conceptual analysis and evaluation framework for institution centered strategic environmental assessment

... approval to developers Land-use zoning directly affects river and water resources • Forestry Department Responsibility to manage state gazetted forests, peat wetlands and mangrove forests as well as ... mining for minerals, especially alluvial tin and sand, caused widespread degradation of areas with mineral deposits leaving behind sandy, barren and unfertile land, unattended water bodies, and ... SO2 and N0x in the atmosphere react with water, oxygen and oxidants to form acidic compounds The acid rain raises the acid levels of lakes and streams making the water unsafe for some fish and...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 15:21

... exposure, and large indoor areas in men For women, significant values were found for heavy ETS exposure in small spaces and in large indoor areas and for total ETS exposure [60] Figure search for the ... articles were screened for their contents and relevant data was analysed Figure search for the terms cough and tobacco smoke exposure PubMed1 PubMed search for the terms cough and tobacco smoke exposure ... with odds ratios for respiratory illnesses and symptoms between 1.2 and 1.6 for either parent smoking, the odds usually being higher in pre-school than in school aged children For cough, the Methods...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... METHODS FOR QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION OF EFFECTS OF CHRONIC EXPOSURE TO MICROCYSTINS BY CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS AND METABOLOMIC STUDIES GRACE BIRUNGI (MSc) A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE ... Methods for the Determination of Cyanotoxins 48 2.1 CZE and MEKC Methods for Determination of Microcystins LR, RR, YR and Nodularin 48 2.2 CZE and MEKC Materials and Methods ... developed for the determination of cyanotoxins in water, for example, the international organisation for standardisation method for determination of microcystins in water (ISO 20179:2005) is high performance...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 10:14

... Oberlander, L Stoia, and K Striegnitz 2007 Generating Instructions in Virtual Environments (GIVE): A challenge and evaluation testbed for NLG In Proceedings of the Workshop on Shared Tasks and ... available in smartphones is erroneous (Zandbergen and Barbeau, 2011) Therefore, one scenario for evaluation would be to test how robustly navigation systems handle erroneous GPS signals from the user’s ... Shared Challenge and documentation to setup the framework in their local premises for development purposes Developed systems will be hosted on our challenge server and a web based evaluation will...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 18:20

... generic addition and multiplication operation, ⊕ and ⊗, and their identities and Multiplication and addition must be associative Multiplication must distribute over addition, and v ⊗ The design ... 30 candidates at each node and no further pruning All decoders produced a BLEU score between 31.4 and 31.6 (small differences are accounted for by different tie-breaking behavior and OOV handling) ... sequence of target language words For SCFG models and sequential tagging models, a node also corresponds to a source span and non-terminal type, but for word-based and phrase-based models, the relationship...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 22:20

... and Fleet 2000) or to model blur (Seitz and Baker 2009) 2.1.5 Color and Multi-Band Images Another issue, addressed by a number of authors (Ohta 1989; Markandey and Flinchbaugh 1990; Golland and ... modify the data term for color or multi-band images The simplest approach is to add a data term for each band, for example performing the summation in (5) over the color bands, as well as the ... outliers and variation in the measures for any one algorithm can be very informative For example, the performance of DPOF (Lei and Yang 2009) improves dramatically from R0.5 to R2.0 and similarly...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 00:20

... Part: A For Marks, B For Marks, C For Marks and D For Marks) A This part of the question has to with the transformation of sentences English uses several patterns of sentence formation and the ... of Forces : Hp2\\C:\Users\hcl\Desktop\BTE_Old\mechanical\mechanical.doc 31 Concept of coplaner and non-coplaner forces including parallel forces Concurrent and non-concurrent forces Resultant force ... Central forces Circular motion, angular velocity,angular acceleration and centripetal acceleration.Relationship between linear and angular velocity and acceleration Centripetal and centrifugal forces...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 05:20

... of Standards and Technology (NIST) standards, the Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS) role-based training standards, and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standards, ... collecting and preserving evidence in accordance with established procedures, plans, policies, and best practices Perform forensic analysis on networks and computer systems, and make recommendations for ... skills, and abilities to perform forensic activities Validate the effectiveness of the analysis and reporting process, and implement changes where appropriate Review and recommend standard validated...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 20:20

... Acknowledgements This handbook is an adaptation of the Planning for monitoring and evaluation handbook by Michael Randel, published by Olive Publications in 2002 Cape Action for People and the Environment ... Planning for monitoring and evaluation handbook, provided in-depth and valuable comments on a draft version of this handbook SANBI’s Publication Unit was responsible for technical editing, design and ... project, and the services and products it will deliver Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation (PME) An approach to monitoring and evaluation that emphasises the role and views of the target groups and...

Ngày tải lên: 22/05/2014, 12:52

... iPhone and iOS Forensics This page intentionally left blank iPhone and iOS Forensics Investigation, Analysis and Mobile Security for Apple iPhone, iPad, and iOS Devices Andrew Hoog Katie ... Technology Prior to working for viaForensics, she worked for years in Information Security for a Fortune 500 company, handling firewall administration and assisting with internal and external network ... Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hoog, Andrew iPhone and iOS forensics : investigation, analysis, and mobile security for Apple iPhone, iPad, and iOS devices / Andrew Hoog, Katie Strzempka p cm Includes...

Ngày tải lên: 31/05/2014, 01:10

... death: understanding the conceptual basis and diagnostic tests for brain death Ari R Joffe*1,2, Natalie R Anton1, Jonathan P Duff1 and Allan deCaen1 Stollery Children’s Hospital and University ... a mere collection of tissues and organs [1-4] For medicine, law, and ethics, this is the written standard rationale for accepting brain death (BD) as a criterion for death [1-4] The tests used ... sender, and were returned blank Therefore, there were 192 of 477 (40.3%) eligible surveys returned with data for analysis The first question asked, “Which of several choices is an acceptable stand-alone...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 19:20

... using a pseudorandom sequence, to randomize the interference and meanwhile makes it difficult to intercept and detect the transmitted signal Consider a DS-CDMA system with M users and K receive ... malicious attackers PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF CDMA SYSTEMS WITH SECURE SCRAMBLING Pseudorandom scrambling in CDMA systems provides physical layer built-in user privacy for information transmission ... conventional scrambling and secure scrambling, respectively In practical systems, after spreading and scrambling, passband PAM (pulse amplitude modulation) is performed Mapping information bearing...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... frequency, are reported For the trials, a power class three [17] for Bluetooth and a 25 mW power level for WLAN are considered [16] Bit rate equal to Mbps for Bluetooth and 11 Mbps for IEEE 802.11b ... Van Dyck, and A Soltanian, “Interference of bluetooth and IEEE 802.11: simulation modeling and performance evaluation, ” in Proc 4th International ACM Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation ... distribution [13] and the CW distribution [27] Both have advantages and disadvantages as explained below The WV distribution is the prototype for all TF transforms, and is the most widely used and the...

Ngày tải lên: 23/06/2014, 01:20

... squares, we provide references for any non-trivial results that we employ For standard references on latin squares consult D´nes and Keedwell [7, 9] and for loops Bruck [2] and Pflugfelder [16] e the ... Q′ } and therefore aQ′ = b|Q | Q′ Since aQ′ = Q′ and b2 ∈ Q′ , it follows that aQ′ = bQ′ and |Q′ | is odd Since P (G) = {1Q′ }, by Lemmas 6.1 and 6.2 there is N G such that |N| is odd and G/N ... I thank Michael Kinyon and Petr Vojtˇchovsk´ for their helpful conversations regarde y ing this material and Anthony Evans and Ian Wanless for sharing several articles and preprints related to...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 21:21

... needed to give good agreement between the analysis ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF COMBINED FOOTINGS AND MATS and performance (Bowles 1974) End-spring doubling for beams will give a minimal spring coupling ... all edges; and (c) mat ideally suited for analysis using finite grid method, since ribs make direct formulation of element properties difficult ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF COMBINED FOOTINGS AND MATS ... torsion included Fig 6.4-Element coding for nodes and element forces for the finite grid method Dimension: B and t used both for element moment of inertia i and torsion inertia J The FEM plate element...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2014, 22:01

... Analysis and Linear Algebra for Finance: Part I Preliminaries Download free eBooks at bookboon.com Analysis and Linear Algebra for Finance: Part I Preliminaries Download free eBooks at bookboon.com Analysis ... LLP and affiliated entities Download free eBooks at bookboon.com Click on the ad to read more Analysis and Linear Algebra for Finance: Part I Introduction Download free eBooks at bookboon.com Analysis ... Roger Analysis and Linear Algebra for Finance: Part I Patrick ROGER LaRGE Research Center EM Strasbourg Business School University of Strasbourg Download free eBooks at bookboon.com Analysis and...

Ngày tải lên: 05/11/2014, 13:31

... Analysis and Linear Algebra for Finance: Part II Vector spaces and linear mappings Download free eBooks at bookboon.com Analysis and Linear Algebra for Finance: Part II Vector spaces and linear ... LLP and affiliated entities Download free eBooks at bookboon.com Click on the ad to read more Analysis and Linear Algebra for Finance: Part II Introduction Download free eBooks at bookboon.com Analysis ... Roger Analysis and Linear Algebra for Finance: Part II Patrick ROGER LaRGE Research Center EM Strasbourg Business School University of Strasbourg Download free eBooks at bookboon.com Analysis and...

Ngày tải lên: 05/11/2014, 13:32

... Concepts and Skills • Understand forecasting risk and sources of value • Understand and be able to conduct scenario and sensitivity analysis • Understand the various forms of break-even analysis ... analysis • Understand operating leverage • Understand capital rationing and its effects 11-2 Chapter Outline • Evaluating NPV Estimates • Scenario and Other What-If Analyses • Break-Even Analysis • ... 66,400 39,357 19.7% 11-9 Simulation Analysis • Simulation is really just an expanded sensitivity and scenario analysis • Monte Carlo simulation can estimate thousands of possible outcomes based on...

Ngày tải lên: 25/03/2015, 19:44

... Classical evaluation approach for R&D projects 11 2.3 Evaluation approach for public R&D investments 16 2.3.1 Evaluation method for public R&D investments 18 2.3.2 Evaluation method for ... innovations and forms the foundation of our proposed evaluation framework for defence R&D investments The latter enables the effective and objective evaluation of defence R&D investments and supports ... in capability options and human capital amidst environmental and technological uncertainties Upon this theoretical framework, we develop an objective evaluation framework for defence R&D investments,...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 15:51

... beforehand Step is conceptual modularization and variety analysis, which involves the identification of conceptual modules based a functional modeling method and generates the variety index for ... combinatorial platform of planned modular architecture and optimal physical configuration Therefore, the two issues of modularity and commonality may co-exist for a proactive platform development, and are ... market, and reduced risk for new product development (Meyer and Lehnerd, 1997; Simpson, 2004b&2006;) Figure 1.2: Illustrations of bottom-up platform A and top-down platform B 1.2.3 Modular and Scalable...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 14:03