irrational local understandings and the subjectivities of environmental science

... cooperating with the negotiations at the 1997 Kyoto Round (the Third Session of the Conference of the Parties) and the 2000 Hague Round (the Sixth Session of the Conference of the Parties) of the United ... in the cabinet but holds “cabinet rank,” along with five other officials such as the director of the Office of Management and Budget, the U.S trade representative, and the director of the Office ... paradigm” and of the “age of exuberance,” and Murphy’s (1994) theory of the irrationality of capitalist-industrial rationality Because of the stress placed on explaining theoretically why the United...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 23:20

... the science of the seventeenth century is not the science of today, it laid the foundations for the study of the cosmos, matter, motion, life processes, and the means of acquiring knowledge of them ... of science were the German states, England, France, the Low Countries, and the Duchy of Tuscany and the Republic of Venice in Italy In the course of those two centuries the trend within all these ... and practices of the Catholic Church with respect to the role of priests, the sacraments, the Mass, and the organization and governance of the Church, new attitudes arose about the relation of...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 15:32

... from the viewpoint of environmental hygiene, but it is not sufficient Continuous efforts should be made to improve the health of both of the individuals and the public REFERENCES 1) Chang, C and ... MATERIALS In 2003, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport of Japan amended the Building Standard Law to control indoor chemical concentrations This regulation restricts the use of formaldehydeemitting ... the health of residents The regulation of chemical emission from furniture and the education of residents are required COMMUNICATION BETWEEN MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS AND REGIONAL HEALTH CENTERS The...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 22:20

... Director, Office of Energy Research, Office of Health and Environmental Research of the U.S Department of Energy under Contract DE-AC03-76SF00098 to L.S.G., and the National Institute of Environmental ... About Environmental Pollution, Pesticides and the Cause of Cancer 23 About the Authors Dr Bruce N Ames is a Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Director of the National Institute of ... of Environmental Health Sciences Center, University of California, Berkeley He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and was on their Commission on Life Sciences He was a member of the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 04:20

... reliability level of 05 DISCUSSION The analysis of the characteristics of the most attractive and most unattractive places in the city TABLE Correlations between the aesthetic attributes and the Perceived ... how often they visited or walked by their first choice Once they had completed the ‘‘attractive’’ places section, participants were asked to place themselves on the other side of the aesthetic ... 1997) two types of variable in the context of urban design: Attributes of formal aesthetics and attributes of symbolic aesthetics Among the former, the authors highlight ‘‘openness’’ (and/ or spaciousness),...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 17:20

... in the overall (tertiary) structure of the protein Figure shows the fluorescence spectra of wild-type SNase and the four mutants E142O, K133A, W140A and W140O The fluorescence spectra of E142O and ... analysis of protein unfolding The DSC curves of the wild-type protein and the mutants K133A, E142O, W140A and W140O are shown in Fig 3, with their thermodynamic parameters summarized in Table The ... that of the wild-type protein However, the fluorescence in the mutants without tryptophan at 140 (W140A and W140O) was much lower than both the wild-type protein and mutants E142O and K133A Thermal...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 01:20

... zones, and on the different uses and valuation of species and of natural resources by the local people; (c) provide an overview of the importance of landscape and local species to the people of Khe ... according to the local point of view, the options for local people in the frame of the future nature reserve, the role they would like to play and the threats to biodiversity they identified; and (e) ... amount of important information on local priorities and perceptions, on the richness of the vegetation in the village’s vicinity, on the uses of forest and non-forest products by the local people...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 04:20

... (DCp) and difference of DCp of mutant from wild-type (%) were determined and the results for the wild-type protein and 20 mutants are given in Table The DHcal and Tm of the wild-type protein ... 33% lower than that of the wild-type protein The thermodynamic parameters of the glycine sustitution mutants also differed greatly from the wild-type protein The Tm values of these mutants ranged ... calculated based on the description of Privalov and Potekhin [6] residue substitution on the destabilization of secondary structure that leads to the large perturbation of the stability of the protein...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 21:20

... on the health and normal function of the child: The role of marketing and the media The ‘European dream’ and the impact of public policy Public policy and the ‘social construct of childhood’ The ... rights – The road to ecojustice The Convention of the Rights of the Child and its background The right to nationality and the right of the duty of protection in law The positive duty of physical ... proportional to the magnitude of the subject and the strength of the power which is to exercise it, a diligence which shall, by the use of active vigilance, and of all other means in the power of the neutral,...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 10:20

... under the control of Andrew Dexter.7 Other failures followed in the wake of the Panic of 1819, the Panic of 1837, and almost every other financial calamity to strike the nation since, including the ... Citizen, An Appeal to the Public on the Conduct of the Banks in the City of New York (New York, 1815), 5-7; An Inquiry Into the Causes of the Present State of the Circulating Medium of the United States ... as well as into the manner in which the books of the Branch are kept; and into the manner in which the Cashier and other Officers perform their respective duties; and report the result to this...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 08:20

... The Love of Nature and the End of the World This page intentionally left blank The Love of Nature and the End of the World The Unspoken Dimensions of Environmental Concern ... Wolfsohn, The Problem of Limitations In her book A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War, Susan Griffin writes not only of the effects of silence and secrets and the shame of abuse, but also of the ... the words bring with them the context of their world, are inseparable from that total experience.” The words of the ballad called “Twa Corbies” evoke the landscape of the Borderlands, where the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:48

... Comparison of daily versus thermodynamic constants diurnal and N is the number of diurnal observations The number of points, n, for each daytime period in which I was recorded to assess i the effect of ... outside of the general cluster of points The specific conditions of those days were investigated in detail and were found to result from rain night The effects of nighttime recharge in general and ... here and in the previous study may involve the length and timing of the present study (266 d through an entire growing season) versus that in the previous study (50 d in the early part of a growing...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:20

... as the Division of Wildlife Services, the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, and the Bureau of Land Management of the United States Department of the Interior, the Corps of Engineers of the ... parts of the Parliament are the King’s Majesty, the Lord’s Spiritual, the Lord’s Temporal, and the Commons The King and these three Estates together form the great corporation of body politic of the ... achievement of the highest and best use of land and resources is more profitable to mankind than unplanned development 6) The police power of the state, the ultimate sovereignty of the people, and the...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 20:20

... behavior of a minimum of known parts often makes possible the discovery of the values of the remaining parts as does the known sum of the angles of a triangle plus the known behavior of three of its ... all the universe outside the system (macrocosm) and all the rest of the universe which is inside the system (microcosm) with the exception of the minor fraction of universe which constitutes the ... wider focus than the other professions Also as human beings they battle the narrow views of specialists—in particular, their patrons the politicians, and the financial and other legal, but no...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 20:20

... illness and their family members questions focused on the history of the person's illness, the symptoms and course of the illness, possible causes, the impact of the illness on the individual and the ... view of mental illness, including possible causes, the methods of treatment provided and the ideology/theology on which they were based, the efficacy of the treatment and the reasons for this, and ... wasting and shortening Many bore scars on their ankles, evidence of the abrasion caused by the shackles Some were resentful of the treatment received at the hands of their families, or of healers...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21

... agitation, and increasing the extraction temperature, of the sample solution On the other hand, the dynamic LPME work was extended to the analysis of ten chlorobenzenes with GC analysis [50] The role of ... is the initial concentration of i in the donor phase (sample), Va1 is the volume of donor solution (sample), Vo is the volume of organic solvent in the pores of the hollow fiber, and Va2 is the ... diagram of the LPME /BE system for quantitative extraction 20 1.4.2.3 Theory of LPME The principle of LPME is based on the equilibrium partitioning of analytes between the extraction solvent and the...

Ngày tải lên: 17/09/2015, 17:20

... on the cost of debt: results indicate that the higher the level of ERM in a firm, the higher the cost of debt Because their hypothesis about the cost of debt is unsupported, they call for further ... empirically, and the rationale for choosing them The first hypothesis is based on the study of indirect environmental risks and agency CORPORATE ERM AND THE COST OF DEBT FLORENT ROSTAING 2009 problems The ... now focus on the treatment that Sharfman and Fernando use to test the specific correlation between ERM and the cost of debt They start their analysis with the construction of an environmental...

Ngày tải lên: 03/10/2015, 21:58

... structure of the model In addition to this, a key to understanding the relative importance of each of the driving forces (P, A and T) is to model the effects of their rate or pace of growth The same ... properties and e is the error term Such a functional form allows for the presence of non-linear relationships between the driving forces and the environmental impacts The logarithmic formation of the ... analytical approach to the STIRPAT model and the construction of the variables Section 4.3 describes the sample and offers a descriptive analysis of the variables Empirical findings and discussions...

Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2015, 15:45

... abundance of soft corals on the coral reefs? Moreover, survey of the soft coral communities from the northern to the southern Saudi Arabian Red Sea will contribute to a better understanding of biodiversity ... 16°34’N and 28°31’N (Fig 1, Tab 1) The northernmost site Maqna (MAQ) is located nearshore in the Gulf of Aqaba and the southernmost sites are located about 50 km off the mainland, close to the Farasan ... to the reef building (Jeng et al 2011) 2.1 Colony growth forms The variable colony shapes is one of the characteristics of soft corals Each kind of colony shape of the soft corals consists of...

Ngày tải lên: 13/05/2016, 10:16

... coverage of sustainable-development issues 22 Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and Its Member States, of the One Part, and the Republic of Korea, of the Other Part, Off J of the European ... those in the Central America AA A “trade and 25 Trade Agreement between the European Union and Its Member States, of the One Part, and Colombia and Peru, of the Other Part, Off J of the European ... promotional tool and not a replacement of the former; and the economic and commercial implications of the adoption of the green economy as a main policy goal, especially regarding the fear of green protectionism...

Ngày tải lên: 29/08/2016, 08:13