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81University of the Philippines Information Technology Training Center — The University of the Philippines Information Technology Training Center or UP ITTC is a program of the University of the Philippines together with the Japan International Cooperation Agency or JICA. The UP ITTC strives to accomplish the… …
82The New Zealand Institute — Not to be confused with the Royal Society of New Zealand, known as the New Zealand Institute until 1933. The New Zealand Institute is a privately funded think tank based in Auckland, New Zealand. It was set up in July 2004 and is committed to… …
83Economy of the People's Republic of China — Economies of Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau are administered separately from the rest of People s Republic of China. Therefore, the information below pertains only to mainland China unless specified otherwise. For the… …
84Health care reform in the United States — ] Current estimates put U.S. health care spending at approximately 16% of GDP. [http://www.cms.hhs.gov/NationalHealthExpendData/25 NHE Fact Sheet.asp#TopOfPage National Health Expenditure Data: NHE Fact Sheet, ] Centers for Medicare and Medicaid… …
85Estate tax in the United States — This article is about Estate tax in the United States. For other countries, see Inheritance tax. Part of a series on Taxation Taxation in the United States …
86Netherlands, The — officially Kingdom of The Netherlands byname Holland Country, northwestern Europe. Area: 16,033 sq mi (41,526 sq km). Population (2002 est.): 16,142,000. Capital: Amsterdam; Seat of Government: The Hague. Most of the people are Dutch. Languages:… …
87Singular value decomposition — Visualization of the SVD of a 2 dimensional, real shearing matrix M. First, we see the unit disc in blue together with the two canonical unit vectors. We then see the action of M, which distorts the disk to an ellipse. The SVD decomposes M into… …
88Gift tax in the United States — A gift tax is a tax imposed on the gratuitous transfer of ownership of property.The tax is generally imposed on the donor (the giver) rather than on the recipient. A transfer is completely gratuitous where the donor receives nothing of value in… …
89Domestic policy of the Harper government — Several policies regarding interior and domestic issues in Canada were planned and adopted by the Canadian Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, following the January 23, 2006 election of the Conservative Party to a minority of seats …
90Private equity in the 21st century — relates to one of the major periods in the history of private equity and venture capital. Within the broader private equity industry, two distinct sub industries, leveraged buyouts and venture capital experienced growth along parallel although… …
