coastal development and disaster preparedness the delusion of preparedness in face of overwhelming forces
China's Superbank: Debt, Oil and Influence - How China Development Bank is Rewriting the Rules of Finance
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16/03/2014, 21:32
... Devereux in Caracas provided invaluable color to the story, including the opening anecdote Edmond Lococo in Beijing and Crayton Harrison in Mexico City were invaluable in putting together the story of ... son of one of China’s founding revolutionaries makes him a princeling, prominent among a class of leaders, including incoming leader Xi Jinping and former Politburo member Bo Xilai, whose fathers ... “Manhattan” in China Credit Risk in a One-Party State Cracks in the System 12 15 18 22 26 29 Chapter Turning a Zombie Bank into a Global Bank A Life in the Party The Princeling Party: The Beginning of...
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Gender, empowerment and development gender relations from the perspective of ethnic minorities in vietnam
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30/10/2015, 09:33
... demonstrating the inferior position of women in the family and in the community, as well as the importance of having sons.” Being fully aware of the women’s “low status” and the gender inequality in the ... mention the words caring for each other, working together, and sharing The caring for each other, the working together and the sharing between husband and wife have seemed to become a standard in ... from the point of view of EM people, the issue of “who does what” originates from the perspective of helping each other out (within the standard of being together), whoever is stronger does the...
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Changes of temperature data for energy studies over time and their impact on energy consumption and CO2 emissions. The case of Athens and Thessaloniki – Greece
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05/09/2013, 16:10
... values of CDD were increased The reduction in the yearly values of HDD was in the range of 9.5 to 22% in Athens, and in the range of to 9% in Thessaloniki, depending on the base temperature, with the ... observed at the lowest base temperatures The increase of the yearly values of CDD was in the range of 25 to 53% in Athens, and in the range of 10 to 16% in Thessaloniki, depending on the base temperature, ... average heating and in increase of the average cooling degree-days, in reduction of the lower and in increase of higher temperature bins, all suggesting a climate change towards milder winters and hotter...
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Sustainable Globalization and Emerging Economies: The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment in Thailand
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08/11/2013, 23:15
... financial hub of the ASEAN region The Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) made significant investment in Thailand, both in the financial institutions sector and the industry sector, ... relevant in the electronics and automobile sectors, two of the most important recipients of FDI The influx of new foreign investments has benefited the country in terms of industrial growth, including ... a reduction in foreign investment restrictions, and the devaluation of asset prices The majority of FDI into Thailand originates in Japan, the US and Singapore and is concentrated in export-oriented...
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Tài liệu Blonde and Blue eyed? The Globalization of the Beauty Industry - Geoff Jones for Von Gremp doc
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10/12/2013, 04:15
... beauty industry coincided with the first wave of globalization during the second half of the nineteenth century.27 Given the importance of values in the growth of this industry, it is not surprising ... 1950s, and launched it seven other countries by the end of the 1960s The new owners rapidly grew the brand in the United States, positioning it in the medium-price mass market, and manufacturing in ... the originators of such ideologies, but they found them convenient marketing tools, and very rarely contested them In terms of industry structure, there were three distinctive types of firm in...
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Tài liệu TREES OF THE NORTHERN UNITED STATES THEIR STUDY, DESCRIPTION AND DETERMINATION FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS AND PRIVATE STUDENTS doc
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13/02/2014, 12:20
... drawings, both of the outline and of the veining Crushed leaves will give the odor, and the sap can best be noticed at the bases of young leaves The differences in sap and juice need the following ... covering, as in the Oaks, the whole forms an acorn If the coating has spiny hairs, as in the Chestnut and Beechnut, the whole is a bur The coating in these cases is an involucre If the coating ... other time of the year The plan of branching, the position, number, size, form, color, and surface of buds, as well as the arrangement of the leaves within the bud and the peculiarities of the scales...
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Tài liệu Bevacizumab and cetuximab for the treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer docx
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14/02/2014, 22:20
... conflict of interest, the member is excluded from participating further in that appraisal The minutes of each Appraisal Committee meeting, which include the names of the members who attended and their ... represents 12% of all new cancer cases in women and 14% of all new cancer cases in men The incidence of colorectal cancer increases with age In people between the ages of 45 and 49 years the incidence ... the month and year in which the Guidance Executive will consider whether the technology should be reviewed This decision will be taken in the light of information gathered by the Institute, and...
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Tài liệu CHEAP POSTAGE REMARKS AND STATISTICS ON THE SUBJECT OF CHEAP POSTAGE AND POSTAL REFORM IN GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES ppt
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17/02/2014, 02:20
... applied In the division of labor and the multiplication of competitions, there are many lines of business of which the whole profits are made up of extremely minute savings In these the cost of postage ... demoralization of the public mind, in abating the reverence for law, and the sense of gratitude and honor to the government [pg 021] In this respect, of bringing all the correspondence into the mails, in ... and more, by the increased sale of the public lands, the increase of population, and the consequent increase of the revenue from the custom-house And the rest are required by the great duty of...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Pathways and products for the metabolism of vitamin D3 by cytochrome P450scc docx
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18/02/2014, 17:20
... monohydroxyvitamin D3 Because cyclodextrin provides an artificial means of holding vitamin D3 in solution, we also examined the metabolism of vitamin D3 incorporated into the membrane of phospholipid ... immunoregulatory and endocrine effects, and is also a potent antiproliferative and differentiationinducing agent in different cell types, including epidermal keratinocytes [7–10] To determine whether the ... spectrum (Fig 6B), all the expected correlations from 3-CH in the A-ring are the same as in the parent vitamin D3 This further confirms that no hydroxylation occurs in the A-ring The new hydroxylated...
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Cloning for reproductive purposes and cloning for the purposes of biomedical research potx
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05/03/2014, 16:20
... specific points in a continuous process of development (such as, for example, the formation of a heap of sand from a grain of sand and the subsequent addition of further grains of sand), new qualitative ... embryos On the basis of the fundamental right of the freedom of research enshrined in the first sentence of Article 5(3) of the Basic Law, the sanctioning of this research is now being demanded also ... stated in Section B 4.2, for research and, in particular, for the development of stem cells and stem cell lines Although the main elements of the two cloning processes coincide in the phase leading...
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BONDS AND CLIMATE CHANGE THE STATE OF THE MARKET IN 2012 pdf
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06/03/2014, 04:20
... estimate of the outstanding global bond market size linked to key climate change themes, and examines future drivers and trends in the short term In spite of the financial crisis, institutional investor ... funding of project finance transactions Basel III could discourage banks from holding longer-term loans on their balance sheets, prompting increasing costs, reductions in the term of loans and introducing ... introducing greater refinancing Bonds and Climate Change www.climatebonds.net June 2012 this is the year the Kyoto Protocol came into force and the climate change agenda gained prominence The use of...
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TMJ Disorders and Orofacial Pain The Role of Dentistry in a Multidisciplinary Diagnostic Approach pptx
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06/03/2014, 11:20
... fibrocartilaginous joint surface (thin arrows) of the condyle of a 58-year-old individual In spite of the intact joint surface on the condyle, the pars posterior (1) of the disk is flattened and the functional ... during sectioning, and through it can be seen the upper surface of the condyle (arrow) upon the shape of the fossa, the inclination of the protuberance, and the shape of the condyle In the 1970s ... made the role of the dentist in diagnosing and treating pain in the head and neck region increasingly obscure rather than more clear In the academic debate concerning the etiology—predominantly...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Flexibility and communication within the structure of the Mycobacterium smegmatis methionyl-tRNA synthetase Henrik Ingvarsson and Torsten Unge potx
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06/03/2014, 22:21
... consists of four domains (Fig 1) [21]: the catalytic domain, the CP domain, the KMSKS domain and an anticodon-binding domain (anticodon domain) The catalytic domain contains the binding pockets for the ... main-chain amide groups of Ile128 and Arg129 Despite these differences in the coordination of the residues in the tip, the fold of the loop is strikingly similar The rmsd for the Ca atoms of the ... blue The intervening helices a2 and a8 in the catalytic domain are colored cyan The linking p-helix a13 between the KMSKS domain and the anticodon domain is purple The two ligands (methionine and...
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Báo cáo khoa học: The fabp4 gene of zebrafish (Danio rerio) ) genomic homology with the mammalian FABP4 and divergence from the zebrafish fabp3 in developmental expression pot
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07/03/2014, 10:20
... structures, including the diencephalon, hindbrain, spinal cord, and somites (Fig 5A) At 24 hpf, the fabp4 transcripts were abundant in the lens and in the dorsal diencephalon, and visible in the choroid ... ligand-binding specificity and affinity [10] In addition to the similar threedimensional structure and ligand-binding specificity and affinity of FABP3 and FABP4, the transcripts and proteins of the two ... intestine (In, 48 hpf), and intestinal bulb (Inb, 48 hpf) The relative positions of the notochord (No) and otic vesicle (Ov) are indicated in red (A5, A10) (B) fabp4 mRNA was distributed in the...
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Fame And Fortune - Or, The Progress Of Richard Hunter doc
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07/03/2014, 14:20
... bigfeeling and put on so many airs, that you’d think they were partners in the business, instead of beginning at the lowest round of the ladder A while ago Mr Gilbert brought round a cousin of his, ... Fosdick They went downstairs, and out into the street Accustomed to the lower part of the city, there was a novelty in the evening aspect of Broadway, with its shops and theatres glittering with ... BROMFIELD AND WASHINGTON STREETS BOSTON Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by A K LORING, In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts To MY FATHER,...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Case markers and Morphology: Addressing the crux of the fluency problem in English-Hindi SMT" pot
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08/03/2014, 00:20
... 400 The SRILM toolkit was used to create Hindi language models using the target side of the training corpus Training, tuning, and decoding were performed using the Moses toolkit Tuning (learning ... marking and morphology (Hindi), we are faced with the problem of extracting information from the source language sentence, transferring the information onto the target side, and translating this ... way in increasing the quality of translation Input: Gandhi Darshan and Gandhi National Museum is across Rajghat We have reported in this paper the marked improvement in the output quality of Hindi...
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Chernobyl’s Legacy: Health, Environmental and Socio-Economic Impacts and Recommendations to the Governments of Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine pdf
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08/03/2014, 06:20
... Construction and operation of the NSC and relevant engineering infrastructure; — Defuelling, decommissioning and dismantling of Units 1, and of the nuclear power plant and the Shelter; — Construction of ... work or in the environment, the context in which the Chernoseries of events unleashed by the accident, the ways of expressing distress In addition, individuals in the affected “sufferers”, and came ... from the Chernobyl accident area in the spring and summer of 1986 were estimated to be of the order of 33 mSv on average, with the highest dose of the order of several hundred mSv Doses of Ionizing...
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Ergonomic Principles and Checklists for the Selection of Office Furniture and Equipment doc
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08/03/2014, 13:20
... on the ergonomic criteria being used in the selection process The aims of the criteria used in the checklists are to optimise the comfort and productivity of office workers and to minimise their ... Elevation of the shoulders; # Twisting of the trunk; # Forward reaching of the upper arm; # Abduction of the upper arm; # Ulnar deviation of the hand; and # Extension of the wrist The time for ... fore -and- aft movement of the backrest) is the horizontal distance, measured from the front edge to the foremost point of the backrest on the centre line of the seat's width The minimum value of...
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mitigating water pollution in vietnamese aquaculture production and processing industry the case of pangasius and shrimp
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13/03/2014, 18:58
... spent in the Netherlands came from the budget of the REFINE project, which was funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of The Netherlands The funding for the study on shrimp farming in the Can ... due to the age of the industry and the global attention to the destruction of coastal habitats in other parts of the world The impacts of shrimp production outlined specifically for Vietnam include ... framework for thinking and acting in the realm of sustainability, looks at industrial economies by using the metaphor of ecological systems Through the use of that metaphor industrial ecology intends...
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Industrial biotechnology: development and adoption by the U.S, chemical and Biofuel industries
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13/03/2014, 22:06
... some of the costs and other concerns, and on the impact of government policy and market forces on the development of IB industries Liquid Biofuels Because growth in the U.S liquid biofuel industry ... sustainable, the magnitude of the impact of biofuels on GHG emissions, and the net energy content of ethanol An assessment of these factors is beyond the scope of this report Whether the promise of ... U.S liquid biofuel producers and firms in the U.S chemical industry The application of IB can improve the efficiency of the industries and lead to the development of new products The report provides...
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