... (http://www.dh.gov.uk/PublicationsAndStatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/Publicatio nsPolicyAndGuidanceArticle/fs/en?CONTENT_ID=4094550&chk=aN5Cor) Germany established a national platform for nutrition and ... BMI >30 are considered obese Data from Health Survey for England, which does not include data for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland 15 EN Poland report) (self 1996 n/a 10.3 n/a n/a 12.4 n/a Portugal ... epidemic calls for multi-stakeholder approaches5 - for which the European Platform for Action on Diet, Physical Activity and Health (cf section IV.1) is a prominent example - andfor action at...
... competence centres for Governance and the Public Sector The PPM programme is integrated into the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences (FESS) and its Potsdam Centre forPolicyand Management (PCPM) ... Management, Social Sciences and/ or Natural Sciences Graduates will be able to… …work in management and executive positions in ministries, local government and NGOs managing reform projects in cooperation ... Integration, Institutions and Political Change and Public Policy Master of Governance and Public Policy The Location The Course The city of Passau is located in the southeast of Germany and right at the...
... of sobemoviruses and other plant viruses, in silico analysis was performed The gene sequences were obtained from the National Center for Biotechnology Information and GenBank, and multiple sequence ... thank the Department of Biotechnology and the Department 270 of Scienceand Technology, New Delhi, India, and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, for financial support S.R.C thanks ... performed using the Matchmaker system pGAD T7 (CP) and pGBK T7 (MP and deletion mutants) clones were obtained as described in Experimental procedures The pGAD T7 and pGBK T7 clones were transformed...
... on Prevention Priorities (NCPP), which is convened by Partnership forPrevention The NCPP guides Partnership forPrevention s work to assess the value of prevention Partnership forPreventionand ... about efficacy and CE that are posed forprevention should apply to disease care The answers are at hand for prevention; for two decades, the U.S Preventive Services Task Force and other rigorous ... Foundation, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. February 2009 The Economic Argument for Disease Prevention: Distinguishing Between Value and Savings Introduction: The Problem and the...
... operate to shape and change land For example, not only land cover and land use reflect e nvironmental systems and the opportunities and constraints they provide, but land cover and land use also ... from GIScience, environmental science, ecology, and social science to research these phenomena His current research includes analyzing the effects of policy initiatives on land use and land cover ... communication and involvement of a wide variety of interested parties, including decision makers and land managers, in both the conduct of researchand its implicationsfor land management and policy...
... analysis, and set of dimensions, objectives, and criteria.7 When mapping both quantitative and ordinal data into factor layers, retention of, and access to, rationale and reasoning for inclusion and ... spatial and temporal Therefore, the underlying theme in this chapter is the efficacy, efficiency, and information content of transformations of spatial and temporal trends, patterns, and dynamics ... plants and people), landscapes (e.g., watersheds and counties), physiographic regions (e.g., ecoregion and census region), and extended regions (e.g., biome and continent).22 Relationships of information...
... DATA AND METHODS 4.4.1 AtA SOuRCES D Land use and land cover data for this study come from land use/cover maps from the Uganda NBS and FAO Africover Although we refer to them as the 1990 and ... on Uganda and the defores tation debate, we present a framework of analysis and then data and methods The key results are then presented and discussed 4.2 BACKGROUND 4.2.1 GANDA U Uganda ... put the forest and woodland cover at 45% of the total land cover in 1890 More recent figures have been in the 20% to 25% range Forest and woodland are important because only 3% of Ugandan households...
... civilization land uses, and climatic change research all offer evidence that the forces at work on landscapes thousands to hundreds of thousands of years ago still impact landscapes and landscape ... given landscape, and how then to best define a temporal landscape scale 6.1.2 FROM PATTERN AND STRUCTURE TO PROCESS AND FUNCTION Several decades of LULCC research have shown that understanding landscape ... situation for landscape assessment, and disentangling these types of landscape change is critical for extracting a better understanding of process and function from pattern Temporally, landscapes...
... binary forest and nonforest covers Each land owner/manager selected was shown the time sequence of forest/ nonforest maps for their property and asked to recall aspects of forest clearance and what ... heterogeneous, intermediate landscapes and would be low for homogenous forest or agricultural landscapes Trani and Giles40 simulated deforestation of a hypothetical forest and calculated metrics at ... the property forest/nonforest maps of each property surveyed were extracted from The verified community forest/nonforest maps were then used to map areas of forest and nonforest for each community...
... State Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K., 1826 Brown, D G., et al Modeling land use and land cover change In: Gutman, G et al., eds., Land Change Science: Observing, Monitoring, and Understanding ... realm, the policy relevance of a land use model is of a more informational nature rather than a concrete policy driver nature From the rational policymaker’s standpoint, the use of a land use change ... void the search for a DGP Models—as opposed to theories—of land use change theory have been more popular tools forpolicy making and have been developed more for both substantive and practical...
... contributions and read and approved the final manuscript Authors’ information PB is a Reader in the Nuffield Dept of Clinical Medicine at the University of Oxford, UK whose research focuses on innate and ... additional funding for the article P.B and R.J.S received support from the Division of AIDS, NIAID, NIH (Centre for HIV and AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI) grant AI67854), and are grateful to ... through formation of amyloid fibrils that capture and focus virus onto target cells [7-9] Understanding precisely how this peptide selfaggregates to form b-sheet-rich amyloid fibrils and how...
... £12,539 and £9,043, vaccinating only those aged 60 to 69 results in ICERs of £10,639 and £9,742, and vaccinating all persons aged 65 and older results in ICERS of £14,385 and £14,294, from a NHS and ... an ICER of £19,533/QALY gained Discount rates of 0% and 6.0% for both costs and benefits, as well as a scenario of 3.5% for costs and 1.5% for benefits were tested Results were quite sensitive ... HZ and PHN associated pain (the Zoster Brief Pain Inventory, or ZBPI [16]) SPS results were also selected for PHN duration, as pain severity and duration are linked in the model and therefore...
... urban performance and local public finance reform in China In the past two decades, cities in China relied largely on producer taxes (VAT) and disposal of land for non-traded sector uses for public ... Mieszkowski, 1986), another is referred to land rent (or land value), and others consist of both land and its improvement (Arnott and MacKinnon, 1977; Polinsky and Rubinfeld, 1978; Brueckner, 1981; ... Economy Model land to nonagricultural land for production uses This interpretation of land as public capital investment is not seen often in the literature For succinctness, the land input is suppressed...
... readers can test and judge it before making your claims part of their knowledge and understanding 1.1 How Researchers Think about Their Aims All researchers gather facts and information, what ... National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992 Contents A Note to Students Preface Acknowledgments Part I Researchand Writing: ... student writer: doing well-designed researchand presenting it clearly and accurately, while following accepted academic standards for citation, style, and format Turabian's 1937 booklet reflected...
... to impose a uniform global standard comparable to that for ships, or even a minimum standard comparable to that for dumping at sea Indeed, no such global standards exist for land-based or airborne ... Antarctic politics and law, his recent books include Governing the Frozen Commons: The Antarctic Regime and Environmental Protection (1998) and Eagle Over the Ice: US Foreign Policyand Antarctica ... hospitality and organisational help: for the 1998 workshop, hvala to Berta Dragicevic, Srecko Krzic and Dubravka ˇ ´ ´ ˇ´ Kapetanic; for the 1997 workshop, takk to Jan Magne Markussen, and to Willy and...
... performance of their institutions and policies and determine thresholds for selected debt indicators for each country grouping and then estimate the level of debt distress as measured by the forecast ... Conclusions and Recommendations 18 CPIA 20 Debt Thresholds and Indicators 21 Annexes Debt Indicators 23 Country Performance Ratings for 2003 25 List of References 32 ABBREVIATIONS CPIA Country Policyand ... a formula for determining grant eligibility within the IDA allocation made on the basis of the Performance Based Allocation System that uses the Country Policyand Institutional Assessment and...
... Income Countries: Proposal for an Operational Framework andPolicyImplications by Mark Allen and Gobind Nankani, IMF and IDA, February 3, 2004 Debt Sustainability and Financing Terms in IDA ... balance and payments and budgets, the mix of loans and grants in its future financing arrangements, and the build-up of its repayment capacity relative to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and export and ... President, The North-South Institute, Ottawa for his assistance Framework andPolicyImplications (referred to hereafter as the DSF) which sets out a proposal for identifying countries in actual or...
... Accordingly, the CPIA for the 25th percentile was estimated to be 2.9 and 3.6 for the 75th percentile Thus poor performers from the point of view of institutional strength and quality of policies ... or PV of debt outstanding as a ratio with GDP, exports or government revenue The second is a weak institutional andpolicy environment in the country which makes it probable for such countries ... debt distress and the debt thresholds for the chosen indicators are policy decisions that need to be made Footnote 19 in “Debt Sustainability in Low Income Countries” by Mark Allen and Gobind Nankani,...