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However, the key thing to note about pre-electoral coalitions is that they can affect the probability that a party gets to enter government.
We'll lose about a fifth of our farmers.
The size of this effect is about the same as that of decentralization.
Do you expect the national economy to get better, get worse, or stay about the same?
We summarize our main findings in conclusion and discuss their contribution to the debate about the influence of issue preferences on the voter's decision.
Nonetheless, a few words about our methods are in order.
On one hand, partisanship is an enduring attribute, among the most central and most stable beliefs people hold about politics.
Uncertainty about campaign finance is added to all the other uncertainties in his or her world.
The changes made in conference were, however, more about style than substance.
Retailers also had to confront changing beliefs about the purpose of bankruptcy law.
The main result about model families is the following.
The findings have implications for normative questions about 'dialogue' in campaigns and for theories of candidate strategy.
The negotiation process about the distribution of ministerial portfolios started next.
What can we say about the reasons why people adhered to the new churches ?
One explanation is that the debate concerning the ownership of specialist health care came about partly at the same time as the patient's rights debate.
Decisions about subject and institution might reflect an assessment of one's biographical liabilities rather than one's academic interests.
Arguments about women's provision for other women, in their own and distinctive sphere, provided the main successful route.
The purpose of this review, however, is not to indulge in speculation about the future.
There are two striking facts about this passage which explain why it ought to be regarded as an important clue for our purposes.
There was a standing watch of about 2,000 men bearing cresset lights, and a marching watch of another 2,000 in harness.
In part this reflected the lack of immediacy about the issue.
To answer this, we need first to think about how we know whether something works, or not.
A recent controversy between the private companies and the government has been about value added tax.
The mean volume of daily sewage flow at this sewage plant was about 200 000 000 litres during the study period.
Our findings are plausible in light of current knowledge about transmission of meningococcal disease.
Although most of what is known about the acquisition of salmonellosis comes from investigations of outbreaks, approximately 90 % of cases are sporadic [1].
What might a moderate follower of the linguistic turn say about the writing of biographies ?
Revenues rose from about 12,000 to 13,000 xerafins in 1665, to 75,000 xerafins in 1667, to over 100,000 xerafins in 1675.
In fact, the number of patients seen for gastroenteritis and for rotavirus gastroenteritis both increased by about 25 % (data not showed).
In order to make unbiased inferences about the causal strains, a representative sample of the different strains associated with the condition should be collected.
Information about cases among injection drug user contacts was anecdotal ; epidemiologists heard of many such cases but did not record nor tabulate them.
Volunteers at vaccination sites were surveyed about risk.
Two of the chapters are about specific initiatives which are only applicable to a small number of older people.
The four sites in the present study had information about the legislation, but the amount and quality provided varied considerably.
He notes that all organisations have their politics, and says that children learn about the subject through their experiences of everyday life.
We should also note what this survey is not about.
Also, it may be that description logic classification will only play a limited role in reasoning about obstacles.
Decisions about the exact system functionality are left to the designer, who makes them in an ad hoc manner.
With unemployment very low, at about 3 per cent, it looks as if a situation of full employment, as in the early 1970s, is near.
Morally, it evokes deep-seated intuitions about 'fair reciprocity' and the 'duty of fair play'.
Further, it should enhance your practice as a health caring professional because you think deeper about the issues involved in a situation.
What are the views of men about their role in a rapidly changing world of family relationships and responsibilities?
Caring about is, therefore, as integral to it as is taking care of or being cared for.
All patients should have equal opportunities in accessing information to help them make informed decisions about their treatments.
First, the book is more about women than about gender.
In some cases, people have no choice about using up their assets if they are forced to do so in order to pay for care.
The information is not only used for extreme illnesses, but also for information about how to treat colds, or cuts and bruises.
What do we know from recent experience about the conditions under which such policies can be sustained?
Second, more sociologically informed research looks beyond statistical analysis to reveal interesting information about the contextual or situational factors that shape opinions.
They objected both on principle and because of concerns about the kinds of schemes available.
The diagnostic system is integrated with systems that display information about the structure and function of the engine.
He died, at the age of 63, about a year after the book appeared.
The ontology serves to allow the agents to communicate about the domain knowledge without any misconceptions.
The slots can contain knowledge about, for example, the configuration of the concept and its goal or purpose.
Nevertheless, we can say more about the poorest groups.
I wondered what the book would say about this context of social work practice?
They often come to consider their need for accommodation and care services as they arise and without a vast amount of knowledge about the alternatives.
I find it hard to get upset about that prospect.
The fear of a violent revolution probably played a role in convincing the ruling elite about the necessity of reform.
However, no idea is stated in the literature about an ecient way to determine the number of classes.
Detecting semantic incoherence would require one to reason about the meaning of the sentences.
In large measure this is what the struggles of the late 1940s and the 1950s were all about.
Giddens (1992) notes that these developments fit well with his theorising about the democratising of inter-personal relationships.
There was some concern and uncertainty, however, about how much money these private pensions would deliver.
In my view, it implicitly raises questions about the first, minimally addresses the second and accomplishes the last two aims rather well.
Concerns about the scandals in the 1990s led to a reluctance to invest in individual private pensions.
Almost half of all hospital inpatients are 65 or over and about one-third of these have been hospitalised for more than one year.
Uncertainty about it only makes government more important, not less.
They appear to have no qualms about policy evaluators complying with this strategy of regulation.
We distinguish two kinds of reasoning: deliberation - reasoning about what to do, and means-ends - reasoning about how to do it.
The robot's only concern here was time: it tried to minimise time consumed deliberating about what to do.
Reasoning about time and resources is at the very core of scheduling problems.
One could of course quibble about the selection.
There is much to like about this book.
We include a number of propositions about the language to clarify our presentation.
Methods to analyse, present, and reason about space requirements are needed.
If an algorithm is modeled as a function, then the user can prove lemmas about that function and use them to guide proofs.
However, to use the reduction theory to reason about evaluation, it is important to define a notion of reduction that mimics the evaluator.
Assertions in this framework are run-time assertions about the active event sequence, not all events.
Each circle retained about 2.5 ml of test substance.
You are proud of your ancestry, and you draw up a brief summary of important information about the history and culture of your ancestral country.
To design such tasks, teachers must draw on what they can learn about individual students and about specific groups of students.
Being involved in a voter project with realworld applications reinforced their need to stay informed about unfolding events.
Despite that, blues musicians wrote songs about hope for a positive future and the possibilities of a better society.
As a result, teachers prefer to talk about the value of abstract tolerance rather than about its practical limits and antinomies.
Leaders repeated instructions as often as necessary, giving detailed explanations about the importance of protocol and ethical practices.
Concerns increased about the stability of future energy supplies.
Controls were asked about water exposures in the four-week period before the interview.
Sixty-three percent of the women in the present study reported that health care personnel had informed them about breastfeeding.
The study reported here includes current and retrospective observances about prenatal care obtained through focus group methodology.
In published literature about barriers to care, influences of drug lifestyles and poor treatment in the system are documented barriers.
If you can capture those functional aspects correctly, for instance, in a computer program, then you can (re-)create what's important about mental states.
Often, the subjective gains rival the objective ones; for example, participants do tend to report fewer complaints about their memory.
In the weight study, nicotine-treated rats not only lost weight, they lost about 20% of their body fat compared to saline-treated controls.
He stressed to his visitors queries about the origins of the claustrum, its molecular biology, its role in consciousness.
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