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... 50% in economic growth in the 1980s and its overall conse- quences, along with other factors, con- tributed to the enormous changes in the CCEE and NIS at the end of the 1980s and the beginning ... both the elimin- ation of the most urgent environmental prob- lems and the integration of environmental concerns into economic decision-making in the Region [12]. Box 1.1 summarizes the main messages ... important that they were fully jus- tified in making the attempt. Limitations and Constraints The investment that is being, and will be, committed to environmental management in the interests of...

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... Population issues— and the accompanying and overwhelming incidence of poverty—are critical in many regions of the world, and certainly in the humid tropics. However, it was not within the scope of ... regulating the rates at which rainfall is absorbed and released. Intact forest cover allows rainfall to reach AGRICULTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN THE HUMID TROPICS 32 Sustainable Agriculture and the ... researchers, planners, and policymakers in industrialized countries and in developing countries. PREFACE viii 1 Agriculture and the Environment in the Humid Tropics The wide belt of land and water that...

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... for operating the system and maintaining its relevance for the Member States. The Regional Office is coordinating the technical activities and facilitating the establishment of EHIS and its use ... health benefits. Within the European environment and health process, the establishment of a well-coordinated mecha- nism for health and environment monitoring and reporting has increasingly become ... occurred in communities with fewer than 500 inhabitants. Fig. 2. Number of waterborne outbreaks recorded between 1980 and 2005 in Finland Note. The vertical line indicates the beginning of the compulsory...

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... to include bicycling, camping, fishing, hunting, paddling, snow sports, hiking, climbing and wildlife viewing, with data available both regionally and nationwide for these activities. Hunting, ... recreation in the United States, there is a body of information available on the economic impact of various forms of outdoor recreation in the country, including hunting, fishing, wildlife viewing and ... Fish and Wildlife Agencies and the American Sportfishing Association for hunting and sport fishing, respectively, were built into the Outdoor Foundation estimates and the wildlife viewing impacts...

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... found in homes and other indoor environments due to the widespread past uses of lead in gasoline, paint, plumbing and building products and other consumer goods. Indoor lead sources include ... presented in the country reports and in the following pages. Each country had a “country lead” who took on the task of coordinating the development of and, in some cases, writing the bulk of, the ... report this initial set in 2004 and periodically thereafter. In compiling the indicators for the fi rst report, the Steering Group made several minor adjustments to improve the relevance and consistency...

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... such as accounting, financial reporting and financial statement analysis and the other the civil law, labor act and company act of Albania). On the other hand, the procedures and criteria to ... which are the most debated themes and the most demanding issues with which the independent accountants and auditors have to deal. The rest of the paper is organized as follow: in the following section ... the professions of accounting and auditing in Albania and next we present some of the most emerging challenges they are facing in their work due to internal and external factors. Recently the...

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... recognizing the opportunities that the MDG5 focus brings, and seeking to map out the remaining elements of SRH into the matrix of planning processes. Family planning can be located within the ... examine changes in the positioning of SRH in higher-level planning processes in some least- developed countries, and in the international development environment supporting reform within the ... increasingly crowded in terms of actors and issues, have increased the challenge of maintaining the profile of SRH in sectoral and national planning processes, while at the same time the growing...

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... detected in patients with PTB in this study may therefore indicate the contribution of NK cells in the host immune response against MTB infection. The immune response after MTB infection and disease ... protection against MTB (Kumararatne, 1997). However experiments in mice have unveiled the role of B cells in the optimal host response against MTB by increasing the infection inoculum (Vordermeier ... lymphopenia observed in the present study and in other studies require further investigation to gain a better understanding of the mechanism(s) and factors involved. REFERENCES Aktas E,...

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... about maintaining power, not achieving democracy, and they may calculate that even limited increases in participation will strengthen their survival prospects in the long term. 22 They therefore ... and may have increased since then. Poverty declined in both Morocco and Tunisia in the late 1980s. There is some evidence that poverty increased in Morocco during the 1990s, when the economy was ... internal stability throughout the region. Alleviating Poverty There is a large and growing debate about the extent and severity of poverty in the region. Since the definition of both is inherently sub- jective,...

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... wealthy countries in the region are lacking in their human capacity building but have funding; and four, low and middle income nations are lacking in financial resources despite h aving well- educated ... preventing strategies in combating NCDs. These strategies will not only reduce the incidence of these diseases but also reduce pain and allevi- ate suffering associated with them. An outline of ... and physicians. 3. Developing and nurturing viable, collaborati ve part- nerships with local and international institutions to further enhance research-building capacity. 4. Establishing an Institute...

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... also in agreement with the conserved nature of this site. The HA protein is on the surface of the influenza particle and is involved in receptor attachment and binding and antigenic determinants. ... myristylation sites in the conserved MEME block 1 and their conservation in the years studied, in addition to its overlap with a single receptor binding site infers block 1 importance in selective and specific ... block 1. However, the few glycosylation sites observed in MEME block 1 are not conserved and in fact contains the ASN site with the highest entropy and its involvement in the co-mutating pairs suggests...

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... solid and integrated learning exper ience. There is a close and continuous interaction among the fac ulty delivering the courses, and the students have the opportunity to better appreciate the ... nations. The nations have committed to combating the widespread pre- valence of NCDs and the morbidity associated with them [2]. Qatar has been at the forefront of initiating new research, clinical and ... based courses, Medicine Patients & Society I and II, which the students must complete before beginning their clinical experience in the third year. The third and fourth year clini cal curri- culum...

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... about other peoples’ ways of thinking and doing, and to point out its arrogance in dismissing anything that is different as being inferior. The other, as exemplified by the methodical investigation ... do. In the meantime, we may be missing the opportunity to move on and pursue other interesting directions, to connect intellec- tually with exciting dialogues within and outside anthropology, and ... game will affect the way hunting is done, and the kinds and seasons of fish runs will determine the habits of riverine and coastal tribes. Second, the behavior patterns involved in the exploitation...

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... suc- cessful mining project and its industrial processes. But the dierence between the TMF and mining activities as such is that the TMF and the associated risks remain aer the mining project ... 17 Policy requirements The Mining for Closure principles 44 fuels extracted in the region include coal (lignite), natural gas and petroleum. In the period up until the early 1990s, mining, minerals processing and ... Mining and environment are felled, then are exterminated the beasts and birds … Further, when the ores are washed, the water which has been used poi- sons the brooks and streams, and either...

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