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The Costs and Financial Benefits of Green Buildings: A Report to California’s Sustainable Building Task Force pptx

Ngày tải lên : 06/03/2014, 19:20

... lower the environmental impact of conventional power generation.96 This report seeks to quantify some of the benefits, including the value of peak power reduction (in this section) and the value of ... Prior to this report, no comprehensive analysis of the actual costs and financial benefits of green buildings had been completed, although there are a number of studies that begin to address this ... were made to indoor air quality.9 Report Methodology and Format This report is the first of its kind to fully aggregate the costs and benefits of green buildings Specifically, the bulk of this report...

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Tài liệu The Benefits of “Light Licensing” docx

Ngày tải lên : 10/12/2013, 19:15

... on behalf of its customers If there is an issue with the license application, the user is advised of the problem and is requested to manually file a registration with the FCC This further process ... every week Ofcom is developing a permanent web-based tool to automate this entire process Besides the currently manual process, the main difference between the UK and US systems is that the UK licensing ... Specifications published here are current as of the date of publication of this document Because we are continuously improving our products, ADC reserves the right to change specifications without...

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Tài liệu The Benefits of Bank Deposit Rate Ceilings: New Evidence on Bank Rates and Risk in the 1920s (p. 2) docx

Ngày tải lên : 15/02/2014, 05:20

... considered the financial center of the United States Thus, if there are statistical regularities to uncover in banking, they should be reflected in the records of these banks The other reason to focus ... measures of asset quality, or risk His deposit rate proxy was the ratio of the amount of interest paid on total deposits to the amount of total deposits He found that this ratio ranged from zero to ... depositors, in other words, would limit the amount of yield they would need to earn and hence the amount of risk they would need to bear to be competitive Without rate competition, that is, the...

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Tài liệu ASSESSING THE BENEFITS OF INTERNATIONAL PORTFOLIO DIVERSIFICATION IN BONDS AND STOCKS ppt

Ngày tải lên : 16/02/2014, 02:20

... Standard errors are reported in parenthesis J-Stat denotes the p-value of the Jstatistic to test the null hypothesis that the overidentifying restrictions are satisfied Excess returns are expressed ... country and the US for bonds Standard errors are reported in parenthesis J-Stat denotes the p-value of the Jstatistic to test the null hypothesis that the overidentifying restrictions are satisfied ... The results refer to the estimation of system (14) by one stage GMM estimation with the optimal weighting matrix being the unity matrix The estimated coefficients of the system of equations are...

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Tài liệu Project Management 2.0 – The Ultimate Benefits of the New Approach to Project Management docx

Ngày tải lên : 18/02/2014, 07:20

... advantage of the wisdom of the whole team The new-generation, Web-based tools give team members an easy way to contribute to the common repository of tasks and plans These tools unleash the power of ... people like the software, they use it more often -4Copyright© Wrike, Inc www.wrike.com Project Management 2.0 – The Ultimate Benefits of the New Approach to Project Management New software tools provide ... helps to solve one of the biggest challenges of traditional software packages One of the major problems with traditional tools was the users’ unwillingness to update data regularly Plans often...

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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Hypoxia reduces the expression of heme oxygenase-2 in various types of human cell lines A possible strategy for the maintenance of intracellular heme level pdf

Ngày tải lên : 19/02/2014, 06:20

... It is therefore of signiﬁcance to study the regulation of HO-2 expression in human cells under hypoxia In the present study, we have analyzed the effect of hypoxia on the expression levels of HO-1 ... and harvested Total RNA was extracted from each cell line, and then subjected to northern blot analysis Each lane contains 15 lg of total RNA The bottom panel shows the expression of b-actin mRNA ... head -to- head orientation, and their transcription start sites are 1.5 kb apart We therefore analyzed the promoter function of the 1.5 kb 5¢-ﬂanking region of the HO-2 gene in the present study YN-1...

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Tài liệu The Benefits of Economic Freedom pptx

Ngày tải lên : 20/02/2014, 19:20

... it is the focus of this article, which surveys the recent literature in the field The Concept of Economic Freedom Economic freedom is a composite that attempts to characterize the degree to which ... that the components of the EFI, as well as weighting schemes, have changed in the various editions that All the data and other information are available at http://www.freetheworld.com Data and other ... Kingdom rank at the top At the bottom, one finds the Democratic Republic of Congo; many other African nations rank low as well In relative change, of the countries listed here the United Kingdom...

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**Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "REAPING THE BENEFITS OF INTERACTIVE AND SEMANTICS*" pdf**

Ngày tải lên : 20/02/2014, 21:20

... In this strategy, a node is linked to its parent as soon as all the required children of the node are analyzed, without waiting for other optional children to the right The required units are ... until the very end (Fig lb) Thus even the thematic role of the subject NP remains unresolved until the very end ASLC is too circumspect for interactive semantics HSLC on the other hand, attempts to ... attempts to attach the PP to the VP or NP even before the noun in the PP has been seen At this time, semantics cannot provide useful feedback since it has no information on the role filler for a thematic...

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The Health Benefits of Physical Activity for Girls and Women ppt

Ngày tải lên : 05/03/2014, 13:20

... whether other symptoms are linked to estrogen withdrawal, the role of physical activity in the attenuation of menopausal symptoms is unknown Part of the difficulty in making this link is the lack of ... independent of one another There has been a serious lack of consideration of the potential for these areas to complement and strengthen each other However, as understandings of health broaden to include ... factors need to be considered in the development of any strategy, such that the lowincome and the least active women get the support they need to reduce or quit their use of tobacco and other...

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The benefits of an ageing population pot

Ngày tải lên : 05/03/2014, 18:20

... These are complex trends and the inter-play of factors is difficult to interpret or to project far into the future This section therefore concentrates upon three positive areas with respect to ... reach ten years of age Proximity was the strongest predictor of contact, and British grandparents see more of the children of their daughters than their sons (Clarke 2003) The benefits of an ageing ... savings Given the ageing of the population, the spending of mature consumers over the next ten years is projected to grow by 61 per cent compared to the national average of 32 per cent The increasing...

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Research " EDUCATION AND THE COMMON GOOD: SOCIAL BENEFITS OF HIGHER EDUCATiON IN KENTUCKY " docx

Ngày tải lên : 07/03/2014, 02:20

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The economic benefits of farmers’ markets ppt

Ngày tải lên : 08/03/2014, 06:20

... stations They -10- are unlikely to be able to source food from the number of producers the local area supports Some sell a small amount of local produce, while others fund village stores However, these ... markets are a key way to increase the economic vitality of market towns, for the reasons cited above North West Regional Development Agency say that the vitality of market towns is important to local ... loss of traditional activities such as livestock markets the shift of services to larger towns the growth in out -of- town retailing It is important for rural communities that market towns retain their...

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THE ECONOMIC BENEFITS OF IMPROVING LITERACY SKILLS IN THE WORKPLACE pdf

Ngày tải lên : 08/03/2014, 06:20

... training to their employees, found that these direct benefits are just the tip of the iceberg as to how companies benefit from enhancing the literacy skills of their workforce Other benefits ... deficits are very conscious of this fact and often try to hide this skill deficit from their co-workers Their employees recognize that this skill deficit has cut them off from many opportunities to ... understand areas of the organization other than their own and are more willing to participate in dialogue Collaboration in the learning environment survives the classroom and cements the value of work-related...

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The benefits of biotechnology

Ngày tải lên : 13/03/2014, 22:08

... Because the molecular methods are more specific, users of these methods will be more certain about the traits they introduce into the plants.”24 14 • The Benefits of Biotechnology The Benefits of ... production per hectare by factors of seven to 10 and that traditional techniques could “not deliver the food for the burgeoning population of Africa.”11 • The Benefits of Biotechnology The G8 leaders ... herbicide-tolerant biotech soybeans in 2006 was equivalent to adding 6.7 percent to the value of the crop in the biotechgrowing countries or adding the equivalent of 5.6 percent to the $55 billion...

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Báo cáo khoa học: A novel serine protease highly expressed in the pancreas is expressed in various kinds of cancer cells potx

Ngày tải lên : 16/03/2014, 23:20

... pro-enzyme fragment The amount of 31 kDa prosemin increased in proportion to the time of incubation with enterokinase Prosemin activity appeared to be related to the amount of 31 kDa protein, ... expressed strongly in the pancreas, but weakly in the prostate and cerebellum (Fig 4) The nucleotide sequences of the cDNA and the cosmid clone are identical A comparison of the cDNA and genomic ... matrices, the processing of growth factors, and the activation of cell-surface receptors However, such proteolytic phenomena occur markedly in tumor cells as well as in the CNS Some of the proteases...

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The economic benefits of publicly funded basic research: a critical review doc

Ngày tải lên : 17/03/2014, 06:20

... into the intelligence of others The network model recognises the growing relevance of the tacit dimension of knowledge and the extent to which this is often grounded in the informal sharing of ... as scientists take advantage of the new tools to expand their research; often the introduction of new instrumentation can then lead to the development of a new field of research such as computational ... involved Others examine the social rates of return to research — i.e on Athe benefits which accrue to the whole societyB ŽSmith, 1991, p The difference between the two arises because the benefits of...

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Immigrant labour market outcomes in Canada: The benefits of addressing wage and employ- ment gaps docx

Ngày tải lên : 17/03/2014, 07:20

... in Canada Because of these factors, our estimate of the immigrant earnings gap is potentially biased, although there are risks on both the down and the up sides The scale of the effect that we ... regressions are restricted to members of the population aged 16–64, who are in the labour force at the time of the survey; for the wage regressions, only full-time employees are included The wage ... earnings gaps by cohort for the years 1980–2000 One of the contributions of the present work is to update these estimates using the 2006 data and to extend the analysis to include unemployment In...

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Report on the Environmental Benefits of Recycling Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) docx

Ngày tải lên : 18/03/2014, 02:20

... ingots At the anodes, the anodic reaction is the conversion of oxygen in the cell to carbon dioxide by reaction with the carbon of the anodes The process results in the production of between ... Sustainability Indicator, C Minerals, Editor 2004 14 Profile of the Nonferrous Metals Industry, in EPA Office of Compliance Sector Notebook Project 1995, Office of Compliance, Office of Enforcement ... certain of carbon savings achieved prior to second use of their materials by manufacturing industries Phase I, the subject of this report, will be the results of a detailed survey of the primary...

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ASSESSMENT OF THE BENEFITS OF EXTENDING THE TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION A PERSPECTIVE FROM THE RESEARCH AND OPERATIONS COMMUNITIES doc

Ngày tải lên : 22/03/2014, 23:20

... secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health of the public The Institute acts under the responsibility given to the ... research, dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare Upon the authority of the charter granted to it by the Congress in 1863, the Academy has ... members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine The members of the committee responsible for the report...

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