... Sustainable and Responsible Investing intheUnitedStatesin2012 17 Fig 1.2 ESG Incorporation intheUnitedStatesin2012 18 Fig 1.3 Growth of SRI 1995 2012 19 II ESG Incorporation ... SIF 10 Report on Sustainable and Responsible Investing TrendsintheUnitedStates Executive Summary 2012 Report on Sustainable and Responsible Investing TrendsintheUnitedStates Overview Today, ... for individual investors interested in SRI Report on Sustainable and Responsible Investing TrendsintheUnitedStates • Globally, sustainable and responsible investors have changed investment practices...
... not include the more-detailed research on domestic trends we conducted for the three primary nations TheUnitedStatesTheUnitedStates will remain the richest nation inthe world during the ... earlier, the costs of medical services are outstripping in ation Expensive new technologies and drugs, and increased demand for them, 14 Domestic TrendsintheUnited States, China, and Iran increase ... elsewhere inthe world xviii Domestic TrendsintheUnited States, China, and Iran China’s economy has consistently experienced the world’s highest growth rate since the early 1980s, posting an...
... without pay in farm and family business Participants also described the industry in which they worked, and responded to a variety of other employment questions, including their occupation The PAs ... Figure and Figure display the absolute changes andthe percentage changes intherates of PAs per 100 000 persons across thestatesThe ratios of PAs to population had increased since 1980 in all ... three states - Missouri, Nevada, and New Mexico The greatest growth was in New England and upper Midwest states Maine, New Hampshire, and Iowa had the greatest positive changes intherates of...
... quarter of 2012, compared with €1 billion of net outflows inthe fourth quarter of 2011 These inflows into balanced/mixed funds were €21 billion intheUnitedStatesand €8 billion in Europe inthe ... net inflows inthe fourth quarter Bond funds reported €86 billion of net inflows intheUnited States, up from €51 billion inthe previous quarter In Europe net inflows totaled €49 billion during ... (*) Including funds of funds Equity 34% EFAMA International Statistical Release (2012: Q1) Looking at the worldwide distribution of investment fund assets at end March 2012, theUnitedStates and...
... other private school students in grades through 12 inthe 50 statesand District of Columbia were included inthe sampling frame Puerto Rico, the trust territories, andthe Virgin Islands were excluded ... within schools is disturbed if there is confirmed or suspected carrying of weapons by students Inthe recent past, there have been several high profile incidents intheUnitedStates that have highlighted ... statistical analyses and participated inthe drafting of the manuscript, SS participated inthe interpretation of the results and drafting of the manuscript All authors approved the manuscript Acknowledgements...
... Turning now to look at the specifics of theschool shooting’ definition, the term school includes elementary, middle andhigh schools, as well as further and higher education institutes (Harding ... only school shooting incident, Dunblane — the increase in CCTV surveillance in schools andthe ban on private ownership of handguns (see Squires 2000) — and those to the numerous incidents inthe ... overview of the following: a history of gun legislation intheUnitedStatesandthe opposing sides of the debate; the role of interest groups inthe process of shaping gun legislation; the Supreme...
... 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 ... energy and other resources to establishing and maintaining a permanent and lucrative hegemonic bond over the productive majority Accordingly, since politics is the main source of their income, the...
... day intheUnitedStates Quick stats for theUnitedStates Infant and Maternal Mortality Infant Mortality intheUnitedStates Infant Mortality and Race/Ethnicity of Mother Leading Causes of Infant ... Mortality Infant Mortality intheUnitedStates Even though infant mortality intheUnitedStates dropped dramatically inthe past century, significant room for improvement remains q q q The infant ... counties, states, andtheUnitedStatesand can choose various output formats, including graphs, maps, tables, and slides which they can use in reports or presentations Together, PeriStats and the...
... individual works inthe collection are inthe public domain intheUnitedStates If an individual work is inthe public domain intheUnitedStatesand you are located intheUnited States, we not ... designs in line and color Skin-painting Tattooing Sculpture and modeling Music and musical instruments Scents and flowers Games and festivals [11] D Religion a Psychological Origin of Religions.—Principles ... Ethnology to explain So likewise in hygiene and medicine, in ethics and religion, in language and arts, in painting, architecture, sculpture and music, the full import and often unconscious intention...
... Control and Prevention The role of BCG vaccine inthe prevention and control of tuberculosis intheUnited States: a joint statement by the Advisory Council for the Elimination of Tuberculosis andthe ... TB intheUnitedStates TB Prevention and Control intheUnitedStates .4 BCG Vaccines Vaccine Efficacy .5 Vaccine Safety Tuberculin Skin Testing and ... summarize current considerations and recommendations regarding the use of BCG vaccine intheUnitedStatesIntheUnited States, the prevalence of M tuberculosis infection and active TB disease varies...
... 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 ... tree cover varies by region within theUnitedStates with cities developed in forest areas averaging 34.4% tree cover, cities in grassland areas: 17.8%, and cities in deserts: 9.3% (Dwyer et al.,...
... $731 Bicycling Camping Fishing Hunting Paddling Snow-based Trail-based Wildlife Viewing Total Hunting, Fishing and Wildlife Watching Hunting, fishing and wildlife-watching segments of the active ... Management lands involve the most recreational visitors These lands are also the ones most involved in natural resources conservation, another way of showing the impact that preserving these lands has ... lands Table A3 below shows the total economic impact of hunting, fishing and wildlife watching on NFS managed land intheUnited States, based on 2000-2003 survey data and analysis of spending...
... regions, including the southeastern UnitedStates (0.08 parts per million), A Review of the Medical Benefits and Contraindications to Breastfeeding intheUnitedStates 29 Hawaii, andthe Binghamton ... tuberculosis inthe mother, the urgent problem is to establish the mother ’s and infant’s status, initiate maternal treatment, and if necessary also initiate treatment inthe infant during the diagnostic ... reported in breastfeeding infants.69 Pyridoxine (B6) is recommended as an adjunct to therapy with INH in adults and adolescents andin breastfeeding infants of mothers receiving INH INH has a...
... opportunities and barriers to prevention.10, 11 Important obstacles to elimination of perinatal transmission intheUnitedStates include the continued increase in HIV infection in women of childbearing ... action of ARV drugs in reducing perinatal transmission andin determining optimal regimens for use intheUnitedStatesand other resource-rich countries References Connor EM, Sperling RS, Gelber ... lamivudine; single-dose nevirapine; and single-dose nevirapine combined with either short-course zidovudine or zidovudine/lamivudine.3-12 In general, combination regimens are more effective than single-drug...
... dealers and banking institutions as well as a declining number of dealers participating inthe survey Inthe spot market, the market share of the ten firms reporting the highest volumes inthe U.S ... dealers intheUnitedStates participated inthe foreign exchange part of the survey and nineteen inthe interest rate derivatives part, down from thirty-three and twenty-eight, respectively, in 2007 ... Turnover intheUnited States, April 2010 The Foreign Exchange and Interest Rate Derivatives Markets: Turnover intheUnited States, April 2010 Background The Federal Reserve Bank of New York together...
... away in their homes Under the radar, the lending andthe financial services industry had mutated Inthe past, lenders had avoided making unsound loans because they would be stuck with them in their ... banks the practice of denying credit to individuals and businesses in certain neighborhoods without regard to their creditworthiness The CRA requires banks and savings and loans to lend, invest, and ... realities on the ground Witness again the failure of the Federal Reserve and other regulators to rein in irresponsible lending Homeownership peaked inthe spring of and then began to decline From...
... context of increasing interprofessional education, team-based learning and increasing opportunities to link research and education to didactic learning and practice, inthe US and globally Over the ... this came initially from the Fogarty Institute; • Over half the schools have twinning relationships with countries in Asia, Africa andthe Americas; and • Most schools plan to increase their global ... faculty in Environmental Sciences and Engineering at the University of North Carolina inthe 1950’s and 1960’s In other departments, faculty members and students traveled around the world as they...
... health However, studies conducted inthe early 1980s intheUnitedStatesand during the 1990s in Europe and other countries—including Japan, Pakistan, and Mexico—have indicated that many agricultural ... at the individual plant and leaf level in order to explain the variation in O3-dose/yieldreduction–response relationships There is, however, an increasing interest in better understanding the ... 3.1 UnitedStatesIntheUnited States, the Clean Air Act mandates the protection of human health and welfare from the effects of exposure to tropospheric O3 through the setting of primary and...
... wood intheUnitedStates during World War I andin Germany and Switzerland during World War II (Zerbe 2006) Currently, no commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plants are operating intheUnited States; ... Bioenergy and Biofuels intheUnitedStates Biomass From Milling Residues Milling residues include wastes from sawdust, slabs and edgings, bark, veneer clippings, and black liquor (Rinebolt 1996) In ... both even-age and uneven-age thinning operations The uneven-age scenarios included two aimed at achieving high structural diversity inthe remaining stand and two aimed at achieving limited structural...