... use a host of estimation tables and tools to generate cost and schedule estimates for hardware Software Cost Estimation and Sizing Methods: Issuesand Guidelines and software All divisions have ... and production costs, and present quantitative analysis of historical data on engine-development schedules and costs • In Test and Evaluation Trends and Costs for Aircraft and Guided Weapons, MG-109-AF, ... programs RAND Project AIR FORCE RAND Project AIR FORCE (PAF), a division of the RAND Corporation, is the U.S Air Force’s federally funded research and development center for studies and analyses...
... sustainability issues, is ethical because it invariably involves our interaction with other humans and/ or some parts of non-human nature – and how are we to relate to and respect the rights and ... collected and analysed, or of how issues of validity, reliability and ethics were managed Such problems are indicators of the advocacy and early ‘‘honeymoon’’ phases of the innovation process and, ... environmental studies, education, and facilities management and, thus, have tended to concentrate on the economic and ecological pillars of sustainability, and have not often seen the relevance...
... Lower layer of weir (cm) (cm) (cm) Akadama sand (5) Pit sand (40) Pit sand (45) Journal of Water and Environment Technology, Vol.3, No.2, 2005 water and Overflow water were measured by a flow ... content in pit sand The initial nitrogen content of Akadama sand in Tank A was higher than that of pit sand of Tank B The nitrogen content in both Tanks increased with time In both Tank A and B, the ... and gross pollutant load balance are shown in Tables and 6, respectively From the results of soil content survey before and after the simulation term, the contents of pollutants at cm-depth and...
... Australian and New Zealand guidelines for fresh and marine water quality Australian and New Zealand Environment and Conservation Council and Agriculture and Resource Management Council of Australia and ... TN and TP standards were proposed as the values decreased 17% and 63%, respectively Table - Comparison of conventional pollutant standards in metal assembly industry Pollutant Existing standard ... Water quality standards are determined through the water quality criteria In Korea, water quality standards were set up by considering the drinking water standards and the economical and technical...
... Regulation and supervision How are banks doing? Suggestions for future steps Restricted Why all care for China’s financial reform? China’s outstanding growth performance justifies optimism And yet, ... recovery value and not speed: • Not much recovered: about 10% of total face value – Financing: 45% financed by PBC credit and 10 year bond issued by AMCs • Not very high yield and doubts about ... joint-stock and city commercial banks Quite different from Latin America, spreads even higher and also profitability 13 Restricted How are banks doing? (cont’) García-Herrero, Gavilá and Santabarbara...
... (1998) Sanders (2002); cf Edwards (2004) 92 See Ashworth (1993) for some details See ch 3.3.7 above 355 356 Procedural issuesand ancillary orders offender and family and the victim and family, ... criticisms of the VPS and similar schemes assume that the remaining aspects of the criminal justice system and social system will remain unchanged, however, and Andrew Sanders has made a powerful ... and on its social and constitutional function The issues are discussed briefly below in relation to two possible rights: a victim’s right to convey to the court information about the offence and...
... health and aging issuesand to develop and provide programmatic and policy responses 13 Advances in Mental Health and Aging Despite the lack of a sustained nationwide emphasis on mental health and ... persons, it cast a spotlight on aging and mental health issues The nation’s aging and mental health policy and practice landscape were drawn for public and professional discussion, the latter ... identify the signs and symptoms of mental illness, and access barriers At the systems level, lack of collaboration between agencies and systems, funding issues, gaps in services, and shortages of...
... (Dhaliwal, 2003) IV Organic Farming and Trade, and Ethical and Fair Trade The growing interest in organic and ethical production and trade has been both consumer driven and trade driven The participation ... land, steady supply of organic produce for domestic and international markets, de-layering of supply chain, reduction in associated costs and time, farmers cultivate land more productively and ... and fruit fly problem in fruit and vegetable exports from India to the European Union (EU), the USA, China, Australia and Japan, hormones in livestock products exports to the EU, and sesame and...
... husband is physically challenged and sick She has three children studying in 7th, 5th and 2nd standard re- spectively She works as an agricultural labourer in the nearby Ayangudi village and ... between the villages and the branches concerned, (ii) households not having enough money to save and use the accounts, and (iii) households may be saving through SHGs or Post Offices, and (iv) lack ... maintenance cost and break even scenarios Banks are in the best position to undertake such studies and it could greatly benefit the banks and the common man by making the scheme profitable and financially...
... of metals for –; and tables .–. present estimates of other minerals for – Conceptual and Methodological Issues In addressing conceptual and methodological issues for mineral resources, ... input-output and regional accounts See, for example, Gavin Wright [] and Michael J Boskin, Marc S Robinson, Terrance O’Reilly, and Praveen Kumar [] The conceptual and methodological issues discussed ... coal, and uranium), the metals (iron ore, copper, lead, zinc, gold, silver, and molybdenum), and other minerals (phosphate rock, sulfur, boron, diatomite, gypsum, and potash) Petroleum and gas...
... Environment Section one, focuses on the sustainabilityand economy of feedstock production Chapters and discuss the sustainabilityand biodiversity of land use for biofuel crops Chapter gives ... from the atmosphere for their growth [3] 2.2 Land use issues 2.2.1 Demand for land Since biofuels are derived from biomass conversion, demand for land for agro-fuel produc‐ tion has increased ... evaluation of sustainability is land use impact assessment The authors made a preliminary research on issues related to land use impact assessment such as soil quality, management practices and land use...
... Lifestyles andSustainability 325 tion and consumption are becoming progressively more fashion sensitive, dependent on aesthetics and well designed products and services In such lands of plenty, ... distinguishable and clear Designers such as Peter Behrens in Germany and Raymond Loewy in the United States were hailed in the press and contracted by companies and brands such as AEG, Greyhound and Lucky ... Dobers and L Strannegård and serve as a foundation for future knowledge (Borgerson and Schroeder, 2002) Information, sensibility and attitudes gleaned from images influence thinking and understanding...
... stage (feedback on failures and successes), recording the history and current status of the problem solving process, and giving the user comprehensible and powerful co,ands Hansen, W.J., User engineering ... used to classify, control and to repress.") reveal the anger and fear that many people associate with computers The movie producers take their ideas from research projects and the public reacts to ... arc.hair and ponderous when compared with rapid, concise, and precise database manipulation facilities such as Query-by-example or commercial word processing systems It's hard to understand why...
... HEALTH Issuesand Interventions Anne Tinker, Kathleen Finn, and Joanne Epp June 2000 Health, Nutrition and Population (HNP) Discussion Paper This series is produced by the Health, Nutrition, and ... Nassery and Subrata Dhar provided helpful comments Elfreda Vincent, Jennifer Feliciano and Nicole Mazmanian provided assistance with word processing and prepared the graphics SUMMARY OF KEY ISSUES ANDINTERVENTIONS ... planning and sexual counseling can empower women and give them more control over their lives Sex education and counseling that promote mutual consent and condom use are also needed for men and boys...
... participatory processes and actionoriented dialogue We extend these thanks to those citizens, workers, NGOs and bureaucrats who assisted with and/ or participated in the data collection and analysis We ... macro- and micro-economic terms By 1996, when the South African government abandoned the redistributive Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) for the neoliberal Growth, Employment and Redistribution ... tax collected; • introducing progressive taxes such as land and wealth taxes; and • increasing the level of savings both institutional and personal PLANACT (1992), a leading non-governmental...
... transplantation One- and three-year graft survival rates were 75% and 75% vs 92.1% and 75.1% for the cirrhosis and non-cirrhosis groups, respectively (P=0.72) The corresponding one- and three-year ... for covert cardiovascular disease and occult malignancy, and careful assessment of infectious risk in older prospective transplant candi‐ dates are crucial and mandatory Currently, the waiting ... Candidate http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/54736 listed for a standard and ECD kidney Although living donor kidneys offer older transplant candidates the best chance of meaningful improved survival and...
... and standards - Analyzing the variance between budget and standards and actual by causes, and management responsibility so that corrective action may be taken - Providing managers with data and ... view and knowledge to more details and deep research All of the idea I provided in each chapter will be linked to the others in order to create the effective way for reading and understanding ... the product, and managerial decisionmaking Product costing covers the entire cycle of accumulating manufacturing and other costs and subsequently assigning them to work in progress and finished...
... Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Uzbekistan and Viet Nam In addition, visits were made in 1999-2001 to Belgium, France, Germany, Morocco, the Netherlands and Switzerland to observe postal financial ... Burundi, Benin, Cameroon, Gabon, Iceland, Israel, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Switzerland, the Former Yugoslav Republic ... government standards and practices so as not to conflict with the public good and to fulfill its social mandate as a regulated public utility Placing national postal systems in the hands of privatized...