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Muscular Dysgenesis in the Mouse (mdg/mdg)

Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology, 1977
Muscular dysgenesis (mdg/mdg), transmitted as an autosomal recessive trait in the mouse, is characterized by a total inability to contract any skeletal muscle. In addition, there is fixation of posture at multiple joints at the time of birth (arthrogryposis multiplex congenital).
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Promoting the MDGs

UN Chronicle, 2007
The 2000 UN Millennium Declaration, from which the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) emerged, focuses on development and poverty eradication, through peace and security, human rights, democracy and good governance. It identifies the fundamental values of freedom, equality, solidarity, tolerance, respect for nature and shared responsibility.
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Aid distribution and the MDGs

World Development, 2004
The United Nations and other aid agencies are calling for aid to be more than doubled so that the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) can be achieved by 2015. Unfortunately, as this paper shows, many important donors currently distribute their aid in ways that are not consistent with the MDGs.
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Formally Linking MDG and HOL Based on a Verified MDG System

2002
We describe an approach for formally linking a symbolic state enumeration system and a theorem proving system based on a verified version of the former. It has been realized using a simplified version of the MDG system and the HOL system. Firstly, we have verified aspects of correctness of a simplified version of the MDG system.
Haiyan Xiong   +3 more
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The MDGs and Beyond

2009
‘Development’ has come to mean the MDGs for many — policy-makers in particular. In this chapter we look at the evolution of the meaning of development and its relationship with the MDGs.1 We draw on recent conceptual discussions regarding the evolving notion of ‘well-being’ (as opposed to poverty, deprivation and ‘ill-being’) and ask what it adds and ...
Andy Sumner, Meera Tiwari
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Measuring Equitable MDG Progress

The European Journal of Development Research, 2014
How do we identify and highlight countries achieving equitable Millennium Development Goal (MDG) progress? The answer lies in how we measure MDG progress. The current approach focuses solely on scale. Most policymakers have focused on the size, rather than the shape of change.
Milo Vandemoortele   +2 more
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Integrating MDG variable ordering in a VHDL-MDG design verification system

2001
Thèse numérisée par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.
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Women Debate the MDGs

Development, 2005
Carol Barton reflects on the concerns of women's movements about the millennium development goals (MDGs). She argues that the MDGs can potentially be used as an instrument to advance a global feminist agenda to the extent that feminist organizations define the terms of the debate.
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Infrastructure and the MDGs

2014
The only infrastructure sectors formally covered by the MDGs are W&S and the access to phone services. With respect to access to phone services, the progress in terms of fixed telephone lines has been slow between 1990 and 2011, with only nine countries registering significant increases in their numbers.
Antonio Estache, Quentin Wodon
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