... outreach to make more educators, librarians, and rural health care providers aware of the programs and for evaluation to update and analyze data on program utilization and to assess impacts of USF ... gauges the capacity to make the most of the service For individuals, capability encompasses both formal and informal educational attainment and levels of technical sophistication and understanding, ... having a home high-speed connection are viewed, the United States faces three challenges going forward Availability in rural America: There is no publicly available data that maps the broadband...
... REAL WEALTH Real wealth has intrinsic, as contrasted to exchange, value Life, not money, is the measure of real-wealth value The most important forms are beyond price and are unavailable for market ... widely read books, sent me an e-mail message saying he had read the YES! magazine article and wanted to help get its message out far and wide, perhaps as a short book PREFACE ix My wife, Fran, and ... learned to value family, community, and nature and the special character of America as a middle-class democracy, free from the extremes of wealth and poverty that I was led to believe characterized...
... client organizations at a strategic level He has developed a substantial number of new innovations for understanding and acting upon the organizational and financial aspects of corporate sustainability ... emotional, green, crunchy granola appeal of sustainability to the argument that appeals to the brain Creating a Sustainable Organization presents the theory, the evidence, and the organizational case ... voluntary standards, climate change adaptation, sustainability investing, and a wide array of other topics He sees several areas in which major advancements in corporate attitudes and practices have...
... Project Assistant SUZANNE OSSA, Senior Project Assistant DAVID DRAKE, Project Assistant DAVID PADGHAM, Research Assistant BRANDYE WILLIAMS, Office Assistant vi Preface C ontinued advances in information ... system that functions properly for the application domain while remaining understandable and manageable by human operators, users, and—in many cases—casual passersby, is a large challenge for EmNet ... CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS: AN AGENDAFOR RESEARCH An EmNet-specific Research Agenda, 174 Predictability and Manageability, 175 Adaptive Self-configuration, 176 Monitoring and System Health, 177...
... Assistant SUZANNE OSSA, Senior Project Assistant DAVID DRAKE, Project Assistant DAVID PADGHAM, Research Assistant BRANDYE WILLIAMS, Office Assistant vi Preface C ontinued advances in information ... system that functions properly for the application domain while remaining understandable and manageable by human operators, users, and—in many cases—casual passersby, is a large challenge for EmNet ... CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS: AN AGENDAFOR RESEARCH An EmNet-specific Research Agenda, 174 Predictability and Manageability, 175 Adaptive Self-configuration, 176 Monitoring and System Health, 177...
... most valuable asset, an abundant and low cost raw material base, is being challenged by developments both domestically and abroad Land available for growing commercial wood is diminishing, and ... importance of this raw material base for long range survival, companies in the industry have a long standing reputation for being stewards of America's forests Today, the U.S has far more trees than ... be an example of sustainability with its renewable raw material growing in productive, well-managed forests at rates considerably greater than today The virgin raw material base will be increasingly...
... many Latinas are forced to delay or forgo health care altogether For example, approximately 25% of Latinas have not visited a physician in the last year, and almost one-third of Latinas not have ... Latinas will undoubtedly form a large and pivotal component of this extraordinary Latino political and civic force A National Latina Agendafor Reproductive Justice A Report from the National ... leading cause of death for Hispanic males aged 35-44.65 A National Latina Agendafor Reproductive Justice Many Latino men lack basic access to prevention services and health screening For example,...
... nuclear materials is not new In 1984, the Advisory Panel on Alternative Means of Financing and Managing Radioactive Waste Facilities (known as AMFM) analyzed ten organizational alternatives and ... dedicated funding streams and annual appropriations NASA (an IGA) receives annual appropriations In the case of annual appropriations, the Senate and House will be required to authorize and appropriate ... mission, its organizational performance goals, the critical organizational attributes needed to meet those performance goals, and the various structural and procedural features necessary to perform those...
... in both fatal and nonfatal firearm use can lead toward the fact-based formation of policy and gun regulation Upon gathering this information and analyzing the data, it may be found that different ... identification, 911 calls, and hospital reporting are all methods for crime reporting The shooting database will allow for validation of data sources on shooting incidents and inform future database ... to head off serious violent altercations before they take place For example, police may receive intelligence that two gang members attacked and badly injured a rival gang member at a local night...
... DC, American Psychiatric Association, 1987 American Psychiatric Association: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Association, ... Health Organization: International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th Revision Geneva, World Health Organization, 1992 CHAPTER Basic Nomenclature Issues for ... such a way as to place them at a biological disadvantage” (p 877) He never elaborated on what he meant by biological disadvantage, but Kendell (197 5a) and Boorse (1975) both argued that it must at...
... aid for trade and recommitting to the Doha agenda; chapter by Marianne Fay, Michael Toman, and co-authors looks at infrastructure and sustainable development; chapter by Christopher Delgado and ... Seoul National University and received his MBA and PhD from the University of California at Los Angeles Claudia Sepúlveda is Senior Economist and Acting Research Manager for Partnerships, Capacity ... Institute for International Economics He was a Senior Staff Officer at the U.S National Academy of Sciences and National Research Council and Adjunct Professor of International Affairs at Georgetown...
... situation had changed radically by 1995 In 1995, 90% of women in Someland had completed secondary education and of those, half had graduated from an initial degree and 20% had gone on to postgraduate ... postgraduate studies At the other end of the scale we can see that by 1995 all girls were completing lower secondary, although 10% ended their schooling at this point This is in stark contrast with ... girls completed primary school, 35% had no schooling at all and 35% only completed the third grade In conclusion, we can see that in the 50 years from 1945 to 1995 there have been huge positive...
... Use a startup expenses and capitalization spreadsheet as a guide to preparing a balance sheet as of opening day Then detail how you calculated the account balances on your opening day balance ... and financial management A balance sheet shows what items of value are held by the company (assets), and what its debts are (liabilities) When liabilities are subtracted from assets, the remainder ... appear in the cash flow at all because you never write a check for it Opening Day Balance Sheet A balance sheet is one of the fundamental financial reports that any business needs for reporting and...
... principles and applications in aerospace medicine Aviat Space Environ Med 2007, 78:973-978 Thibeault C, Evans A; Air Transport Medicine Committee, Aerospace Medical Association: Emergency medical kit for ... Critical Care Vol 13 No Ruskin aerospace medical researchers, and the traveling public Sand and colleagues’ study should serve as a template for future research in this important area Competing ... kit for commercial airlines: an update Aviat Space Environ Med 2007, 78: 1170-1171 European Joint Aviation Authorities: JAR-OPS1, Commercial Air Transportation (Aeroplanes), Global Engineering...
... M, Hirai M, Tominaga N, Nakajima H, Elisseeva OA, Masuda T, Nakano A, Kawakami M, Oji Y, Ikegame K, Hosen N, Udaka K, Yasukawa M, Ogawa H, Kawase I, Sugiyama H: Wilms tumor gene peptide-based ... Ikegame K, Hosen N, Yoshihara S, Wu F, Fujiki F, Murakami M, Masuda T, Nishida S, Shirakata T, Nakatsuka S, Sasaki A, Udaka K, Dohy H, Aozasa K, Noguchi S, Kawase I, Sugiyama H: Induction of WT1 ... peptide vaccine and the resultant cancer regression Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2004;101:13885-13890 Kawakami M, Oka Y, Tsuboi A, Harada Y, Elisseeva OA, Furukawa Y, Tsukaguchi M, Shirakata T, Nishida...