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... of handling measurement bias. Randomization is the best means of addressing confounding bias, and blinding the means for measurement bias. While blinding is important, it is not as important as ... outcomes as well as the usual careful rating and assess- ment of outcomes (as opposed to retrospective assessment of outcomes as is commonly the case in chart reviews, for instance)....

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... and may be disabled and hence need facilities such as variable font sizes, etc. 3. Ideally, someone who has experience of designing assistive technology systems. Otherwise, someone with experience ... 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 fe...

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... expression may become even more concise, e.g.: AsAistoB,CtoD,AsAtoB,CtoD. 6 introduction And that it may have more complex syntax, especially: A has to B the same ratio as C has to D, A has toBagreater ... of arrangement and propor- tion. To compound the difficulty, 250 years later the same manuscript was very carefully read by Andreas Coner, a Renaissance humanist. Coner erased man...

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... more binding and comprehensive regulation of both greenhouse gas emissions and adaptation measures, like that in the United Kingdom ● Matching climate policy with that for disasters and introducing ... literature and media as a major driver (and effect) of climate change and of global warming in particular. Indeed, since the Industrial Revolution the mean sur- face temperature of...

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... 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 ... 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 resi-...

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... 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 ... 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....

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... 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 ... damages. Logically, the chances that a landfalling storm was missed increases as one goes further back in time. However, the general convention is to assume that all land...

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... http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/physics/pdf/ 0611/0611107v1.pdf. Owens,B.F.andLandsea,C.W.,2003.Assessing the skill of operational Atlantic seasonal tropical cyclone forecasts. Weather and Forecasting,18. 45–54. Pielke, R. A. Jr, 2005. Hurricanes and global ... doi:10.1038/nature04477. Landsea, C. W., 2007. Counting Atlantic Tropical Cyclones back to 1900. EOS, 88. 197 and 202. Lonfat, M., Bo...

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... arrangements such as insurance may contribute to the adaptation of societies to increasing risk and enhance econ- omic resilience to disasters (Mills and Lecompte, 2006; Botzen and van den Bergh, ... fires in Australia in 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 disa...

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