... vegetation and sense of safety in residential settings The findings from residential settings are in direct contrast to those obtained in studies of nonresidential settings: In residential settings, the ... preventing minor conflicts from spiraling out of control, vegetation might inhibit violent crimes in some residences without increasing violent crimes in others On the other hand, by increasing informal ... (1988) Landscape care: Perceptions of local people in landscape ecology and sustainable development In Landscape and land use planning: Proceedings from the 1988 International Federation of Landscape...
... in helping to develop policies that support caregivers in their care management, including finding and using information and assistive services However, the literature is inadequate in explaining ... in helping to develop policies that support caregivers in their care management, including finding and using information and assistive services However, the literature is inadequate in explaining ... in timing of diagnosis of the disease; and (4) disparities in access to care to treat the disease Although each of these issues is distinct, they are interconnected in creating and perpetuating...
... for the Arts Indeed, among the areas in our sample, the fastest growing places (Charlotte and Phoenix) were more inclined to invest inthe arts than were the declining areas 28 Arts andCulture ... consider abandoning the nonprofit mode altogether and adopting a strategy of seeking individual investors to fund their programming inthe hope of raising sufficient earnings to cover their costs, ... part inthe arts by performing at homes and a variety of other venues inthe informal sector Early inthe 20th century, the number of commercial touring companies began to dwindle, and by the...
... productive, inthe face of diminishing resources Other examples of violence traceable to the globalization process have been the rise of dowry murder in India, the increase in trafficking and other forms ... in 1960s to 66.7 in 2006, resulting in an increase inthe median age of the population from 30 in 1980 to 36.4 in 2006 The drop inthe demographic growth has been especially high in western and ... was the revolt of women against housework in Europe andthe US, and later the rise of feminist movements across the planet, inthe 1980s and 1990s that triggered the most radical rethinking of...
... are produced inthe home country by the parent Now consider the sourcing decision of the multinational’ a¢ liate inthe other Northern s country Let cA ('; z) be the minimum cost to the a¢ liate ... within the multinational enterprise That increases the cost of producing each intermediate in a Northern a¢ liate relative to the cost of producing at the parent so that for the threshold intermediate ... Di¤erentiating equations (26) and (14), we obtain the elasticities of the marginal costs of the parent …rm and its foreign a¢ liate in industry i with respect to shipping costs between the north and the...
... countries taking on increasingly central roles intheglobal supply chains China and India are currently leading theTheGlobal Knowledge Economyand Higher Education 13 so-called knowledge users The ... the United Kingdom; eleven in France, Germany, and Ireland; ten in Denmark and Sweden; nine in Switzerland; eight in Belgium; and seven inthe Netherlands (Eicher 1998) In 1950, there were 2,296,000 ... acquiring, maintaining, and improving such capacities Among the minimum requirements are (1) a national education and training system catering to the masses, rather than to a handful of elites, and...
... of their lives, with the result being that the work day, the time of living labor, is extended and intensified The increase inthe quantity of living labor not only reflects the transferring of the ... develops in a shorter time than the latter Inthe cycle of the real economy, like in all business cycles, the crisis begins at the moment when thein ationary increase in prices (for example in real ... transformed in biocapitalism It no longer consists, like during the Fordist era, in investing in constant capital and variable capital (wages), but instead investing inthe devices of the production and...
... Cross in Italy during the World War I, The Sun Also Rises, The Old Man andthe Sea, For Whom the Bell Tolls and Death inthe Afternoon based on his experiences while living in Spain and joining the ... another The grandmother held the floor most of the time from the beginning of the story in her decision where to go, in her introduction of the scenery along the journey While the father, the mother ... character and setting Technique has to with the structuring of the story into the plot so that the writer can convey the theme andthe manipulating of the language in order to express the ideas of the...
... informal on -the- job training, for example During this initial training either the worker accepts lower wages while investing time in training (in which case the worker bears the costs) or the employer ... ensuring coordination across ministries and other institutions involved in education and training activities; and mechanisms for certifying the achievements of learners, monitoring institutional and ... their country contexts The World Bank can help in this effort by deepening the understanding of the implications of the knowledge economy for education and training systems and by disseminating...
... subsite Substrate binding induces conformational changes involving the ArgA145PheA146 fragment of the protein chain, acting as a flap, first opening and then closing the groove [45] The catalytic reaction ... ArgA145 and ArgB263, on the negatively charged COO– inthe aminic part determines the position of the substrate within the S1¢-binding subsite O atoms of the main chain CO groups of LeuB387 and TrpB240, ... of the side chain d-guanidino group of this residue are involved in H-bonding as follows: Ne with the O atom of the main chain CO group of the TrpB240; Ng1 shares H bonding with O atom of the...
... mark the position of the rising sun during equinox andthe summer and winter solstices To observe these events required standing on the observatory pyramid to the west and facing three minor ... portals to the Underworld; and (4) the division of the world into the four cardinal points, including the centre point, and their corresponding colours (Ashmore 1992: 174) Factors such as these were ... cooking, eating, storage, and sometimes bathing take place inthe k’o´ b’en (“kitchen”), whereas sleeping, dresso ing, andthe receiving of guests occur inthe nah (Hanks ´ 1990: 333–334) In the...
... risk-taking in certain parts of the industry The CRMPG’s view was that “it is likely that flaws inthe design and workings of the systems of incentives within the financial sector have inadvertently ... include quality of the business, the risk management inthe business; the second, it is the quantum of bonus that is paid and making sure that is in line with the relative success of the business ... organisations have pinpointed the bonus cultureinthe banking sector as having played a role inthe current banking crisis The design of reward systems inthe banks, it is suggested, meant that there was...
... leadership intheglobal privacy policy debate All around the world, including inthe European Union, policymakers are rethinking their privacy frameworks As a leader intheglobal Internet economy, ... wins and retains the trust of its customers.”); eBay Comment at (“innovation inthe Internet economy depends on consumer trust and that maintaining consumer privacy is essential to the continued ... connecting to the Internet inthe mid-1990s andthe model remains in place today As a result, many of the key actors (e.g., online advertisers and their various data sources—cloud computing services,...
... P’s intangible as the commensurate amount of intangible income The example above assumes that the manufacturing intangible was the only intangible involved inthe line of business and that the ... business income.23 But interest from a CFC that has only active business income would go into the business income basket A special rule places interest from export financing inthe business basket Income ... Aramaki, and Sheetal Chand deal with the effects of the tax treatment of investment and savings on international capital flows They evaluate changes in tax wedges on savings and investment in the...
... 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 ... of Aesthetic Labour, Skills and Training 197 FIG Employment and social exclusion in Scotland—added value and costs of exclusion incapacity benefit over the line and, realistically, into interactive...
... call them, ranged from Iceland, Greenland, and even Newfoundland inthe west to England, France, Russia, andthe Black Sea inthe east, wreaking havoc wherever they went In 793, they sacked the ... continent They left Norway inthe ninth centuryaccording to their own founding myth to escape the tyranny of a Norwegian kingand settled inthe Shetlands, Orkneys, Faroes, and Iceland From Iceland, ... themselves moving back in time into the mythic space of the Eddic poems andthe seemingly more historical landscapes of the sagas Another path to the north led from the pastoral to the wild The sublimity...