intermittent stressors and protectors modifiers of disaster
The Causes and Behavioral Consequences of Disasters pot
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14/03/2014, 21:20
... writing of the book ix Contents Part I The Study of Disasters Understanding Disasters The Academic Study of Disasters What Is a Disaster? How Can the Study of Disasters ... five-member disaster response team that consisted of officials from both USAID and the Of ce of Federal Disaster Assistance The team evaluated the extent of the damage and assessed the needs of the ... There is a long and robust history of the study of disasters in the academic literature that varies by discipline and offers complementary understandings of relevant processes and outcomes Within...
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Governance and organizational structure of the inter-agency secretariat to the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction (ISDR) pot
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23/03/2014, 02:20
... reviews and surveys to improve the structure of the Organization and its responsiveness to the requirements of programmes and legislative mandates, and monitor the effectiveness of the systems of ... implementation of programmes and legislative mandates, ascertain compliance of programme managers with the financial and administrative regulations and rules, as well as with the approved recommendations of ... FUNCTION “The Office shall, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Financial Regulations and Rules of the United Nations examine, review and appraise the use of financial resources of the...
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Protecting the Elderly in Times of Disaster: The Critical Need for Comprehensive Disaster Planning and Exercise Design doc
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28/03/2014, 20:20
... Area Lack of understanding of what comprises a “vulnerable population”, and the implication for this group prior to, and during, a disaster Area Lack of adequate understanding and training of the ... concerning the special needs of these populations Area Lack of understanding of the importance of a Hazard Vulnerability Assessment in preparation of an All Hazards Plan, and appropriate hazard-specific ... Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Long-Term Care and Other Residential Facilities Pandemic InfluenzaPlanning Checklist http://www.pandemicflu.gov/plan/...
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Báo cáo y học: "Reduced levels of two modifiers of epigenetic gene silencing, Dnmt3a and Trim28, cause increased phenotypic nois" pdf
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09/08/2014, 22:23
... Brisbane, Queensland 4006, Australia 2School of Medicine, University of Queensland, 288 Herston Road, Brisbane, Queensland 4001, Australia 3MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular ... weights of mice haploinsufficient for Dnmt3a (a) Mice from paternal and maternal transmission of the Dnmt3a- null allele and the Dmnt1MommeD2 allele were weighed and genotyped at weeks of age ... (MommeDs) to study the role of epigenetic reprogramming in whole organisms and populations Mice with reduced levels of DNA methyltransferases [10] and other modifiers of epigenetic reprogramming...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: role of individuals and collaborative networks in mobilizing/coordinating societal and professional resources for major disasters" pps
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12/08/2014, 23:20
... Incident Command was required to change the ‘game plan’ dozens of times because original objectives given to the command staff often changed as a result of local changes in numbers of evacuees and availability ... hospital and even private citizen group disaster plans and responses have been written from the philosophy of a top down management concept These are political, sluggish, and awkward, and often ... integrated incident command structure The local response to any disaster is more a function of management of people, ideas, supplies, and strategies, and less a matter of practiced drills for...
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09 Physical and Chemical Characteristics of DDGS revisions.
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08/08/2012, 10:03
... Characteristics of U.S DDGS Physical and chemical characteristics of distiller’s dried grains with solubles (DDGS) vary among sources and can influence its feeding value and handling characteristics ... batches of DDGS where approximately 0, 30, 60 and 100% of the maximum possible of syrup was added to the mash before drying Actual rates of solubles addition to the mash were 0, 12, 25 and 42 ... (lightness of color) and b* (yellowness of color), with an increase in a* (redness of color) Similar results were also reported by Ganesan et al (2005) Table The Effect of the Rate of Solubles...
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Web Mining and Knowledge Discovery of Usage Patterns
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31/08/2012, 16:46
... modeling of Web objects (products, service, pages etc) and subjects (users), categorization of objects and subjects, mapping between and across objects and/ or subjects, and determination of the set of ... semantics, and the support of navigation [2] J Borges and M Levene Data mining of user navigation patterns In Proceedings of the WEBKDD’99 Workshop on Web Usage Analysis and User Profiling, August ... types of data: data on the Web (content), Web log data (usage) and Web structure data The authors of [5] classified the data type as content data, structure data, usage data, and user profile...
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Static and Dynamic Analysis of Space frames
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06/09/2012, 15:18
... result list of load cases, superposition files and influence lines 3.64 Version 8.38.03 • • • • Use of combination codes “SupOrX” and “SupAndX” for superposition files corrected New command “PLSCFAC” ... to choose between E- and Fformat of the written values Information about units added to the plot file of the action PlInfl, screen plot Results/ PlInfl and to the list file of the action DoList/Influence ... new program release! 1.2 Unit dependency of Import/Export of RM2000 Export and Import of RM2000 database is now UNIT dependent! In this case: • • Import of PARTIAL project, created by RM2000 Version...
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Static and Dynamic Analysis of Spaceframes
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06/09/2012, 15:55
... Disclaimer and Copyright Disclaimer Much time and effort have gone into the development and documentation of RM2000 and GP2000 The programs have been thoroughly tested and used The user accepts and ... the two load sets and the two loading cases (e.g.: L.C is a UDL of 10kN/m from Elem to Elem 20 and L.C is a Settlement of 0.001m at the beginning of element 1200.) Choose AddCon and insert the ‘Additional ... the program and the documentation remain with TDV Austria Use of the program and the documentation is restricted to the licensed users Unlicensed use of the program or reproduction of the documentation...
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Static and Dynamic Analysis of Spaceframes
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06/09/2012, 15:55
... Definition of loading and construction stages "RECALC Definition of calculation parameters and start of the calculation "RESULTS Viewing of results and creating of output files (plots and listings) ... from the icons at the top of the RM2000 screen), write the sequence of commands and save it as ‘filename.tcl’ The summary and the syntax of the commands to be specified and used in the TCL script ... displayed on the right hand side of the screen #NODE Definition of nodes and their attributes #ELEMENT Definition of elements and their attributes #TENDON Definition of tendons and their attributes...
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Cambridge.University.Press.Gender.Race.and.the.Writing.of.Empire.Public.Discourse.and.the.Boer.War.Sep.1999.pdf
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21/09/2012, 10:54
... library of the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies, David Doughan and the Fawcett Library, the Royal Commonwealth Society, and David Blake and his staff at the Institute of ... arrive at a clearer understanding of imperial ideology’s dependence on hierarchies of race, sex, and class and of the ways in which, hand in hand, the New Imperialism and the New Journalism brought ... the crisis of liberalism as a far-reaching one not simply of the relationship between the state and civil society, but ‘‘rather of the very ideas of state and civil society, of public and private.’’...
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Cambridge.University.Press.War.and.the.Law.of.Nations.A.General.History.Sep.2005.pdf
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21/09/2012, 11:02
... nourished and acorns provided with soil and water The interweaving of doctrine and practice in the area of war has been a complex and often untidy process through much (or rather all) of history – and ... 45–71 League of Nations Of cial Journal League of Nations Treaty Series Edmund F Moore, Reports of Cases of the Judicial Committee and the Lords of Privy Council, New Series (UK) Opinions of the Attorneys-General ... the mainstream of legal analysis, largely as a result of the crumbling of older conceptions of legitimacy and the rise of new aspirations for democracy and the self-determination of peoples The...
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Circuit theory of finance and the role of incentives in financial sector reform
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24/10/2012, 09:33
... build up specialized knowledge of the enterprises’day-to-day business and liquidity, and of short-term developments of demand and supply in the specific sectors and markets where enterprises operate ... creation of franchise value should go hand in hand with development of a strong regulatory and supervisory regime This should include incentives to align the interests of owners and managers of market ... of CTF .10 I.1.3 Efficiency and stability implications of CTF: the role of incentives 14 I.1.4 Theoretical and methodological features of CTF 16 I.2 FINANCE, GROWTH, AND...
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Ensuring Financial Stability: Financial Structure and the Impact of Monetary Policy on Asset Prices
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24/10/2012, 09:40
... prices “over and beyond” what such changes imply for the path of aggregate demand and inflation (Borio and Lowe 2002, Cecchetti et al 2000) Proponents of this policy emphasise that episodes of financial ... precision of the estimates, we thus follow Goodhart and Bean (2004) and Kohn (2006) discuss the implications of lags for the use of monetary policy in the face of asset price bubbles Sutton (2002) and ... for Denmark, Switzerland, Spain, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway and the UK, a threemonth Treasury bill rate for Belgium, Sweden and the US, and a three-month commercial...
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Báo cáo y học: "A prospective observational study of the relationship of critical illness associated hyperglycaemia in medical ICU patients and subsequent development of type 2 diabetes"
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25/10/2012, 10:02
... Influence of diabetes and hyperglycaemia on infectious disease hospitalisation and outcome Diabetologia 2007, 50:549-554 Christiansen C, Toft P, Jorgensen HS, Andersen SK, Tonnesen E: Hyperglycaemia and ... root of hospital acquired hyperglycaemia and in the long term lead to development of diabetes Although the incidence of hospital acquired hyperglycaemia differed between the three subgroups of ... the cut-off value in the Recommendations of the American Heart Association [35] and the trigger for initiation of insulin treatment for ICU patients recommended by the American College of Endocrinology...
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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
... patient and each place of Page of 10 residence (hospital, nursing home, revalidation centre and home) at which the patient stayed during this period, weighted by the length of stay Costs of care ... on the reduced length of stay [13] Life expectancy after stroke of patients in mRS 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 ... were higher (3.33 and 2.75 years) Standardized for gender the results for the stroke service were average costs of € 35.361 and 3.12 QALYs and for the usual care setting €41,352 and 2.61 QALYs So,...
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Báo cáo y học: " Derivation and preliminary validation of an administrative claims-based algorithm for the effectiveness of medications for rheumatoid arthritis"
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25/10/2012, 10:45
... authors made substantial contributions to conception and design, and to the analysis and interpretation of the data TRM and GWC handled acquisition of data All authors contributed to the manuscript ... in the population, and more reflective of the test itself, lessening the impact of any unique features of the VA population Moreover, we might expect that the PPV and NPV of the algorithm might ... effective Because of similarities in both the descriptive characteristics of the study populations of biologic and non-biologic DMARD users and the performance characteristics of the effectiveness...
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Báo cáo y học: "Expression of Human Globular Adiponectin-Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Analog Fusion Protein and Its Assay of Glucose-Lowering Effect In Vivo"
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25/10/2012, 11:10
... sonicated and centrifuged to separate the supernatant and inclusion body Part of the production was applied to 12% SDS–PAGE analysis and Western blot analysis (A) SDS-PAGE analysis: Most of the ... the C-terminus of GLP-1-A Compared with native GLP-1, the fusion protein has a modified site and larger molecular size, and may circumvent the rapid inactivation and renal clearance of GLP-1 Studies ... globular adiponectin and the C- terminus of GLP-1-A through the linker, which could make the N-terminus of GLP-1-A and the C-terminus of gAdiponectin be free and interact productively with their...
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Báo cáo y học: "Effects of Flurbiprofen on CRP, TNF-α, IL-6, and Postoperative Pain of Thoracotomy"
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25/10/2012, 11:10
... pain states, and work by inhibiting the cyclooxygenase enzyme responsible for the release of mediators of inflammation (6) The aims of this study were to evaluate the serum levels of acute phase ... C-reactive protein (CRP), and cytokines (interleukin-6 (IL-6) and tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α)) in patients with thoracotomy and to investigate the effects of flurbiprofen on postoperative inflammatory ... Society of Anesthesiology class IV or higher, patients undergoing resection of the pleura or chest wall, and patients with hemorrhagic diathesis or medication of anticoagulants, corticosteroids, and...
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