One view is that the literacy rate has risen from 72% to 90% in the last 30 years. According to the 2005 Functional Literacy‚ Education‚ and Mass Media Survey conducted by the National Statistics Office (NSO)‚ 48.4 million or 84% of the estimated 57.6 million Filipinos who are 10 to 64 years old are said to be "functionally" literate (Source: "8 out of 10 Filipinos are functionally literate" by D. Pepito‚ TODAY newspaper‚ February 17‚ 2005). Functional literacy was found to be higher in females
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BIRTH ORDER AND AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR ABSTRACT The purpose of this research is to determine if birth order correlates to a demonstration of aggressiveness in kindergarten aged children. It is hypothesized that middle born children will demonstrate the most aggressive tendencies‚ last born children would experience less than the first born‚ and only children would have the least when compared to all other birth orders. This quasi-experimental methodology will involve a field study of children from
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Effects of Raising Interest Rates If a central bank increases the base rate‚ this tends to increase all major interest rates in the economy. This means interest rates for both savers and borrowers will increase. Higher interest rates will have various economic effects: 1. Increases the cost of borrowing. Interest payments on credit cards and loans will be more expensive. Therefore this discourages people from borrowing and saving. People who already have loans will have less disposable income
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No More Pesky Learning Rates Tom Schaul Sixin Zhang Yann LeCun Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University 715 Broadway‚ New York‚ NY 10003‚ USA schaul@cims.nyu.edu zsx@cims.nyu.edu yann@cims.nyu.edu arXiv:1206.1106v2 [stat.ML] 18 Feb 2013 Abstract The performance of stochastic gradient descent (SGD) depends critically on how learning rates are tuned and decreased over time. We propose a method to automatically adjust multiple learning rates so as to minimize the expected
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Hormonal birth control is a widely used and accepted method for avoiding unwanted pregnancies. Obviously‚ averting pregnancy is of huge value to the female population‚ however realising the possible impact on your body is of importance also. Hormones effect the entire female body in an unnatural way. Inevitably‚ this leads to a range of negative side effects and increased risk of disease. However‚ the safe and responsible publicity and reputation causes many women to undertake these hormonal changes
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Birth control has always been a controversial topic in America. There are people who believe that it does more harm than good for women‚ while others think the complete opposite. Even though there have been some medical down sides to birth control there have been more positive outcomes from the legalization such as independence from men. Birth control started a movement for women in America and because of the movement‚ women now are able to take control of their bodies and have the power to choose
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an operating loss carryback and carryforward. 6. Account for an operating loss carryback. 7. Account for an operating loss carryforward. 8. Apply intraperiod tax allocation. 9. Classify deferred tax liabilities and assets. 19-1 SYNOPSIS Overview and Definitions 1. Significant differences normally exist between a company’s pretax financial income and taxable income because generally accepted accounting principles are used to measure pretax financial income while
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Bonds 6) Sun co.’s bonds‚ maturing in 7 years‚ pay 8% interest on a $1‚000 face value. However‚ interest is paid semi-annually. If your required rate of return is 10%‚ what is the value of the bond? How would your answer change if the interest were paid annually? 7) Sharp Co. bonds are selling in the market for $1‚045. These 15 year bonds pay 7% interest annually on a $1‚000 par value. If they are purchased at the market price‚ what is the expected rate of return? 8) You own a bond that pays
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Prayer Before Birth By: Louis MacNeice Context Written during the Second World War‚ more specifically in 1944. During 1944 London was being bombed to a large extent and as such it was a time of fear for the future. Content An unborn child expresses its fear of what the world can do to the innocent. It does this through the form of a prayer (possibly to God) in which it pleas to be preserved from the dangers that future on earth might hold‚ including its own corruption
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Birth control has many different uses and purposes that can benefit the overall life of the user. Of course‚ one of the main reasons that women get birth control is to prevent pregnancy. It is a good reason to get because there has been a substantial decline of teen pregnancies‚ with the rate dropping by 57 percent between 1991 and 2013. If a teen does not use any form of birth control‚ there is an eighty-five percent chance that they will get pregnant within a year‚ and anything is better than that
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