... 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
... 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
Global perspectives on governance: lessons from east and west
... 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
Tài liệu Women’s Health and Postsocialist Healthcare Reforms: Lessons from Poland and Eastern Europe ppt
... 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
Tài liệu FIRMS AND THEIR DISTRESSED BANKS: LESSONS FROM THE NORWEGIAN BANKING CRISIS (1988-1991) docx
... 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
Urban Battle Fields of South Asia - Lessons Learned from Sri Lanka, India, and Pakistan pptx
... the U.S Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) and was conducted in RAND Arroyo Center’s Force Development and Technology Program RAND Arroyo Center, part of the RAND Corporation, is a federally ... scattered throughout the island, centered in Kotte in the southwest and in Kandy in the central highlands, and a predominantly Hindu Tamil Kingdom in the north of the island, centered in Jaffna See ... incorporates national and local law enforcement and intelligence entities It requires that intelligence flow up and down between the central and local authorities as well as horizontally among and between...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 16:20
Social Marketing and Public Health Lessons from the Field pptx
... 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
Connecting gender and economic competitiveness: lessons from Cambridge''''s high-tech regional economy potx
... 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 ... 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 ... (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
Strong Performers And Successful Reformers In Education Lessons From PISA For The United States doc
... 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
Barry berman competing in tough times business lessons from l l bean, trader joe's, costco, and other world class retailers FT press (2010)
... 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
Air pollution and infant health: Lessons from New Jersey doc
... 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
SMALL IS BEST LESSONS FROM ADVANCED ECONOMIES RYAN BOURNE AND THOMAS OECHSLE potx
... 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
Antibiotic resistant enterococci and staphylococci isolated from flies collected near confined poultry feeding operations potx
... erythromycin resistant; q-dr – quinupristin-dalfopristin resistant; tetr – tetracycline resistant; clinr – clindamycin resistant; penr – penicillin resistant a Resistant enterococci and staphylococci ... were recovered from four enterococcal isolates from poultry litter and six from fly isolates, all of which also contained the erm(B) gene (Table 4) Two fly isolates from traps and placed in proximity, ... epidermidis, and three isolates of S aureus Approximately two-thirds of staphylococci and enterococci isolated from flies were obtained from the homogenized samples (i.e., internalized bacteria), and...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 21:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Increased sensitivity of glycogen synthesis to phosphorylase-a and impaired expression of the glycogen-targeting protein R6 in hepatocytes from insulin-resistant Zucker fa ⁄ fa rats pptx
... phosphatase-1 (PP1) and for glycogen, and they differ in their relative activities of glycogen synthase phosphatase and phosphorylase phosphatase They are designated GL or R4, PTG or R5, R6 and R3E [21– ... glucokinase and phosphorylase in hepatocytes from fa ⁄ fa rats Hepatocytes from fa ⁄ fa rats had a higher total activity of glucokinase (Fa ⁄ ? ± munitsÆmg)1; fa ⁄ fa ± munitsÆmg)1 P < 0.01) and a ... homogenate (HOM) of hepatocytes from fa ⁄ fa and Fa ⁄ ? rats (C) Phosphorylase immunoreactivity (arbitary densitometry units) and representative immunoblot of fa ⁄ fa (n) and Fa ⁄ ? (h) preparations...
Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 11:20
lessons from deregulation telecommunications and airlines after the crunch
... 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
university of chicago press corruption and reform lessons from americas economic history apr 2006
... nations and its role in reducing economic growth The literature begins with Mauro (1995) and includes, for example, Hellman, Jones, and Kaufman (2003) and Leite and Weidmann (2002) On the extent and ... politicians and Parliament, and individual corruption, including the venality and greed of stock-jobbers and speculators, packed a powerful message 21 Quotations from Wood (1969, p 11) 22 “Companies and ... national government broad and generous powers But only in the areas of military and international affairs, public lands, international trade and commercial policy, and (to a lesser and immediately disputed...
Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 13:05
báo cáo sinh học:" Training of front-line health workers for tuberculosis control: Lessons from Nigeria and Kyrgyzstan" docx
... 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
báo cáo sinh học:" Costing the scaling-up of human resources for health: lessons from Mozambique and Guinea Bissau" docx
... 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
báo cáo sinh học:" Continuity and change in human resources policies for health: lessons from Brazil" docx
... facilitators and constraints, and how policies were adapted to deal with the latter; and (iii) to report on the current situation and draw policy implications and lessons Human resources for health ... organizational guidelines and offering management tools, support and mechanisms for the modernization and professionalization of work management and education at municipal and state health secretariats ... care and to improve services to the underserved They were now in positions of power and influence within the health and education policy domains, and could move forward with the realization and...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20
Climate Policy Foundations: Science and Economics with Lessons from Monetary Regulation – By William C. Whitesell potx
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 18:20