conceptual and methodological issues

... available and the products are homogenous Examples of such studies are Worrell et al (1997) and Ozawa et al (2002) for iron and steel, Farla et al (1997) for pulp and paper, and Reddy and Ray (2011) ... Studies on relevant methodological issues regarding these extensions, however, seem to be inadequate This thesis thus aims to study these issues and propose possible improvements and extensions of ... Capture and Storage CI Composite Index CHP Combined Heat and Power CO2 Carbon dioxide EECA Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (New Zealand) EERE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:13

... studies of specific situations and areas, and equity issues Maladaptation may be encouraged by insurance and disaster-relief measures The establishment and enforcement of standards (e.g., building codes), ... Wheaton and MacIver (1999) identify the critical need to understand and develop adaptation options and to reduce the social and economic vulnerabilities induced by climate variability and change ... Monitoring and Assessment, in press MacIver, D.C and Klein, R.J.T (eds): 1999, IPCC Workshop on Adaptation to Climate Variability and Change: Methodological Issues, Special Issue of Mitigation and Adaptation...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2016, 17:53

... of Energy and Environment (IJEE), Volume 1, Issue 1, 2010, pp.1-20 the proton transport from the anode to the cathode, and which acts in addition to the usual convection and diffusion And fourth, ... Canada and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada E-mail address: Florent.Breque@mdacorporation.com Julien Ramousse received the B.Sc and M.Sc degrees in energetics and ... production, storage and electrical energy generation system, control and measurements He is the author of more than 70 publications and has patents Pr Agbossou is also a PES-IEEE member and former Chair...

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Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 10:20

... reproductive age HYPERANDROGENISM The primary androgen produced by the ovaries is androstenedione, and the primary androgen from adrenal glands is dehydroepiandrostene sulfate (DHEAS) Androgen production ... a-reductase), an even more potent androgen than testosterone The sebaceous glands are very sensitive to androgens, and oily skin and acne are early signs of hyperandrogenism The hair follicle is ... responsive CHAPTER 29 INFERTILITY AND RELATED ISSUES 787 to androgens, and hirsutism is a further response to increasing androgenicity Finally, with marked androgenicity, signs of masculinization...

Ngày tải lên: 10/02/2014, 14:37

... 1940s and 50s; legalised abortion, contraception, medicalisation of pregnancy and birth in the 1960s and 70s (including ultrasound screening for Down’s Syndrome and Spina Bifida); and IVF and related ... individuality and freedom because genes and biological origins are essentially irrelevant Indeed, for liberals, emphasising the importance of genes and biology immediately smacks of prejudice and right-wing ... would be a minority pursuit, in the medium- and longterm demand could be considerable Firstly, according to the claims of the Raelians and Professors Zavos and Antinori, there are already hundreds...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 15:20

... understanding and management of soil fertility, pest management, livestock production and health, development and evaluation of adapted cultivars and breeds, and improved post-harvest handling ... organic food sales were handled through supermarkets and grocery stores, mass merchandisers, and club stores Meanwhile, independent natural product and health food stores and natural grocery chains ... production occurs in fruits and vegetables, rice, grapes and dairy as well Further expansion is hindered by the limited government support in research and outreach, and by the long and complex marketing...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 03:20

... and Smith and Smith [1977] and have since been echoed and extended in works such as Abiteboul and Hull [1987], Brodie [1984], King and McLeod [1985b], and Tsichritzis and Lochovsky [ 19821 Historically, ... [1976] by Tsichritzis and Lochovsky [1982], and the collection of articles that comprise Brodie et al [1984] Also, Afsarmanesh and McLeod [ 19841, King and McLeod [ 1985b], and Semantic Database ... mechanisms for viewing and accessing the schema at different levels of abstraction [Hammer and McLeod 1981; King and McLeod 1985a; Smith and Smith 1977; Su 1983; Tsichritzis and Lochovsky 19821...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 05:22

... differences in units and so is not comparable across sources Analytical Issues In this section we review a number of methodological and interpretation issues in the construction and use of the WGI ... indicator and year to zero, and the standard deviation to one In particular, for each indicator and year, we subtract the sample mean (across countries) from each country, and divide by the sample standard ... possible more detailed and nuanced sources of country-level data and diagnostics on governance issues 20 References Efron, Bradley and Carl Morris (1971) “Limiting the Risk of Bayes and Empirical Bayes...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 10:20

... Goerge and Bong Joo Lee ix 197 x CONTENTS Access and Confidentiality Issues with Administrative Data Henry E Brady, Susan A Grand, M Anne Powell, and Werner Schink Measuring Employment and Income ... matching and cleaning of administrative data; (2) issues of access and confidentiality; (3) problems in measuring employment and income with administrative data compared to survey data; and (4) ... quality issues in such linkage The paper concludes with a number of recommendations on the cleaning and linking of administrative data Brady, Grand, Powell, and Schink discuss access and confidentiality...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 15:20

... position taken by Ruland (1984) and compare it to Revsine's analysis, we note that Ruland distinguishes between the deontological view whereby moral rules apply to actual actions and the teleological ... domain, and therefore demanding their ethical judgement, while the manipulation of transactions falls within the domain of management and so is not subject to the same ethical code Merchant 13 and ... decisions’, Journal of Accounting and Economics, 7, pp 85-107 17 Healy, P.M and Wahlen, J.M.: 1999 ‘A review of the creative accounting literature and its implications for standard setting’, Accounting...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 15:20

... respect to ICANN and the DNS, and examine to what extent ICANN is positioned to ensure Internet stability and security, competition, private and bottom-up policymaking and coordination, and fair representation ... November 25, 1998, DOC and ICANN signed an official Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), whereby DOC and ICANN agreed to jointly design, develop, and test the mechanisms, methods, and procedures necessary ... Background and Policy Issues • Ensuring accountability, transparency and the interests of global Internet users—the panel will evaluate ICANN governance and assess transparency, accountability, and...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 21:20

... project: the corpus providers (LPL and RALI) and the (RALI, LOILIA, ISSCO, IRMC and LIA) General coordination was handled by J V~ronis (LPL); a discussion group was set up and moderated by Ph Langlais ... (s2, t3)} Sentencelevel recall and precision for this example are therefore 2/3 = 0.66 and respectively, as compared to the alignment-level recall and precision, 0.50 and 0.33 respectively The F-measure ... Quebec M Simard, G.F Foster, and P IsabeUe 1992 Using Cognates to Align Sentences in Bilingual Corpora In Fourth International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation...

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Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 16:20

... 1975, Conceptual Information Processing, Holland, Amsterdam extended so as to treat issues such as generating different texts according to the hearer and what it is supposed that he wants and/ or ... problem of "How to say it?", and not with the problem "What to say?" Some authors (cf (McGuire 1980) and (Appelt 1982)) have rejected the separation between "What to say" and "How to say it" on the ... argued for generation systems involving interactions between conceptual decisions and linguistic ones This point is akin to ours, and therefore, our model of generation could be McDonald, D.,...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 18:20

... people’s living standards are improving and increasing industrialization and development of more extensive and garbage are making more and more with the increasingly complex composition and diversity ... goods and services were less put into production and business decisions of companies According to economic experts, companies need to consider issues of environmental standards in production and ... of Commerce and Industry, Ministry of Labor-Invalids and Social Affairs, Vietnam Ministry of Industry and Trade since 2005, together with Vietnam Leather & Footwear Association, and The Vietnam...

Ngày tải lên: 13/03/2014, 14:20

... ethical, legal, and social issues did not remain long outside the field of endeavour, discussion, and debate United Kingdom and Finnish-based academics, Penny Duquenoy, Carlisle George, and Kai Kimppa, ... Scandinavian, United Kingdom, and eastern and southern European countries to explore a number of key non-technical issues surrounding eHealth All are deeply concerned with the ethical, legal, and ... are ageing and those which are relatively young and healthy; between those of whatever age who are experiencing more and more chronic diseases; between those who need care and support and those...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 12:20

... Hungary, Ireland, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom) and had the aim to develop a standardised screening instrument for quality of life in children and adolescents ... 51 Fernando L P Oliveira, Andrộ L F Canỗado, Luiz H Duczmal and Anderson R Duarte Chapter Review of Ames Assay Studies of the Urine of Clinical Pathology and Forensic Laboratory Personnel and Other ... change and to develop social policy (Land, 1975) The theories emerged during the recreation period after World War II where the "individual's perceptions and viewpoints, and the personal meaning and...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 21:20

... in both the u and the % components of the d-quads Both IX and vindices are null (0), and T-stack is empty ([]) The body consists of an external loop on the sets Si (0 < i < n) and an inner loop ... Given the constraints I and II, there is a one-to-one correspondence between the u-indices and the u-triples o f the d-quads Given that a dependency rule constrains one head and its direct dependents ... W ) and two integers g and v is a word object of the grammar Given a grammar G, the set of word objects of G is Wx(G)={ ~tXv/ IX, v_>0, xe W u {e} } A pair consisting of a category X (e C) and...

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