... carbon (DOC) in the waste, the fraction of DOC dissimilated, the fraction by volume of CH4 in the landfill gas, the decay rate of the waste, andthe years when the waste was disposed andthe emissions ... Nevertheless, landfills could potentially be capped with low permeability cover material andthe landfill gases collected and burned for their energy content It is expected that landfill gas- to-energy ... compete with the lignin-degrading fungus The chips are then air-cooled, andthe fungus andthe nutrients are added The treated chips are placed in a pile for the next to weeks: climatic and seasonal...
... therefore involve the way in which both imagination and intellect (der Verstand, the understanding”) are in free play with each other – free in the sense that their interaction with each other is not ... together according to a purpose that we cannot state The solution to the “antinomy” of aesthetic judgment – that aesthetic judgments are normative and thus must be conceptual; and that aesthetic ... the moral law itself; and, in the same way, the apprehension of the beautiful in reflective judgment prompts one to take an interest in it Moreover, the moral andthe aesthetic are linked, for,...
... lists the heightening of global consciousness in the late 1960s andthe inclusion of the Third World, civil rights, interest in world civil society andworld citizenship, the increase in the number ... definition – the compression of theworldandthe intensification of consciousness of theworld as a whole’20 – by Roland Robertson Anthony Giddens defines globalisation as the intensification of worldwide ... continent andtheworld .112 Globalisation as a process encompasses the unconscious reactions andthe conscious responses to the cataclysm of this World Revolution’ The years 1914–89 (the outbreak...
... serve the interests of those to whom it was accountable REFORMING THEWORLD BANK During the 1980s, theWorld Bank andthe IMF advocated similar policies, and there were many similarities in the ... the left and right agreed that the improvement in the efficiency of resource allocation andthe increase in thesupply of capital were at the heart of development They differed only as to whether ... and culture and is not easy to achieve From this perspective, theWorld Bank reforms, as incomplete as they may be, are impressive The contrast between the limited successes of the Bank and the...
... than doubled by 2011, propelling Switzerland to the top of theworld ranking The past year has seen a further dramatic rise, making Switzerland the first and only country to have average wealth ... steadily and vigorously since the turn of the century, rising from USD 105,000 at the outset to USD 285,000 by mid-2011 Most of the rise was due to the saving rate and asset price increases, rather ... second highest in theworld – after Switzerland and ahead of Norway More surprisingly, perhaps, its median wealth of USD 222,000 is the highest in theworld A noticeable feature is the composition...
... for the two low-income countries in our sample, India and Indonesia, reflecting both the importance of land and agricultural assets andthe lack of financial development On the other hand, the ... compiled from theWorld Development Indicators of theWorld Bank andtheWorld Income Inequality Database, with priority given to the most recently available year The “ungrouping” program was then used ... contributor to the project The aim of the Credit Suisse Global Wealth project is to provide the best available estimates of the wealth holdings of households around theworld for the period since the year...
... Eastern Europe andthe former Soviet Union, North Africa andthe Middle East, and Sub-Saharan Africa The fourteen major economies include the G7 economies listed above andthe developing and transition ... in world growth than world product before and after 1995 Prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall andthe collapse of the Soviet Union, the 14 economies of Eastern Europe andthe former Soviet Union ... afterward World Output, Input, and Productivity The final step in our analysis of theworld growth resurgence is to describe and characterize the levels of output, input, and productivity for the world...
... exchanges, and concerned items like the Ottoman carpets so appreciated by the nobility and rich merchants of Poland, Italy and even the Netherlands and England Or on the Ottoman side there was ... EMPIRE ANDTHEWORLD AROUND IT ~ grand vizier were operating at cross-purposes, but rather that the rescript conveys the official Ottoman understanding of the situation, while the letter of the grand ... Ottoman writers themselves The Ottomans probably would have spoken of the Islamic world that recognized the paramount status of the padişah in Istanbul on the one hand, andthe domains of the various...
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... he both afrms and denies at the same time But perhaps they not signify the same thing (for neither did the names in the former case) As a result, what is the difference? And if in the one case ... in the second half of S.E In S.E 16, Aristotle introduces his second concern: the problem of false reasoning from the standpoint of the potential victim of the sophism rather than from the standpoint ... chapter 1) and, on the other hand, other kinds of multiple signication that he divides among the three fallacy types The ways he differentiates among homonymy, amphiboly, and Form of the Expression...
... strong dollar andthe very large US current account deficit and external debt have for the US andworld economies The second is the sustainability of the exchange rate of the dollar in the financial ... the conference, andthe individual chapters present a range of analyses of the impact of a depreciation of the dollar on both the economies of the key countries and on the financial markets The ... about both the real economic impact of the strong dollar of the second half of the 1990s andthe risks for the stability of the currency (and perhaps ix 73632$CHF3 01-31-03 08:55:29 other financial)...
... of the relations between the Bank of England andthe Fed, and their efforts to counteract the pressures of what would have been routine gold standard adjustments, emphasizes the validity of the ... by the usurpers and their government In his History of England, Macaulay (1914, 2438-39) vividly described the close connection between the government, the Crown, andthe Bank of England in the ... in the 1930s following the abandonment of the international gold standard in 1931, but it was then supplanted to some extent by the operation of the Bretton Woods system after the Second World...
... foreign, and private—which illustrate the major forces driving the U.S economy (and the use of which has been central to all our work), are shown in Figure 1.4 The figure also shows the level ... numbers the story just told It indicates how the first two output recessions (in the 1980s and 1990s) were driven by falls in private expenditure relative to income Then, between 1993 and 2000 (the ... December 2008 At the moment, the recovery plans under consideration by the United States and many other countries seem to be concentrated on the possibility of using expansionary fiscal and monetary...
... Partha (1993), The Nation and Its Fragments Colonial and Postcolonial Histories, Princeton University Press, New Jersey Culler, Jonathan (2007), The Novel andthe Nation. The Literary in Theory, Stanford ... Letters of Rabindranath Tagore Ed Krishna Dutta and Andrew Robinson Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 15 Tagore, Rabindranath (2005), The Home andThe World, Penguin Book, Hammondsworth (posibility) ... 1919 õy, tỏc gi bi vit phõn tớch bn ting Anh, cú tờn The Home andtheWorld Nghiên cứu đông bắc á, số 1(155) 1-2014 th cho Charles Freer Andrew, mt giỏo s ti Santiniketa phờ bỡnh rng, phong tro...
... theworldThe way of the immanence is the Confucian way 23 For the Confucian tradition oriented towards this-worldly salvation, the secularization of the state after the 1911 revolution andthe ... personal and religious outlook, their impact on the Chinese scene was the very opposite of conservative For these were the missionaries whose demands on the native culture were the most unyielding -and ... contained few and repetitive themes such as monotheism andthe omnipotence of one true God, idol worship and moral decline, Jesus as God’s son andthe savior of man, andthe eternal salvation of the believers...
... characterize theWorld Bank and sets it apart from other international organizations Setting the Context: Unique Features of theWorld Bank The unique features of theWorld Bank relate to the fact ... borrower understands the Bank’s requirements and standards and helping the borrower find the financing andthe technical assistance for preparatory work The project’s implementation is the responsibility ... and other activities with the objective of assessing their efficiency, compliance with policies, and effectiveness.28 The IEG’s mandate extends to the assessment of the relevance, efficacy, and...
... code), the number of customers in their car, the number of other stores they intended to visit at that shopping center that day, and whether they had access to public transportation to the store ... relative to other sources of energy that supplythe electric grid, e.g., solar photovoltaic panels, geothermal energy, landfill gas, and wind turbines N A T&D system includes T&D lines and other T&D ... easier, more accurate, and less costly to institute a corporate-wide GHG accounting and reporting system in the oil andgas sector Called the SANGEA™ Energy andGreenhouseGas Emissions Estimating...
... 443,100 and about 208,800 ha, respectively, of arable land and grassland are released for non -food uses The cumulative energy demand of agriculture is lower by up to 38%, andthegreenhousegas emissions ... fertilizers and pesticides The level of energy consumption andgreenhousegas emissions depends on the production system, for example, whether organic or not, and on the product mix, i.e., the mix ... diverting land to the production of non -food crops and second, by diverting foodand feed crops to renewable energy uses Both of these outcomes constrain foodand feed supply, and this in turn...