global implications of the cloud

... necessarily reflect the views of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent The World Bank does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this work The boundaries, ... Because of the complexity of modeling sectors at a global level, none of the sectoral models is capable of choosing the optimal timing of investments This implies that the time-paths of investments ... maintenance costs The first part of the right side of equation (2) is referred to as the delta-P component of the cost of adaptation, and the second part as the delta-Q component These components...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 10:20

... China, the ‘value’ of wildlife lost as a result of the pollution accident will not be considered part of the ‘direct loss’ base.”121 Though the size of the penalties allowed has increased, the law ... control.”89 The 2008 LPCWP requires the governments of the provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities to implement a system of total quantity control of the discharge of key pollutants in their ... many provisions of the old law with many of the regulations In fact, sections of the Implementing Rules and the Interim Measures are copied directly into the 2008 LPCWP As a result, the amended law...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 04:20

... to the suitability of the land or the nature of the project and there was no study of the distribution of income in the local area 2.5 Lack of participation by affected people The granting of ... some of the written contracts include the signatures of the local Lao officials State policy, international institutions and the promotion of the rubber industry The origins of the promotion of ... the 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...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 04:20

... and acceptable methods of family planning of their choice, as well as other methods of their choice for regulation of fertility which are not against the law, and the right of access to appropriate ... depressed mothers of six-week-old babies with 24 non-depressed mothers of the same age, socioeconomic status and religious affiliation They found that the infants of the depressed mothers had more ... marginal The lack of attention it has received is unfortunate, given the significant contributions of both mental health and reproductive health to the global burden of disease and disability Of the...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 02:20

... for cleavage of the leader peptide after the double glycine motif [16,17] This cleavage occurs on the cytoplasmic side of the membrane during export of the bioactive peptide [18] The leader peptide ... help determine the structural basis of the inhibition of the antimicrobial activity of CbnB2 by the leader and to assist future analysis of the interaction of preCbnB2 with its ABC transporter ... establish the preferred geometry of the precursor We now report the chemical synthesis, biochemical production, and solution structure of preCbnB2, and compare it with the structure of the mature...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 15:20

... by the use of off-road vehicles (ORVs) S.2.5 Aesthetic and Cultural Impacts Tourism can diminish the aesthetic appeal of a destination through the construction of buildings that clash with the ... Clark memorial, the Museum of the Northern Great Plains, and the Museum of the Upper Missouri (Cass & Jahrig, 1998, p 8) A related benefit of tourism can be the revitalization of derelict urban ... sites), thereby potentially increasing the downstream influence of operators and the upstream influence of tourists Overall, the interactive nature of the Internet allows for the values of tourists...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 16:20

... access to the Internet, but with inequality in access to the attention of those who use the Internet By dramatically reducing the cost of the replication and distribution of information, the Internet ... account for one in four of the most visited destinations of the Web (Waxman 2000b) The search engines they feature are often biased in their identification and, especially, ranking of sites in response ... A Social History of the Telephone to 1940 Berkeley: Univ Calif Press Fountain JE 2001a The economic impact of the Internet on the government sector In The Economic Payoff from the Internet Revolution,...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 21:20

... directly between the two offshore islands and the mainland As part of that expansion of the mini-three links, the Taiwanese government also expanded the list of products that the offshore islands ... narrow the range of political options for the island in the future Opponents of further opening charge that the establishment of the three links would increase Taiwan’s dependence on the mainland ... (3) to evaluate the implications of the findings for U.S government policymaking, particularly in the area of high-technology export controls RESEARCH APPROACH In the course of the research, we...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 22:20

... parts of southern Asia, the growing market for pulp and paper is the main driving force behind development of timber plantations in many parts of the world No accurate global figures exist for the ... use The production of fibre for pulp, the processes of pulping and paper making, and the consumption of paper all currently take place mainly in the North Production is highly integrated, and there ... production of paper both increased by 12-13 per cent towards the end of the 1980s, making it one of the world's most rapidly expanding pulp markets18 The 1990s have also seen a rapid proliferation of...

Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 02:20

... weight))1 (n ˆ 5) Thus in the presence of glycerol, there was an apparent net synthesis of glucose of 0.62 ‹ 0.05 lmolámin)1á(g wet weight))1 The rate of glycogen synthesis of 0.13 ‹ 0.01 lmolámin)1á(g ... and presence of mM glycerol The rates of glucose phosphorylation were measured as the sum of 3H2O released from [2-3H]glucose plus the amount of tritiated glycogen formed The rate of [6-3H]glucose ... unaffected by the glycerol infusion The basis for the effects of glycerol infusion is revealed by the isotopic data (Table 4) These show that when glycerol was infused into the medium, the rate of glycolysis...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 03:21

... equivalent to the R302Q substitution in c2, the dominant isoform of the c-subunit in the heart The R302Q mutation, together with several other substitutions identified in CBS domains of the c2 gene, ... been shown to bind the allosteric activator of the kinase, AMP, whereas the two pairs of CBS domains both bind one molecule of AMP [20] In terms of the structure of AMPK, the b-subunit has been ... regulation of these complexes by AMP as well as to evaluate the effect of substitutions within the AMPK c3 gene on the activity of the enzyme Neumann et al [42] described gaining milligram amounts of the...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 08:20

... from the other side of the Atlantic In the 1830s Chile was in the grip of Rossini fever In Japan, where the government had been encouraging the spread of European music since the 1870s, the first ... 1831, marked the beginning of the history of Ottoman-Turkish demography In the case of Egypt, then nominally a province of the Empire, the census of 1848 is considered reasonably reliable The pioneer ... another door, and then another Each time a new or slightly different landscape will be under examination. But history gathers them all together; it is the sum total of all these neighbors, of these...

Ngày tải lên: 08/06/2014, 09:07

... (2) of Lemma 2.3 This theorem follows from (3.3), (3.4), and Lemma 2.3 The main result in this article is given by the following theorem, which provides the existence of global attractors of the ... closure of H1 in H2(Ω) and Hk = H2k(Ω) ∩ H1 for k ≥ Before the main result in this article is given, we show the following theorem, which provides the existence of global attractors of the extended ... http://www.boundaryvalueproblems.com/content/2011/1/39 Page of 10 In this article, we shall use the regularity estimates for the linear semigroups, combining with the classical existence theorem of global attractors, to prove that the extended...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 22:20

... of the term ‘step-by-step’ in the GMO regime Besides the levels of containment, the phases of risk assessment (hazard identification, evaluation of adverse effects, evaluation of likelihood of ... state of the knowledge that is at the disposal of the competent authority Rather, the applicant for approval bears the burden of submitting evidence that no adverse effect will be caused by the ... http://www.enveurope.com/content/23/1/32 decision of the US District Court [12] for the Northern District of Califormia of 13 February 2007 (Geertson Seed Farms, 570 F 3d 1130) The court quashed the decision of the competent authority...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 23:20

... and rewarding, and the results about these equations offer prototypes towards the development of the basic theory of the global behavior of nonlinear difference equations of a big order, recently, ... − c)2 The proof is complete Global attractivity of the equilibrium point of Equation In this section we investigate the global attractivity character of solutions of Equation We give the following ... and every solution of Equation converges to x ¯ Proof: As the proof of Theorem and will be omitted Theorem The equilibrium point x of Equation is global attractor if c ≠ a ¯ Proof: Let p, q are...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 00:20

... results of If we put σ these theorems, the same results as Theorem in are obtained in We will prove Theorem 1.1 a and b in Sections and 4, respectively The proof of Theorem 1.2 is included in the ... v x , then v is a supersolution of Problem 1.1 It is obvious that is s sub-solution of Problem 1.1 Therefore, by the iterative process and the comparison theorem, Problem 1.1 admits a global ... Proof of Theorem 1.1(a) We first consider the following problem: ut Δum x σ up x ∈ RN , t > , f x 3.1 u x, 0 x ∈ RN It is clear that the positive solution of Problem 3.1 is a sub-solution of...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 11:20

... uniqueness of the solution to 1.1 The procedure to show existence and uniqueness of solutions to 1.2 – 1.4 follow similarly We then consider the question of sharpening the upper bounds on the Hausdorff ... the Trojan Y Chromosome model, 1.1 – 1.4 The solutions f, m, r, s of the system are bounded as follows: f ∞ ≤ K, |m|∞ ≤ K, 2.1 |s|∞ ≤ K, |r|∞ ≤ K Proof The proof relies heavily on the form of ... state a theorem about the existence of weak solution in the weighted spaces This in turn will entail making refined estimates on the dimension of the global attractor for TYC system, when the phase...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 11:20

... , the bifurcation structure of the nodal solutions of 1.8 , 1.9 becomes more complicated: the component of the solutions of 1.8 , 1.9 from the trivial solution at λk /f0 , and the component of ... 1.9 , and use the global bifurcation theorems from Section to analyze the global behavior of the components of nodal solutions of 1.8 , 1.9 Preliminary definitions and eigenvalues of corresponding ... eigenvalues of the linear problem Lu λu, u ∈ E 2.5 We call the set of eigenvalues of 2.5 the spectrum of L, and denote it by σ L The following lemmas can be found in 3, 4, 12 Lemma 2.3 Let (H0) hold The...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 06:20

... elementary method used in the proof of Theorem 2.1 Then, using the improved H¨ lder inequality, we study the L p (logL)α (Ω)-integrability of the Jacobian of the o composition of mappings Improved ... is a constant independent of f L p logα L , (4.2) Global integrability of the Jacobian of a composite mapping Proof Let K = f L p logα L Then, by the definition of the Luxemburg norm, we have ... un , ∂ x1 · · · xn (3.3) respectively Using Theorem 2.1, we have the following integrability theorem for the Jacobian of the composition of mappings Theorem 3.1 Let s,t,β,γ > 0, with 1/ p = 1/s...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 22:20

... note that by virtue of (3.10), the function u is the solution of (3.12), and according to the unique solvability of that equation, u = v ≥ in the domain DT Thus the proof of Lemma 3.3 is complete ... C(DT ) (3.19) Therefore the series v = limm→ ∞ vm = v0 + ∞=0 wm converges in the class C(DT ) and its m sum is the solution of (3.12) The uniqueness of the solution (3.12) in the space C(DT ... ), and F ≥ Then if u ∈ C (DT ) is the classical solution of problem (2.1)-(2.2), then u ≥ in the domain DT ◦ Proof If u ∈ C (DT ) is the classical solution of problem (2.1)-(2.2), then u ∈ C...

Ngày tải lên: 23/06/2014, 00:20