... Slide Staff selection case study The nex t stage is to try and find peop le from within the company with the necessary skills Howev er, the company has expanded significantly and has few staff ... growing market of assistive technology to help elderly and disabled people live independently Alice has been asked to lead a team of d evelopers than can develop new products based around the companyÕs ... technology as it is reused User interface design experience because the users are untrained and may be disabled and hence need facilities such as variable font sizes, etc Ideally, someone who has experience...
Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2012, 11:41
... 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 concern ... inflicted by disaster agents would increase dramatically given the proportionate increase of the vulnerability of communities and industrial assets driven by accelerated urbanization and economic ... literature and media as a major driver (and effect) of climate change and of global warming in particular Indeed, since the Industrial Revolution the mean surface temperature of Earth has increased...
Ngày tải lên: 07/10/2012, 15:56
Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 1.2
... of disasters’ (Helmer and Hilhorst, 2006, p 2) Thus, as the intensity and frequency of disasters increases, it becomes a requirement for DRR and CCA also to increase resilience (Helmer and Hilhorst, ... post-disaster response can actually increase vulnerabilities in the long term (Anderson and Woodrow, 1998; Schipper and Pelling, 2006) Nonetheless, as the emphasis continues to shift from disaster ... renewal and transformation; and (3) and understanding ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS of change and uncertainty as inherent in social-ecological systems This statement strongly reflects the convergent aspects...
Ngày tải lên: 07/10/2012, 15:56
Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 1.3
... scholars, and increase collaboration between the young and the seasoned within academic institutions, development and relief organizations and government We see this path, embedded in adaptive and ... Community-based disaster preparedness and climate adaptation: local capacitybuilding in the Philippines Disasters, 30(1) 81 – 101 Anderson, M B and Woodrow, P J., 1998 Rising from the Ashes Lynne ... 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 Kunreuther, H C., 1985 Ambiguity and insurance...
Ngày tải lên: 07/10/2012, 15:56
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 basin Landfalling ... (AMM) and even more exotic relationships such as with the Quasibiennial Oscillation (QBO), Cold Tongue Index (CTI), African dust and rainfall, Asian and North American smog, sunspot activity and...
Ngày tải lên: 07/10/2012, 15:57
Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 1.5
... target was increased from 60 per cent to at least 80 per cent and the scope was extended to cover not only CO2 but the full basket of Kyoto greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs and SF6) ... increased by per cent per year since 2005, leading to a 12.5 per cent increase in the normalized data from the 2005 baseline 2006 had no hurricane landfalls, and thus no damage 2007 had one landfall, ... doi:10.1038/nature04477 Landsea, C W., 2007 Counting Atlantic Tropical Cyclones back to 1900 EOS, 88 197 and 202 Lonfat, M., Boissonnade, A and Muir-Wood, R., 2007 Atlantic Basin, US and Caribbean landfall rates...
Ngày tải lên: 07/10/2012, 15:57
Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 2.1
... The Netherlands Natural disasters have increased in frequency and severity during the last few decades, causing considerable economic damage and loss of life A combination of climate and socio-economic ... arrangements such as insurance may contribute to the adaptation of societies to increasing risk and enhance economic resilience to disasters (Mills and Lecompte, 2006; Botzen and van den Bergh, ... HAZARDS 2009 killed over 200 people and damaged large pieces of land with devastating effects on wildlife The sharp increase in tempo and severity of the recent disasters made some leading academics...
Ngày tải lên: 07/10/2012, 15:57
Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 2.2
... natural disaster risks 213 concentrations of greenhouse gases Future greenhouse gas emissions may rise rapidly due to the fast industrialization of Asian economies with increasing demands for energy ... disaster aimed at creating conditions within the human system that enhance this system’s resistance to disasters and its capacity to respond to, and cushion impacts of, ˇ a disaster (Handmer and ... step in assessing future risk Statistical models can be used to assess how frequencies and severities of natural disaster or disaster damage relate to variability in climate (e.g Saunders and Lea,...
Ngày tải lên: 07/10/2012, 15:57
Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 2.3
... change, for example, because of soil erosion and landslides resulting from more frequent and severe rains and floods The surface mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet may turn negative at a global ... Climate change and increased risk for the insurance sector: a global perspective and an assessment for the Netherlands Natural Hazards, forthcoming Botzen, W J W., Bouwer, L M and van den Bergh, ... catastrophe losses Workshop on ¨ Climate Change and Disaster Losses, P Hoppe and R A Jr Pielke, (eds) Hohenkammer, Germany Munich Re, 2009 Topics Geo Natural Catastrophes 2008: Analyses, Assessments,...
Ngày tải lên: 07/10/2012, 15:57
Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 2.4
... wetlands which perform essential hydrological, biological and chemical functions and which support and maintain the productivity and health of the river systems A number of the Basin wetlands ... framed as the villain was Queensland, which was blamed for taking too much water out of the system, in particular by South Australia, which was the most badly affected state As an example, Queensland ... context, and as such involve many twists and turns in which the states depending on the Basin for water supply (New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, the Australian Capital Territory and Victoria)...
Ngày tải lên: 07/10/2012, 15:57
Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 2.5
... According to Botterill (2003), drought has to be understood as a social construction and as such highly political in its nature However, as argued by West and Smith (1996), drought is a national ... been presented as quintessentially Australian – as an important part of the national character In the case study at hand the actor groups, scientists and affected actors were basically promoting ... management and climate change was justified by the fact that Minister Penny Wong was the minister for climate change and water The Coorong Wetlands are one of the most important wetlands in Australia...
Ngày tải lên: 07/10/2012, 15:57
The pursuit of the subject - literature as critic and perfecter of philosophy 1790-1830
... necessity, chaos and order, body and mind, individual and totality, change and continuity, in the measured aesthetic vision, which is henceforth to be respected in life as much as in art Schiller ... progress of that chase – as a dialogue between the epoch’s great philosophical movement, the idealism of Kant, Fichte and Schelling, and its literary counterparts, the classicism and Romanticism ... everything What mattered was simply to know something and say it In practice, it was far harder to assert than prove something (no ; KFSA II, ) But even an assertion was not final, merely a stepping...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 09:20
How to Free Yourself of ANY Disease, Stop Fatigue, And Create Unstoppable Energy in Your Life.
... disease and sickness The reality of it is, the only reason why those germs and viruses ever invade your body is, because you created the trash necessary in your body first, to allow the germs and ... to live and expand In order to get rid of the rats, you must clean the trash first In order to be completely healthy, vibrant and energetic you must clean the trash in your body, and create an ... knowing their only purpose and deep desire is to ruin our day and make our life as difficult, short, painful, horrible, and depressing as possible This is completely not true, and anyone who believes...
Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2013, 21:15
Tài liệu Define a Primary Key and Other Indexes docx
... box On the Indexes page, click the New button, and then fill in the following properties to add an index for the LastName field: Index Name with "IX_LastName" and Column Name with "LastName." ... How It Works When you create tables, you create your primary key columns and indexes at the same time You can come up with indexes at a later date as well Comments Be sure to create a primary key ... columns such as LastName and FirstName together, which is quite common, you could add the FirstName column underneath the LastName column in the last step This is called a compound index How It...
Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 20:16
Tài liệu Workflows as Programs and Plug-ins doc
... Automator and resave it In any case, if you decide to save a workflow as an application, choose File and then select Application from the pop-up menu at the bottom Save As, 7.4.2 Workflows as Plug-ins ... with the Get Selected Finder Items action in the "Converting and Renaming Images" example earlier in this chapter This would resize and convert to JPEG any image files you have selected in the ... save a workflow in this format, iCal opens and creates a new event named after your plug-in; you're supposed to drag and edit this event to whatever time and day you want the workflow to run (You...
Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 04:20
Tài liệu An Empirical Decomposition of Risk and Liquidity in Nominal and Inflation- Indexed Government Bonds pptx
... nominal and real yields, because this maturity bracket has the longest and most continuous history of TIPS outstanding We measure US inflation with the all-urban seasonally adjusted CPI, and the ... value of inflation-indexed bonds outstanding and the combined face value of nominal and inflation-indexed bonds outstanding at time for either the US or the UK We define as ... the US Our left-hand-side variables are the nominal, inflation-indexed and breakeven returns as defined in (2), (3) and (4) Pflueger and Viceira (2011) show that nominal, TIPS and breakeven term...
Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 02:20
Báo cáo " The impact of environment on morphological and physical indexes of Vietnamese and South Korean students " docx
... Netherlands, and the Scandinavian nations Most markedly is the Netherlands where average height has increased at the greatest rates The Netherlands was in the late nineteenth century a land renowned ... as between females and males of Korean students Comparison of basic anthropometric indexes of Korean students and Vietnamese students Average basic anthropometric indexes of Korean students and ... of basic anthropometric indexes of Vietnamese students This description is based on 1000 males and 1000 females Table Average basic anthropometric indexes of Vietnamese students (X + SD) No Index...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 09:20
Cinema as Art and Philosophy in Béla Tarr''''s Creative Exploration of Reality potx
... the cerebral Cinema as Art and Philosophy 113 membrane where immediate and direct confrontation take place between the past and the future, real and imaginary, the inside and the outside, at ... and without an end, time has no meaning it is out of joint. In long, monotonous and repetitive shots past, present and future merge or exchange generating a sense of vertigo, or a dream As ... interviews Cinema as Art and Philosophy the situation or seeing rather than acting 111 On the other hand, the sound, camera and landscape also become characters The autonomous, rhythmical and 'otherworldly'...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 11:21
UNIT 3. METADATA STANDARDS AND SUBJECT INDEXING LESSON 3. METADATA STANDARDS FOR THE WEB: PRACTICAL APPLICATIONSNOTE ppt
... elements and elements and qualifiers qualifiers Any organization can create their own namespace as long as they are committed to its maintenance Metadata standards and subject indexing – Metadata standards ... Furthermore, agriculture specific classifications and thesauri have been added as encoding schemes: two classifications (ASC and CABC) and four thesauri (AGROVOC, CABT, ASFA and NAL) Namespaces MetaForm ... wellaccepted metadata standard As more and more communities start adopting a single standard, they become more and more interoperable Metadata standards and subject indexing – Metadata standards for the...
Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 03:20