduction of these measures has been complicated by the fact that they are split between the Housing and P...




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Lawbite: The takeover of 5G – proposed reforms to permitted development rights

In August 2019, the Government consulted on the principle of amending permitted development rights in England to grant planning permission for mobile infrastructure to support deployment of 5G and extend mobile coverage. The Government is committed ...




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Licensing reforms - Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill

The Government's proposed changes to the licensing regime established under the Licensing Act 2003 ('the Act') are set out in the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill ('the Bill'). The amendments which are expected to be implemented will imp...