... (UNEP) The designations employed and the presentation of material in this publication not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of UNEP concerning the legal status of any ... trend of worldwide and rapid glacier shrinkage may lead to the deglaciation of large parts of many mountain ranges by the end ofthe 21st century (WGMS/UNEP 2008) 34 The annual minimum extent of ... with their upward, downward or stable trend lines as dictated by the data While most of these trends speak for themselves, short explanations ofthe phenomena observed are also provided for further...
... ethnopharmacology ofthe 21st century should go beyond the recognition ofthe Intellectual Property Rights or the acquisition ofresearch permits, to include considerations on the healthcare ofthe original ... reviews ofthe development ofthe discipline have warned against the disciplinarily bias in ethnopharmacology For example, in a review of articles published in one ofthe flagship journals ofthe ... contributions ofthe study of traditional knowledge systems to ethnopharmacology I use the terms traditional knowledge and traditional knowledge systems to refer to theknowledgeof resource and...
... end ofthe project to include communications experts to help with the dissemination of findings In the latter, partners are engaged throughout theresearch process, from the development oftheresearch ... within the context oftheresearchThe CIHR distinguishes between end -of- grant KT and integrated KT (IKT) [3,7] In the former case, this partnership may extend beyond the core research team at the ... and depth ofthe information gathered by participants at the KTSI We received a sound understanding ofthe theory and practice of KT and had a healthy discussion about the benefits of qualitative...
... end ofthe project to include communications experts to help with the dissemination of findings In the latter, partners are engaged throughout theresearch process, from the development oftheresearch ... within the context oftheresearchThe CIHR distinguishes between end -of- grant KT and integrated KT (IKT) [3,7] In the former case, this partnership may extend beyond the core research team at the ... and depth ofthe information gathered by participants at the KTSI We received a sound understanding ofthe theory and practice of KT and had a healthy discussion about the benefits of qualitative...
... Williams had about views of this sort was the ambitiousness of their presupposed theory of error A theory of this kind is taking on the burden of explaining some ofthe divergence between ethical ... prospects for a theory of moral error I will set out each of these three kinds of counterargument in turn First, then, an important part ofthe argument for the absolute conception ofthe world is ... available in the ethical case There remains a viable distinction between the scientific and the ethical but this is not a demarcation ofknowledge from nonknowledge or ofthe world-guided from the merely...
... transmission ofknowledge Because of their importance, the participation of worker is massive, although there is no special reward CASE STUDY Given the special nature ofthe working organization, the ... over by the team members) The main achievements ofthe strategy are the high level of worker satisfaction and the creation/ transmission ofknowledge KM was the method which made possible the essential ... phases and application ofthe new knowledgeThe achievements obtained were major, radical improvements, the development of innovations and the creation of new knowledgeThe company has been in...
... were adopted by the Provincial Government in September 1999 to guide its future work in stimulating the social and economic development ofthe province These are: •••••••••• To establish ... September 1999 to guide its future work in stimulating the social and economic development ofthe province These are: •••••••••• To establish a safer environment for all our people; ... the influence of poverty is limited." The five primary objectives ofthe PSP are: ••••• Wellness: ensuring the wellness of all people through planned social change, with the emphasis on the...
... number of test documents and find that the feature vectors corresponding to some of these documents (particularly the short ones) have all zeroes in them In other words, none ofthe bigrams from the ... examination ofthe feature lists sorted by WLLR confirms our hypothesis that each ofthe two classes has its own set of distinguishing features Experiments with the book domain To understand whether these ... (3) merge the list of newly generated features with the list of bigrams20 and select the top 5000 features from the merged list according to their WLLR We then repeat procedure P for the trigrams...
... originality of their writing (Mean=3.20) On the whole, the learners have a relatively high command of task knowledge in the writing process The learners’ strategic knowledge is the poorest among the ... ones in the three components of and the overall metacognitive knowledgeThe present study further testifies the important role of metacognitive knowledge in English writing The results of correlation ... to gather the participants’ basic information, such as the scores of their College English course2 in the first semester, and the other intending to illicit the learners’ retrospection upon their...
... application ofthe principle of authority every man, in theory, had his master The serf held of his lord, who held of a great seigneur, who held ofthe king The king in the completer theory held ofthe ... possibilities ofthe case The people as a whole might be careless of their rights and incapable of managing them They might be set on the conquest of others,[Pg 46] the expropriation ofthe rich, ... indicates one ofthe lines of connection between the general theory of liberty and the doctrine of universal suffrage and the sovereignty ofthe people The answer, however, does not meet all the possibilities...
... body ofknowledge by considering the variables that impact on the creation of tacit and explicit knowledge, and the performance of transferring knowledgeThe latter relates to how the transfer of ... areas ofthe bank (BANKSETA, 2004) The high levels of unemployment and poverty in the country, coupled with the growing impact ofthe HIV/AIDS pandemic, further exacerbate the shortage of skilled ... corroborate the survey responses, and to document original thought within the scope of this researchThe data obtained through these research instruments was analysed to ascertain the strength of the...
... basis of existing ones and on the basis of primitive linguistic and lexicographic procedures, and checking the output ofthe constructors before it is added to the dictionary The aim ofthe user ... linguistic knowledge base can be easily turned on or off by the user) The result of applying this constructor to the MD is the extension of each entry in it with an additional field (or slot at theknowledge ... be directed to the extension ofthe linguistic and lexicographic knowledge, the development of a suitable script language for the definition of constructors, and to the testing of our architecture...
... from the councils ofthe National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine The members ofthe committee responsible for the report were chosen for their ... Academy of Sciences to secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health ofthe public The Institute acts under the responsibility ... addition to gaps in research noted within the context ofthe five strategic goals, the committee identified other priority research areas that the TI Research Program could pursue in the future These...
... including the frequency and severity of health outcomes and the number of people at risk, the structure ofthe program, and the degree of consideration of stakeholder input The impact ofthe program’s ... Academy of Sciences to secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health ofthe public The Institute acts under the responsibility ... by the Governing Board ofthe National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils ofthe National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of...
... interpret these and other aspects ofthe behaviour of their patients as posing difficulties for both the domain-specific and the standard form of S/ FT They go on to argue that the heterogeneous set of ... properties ofthe objects themselves Nevertheless, both theories are property, rather than category, based The alternative to these property-based theories is the domain-specific theory (Caramazza ... explore the selectivity or nature ofthe deficit Rather, the goal was to identify a group of patients with poor performance on the tool knowledge tasks in order to identify the locus of lesions The...
... slope-voltage output ofthe syllabic filter is the modulating input to the PAM The step-function response ofthe syllabic filter is related to the syllabic rate of speech, is independent ofthe sampling ... the current samples and two previous samples ofthe error signal The digital output signal is a binary signal having the same polarity as the input signal from the comparator at the time ofthe ... These characteristics include the following + Changes in the slope ofthe analog input signal determine the step-size changes ofthe digital output signal + The feedback loop is adaptive to the...