lessons from public disclosure ofenvironmental performance information in norwegian companies

... therefore been calling for a massive re-training of engineers and managers in irrigation agencies, consulting firms and Irrigation Service Providers in Asia (FAO, 2002)2, in order to introduce and ... establishment of continuous in- service training focused on operational management: a Training of today’s graduates who are tomorrow’s managers b Training at all professional levels within irrigation ... trained with support from the Program THE RAPID APPRAISAL PROCEDURE, THE TRAINING PROGRAM AND BENCHMARKING The Rapid Appraisal Procedure (RAP) was originally developed by the Irrigation Training...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 22:21

... value lies in pooling information from previous studies Specifically, gene-specific information can be collected from public databases housing many chips, supplementing new studies and ensuring more ... Expression Omnibus (GEO) [23] contain data from many chips, with the goal of gaining information from pooling data GEO currently has thousands of chips, with a heavy skewing towards Affymetrix MG-U74Av2 ... the top 50 genes within 100 genes increased As public databases grow in size and organization, this should become increasingly possible Comparing across multiple chip types Public databases are...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 14:21

... failure and public value in light of these findings This section proposes that the cases of partnership failure herein may be understood as resulting from reinforcing commitment problems, wherein the ... forms involving governments, multilateral institutions, civil society organizations, and businesses in multitudinous architectures have come to serve social aims across sectors, including infrastructure, ... its evolving functions over the life of the concession are influenced by (and influence) politics and competing interests, and how these structural changes and shifting interests in turn influence...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 11:28

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Ngày tải lên: 16/01/2014, 22:20

... financially This report is a valuable step in the ascending path towards changing existing mindsets ’ Professor Mervyn King Chairman of the Global Reporting Initiative Sustainability in emerging ... actions for incorporating ESG issues into mainstream investment decision making and ownership practices The principles came into being in 2006 on the back of a UN initiative and in early 2010 ... Launched in 1999, the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes are the first global indexes tracking the financial performance of the leading sustainability driven companies worldwide www.sustainability-index.com...

Ngày tải lên: 09/02/2014, 21:09

... chitterlings before cleaning Findings of the preparation comparison showed that bleach rinsing of chitterlings was inconsistent in reducing bacteria Pre-boiling chitterlings showed complete killing ... TurningPoint Collaborating for a New Century in Public Health Social Marketing and Public Health Lessons from the Field A Guide to Social Marketing from the Social Marketing National ... an intervention may include offering immunizations in a neighborhood or mobile clinic Price One of the original Ps of marketing The component that invites planning interventions that use incentives...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 00:20

... reading scale Tasks at this level that involve retrieving information require the reader to locate and organise several pieces of deeply embedded information, inferring which information in the ... recognising the main idea in a text, understanding relationships, or construing meaning within a limited part of the text when the information is not prominent and the reader must make low level inferences ... of information, pictures or familiar symbols There is minimal competing information In tasks requiring interpretation the reader may need to make simple connections between adjacent pieces of information...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 16:22

... www.wowebook.com 32 COMPETING IN TOUGH TIMES Undertaking Continuing Efforts to Keep Costs Low Minimizing Product Proliferation Maintaining High Market Share in Served Markets Constantly Offering Customers ... that we will explore include undertaking continuing efforts to keep costs low, minimizing product proliferation, maintaining high market share in served markets, constantly offering customers the ... “foodies” working in a grocery, sports enthusiasts working in a sporting goods store, or interior decorators working in a furniture store)? • Is the store’s atmosphere viewed as “fun,” “entertaining,”...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 22:31

... Ala72 in Nedd8, and Arg72 in ubiquitin (highlighted in yellow in Fig 2C) Matching E1 residues are Thr149 in uba2, Arg190 in uba3 and Gln608 in uba1 (highlighted in purple in Fig 3E) Interestingly, ... SP-RING domain, a SUMO interaction motif (SIM) and a C-terminal domain (CTD) [39] (B) Pc2 contains an uncharacterized E3 domain, a ubc9 binding domain and a Pro-Ile-Asp-Leu-Ser motif involved in substrate ... domain [1,42,44,45] Except for the SP-RING domain, no homology has been found between PIAS proteins and single-chain ubiquitin E3 ligases NSE2a and TOPORS, two other proteins that contain RING...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 04:20

... substantial freedom, independence, and judgment to the individual in scheduling the work and in determining the procedures to be used in carrying it out - Sef-directed flexbility -Independently action ... 1.Introduction 1.3 Research Motivation O I wonder why I am interested in this problem and what are benefits bring to me The first thing what I concern is a raising concern about brain drain from ... for determining an individual performance (Pushpakumari, M D 2008) O To date, research on job satisfaction and job performance had particular interested due to the inconsistent finding the literature...

Ngày tải lên: 18/04/2014, 16:24

... has from the start focused on long term capacity building, training individuals to strengthen the informatics workforce and building capacity at the institutional system level Individual training ... developing countries Washington, D.C.: World Bank, Information for Development Program [infoDev]; 2006 Simini F: Perinatal information system (SIP): a clinical database in Latin America and the Caribbean ... lack of proficiency in the use of the internet [8] With the growing use of the internet to gain access to vital health information and for research [9], informatics training and computer competency...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... Policies in relation to HRH in Brazil POLICY BEGINNING/ END DESCRIPTION Program Larga Escala 80’s In service training program that aimed at qualifying middle and elementary cadres working in the public ... Santos [5] - a shift in focus to “how to ”, e.g problem solving, and reflective thinking in training of health workers (this model already existed in technical schools for engineers) Expansion of ... attracting and retaining health staff in remote and/or rural areas, tackling staff mal-distribution and over-specialisation, particularly in the physician workforce, retaining and motivating health...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... IL-1β protein in the synovium [41] Intriguingly, blocking of IL-1α/β with neutralizing antibodies had no effect on the IL-17-induced synovial inflammation and joint damage, implying an IL-1independent ... enhances tumor necrosis factor alpha-induced synthesis of interleukin 1, 6, and in skin and synovial fibroblasts: a possible role as a ‘fine-tuning cytokine’ in inflammation processes Arthritis Rheum ... interleukin 17 in inflammatory bowel disease Gut 2003, 52:65-70 Katz Y, Nadiv O, Beer Y: Interleukin-17 enhances tumor necrosis factor alpha-induced synthesis of interleukin 1, 6, and in skin and...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:22

... role in pain transmission Results from in vitro studies and animal models of OA support the dominant role of IL-1β early in the disease process Moreover, intra-articular delivery of anakinra ... D, Kiefer P, Zhou L, et al.: Results from a double blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter trial of a single intra-articular injection of Anakinra (Kineret®) in patients with osteoarthritis of the ... anakinra treatment compared to placebo at the main endpoint (month 1) A tendency for improvement was noticed in the 150 mg group at day (in keeping with the short half-life of IL-1ra), suggesting...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:21

... of including the genotype information in the parental value estimation was measured by the extra genetic gain as compared with the standard method Starting from an initial point where all within ... various types of information according to the case: own performance X (scheme I and females r in scheme II) or offspring performances X (males in scheme II) and with the o r genotypic information ... available from the progeny test than from the performance test, thus diminishing the value of including major gene data and (2) the longer time taken by scheme II to take into account the extra information...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:22

... Type Examples Knowledge brokers Clinical managers Clinicians involved in management Clinicians involved in research Clinicians involved in quality improvement Internal facilitators (e.g., knowledge ... plans, performance targets, or clinical guidelines can become a barrier to successful collaboration by legitimising interprofessional differences, reinforcing existing power structures, and maintaining ... three key interlinked functions: conducting high quality applied health research; implementing the findings from research in clinical practice; and increasing the capacity of NHS organisations...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20

... expertise in relation to selecting samples for audit, applying definitional criteria, interpreting data, and providing feedback Medical knowledge was also critical to synthesizing clinical information ... disease focus and an interest in being involved in CQI Successful leaders engaged staff in building a shared organizational vision as well as in making sense of what ABCD would mean in relation to ... sense-making, a phenomenon that involves a capacity for 'structuring the unknown' and interacting with others in the pursuit of developing a shared meaning According to agency theory this has distinct...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... were trained in drop -in settings, the largest numbers of users were trained on street corners To illustrate this point, one day in February, the SEP training team was set up at a new site in a warm ... organizations interested in minimizing the adverse consequences of drug use in several cities in the US, including Los Angeles, Providence, Pittsburgh and Boston, are in the process of planning and ... resulting in 319 reversals which were associated with 20% decrease in overdoses in 2001 and a 10% decrease in 2002 and 2003 This reversed a steady increase in heroin overdoses since 1991 [25] In...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... vaccines including killed and attenuated viruses, viral proteins, peptides, and recombinant vaccinia or adenovirus vectors expressing FV genes Vaccination with recombinant vaccinia viruses using ... by being packaged in F-MuLV-encoded particles produced in cells co-infected by both viruses FV infection induces lethal erythroleukemia in susceptible strains of mice [65] Recovery from FV-induced ... of HIV infected individuals [36,55,130] Moreover, increased expression of aEb7 integrin (CD103) on CD4 + Foxp3 + Tregs suggests a role of integrins in compartmentalization of Tregs in FV infection...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 01:21