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But the falling price of laptops, more computers in public schools and libraries and the newest generation of cellphones and hand-held devices that connect to the Internet have all contributed to closing the divide, Internet experts say.

Index, Balderton, Accel, Partech and the other VC firms who are looking at French startups have all greatly contributed to closing France's funding gap over the past two years.

Focusing on three pillars - improving the normative framework, capacity building, and prevention – the project has contributed to closing the gap between what is written in the law and the actual practice.

A number of studies have already contributed to closing the gap in research on how health care networks should be structured and managed; such as Lin [ 8], van Raak et al. [ 9], D'Amour et al. [ 10], and McInnes et al. [ 11].

From Q3 2012 to Q4 2012, Google Play revenue doubled, in a large part due to increases from Japan and South Korea, which, combined, contributed to close to half of Google Play revenue in Q4.

This project has contributed to close to a thousand peer-reviewed publications and a growing portfolio of US and international funded efforts expanding the use of these tools in new medical computing applications every year.

(Clinician/researcher, Zimbabwe) Government officials also gave researchers other tasks, such as drawing up operational plans, training and supervision, which contributed to close working relationships.

This article contributes to closing this gap by applying the social vulnerability index (SoVI®) in Brazil.

This paper contributes to closing a knowledge gap on gender, entrepreneurship and development by linking the entrepreneurial productivity to start-up capital and skills.

The paper concludes that a division of responsibilities for implementation of globally agreed to ocean programmes between UN agencies and RIOs could contribute to closing the implementation gap.

To contribute to closing this gap, this study applies a methodology for exploring complex linkages between ecosystem services and human wellbeing.