ethical and political implications of buddhist narratives

... trips between the offshore islands and Fujian Province, including 144,234 from the offshore islands to the mainland, and 8,200 from the mainland to the offshore islands as of February 29, 2004 ... of the scope and scale of the movement of technology and capital, summaries of the integrated circuit (IC) industries in Taiwan and China, and case studies of key companies Finally, Chapter offers ... allowed residents of the Taiwanese-held offshore islands of Kinmen and Matsu to travel directly to the mainland and permitted some direct shipping between the offshore islands and China The mini-three...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 22:20

... rights and labor standards because of its authoritarian political system Consequently, it also disregards human rights and labor standards in Africa, which is bad for African social, political, and ... manufacturing value chain and displaces increasingly advanced sectors of the U.S economy A second concern is off-shoring of R&D facilities to China and other emerging economies Off-shoring of R& D is worrying ... factory for the world and its growing financial worth are of enormous geo -political significance and affect every region of the globe – East Asia, Africa, Australia, Latin America, and Europe The Cold...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 10:20

... adrenal and thyroid glands; smooth muscle associated with the heart and great vessels; pigment cells of the skin and internal organs; and bone, cartilage, and connective tissue of the face and neck ... School of Engineering, and Paul Merage School of Management; the Children’s Hospital of Orange County; and the UCI Dialogue Society We appreciate their support and that of Bettye Vaughen and Frank ... debate over the use of human embryonic stem cells is one in which both scientific and political advances move quickly, and stem cell research and its political, scientific, and ethical climate are...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:52

... requirements of ethics diYcult Ethical consequences are often likely to be negative for the dissemination of a technique It is easier to Wnd examples of techniques that Ethical and social aspects of evaluating ... the education of people who promote and HTA Secondly, ethical questions are diYcult to deWne and operationalize It would require a lot of theoretical and methodological thinking and research to ... to various ethical problems, forgetting the societal perspective of consequences and control The myth of the objectivity of research is strong among health and economic researchers, and they may...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... of work in progress All RAND occasional papers undergo rigorous peer review to ensure that they meet high standards for research quality and objectivity The Legal and Economic Implications of ... cost data, and an evaluation of early indicators such as numbers of sanctions and the form of e-discovery requests and required productions Assessment of Effects of E-Discovery on Business Practices ... review of emerging technologies likely to affect the e-discovery cost-benefit calculus Based on a literature review and interviews of hardware and software vendors, the technology landscape of the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 02:20

... to the history of land concessions in Laos, with an assessment and review of laws and policies related to forestry and land, and an analysis of the process of authorization of land concessions ... development of the meaning of “land”, the history of the land concessions, from the first beginnings to the present, rights and powers in the management and use of land, and the process of granting land ... to land and forest in 19791 with the objective of protection and preservation of the forest This Regulation defined land and forest as “land and forest land in the entirety of the territory of...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 04:20

... Roeser, Rafaela Hillerbrand, Per Sandin, Martin Peterson (Eds.) Handbook of Risk Theory Epistemology, Decision Theory, Ethics, and Social Implications of Risk With 85 Figures and 62 Tables Editors ... Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management Delft University of Technology Delft The Netherlands and Philosophy Department University of Twente Enschede The Netherlands Rafaela Hillerbrand Human ... Hillerbrand, Per Sandin, and Martin Peterson Acknowledgments Sabine Roeser’s work for the Handbook of Risk Theory has been conducted at the philosophy departments of TU Delft and Twente University and...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 10:20

... corporation Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Office of Thrift Supervision savings and loans Securities and Exchange Commission Summary of Deposits Department of the Treasury This is a work of ... availability and allocation of credit, the stability of the financial system and the economy, and the safe and sound operations of such institutions To determine the number of certain types of financial ... other hand, accounted for about percent of credit card loans, but they accounted for less than percent of construction and land development loans and almost none of any other type of loan Grandfathered...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 09:20

... article 55 of the Constitution of Republic of Armenia the President of RA not only can appoint and dismiss the Chief Prosecutor but also can appoint and dismiss all judges and presidents of all courts ... identifies three basic categories of corruption 'black', 'white' and 'gray' Depending on the level of commonality of perception of a given act by public officials and citizens 'White' acts are more ... consists of an offer of money by an outside party to secure desired action from the governmental officials Bribes can influence the choice of private parties to supply public goods and services and...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 06:20

... raises issues about the ethical and legal dimensions of such research and the norms and policies that have traditionally governed its conduct The ability of both researchers and their subjects to ... course of one -and- a-half days, they fleshed out the relevant issues in online research and considered the role of IRBs This report and its action, research and education agenda are products of the ... others This lack of understanding by participants, and sometimes researchers as well, of the technical and storage capabilities of Internet technologies may elevate the risk The risk of exposure can...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 20:20

... test development and laboratory testing of specimens SJD conceived and participated in the design of the study, contributed to test development and laboratory testing of specimens, and contributed ... prevalence of truly positive specimens and test sensitivities and specificities The latter method (CRS) utilizes constellations of results of imperfect results (e.g., a positive result of a single ... EM, and EIA for norovirus using both LCM and CRS; and (ii) to evaluate the implications of these characteristics for outbreak testing practices Methods Both polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 15:20

... number of new infections due to a combination of factors, HIV-Infection – Impact, Awareness and Social Implications of Living with HIV/AIDS including HIV prevention efforts and the natural course of ... countries of South East Asia and parts of Africa (Ghana) represent this type of epidemic Most countries have geographical and regional variations in their HIV epidemics and can experiences a mix of ... chemoprophylaxis and incidence of sexually transmitted infections and 22 HIV-Infection – Impact, Awareness and Social Implications of Living with HIV/AIDS HIV-1 infection in Kenyan sex workers: a randomized...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 19:20

... the land Supply of buildings Article 13B (g) exempts ‘the supply of buildings and parts thereof and land on which they stand’ The supply before occupation of buildings or parts of buildings and ... THOROGOOD PROFESSIONAL INSIGHTS 18 THOROGOOD PROFESSIONAL INSIGHTS Chapter Land and licence to occupy land Definition of land 20 Buildings .20 Scope of the exemption for land and ... to tax THOROGOOD PROFESSIONAL INSIGHTS 20 LAND AND LICENCE TO OCCUPY LAND Scope of the exemption for land and buildings The exemption covers land and anything fixed to the land However, exemption...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 17:20

... Thus, unlike the CIA and K/B×N models, both CD4+ T cells and antibodies are necessary for the development of G6PI-induced arthritis, and neither transfer of T cells nor transfer of antibodies alone ... adjuvant [93] (Fig 1) The incidence of arthritis upon immunization is in excess of 90%, and the time course is uniform and highly predictable Clinical signs of arthritis are first visible days ... (1:50) in the serum of 64% of RA patients but not in control individuals However, a number of other investigators did not find increased levels of α-G6PI antibodies in the serum of patients with...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:22

... exclusion of other measures of process and outcome is not Page of 10 likely to produce additional information of value to debates of effectiveness of coercion To the aim of understanding the ... of the scope of the present review This includes studies of the effectiveness of applying sanctions and rewards throughout treatment, and the impact of legal or other third-party monitoring and ... development of appropriate and ethical treatment interventions, monitoring and surveillance practices, and responses by treatment and other professionals (e.g., legal authorities, employers, and social...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... value of PCT and CRP in a group of 59 patients undergoing CPB At a cutoff level of ng/ml, PCT had a sensitivity of 86% and a specificity of 98% in predicting infection, whereas CRP at a cutoff ... ng/ml cutoff point, PCT had a sensitivity of 85% and a specificity of 95% in predicting infection, whereas CRP had a sensitivity of only 64% and a specificity of 84% at a cutoff level of 150 mg/l ... in 32% of patients after minor and aseptic surgery, in 59% after cardiac and thoracic surgery, and in 95% of patients after surgery of the intestine Cardiac surgery per se and the use of cardiopulmonary...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... http://www.retrovirology.com/content/4/1/25 Figure Segregation of K65R and K70E mutations, and linkage of codon 68 mutations with K65R Segregation of K65R and K70E mutations, and linkage of codon 68 mutations with K65R Plasma ... effect of the presence of either one of these alleles and viremia during the first 20 weeks of infection (prior to tenofovir therapy), MamuA*01-positive animals responded initially to tenofovir ... virologic response to tenofovir therapy Correlations of baseline viral and immunologic parameters and early virologic response to tenofovir therapy Pre-treatment values of viral and immunologic parameters...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 09:21

... Hsp 90 ER ER Vtg and Zr protein ERE Vtg and Zrp genes Secretion of Vtg and Zr protein Vtg and Zrp mRNA Transport to ovary and incorporation into oocytes Figure Simplified diagram of estradiol-17β ... 72:165-172 Bortone SA and Davis WP Fish intersexuality as indicator of environmental stress Biosci 1994, 44:165-172 Allen MS, Miranda LE and Brock RE Implications of compensatory and additive mortality ... the chosen standard Generally, this is not the case, and some laboratories develop their own "gold standard" of Vtg, which is used as the standard in quantitation Again, this gold standard needs...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:20

... (c) Changes of domain combination networks and union networks in lineages of S cerevisiae and H sapiens during evolution Bold and dashed lines indicate γ of domain combination networks and union ... Hierarchical classification and the numbers of domains and domain combinations found in each species Hierarchical classification of eukaryote groups and results for assignment of Pfam domains are summarized ... degree of a node) The degree distributions of combination networks of all domains in Homo sapiens, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, A thaliana, and T cruzi are shown in Figure 5a, and the values of γ...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... setting provides a rigorous test of theory The rest of the paper is organized as follows The next section provides a brief outline of RBT and TCE and presents a set of hypotheses Rationale for testing ... marketing and distribution infrastructure, research and production facilities, and financial capital When entrepreneurial and other firms control these types of complementary resources they often ... understand how the entrepreneurial firm will use the funds, how long it could be before the funds can be repaid, and the amount of risk they are taking Developing this level of understanding and...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2014, 00:46