cirkovic observation selection effects and global catastrophic risks

global catastrophic risks sep 2008

Ngày tải lên : 11/06/2014, 10:43

... 115 Observation selection effects and global catastrophic risks 120 Milan M Cirkovic 6.1 Introduction: anthropic reasoning and global risks 120 6.2 Past-future asymmetry and risk inferences ... 100 6. Milan M Cirkovic Observation selection effects and global catastrophic risks 106 6.1 Introduction: anthropic reasoning and global risks 106 6.3 Doomsday Argument ... reflective and analytical manner than is currently done; and consider global catastrophic risks and their mitigation within a broader context of challenges and opportunities for safeguarding and improving...

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GLOBAL HEALTH RISKS: Mortality and burden of disease attributable to selected major risks doc

Ngày tải lên : 14/03/2014, 09:20

... diet-related risks and physical inactivity, and to all six risks combined, by region, 2004 17 Table 5: Deaths and DALYs attributable to alcohol, tobacco and illicit drug use, and to all three risks ... and DALYs attributable to five environmental risks, and to all five risks combined by region, 2004 24 Table 7: Percentage of total disease burden due to and 10 leading risks and all 24 risks ... Overweight and obesity High blood glucose High blood pressure GLOBAL HEALTH RISKS Table 4: Deaths and DALYs attributable to six diet-related risks and physical inactivity, and to all six risks combined,...

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Báo cáo y học: "Prioritizing functional modules mediating genetic perturbations and their phenotypic effects: a global strategy" potx

Ngày tải lên : 14/08/2014, 21:20

... variation and its phenotypic effects For illustration, we take single gene deletion, lethality and protein complexes as examples of the genetic perturbation, the phenotypic effect and the candidate ... prioritized by the BN model, and the HG enrichment test conditional on the same number of randomly sampled GO BP nodes with similar size The error bars stand for the standard deviation of the corresponding ... sequencing of colorectal and breast cancer genomes for somatic mutations [20] and are referred to as Wood's dataset (see Materials and methods for details) The same process and cutoff were used as...

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Báo cáo y học: "Lifetime health effects and medical costs of integrated stroke services - a non-randomized controlled cluster-trial based life table approach"

Ngày tải lên : 25/10/2012, 10:35

... 3% and 0% discounting rates for both costs and health effects Results Lifetime costs and health effects Table presents the average (half) yearly costs and the EuroQoL-5 D score at discharge and ... trial Selection of outcome measures The economic evaluation compares lifetime health effects and costs of the stroke service as compared to usual stroke care Health effects Lifetime health effects ... categories 0-1, 2-3, and was 5.94, 5.16, 3.87 and 3.64 for men, and 6.91, 5.94, 4.92, and 4.51 for women Corresponding lifetime QALYs were estimated at 4.12, 3.00, 1.39, -.02 for men, and 4.80, 3.28,...

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Evaluation of the Effects and the Programming of ‘Water Conservation Plan’ (WCP) for Total Water Resources Management in Tokyo

Ngày tải lên : 05/09/2013, 10:17

... policy makers and end-users) Journal of Water and Environment Technology, Vol 9, No.2, 2011 Mandatory Scheme The introduction of WWR and cumulative charging system are considered as mandatory schemes, ... such as acoustic sound detector and instant repair method corresponding to users’ complaints Water Conservation Effects by Direct Demand Side Control (ΔQ3) Direct demand side control measures consist ... 1975 Water Conservation Effects by Indirect Demand Side Control (ΔQ4) Indirect demand side control measures consist of water consumption reduction by promoting mindset-change and behavior-change...

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Tài liệu Global Farming Systems Study: Challenges and Priorities to 2030 SYNTHESIS AND GLOBAL OVERVIEW doc

Ngày tải lên : 20/12/2013, 19:15

... 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...

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Tài liệu Traffic Related Air Pollution: Spatial Variation, Health Effects and Mitigation Measures pdf

Ngày tải lên : 17/02/2014, 10:20

... Netherlands) and modeled NO2 concentrations from a previously described land use regression model.97 More information on the study area and population, hospital admission and covariates, and exposure ... Netherlands) and modeling contributions of sources in the Netherlands and other European countries excluding local traffic The OPS model calculates annual average concentrations based on emissions and ... sources (such as traffic and industry), spatial characteristics (ranging from street and building configuration to the size and elevation of a city and its surroundings) and atmospheric processes...

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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Antifungal effects and mechanism of action of viscotoxin A3 docx

Ngày tải lên : 19/02/2014, 07:20

... monochromator, and Glan-Thompson polarizers using quartz cuvettes with continuous stirring of the suspension, bandwidths of nm for excitation and nm for emission, and excitation and emission wavelengths ... potential and volume homeostasis of mitochondria Cell 91, 627–637 27 Haugland RP (1996) Handbook of Fluorescent Probes and Research Chemicals, 6th edn Molecular Probes, Inc, Eugene, OR 28 Chandra ... viscotoxins and fungal cells may also lead to other secondary effects, such as H2O2 production and Ca2+ liberation This membranotropic effect may explain the high toxicity of viscotoxins in particular and...

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Student Mobility & Credit Transfer: A National and Global Survey pot

Ngày tải lên : 06/03/2014, 08:20

... 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: ... Edward Island, a small number of articulation agreements for joint programs and credits exist between the province’s single university -the University of Prince Edward Island – and Holland College...

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New Media Power: The Internet and Global Activism doc

Ngày tải lên : 06/03/2014, 21:20

... 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...

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The Selection, Use and Maintenance of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) potx

Ngày tải lên : 08/03/2014, 13:20

... DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 ASSESSMENT OF RISK THE PROVISION AND SELECTION OF PPE INFORMATION, INSTRUCTION AND TRAINING PPE AND ... more information on the selection of gloves and some relevant European standards: • Selecting Protective Gloves for Work with Chemicals: Guidance for Employers and Health and Safety Specialist ... Standards for different RPE and these standards (the BS EN numbers) will give guidance on the hazards different types of RPE will protect against and protection factors Examples of British Standards...

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The Carbon and Global Warming Potential Impacts of Organic Farming: Does It Have a Significant Role in an Energy Constrained World? pptx

Ngày tải lên : 08/03/2014, 23:20

... 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...

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TESTIMONY BEFORE THE HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ENERGY INDEPENDENCE AND GLOBAL WARMING U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES pptx

Ngày tải lên : 15/03/2014, 16:20

... “commodity”: (1) accounting standards; (2) monitoring and verification standards; and (3) registration and enforcement systems GHG Emission Reduction Accounting Standards Accounting standards address the ... 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 ... 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...

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SOFTWARE PRODUCT LIABILITY: UNDERSTANDING AND MINIMIZING THE RISKS pot

Ngày tải lên : 16/03/2014, 11:20

... large and complex, it may be to the benefit of users that the programmers meet a particular standard of care in developing and debugging the program On the other hand, to ascertain what standard ... AND UNDERSTANDINGS BETWEEN THEM, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, RELATING TO THE SUBJECT MATTER HEREOF Parties' Duties and Standard of Care In tort litigation, the vendor will be held to a vague standard ... materiality of the errors, and (4) the preparer's office practice.79 Holding software programmers to a professional standard of care has advantages and disadvantages On the one hand, as software programs...

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Báo cáo khoa học: "Local and Global Algorithms for Disambiguation to Wikipedia" pot

Ngày tải lên : 17/03/2014, 00:20

... analyze global and 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 and global 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...

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Báo cáo " WATER VAPOR FEEDBACK AND GLOBAL WARMING " pot

Ngày tải lên : 17/03/2014, 19:20

... 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 measurements ... 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 ... 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...

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Báo cáo khoa học: " LOCAL AND GLOBAL STRUCTURES IN DISCOURSE UNDERSTANDING" docx

Ngày tải lên : 18/03/2014, 02:20

... 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,...

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Báo cáo khoa học: Association of RNA with the uracil-DNA-degrading factor has major conformational effects and is potentially involved in protein folding pot

Ngày tải lên : 22/03/2014, 16:21

... double-stranded cDNA, using both random hexamer and oligo-dT primers in independent experiments, randomly cloned, and 22 and 11 positive colonies, respectively, were sequenced Both UDE mRNA and 23S ... independent spectra in each case The terms Helix1, Helix2, Strand1 and Strand2 correspond to the two subcategories of helices and sheets (regular and distorted fractions) as dened in [9,71] On the bar ... secondary structural elements termed Helix1, Helix2, Strand1 and Strand2 correspond to the two subcategories of helices and sheets (regular and distorted fractions) as dened in [9] RNAUDE showed...

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The sensitivity of bank stock returns to market, interest and exchange rate risks docx

Ngày tải lên : 22/03/2014, 17:20

... period t of the various balance sheet items is denoted by 15: and i&L for domestic and foreign loans and 0: and c?,D: for domestic and foreign deposits In addition, it is assumed that the bank ... acquisition of foreign and domestic deposits In US currency terms, transaction costs for domestic and foreign loans are represented by (cd’/2) (Lp)’ and 4(c”/2) (Lf)‘, and by (cpd/2) (0:)’ and 4(cfd/2) ... profit stream, E(n,) +fiE(n,+ r), and differentiating with respect to Lp, Lj, Of, and 0: gives the optimal values of foreign and domestic loans and foreign and domestic deposits 3.2 Unexpected...

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INTERNET PROTOCOL VERSION 6: Federal Agencies Need to Plan for Transition and Manage Security Risks pot

Ngày tải lên : 23/03/2014, 03:20

... acquisition and procurement, transition tasks and milestones, and program and budget The Chief Information Officer has responsibility for ensuring a coherent and timely transition, establishing and maintaining ... National Institute of Standards and Technology, and OMB’s Offices of Information and Regulatory Affairs and General Counsel generally agreed with the contents of the report and provided technical ... have, and initiate steps to ensure that they can control and monitor IPv6 traffic Agency Comments and Our Evaluation We provided a draft of this report to DOD, Commerce, and OMB for review and...

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