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... This may provide an indicator of the basic fundamentals that the candidate should know and of their ability to learn This factor becomes increasingly irrelevant as engineers gain experience across ... case study The nex t stage is to try and find peop le from within the company with the necessary skills Howev er, the company has expanded significantly and has few staff available The best that ... provided by the candidates Information gained by interviewing and talking with candidates Recommendations and comments from other people who know or who have worked with the candidates ©Ian Sommerville...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2012, 11:41

... 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 ... political, social and economic implications of climate change and the risks associated with future climate policy requires concentration of efforts on two interrelated policy areas or directions The ... which require political and public awareness and economic resources for timely and efficient policy treatment In particular – and of no less significance than climate change – natural and humanmade...

Ngày tải lên: 07/10/2012, 15:56

... of disasters’ (Helmer and Hilhorst, 2006, p 2) Thus, as the intensity and frequency of disasters increases, it becomes a requirement for DRR and CCA also to increase resilience (Helmer and Hilhorst, ... 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 ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS of change and uncertainty as inherent in social-ecological systems This statement strongly reflects the convergent aspects...

Ngày tải lên: 07/10/2012, 15:56

... scholars, and increase collaboration between the young and the seasoned within academic institutions, development and relief organizations and government We see this path, embedded in adaptive and ... 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 M., ... have prevented increases in resilience because capacities have not increased Developing boundary organizations The world has faced huge disasters over the last few decades and concerns have been...

Ngày tải lên: 07/10/2012, 15:56

... increasing activity in the basin the increase has occurred in the easternmost part of the basin, far from land The activity in areas where landfall takes place shows very similar trends to the landfall ... landfalls and damage Hurricanes in Named storms in Landfalling basin hurricanes Damage 0.87 0.46 0.27 * 0.52 0.42 * 0.58 0.45 * * 0.71 basin Hurricanes in basin Intense hurricanes in basin Landfalling ... hurricane season, and in each case predicting landfall numbers to be above average For these three years the number of landfalls was well below the historical mean in 2006 and 2007 and above average...

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 CO2 but the full basket of Kyoto greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs and SF6) ... increased by per cent per year since 2005, leading to a 12.5 per cent increase in the normalized data from the 2005 baseline 2006 had no hurricane landfalls, and thus no damage 2007 had one landfall, ... R A Jr and Landsea, C W., 1998 Normalized hurricane damages in the United States: 1925 – 95 Weather and Forecasting, American Meteorological Society 621 – 631 ˜a, Pielke, R A Jr and Landsea,...

Ngày tải lên: 07/10/2012, 15:57

... both direct and indirect, such as business interruption and productivity losses Some examples of major events in the last decade indicate the diversity of threats posed by nature and their global ... Australia in ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS 2009 killed over 200 people and damaged large pieces of land with devastating effects on wildlife The sharp increase in tempo and severity of the recent disasters made ... Administration & Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Natural disasters have increased in frequency and severity during the last few decades, causing considerable...

Ngày tải lên: 07/10/2012, 15:57

... natural disaster risks 213 concentrations of greenhouse gases Future greenhouse gas emissions may rise rapidly due to the fast industrialization of Asian economies with increasing demands for energy ... adjusted to reflect increased risks Socio-economic developments, such as ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS 214 Botzen and van den Bergh increased urbanization in hazard-prone areas, may require changes in the ... disaster aimed at creating conditions within the human system that enhance this system’s resistance to disasters and its capacity to respond to, and cushion impacts of, ˇ a disaster (Handmer and...

Ngày tải lên: 07/10/2012, 15:57

... change, for example, because of soil erosion and landslides resulting from more frequent and severe rains and floods The surface mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet may turn negative at a global ... Climate change and increased risk for the insurance sector: a global perspective and an assessment for the Netherlands Natural Hazards, forthcoming Botzen, W J W., Bouwer, L M and van den Bergh, ... catastrophe losses Workshop on ¨ Climate Change and Disaster Losses, P Hoppe and R A Jr Pielke, (eds) Hohenkammer, Germany Munich Re, 2009 Topics Geo Natural Catastrophes 2008: Analyses, Assessments,...

Ngày tải lên: 07/10/2012, 15:57

... state As an example, Queensland Water Minister Craig Wallence was quoted as saying, ‘pointing the finger at state’s irrigators was not going to ease the national emergency’ (22 August 2008), whereas ... acidification and consequently changing the entire ecosystem The severity of the situation was further emphasized by the description of decisions as ‘irreversible’ The framing of the situation as a tragic ... Australia, irrigated land is just 0.6 per cent of total agricultural land and the proportion in the Basin is per cent, making up 65 per cent of Australia’s total irrigated agricultural land Furthermore,...

Ngày tải lên: 07/10/2012, 15:57

... According to Botterill (2003), drought has to be understood as a social construction and as such highly political in its nature However, as argued by West and Smith (1996), drought is a national ... been presented as quintessentially Australian – as an important part of the national character In the case study at hand the actor groups, scientists and affected actors were basically promoting ... focused on structural adjustments and the latter on direct effects on rural communities Whereas the scientific frame was focused on long-term impacts and risk assessments, the coverage of affected...

Ngày tải lên: 07/10/2012, 15:57

... freedom and 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 ... the judge of nature Reason dictates theoretical questions for nature to answer, secure in the knowledge that, as in geometry, reason can only grasp that which reason itself has already projected ... application of reason characteristic of Kant in particular and modern culture in general is argued to produce rationality and irrationality, freedom and compulsion, in equal measure. Schiller’s...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 09:20

... Automator and resave it In any case, if you decide to save a workflow as an application, choose File and then select Application from the pop-up menu at the bottom Save As, 7.4.2 Workflows as Plug-ins ... "Converting and Renaming Images" example earlier in this chapter This would resize and convert to JPEG any image files you have selected in the Finder—provided you save the workflow as a Finder ... Automator and open a new workflow window Below the divider bar is where the real power lies Here, you can run any of the workflows you've saved as Finder plug-ins, simply by clicking their names...

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 04:20

... www.upc-online.org/livemarkets and watch the video Inside a Live Poultry Market Egg- Type” Male Chicks are Trashed at Birth Newborn male chickens are thrown into plastic trash bags at the hatchery This is a standard egg ... Please show kindness and respect to birds and other animals by not eating them or their eggs or drinking their milk Instead, discover the variety of all-vegetarian, vegan foods and cooking ideas ... advertised as “animal friendly.” “Free-Range,” “Cage-Free” and “Organic” Hens are Slaughtered the Same as Birds Raised for Meat Photos by: Adam Parascandola and Carol McCormick Young female chickens...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 01:20

... animals Ovulation was observed in two cases using and 33 µg of mammalian LHRH, in which case the frogs deposited four and three eggs, respectively No ovulation was observed in thirteen other trials ... deposited eggs was tested by in vitro fertilization In the first trial with thirteen eggs, one embryo developed normally and in the second trial using twenty one eggs, three embryos developed and normal ... of avian LHRH Ovulation was also observed in two cases using and 20 µg of fish LHRH, in which case the frogs deposited one and five eggs, respectively No ovulation was observed in fourteen other...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 17:20

... expanded in the last decade, with natural food supermarkets increasing in size and number and conventional supermarkets adding organic sections, consumer direct markets have also expanded and ... the recent past are likely to continue Only a handful of studies (Glaser et al., 1998; Glaser and Thompson, 2000; Greene and Calvin, 1997; Oberholtzer, Dimitri and Greene, 2005; Ro and Frechette, ... at least occasionally by two-thirds of Americans (Hartman Group, 2004; Whole Foods Market, 2005) Organic poultry and egg sales currently account for a small share of the overall U.S egg and poultry...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 09:20

... reported reducing consumption of eggs in Greece (35% eggs; 31% for egg- based products), Italy (31% eggs; 27% eggbased products) and in Austria (27% for both) As was the case with poultry meat consumption, ... Spain, Poland and France declared reductions in consumption than might be expected These were 10% and 9% for eggs and egg- based products respectively in Spain, 7% and 7% in Poland and 5% and 4% ... that there was a close relationship between decreases in consumption of poultrymeat and decreases in consumption of eggs Average percentage decrease in poultrymeat, eggs and egg- based products...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 10:20

... the cerebral Cinema as Art and Philosophy 113 membrane where immediate and direct confrontation take place between the past and the future, real and imaginary, the inside and the outside, at ... interviews Cinema as Art and Philosophy the situation or seeing rather than acting 111 On the other hand, the sound, camera and landscape also become characters The autonomous, rhythmical and 'otherworldly' ... and without an end, time has no meaning  it is out of joint. In long, monotonous and repetitive shots past, present and future merge or exchange generating a sense of vertigo, or a dream As...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 11:21

... Thalassemia Intermedia 3.4 Iron and Pathobiology of Thalassemia 3.5 Iron Storage and Its Effects on Parenchymal Tissues and Organs Effect of Transfusional Iron Overload on Iron Homeostasis and ... Morbidity and Mortality 4.1 Iron Homeostasis in Transfusional Iron Overload 4.2 Transfusion Iron Overload-Associated Morbidity and Mortality 4.3 Endocrinopathy in Thalassemia 4.4 Liver Disease 4.5 ... Disease 4.5 Heart Disease Evaluation and Management of Iron Overload 5.1 Evaluation of Iron Overload 5.2 Basis of Iron Chelation Therapy and Iron Chelator Drugs 5.3 Potential Role of Iron Chelation...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 17:20