Six telecommunications companies have formed a consortium to build a submarine cable system linking Malaysia, Singapore, India and Sri Lanka with the Middle East, which could boost data connectivity significantly in the region as operators expand their data offerings to boost earnings.
The first mass balance data from this region are now presented.
The goal is to amass a consistent set of data across a broad geographic region and sense it periodically to develop temporal data sets.
Moreover, girls are less likely than boys to complete this level of schooling in a large majority of countries in the region reporting data.
If CapRock can grab just 5% of the local telephone and data market in the region it has targeted, says Thompson, it will have a billion-dollar business.
The report provides analysis by industry and geographic region as well as data on premium pay, stock ownership guidelines, perquisites and benefits, and board composition and structure.
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In Asia, stocks across the region climbed after Chinese data showed the economy expanded 7.9% in the fourth quarter from a year earlier, fueling optimism that the worst may be over for the world's No. 2 economy.
Some of the main concerns that emerged were that existing data and monitoring systems in the region are perceived to be inadequate and weak and that stakeholders, the public, and even decision makers need to be better involved.
It recently launched in Dubai a mobile cloud center which will provide a variety of cloud and data center services to companies in the region.
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Its critics tend to be U.S. economists who play down the idea that workers en masse need to move from one sector or one region to another, citing data that unemployment in most sectors of the U.S. economy has risen significantly during the crisis.
The study was unique in that it focused on a less developed region of the world and included data over an extensive period of time.
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The authors say they are confident that the data from Byrd Station is representative of the region because the scientific outpost sits on a plateau and conditions are essentially uniform for a considerable distance.
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Our data consistently shows Web site response times vary from region to region based on the physical location of a cloud server machine.
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This means that the data from storm-to-storm, and region-to-region, may be inconsistent and needs to be corrected and normalized with present-day knowledge and standardized categories.
According to historical weather data, the level of precipitation for this particular region of Venezuela has been a consistent zero inches for the past several days.
"Providing there are no further setbacks to the region's debt crisis, these data add to the expectation that the euro zone is on course to return to growth by mid-2013, " he said.
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Daniel Blomquist, a Kauffman Fellow and Principal at Creandum, compiled the data below regarding the venture capital ecosystem in the Nordic region.
Stocks across the region took their cue from the disappointing official data, but the more positive data from HSBC, which came out later in the day, prompted some markets to turn positive.
"The mere expectation that the amendment to the Forest Law and its consequent weakening would be approved set off a disturbing wave of renewed deforestation in the Amazon region, as has been unequivocally demonstrated by data recently released by the Brazilian Space Research Institute (INPE), " they write.
Upbeat economic data from Singapore and Australia added to investor confidence in the region.
The researchers will leverage a first-of-its-kind learning and predictive analytics tool called the IBM Traffic Prediction Tool (TPT), developed by IBM Research, which continuously analyzes congestion data, commuter locations and expected travel start times throughout a metropolitan region that can affect commuters on highways, rail-lines and urban roads.
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Spanning the San Francisco Bay Area Region, the new Smarter Traveler research initiative collects and analyzes traffic data generated from existing sensors in roads, toll booths, bridges and intersections.
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For economic news, on Tuesday gross domestic product data from the eurozone area will be released and is likely to show the region is in recession, confirming what most people already suspect.
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Drawing on Department of Health data, the document says the South West has the oldest population of any region across England, yet the number of qualified nurses, midwives and health visitors is below the national average.
Separate figures, compiled by the Local Data Company (LDC), suggested the proportion of shops lying empty increased in every region in Britain bar London between January and June.
Other data shows a modest rebound in factory activity in the U.S. mid-Atlantic region.
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The Sub-Saharan region faces several challenges, including poor understanding of groundwater regimes and poor and inadequate data and information.
Last March, I visited the Germana Gale Health Post in the Dalocha region of Ethiopia, where I saw charts of immunizations, malaria cases and other data plastered to its walls.
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