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... Martin E Smith provides a summary of Success Rates for Organizational Change Efforts Number of Studies Sum of Sample Sizes Median Success Rate Strategy Deployment 562 58% Restructuring and Downsizing ... positions or suggestions were not incorporated, they will also be frustrated – unless their managers can satisfactorily show that their input was not ignored but, rather, discussed and shelved for logical ... attack, a power outage, the disappearance of a raw resource, global supply-chain interruption, etc.), there is a greater chance they will see their demise sooner than rather than later In short, managers...
... inclusion of these flexible operating rules as a deliberate attempt to test and demonstrate options for managing infrastructure Projects and programs to re-operate infrastructure can provide win-win ... snow to rainfall; alteration of surface runoff and groundwater recharge patterns; shifts in the timing of snowpack melting; changes in evapotranspiration; increased air and water temperatures; ... Role of Risk and Vulnerability Assessment There are opportunities to undertake assessments of vulnerability to climate change in a range of planning activities and operations Strategic environmental...
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... South Park, Colorado 39 Geraldine J Rasmussen, Kirk Branson, and John O McKelvy The Geology and Speleogenesis of Porcupine Cave 51 Robert G Raynolds Magnetostratigraphic Constraints on the Age of ... madagascariensis or N arquata (Far Eastern or Eurasian Curlew) 130 7.2 Stratigraphic ranges of arvicolines and other rodents at the Pit 67 13.1 7.3 Stratigraphic ranges of carnivores, artiodactyls, and ... excavated and featured 14 stratigraphic levels defined by natural sedimentological breaks, or arbitrary 10-cm thicknesses, whichever was thinner Stratigraphic levels were traced across excavation...
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... concentrations (Figure 3) In the rural area of Borken, NO concentrations remained stable during the 20 years of the follow-up, but the 5-year mean concentrations of NO decreased in average from ... report and model prevalence of respiratory symptoms and diseases rather than the cumulative incidence and remission rates The accuracy of self-reported chronic respiratory symptoms and diseases in ... reduction in concentrations through to follow-up (Figure 2) Across the study areas, the 5-year mean PM10 concentrations declined on average from 46.6 μg to 26.9 μg (interquartile range: 10 μg/m3)...
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... general initiation factors in transcription by RNA polymerase II Trends Biochem Sci 21, 327–335 Orphanides, G., Lagrange, T & Reinberg, D (1996) The general transcription factors of RNA polymerase ... concentration of TBP was determined by Bradford assay (Bio-Rad) The concentration of DNA was determined by A260 The final concentrations of all components were adjusted to approximately 60 nM After rapid ... salt concentrations [14,20], we first examined the fluorescence characteristics of CYIIB against KCl and pH concentrations (Fig 4A,B) When the concentration of KCl Fig Emission spectra of (A) wild-type...
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... incorporations have led to ‘institutional obliteration’, where little remains of the structures and programmes of the partner being incorporated, or to ‘protected enclosure’, where the incorporated ... monograph The monograph This monograph attempts to illuminate the complex outcomes of the ‘double dynamic’ driving initial teacher education in South Africa The analysis will demonstrate that trajectories ... education by drawing it within universities, and to centralise provision under national control, while promoting a discourse of decentralisation, co-operative governance and democratic participation,...