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... in highlands and mountains aiming at satisfying local water demand and reducing poverty; • Program for Large Multipurpose Water Systems with big reservoirs (V=0.3÷1.5 billion m 3 ) and high ... composed of two subregions: the East Coastland and the South –West Highlands. The coastal subregion, a very narrow land strip between mountains and sea, is composed of a lot of small separate ... where there are sandy islands, large salty ponds, typhoonal and monsoon regime. Ecosystem Ecosystem, which changes in basin from the river source to the estuarial zone during and after dam...

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... January/February 2000. 136 CONCLUSIONS AND CHALLENGES 9 CONCLUSIONS AND CHALLENGES1 The technologies and standards required to implement VoIP service are cur- rently well established and mature. Many equipment ... MGWs and SGs, and so on—to realize and manage the VoIP ser- vice. Advances in digital signal processing and networking software, hardware, and protocol technologies—as discussed in Chapters 2 and ... Because of the openness and flexibility of IP-based call control and signaling, many new and advanced add-on services can be developed, integrated, and marketed very quickly and cost-e¤ectively....

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... advanced and more bandwidth-demanding multimedia applications and services, e.g., Internet Protocol Television (IPTV), Voice over IP (VoIP), online gaming. A plethora of QoS requirements and facilities ... such as streaming and on- demand. Important research questions are, e.g., scalability, overlay traffic measurements and modeling, data search and retrieval, load balancing, churn handling, QoS provisioning ... architectural solution must be a unified one, and be independent of the access network and content management (i.e, content acquisition, storage and delivery). Other facilities like billing and authentication must...

Ngày tải lên: 09/12/2013, 21:15

... productivity and efficiency gains (Amit and Zott, 2001; Lucking-Reiley and Spulbur, 2001; Wigand and Benjamin, 1995). E-commerce also is expected to facilitate entry into new markets and the extension ... that the Internet and e-commerce will create more sophisticated and demanding customers with higher expectations in terms of 24-hour access to company and product information and quicker responses ... extension of existing markets (Garicano and Kaplan, 2001), and greater integration of systems with suppliers and customers (OECD, 1999; Timmers, 1999; Wigand and Benjamin, 1995). As e-commerce continues...

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... inefficiencies and bottlenecks and enhancing workflow using automation and other information technologies, can add additional cost savings as well as faster cycle times and other business benefits. Challenges Before ... long-term costs such as unemployment insurance and employee benefits, and implementing the software development and quality assurance processes and practices of the offshore suppliers as a way ... needs to thoroughly understand the challenges to successful offshoring. Major risks and issues include differences in language, culture, politics, regulations, and work practices—all of which...

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... Organic Market in Switzerland and the European Union: Overview and Market Access Information for Producer and International Trading Companies. Swiss Import Promotion Program and Research Institute ... Organic Agriculture World Wide 2002, Statistics and Future Prospects. Stiftung Ökologie and Landbau. Bad Dürkheim, Germany. Market Opportunities and Challenges for Indian Organic Products 12 ... C, D, and E). A1 denotes upper most class and E stands for the lowest class. Respondents were selected based on their income as well as educational background. Market Opportunities and Challenges...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 03:20

... observations and lessons learned from the evaluation, and suggested some possible research directions to address these challenges which may be helpful for current and new partici- pants, or IE and ... reasoning to refine the results. CUNY and IBM developed recursive reasoning components to refine extrac- tion results. For a given query, if there are no other related answer candidates available, ... Moder. Henry was born Monday in Los Angeles and weighed 8? lbs. Rob- erts, 39, and husband Danny Moder, 38, are al- ready parents to twins Hazel and Phinnaeus who were born in November 2006.”...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 04:20

... meat. Key words: Thailand, poultry, export, HPAI 47 Do old and new forms of poultry go together? Jan Slingenbergh 1 and Marius Gilbert 2 1 Animal Production and Health Division, Food and Agriculture ... Particularly emphasized were the challenges of ensuring communication and cooperation among stakeholders (particularly across the dividing line between human and animal health) and of developing effective ... trust and openness. The need to clarify the role of vaccination in the control of HPAI was noted, as was the need for a better understanding of the roles of wild birds and the transport and trade...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 01:20

... of chronic diseases and conditions and risk factors on wages, earnings or incomes, selected examples Country and study Year data collected Chronic diseases and conditions and impact of these ... US$1000 United States Bhattacharya and Bundorf 2004 1989–1998 Obesity Wages reduced by US$0.71 per hour United States Haskins and Ransford 1999 1988 and 1998 Obesity Higher weight tends ... integrated care models 52 Part III: Challenges of chronic disease management Chapter 7 Tackling the challenges of chronic disease in Europe 55 7.1 New pharmaceuticals and medical devices 55 7.2 Financial...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 10:20

... their nature, amount and the physical and chemical properties that influence their persistence and biodegradability (Atlas 1981; Leahy and Colwell 1990; EIBE 2000; Baheri and Meysami 2002; Tor- kian ... (Gavrilescu and Chisti 2005). They are functional in activated sludge processes, lag- oons and ponds, wetlands, anaerobic wastewater treatment and digestion, bioleaching, phytoremediation, land-farming, ... of natural sciences and engineering in order to achieve the application of organisms, cells, parts thereof and molecular analogues for products and services” (van Beuzekom and Arundel 2006)....

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... & abandoned agricultural land icultural landicultural land icultural land 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 North A merica O ceania East and W es t E ur ope C . I . S. and Bal t i c ... Rosillo-Calle, F., 2007, “Biomass, Livelihoods and International Trade: Challenges and Opportunities for the EU and Southern Africa,” SEI Climate and Energy Report 2007-01, Stockholm Environment ... additional trade barriers. 5.5 Governance and Policy 5.5 Governance and Policy5.5 Governance and Policy 5.5 Governance and Policy Policies and governance related to biotechnology establish...

Ngày tải lên: 09/03/2014, 00:20

... their nature, amount and the physical and chemical properties that influence their persistence and biodegradability (Atlas 1981; Leahy and Colwell 1990; EIBE 2000; Baheri and Meysami 2002; Tor- kian ... re- duction, waste minimization, recycling and reuse. In most cases, this results in lower production costs, less pollution and resource conservation and may be considered as task force of biotechnology ... Gavrilescu and Nicu 2005) (Table 16). Similarly, the use of new biofuels and biomaterials that have little or no environmental impact is expanding rapidly. Biodegradation, biotransformation and...

Ngày tải lên: 13/03/2014, 21:56

... desirable and socially undesirable behaviors. The topics included attitudes towards gender equality, drug and alcohol use, diet and exercise, voting and church attendance, impression management, and ... some benefits and challenges of conducting psychological research via the Internet and offers recommendations to both researchers and Institutional Review Boards for dealing with the challenges. Send ... discussing the opportunities and challenges of conducting online research, we close with recommendations in light of these challenges, directed toward both the researcher and the Institutional Review...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 21:20

... on Security Audit and Control (SIGSAC) from 1995 to 2003, and founded and led the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) and the ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies ... the BERTINO AND SANDHU: DATABASE SECURITY—CONCEPTS, APPROACHES, AND CHALLENGES 7 2. The “where clause” is the clause containing predicates against tables and is a component of several SQL commands, ... DBMSs and object-relational DBMSs, and other advanced data management systems and applica- tions, such as data made available through the Web and represented through XML, digital libraries and...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 16:20

... rules V Y r → y and V ¯ Y r → 1−y to 1 and V ¯ Y r → y and V Y r → 1 − y to 0. The rest of the weights for S φ j → S φ j−1 A j are set to 1. This assignment of rule probabilities results in a Viterbi ... following Lemmas 1 and 2, is to state the decision problem for Viter- biTrain as “given G and x 1 , . . . , x n and α ≥ 0, is the optimized value of the objective function L(θ, z) ≥ α?” and use α = ... parameters. Viterbi EM and variants have been used in various settings in natural language processing (Yejin and Cardie, 2007; Wang et al., 2007; Goldwater and Johnson, 2005; DeNero and Klein, 2008;...

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