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Tài liệu Conserving and Valuing Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity doc

Ngày tải lên : 17/02/2014, 17:20

... Pacific Marine Science Organization Philippine Institute for Traditional and Alternative Health Care probability mass function public and private funding unitiative payments/rewards for environmental ... Resources Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission Prelims.qxd 11/28/2008 12:25 PM Page xxvii List of Acronyms and Abbreviations xxvii IB IBSFC ICCAT ICDP ICEM ICES ICRAF ID IETA IFAD IFOAM IHRP IIED IKEA ... Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, India and Visiting Professor, Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Unai Pascual is Environmental...

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ACCOUNTING FOR CHANGES IN BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES FROM A BUSINESS PERSPECTIVE potx

Ngày tải lên : 15/03/2014, 22:20

... task of developing CSR standards fairly daunting (Bhimani and Soonawalla, 2005) Financial reporting has traditionally been the domain of national standard setting agencies, with the International ... to various ES and species and associations of organisms which not play a significant functional role This means data collecting and management that is relevant both spatially28 and across time; ... accounting and reporting standards (Biodiversity Accountability Framework - BAF), meant to foster significant technological and organizational innovations towards dynamics of co-viability between firms...

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Tài liệu Ứng dụng KIT 8051 dùng để chuyển đổi A/D-D/A, chương 14 pptx

Ngày tải lên : 24/12/2013, 14:15

... số hex sang BCD LCALL DECODE ; G i chương trình gi i mã đoạn LCALL DISPLAY – ; G i chương trình hiển thò liệu v a chuyển đ i LCALL DELAY ; G i chương trình delay MOV DPTR, #8002 ; Kiểm tra nhấn ... vào ghi B DIV AB MOV R0, A MOV A, B MOVX @DPTR, A 5008H INC DPTR chục MOV A, R0 chục, hàng trăm MOV B, #10 ghi B DIV AB MOV R0, A MOV A, B MOVX @DPTR, A 5009H ; Cất tạm A sang R0 ; Cất data đơn ... X2: LCALL CLEAR ; G i chương trình x a LCALL DISPLAY – ; Hiển thò số kênh chọn LED LCALL CHUYENDOI ; G i chương trình chuyển đ i LCALL OUT ; G i chương trình xuất D /A LCALL HEX – BCD ; G i chương...

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Tài liệu Integrating Youth-Friendly Sexual and Reproductive Health Services in Public Health Facilities: A Success Story and Lessons Learned in Tanzania ppt

Ngày tải lên : 13/02/2014, 16:20

... Representative Pathfinder International Tanzania Office i About the African Youth Alliance Project The African Youth Alliance (AYA) was an initiative implemented in Botswana, Ghana, Tanzania and Uganda ... Youth-Friendly Services (YFS) and institutional capacity building (Pathfinder International); policy and advocacy, and coordination and dissemination (UNFPA); and behavior change communication and life ... district AYA coordinators in facilitating integration of AYA activities in their district development plans Shyam Thapa (Family Health International), Palena Neale (Pathfinder International headquarters),...

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Đề tài " Higher composition laws I: A new view on Gauss composition, and quadratic generalizations " docx

Ngày tải lên : 14/03/2014, 22:20

... (primitive) binary quadratic forms of a ﬁxed discriminant D by declaring that, for all triplets of primitive quadratic forms QA , QA , QA arising from a cube A of discriminant D, The Cube Law ... nondegenerate oriented quadratic ring and (I1 , I2 , I3 ) is an equivalence class of balanced triples of oriented ideals of S such that I2 = I3 Under this bijection, the discriminant of a pair of binary ... Dynkin diagram D4 and fuse them together with vertices in between, to obtain I1 I2 I1 S S I2 I3 I3 and this is the Dynkin diagram E6 That is, the composition of alternating 3-forms in six variables,...

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THE LAW AND POLICY OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICES docx

Ngày tải lên : 15/03/2014, 19:20

... and Pollution Trading I: A Sulfurous Success and a Nutritious Failure 222 Chapter 15 Ecosystem Services and Pollution Trading II: Carbon Trading to Ameliorate Global Warming PART IV DESIGNING ... “are of esthetic, ecological, educational, historical, recreational, and scientific value to the Nation and its people.”2 And the Federal Land Policy and Management Act directs federal agencies ... Ecosystem services identified by Daily 1997 and Costanza et al 1997 Ecosystem Services Identified by Daily 1997 Ecosystem Services Identified by Costanza et al 1997 Purification of air and water...

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WATER POLLUTION Educator Guide A resource for using QUEST video, audio, blogs and maps in the classroom pot

Ngày tải lên : 15/03/2014, 23:20

... QUESTIONS • Indicator a gauge by which standards are measured Contamination the act of soiling, staining, corrupting or infecting by contact or association Sample a representative part or single item ... lobby area and it is a secure facility.” Jim Scott is the water quality lab manager for the Santa Clara Valley Water District, based in San Jose He swipes a key card to let us into the district’s ... officials are taking big steps toward cleaning up the mercury pollution in San Francisco Bay On a Sunday morning, in late April at the Berkeley Marina dozens of anglers are casting their fishing...

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Determinants of male involvement in maternal and child health services in sub-Saharan Africa: a review potx

Ngày tải lên : 22/03/2014, 12:20

... training and adequate salary support is needed Improving accessibility, affordability, availability, accommodation and acceptability (5 A s) of ANC service venues will make them more attractive ... allow men access to ANC settings [11] B Financial constraints: Financial constraints of clients and health facilities have been identified as impacting health services uptake and male participation ... determinant for the successful implementation of PMTCT guidelines/standards in SubSaharan Africa [15,16] Male participation in child-bearing decisions is crucial and also has a positive impact...

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Plan and Budget: 2013/14 Financial Services Compensation Scheme docx

Ngày tải lên : 23/03/2014, 08:21

... floor, achieving efficiencies both operationally and financially; • upgraded skills in our finance function and are making good progress in our Finance Transformation initiative; and • hosted successfully ... delivering a responsive service to claimants: we shall handle all failures and associated claims within service level agreements – meeting our obligations to claimants will remain our top priority; ... two dimensions to this The first dimension is investing in our capability to increase our operational resilience and efficiency We have already put in place a fast pay-out capability for banks,...

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Sustainable Rangelands Ecosystem Goods and Services pdf

Ngày tải lên : 23/03/2014, 08:21

... for Channel and Riparian Area Rejuvenation Historical/ Archeological Sites Fiber Flood Mitigation Scientifically Significant Sites Biofuels Water Bodies for Recreation / Tourism Recreation and ... recreation— swimming, boating, fishing Environmental x Habitat for fish and other aquatic organisms x Drinking water for wildlife x Rejuvenation of channels and riparian areas via sediment transport and ... on plants and aquatic biodiversity through acidic leaching and nitrate losses can be problematic for maintaining water quality (Dalton and Brand-Hardy 2003) Waste discharge can also contribute...

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Comparative Analysis of Air Pollution Trading in the United States and China potx

Ngày tải lên : 29/03/2014, 18:20

... legislative and administrative measures are possible.163 Today, with acid deposition having readily recognizable and measurable effects in China, an ambitious, innovative market trading program is likely ... 300,000 allowances; and · a pool of 200,000 allowances for each year of Phase I was available to utilities in Indiana, Ohio, and Illinois .143 Bonuses in Phase II “reward utilities that invest in ‘clean ... emissions trading into the SEPA’s environmental protection administrative tasks.80 IV Comparative Analysis and Empirical Data Several environmental, social, economic, and political factors in the United...

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Livestock services and the poor - A global initiative Collecting, coordinating and sharing experiences pptx

Ngày tải lên : 31/03/2014, 22:20

... social and human capital 12 Forms of Capital " Financial capital is defined as the financial resources that are available to people – savings, credit, insurance and pensions – and that provide ... (Sanne Chipeta) The case studies were prepared with the financial support of DANIDA and IFAD, by Sam Chema and Leonard Oruko, Kenya; Vinod Ahuja, Pramodini Pradhan and P Venkatramaiah, India ... relationships Loans and gifts of livestock contribute to bonding, bridging and linking in social capital relationships, and livestock is one means by which family and household social capital may...

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Báo cáo hóa học: " Exploring the bases for a mixed reality stroke rehabilitation system, Part I: A unified approach for representing action, quantitative evaluation, and interactive feedback" ppt

Ngày tải lên : 19/06/2014, 08:20

... the basis for quantifiable, adaptive, manageable re-learning of the relationships among action goal, activity and body functions within interactive stroke rehabilitation For this abstraction of ... their interrelationships at a high level of detail is very difficult Clinician observations and assessments are often available as post-movement annotations and cannot provide a quantified value in ... which training with augmented or virtual realities is more effective than traditional therapy techniques is still under investigation Principles based in motor learning, rehabilitation, and human-computer...

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báo cáo hóa học:" Challenges in access to health services and its impact on Quality of Life: a randomised population-based survey within Turkish speaking immigrants in London" ppt

Ngày tải lên : 20/06/2014, 16:20

... majority of them live in and around London They are working and living in the same areas and involved in similar economic, political, social and cultural activities [4] The aim of this study was ... that low income was significantly related to psychological and environmental well-being, social relationships, and overall QoL No significant association was found between marital status and all ... property is an important economic and social indicator Having a lower socioeconomic status and physical and psychological well-being, social relationships, self-rated health and being unhealthy...

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The Semantic Web: A Guide to the Future of XML, Web Services, and Knowledge Management doc

Ngày tải lên : 27/06/2014, 08:20

... Information Sharing and Knowledge Discovery Information sharing and communication are paramount in any organization, but as most organizations grow and collect more information, this is a major ... on this “semantic algebra.” This allows the combination and recombination of data at a more atomic level and very fine-grained analysis of data Thus, in this stage, data no longer exists as a blob ... information management quandary that every organization today faces MAXIM If you have a lot of information, there are implied and hidden relationships in your data Using Semantic Web technologies...

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AGROFORESTRY FOR BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES – SCIENCE AND PRACTICE docx

Ngày tải lên : 28/06/2014, 08:20

... coppicing fallow (2000/03) treatments of Acacia angustissima (Mill) (Acacia), Gliricidia sepium (Jacq.) (Gliricidia), Leucaena collinsii (L collinsii), Calliandra callothyrsus Embu (Calliandra), and ... Tephrosia candida (T candida), T candida 02971, Tephrosia vogelli (T vogelli) Chambeshi, T vogelli Misamfu, and Sesbania sesban (L) Merr (Sesbania) at Kalichero and Kalunga ii two-year old coppicing ... Dieguez, 1992) It is characterized by its rusticity and adaption to Mediterranean weather and environmental conditions, and fat producing ability with a high intramuscular fat content (Aparicio,...

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Báo cáo y học: " Improvement of pain and regional osteoporotic changes in the foot and ankle by low-dose bisphosphonate therapy for complex regional pain syndrome type I: a case series" pptx

Ngày tải lên : 10/08/2014, 23:22

... treatment, including physiotherapy and NSAID administration, was initiated in another clinic, the pain in his ankle progressively worsened and he demonstrated gait disturbance A physical examination ... months earlier, he began to feel severe right foot pain without any trigger events Although treatment, including physiotherapy and NSAID administration, was initiated in another clinic, the pain and ... right ankle showed regional osteoporotic findings at the distal tibia and fibula (white arrow) (A) Bone scintigraphy with 99 mTc-methylene diphosphonate showed a marked increase in radioactivity...

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Báo cáo y học: "Dentin dysplasia type I: a case report and review of the literature" ppsx

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 14:21

... (Figure 4) On the basis of the clinical and radiographic appearance, a diagnosis of DD type I, subtype 1a, was suspected Clinical and radiographical examination of the patient’s parents and siblings ... consistent with the clinical diagnosis of a radicular cyst The cystic cavity was lined with a variable thickness of non keratinized stratified squamous epithelium with arch-shaped appearance and ... round unilocular radiolucency in association with the apex of the left first permanent molar The left maxillary and mandibular canine teeth were impacted and located horizontally in panoramic view...

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The Semantic Web:A Guide to the Future of XML, Web Services, and Knowledge Management phần 2 potx

Ngày tải lên : 14/08/2014, 12:20

... Information Sharing and Knowledge Discovery Information sharing and communication are paramount in any organization, but as most organizations grow and collect more information, this is a major ... information management quandary that every organization today faces MAXIM If you have a lot of information, there are implied and hidden relationships in your data Using Semantic Web technologies ... example, is an example where the Semantic Web and Web services could aid in making a painful task easy Making travel arrangements can be an administrative nightmare Everyone has personal travel...

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