catastrophe risk and response nov 2004

... technology and its control. Another is the distinction between, on the one hand, natural and man- made catastrophes that technology might prevent, and, on the other hand, catastrophic risks brought ... cause and potential cure. The intertwining of catastrophe and technology is thus a major concern of the book. The challenge of managing science and technology in relation to the ca...

Ngày tải lên: 10/06/2014, 23:08

... nature is impersonal and inanimate and can and indeed should—be dealt with in an objective manner. He says: For as all works do shew forth the power and skill of the work- man, and not his image; ... ancient traditions and modern constructs. Both elements of the equation, ancient traditions and modern constructs of civil society and scientific 16 David J. Hawkin religion and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:45

... reducing the stakes and hence the intensity of the ‘struggle for power and wealth within and among states, thereby reducing the incidence of war, poverty, and oppression’ and environmental degradation. 50 An ... divides. These ‘advocacy and accountability agencies’ would supply relevant information and assistance to various authorities and to a majority of citizens. Advocacy...

Ngày tải lên: 10/06/2014, 22:17

... the halting and printing problems, and moreover in a Wnite time. See B. J. Copeland, ‘Super Turing-Machines’, Complexity, 4 (1998), 30–2, and ‘Accelerating Turing Machines’, Minds and Machines, ... intial state (a) and the symbol that M is initially scanning (a blank). The universal machine’s own tape is initially blank except for this record and M’s standard description (and som...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 10:37

... self-contained and require little background for their arguments). It is also difficult to entangle in that it moves between modes: problems and theorems, proportional and direct relations, equalities and ... Florence and the Vatican Library in Rome. The librarians at these institutions were all very kind and patient (not easy, when your reader bends over diagrams, ruler and comp...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 11:00

... on the EDF model and its performance, see Crosbie and Bohn (2004) , Dwyer and Korablev (2007), and Dwyer and Qu (2007). 12 between credit spreads and interest rates (level and slope) differ ... single-obligor default risk and for the bottom-up analysis of risk and return of credit portfolios. To get a better understanding of these dynamics we analyze how expected...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 11:21

... 1. Drugs with high and moderate teratogenic risk, their FDA categories and cardinal congenital abnormalities (CAs) and the number of their use in the mothers of cases with CA and controls without ... rights reserved Review Risk and Benefit of Drug Use During Pregnancy Ferenc Bánhidy 1 , R.Brian Lowry 2 and Andrew E. Czeizel 3 1 Second Department of Obstetrics and Gyneco...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2012, 11:12

... Information Risk and the Economics of Security 15 Table 1. Chapters within Each Major Section Cyber Policy and Regulation Nonbanks and Risk in Retail Payments: EU and U.S. Security Economics and ... to help identify and rank risks include Archer Technologies, RiskWatch, and SecureCompass. John Stewart explained how Cisco is using the RiskWatch tool to help prioritize i...

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 17:15

... hypotheses—that similar risks demand similar returns, and that short-term investors look at risk and return in terms of intrinsic time—leads to alternative relationships between risk and return. In the ... principle and its consequences 2.1. A stock’s risk and return Suppose the market consists of (i) a single risk- free bond B of price B that provides a continuous riskless r...

Ngày tải lên: 12/12/2013, 14:15

... the hands attached to a robot seeks to improve dexterity, enabling robots to handle a variety of parts or tools in complex situations. Two goals are the quick-change hand and the dexterous hand. ... behavior, and alternative design structures. Beyond the study of models and design structure are efforts on direct drive motors, pneumatic servo mechanisms, and the use of tendon arms...

Ngày tải lên: 13/12/2013, 01:15