The document, described by a UN source as a preliminary report, is a snapshot in time of the sexual abuse of children, suspected of taking place at the hands of soldiers in the peacekeeping mission.
What emerges through a preliminary analysis is a snapshot of an incoherent system in which prices for critical medical services vary seemingly at random -- from state to state, region to region and hospital to hospital.
This preliminary research has taken a snapshot approach to identifying sensory characteristics that may differentiate varieties considered by consumers to be premium and those considered to be second best in their respective countries.
This preliminary study represents an ecological snapshot of the amphioxus population in the Racou beach because the collection of animals was performed uniquely during April and June 2008, a period extremely important in the amphioxus life cycle since it lies at the beginning of the natural spawning season [9].
The preliminary report offers a first snapshot of the survey findings.
Only 40 clones were sequenced per habitat in this preliminary study, to obtain the first snapshot estimate of the fungal Orders present in these two habitat types.
Officials say it has already undergone revisions, but is a snapshot of an important, but preliminary stage, in a comprehensive process that translates broad ideas into the detailed, step-by-step blueprint for combat operations that the Pentagon defines as a "war plan".
It is a snapshot of a new, unresolved conflict, based on preliminary information from the Defense Department, which in some ways is hard to compare with the rich history of a war that stretched out over more than a decade and claimed more than 52,000 American lives.
In a separate report that provided an early snapshot of what consumers might be doing this month, the University of Michigan's preliminary index of consumer sentiment jumped to a reading of 83.2 from a nine-year low of 77.6 in March.
The first is a 90-day task force looking to obtain a "quick snapshot" of the situation, said Executive Director for Operations Bill Borchardt, with a preliminary report to be released in 60 days.
