The training course is based on a methodological guide and a reference manual produced by UNESCO, and was adapted to the Haitian situation by the faculty of education sciences at Quisqueya University.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

Judges now have a scientific reference manual, put out by the Federal Judicial Centre (a government agency) to help them, and can attend courses run by the centre.

ECONOMIST: Science and the courts

What Lean Analytics does is actually provide a quantifiable reference manual for those who are thinking about taking that leap into starting something new whether a company or otherwise.

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But more than that, Hopkins's father was the author of A Handbook of Average and A Manual of Marine Insurance, both standard reference books for negotiating, averaging, and adjusting the liabilities to insurance underwriters of cargo losses and shipwrecks, so Hopkins grew up in a world wet with marine accidents and was especially attentive to them.

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