... revision ofthe 1999 Protocol to Abate Acidification, Eutrophication and
Ground-level Ozone. This Protocol is one ofthe eight multilateral environmental agreements
under the UNECE Convention on Long-range ... and ICP centres and participants
are thanked for the photographs used here.
Impacts of air pollutiononhuman health,
ecosystems and cultural heritage
Air pollution causes damage to human
health, ... Acidification, Eutrophication and
Ground-level Ozone. This Protocol is one ofthe eight multilateral environmental agreements
under the UNECE Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (LRTAP). Since...
... securitisation implies stronger effects of monetary policy ontheeconomy
and on residential property prices (CGFS 2006). Onthe other hand, Tsatsaronis and Zhu
(2004) conjecture that the prevalence of ... large literature onthe estimation of panel regressions andthe inconsistency that
can arise in that context. Much of that literature deals with the bias ofthe fixed effects
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The price puzzle ... effects on residential property prices, and therefore onthe
economy, since the interest rates on all loans are reset at the same time. In contrast, in the
case of fixed rate lending, only new...
... V: IMPLICATIONS AND CONCLUSION
This final chapter includes three sections. The first section provides readers some
discussion ofthe major implications. The limitations ofthe study and some
recommendations ...
recommendations suggested for further research will be discussed in the second section. The
last one will be the conclusion to the whole study.
V.1 Implications
The aim of this section is to propose ... suggestions for the future one.
V.2 Limitations ofthe study and recommendations for further research
In spite ofthe significant findings that supported the alternative hypothesis ofthe
positive...
... receiver w(t) is the convolution ofthe channel impulse
response andthe probing pulse s(t) given by
(2.33)
where
⊗
denotes convolution and
is the variable of convolution. The channel ... number of fingers. Thus the performance ofthe Rake receiver is largely based
on the number of fingers, the number of multipath components, their amplitude statistics,
and the relative SNR of each ... Refraction
Refraction is defined as the bending ofthe normal to the wavefront of a
propagating wave upon passing from one medium to another where the propagation
velocity is different [53]. The...
... culture
of the organization. If the organization is one that relies on face-to-face and
one -on- one communication, HR practitioners must not only address the impact
ofthe new technology, but must monitor ... change.
Effective Communication
Health professionals expressed concern about the effects of new technology on
communication. For example, an allied health professional was ofthe opinion
that the new PACS technology ... to
understand the composition and function of employee workgroups — both
formal and informal. They will then develop an understanding of how and why
members of these groups resist the changes within the...
... This
then raises the question ofthe validity and authority of knowledge gained over the
Internet. How can the learner be sure ofthe sources of information? Even where
quality and consumer control ... interaction.
The first is the interaction ofthe learner with the machine. As the sophistication of
multimedia design has increased, so have the types and forms of interaction, although
they have ... institution and my understanding of how these
developments relate to the question ofthe forms and nature of knowledge.
Using technology for teaching at the University of British Columbia
The University...
... tested.
For all ofthehealth workers and patients, the collection ofthe oral fluid specimen using
Orasure was done at the time ofthe interview. As the test is non-invasive and only
requires ... to thank the Cluster Health Information, Evaluation and Research for initiating
and guiding this study onTheImpactof HIV/AIDS ontheHealth Sector, and, in particular
Dr L Makubalo and Ms ... assess theimpact on, and inform
recommendations for, thehealth care system.
The objective of this study was to ascertain the HIV/AIDS prevalence ratio amongst health
workers and patients in the health...
... non-exclusive, on women’s land rights in the
context of HIV/AIDS, not least because ofthe growing case study literature on the
incidence of land dispossession of women.
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As with the issue of ... administration.
The study has a number of limitations. First, the predominant focus oftheimpact of
HIV/AIDS onthe land rights of individuals and households is such that it only begins to
hint at the ... brief review ofthe literature on
the relationship between HIV/AIDS and land in Africa. Chapter 3 sets the context of the
study, focusing on three main areas, namely, the evolution of land policy...
... leads me now to my conclusion onthe ethical impactof
aesthetic experience on a moral attitude towards nature.
CONCLUSION
Even if the aesthetic autonomy of nature can be considered as an ... structures onto existing nature by
means of our imagination. Onthe one hand, we project our aesthetic appreciation into the
existing nature. Onthe other hand, existing nature interprets forms of ... reflect on two aspects of this question. Firstly, I will focus onthe function
of imagination within our aesthetic experience of nature. Secondly, I will expose some ethical
implications of the...
... look at the whole income and asset portfolio rather than solely the poultry
income, thereby providing a more accurate measure oftheimpactofthe disease. If one looked only at the
impact of HPAI ... either the logistic function
or the standard normal cumulative distribution function (the probit function) (Greene 1997b).
The mean and variance ofthe ZINB are
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,
To test whether the ... scales. The duration ofthe
livelihoods impacts of these shocks are assumed to be one year. This is because the variables used to
derive the impacts of these shocks (which include whether or not the...