This paper analyzes entrepreneurs in South Africa‘s informal sector. The aim is to determine the extent to which African informal retail trade spawns viable enterprises. To assess the prospects for South Africa‘s informal retail sector, questionnaires were obtained from owners of small-scale establishments in random sample taken throughout the country in 2007. Owner salary and sales data provid...

The new trends for long-life training and social activities emphasize on qualification of competence. Our objective is to improve Vocational and Educational Training and specially the process of informal learning by mixing these requirements and new technologies like Grid Computing. The European Learning Grid Infrastructure -ELeGIproject proposes to provide an architecture and some services to ...

OBJECTIVES To understand whether aviation-derived human factors training is acceptable and useful to healthcare professionals. To understand whether and how healthcare professionals have been able to implement human factors approaches to patient safety in their own area of clinical practice. METHODS Qualitative, longitudinal study using semi-structured interviews and focus groups, of a multip...

The influence of formal musical training on auditory cognition has been well established. For the majority of children, however, musical experience does not primarily consist of adult-guided training on a musical instrument. Instead, young children mostly engage in everyday musical activities such as singing and musical play. Here, we review recent electrophysiological and behavioral studies ca...

Mismatches between training and test data are a ubiquitous problem for real SMT applications. In this paper, we examine a type of mismatch that commonly arises when translating from French and similar languages: available training data is mostly formal register, but test data may well be informal register. We consider methods for defining surface transformations that map common informal languag...

The goal of this project is to (i) accumulate annotated informal/formal mathematical corpora suitable for training semi-automated translation between informal and formal mathematics by statistical machinetranslation methods, (ii) to develop such methods oriented at the formalization task, and in particular (iii) to combine such methods with learning-assisted automated reasoning that will serve ...

Six million informal carers provide support for aged and disabled people in the United Kingdom. Government policies suggest that primary care teams are the main support for carers. This postal survey of 300 general practitioners (GPs) and 272 district nurses (DNs) aimed to determine current practice and views on their role in supporting informal carers. In practice, GPs and DNs lack time, resou...

In recent years, the issue of worker training has been pushed to the forefront of public policy circles. Concerns center around the decline in real wages of less educated workers, the effect of work organization on the demand for skills in the workplace, and the question whether U.S. workers are appropriately trained to meet the challenge of changes in job requirements brought about by the intr...