cognitive biases potentially affecting judgement of global risks

... on the basis of a higher score on one of the subscales of the CSAQ Subjects were assigned to two treatments of anxiety: cognitive and relaxation (i.e somatic) Half of Cognitive Biases 193 the ... specific effect of elements of cognitive therapy on cognitive measures Results revealed specific effect of cognitive therapy on cognitive measures Comments Exposure (followed by exposure) Cognitive ... battery of questionnaires The cognitive subscale of the CSAQ correlated significantly (0.4) although modestly with subjective ratings of distress This was seen as evidence of the cognitive nature of...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... paper has provided a first global overview of the spatial distribution of the influence of some of these factors Acknowledgement This research is contributing to the Global Land Project (GLP) The ... logarithm of the production of the ith grid cell (i = 1, 2, , N), xi is a (1  k) vector of the logarithm of the production inputs associated with the ith grid cell, b is a (k  1) vector of unknown ... full sensitivity analysis of the effect of cropping period choice was beyond the scope of this paper A description of all variables used is given in Table The influence of land management on the...

Ngày tải lên: 16/12/2012, 15:22

... reclamation covers half of the shortage of drinking water source In scenario A-2, all of the shortage of water is replaced by the reclaimed wastewater Damage from the shortage of water The damage ... from the shortage of water is quantified by the product of the percent of deficiency to the water supply demand [%] and the period of deficiency [days] (Ikebuchi, 2001) Evaluation of the infectious ... Evaluation of the cancer risk Assumptions for the evaluation of cancer risk Trihalomethanes (THMs) consisting of chloroform, bromodichloromethane (BDCM), dibromochloromethane (DBCM) and bromoform...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 09:08

... with the global solar map [11, 12] max average Global irradiance [W/m2] 1400 1200 1000 800 600 400 200 50 99 148 197 246 295 344 Day of the year Figure Daily averages and daily peaks of global ... were high during the period of 26 March to 27 September Monthly average daily and peak daily global solar radiations for the year of 2005 are given in Figure The month of June appears to have the ... site, characterized by an exceptional sunshine, most often, it has a very important rate of insolation (75% on average) and the mean annual of global solar radiation measured on horizontal plane...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:11

... equity At Smirnoff, the global brand manager is given the title of president of the Pierre Smirnoff Company, suggesting how much the company values his position    A global brand ... the form of a global brand team—can solve this problem With a team working on the issue, it becomes easier to convince country brand managers of the value of global brand management Global brand ... within one agency Adapting global programs to the local level can often improve the effectiveness of a campaign Take Smirnoff ’s “pure thrill” vodka campaign All of its global advertising shows...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 08:20

... effects of air pollution reductions on climate INTEGRATED GLOBAL SYSTEM MODEL For our calculations, we utilize the MIT Integrated Global System Model (IGSM) The IGSM consists of a set of coupled ... qualitatively, some of the important potential impacts of controls of air pollutants on temperature, we have carried out runs of the IGSM in which individual pollutant emissions, or combinations of these ... well as global emission ratios For calibration, the reference global emissions of NOx, CO/VOC, and SOx in 2100 are about 5, 2.5, and 1.5 times their 2000 levels Ratio of Emissions to Global Reference...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 22:20

... five risks in terms of impact.iii Figure 6: Top Five Global Risks in Terms of Impact and Likelihood, 2007-2013 Top Global Risks in Terms of Likelihood 2007 2008 2009 2010 1st Breakdown of critical ... majority of the 50 global risks, viewed with a 10 year time horizon, that feature annually in the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks report fall under this categorization of risks The 50 include risks ... 2011, the list of 50 risks that was assessed by the survey did not change in 2012 and 2013 Global Risks 2013 13 Section Introduction Section Section Section The nature of global risks is constantly...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 05:22

... risk of future cognitive decline.2 Indeed, the diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), which entails an increased likelihood of conversion to dementia, demands the existence of SMCs, preferably ... a group of cognitively healthy Brazilian elderly subjects which were divided into two subgroups according to the presence of SMCs and submitted to brief cognitive tests Methods Sixty cognitively ... the cognitive evaluation Descriptive analysis of the data and statistical comparisons between the performances of the two groups on the different cognitive tests were carried out with MedCalc software...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20

... l l 4 h s s i1 - 93 a Philippines - i Ngeria, -1 Figure by you buy you A asked, on 9, of of 23 The Health of the Planet Survey Industrialied Nations Switzerland 35 Portugal UnitedStates 32 29 ... in an Age of Science 0’ 1976 Environmentalism 1992 Geoform 395403 1992 Environmental Brhavior: North America, Canada, Mexico, United States Environment 1989 Political Behavior 1992 Global Environmental ... Approach Timothy M Hennessey University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island Dennis L Soden University of Texas at El Paso, El faso, Texas INTRODUCTION by on by by of 29 30 Hennessey and Soden by...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 06:22

... Handbook of Global International Policy, edited by Stuart S Nagel 81 Handbook of Organizational Consultation: Second Edition, Revised and Expanded, edited by Robert T Golembiewski 82 Handbook of Global ... School of Social Sciences, University of North London, Lon- Gregory O Hall Department of Political Science, St Mary’s College of Maryland, St Mary’s City, Maryland Efraim Inbar Department of Political ... Department of Political Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida Stuart S Nagel Department of Political Science, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois Joseph L Nogee Department of...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 06:22

... University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway Yat Lun Chan Professor, University of Aberdeen, Old Aberdeen, Scotland Rupa Chanda Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Indian Institute of Management, ... Mark Turner Professor, School of Administrative Studies, University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia Enbao Wang Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Hawaii at Hilo, ... adoption of new technologies and raising the skills of workers help to reduce inflation by (1) increasing the productivity of labor to offset increased wages, (2) increasing the quality of goods to offset...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 06:22

... as the ratios of the amplitude of each response (B,C,D,E) in the run to the amplitude of the initial response of that run (B) Habituation will be recorded in text as a percentage of the fourth ... but very different degrees of habituation Data analysis To determine the effect of a test condition on the response of PC12 cells to a stimulant, the first response of cells under test conditions ... multiplying the effect of each condition to a stimulus (B/A) by the ratio of the cellular response of that stimulus to 300 lM ATP (F/G) The term Ôscaled responseÕ will refer to the response of PC12 cells...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 16:20

... trade at regional and global levels Globally, 69 percent of all cereal area is rainfed, including 40 percent of rice, 66 percent of wheat, 82 percent of maize and 86 percent of other coarse grains ... runoff These methods are often used for medium water demanding crops such as maize, sorghum, millet and groundnuts (Habitu and Mahoo 1999) Rooftop runoff collection involves the collection of ... order to hold the runoff in the cultivated area Maize, sugarcane and vegetables are often grown using hillside sheet or rill runoff systems One of the predominant characteristics of external catchments...

Ngày tải lên: 09/03/2014, 00:20

... officials due to the availability of “mutually profitable arrangements” with large dealers An ounce of pure cocaine has a street value higher than that of an ounce of gold This causes a lot of ... Associate Professor, Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Montevallo, Montevallo, Alabama Tatu Vanhanen Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, University of Helsinki, ... Marody Professor, Institute for Social Studies, and Institute of Sociology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland Stuart S Nagel Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Illinois,...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 05:20

... supported the research visits of M.I.C to the Gatty Marine Laboratory University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK and of V.J.S to the Institute of Biochemistry, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad Austral ... Mueller–Hinton broth (MHB) and adjusted to an attenuance at 570 nm of 0.4 An aliquot of 100 lL of the bacterial suspension was mixed with 15 mL of melted sterile Mueller– Hinton agar (0.1· MHB in gÆdL)1 ... rabbits by the following procedure Briefly, mg of peptide was dissolved in mL of sterile NaCl/Pi and mixed with mL of mgÆmL)1 hemocyanin Twenty-five aliquots of 100 mM glutaraldehyde (20 lL each) were...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 18:20

... chaining of the new scenarios will meet problems of quality, of interoperability of data, and of the scaling and combination of knowledge How to offer continuity of service, the ubiquitous reuse of ... the engineering office Recently the scopes of external collaboration and of mansystem collaboration have gained importance Within each of the four identified scopes a system can offer services ... Fumihiko Kimura5 Dept of Technology Management, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands Dept of Manufacturing Science, Graduate School of Eng., Osaka Univ., Japan Dept of Mechanical Eng.,...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 10:20

... the yield curve, as a percentage of MVPE 15 Office of Thrift Supervision, Quarterly Review of Interest Rate Risk, Third Quarter 1999 Highlights FDIC, Division of Insurance Increasing Interest ... high through much of 1999 Swap spreads represent a major component of the cost of hedging, and the historically wide spreads that prevailed at the end of 1998 through much of 1999 Chart 14 Historically ... implications of balance sheet changes at community banks, this paper discusses the trend in the level of IRR at community banks reported by Olson It also compares estimates of current levels of IRR...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 17:20

... recovery of a given volume of gas than for recovery of the same volume of gas from conventional reservoirs Of the order of 50 shale gas wells might be needed to recover the same volume of gas as ... evaluating the risks posed by development of individual installations, and the risks posed by development of an entire shale gas play Shale gas infrastructure may cover an area of several tens of thousands ... the impacts of HVHF processes can be greater than the impacts of conventional gas exploration and production processes per unit of gas extracted The challenge of ensuring the integrity of wells...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 00:20

... development of tuberculosis Large majorities of both males and females were aware of services such as HBC (69.8%; 62.5% of males and 75.7% of females), orphan care (74.5%; 68.1% of males and 79.7% of ... Statistics Office 2004 A reasonable number of both males and females were aware of services such as homebased care (33.3% of males and 51.8% of females), orphan care (40.5% of males and 55.5% of females) ... Table 4.5 indicates that 18.1% of respondents aged 15–24 years (32.7% of males and 8.0% of females) and 11.9% of respondents aged 25–49 years (19.4% of males and 6.4% of females) reported having...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 09:20