Chitosan immobilized porous polyolefin as sustainable and efficient antibacterial membranes
Vietnamese chitin raw material, the chitin de n acetylation reaction, and a new chitosan alginate gelling concept
... is another non-destructive method that can be used to determine the DA of chitin The DA is calculated based on the ratio of the absorbance of a probe band and a reference band The probe band ... assigned The ȕ-anomeric protons of the four different disaccharides, i.e AA, DD, AD, and DA, are well separated and can be monitored during the de- N- acetylation Thus,...
Methanol as an alternative transportation fuel in the US options for sustainable and or energy secure transportation
... fuel or in blends with gasoline A CHINA China is currently the largest user of methanol for transportation vehicles in the world Interest in China on the use of methanol as a transportation fuel ... a transportation fuel Keywords: methanol; transportation; use; production EXECUTIVE SUMMARY • Methanol has been used as a transportation fuel in US...
Managing people working as individuals and in groups
... Selecting staff An important project management task is team selection Information on selection comes from: • • • Information provided by the candidates Information gained by interviewing and ... full-time appointment Experience in hardware interfacing with C and using remote development systems All the devices used have co mplex hardware interfaces Experience of working with hard...
Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 1.1
... 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 ... publisher 17 1-1 86 WILLIAM M COLLIER, KASEY R JACOBS, ALARK SAXENA, JULIANNE BAKER-GALLEGOS, MATTHEW CARROLL and GARY W YOHE ISSN: 174 7-7 891 (print), 187 8-0 059 (online)...
Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 1.2
... transformation; and (3) and understanding ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS of change and uncertainty as inherent in social-ecological systems This statement strongly reflects the convergent aspects of CCA and DRR ... towards increasing socio-ecological resilience and reducing disaster risk Strengthening socio-ecological resilience 175 Linking disaster risk reduction and climate chan...
Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 1.3
... Events and Disasters IISD Reporting Services http:// climate- l.org/2009/04/29/ipcc-to-prepare-specialreport-on-extreme-events -and- disasters/ IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) , 2001 Climate ... construction Science and Public Policy, 30(4) 235 Helmer, M and Hilhorst, D J M., 2006 Natural disasters and climate change Disasters, 30(1) – Hogarth, R M and Kun...
Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 1.4
... 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 basi...
Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 1.5
... $ 11.5 billion in third-quarter catastrophe claims, says ISO’s Property Claim Services Unit www.iso.com/PressReleases/2008/Insurers-to-Pay-$ 11. 5- Billion-in-ThirdQuarter-Catastrophe-Claims-Says-ISOs-Property-ClaimService.html ... an increased concern among scientists about the speed and severity of climate change The faster-than-expected pace of observed climate change, a better u...
Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 2.1
... natural disaster risk management Future natural disaster risk under climate and socio -economic change 2.1 Impact of socio -economic developments on natural catastrophe damage Human-induced developments ... 2.2 Climate change and the frequency and severity of natural disasters In addition to socio -economic developments, climate change may increase the intensity and s...
Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 2.2
... protection measures, such as dikes or building codes Over time, catastrophe models need to be updated due to socio -economic developments and climate change In case climate change increases the frequency ... combination of climate and socio -economic change that will influence future natural disaster ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS 218 Botzen and van den Bergh losses results in i...
Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 2.3
... S., Kemfert, C and Hoppe, P., 2009 The impact of socio-economics and climate change on tropical cyclone losses in the USA Regional Environmental Change doi1 0-1 007/ s1011 3-0 0 8-0 08 2-4 Slovic, P., ... world’s first climate change crisis As a drought-prone country with massive fossil fuel resources, and with important economic sectors such as agriculture and...
Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 2.4
... upon broad policy areas involving water management and climate change, policy areas that are highly politicized in the Australian context, and as such involve many twists and turns in which the ... amount of water that can be taken from the Basin on a sustainable basis; to identify risks to Basin water resources such as climate change as well as strategies to manage these...
Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 2.5
... was when the scientists urged the political actors to stop arguing over the link between the drought and climate change for fear that the climate change issue risked taking over the debate and ... the growing areas and to the Australian economy as a whole’, www.mdbc.gov.au/subs/eResource_ book/chapter3/p4.htm) The connection between water management and climate change wa...
The pursuit of the subject - literature as critic and perfecter of philosophy 1790-1830
... because they take up the pursuit of the subject as the key to humanity’s self-understanding in our epoch of Revolution, but also because they see philosophical and aesthetic discourse, with their ... Schelling, and its literary counterparts, the classicism and Romanticism of Goethe, Schiller, Schlegel, Hardenberg-Novalis and others At the end of that dialogue s...