... a series of tangible resources from: a) other trainees, and b) supporters These resources included: materials and goods (such as surplus supplies), connections/introductions, and handson instruction, ... effectiveness (development of a strong set of key contacts) [18] Social network analysis provides the necessary tools for our analysis as the methodology allows for the assessment of structures in social ... Ties from trainees to supporters: 0.20 Network-level measures Ties from supporters to trainees: 0.00 Ties from supporters to trainees: 0.12 Ties among supporters: 0.05 Ties among supporters:...
... challenging, has been successful for venous, pressure and diabetic foot ulcers The first studies of venous ulcers showed different morphology as well as impaired fibroblast proliferation as shown by ... infected tissue and stimulate healing In this study, we used debrided tissue from venous ulcers as the basis to investigate the cellular basis of impaired healing Various growth factors play a ... found to be most responsive, cells from the wound base had moderate response, and cells from the non-healing edge showed minimal response As a result of this study, fibroblast cell lines, along with...
... class The extended class inherits all the basic characteristics of the DateTime class and creates an object to store a date, time, and time zone Some of the original class s methods, suchas ... define classes, but it s considered best practice to define each class in a file of its own, as it makes it easier to redeploy classes in different projects Unlike some languages, suchas ActionScript, ... work on all servers Although function and class names are not case-sensitive, always treat them as such, because there are moves to make them case-sensitive in the same way as variables 15 10115ch01.qxd...
... HAZARDS against climate change and its implications Such a comparison should involve weighing the full gamut of risks, costs and benefits of handling these hazards using a multicriteria and systems ... VOLUME ISSUE 2009 SPECIAL ISSUE Special issue: Climate change as environmental and economic hazard Environmental Hazards 8(3) September 2009 Published by Earthscan: Dunstan House, 14a St Cross Street, ... paper by a group of scholars from Yale and Wesleyan Universities in the USA suggests a holistic and dynamic systems approach, focusing on socio-ecological resilience as a means of tackling the...
... communities to reduce their risk from disasters Likewise, Schipper and Pelling (2006) suggest that such risk appraisal and assessment methodologies could prove significant in designing development strategies ... vulnerabilities in the long term (Anderson and Woodrow, 1998; Schipper and Pelling, 2006) Nonetheless, as the emphasis continues to shift from disaster response to DRR, greater and sustained efforts are ... discerning the nature of disasters’ (Helmer and Hilhorst, 2006, p 2) Thus, as the intensity and frequency of disasters increases, it becomes a requirement for DRR and CCA also to increase resilience...
... expectations of future storms andtheir impacts Methods and data The methods employed in this paper are restricted to those that seek to identify strong signals using simple methods This is for two reasons ... increases in resilience because capacities have not increased Developing boundary organizations The world has faced huge disasters over the last few decades and concerns have been expressed by ... hurricane landfalls and damage on timescales of one to five years does not lend much optimism to such efforts in any case For decision makers, the recommendation is to use climatology as a baseline...
... includes some who posit a straightforward relationship between increasing SSTs and increasing storm activity (e.g Holland and Webster, 2007) If there is such a simple relationship, then increasing SSTs ... from land Finally, because the skill of existing seasonal predictions of basin activity is modest at best (e.g Owens and Landsea, 2003), efforts to predict landfall rates on longer timescales ... trends in the NATL basin (see Pielke et al., 2008 for discussion) Specifically, if one looks at the increasing activity in the basin the increase has occurred in the easternmost part of the basin,...
... Kyoto greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs and SF6) The target applies to the economy as a whole and not to individual sectors or gases That is, it is possible for some sectors to remain ... identical using data from 1966, the start of the geostationary satellite era A team of researchers at Colorado State University has also issued landfall forecasts in recent years (see CSU, 2009) This ... Claim Services Unit www.iso.com/PressReleases/2008/Insurers-to-Pay-$11.5-Billion-in-ThirdQuarter-Catastrophe-Claims-Says-ISOs-Property-ClaimService.html Jagger, T., Elsner, J and Saunders, M.,...
... in overall and insured losses caused by great natural disasters since 1950 Natural disasters, suchas major storms, floods and earthquakes, have devastating consequences for societies around the ... of diseases in affected areas, and have major adverse economic consequences caused by damage to property, both direct and indirect, suchas business interruption and productivity losses Some ... discusses expert assessment of risk and households’ perceptions and behavioural responses to risk; Section provides some strategies of managing extreme weather risk; and Section examines the role financial...
... change and estimating their influence on risk may be a useful first step in assessing future risk Statistical models can be used to assess how frequencies and severities of natural disaster or disaster ... natural disaster risks 213 concentrations of greenhouse gases Future greenhouse gas emissions may rise rapidly due to the fast industrialization of Asian economies with increasing demands for energy ... Moreover, catastrophe models are commonly used to assess exposure to natural disaster risk (Grossi and Kunreuther, 2005) Such computer-based models estimate the loss potential of catastrophes by overlaying...
... disasters caused by climate change, for example, because of soil erosion and landslides resulting from more frequent and severe rains and floods The surface mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet ... country with massive fossil fuel resources, and with important economic sectors suchas agriculture and tourism vulnerable to climate shifts, Australia stands to lose from both the effects of climate ... Slovic, P., Finucane, M L., Peters, E and MacGregor, D G., 2004 Risk as analysis and risk as feelings: some thoughts about affect, reason, risk, and rationality Risk Analysis, 24(2) 311–322 Stern,...
... potential for enemy constructions, whereas compounded and structural problems (such as economic recessions or environmental problems) are less suitable for blame games and responsibility framing (Edelman, ... crisis These were governmental actors, federal opposition political actors, state actors, scientists and affected actors (including ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS individual farmers as well as business ... keywords and key messages were coded, based on Entman s definition of frames: ‘the presence or absence of certain keywords, stock phrases, stereotyped images, sources of information and sentences that...
... frames where the first focused on structural adjustments and the latter on direct effects on rural communities Whereas the scientific frame was focused on long-term impacts and risk assessments, ... drought has to be understood as a social construction andassuch highly political in its nature However, as argued by West and Smith (1996), drought is a national symbol of Australia, which means that ... crises, we can expect scientists to play an important role in framing the situation and its causes 4.2 Proposition two: The strong role of scientists in framing crisis severity and causes limits...
... dùng suchas câu sau: There are lots of things to see in London, suchas the Tower of London, the London Eye and St Paul 's Cathedral Hay ví dụ sau: Many countries in Europe, suchas France and ... S ́ng phần lớn cuộc đời mình tại Mỹ không hoàn toàn đồng nghĩa với là người Mỹ Cách dùng Suchas dễ Nó có nghĩa giống 'like' hay 'for ... St Paul 's Cathedral Hay ví dụ sau: Many countries in Europe, suchas France and Germany, use Euros ...
... immediate, spontaneous consciousness that the subject is active and what that activity is As such, despite its pre-reflexive status, it is characterised by unquestionable necessity It is the sole fixed reference ... reason is easily formulated: act in such a way that all persons are treated as ends in themselves Now from speculative reason s standpoint our autonomy as the principle of ethical causality is a ... its past and destiny, the individual from the state, or humanity from nature, and the novel tells of his progress towards resolution of these conflicts His guide in this has the same name as the...
... AppleScript appendix (on this book 's "Missing CD" page at www.missingmanuals.com ) iCal Alarm is a powerful plug-in format that lets you schedule workflows to run at specific times When you save ... plug-in, you can choose to run the workflow whenever you import new photos–so you can easily shrink the new images to a smaller size, for example Print Workflows show up as menu items inside the Print ... that runs automatically at a specified time, appear in the Print dialog box to process a document you've just finished, and more You'll see all of these options when you choose File Save As Plug-in...
... dùng assuch để diễn tả ý giống hệt, đúng, xác câu sau: - The shop doesn't sell books as such, but it does sell magazines and newspapers Tạp chí báo mặt hàng tương tự s ch, chúng s ch - He isn't ... dùng such astrong câu sau: - There are lots of things to see in London, such asthe Tower of London, the London Eye and St Paul 's Cathedral Hay ví dụ sau: - Many countries in Europe, suchas France ... 'an English teacher', để nhắc lại lần thứ hai Đây ví dụ khác tương tự Bạn nói: - She 's an athlete, andassuch she has to train very hard The film was a romance, andassuch it had the usual happy...