a pellston workshop on metals hazard assessment

... markets  for  carbon  As a  result,  compliance  markets  attract   much  more  capital  Although  compliance  markets  have   the  potential  to  generate  large  demand  for  forest  carbon, ... Guarantees Guarantors insure against default of a bond (or other debt payback) for any reason +++ +++ +++ Commercial Insurance Insure against losses due to specific risk events, such as natural ...  not  the   only  means  of  managing  and  delivering  international   to  move  fast on  forest  preservation  and  climate  change   are  starting  to  look  at  bilateral  deals  whereby...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:21

... central portion of the lava flow simulation area) comprising lava flows from Shamiram, Atomakhumb, Dashtakar, Blrashark, and Karmratar volcanoes The ANPP site (black box) is located on the Shamiram ... lava flows from the flanks of Aragats include Tirinkatar, which is separated into two individual trachybasalt flows Tirinkatar-1 and Tirinkatar-2, and the Ashtarak lava flow Tirinkatar-1 and Ashtarak ... flanks of Aragats volcano, a 70-km-diameter basalt-trachyandesite to trachydacite volcano located immediately north of the Shamiram Plateau The mapped lava flows on the Shamiram Plateau can be divided...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 19:20

... Chiba, Japan 3National Center Hospital of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan 4Chiba Psychiatric Medical Center, Chiba, Japan 5Mobara Mental Hospital, Chiba, Japan 6Chiba Aoba Municipal Hospital, ... Mental Health 2009, 4:119 17 Hirata T, Shiina A, Igarashi Y, Iwama H, Kawabata T, Kishi Y, Seto H, Hattori I, Hayashi H, Hirabayashi N, Matsuzaka A: Kantei-nyuin ni okeru iryotekikansatsu ni kansuru ... psychiatric examination In Japanese] 18 Ando K, Asanami C, Mizuno Y, Sawa Y, Tsukue R, Taruya T: Challenge of confrontation to his act in designated hospital [in Japanese] Jap J Forensic Mental Health...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:21

... of assessment and evaluation is absolutely new with the teachers and students at the secondary education As a consequence, to make it possible to use widely in our national education, there are ... alternative assessment Still, it is demonstrated of its strengths and benefits in comparison with traditional forms of assessment in ESL teaching and learning 1.2.4 The advantages and disadvantages ... literature, the design and application stages of portfolio assessment have been researched by many authors such as Barnhardt et al (1998) and Moya and O'Malley (1994) First, in Moya and O'Malley's...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2015, 08:53

... memory A CUDA application has to manually manage all the memory related to the device including memory allocation and deallocation using cudaMalloc and cudaFree; and data transfer between host and ... parallelizing parallel_for constructs, TBB also have parallel patterns such as parallel_reduce, parallel_scan, parallel_do; concurrent data containers including vectors, queues and hash map; scalable memory ... Process-Level Parallel (Coarse-Grained Control Parallelism) • Data Parallel (Data Parallelism) These categories are not exclusive of each other A hardware device (such as the CPU) can belong to all these...

Ngày tải lên: 23/11/2012, 15:03

... 0) and condensation ( m phase < 0) is assumed Where m phase is mass transfer: for evaporation & & & & ( m phase = mevap ) and for condensation ( m phase = mcond ) (kg/s) So that the mass balance ... mechanical, thermal, and electrical contact between the central parts of the gas diffusion backing and Membrane-Electrode-Assembly (MEA) 2.2 Model equations 2.2.1 Air and fuel gas flow In natural convection ... the steady-state Navier-Stokes equations, i.e the continuity equation, the mass conservation equation for each phase yields the volume fraction (r ) and along with the momentum equations the...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 14:58

... such as pumping stations, irrigation and drainage canal systems, crop protection dikes and dams have been built in the Mekong Delta Almost these water works were investigated by the national budget ... million people were affected An estimated, more than 500 million US dollars of material facilities was lost III NATIONAL POLICES AND PEOPLE’S BEHAVIOUR WITH FLOOD Last two decades, as a part of ... of its aspects, both negative and positive impacts, an overall consideration is necessary for reduce the risk and damage from this natural phenomenon Some below information are needed and a few...

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 12:15

... cycleDay( ) cycleMonth( ) cycleYear( ) Today Figure 3.9: Alarm clock class diagram The Alarm Clock Class Diagram The Alarm Clock class keeps the current time and date and the alarm time The Alarm ... channels A sound channel can be used to record a message, to play a message or to play an alarm sound Playing Recording Idle Alarm Figure 4.1: Behaviour of an AudioController Audio Input An audio ... is created, it allocates and array of Audio Blocks Each element of the array is marked when used and contains a pointer to the next block into a message stream We avoid memory fragmentation by...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 23:15

... is transparent Cingular manages the Unison system from its own operations center, and thanks to Unison’s active architecture and extensive operations and maintenance capabilities, the carrier ... and 1900MHz voice and EDGE data services for Cingular In all, it took only ten days to install the cabling, RAUs and antennas IDEX, the contractor that installed the cabling, was a trusted contractor ... problem, Mary Kay looked at several cellular carriers for its primary coverage contract Naturally, better coverage was a top requirement on the list Eventually, AT&T Wireless (now Cingular) offered...

Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2013, 19:15

... AEAP: As Early As Possible AFAICR: As far as I can recall / remember AFAICS: As far as I can see AFAICT: As far as I can tell AFAIK: As far as I know AFAIR: As far as I remember AFAP: As Far As ... such as military activities, scientific work, or medical terminology A A C?: AH! SI? AAF: As A Friend ADAD: Another Day Another Dollar ADIH: Another Day In Hell ADIP: Another Day in Paradise AEAP: ... Possible AFK: Away from keyboard ALOL: Actually laughing out loud ASAP: As soon as possible ASL or A/ S/L: Age / sex / location ASLP or A/ S/L/P: Age, sex, location, picture 45 ATEOTD: At The End...

Ngày tải lên: 11/12/2013, 23:48

... which can be transformed into useful information by easing strategic management and control process Managing this information in a systematic and dynamic way can yield a competitive advantage According ... the fact that these indicators are much easier to measure In addition, conventional methods have the advantage of being investment evaluation settings Their major drawback of evaluation is that ... link the non-financial metrics to financial numbers (e.g Kaplan and Norton, 1992) Traditionally financial and non-financial measures have been seen as opposed, but there are many connections between...

Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 17:15

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 08:20

... goals and strategies for the firm In addition, people’s active participation in knowledge creation and transmission in working teams is an essential cultural value At Irizar, participation is the A ... continuous and intensive co-operation and interaction between groups which are specialist both functionally and professionally (R&D, Production and Marketing for implementation; Organization and Finance ... Irizar: the organization’s mission and values The KM strategy implementation began at Irizar in 1991, a moment in which the firm was in a critical situation, having accumulated major losses almost to...

Ngày tải lên: 24/01/2014, 00:20

... demonstration, regalia and pictures, for example, and teaches abstract vocabulary through association of ideas I.5.3 Vocabulary teaching according to the Communicative approach (CLT) Communicative ... Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is an approach to the teaching of second and foreign languages that emphasizes interaction as both the means and the ultimate goal of learning a language CLT places ... vocabulary teaching and learning, especially in the context of VUC I.5.1.Vocabulary teaching according to the Grammar-translation method: The grammar-translation method of foreign language teaching...

Ngày tải lên: 29/01/2014, 00:23

... Pakistan and Bangladesh have lower education and occupational qualifications than whites, on average, those from India, Africa and China have higher average qualifications (Modood 2003) Although ... and health incorporation on the patterns observed among the total population—in social institutions such as the educational and health care systems, and on markers of health and social inequality ... who are socially and economically disadvantaged have much healthier behaviors than their native-born peers, on average, the same is observed among more advantaged immigrants, albeit not always as...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 12:20

... projections In hadron physics, a typical cluster would be a baryon containing quarks or a meson containing a quark-antiquark pair The spatial wave function of a cluster h consists of a single Gaussian ... state calculation, these wave functions, given as an expansion in terms of Gaussians, are a variational solution For a scattering calculation more has to be done 4.1 Construction of physical ... compared to data and the R-matrix analysis At forward and backward angles large discrepancies between data and calculation are visible In fig we change from using the Bonn potential to the Argonne...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 16:20

... dynamic scenes has been made possible This constituted the basis for an accurate perception of normal traffic situations (Figure 1) Obstacle Avoidance Obstacle avoidance is a major concern for all ... of available mobile robot, mainly used for studying behaviors and its actual goals to be accomplished The indoor navigation and machine learning navigation system relies on topological maps that ... international attention was a road vehicle equipped with our real-time vision system BVV that allowed it to run on the German Autobahn Although at that time no other traffic was allowed on the road, the achieved...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 09:20

... respondent had not eaten anything at all More than half of the respondents (n = 41) stated that they have had one meal a day, 18 have two meals a day while 16 stated that they had none Many of ... training was obtained, and integrated where appropriate A consensus on ethical considerations, style of questioning and appropriate words to use was also reached Data collection started shortly after ... usually have three meals a day Another 40% reported that they usually have two meals a day while 16.8% indicated having one meal a day, and 2.5% reported having four meals a day Psychosocial...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 19:20

... of U.S railroad corporations The corporate bond market, essentially a railroad bond market in its early decades, can properly be viewed as an American financial innovation that later spread to ... bonds Another reason was that commercial banks introduced term loans as an alternative to bond financing As an institution-based rather than market-based method of financing, the term loan had ... default losses, so that realized yields on low grades are high These institutional considerations rest on personal observation rather than on statistical evidence 19 Whatever the explanation,...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 03:20

... resource management both on a national and on a global scale National Australia Bank believes that natural resource and environmental risks should always be considered as part of a balanced approach ... Systematise analysis of environmental degradation, separate carbon from Footprint of production, incorporate additional measures of degradation Increase sophistication of analysis regarding carbon ... manager and lead author: Martin Halle Project manager and co-author: Gemma Cranston Project Director: Susan Burns Analytics: David Moore, Elias Lazarus, Alessandro Galli, Michael Borucke, Katsunori...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 03:20