the hazardous earthquakes
... island of Iceland, lying 178 miles (285 km) off the coast of Greenland and 495 miles (792 km) from the coast of Scotland Iceland has an average elevation of more than 1,600 feet (500 m), and ... volume is about tsunamis and related wave phenomena, and another volume covers landslides, soil, and mineral hazards, and includes discussions of mass wasting processes, soils, and the dangers of the ... and how they form, and what effects they have on humans and society The first chapter of this section (the fifth chapter of the book) discusses the origins of earthquakes and how geologists and...
Ngày tải lên: 14/11/2014, 08:41
... extraction techniques to collect entities and descriptions from a corpus and analyzed their lexical and semantic properties We have processed 178 MB of newswire and analyzed the use of descriptions ... basis and extracts entities (people, places, and organizations) along with related descriptions The extraction grammar, developed in C R E P (Duford, 1993), covers a variety of pre-modifier and ... 59.32% 53.17% 58.70% 57.49% 57.66% 63.39% Table 4: Values for precision and recall using word nodes only (left) and both word and parent nodes (right) type of evaluation requires the availability...
Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 07:20
... 9-18% Exposure to a disaster in the past year reduces height-for-age and weight-forage z-scores by 0.12-0.15 standard deviations, increases the likelihood of stunting and underweight by 7%, and ... 0.17 0.46 0.37 0.50 0.26 0.32 0.49 30 Table 3: Exposure to Natural Disasters by Survey Wave Exposure in current and past month Exposure in current and past 11 months Number of unique statelevel ... 0-15 months for DPT and Polio, and 0-20 months for measles and any vaccination e Samples are restricted to ages 0-11 months for BCG, 0-15 months for diphtheria and polio, and 0-20 months for...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 08:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "ON DETERMINING THE CONSISTENCY OF PARTIAL DESCRIPTIONS OF TREES" doc
... satisfiable and S ~< T, then T(x,31 ) is satisfiable as well Clearly the empty constraint (x,31) is never satisfiable (Atoms of the form e(x,31 ) are satisfiable if and only if x and 31 denote ... in the background of all that follows, and formalize in the next section Strictness Dominance and precedence are strict partial orders, i.e., transitive and irreflexive relations There is a strong ... sorting its first argument and (b) deriving both the merged description (D1) and a list of those consequences which actually had some effect on DO Both merge_descs/3 and meet_rule/'[ are based...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 20:21
Preventing Earthquake Disasters THE GRAND CHALLENGE IN EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING ppt
... scientists and engineers who will develop and test new theories on earthquakes, 10 PREVENTING EARTHQUAKE DISASTERS earthquake damage, and its mitigation, and the social and political scientists and ... and inventory ($3.49 billion) and income losses, including business interruption and wage and rental income losses ($0.93 billion) It does not cover damage and losses to critical facilities and ... informative, understandable, and concise I want to express my appreciation to members of the committee for candidly expressing their opinions and views Composed of engineers and scientists interested...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 13:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Reasoning with Descriptions of Trees *" pptx
... y) • z and (=, w), (y, z) • 79 (w, z) • £, C l o (x,y) • z and (w,x) •79 (w, y) • z or (~, ~), (~, y) • A, C~1 (~, y) • Z and (~o, y) • 79 (~, w) • C or (w, =), (w, y) • 4, c ~ (~, y) • z and (y, ... will carry over to quasi-trees On the other hand, we cannot m a k e all of these inferences and m a i n t a i n any distinction between quasi-trees and trees Further, for some inferences we will ... circumscriptive reading in the context of TAG, and the standard referent in the context of D-theory Due to space limitations we can only sketch m a n y of our proofs and have omitted some details The o...
Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 06:20
descriptions of selected accidents that have occurred at nuclear reactor potx
Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 14:20
báo cáo hóa học:" Semantic structures of timbre emerging from social and acoustic descriptions of music" pptx
... Hierarchical dendrogram and hybrid pruning showing 19 cluster solution (upper stripe) and cluster solution (lower stripe) Ferrer and Eerola EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing ... spectral regularity [49] and roughness [50]); spectro-temporal (e.g spectral flux [51]) and tonal features (e.g key clarity [52] and harmonic change [53]) By considering the mean and variance of these ... features using RF Ferrer and Eerola EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing 2011, 2011:11 http://asmp.eurasipjournals.com/content/2011/1/11 candidates, two random 5-s excerpts were...
Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 17:20
báo cáo khoa học: " Evidence-informed health policy 4 – Case descriptions of organizations that support the use of research evidence" ppsx
... Africa, and the United Kingdom); and 2) develop capacity among and retain skilled staff and collaborators (which was supported by participants from Australia, Chile, Mexico, Philippines, and Thailand) ... between research and policy in the East African Community (comprising Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda) 8:26 AF 4-2 Thailand A constellation of research units that informed the development and evaluated ... (Thailand), Suzanne Fletcher (United States), Tikki Pang (WHO), and Ulysses Panisset (WHO) We thank Jako Burgers (Netherlands), Mary Ann Lansang (Philippines), Nelson Sewankambo (Uganda), and Zulma...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:21
Báo cáo y học: " Occurrence and overlap of natural disasters, complex emergencies and epidemics during the past decade (1995–2004)" ppsx
... Conflict and Health 2007, 1:2 There are few articles and data that examine the frequency of occurrence and overlap among natural disasters, complex emergencies and epidemics These ... natural phenomenon and those generated by humans In natural disasters, a natural hazard impacts a population or area and may result in severe damage, destruction and increased morbidity and mortality ... disasters and CEs; these include trainings on the different types of injuries and infectious diseases that occur according to different events and geographical locations which influence preparedness and...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:21
Báo cáo y học: "Risk factors of earthquake inpatient death: a case control study" doc
... both groups ws to 1.1 The mean (standard deviation (SD)) age and days before admission were 65.8 (21.0) years and 7.3 (5.9) days for cases, and 64.3 (20.9) years and 7.2 (6.0) days for controls ... al antor and critically revised the manuscript WJ, CL, GZ and LL performed the data abstraction from medical records and interpretation WL participated in data analysis, interpretation and critical ... front-line hospital; and insufficient drugs, equipment and physicians Although two articles [15,16] have shown that MSOF is a primary cause of death, it was the conclusion of descriptive and qualitative...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 15:21
Fundamentals of earthquake engineering amr s elnashai luigi di sarno
... Demand SUPPLY DEMAND Causes, Measurements and Effects RESPONSE EVALUATION Modelling of Structures and Measures of Response Scope of the book Chapter belongs to the Demand sub-topic and is a standard ... earthquake causes and effects, structural response characteristics, features and representations of strong ground motion, and modelling and analysis of structural systems, including design and assessment ... area of Missouri and were felt as far away as New England and Canada From a tectonic standpoint, the occurrence of intra-plate earthquakes shows that the lithosphere is not rigid and internal fractures...
Ngày tải lên: 28/05/2016, 12:10
dynamics of structures theory and applications to earthquake engineering _chopra
Ngày tải lên: 12/01/2014, 21:44
Tài liệu Management of Dead Bodies after Disasters: A Field Manual for First Responders docx
... spread by blood and certain body fluids Workers should use the following precautions: / Use gloves and boots, if available / Wash hands with soap and water after handling bodies and before eating ... improve understanding and acceptance of the recovery, management, and identification of the dead bodies o Undignified handling and disposal of dead bodies may further traumatize relatives and should ... recovery teams should wear protective equipment (heavy-duty gloves and boots) and wash their hands with soap and water after handling dead bodies (see Chapter 3, Infectious Disease Risks) o Tetanus...
Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 12:20
Protecting New Health Facilities from Natural Disasters: Guidelines for the Promotion of Disaster Mitigation potx
... Phenomena and Health Infrastructure Hurricanes such as Gilbert (Jamaica, 1988), Luis and Marilyn (in September 1995, afeccting Antigua and Barbuda, St Kitts and Nevis, St Martin and other islands), ... (out- and in-patient) COST OF SANITATION AND EPIDEMIOLOGICAL INTERVENTIONS • Greater demand for drugs and other supplies • Water and sanitation • Increase in hours worked by MDs, paramedics and ... development agenda and applying a more integral and preventive approach to risk reduction and recovery The IDB’s policy, currently under review to expand and strengthen its objectives and fields El...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 00:22
University of Dayton School of Business Administration - Course Descriptions MBA Program ppt
... Introduction to consumer and producer behavior in a market economy, demand and supply, demand elasticity, production and cost, pricing and firm behavior in perfect competition and imperfect competition ... and modern manufacturing and service systems, including operating philosophies that drive these systems and the important tools and techniques used therein Prerequisite: MBA 611 MBA 613 JIT and ... System, and taxes and the public debt No Prerequisite MBA 646 International Trade and Business Applications This course introduces a comprehensive and up to date exposition of the theories and applications...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 01:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Towards resolution of bridging descriptions" docx
... Johnson-Laird and Wason, eds Thinking: Readings in Cognitive Science Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Clark, H H and C P~ Marshall 1981 Definite reference and mutual knowledge In Joshi, Webber and ... Representation and Use of Focus in Dialogue Understanding Ph.D thesis, Stanford University Hawkins, J A 1978 Definiteness and Indefiniteness Croom Helm, London Helm, I 1982 The Semantics of Definite and ... thesis MIT Strand, K 1997 A Taxonomy of Linking Relations Journal of Semantics, forthcoming Vieira, R and M Poesio 1997 Corpus-based processing of definite descriptions In Botley and McEnery eds.,...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 21:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Acquisition of Conceptual Data Models from Natural Language Descriptions" doc
... reality, and LOTs or Lexieal Object Types are objects of which occurrences have values, i.e they are names NOLOTs and LOTs are synonyms for entities and attributes, and are shown by unbroken and broken ... approaches, and in particular Entity-Relationship (ER) modelling(Martin 1984, MacDonald 1986), and the Information Structure Diagram within NIAM (Verheijen and van Bekkum, 1982; Blank and Krijger, ... represent a conceptual model of the real and abstract objects in the system's environment, the functional requirements of the system, and its detailed design and implementation Methods differ according...
Ngày tải lên: 09/03/2014, 01:20