designing and constructing healthy buildings

... for both ambient and indoor contamination by lead and asbestos in buildings constructed after 1978 and 1980, respectively Initial NESHAP bans on hand-friable or potentially hand-friable asbestos-containing ... cancer and mesothelioma In response to these concerns, USEPA developed and implemented a program of guidance and technical assistance to school districts and state and local public health and environmental ... asbestos exposure and disease in buildings in which ACM was present As a consequence, USEPA concluded that expanding inspection and management plan requirements to public and commercial buildings was...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 04:20

... relationship between Federal Reserve behavior and the term structure include Mankiw and Milan, Cook and Hahn (1990), Rudebusch, and Dotsey and Otrok, and McCallum = change in the 30-year rate from ... interest rates also casts doubt on the standard view For example, studies by Cook and Hahn (1989b) and by Radecki and Reinhart examined the response of short-term and long-term rates to changes in a ... current and expected future short-term rates to fall and leads to lower short-term and long-term rates Evidence on the relationship between policy actions and interest rates In the standard view...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 02:21

... Merton (1974) and Black and Cox (1976) and later extended along a number of dimensions by Leland (1994), Longstaff and Schwartz (1995), Leland and Toft (1996), and Collin-Dufresne and Goldstein ... (2002), Chen (2003), and Bris, Welch, and Zhu (2006) Corporate finance models such as Bergl¨ f and von Thadden (1994), Bolton and Scharfstein (1996), o and Hackbarth, Hennessy, and Leland (2007) study ... probability may be understated and bond spreads underpredicted Structural debt pricing models with debt renegotiation introduced by Anderson and Sundaresan (1996) and Mella-Barral and Perraudin (1997)...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 07:20

... and τ , while Shift and Reduce transitions manipulate σ When more than one transition is applicable, the parser decides between them by consulting a probability model derived from the Negra and ... (Equation 3) and the models with baseline predictors plus surprisal References H Akaike 1973 Information theory and an extension of the maximum likelihood principle In B N Petrov and F Caski, ... T Brants and M Crocker 2000 Probabilistic parsing and psychological plausibility In Proceedings of COLING 2000: The 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics N Chater and C Manning...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 02:20

... stripper and a small blade without doing more damage Next I had to fill the cracks with wood filler, let them dry for several days, then sand and vacuum the dust and reapply and re-sand and re-vacuum ... parched and seamed with cracks and crevasses The paint that the previous owner applied was chipped and bunched and weary after a dozen harsh New England winters With the wood so delicate and dry, ... grateful to the friendly and professional staff of the Newburyport Public Library, and to the thousands of participants and students in my writing workshops and college classes And to Jeff Olson, editor...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 11:20

... for collection and analysis, to develop and present to the President the annual budget for national intelligence programs, and, within tightly prescribed limits, to transfer funds and personnel ... DNI understands his position, and on the patterns of cooperation and deference that are set in his tenure The 112th Congress may be interested in the relationships between the DNI and the Defense ... head of the intelligence community (IC) and principal adviser to the President on intelligence matters related to the national security and to oversee and direct the implementation of the National...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 02:20

... circuit elements called the AND plane The AND plane generates specific logic combinations of the inputs The outputs of the AND p l a n e leave at right angles to its input and run horizontally through ... (forthcoming) how a complex PLA network composed from AND- planes, OR-planes, ordinary registers, and shift registers can be derived by a general and formal m e t h o d from any CF-grammar, such that ... logical operators of digital switching networks as primitives (and show how they are related to models of neurons), - take AND- planes and OR-planes (the constituents of progralmmable array logic-PLA)...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 17:20

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 18:20

...  limited  toxicological   relevance and  use  for  risk  assessment  of  environmental  matrices   Aspects  reduced  bioavailability,  environmental  fate and  transport  not  in   present  REP/TEF ...  Disease?  WHO-­‐FERG  In  prep     14-­‐12-­‐11   Different  safety  standards  for  dioxin  like  compounds   (TEQs) and  DDT  with  calculated  equivalent  human  milk   levels       14-­‐12-­‐11 ... Seing  a  TDI  is  provided  for  life  *me  protec*on and   usually  derived  from  chronic  experiments  (rodents)       Dioxin  TDI,  TWI and  TMI  have  almost  exclusively  derived   from...

Ngày tải lên: 16/04/2015, 08:52

... Gm and µ fx ∈ Ξm , thus fx · g = fx·g for g ∈ Gm and fx ∈ Ξm For a given µ-Hurwitz map µ µ fx ∈ Ξm and any P ∈ Ωm , note that only two entries of vectors at vertices on P µ are changing and ... hyperbolic geometry and it serves as the background for this thesis For a completed and detailed account of such a study, see for example [5, 17, 13, 48, 24, 28, 36] and quite a few formulae and information ... 4.2 Notations and Preliminary results In this section, we set up the notations and present some preliminary calculations Note the notations and results follows the papers [7, 9] and [42, 44] as...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:09

... now You should say: - What it looks like - How and when you use it - How and when you first got it And say if you could live without it or not, and why Talk about an English book you have read ... you stayed there - What the advantages and disadvantages of that place were And say whether you would like to stay in a similar place in the future or not, and why Describe an historical place ... of transport you used - What the good things and bad things about the journey were And say whether you would like to go on the same journey again and why Describe a place you want to go but have...

Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2012, 11:45

... Northland region: exchanges (Hai Phong, Ha Noi), branches and 22 public relations • Midland region: branches and public relations • Westland region: branches and public relations • Eastland region: ... Vietnam, while research and development of products and services to provide markets are and the new market situation requires the customer's increasingly sophisticated and complex In addition, ... currency and gold: fiduciary loan and security property loan • Agent services (realize payment internal and external country, fund service, transfer overseas national currency exchange internal and...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2013, 14:53

... surge and collapse in demand occurred in the semiconductor industry in 1973 to 1975 After a huge order buildup and increases in delivery delays throughout the industry, demand collapsed and you ... eating, crawling, walking, and communicating through direct trial and error—through taking an action and seeing the consequences of that action; then taking a new and different action But what ... responsible for producing and shipping consumer and commercial goods in all industrial countries In this case, it's a system for producing and distributing a single brand of beer The players at...

Ngày tải lên: 17/10/2013, 18:20

... investors, servicers, mortgage market participants, and credit and homeowners’ counselors encouraged by the Treasury Department and the Department of Housing and Urban Development Page of 32 October 15, ... Treasury/FHFA and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to ensure the GSEs positive net worth; 2) a new secured lending facility which will be available to Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Federal Home Loan Banks; and ... Federal Reserve Press Release The FOMC expands existing swap lines by $180 billion and authorizes new swap lines with the Bank of Japan, Bank of England, and Bank of Canada Page of 32 September...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 21:20

... identifying and dismantling harmful tax practices 11 Where jurisdictions give strong political endorsement to, adhere to, and make progress in implementing international standards, and where possible and ... secrecy, and harmful tax competition Governments must intensify their cooperation and strengthen international frameworks to effectively combat money laundering and harmful tax competition, and to ... international standards and good governance For this reason, we need to better coordinate our efforts and provide further impetus to efforts under way at various international fora and expeditious...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 21:20

... have been  collected and analyzed in each study area, thus producing an extremely large and complete data base which will constitute a firm reference for any future study and/ or development Number, ... implications for policy and other users An important feature of the conference is that it brings together scientists and other stakeholders from the air pollution, climate change, policy and health communities ... Quality – Science and Application will be held in Athens, 19-23 March 2012 The conference is one of most prominent forums for discussing the latest scientific developments, applications and implications...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 22:20

... sentimental and sensual dimension, friendly and loving, individual and cooperative, pluralistic and homogenizing, protective and sheltering, uncertain and surprising, transgressive and mysterious ... to legalize and create the mechanisms and procedures to guarantee and make effective these rights; and, A political-institutional process to formalize and consolidate these rights and to develop ... habitat and human rights and dignity, with due recognition of peoples’ claims and capabilities and the struggle for freedom and solidarity HIC perspectives go beyond individual rights and assert...

Ngày tải lên: 25/02/2014, 01:20

... pg/well) and the intra- and inter-assay coefficients of variation were less than 7% and 9% respectively The progesterone detection limit was 12 pg/tube (60 pg/ well), and the intra- and inter-assay ... conceived the study, participated in its design and coordination, statistical analysis and interpretation of data and drafted the manuscript FLB, SF and DM read and approved the final manuscript CP died ... 144 h on LN with (b and solid bars in c, d, e and f) or without (a and empty bars in c, d, e and f) anti-α6 IgG (0.5 µg/ml) in culture medium (a) and (b): representative microscopical fields of...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 17:20

... procurement and contract administration with financial information and advice on proposed or existing contracts and contractors, as appropriate c Audit, examine, and/ or review contractors’ and subcontractors’ ... records, documents, and other evidence; systems of internal control; and accounting, costing, and general business practices and procedures in accordance with Government Auditing Standards, the Federal ... contractor officials and the DoD contracting Government Auditing Standards provide standards for audits of government organizations, programs, activities, and functions, and of government assistance...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 23:20

... thoracic and lumbar vertebrae, the wings of the sacrum, and the vertebrae of the tail) must be removed from any product destined for export to Japan Eligible beef and beef offal and veal and veal ... and controls to affected agency employees and to train these employees; and (3) adequacy of agency controls to validate that agency employees understood and implemented the procedures Scope and ... examined pertinent documentation, and reviewed applicable policies and procedures We interviewed AMS and FSIS officials to gain an understanding of the procedures and controls used to ensure that...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 23:20