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... some of the roughly 120,000 diesel vehicles in the city Officials fine vehicle owners who fail the tests, and they have the power to remove the vehicle from the road Porto Alegre, on the other ... Horizonte is the capital of the mineralrich state of Minas Gerais Located in the interior of southeastern Brazil, Belo Horizonte sits at the heart of the country’s steel and mining region The city’s ... spoke to the EIU about the results of the Index, the difficulty of measuring the environmental impact of informal settlements and the necessity to administer cities as “living organisms” The Index...

Ngày tải lên: 06/12/2015, 23:04

... island of Yumeshima in the city’s harbour Bangkok is promoting the use of biofuels The authorities aim to increase the proportion of gasohol — a mixture of gasoline and ethanol — in the fuel mix (the ... olkata, the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, is located in the eastern part of the country, alongside the Hooghly River With a population of 15.6 million in the metropolitan area, it is the ... Nicholas You is chairman of, amongst others, the Cities and Climate Change Commission of the World Future Council, and the Assurance Group of the Urban Infrastructure Initiative of the World Business...

Ngày tải lên: 06/12/2015, 23:07

... City, 2) MSA 32 tlanta, the capital of the southeastern state of Georgia, is a regional economic hub, with one of the highest concentrations of Fortune 500 companies in the US The city has in particular ... Besieged by one of the highest levels of congestion in the US, the city is addressing the problem through some of the best policies on traffic management in the Index Although Chicago has the most comprehensive ... points enver is the capital of the western US state of Colorado Located in high plains at the edge of the Rocky Mountains, Denver earned the nickname the “Mile-High City” because of its elevation...

Ngày tải lên: 06/12/2015, 23:11

... stronger the efficiency The form of the market is also dependent on the characteristics of the players, perceived security and the efficiency of available technology Each of these factors impacts the ... reporters was less than the mean value of risk of the sample of S&P 500 organizations for the period of January 1, 2002 to December 31, 2006 Hypothesis 2: H0: The growth of the group of Top Sustainability ... H1: The growth of the group of Top Sustainability reporters was greater than the growth of the sample of S&P 500 organizations based upon the distribution of return (growth) values for the for the...

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 00:48

... 247), or for the discovery of ‘mismatches’ between the TT and the ST on the same three levels 2.1.2 Operation of the model A key concept in the operation of House’s model is the context of situation ... statement of function of the ST is made, including the ideational and interpersonal component of that function A similar profile and statement of function is made of the TT The TT profile is compared ... addressees - Position role of addresser: the National Assembly of Vietnam, the highest representative office of the people and the sole law-making body of the country, where the addressees are carrying...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:36

... of the effects of PM often examine whether daily counts of mortality or cause-specific hospitalizations are correlated with daily concentrations of PM, after controlling for the effects of other ... to the annual mean concentration of PM2.5 A value of was added to the X terms in the formula to ensure that the log function is defined at X = The value of Xo is usually assumed to be either: the ... the presentation of the material in this publication not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the World Health Organization concerning the legal status of any country,...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 16:20

... scarcity The Working Group on Biofuels focuses on the specific topic of biofuels, and their specific implications on land use and other pressures, and their contribution to the solution of the problem ... distinguishes the life cycle of economic activities: the extraction of resources, their processing into materials and products and the subsequent use and discarding of the products The figure emphasizes the ... match with those of other countries The results should be interpreted with a caution, as they are bound by the limitations of the methodology and the uncertainty of data used The impact assessment...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 16:20

... homeowners free of charge or at a large discount These firms earned a profit based on the margin between the market price of the NGACs and the cost of the appliances The business model of purchasing ... case of the promised Australian national program and the proposed recast of the EPBD, even still under consideration Thus, systematic analysis of the effects of the policies is not yet possible There ... also differ in the types of information they display The EU member states have weighed the trade-off between offering detailed information and potentially overwhelming the people the certificates...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 22:20

... function of the degree of biomagnification or trophic dilution that occurs in organisms of lower trophic levels in the food web, thus regulating the concentration of the chemical in the diet of upper ... is a function of the KOW of the chemical and the weight of the organism W (kg) as: k1 ˆ 1/((0.01 ‡ 1/KOW) ¥ W0.4) (4) kD: The rate at which chemicals are absorbed from the diet via the gastrointestinal ... 2.5% of the available empirical data The calibration of the model to the data is designed to produce a QSAR for the BAF in higher trophic levels of a Canadian aquatic food web The QSAR BAFs can therefore...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 14:20

... RISK AND THE COST OF BANK FUNDING Since the beginning of the sovereign debt crisis the effectiveness of the bank lending channel for the transmission of the monetary policy stimulus to the economy ... The multidimensional nature of the current crisis has therefore complicated the analysis of financing conditions The assessment of financing conditions in the euro area against the background of ... increased the level of integration.10 Nevertheless, the See the article entitled The external financing of households and non-financial corporations: a comparison of the euro area and the United...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 17:20

... number, the listing date, and the status of the listing In addition, whenever relevant, each record includes the expiration date of the listing, the accepted offer date, the closing date, and the ... withdrawal of the property from the market, or transfer of the property to the MLS platform The staff of FSBOMadison.com monitors listings on the MLS and extinguishes any listings that appear on the ... all the listings on the service since it started in 1998 For each listing, we know the address of the property, the last name of the seller, the date the property is put on the Web, and sometimes...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 03:20

... instruction of the homeowners Typical events that trigger removal include sale of the property, withdrawal of the property from the market, or transfer of the property to the MLS platform The staff of ... in the transaction, s/he deals with the listing agent to settle the terms of the transactions, and gets the share of the commission that would have otherwise gone to the seller’s agent When the ... subset of the stock of buyers The attraction of this option increases with the proportion of informed buyers, and declines with the number of sellers that list in F (sellers compete for the stock of...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 04:21

... Glossary of Terms Foreword Foreword Foreword by the President of The Brewers of Europe I am delighted to welcome The Brewers of Europe’s first ever report on The Environmental Performance of the ... capturing the heat from the steam produced by boiling operations; the heat can then be reused for other processes Another example is the use of “wort-stripping” technology which increases the speed of ... expectations Therefore, The Brewers of Europe commissioned a study to describe the environmental performance of the brewing sector in Europe This report presents the changes and trends in the environmental...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 22:20

... Several of these drugs are currently in Phase I trials as single agents or in combination with chemotherapy [7-11] A critical aspect in the design of these trials has been the selection of appropriate ... into the IMCG and assisted in the conception of this study MTB performed ELISA assays and assisted in the writing of this manuscript LFL assisted in the conception, design, and coordination of ... coordination, supervised the analysis and interpretation of the data, and writing the 10 11 12 13 Tao Y, Pinzi V, Bourhis J, Deutsch E: Mechanisms of disease: signaling of the insulin-like growth...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 15:20

... defined as the ratio of the square of the t-statistic of the comparator instrument (assumed to be the SF-6D utility score for the purposes of this study) over the square of the t-statistic of the reference ... indication of the subject's own assessment of their health status on the day of the survey [13,25] The women in the present study were asked to complete the EQ-5D descriptive system and not the visual ... understanding of the reasons for the greater efficiency of the SF-6D at detecting external indicators of maternal health is beyond the scope of this paper Separate studies are required to test the hypotheses...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20

... between 0.10–0.29 The compare the "discriminant" validity of the two questionnaires we used the magnitude of ratio of the F-test from multivariable analyses of variance We hypothesized the ratio to ... well as the proportions of respondents reporting impairment in the EQ domains The magnitude and significance of the ORs for the EQ-5D domains, as well as the sign and significance of the regression ... with both the MCS-12 and PCS-12 The correlation between the EQindex (calculated on the UK population time trade off criteria) and the EQ-self rated index was also computed The strength of the correlation...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... synthesis of the wide bandgap of TiO2, the small particle size of 10 to approximately 20 nm, the wide surface area of TiO2, and the porosity As stated above, these can increase the adsorption of ... nanofibers can be observed at the surface of the film, so the nanofiber-added TiO2 film has an advantage to having higher adsorption of dye molecules and also supports the penetration of the ... Assembly of the testing cells The Pt electrode was placed over the dye-adsorbed TiO2 electrode, and the edges of the cell were sealed The sealing was accomplished by hot-pressing two electrodes together...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... meet the challenge of energy crisis The performance of a thermoelectric material is quantified by the dimensionless figure of S 2σ T merit ZT = , where S is the Seebeck coefficient, σ is the electrical ... both G and λe of these two CNTs vanish around the Fermi level ( µ = ) since this area corresponds to the band gap of the systems When the chemical potential moves to the edge of the first conduction ... To further improve the thermoelectric performance of these CNTs, we have considered isotope substitution which is believed to reduce the phonon-induced thermal conductance without changing the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 17:20

... that the optimum value of β (minimizing the BER) depends on many parameters: the channel model, the system loads, and the mean SNR Note also the impact of an accurate choice of β on the performance ... for the fully loaded case, a reduction of the actual number of interferers implies an underestimate of the parameter 1/(Nu γ) in (12) towards the ORC scheme, thus emphasizing the effect of thermal ... and of the end-to-end aspects of each connection, such as the generation of the application-level traffic and the users’ TCP or UDP dynamics; at the corenetwork side, instead, the ULS takes care of...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 06:20