... SAFETY AND JUSTICE PROGRAMand the GLOBAL RISK AND SECURITY CENTER This research was conducted jointly under the auspices of the Safety and Justice Program within R AND Infrastructure, Safety, and ... and the Safety and Justice Program in RAND Infrastructure, Safety, and Environment The mission of RAND Infrastructure, Safety, and Environment is to improve the development, operation, use, and ... Environment and the RAND Center for Global Risk and Security, part of International Programs at RAND Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Film piracy, organized crime, and terrorism...
... the reliability and fairness of property rights and government enforcement, and conversely, local businesses, citizens, and politicians may have little confidence in the motives and staying power ... link, Anderson’s studies of corruption in Eastern Europe confirm the relationship See for example, Anderson et al (2003) and Anderson (1998, 2000) See also Goldsmith (1995), LeBlang (1996), and ... F and B Frey (1985), Root and Alimed (1979), Sader (1993), Billington (1999), Markusen (1990), Gastanaga et al (1998), Ozler and Rodrik(1992), and Henisz(2000) 22 See appendix E for sources and...
... Asia and the Pacific Since the 1960s, pasture and grazing land has expanded, by 15 percent globally, to about 2.2 billion in 1994 Some of this expansion came at the expense of forest and woodland, ... access to and control of natural resources – particularly land and water As populations increase and marginal lands suffer increasing levels of degradation, the demands of poorer, minority and indigenous ... development in these areas is to arrest land degradation and to improve income and living standards through soil and water conservation, integrated crop and livestock husbandry, agroforestry, introduction...
... Business Skills Do's and Don'ts for More Professional Speaking and Writing Tips and tricks gleaned from UGA’s Foundations of Leadership and Management Program Business Skills Quiz Sixty-seven ... a speaker with his/her hands for the most energy and sense of professionalism? a b c d A A It A speaker should keep hands clasped behind their back speaker should keep hands clasped in the front ... group gathered around a central speaker and attach yourself to it c.Stand on the fringe of the crowd and observe d.Look for a small group – or persons – and join it 12 It is okay to use all uppercase...
... Corps Science and Technology Program developed three sets of findings and recommendations Its general findings and recommendations for the MCS&T program as a whole and for each of the program s three ... ONR’S MARINE CORPS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM Marine Corps S&T Program as a Whole PROGRAM STRUCTURE The Marine Corps Science and Technology (MCS&T) program, administered and directed by the Expeditionary ... the Amphibious Force, and EC 4, Command and Control, as well as better coordination with related intelligence community, joint, and other Service research and development programs Enabling Capability...
... BUDGET o o programming languages and programming environments, programming models, compilers, file systems and I/O, system software and tools; Forum to Address Scalable Technology for runtime and Operating ... NSF, and ONR Models, standards, testing, and metrics – ARL, ARO, DHS, DOE, NIST, NSF, and OSD Foundations of Trust – AFRL, ARL, ARO, CERDEC, DOE, NIST, NSF, and OSD Security Management and ... Internet Architecture Program; and CISE Coordinated Core research programs (Computing and Communication Foundations [CCF], Computer and Network Systems [CNS], Information and Intelligent Systems...
... link between the S&T programs and the programmed and anticipated acquisition programs provided by development planning and other means; and The methodology for S&T planning and the visibility into ... science and technology summits provide sufficient visibility into, and understanding and appreciation of, the value of the science and technology program to the senior level of Air Force budget and ... science and technology summits provide sufficient visibility into, and understanding and appreciation of, the value of the science and technology program to the senior level of Air Force budget and...
... Edward Island – and Holland College Also, the University of Prince Edward Island has committed to recognize credits earned at any university in Canada Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island not produce ... institutions in 19 countries and covers 12 subject areas United Kingdom In Scotland and Wales, the credit exchange rate is a pure currency union However, in England and Northern Ireland, there are no universal ... Consortium for Credit Accumulation and Transfer (SEEC) and the Northern Universities Consortium for Credit Accumulation and Transfer (NUCCAT) in England (Scotland and Wales are notable exceptions:...
... research and development The committee believes that a firm understanding of the technical and programmatic history of past thermionic activities, of the technology’s successes and failures, and of programmatic ... DOE, and the AEC before it, have invested over $1.5 billion in nuclear reactor programs such as SNAP-2, SNAP-10A, SNAP-50, and SNAP-8, and in other reactor and dynamic energy converter programs ... energy program, see NRC (1983) The SP-100 Programand the Thermionic Fuel Element Verification Program From 1973 to 1979, the national space nuclear power program conducted very little research and...
... home and elsewhere Moreover, unlike armies, most global activist networks not display a hierarchical command organization And unlike mobs, they have considerably more refined communication and ... corporations and international banking, trade, and economic-development organizations as threats to human welfare and environmental health, because of their pursuit of global economic integration and ... human rights, humanitarian aid, and justice against genocide and torturers – have little or nothing to with globalization and much more to with dictatorship, democracy, and the abridgement of human...
... TBNA and TEDA’s manufacturing plants and processes meet global standards It might make mandatory, for instance, such certifications as the International Standards Organization standard 14001, a globally ... and protection of society’s essential physical assets and natural resources and to enhance the related social assets of safety and security of individuals in transit and in their workplaces and ... of the Transportation, Space, and Technology (TST) Program within RAND Infrastructure, Safety and Environment (ISE) The mission of RAND Infrastructure, Safety, and Environment is to improve the...
... representing organic and conventional farms located in alpine, upland and lowland regions Notably, and rather innovatively, the authors included an estimate for GHG impacts of the estimated land use change ... approach and compared one organic and one conventional arable farm on clay soil (both growing potato, sugar beet, wheat, carrot, onion and pea) and one organic and conventional vegetable farm on sandy ... input, and an energy output/energy input ratio of 8.85), and lower but similar for the HI and RI systems (377 kg per GJ–1 and 6.79 ratio) The authors conclude that organic management and a diversified...
... “commodity”: (1) accounting standards; (2) monitoring and verification standards; and (3) registration and enforcement systems GHG Emission Reduction Accounting Standards Accounting standards address the ... standard set of guidance for additionality would greatly aid the credibility of the voluntary market Monitoring and Verification Standards Of existing U.S standards and programs, only CCAR and ... offset standard are in place: accounting standards, verification standards, and registration and enforcement systems The objective of government oversight should be to bring clarity and consistency...
... analyze globaland local approaches to the D2W task Our contributions are as follows: (1) We present a formulation of the D2W task as an optimization problem with local andglobal variants, and identify ... related, introducing the global approach (Cucerzan, 2007; Milne and Witten, 2008b; Han and Zhao, 2009; Ferragina and Scaiella, 2010) The two critical components of a global approach are the semantic ... outperforms (Milne and Witten, 2008b) on all data sets ties as in (Milne and Witten, 2008b).6 Combining the local and the global approaches typically results in minor improvements While the global approaches...
... nose cover and sinus are infected, sinusitis causes inflammation and generate an excess of mucus What is sinusitis? • When the sinuses are block and filled with fluid, germs can grow and make you ... • Headache • Fever and shiver • Inflammation around the eyes and cheeks • Tiredness and fatigue Diagnosis To realize a correct diagnose the doctor can run a physical exam and a several diagnostic ... symptoms include: a Fever, congestion, and runny nose b Weakness , ear and mouth pain Pre test The treatment for sinus control includes: a Use of decongestants and nasal sprays b Use of bronchodilators...
... VAPOR /GLOBAL WARMING 445 Once sufficient condensate is generated, raindrops form and water falls out of the parcel When restored to its original level the air parcel compresses and warms, and once ... international network of satellites provides global observations of water vapor several times a day and has greatly enhanced our understanding of its distribution and its radiative effects Although the ... AR118-13 SODEN and CO2, and dividing up the atmosphere in the vertical into a number of layers N, we can think of R as a function of the surface temperature and of the temperature and the water...
... in directive dialogues, and still more concretely, the mechanisms needed to understand interactions which present requests and orders in such dialogues, on the one hand, and the possible reactions, ... understander Influence factors are semantic and pragmatic situations in text that manlpulate the attention of an understander: provoke or satisfy his interest, trigger him to pose questions and ... IV M., Oim H., understanding Intelli~ence, Tartu, 1981 H., Episodes in the structure of discourse In: A Narin'yani (ed.), Knowledge representation and modellln~ of understandin$ processes Novosibirsk,...
... International Law, andGlobal Governance Ruling the World? Constitutionalism, International Law, andGlobal Governance provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the major developments and central questions ... Trade Organization, and other sites of global governance The essays in this volume explore controversial empirical and normative questions, doctrinal and structural issues, and questions of institutional ... Law School During 2007 and 2008, he served as a Senior Visiting Research Scholar in the Law and Public Affairs Program at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and, in 2005, as a Visiting...
... Ordering Our ordering framework is designed to capture both local andglobal coherence Globally, we identify related groups among sentences and find their relative order Locally, we strive to keep sentence ... concludes the whole paper and describes future work where wf(eik) = wk×f(eik), f(eik) is the frequency of eik and wk is the weight of eik We define wk = if eik is a common entity and wk = if eik is ... assumption that the sentences are arranged coherently in the source document, locally and globally Experiments and Preliminary Results Currently, we have evaluated grouping-based ordering on single-document...
... whether the cache should count as a replacement of just the global focus component of G&S's theory or of both local andglobal focus, and about what should go in the cache-Guindon seems to assume ... project References H H Clark and C J Sengul 1979 In search of referents for nouns and pronouns Memory and Cognition, 7(I ):35-4 H H Clark 1977 Bridging In P N Johnson-Laird and P.C Wason, editors, ... respective roles of local focus andglobal focus in pronoun resolution has ever been made in the literature on the G & S framework, cases of pronouns involving access to the global attentionai structure...