... According to the Scottish Executive (1999) creating and sustaining employability is the responsibility of the state, individuals and training providers However, inthe UK there has been a shifting ... at the point of recruitment and selection—‘getting a job’—while also enhancing their capacity to sustain employment—‘doing the job’— inthe style labour market The need for this kind of training ... hotels, restaurants and retail, the survey found little training being offered or undertaken for the skills required in these industries Instead, training occurred in work in which the number of jobs...
... developing initial hypotheses and testing them inthe light of available evidence The initial hypotheses come from the body of economic theory that has evolved inthe past 200 years and is being ... tell us is that inthe past definite men or groups of men were valuing and acting in a definite way Whether they will inthe future value and act inthe same way remains uncertain All that can be ... Determinism,” p 30 A History of Money and Banking inthe United States: The Colonial Era to World War II least since the Progressive Era inthe U.S.—they have been drawn increasingly from the...
... Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, andthe scientific and engineering communities The Council is administered jointly by both Academies andthe Institute of Medicine ... outcome of the forecast, • Gathering and analyzing the data using a variety of methodologies, and • Interpreting the results and assembling the forecast from the available information Framing the problem ... uncertainty or deterministic nodes and incoming conditional arcs model the probabilistic and known relationships inthe information that is available; andthe value nodes andthe incoming functional...
... become the principal operating agency of both the National Academy of Sciences andthe National Academy of Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, andthe scientific and ... geological engineering, hydrological engineering, and Earth-related parts of petroleum engineering and mining engineering The rapid expansion of nanotechnology, biotechnology, and information technology ... to increase the success rate for unsolicited proposals in geoengineering (and civil and mechanical systems) to a level commensurate with other programs inthe engineering directorate Finding The...
... possibility of eliminating deposit rate ceilings The costs of these ceilings were well-documented during the hearings, and both the Cox and Benston studies were cited as evidence that the ceilings were ... of the U.S government to earning assets • Interest received to earning assets The presumption was and still is—that the higher these ratios, the lower the quality of the bank's assets and so the ... That the Cox and Benston studies did not find this implies that either an otherwise well-supported theory is now in doubt or those studies are and banking inthe 1920s needs to be reexamined Another...
... using the EPA's PCRAMMIT program (US EPA, 1995) Minimum boundary-layer heights were set to 150 m during the night and 250m during the day based on estimated minimum boundary-layer heights in ... effect by minimizing the dispersion of the pollutants away at ground level The greatest effect of urban trees on ozone, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen dioxide is during the daytime of the in- leaf ... have a single-sided leaf area index within the canopy covered area of and to be 10% coniferous (Nowak, 1994) Leaf area index value is total leaf area (m2: trees and large shrubs [minimum in stem...
... Train and Equip Program International Military and Advisory Training Team International Military Education and Training Joint Combined Exchange Training xxiii xxiv Air Power intheNew Counterinsurgency ... Power intheNew Counterinsurgency Era Insurgents must go where the people and resources are, and as these migrate into cities, the insurgents must follow them.39 Increasingly, cities, not the ... Given these constraints on outside intervention, this monograph emphasizes the role of the U.S military, and USAF in particular, in training, advising, and equipping partner nations so that they...
... chemicals Poisoning the Well: How the EPA is Ignoring Atrazine Contamination in Surface and Drinking Water inthe Central United States Recommendations for Protecting Human Health andthe Environment ... Poisoning the Well: How the EPA is Ignoring Atrazine Contamination in Surface and Drinking Water inthe Central United States An Atrazine Primer Atrazine is a selective herbicide ... with other pesticides to increase their toxic effects NRDC’s New Analysis Reveals Widespread Atrazine Contamination and Inadequate Regulation and Monitoring NRDC analyzed in combination for the...
... sulfate inthe snail body by alcian blue staining and showed that it is mainly secreted into the outer surface of the body as a mucous material from internal granules [11] The mucus secreted on the ... acetate buffer (pH 5.5) containing 40 mg papain inthe presence of mM EDTA and mM cysteine, and incubated at 60 °C for 24 h GAGs were isolated and purified from the papain-digested mucus by sequential ... was cut into very small pieces that were suspended in sodium acetate buffer (pH 5.5) containing 40 mg papain inthe presence of mM EDTA and mM cysteine, and incubated at 60 °C for 24 h The suspension...
... have a strong stake in maintain ing extended agreements in order to protect their ability to receive returns on the time and money they have invested in their clients during earlier, less profitable ... advantage: They retain managers in their early years to procure employment, and then they get the Labor Commissioner to rescind their contracts once they establish their reputations 112 In addition ... unfortunate, and it has led to a mass exodus of agents out of the agency business and into the management business.128 This, in turn, has further blurred the black -and- white distinction between agents and...
... wood inthe United States during World War I andin Germany and Switzerland during World War II (Zerbe 2006) Currently, no commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plants are operating inthe United States; ... Bioenergy and Biofuels inthe United States Biomass From Milling Residues Milling residues include wastes from sawdust, slabs and edgings, bark, veneer clippings, and black liquor (Rinebolt 1996) In ... material, there is limited opportunity to offset the costs of thinning these forested stands With renewed attention to bioenergy, there is much interest in using the precommercial material in hazard-fuel...
... Reduction inthe size of the public sector has been a recurring theme in reviews of the public sector, particularly reviews by the World Bank, in Papua New Guinea and elsewhere In 1990 (coinciding ... management and increased investment in training (Gibson 1983; Creedon 1984) The final strategy of public sector reform inthe immediate post-independence era was restructuring This involved amputating ... projects but in sharing information, participating in planning and assuming some responsibility for accountability Seeking good practice in Papua New Guinea and how to replicate it is another underutilized...
... increasingly crowded in terms of actors and issues, have increased the challenge of maintaining the profile of SRH in sectoral and national planning processes, while at the same time the growing ... challenges in balancing the requirements of both the MOH andthe Ministry of Local Government The mix of competing demands, such as separate planning guidelines, and tension in negotiating different ... recognizing the opportunities that the MDG5 focus brings, and seeking to map out the remaining elements of SRH into the matrix of planning processes Family planning can be located within the evidence-based...
... of the southern states • The number of traffic injuries is highest in some southern statesandin some of the upper plains • The lowest traffic injury rates are found instatesinthe northeast ... strategies in their own settings Curricula gaps, staff training, andthe need for in- service programs are among the challenges to integrating child injury prevention education and training into existing ... progress in reducing injury, and enables a focus on the most compelling problems Working together to collect data the community needs, making the data readily accessible, and translating the data into...
... marginalisation of women in contemporary Ukraine Honing in on differentiating processes reveals that this marginalization and disintegration is anything but natural and inevitable On the other hand, ... boom,” or the rapid expansion of civic organizing in Ukraine We examine the history of women’s organizing in Soviet and post-Soviet Ukraine, and I invite readers along to a “training” seminar on ... Activism intheNew Ukraine Zoia was the director of Lotus, an NGO organized to support persons with spinal cord injuries inthe city of Kyiv As the single mother of a son, Sasha, who injured his spine...
... from the breast, to awaken in another individual an echo returning to the ear Man thereby at once discovers that around him there are beings having the same inner needs, and thus capable of meeting ... dangers If they not advise what seems to them for the good of the republic or the prince, regardless of the consequences to themselves, then they fail of their duty; and if they advise it, then it ... audience and confuse the distinction between form and content The art, or rather the skill, of speaking inthe socially proper tone, and appearing to be up-to-date, especially when the conversation...
... emphasis on the way in which organic food is sold, the type of the stores, the operation of the market place, and how the decision making process is structured inthe minds of consumers There are ... for the alternative at 1) the same store, 2) the top stores that the household most frequently visited inthe past, 3) the same store chain, and 4) the format of the specific store We then use the ... towards increasing the production of organic food in Europe applied since 2009, the growing awareness of organic food and its benefits should see the market continuing its high growth into the near...