lessons from nature and engineering

... customers and community alike Many western standards and laws have been set in place specifically to break these opaque networks Global perspectives on governance: lessons from east and west | ... transparency and appropriate disclosure, and to define the roles and responsibilities of stakeholders in running a company These principles are necessary to establish a stable and competitive business and, ... reliability and just-in-time inventory than those hammered out by the hard-nosed negotiators of Detroit.’ Global perspectives on governance: lessons from east and west | Business leaders in the east and...

Ngày tải lên: 19/01/2014, 21:30

... depleted Poland’s health system, leaving only 203 doctors per 100,000 population—a dismal ratio ranking Poland near the bottom in Europe, and only surpassed by Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Albania, ... Brazil, Britain, France, the Netherlands, Mexico, Thailand, and Sri Lanka—these states are succeeding in improving their public healthcare, including reproductive and sexual health services (Berer ... access to comprehensive, available and affordable healthcare, including services essential to reproductive and sexual health, and stable coverage for low income and medically underserved communities...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 06:20

... individual organisms we see violence Humans clearly not in service to nature The whole of nature is our prey We learn from nature (and from the rainforest) of the need to be in service to a greater ... mechanization and less manual work; and more of food is refined and industrialized, so they can be eaten far away from places where they were grown With more food and less physical activity, and indeed ... land and gives the proceeds for redistribution Thirdly is the oppressive nature of socialism Eastern socialism uniformly oppressive Being unnatural, irrational and contrary to human nature, and...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 14:20

... taken from Richard P Feynman’s 1959 talk at the California Institute of Technology, as published in the February 1960 issue of CalTech’s Engineering and Science Bionanotechnology: Lessons from Nature ... drugs, elegant methods for diagnosing and curing infectious and genetic diseases, and engineering of organisms for specialized tasks such as bioremediation and disease resistance Biotechnology ... Look around the room and notice how much wood is used to build your shelter and furnishing and how much cotton, wool, and other natural fibers are used in your clothing and books Biomaterials...

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2014, 12:46

... human resources needs and disease prevalence in prisons and poor rural and urban settings need to begin from incentives provided during the basic training of physicians, nurses, and laboratory technicians ... poor knowledge and negative attitude of nurses vis-à-vis leprosy and tuberculosis patients [26] In recent years, institutional reforms have been implemented, and tuberculosis and leprosy training ... workers in rural and high prevalence tuberculosis regions of Nigeria, as NGOs and the private health sector continue to expand due to poor conditions of service in the public sector, and limited incentives...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... labour market, and often ignores health personnel's propensity to emigrate Bloor and Maynard consider it important to factor in the supply and demand of health personnel in the public and private ... analysed and compared, and lessons were extracted from the two distinct exercises focusing on the context, on the elaboration process, on the actors involved, on the methodological approach, and on ... adapted from Walt and Gilson [15] to analyse the following methodological and policy-making dimensions from the two cases: (a) the methodologies developed for HRH costing; (b) policy contexts and...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... individual organisms we see violence Humans clearly not in service to nature The whole of nature is our prey We learn from nature (and from the rainforest) of the need to be in service to a greater ... mechanization and less manual work; and more of food is refined and industrialized, so they can be eaten far away from places where they were grown With more food and less physical activity, and indeed ... land and gives the proceeds for redistribution Thirdly is the oppressive nature of socialism Eastern socialism uniformly oppressive Being unnatural, irrational and contrary to human nature, and...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 23:20

... 40–60 mmHg Dworetz and coworkers [43] applied the lessons from the study by Wung and coworkers, and compared 23 infants from the era of hyperventilation versus 17 infants from the era of ‘gentle ... excellent example is a recent study from Dobyns and coworkers [62], who took lessons from the PPHN population [45] and studied the combined effects of HFOV and iNO on oxygenation in pediatric ... significant Adapted from Azarow and coworkers [47] Infants with PPHN often present with severe hypoxemic respiratory failure, and as soon as HFOV and ECMO became available in the late 1970s and early 1980s...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... Figure grated viral DNA and provirus HIV-1 life cycle and model of transcription from pre-inteHIV-1 life cycle and model of transcription from pre-integrated viral DNA and provirus Following HIV ... Figure and proviral DNA Model of transcription initiation from non-integrated DNA Model of transcription initiation from non-integrated DNA and proviral DNA (A) viral early transcription from nonintegrated ... exportin-1 from the mRNA complex REV is also dissociated from mRNA by unknown mechanism and recycled back into the nucleus by cellular importin-β REV interacts with importin-β in the cytoplasm and dissociates...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:20

... Farole T D Winkler (WB, 2012); Paus and Gallagher, 2008 Những cơng trình bao gồm: Việt Nam 2035 '(WB Bộ KH&ĐT 2016),' Việt Nam trước ngã rẽ' (World Bank 2016), Brandt et al (2016), Newman et al (2015) ... more challenging global horizon Wages in its competitor countries like Bangladesh and Cambodia are already lower, and the “demographic dividend” is diminishing 18 UNCTAD (2011) Làm để tạo hưởng ... method Vietnam Cambodia Lao PDR Vietnam Cambodia Lao PDR Malaysia Philippines Thailand Malaysia Philippines Thailand 61 Đầu vào cho đổi sáng tạo: Để giúp cho việc hiểu rõ liệu trình bày, việc xem...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2018, 12:59

... high on the list when people clicked on "Big Bird." Build and engage your communit y Find out what people expect and want from your brand As an example, Steele said the Romney campaign posts behind-the-scenes ... statements in real time." Also, Steele pointed out, after Romney announced he would cut PBS's funding and mentioned "Big Bird" during the first debate, "Big Bird" began trending on Twitter Early on, ... Convention, the Obama digital media team tweeted a photo captioned: "This seat's taken." Witty and amusing tweets can show that you don't take yourself or your company too seriously Connect t...

Ngày tải lên: 07/01/2014, 15:28

... Ødegaard and Øyvind Norli for supplying Norwegian data, and Andy Naranjo for providing us with data from Datastream Ongena thanks the Center for Financial Studies in Frankfurt for their hospitality and ... initial and seasoned public, rights, and private equity and all convertible bond issues (both and foreign) made by non-financial firms listed on Japanese stock exchanges The numbers come from the ... equity and rights category includes initial public offerings, taken from Helland and Samuelson (1999) To calculate the Norwegian ratio of total equity raised to market capitalization, we use data from...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 10:20

... chitlins) Each November and December after that, Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) clinics offered flyers and short lectures emphasizing handwashing and protecting children from exposure to chitterlings ... line) and applications for employment • Improved retention and reduced turnover of current LTC workers • Increased positive recognition and rewards for LTC workers, from the general public and from ... rates, and drug and juvenile justice data Target Audience(s) The target audience was sexually active youths aged 14-18 who had tried condoms and used them inconsistently and who were from 15...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 00:20

... interactions, daily and weekly work patterns, informal socialising, intrafirm and interfirm peer relationships, and the nature of dependants and homelife We taperecorded the interviews and later employed ... balance the demands of work with child-care and other home and family commitments, and so increase the ability of female employees to further their own careers and economic well-being, and to contribute ... (Henry and Pinch, 2000; Lundvall and Johnson, 1994; Storper, 1996) Those firms, sectors, and regions that can learn and innovate faster become more competitive because their knowledge is scarce and...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 06:20

... away from clear-cutting and towards selective felling and the use of cuttings; and the emergence in the mid-1990s of demands for forest certification (Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and ISO standards) ... manufacturing, running between and 14 per cent in the US, and exceeds other commodity sectors like chemical and allied products and plastics (Butner and Stapley, 1997, p.155-6) In Finland, the capital investment ... amongst pulp and paper firms, and any consequent differential impacts on their competitiveness Competitiveness issues in the EU pulp and paper industry The EU pulp and paper industry from a global...

Ngày tải lên: 09/03/2014, 00:20

... exceeds 50% of 15-year-old students in the Netherlands, Ireland and Chile, and between 35% and 40% in Australia and Korea In contrast, in Turkey, Iceland and Norway, more than 98% of students attend ... Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Israel Italy 18 Partner countries and economies in PISA 2009 Japan Korea Luxembourg Mexico Netherlands New Zealand Norway Poland Portugal ... Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Israel Italy Japan Korea Luxembourg Mexico Netherlands New Zealand Norway Poland Portugal Slovak Republic Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 16:22

... typical shopper.29 To attract and keep this higher-income segment, Wal-Mart has begun to offer appliances from KitchenAid and Dyson and electronics from Dell, Palm, and Sony and has moved its apparel ... candy, snacks and refrigerated products, health and beauty aids, home cleaning supplies, and pet supplies (up from 65.7 percent in 2006).26 Consumables (household chemicals, paper products, candy, ... patio, and furniture) and 10 percent came from softlines (apparel, jewelry, cameras, and small appliances) Home improvement centers like Lowe’s and Home Depot now feature major appliances and carpeting...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 22:31

... identical: the actual and simulated within standard deviations for ozone are 0.939 and 0.947, respectively, for CO are 0.301 and 0.271, respectively, and for PM10 are 0.410 and 0.407, respectively, ... episodes and increased mortality of infants and others One of the most famous focused on a “killer fog” in London, England and found dramatic increases in cardiopulmonary mortality (Logan and Glasg, ... Table Coefficients and standard errors are multiplied by 100 in columns and All models include mother fixed effects Discussion and conclusions In order to begin to evaluate the costs and benefits of...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 02:20

... Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the ... Switzerland Taiwan US Big government countries Austria Belgium Canada Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Finland France Germany Greece Iceland Israel Italy Luxembourg Malta Netherlands New Zealand Norway ... economists Namely: Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Singapore,...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 20:20

... Lessons from Deregulation This page intentionally left blank Lessons from Deregulation Telecommunications and Airlines after the Crunch Alfred E Kahn ... requirement or be to or from small hub and non-hub airports The condition limited the total number of code-sharing flights between Delta and Continental and between Delta and Northwest to 2,600 ... re-regulation67—as distinguished from safeguards against outright fraud and doubledealing by corporate executives and dishonest accounting, auditing, and appraisals by investment analysts and advisers.68 On...

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 01:55