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Arctic Alpine Ecosystems and People in a Changing Environment pdf

Arctic Alpine Ecosystems and People in a Changing Environment pdf

Ngày tải lên : 23/03/2014, 01:20
... central Arctic have warmed by 0.5°C), temperatures in Canada’s Hudson Bay and in Greenland, particularly in the Davis Strait area have decreased (Chapman and Walsh 1993), suggesting that climate ... northern Canada; the Kalaallit and Inughuit of Greenland; the Saami of Fennoscandia and Russia’s Kola peninsula; and the Chukchi, Even, Evenk, Nenets, Nivkhi and Yukaghir of the Russian Far North and ... or affected by seasonal variation and changing ecological conditions Climatic variability and weather events often greatly affect the abundance and availability of animals and therefore the abilities...
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Protecting Children''''s Health In A Changing Environment - Report Of The Fifth Ministerial Conference On Environment And Health.pdf potx

Protecting Children''''s Health In A Changing Environment - Report Of The Fifth Ministerial Conference On Environment And Health.pdf potx

Ngày tải lên : 22/03/2014, 16:22
... and health; and the social determinants of health inequalities.The struggle against poverty demands moral, political and social development Human health is an all-purpose goal and an essential ... participation is facilitated across all Member States at both national and international levels by providing them with assistance, resources and the training required for meaningful and sustainable involvement ... implementation; • scaling up existing financial mechanisms; • bringing in new and innovative sources of finance; and • building capacities to secure, absorb and deploy environmental financing The...
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Báo cáo hóa học: " Steinfield, H., Mooney, H.A., Schneider, F. and Neville, L. E. Livestock in a changing landscape: Drivers" pptx

Báo cáo hóa học: " Steinfield, H., Mooney, H.A., Schneider, F. and Neville, L. E. Livestock in a changing landscape: Drivers" pptx

Ngày tải lên : 21/06/2014, 03:20
... and Neville, L E Livestock in a changing landscape: Drivers, consequences, and responses (Volume 1) and Gerber, P., Mooney, H A. , Dijkman, J., Tarawali, S and de Haan, C Livestock in a changing ... management Regulatory systems with a regional approach, including utilization of animal wastes and increased storage time, are advocated The policy regarding nutrient loads is aimed at increasing the ... as milk and eggs, is far larger in the rural areas than in the urban areas General increases in production over the years, particularly with regard to poultry, are highlighted The Indian data...
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Managing the environment in a changing climate potx

Managing the environment in a changing climate potx

Ngày tải lên : 28/06/2014, 23:20
... change and impacts Managing our priority risks Flooding and coastal erosion Water Wildlife and habitats Managing our other climate risks Regulating business and waste Land quality Recreation and ... wildlife, people, industry and agriculture Heavier rainfall and potentially increased storminess could increase runoff from agricultural land and urban areas and increase discharges from combined sewer ... a longer timescale there is less evidence of any trends Animal and plant species are moving and changing in response to increasing temperatures These changes are clearest in marine and coastal...
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A computational study to investigate the effects of insulation and EGR in a diesel engine

A computational study to investigate the effects of insulation and EGR in a diesel engine

Ngày tải lên : 05/09/2013, 16:11
... [29] Arash Nemati, Shahram Khalilarya, Samad Jafarmadar, Hassan Khatamnejhad, Vahid Fathi Numerical parametric investigation of a gasoline fuelled partially-premixed compression-ignition engine International ... the shape of high temperature regions for baseline and adiabatic with EGR cases are the same Also at adiabatic case for 400°CA and 420°CA, these regions more spread out in the main chamber and ... pressure (Imep), and work done per cycle increased in adiabatic case The amount of BSFC at full and part loads are 18 % and 23 % lower respectively in adiabatic case than baseline and it is the...
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New headway- rooms and objects in a house

New headway- rooms and objects in a house

Ngày tải lên : 30/09/2013, 13:10
... Cooker Washing machine Telephone Cupboard Cup Sofa • • • • • • • an armchair a fridge a television a coffee table a shelf a plant a stereo • • • • • • • a lamp a cooker a washing machine a telephone ... Starter Rooms in a house Living room = sitting room Bedroom Kitchen Dining room Bathroom Toilet Objects in the house Armchair Fridge Television Coffee table Bookshelf Plant Stereo Lamp Cooker ... a shelf a plant a stereo • • • • • • • a lamp a cooker a washing machine a telephone a cupboard a cup a sofa ...
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A case-study in IVF - paternalism and autonomy in a ‘high-risk’ pregnancy

A case-study in IVF - paternalism and autonomy in a ‘high-risk’ pregnancy

Ngày tải lên : 01/11/2013, 08:20
... pregnancy There was a significant further advance of her renal disease, necessitating the initiation of haemodialysis (a kidney machine) two years later, and a living, related donor renal transplant ... remaining remarkably stable The pregnancy was complicated at 20 weeks’ gestation by a right deep vein thrombosis, affecting the femoral and external iliac veins, and anti-coagulation with heparin ... IVF in women with renal transplants, but specialists were becoming increasingly reluctant to advise women with transplants against trying for a baby, as medical care for ‘high risk’ pregnancies...
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Tài liệu Hospitals in a changing Europe pdf

Tài liệu Hospitals in a changing Europe pdf

Ngày tải lên : 14/02/2014, 21:20
... Judith Healy (eds): Hospitals in a Changing Europe Martin McKee, Judith Healy and Jane Falkingham (eds): Health Care in Central Asia Elias Mossialos, Anna Dixon, Josep Figueras and Joe Kutzin (eds): ... self-regulation; that is, an organization maintains a quasi-steady state through homeostatic mechanisms that involve information feedback This analogy may be taken too far: a hospital is not a biological ... diffusing out of teaching hospitals and subspecialization was increasingly emerging in district hospitals, which in many countries were also playing a greater role in teaching and research, thus...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "Liars and Saviors in a Sentiment Annotated Corpus of Comments to Political debates" pdf

Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "Liars and Saviors in a Sentiment Annotated Corpus of Comments to Political debates" pdf

Ngày tải lên : 20/02/2014, 05:20
... Theresa Wilson, and Claire Cardie 2005 “Annotating expressions of opinions and emotions in language” In Language Resources and Evaluation, volume 39, 2-3 We are grateful to João Ramalho for his assistance ... Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, Prague Krippendorff, Klaus 2004 Content Analysis: An Introduction to Its Methodology, 2nd Edition Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, California ... mentions are classifiable into syntacticsemantic categories; (vi) the opinionated sentences may be characterized according to their polarity and intensity; (vii) each opinionated sentence may have a...
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Coral Reef Fishes: Dynamics and Diversity in a Complex Ecosystem ppt

Coral Reef Fishes: Dynamics and Diversity in a Complex Ecosystem ppt

Ngày tải lên : 06/03/2014, 18:21
... for the appearance of many antipredator adaptations, including increased external ornamentation in gastropods (Vermeij, 1977), and infaunalization, boring, and cementation in bivalves and other ... land masses are Gondwanan fragments The break up of Gondwana extended over a period of about 80 Ma from an initial separation about 135 Ma to the final separation of South America and Africa in ... dashed lines indicate Atlantic sites Families: 1, Acanthoclinidae; 2, Acanthuridae; 3, Albulidae; 4, Antennariidae; 5, Aplodactylidae; 6, Aploacinidae; 7, Apogonidae; 8, Aulostomidae; 9, Balistidae;...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Generating Usable Formats for Metadata and Annotations in a Large Meeting Corpus" pptx

Báo cáo khoa học: "Generating Usable Formats for Metadata and Annotations in a Large Meeting Corpus" pptx

Ngày tải lên : 08/03/2014, 02:21
... generation of annotation and metadata databases to enhance search and browsing of meeting recordings This goal can be achieved by providing plugand-play databases, which are much easier to access ... generates the global tab-separated files for each annotation The script also generates an SQL script that creates a relational annotation database and populates it with data from the tab-separated ... important information is spread in many places, and can be found as attributes of a meeting in the annotation files (e.g start time) or obtained by parsing file names (e.g audio channel, camera) The...
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Socioeconomic position and health in a population of Brazilian elderly: the Bambuí Health and Aging Study (BHAS) pdf

Socioeconomic position and health in a population of Brazilian elderly: the Bambuí Health and Aging Study (BHAS) pdf

Ngày tải lên : 14/03/2014, 20:20
... reliability of the data gathered, standardizing procedures and instruments, training of field-work and labo- ratory teams, and adjusting for several confounding variables Internal validity was assured ... (puntuación en el Cuestionario General de Salud, autovaloración del estado de salud y de la agudeza visual, grado de dificultad para caminar 300 metros, incapacidad para realizar las actividades ... appointment because of existing lines, and in obtaining medicines because of financial problems or any other problem (Table 4) ple, in China and India, higher income levels, particularly in urban...
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School Crisis Guide: Help and Healing in a Time of Crisis pot

School Crisis Guide: Help and Healing in a Time of Crisis pot

Ngày tải lên : 14/03/2014, 20:20
... activities Make mental health services available, including Employee Assistance Program, if applicable Practice active listening and acknowledge pain and anxiety as well as a healing process that has ... counseling; classroom lesson planning; and where to reassemble students and staff if the school building is unavailable ● Training and practicing Training needs, dates and types of training to ... students, families and staff? ● Provide regular information updates and maintain open communication with teachers, other staff and parents? ● Monitor rumors and maintain timely, accurate information?...
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Risks Ahead for the Financial Industry in a Changing Interest Rate Environment pdf

Risks Ahead for the Financial Industry in a Changing Interest Rate Environment pdf

Ngày tải lên : 15/03/2014, 01:20
... United States United Kingdom Italy France China Australia Japan Russian Federation Canada Brazil Germany Turkey South Korea India South Africa Indonesia Mexico Argentina G20 countries' total 2010b) ... a) Based on banks contained in respective countries' Datastream bank indices Note that such data are not available for Saudi Arabia b) From 1-Jan-10 to 29-Jul-10 c) Based on banks contained in ... RISKS AHEAD FOR THE FINANCIAL INDUSTRY IN A CHANGING INTEREST RATE ENVIRONMENT A Current financial market outlook and risks Selected recent developments Financial markets are searching for...
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Diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis by smear microscopy and culture in a tertiary health care facility: Biology and Medicine docx

Diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis by smear microscopy and culture in a tertiary health care facility: Biology and Medicine docx

Ngày tải lên : 15/03/2014, 03:20
... being achieved Passive case finding is the mainstay of case finding in most developing countries This relies heavily on sputum examination by smear and culture, chest radiology and tuberculin ... (TB) laboratory investigations in tertiary healthcare facilities which have a large number of cases and financial constraints The present study aimed to re-evaluate the efficiency of smear microscopy ... of Science, Jazan University, Jazan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia *Corresponding Author: kismail@jazanu.edu.sa, sayeedkhatib@hotmail.com Abstract Smear microscopy and culture forms the backbone of tuberculosis...
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Expect the Unexpected: Building business value in a changing world pptx

Expect the Unexpected: Building business value in a changing world pptx

Ngày tải lên : 15/03/2014, 21:20
... both geographically and in terms of type of usage: municipal and domestic, agricultural or industrial Agriculture in India, sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia (excluding China) is forecast to create the ... context may generate insights such as: • Demand and supply stresses are likely to be concentrated in areas such as China and India that already experience massive challenges of water availability and ... range of industries in 22 countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea,...
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Effect of hydrogen peroxide on the destruction of organic contaminants synergism and inhibition in a con

Effect of hydrogen peroxide on the destruction of organic contaminants synergism and inhibition in a con

Ngày tải lên : 16/03/2014, 00:07
... the reactor was taken using a sampling/drainage valve Sample filtration and analysis was performed immediately after collection 2.3 Analyses Analysis of 4-CBA was performed using an Agilent Series ... M Saquib, M Muneer, Desalination 155 (2003) 255 [63] E.R Bandala, S Gelover, M.T Leal, C Arancibia-Bulnes, A Jimenez, C .A Estrada, Catal Today 76 (2002) 189 [64] A. E.H Machado, J .A de Miranda, ... photocatalytic treatment of organic contaminants in water, Ph.D dissertation, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 2001 [68] T Hisanaga, K Harada, K Tanaka, J Photochem Photobiol A: Chem...
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Geochemistry of inorganic arsenic and selenium in a tropical soil  effect of reaction time, ph, and comp

Geochemistry of inorganic arsenic and selenium in a tropical soil effect of reaction time, ph, and comp

Ngày tải lên : 16/03/2014, 00:25
... potential groundwater and surface water contamination by these contaminants Arsenic can exist in inorganic form, organic form, and gaseous state The oxidation states of As in the natural systems are ... metals and occurs in about 50 minerals (Kabata-Pendias and Pendias, 2001) It is present in four different oxidation states in aqueous and subsurface systems, namely )2, 0, +4, and +6 The fate and ... values of their parameters as well as the correlation of determinations (r2 ) Arsenate and Se(IV) adsorption increased significantly with increased adsorbate loading initially and then increased...
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