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Cambridge.University.Press.A.Clinicians.Guide.to.Statistics.and.Epidemiology.in.Mental.Health.Measuring.Truth.and.Uncertainty.Jul.2009.pdf

... of handling measurement bias.Randomization is the best means of addressing confounding bias, and blinding the meansfor measurement bias. While blinding is important, it is not as important as ... outcomes as well as the usual careful rating and assess-ment of outcomes (as opposed to retrospective assessment of outcomes as is commonly thecase in chart reviews, for instance).Levels II and ... as important as randomization.Confounding bias is much more prominent and multivaried than measurement bias. Clin-icians oen focus on blinding as the means of handling bias; this only addresses...

Managing people working as individuals and in groups

... and may bedisabled and hence need facilities such as variable font sizes, etc.3. Ideally, someone who has experience of designing assistive technology systems.Otherwise, someone with experience ... 8Staff selection case study 2The next stage is to try and find peop le from within the company withthe necessary skills. However, the company has expanded significantly and has few staff available. ... 2EducationalbackgroundThis may provide an indicator of the basic fundamentals that thecandidate should know and of their ability to learn. This factorbecomes increasingly irrelevant as engineers gain...

Cambridge.University.Press.The.Works.of.Archimedes.Volume.1.The.Two.Books.On.the.Sphere.and.the.Cylinder.Translation.and.Commentary.May.2004.pdf

... expression may become even more concise, e.g.:AsAistoB,CtoD,AsAtoB,CtoD.6introduction And that it may have more complex syntax, especially:A has to B the same ratio as C has to D, A has toBagreater ... of arrangement and propor-tion. To compound the difﬁculty, 250 years later the same manuscript was verycarefully read by Andreas Coner, a Renaissance humanist. Coner erased many of Moerbeke’s ... ongoing commonstudy – and as a token of my gratitude.ACKNOWLEDGMENTSWork on this volume was begun as I was a Research Fellow at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, continued as a Fellow at the...

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Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 1.1

... more binding and comprehensive regulation of both greenhouse gasemissions and adaptation measures, like that in the United Kingdom●Matching climate policy with that for disasters and introducing ... literature and media as a major driver (and effect) of climate change and of globalwarming in particular.Indeed, since the Industrial Revolution the mean sur-face temperature of Earth has increased ... for more investment ofhuman and pecuniary resources in Earth scienceresearch – a unique source of data enrichment and knowl-edge bases as well as better understanding of the yetpoorly or insufﬁciently...

Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 1.2

... the increasing intensity and fre-quency of natural disasters and extreme weatherevents (Srinivas and Nakagawa, 2008; Smithet al., 2009) . The rate of increase of disasters as well as the numbers ... of disasters’ (Helmer and Hilhorst, 2006, p. 2). Thus, as the intensity and frequency of disasters increases, it becomes arequirement for DRR and CCA also to increase resi-lience (Helmer and ... intensity and severity of extreme events. The disaster relief com-munity has great experience with droughts, ﬂoods,heat waves and cyclones, but only recently havedisaster scholars and practitioners...

Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 1.3

... scholars, and increase collaboration betweenthe young and the seasoned within academicinstitutions, development and relief organiz-ations and government. We see this path,embedded in adaptive and ... Geneva,Switzerland.ISDR, 2009. Global Assessment Report on Disaster RiskReduction: Risk and Poverty in a Changing Climate.United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland.Janssen, M. A. and Anderies, J. ... Community-based disaster prepa-redness and climate adaptation: local capacity-building in the Philippines. Disasters, 30(1).81–101.Anderson, M. B. and Woodrow, P. J., 1998. Rising fromthe Ashes....

Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 1.4

... discussion).Speciﬁcally, if one looks at the increasing activityin the basin the increase has occurred in the east-ernmost part of the basin, far from land. Theactivity in areas where landfall takes placeshows ... damages. Logically, thechances that a landfalling storm was missedincreases as one goes further back in time.However, the general convention is to assumethat all landfalling hurricanes have been ... curiosities stand out.The 54 years prior to 1954 saw 21 of 54 years(39 per cent) with zero or one landfall, whereasTABLE 1 Correlations between various measures of activity,US landfalls and damageHurricanes...

Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 1.5

... http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/physics/pdf/0611/0611107v1.pdf.Owens,B.F.andLandsea,C.W.,2003.Assessingthe skill of operational Atlantic seasonal tropicalcyclone forecasts. Weather and Forecasting,18.45–54.Pielke, R. A. Jr, 2005. Hurricanes and global ... doi:10.1038/nature04477.Landsea, C. W., 2007. Counting Atlantic TropicalCyclones back to 1900. EOS, 88. 197 and 202.Lonfat, M., Boissonnade, A. and Muir-Wood, R., 2007.Atlantic Basin, US and Caribbean landfall ... increased by4 per cent per year since 2005, leading to a 12.5 percent increase in the normalized data from the 2005baseline. 2006 had no hurricane landfalls, and thusno damage. 2007 had one landfall,...

Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 2.1

... arrangements such as insurance may contribute to the adaptationof societies to increasing risk and enhance econ-omic resilience to disasters (Mills and Lecompte,2006; Botzen and van den Bergh, ... ﬁres in Australia in 2009 killed over 200 people and damaged largepieces of land with devastating effects on wildlife.The sharp increase in tempo and severity of therecent disasters made some ... Economics and Business Administration & Institute for EnvironmentalStudies, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The NetherlandsNatural disasters have increased in frequency and severity during the last...

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