... 21 Emissions of CO2 - per Capita 22 Emissions of CO2 - Total, by Type 22 Emissions of CO2 - Change, by Type 23 Emissions of CO2 per GDP 24 GHG Emitters by Sector 25 Consumption of Ozone-Depleting ... Management of toxic and other hazardous chemicals that threaten human and ecosystem health has improved A number of deadly chemicals have been banned, and as of January 2010 the world is free of chlorofluorocarbons ... an annual efficiency gain of around 1.6%, and a total gain of 23% since 1992 (until 2007), indicating the start of a successful decoupling of emissions for each dollar of GDP generated However,...
Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 12:20
... 2860(b)(19)(A); NASD Rules of Fair Practice, Art III, section II, Policy of the Board of Governors, NASD MANUAL (CCH) P2152 (statement of policy concerning recommendations of speculative low-priced ... factors: (1) the size of the order; (2) the speed of execution available on competing markets; (3) the trading characteristics of the security; (4) the availability of 76 The duty of best execution ... firms.3 On-line investors have a median age of 41, median household income of $73,800, and median household financial assets of $229,000 They are more often college-educated than other investors...
Ngày tải lên: 16/10/2013, 10:15
NS&I Tracing Service Lost track of your savings? We can help you find them pptx
... entitled to the money plus any interest earned or prizes won What savings does NS&I offer now? We offer a range of savings and investments to suit different people’s needs We’re backed by HM Treasury ... keep track of your money • cash in • cut down on paper • keep your personal details up to date Visit our website or call us to find out more Old savings and investments We have a number of older ... easy, safe and convenient 0500 007 007 Speak to one of our UK-based customer service team We’re here to help between 7am and midnight every day of the year Have you won a Premium Bonds prize? Checking...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 10:20
An english-vietnamese cross-cultural study of keeping face at the first encounter
... native speakers of Vietnamese (NSVs) people and 100 native speakers of English (NSEs) people However, 50 questionnaires of the NSVs and 50 questionnaires of NSEs are selected for Design of the study ... business partner of higher status in the office b To their business partner of equal status in the office C To their business partner of lower status in the office PPSs F % NPSs F % PPS1 PPS4 PPS9 ... is of higher status: b He/She is of equal status: c He/She is of lower status: To a business partner who is of higher status, the PPS 17 is used less than that to a business partner who is of...
Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:54
Tài liệu Estimating DoD Transportation Spending - Analyses of Contract and Payment Transactions pdf
... purchasers of transportation services but that understanding the purchases of other branches and agencies, particularly those of the U.S Navy, requires analysis of PowerTrack data Our analysis of combined ... Analyses of Contract and Payment Transactions detail, of smaller transactions. 5 We also examine PowerTrack data for insights on shipments by mode and channel We present an estimate of total transportation ... Analyses of Contract and Payment Transactions types of suppliers (In our interviews, for example, we found anecdotal evidence of some DoD shipping personnel who prefer the flexibility of tenders,...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 23:20
Tài liệu KEEPING ACCOUNTS BY THE BOOK: THE REVELATION(S) OF ACCOUNTING pdf
... M.L (1985) The "Whole Office of the Law" in the Theology of John Calvin Journal of Law and Religion 3, 117-139 Preserved, S (1911) The methods of Reformation interpreters of the Bible The BIblical ... story of resources and use made thereof In other words, the dual logic of accounting could be considered a commonly shared understanding revealed through the notion of double entry bookkeeping ... counterparts of sins are defined and paid, if any The keeping of such personal accounts followed clerical procedures and language Penance is required of all believers beyond the Ages of discretion...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 01:20
An Analysis of OTC Interest Rate Derivatives Transactions: Implications for Public Reporting docx
... short tenor of these contract types Table shows activity by transaction type New transactions made up 92% of transactions and 95% of volume in the price forming data set Almost half of the transactions ... price-forming transactions, non-price-forming transactions, and excluded transactions (The box on page describes the non-price forming and excluded transactions. ) The definition of price-forming transactions ... sensitivity of longer-dated swap transactions One measure of the interest rate sensitivity of a swap is the “dollar value of a basis point” or DV01 The DV01 measures the change in the present value of...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 03:20
UNDER SECTIONS 318 AND 319 OF THE FAIR AND ACCURATE CREDIT TRANSACTIONS ACT OF 2003 docx
... Comment of the Consumer Data Industry Association to the Federal Reserve Board, Sept 17, 2004, at Many creditors obtain lists of consumers from CRAs for the purpose of making firm offers of credit (often ... consist only of a credit “score” that summarizes a consumer’s credit history There are many different types of credit scores in use today.28 Each of the nationwide CRAs offers a variety of scores, ... agenda, list of participants, and of cial transcript of the proceedings are available through the Commission’s website.8 For all of the studies, the FTC focused primarily on the activities of the three...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 07:20
FAIR AND ACCURATE CREDIT TRANSACTIONS ACT OF 2003 pdf
... days after the date of receipt by such agency of ‘‘(1) appropriate proof of the identity of the consumer; ‘‘(2) a copy of an identity theft report; ‘‘(3) the identification of such information ... the date of enactment of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003); ‘‘(B) with respect to section 10–1–393(29)(C) of the Georgia Code (as in effect on the date of enactment of the ... Credit Transactions Act of 2003); ‘‘(C) with respect to section 1316.2 of title 10 of the Maine Revised Statutes (as in effect on the date of enactment of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 20:20
CONVENTION ON COMBATING BRIBERY OF FOREIGN PUBLIC OFFICIALS IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS and Related Documents pot
... State or the identity of the natural or legal persons involved Article Statute of Limitations Any statute of limitations applicable to the offence of bribery of a foreign public official shall allow ... period of time for the investigation and prosecution of this offence Article Money Laundering Each Party which has made bribery of its own public official a predicate offence for the purpose of the ... prohibit the establishment of off-the-books accounts, the making of off-the-books or inadequately identified transactions, the recording of non-existent expenditures, the entry of liabilities with incorrect...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 02:20
‘Marvels of Everyday Vision’: The Anthropology of Aesthetics and the Cattle-Keeping Nilotes docx
... their arms above their heads in imitation of the horns of a cow.[Note 19] This curving of the arms in imitation of cattle is, for the Dinka, ‘one of the forms of “handsomeness” (dheng [or dheeng]), ... Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People Oxford: Clarendon Press (1940b) The Political System of the Anuak of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan London School of Economics ... like ‘the set of valued formal qualities of objects’ or ‘valued formal qualities of perception’ The anthropology of aesthetics as I see it, then, consists in the comparative study of valued perceptual...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 13:20
Dual-track interest rates and the conduct of monetary policy in China potx
... respectively (PBC, 2010) Table Distribution of bank lending rates,% Share of Share of Share of Share of Share of Share of Share of loans priced loans priced loans priced loans priced loans priced loans ... Honglin Wang Dual -track Interest Rates and the Conduct of Monetary Policy in China All opinions expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily reflect the views of the Bank of Finland The ... this paper are those of the authors and not necessarily represent the views of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority BOFIT- Institute for Economies in Transition Bank of Finland BOFIT Discussion Papers...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 13:20
GLoBAL PLAn towARdS tHE ELIMInAtIon oF nEw HIV InFEctIonS AMonG cHILdREn BY 2015 And KEEPInG tHEIR MotHERS ALIVE 2011-2015 potx
... elimination of new HIV strengthening of monitoring and evaluation elimination of new child HIV infections infections among children and keeping frameworks for tracking success and keeping their ... targets in these plans will needs of current prevention of mother-to-child be expressed in terms of the number of Countries will conduct a mapping of the transmission of HIV programmes and the new ... presentation of the material in this publication not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of UNAIDS concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its...
Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 03:20
high performance computing in science and engineering '10 transactions of the high performance computing center, stuttgart (hlrs) 2010
... determination of Δsp (K) as a function of the starting point of the fitting range τstart with the covariance matrix of the Green’s function taken into account Further details on the nature of this intermediate ... scale, now the mass of a heavy quark This class of diagrams appears in the low-energy expansion of the correlator of two heavy 26 J.H K¨hn et al u quark currents The main application of the heavy-quark ... calculation of the correlators on the lattice The main software tool in this part of the project is the program TCrusher which implements the Laporta algorithm for the analytical solution of a system of...
Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2014, 09:18
báo cáo hóa học:" Keeping health staff healthy: evaluation of a workplace initiative to reduce morbidity and mortality from HIV/AIDS in Malawi" pot
... health office in the delivery of HIV/AIDS services ART has been scaled up to district-wide access, and by the end of 2009 more than three-quarters (78%) of all patients initiated since the start of ... at the staff clinic; the chairperson of the staff support group; and the coordinator of the “Caring for Caregivers project” of the National Organisation of Nurses and Midwives in order to get ... of death is described in Figure In the three years since inception, membership of the health workers’ support group increased from 10 to 61, all but one of whom were still on ART at the end of...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20
Báo cáo hóa học: " Track-before-detect procedures for detection of extended object" potx
... probability of transition from absent to present, i.e., ‘birth of the target’, and Pd = Pr{ Ek = 0| Ek-1 = 1} is the probability of transition from present to absent, i.e., ‘death of the target’ ... illustrates a typical scenario of interest Similarly to [2], we assume that the ratio of minor and major axes of the ellipse is fixed and known for the targets of interest to simplify the exposition ... estimates of the unknown parameters (m ,n) ˆ (m ,n) µk = (σ , P , , P R ) ˆ ˆ ˆ k y(m) I1 (2 (m ,n ) ˆ (m ,n ) zk R T Pk R T position of the centre of an extended target true length of target...
Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 01:20
Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article Estimation of Radar Cross Section of a Target under Track" potx
... length of the sliding window and it is the sum of the number of detections (N), and the number of misses (M) in the window Note that the function (14) corresponds to an average of the estimates of ... stage of tracking The ensemble averaged RMS errors are presented in Figures to for the true value of σ with 0.375, 1.5, and The average was evaluated over 105 time sequences of estimates The track ... approach is not susceptible to the error of a preset initial value of the RCS estimate at the early stage of tracking Extension to the case in the presence of false alarms is currently under investigation...
Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 08:20
Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article Track and Cut: Simultaneous Tracking and Segmentation of Multiple Objects with Graph Cuts" doc
... (“detect-before -track, ” dynamic segmentation, and “kernel tracking”) of existing tracking methods 2.1 “Detect-before -track methods The principle of “detect-before -track methods is to match the tracked ... segmentation of the objects Furthermore, they are not well adapted to the tracking of small objects 2.3 “Kernel tracking” The last group of methods aims at tracking a region of simple shape (often a ... instant is often made Finally, this kind of tracking usually outputs bounding boxes only By contrast, silhouette tracking has the advantage of directly providing the segmentation of the tracked...
Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 00:20
Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article Localization Accuracy of Track-before-Detect Search Strategies for Distributed Sensor Networks" doc
... measure of localization accuracy is the area of uncertainty, which identifies a region of the search space S where the target is located Often, the area of uncertainty is presented as a collection of ... that of the intersection of the pills they bound By induction, the intersection of any k of these overlapping rectangles, k ≥ 2, is a rectangle with area greater than that of the intersection of ... localization accuracy of the search Localization accuracy is defined in terms of the area of intersection of the sensor spatial-temporal coverage regions as seen from the target frame of reference From...
Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20
Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article A Comparison of Detection Performance for Several Track-before-Detect Algorithms" doc
... new tracks or terminating old tracks A typical two-stage approach based on the method in [15] is used for this function The tracker maintains two sets of tracks: established tracks, that the tracker ... detected (4) False track count was the number of false tracks formed in the no-target scenario (5) False track length was the average number of frames for which these false tracks persist (6) ... tentative tracks and then rejected or accepted the tentative tracks based on the estimated power of the track For this strategy to work, the track formation logic must reliably form tentative tracks...
Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20