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However, the notion of a growing market of consumers responding on a frequent basis to a daily stream of discounted [...]

[...] [...] reservation, the addition of the author to the number of contracting [...] [...]

UNODC estimates that cannabis continues to dominate the world’s illicit drug markets in terms of the pervasiveness of cultivation, volume of production and number of consumers.

The number of contributors and the size [...] [...]

[...] the SRA is being charged and credited with amounts which do not impact upon [...] [...]

[...] [...] stakeholders and the fact that said stocks can change based on the situation in the market, their size cannot be determined or even estimated.

[...] the thousands of victims felled, the widening [...] [...]

[...] under most objects of expenditure, including $242,800 under consultants, mainly as a consequence of the increased use of in-house expertise, where possible; $104,700 under experts, resulting mainly from concerted efforts to combine meetings or reduce the number of experts and the duration of meetings, whenever possible; $121,200 under travel of staff, mainly attributable to increased utilization of video conferencing, combining trips and/or reducing the duration of travel as much as possible; $460,800 under contractual services, primarily owing to increased utilization of electronic means of disseminating publications; $111,000 under furniture and equipment, reflecting reduced requirements for the replacement of furniture and office equipment resulting from extending the lifespan of furniture and equipment; and $781,600 under grants and contributions, mainly owing to the termination of the contract with the International Computing Centre.

[...] [...] 2010–2011, which he estimates could amount to some $1,148,739,700, [...] [...]

[...] universalisation actors continues to [...] [...]

[...] [...] and policy-makers to enact the right of universal online access to public and government-held records, to identify and promote repositories of information and knowledge in the public domain and to make them accessible to all, as well as to undertake the preservation and digitization of public domain [...]

The meeting strongly welcomed the advances in results-based programming which should, nonetheless, be further strengthened and refined with a view to achieving a better balance between qualitative and quantitative indicators, complementarity with the expected outcomes of the Medium-Term Strategy and coherence between expected outcomes, expected results, as well as monitoring instruments and reporting standards.

Participants from S&T related institutions in Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, and Turkey recommended the creation of a regional network in SEE on policy-relevant S&T statistics and indicators, as base for elaborating and implementing collaborative projects, capacity-building, training, exchange of information and strengthening the relations with the national S&T policy-making bodies and other authorities, and also increasing the awareness of the societies at large.

The report currently before the Advisory Committee (A/64/532) provides an update on the status of the implementation of the standardized access control project and revised estimates under the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2010–2011, drawing on the outcome of the report of the Independent Panel and the management review of the Department of Safety and Security.

In its first report on the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2010–2011 (A/64/7, chap. II, para. IV.59), the Advisory Committee recommended that, without prejudice to its consideration of the detailed proposed programme budget for ITC for the biennium 2010–2011, the General Assembly should take note of the resources proposed in the preliminary budget estimate, including the requests for 19 new posts (1 D-1, 5 P-5, 8 P-4, 2 P-3 and 3 P-2) and the abolition of two General Service (Other level) posts.

Introducing the Advisory Committee’s report on the revised security management framework and revised estimates relating to section 5 of the programme budget for the biennium 2010-2011 (A/65/575), she said that, in section I of its report, the Advisory Committee discussed the revised framework for accountability for the United Nations security management system, which reflected the change in organizational culture from a “when to leave” to a “how to stay” mindset and acknowledged for the first time that continued programme delivery meant that there would always be some residual risk.

However, these programmes often did not work as projected since they did not create net employment but simply reduced the number of permanent well-paying jobs with temporary low-paying jobs.

Designers and manufacturers of 802.11ac [...] [...]

[...] survey of fabric designers in the United Kingdom, 80% of respondents said they always [...] [...]

[...] project document or plan should include [...] [...]

The huge non-formal education sector in Bangladesh, the very rapid growth in the number of private education providers at all levels, the many and different levels of formal educational facilities with their own curriculum have made it urgent that equivalency education be another area of top priority.

[...] [...] the software designer will have to provide [...] [...]

[...] [...] provides RF designers with more options to achieve longer battery life, enabling mobile [...] [...]

[...] [...] disseminate statistics as well as to produce timely and high quality statistics that can be utilized for economic and social development planning, and to assist [...] [...]

[...] [...] the rise in the numbers of mine victims and [...] [...]

In the framework of the partnership, the assistance provided to children at risk has developed considerably, the relevant centres have been created and developed, and the number of child protection workers has been increased.