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Managing people working as individuals and in groups

Managing people working as individuals and in groups

Ngày tải lên : 14/09/2012, 11:41
... 8 Staff selection case study 2 The next stage is to try and find peop le from within the company with the necessary skills. However, the company has expanded significantly and has few staff available. ... discussed by the group as a whole and tasks are allocated according to ability and experience.  This approach is successful for groups where all members are experienced and competent. ©Ian Sommerville ... self- oriented and interaction oriented. She felt that she was primarily a self-oriented type as she felt that this project was a way in which she would be noticed by senior management and promoted....
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Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 1.1

Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 1.1

Ngày tải lên : 07/10/2012, 15:56
... climate change and its attributed environmental and socio-economic consequences over past decades, particularly over the last several years, has led to a growing body of literature and increasing concern ... inflicted by disaster agents would increase dra- matically given the proportionate increase of the vulner- ability of communities and industrial assets driven by accelerated urbanization and economic ... measures focused on disaster risk prevention, damage mitigation and arrangements for efficient risk sharing. Especially emphasized is the salient role of financial systems and tools such as insurance in...
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Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 1.2

Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 1.2

Ngày tải lên : 07/10/2012, 15:56
... the increasing intensity and fre- quency of natural disasters and extreme weather events (Srinivas and Nakagawa, 2008; Smith et al., 2009). The rate of increase of disasters as well as the numbers ... post-disaster response can actually increase vulnerabilities in the long term (Anderson and Woodrow, 1998; Schipper and Pelling, 2006). Nonetheless, as the emphasis continues to shift from disaster ... renewal and transformation; and (3) and understanding of change and uncertainty as inherent in social-ecological systems. This statement strongly reflects the convergent aspects of CCA and DRR....
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Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 1.3

Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 1.3

Ngày tải lên : 07/10/2012, 15:56
... Geneva, Switzerland. ISDR, 2009. Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction: Risk and Poverty in a Changing Climate. United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland. Janssen, M. A. and Anderies, J. ... scholars, and increase collaboration between the young and the seasoned within academic institutions, development and relief organiz- ations and government. We see this path, embedded in adaptive and ... Community-based disaster prepa- redness and climate adaptation: local capacity- building in the Philippines. Disasters, 30(1). 81–101. Anderson, M. B. and Woodrow, P. J., 1998. Rising from the Ashes....
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Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 1.4

Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 1.4

Ngày tải lên : 07/10/2012, 15:57
... discussion). Specifically, if one looks at the increasing activity in the basin the increase has occurred in the east- ernmost part of the basin, far from land. The activity in areas where landfall takes place shows very ... (AMM) and even more exotic relationships such as with the Quasibiennial Oscillation (QBO), Cold Tongue Index (CTI), African dust and rainfall, Asian and North Amer- ican smog, sunspot activity and ... skill of existing seasonal predictions of basin activity is modest at best (e.g. Owens and Landsea, 2003), efforts to predict landfall rates on longer timescales based on NATL basin activity are...
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Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 1.5

Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 1.5

Ngày tải lên : 07/10/2012, 15:57
... target was increased from 60 per cent to at least 80 per cent and the scope was extended to cover not only CO 2 but the full basket of Kyoto greenhouse gases (CO 2 ,CH 4 ,N 2 O, HFCs, PFCs and SF 6 ). The ... goal and finally setting the UK’s contribution to the global trajectory. The process was strongly evidence-based and made extensive use of model results, but it was not an integrated, model-based ... hurricane landfalls and their impacts will be those who best match their decisions to what can and cannot be known about the uncertain future. And such wisdom starts with understanding the historical record and...
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Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 2.1

Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 2.1

Ngày tải lên : 07/10/2012, 15:57
... settle- ments at coastal locations where hurricanes often make landfall, such as Florida (Pielke et al., 2008; Schmidt et al., 2009). In the future, urbanization in hazard-prone areas such as coastal agglomera- tions ... of the increased damage due to natural disas- ters around the globe can be explained by socio- economic developments such as an increased population and concentration of wealth in areas that are ... developments are a major deter- minant of the occurrence and consequences of natural disasters. Natural hazards such as storms, flash floods, heat waves and storm surges are natural phenomena. However,...
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Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 2.2

Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 2.2

Ngày tải lên : 07/10/2012, 15:57
... risk, such as insurance purchases. However, in many cases this framework fails to adequately describe behaviour in practice, especially in the case of low-probability, high- impact risks such as ... disaster aimed at creating con- ditions within the human system that enhance this system’s resistance to disasters and its capacity to respond to, and cushion impacts of, a disaster (Handmer and ... protection measures, such as dikes or building codes. Over time, catastrophe models need to be updated due to socio-economic developments and climate change. In case climate change increases the...
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Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 2.3

Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 2.3

Ngày tải lên : 07/10/2012, 15:57
... crisis. As a drought-prone country with massive fossil fuel resources, and with important economic sectors such as agricul- ture and tourism vulnerable to climate shifts, Australia stands to ... in this respect as well. Perceptions may deviate from expert assessments and influence risk man- agement of households, such as investments in precautionary measures or insurance purchases. A combination ... the reporting of climate change, which has been found to correlate with increased temperatures (Ungar, 1992; McComas and Shanahan, 1999), peak events such as the 1997 Kyoto conference (Krosnick...
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Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 2.4

Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 2.4

Ngày tải lên : 07/10/2012, 15:57
... as the villain was Queensland, which was blamed for taking too much water out of the system, in particular by South Australia, which was the most badly affected state. As an example, Queensland ... wetlands which perform essential hydrological, biological and chemical functions and which support and maintain the productivity and health of the river systems. A number of the Basin wetlands ... context, and as such involve many twists and turns in which the states depending on the Basin for water supply (New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, the Australian Capital Territory and Victoria)...
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Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 2.5

Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 2.5

Ngày tải lên : 07/10/2012, 15:57
... management and climate change was justified by the fact that Minister Penny Wong was the minister for climate change and water. 5. The Coorong Wetlands are one of the most impor- tant wetlands in ... NY. Graber, D., 1993. Mass Media and American politics.CQ Press, Washington, DC. Gurevitch, M. and Levy, M. R., 1985. Introduction. Mass Communication Yearbook, Vol. 5, M. Gurevitch and M. R. Levy (eds). ... Threats, Dilemmas and Opportunities, U. Rosenthal, A. Boin and L. Comfort (eds). Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, IL. Seeger, M. W., Sellnow, T. L. and Ulmer, R. R., 2003. Communication and Organizational...
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As such & such as

As such & such as

Ngày tải lên : 30/07/2013, 01:25
... Cách dùng as such và such as Hai cụm từ, as such và such as, trông thì có vẻ giống nhau nhưng trên thực tế hai cụm từ này khác nhau về nghĩa. As such có hai nghĩa. ... nói: She's an athlete, and as such she has to train very hard. The film was a romance, and as such it had the usual happy ending. Chúng ta cũng có thể dùng as such để diễn tả ý một ... sell books as such, but it does sell magazines and newspapers. Tạp chí và báo cũng là mặt hàng tương tự như sách, nhưng chúng không phải là sách. He isn't American as such, but...
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The pursuit of the subject - literature as critic and perfecter of philosophy 1790-1830

The pursuit of the subject - literature as critic and perfecter of philosophy 1790-1830

Ngày tải lên : 01/11/2013, 09:20
... necessity, chaos and order, body and mind, individual and totality, change and continuity, in the measured aesthetic vision, which is henceforth to be respected in life as much as in art. Schiller ... everything. What mattered was simply to know something and say it. In practice, it was far harder to assert than prove something (no. ; KFSA II , ). But even an asser- tion was not final, merely ... anamnesis, the re-call and re-presentation of the past, so that the past’s meaning thereby becomes present, and Hyperion’s ascent to higher vision is enacted in the text. Stranded in philistine...
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Tài liệu Workflows as Programs and Plug-ins doc

Tài liệu Workflows as Programs and Plug-ins doc

Ngày tải lên : 21/01/2014, 04:20
... Automator and resave it. In any case, if you decide to save a workflow as an application, choose File Save As, and then select Application from the pop-up menu at the bottom. 7.4.2. Workflows as ... In the Save As dialog box, however, there's another choice for saving your workflows: as an application (Figure 7-13 ). A workflow saved as an application has all the benefits associated ... the workflow as a Finder plug-in. 7.4. Workflows as Programs and Plug-ins Building an Automator workflow is a satisfying intellectual exercise and a delicious talent to acquire. But if the point...
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