... attitudes, and trends shaping America and the world The Pew Internet Project explores the impact of the internet on children, families, communities, the work place, schools, health care and civic/political ... apart and provide a detailed picture of what SNS users look like, which SNS platforms different people use, and the relationship between uses of technology and the size and structure of people s ... much trust people have in their fellow citizens, we asked people: “Generally speaking, would you say that most people can be trusted or that you can’t be too careful in dealing with people? ” 41%...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 00:20
... Joanna, and my children, Lucas, Sophie, and Julie –TWP wwwwwwwwwwwww Acknowledgments It is a pleasure to acknowledge the many people who encouraged us and helped with this book Myrna and Charles ... Every society needs a steady flow of mass and energy (goods and services) to maintain its complex structure, and increasing flows if it increases in size or complexity The more complex the society ... 2001, and $500,000 a day to operate For the past 100 years, abundant and inexpensive energy has fueled tremendous growth in the size and complexity of our societies, and in the numbers of people...
Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 18:20
Tài liệu The Tampa Center City Plan Connecting Our Neighborhoods and Our River for Our Future docx
... reinvestment with diverse uses and people Streetscape, trail, and transit programs are expanding to better connect the community The InVision Tampa program explores these trends, and, with the benefit ... settlement and defense, shipping and trade, culture, and environment The patterns of a long and diverse past are visible, in the forms of neighborhoods and main streets, highways and buildings, and ... business, hi-tech research, healthcare and education, trade and shipping, museums and performing arts, sports and hospitality New residential growth is strengthening neighborhoods and adding a 24-hour...
Ngày tải lên: 25/02/2014, 01:20
Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
... division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto www.doubleday.com DOUBLEDAY and the DD colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc ... so many of my previous books and came up with the idea for a challenging book like this, and also Edward Kastenmeier, who has patiently made countless suggestions and revisions to this book that ... discussions with concerning science I would like to apologize for dragging a TV camera crew from BBC-TV or the Discovery and Science channels into their laboratories and thrusting a microphone and TV...
Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 08:49
THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF AGEING POPULATIONS (A COMPARISON OF THE EU,US AND JAPAN) ppt
... national budgets • In the case of health care, Oxley and MacFarlan(1994) have estimated that “demand side effects associated with population ageing, increased incomes and increased insurance coverage ... pensions and health are major components, has accounted for nearly two-thirds of the increase in the total Government expenditure to GDP ratio in the Community since 1970 Pensions and health care ... Germany, France, UK, Finland, the Netherlands, Portugal and Sweden Source: OECD 100% Health Expenditure 6% 2.2- “LIFE CYCLE” EFFECTS ON PRIVATE SAVINGS BEHAVIOUR Demographic change and private savings...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 21:20
Global Health Education in US and Canadian Universities and Colleges potx
... governmental and institutional funding… and 2) the lack of coordination and awareness of efforts by different faculty and groups within and between universities.” Timothy Brewer Director, Global Health ... International Health University Program Public Health Institute College Center / Centre Medicine Department Nursing Initiative Dentistry Example: “global health AND “university” AND “department” AND “public ... global health 12 “US/Canadian universities should partner with overseas universities in joint activities, jointly identifying problems and solutions ” Mike Merson, MD Director, Duke Global Health...
Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 21:20
Research " Goodwill Acounting Diffrences of the US and UK and Their Effect on Share Prices " pptx
Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 01:20
beyond outrage. what has gone wrong with our economy and our democracy and how to fix it - robert reich
... public investments in schools and health care and infrastructure And we all better with strong safety nets, reasonable constraints on Wall Street and big business, and a truly progressive tax system ... infrastructure, worsening health and rising health- care costs, and diminishing basic research All of this is putting us on a glide path toward even lousier jobs and lower wages And we have no national ... these dots and you understand why we’ve come to where we are We’re in a vicious cycle Our economy and our democracy depend on it being reversed The well-being of your children and grandchildren...
Ngày tải lên: 08/06/2014, 08:50
báo cáo hóa học: " A comparison of EQ-5D index scores using the UK, US, and Japan preference weights in a Thai sample with type 2 diabetes" pdf
... preferences for health outcomes in evaluation of public health and healthcare interventions such as cost-utility analyses (CUA) [1,2] In CUA, a utility score is assigned to the health state on ... the Measuring and Valuation Health (MVH) protocol to collect a general adult population in the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, and Wales) [4,19] The preference values for 42 core health states ... of effectiveness of health care: A systematic literature review Int J technol Assess Health Care 2006, 22:235-241 Dolan P: Modeling valuations for EuroQol health states Med Care 1997, 35:1095-1108...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20
Building a sustainable future our agenda and our contribution launch of the corporate sustainable development report 2007 june 2 2008 holcim ltd switzerland
... Social performance High standards of Corporate Governance and Code of Conduct implemented Governance structure and committees set up External assurance of the CSDR 2007 and CO2 data Audit Committee ... for Holcim and our stakeholders CHF 4.6 billion to employees CHF 2.0 billion to shareholders and creditors CHF 1.2 billion to governments © 2008 Holcim Ltd/Switzerland Population growth and urbanization ... materials Commitment to quarry rehabilitation and biodiversity conservation Collaboration with IUCN extends and builds on our efforts 19 © 2008 Holcim Ltd/Switzerland Social commitment Vision, strategy...
Ngày tải lên: 26/07/2014, 22:16
Báo cáo khoa học: "Haemostatics in surgery and our experience in the enucleoresection of renal cell carcinoma" ppt
... evaluated with a detailed history, physical examination, standard blood chemical analyses, upper urinary tract and bladder ultra- Page of sound, abdomen computerized tomography without and with intravenous ... analyzed with Wilcoxon-Mann Whitney Rank Sum Test Categorical variables between groups were compared with Chisquare test or with Fisher's exact test when requested Results 17 men and 13 women with ... Sum Test trocautery, and final haemostasis was obtained with FloSeal (Group 1) or with ISC (Group 2), without suturing Statistically higher rates of successful haemostasis and shorter time-to-haemostasis...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 03:21
báo cáo khoa học: "Hodgkin lymphoma treatment with ABVD in the US and the EU: neutropenia occurrence and impaired chemotherapy delivery" potx
... objectives were to investigate the incidence of CIN and FN in patients with HL undergoing ABVD chemotherapy and to compare US and EU practice with ABVD therapy in HL Methods Two similarly designed, ... chemotherapy treatment Grades and CIN were defined as an ANC < 1000/mm3 and < 500/mm3 [16], respectively, and FN as ANC < 1000/ mm in combination with site-reported fever above 38°C and/ or infection Primary ... of neutropenic events in US and EU patients Incidence of grade and CIN and FN in US (N = 68) and EU (N = 47) patients during the first cycles of chemotherapy Patients with grade CIN were not counted...
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 22:21
Báo cáo khoa học: "Comparative analysis of complete nucleotide sequence of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) isolates in Thailand (US and EU genotypes)" pot
... algorithm with distance setting of total character difference Bootstrap analysis was conducted with 1000 replication ORF1a and ORF1b of 01CB1 and 01NP1 encoded proteins of 2,396 and 1,463 and 2,503 and ... ORF5 gene of 01NP1 and 01CB1 and additional PRRSV (2002-2008) were compared to those of US strains (MLV, VR2332, PA8, 16244B, SP and HUN4) and EU strain (LV and EuroPRRSV) (Fig and 5) The results ... Sunderland, MA) applying NJ algorithm with distance setting of total character difference and the MEGA3 software applying NJ algorithm with Kimura 2- parameter Bootstrap analysis was conducted with...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:20
REGULATIONS AGAINST ABUSIVE PRICING a COMPARISON OF EU, US AND VIETNAMESE LAW AND AN APPLICATION OF ITS RESULTS TO VIETNAM
... demands of both enterprises and consumers who wish to understand the concepts and forms of a large group of abuses of dominant position, i.e abusive pricing, and discover ways of avoiding to and/ or ... together and analysed as a whole This method is used in Chapters 2, 3, and of this dissertation Comparative legal method: I use this method for discovering and dealing with similarities and differences ... countries and determining the conditions and consequences of these differences The second purpose is to draw lessons for Vietnam This cannot be achieved without first attaining a clear and comprehensive...
Ngày tải lên: 15/08/2014, 15:49
goodwill acounting diffrences of the us and uk and their effect on share prices
Ngày tải lên: 21/08/2014, 18:18
regulations against abusive pricing - a comparison of eu, us and vietnamese law and an application of its results to vietnam
... people, by the people, and for the 48 people , “guarantees and unceasingly promotes the people s mastery in all fields, and severely punishes all acts violating the interests of the motherland ... Messinger and Suffolk’s administrative staff and librarians Finally, I would like to thank my parents, my children, my friends and my students for their warm support, encouragement, care and love ... demands of both enterprises and consumers who wish to understand the concepts and forms of a large group of abuses of dominant position, i.e abusive pricing, and discover ways of avoiding to and/ or...
Ngày tải lên: 22/08/2014, 18:45
kolb - lessons from the financial crisis; causes, consequences, and our economic future (2010)
... economies and their continued growth has to be reconciled with lowered expectations in the advanced countries, and with the end of the bubble -and- currency-based propping up of living standards ... Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and, in part, because promoting home ownership was a popular cause The HUD mandates to purchase more and more loans from low- and middleincome groups, together with competition ... from less -and- less creditworthy persons (and mortgage originators) with term structures that were less and less likely to be viable The risks associated with mortgage-backed securities and their...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2014, 13:25
conducting transatlantic business; basic legal distinctions in the us and europe
... technologies and new markets provide both opportunities and challenges An environment in which your expertise is in high demand Enjoy the supportive working atmosphere within our global group and beneit ... and beneit from international career paths Implement sustainable ideas in close cooperation with other specialists and contribute to inluencing our future Come and join us in reinventing light ... 3.3 Commitment to Contracts 35 Torts and Liability 40 4.1 Torts or Wrongful Acts 40 4.2 Liability 41 4.3 Punitive Damages 44 Human Resources 45 5.1 Written and Oral Contracts 46 5.2 Employers’...
Ngày tải lên: 05/11/2014, 12:26
power, perception and policymaking the foreign policies of the us and the eu towards china
... and trying to advance my understanding of organic chemistry; and John Gallagher for putting me up (and putting up with me) in London whilst on fieldwork and en route to and from conferences and ... the world and its Member States retain significant military capabilities whilst two of the members – France and the United Kingdom (UK) – are also nuclear powers and sit with the US and China ... and the EU and the subsequent impact upon their policy preferences The approach developed draws on both FPA and EFP in order to understand the relationship between policymakers’ perceptions and...
Ngày tải lên: 22/12/2014, 20:54