models risk assessment and decision making

... respectively Risk estimation: One may estimate risks and uncertainties and report them to a risk manager who interprets the estimates and makes a decision Risk estimation is used in definitive assessments ... manifestis and indeterminate risks with a single category, nontrivial risks In that case, the nontrivial risks are carried forward to subsequent assessments Screening ecological risk assessments ... risk assessment consists of using exposure and effects information to screen the risks into categories The most general categorization is: De minimis—risks that are clearly insignificant and...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:21

... 2a,d and Additional data files 13 and 14), included large differences in expression as a whole and in particular the inability of arr1∆ to induce serine biosynthesis-related genes such as SER3, and ... data files 13 and 14) and suggesting that it may have a role in protein degradation as well reviews Our results and those of Menezes et al [25], in contrast to the results of Tamas and colleagues ... 5a, and Table 1) This overlap of sensitive upstream pathways and differentially expressed downstream pathways provides the link between transcriptional and phenotypic profiling data (Figures and...

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Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:02

... mild pain, 2= moderate pain and 3= severe pain, and visual analog scale of 0–10, where 0=no pain and 10= worst imaginable pain Agrawal et al used both, 4-point scale and VAS, in which the first ... had moderate and severe pain in valsalva group, where 24 (80%) in ball group and 21 (70%) in control group had moderate and sever pain Since Valsalva maneuver may induce Bradycardia and hypotension ... Medical Sciences and Iranian Registry of Clinical Trials Patients were instructed about the procedure and informed consent was obtained separately before surgery Participants and measurements...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:15

... Approximately similar mean and dispersion statistics have been observed by Pliner and Hobden (1992) in Canadian students; by Frank et al (1997) in US students; and by Frank and Hursti (1999) in a ... ®nding that was similar to US and Swedish populations (Frank & Hursti, 1999) Education is likely to enhance the access and exposures to various stimuli, events and issues, and thereby it can perhaps ... observations from DenÈ È È mark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden In H L Meiselman, Dimensions of the meal The science, culture, business, and art of eating (pp 191±201) Maryland: Aspen Raudenbush, B., &...

Ngày tải lên: 03/04/2013, 21:06

... of Asia and identify common and specific problems in policies and measures implementation Assess possibilities and constraints for institutional capacity building and explain success and failures ... re-distributing risks and altering vulnerabilities to floods in Thailand IFA Working Paper, EcoPolicy, Moscow Manuta J., L.Lebel, 2005 “Human Security and Climate Change: Governance of Flood Risks in Thailand.”Abstract ... individual and collective behavior and to govern human interactions to reduce the risk of floods A variety of domestic and regional institutions, including legislation, agencies and administration, decision- making...

Ngày tải lên: 22/10/2013, 10:15

... English and Vietnamese? What are pragmatic features of CRs in English and Vietnamese? What are similarities and differences in the syntactic and pragmatic features of CRs in English and Vietnamese? ... pragmatic features and then compared and contrasted to find out the METHOD AND PROCEDURE 3.1 RESEARCH DESIGN similarities and differences between the two languages 3.6 RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY Descriptive ... teaching and learning English as a foreign language 1.2.2 Objectives - Identify the syntactic and pragmatic features of CRs in English and Vietnamese languages - Find out the similarities and differences...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:19

... loader Windows 3x, 95, and 98 use IO.SYS and DOS.SYS, Windows NT uses NTLOADER, and Linux uses LILO There are also commercial and shareware boot loaders, such as Norton System Commander, that are designed ... but it works and is available at http://www.yipton.demon.co.uk/ For read and write access, there is Explore2fs It looks and behaves like the Windows Explorer and works with Windows 9x and NT It ... Manage Linux and Windows on the same workstation: boot managers, partitioning, compressed drives, file systems, and more For anyone running both Linux and Windows, McCune delivers honest and objective...

Ngày tải lên: 24/01/2014, 15:20

... (Lascarides and Asher 1993) This framework has already been successful in accounting for other phenomena on the interface between the lexicon and pragmatics, e.g Asher and Lascarides (1995) Lascarides and ... = Z and B = member-of For otherwise the events in (5) are too "disconnected" to support ant" rhetorical relation On the other hand assigning u and B these values allows us to use Subtype and ... incoherent (and we have presupposition failure) The detailed analysis of (3) and (52) involve reasoning about the values of v and B But for reasons of space, we gloss over the details given in Asher and...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 03:20

... individuals of each species and the number of flowers per individual were counted in yr (2001 and 2003 for E grandiflorum and D nuttallianum; 2002 and 2003 for E speciosus and H quinquenervis) The ... Brooks, and S Mambelli for assistance with [N] and [C] analyses, D Tissue and N Gestel for assistance with carbohydrate analyses, and K Etcheverry and G Lyon for assistance with sample and data ... (gs), and leaf vapor pressure deficit (VPD) for Erythronium grandiflorum and Delphinium nutallianum Control, circles; heated, triangles Fig Predawn and midday water potential (Ψ) for Erythronium grandiflorum...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 17:20

... contrast, is based ation and late twentieth-century attempts to resynthesize evolution and on chemistry and physics and the close study of cells, and hence more sol­ development and lately ecology ... Hopkins University Press Richard Creath and Jane Maienschein, eds., Biology and Epistemology, 22- Cam­ Lands, D Raup, and C Wolpert 1985 Developmental constraints and evolution Quarterly Review ofBiology ... and Kirschner 1997; Conrad 998; Kirschner and Gerhart 1998; Newman and Muller 2000, Schank and Wimsatt 2001; Hansen 2003; Earl and Deem 2004; Wagner and Laubichler 2004; Deacon 2006) 16 Still...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 23:20

... advertising allowances and other merchandising payments and services, which seek to define the applicability of Sections 2(d) and 2(e) of Robinson-Patman to advertising and merchandising.10 The new ... practices, and other anti-competitive activities have been judged outside protection of the act and are prosecutable under the Sherman Act [U.S v Maryland Coop Milk Producers, Inc and Maryland and Virginia ... should decrease both retail and farm prices, making the effect on the price spread ambiguous and perhaps explaining why Powers and Thompson and Lyon obtained small and opposite predicted effects...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 13:20

Ngày tải lên: 12/03/2014, 07:20

... database for land suitability classification by using integration ALES and GIS Materials and methods The FAO method is based on matching land quality (supply side, the land) versus land use requirements ... the land unit No 25 is sand dunes and sand at river banks or coastal zone Mechanic composition of the top soil is disjointed sand Terrain form is depression, there is no active irrigation and ... between land quality and ecological requirements should be made before doing land suitability classification 4.1 Standardized classification for land suitability In order to classify land suitability...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 15:20

... “originated and distributed” are fully understood and communicated to end-investors These changes will involve minimum information standards and improvements to both the modeling of risks and the ... traditional investment opportunities So it led to a demand for innovative, and inevitably riskier, financial instruments and for greater leverage And the financial sector responded to the challenge ... the increase in the cost of interbank lending, reflecting credit and liquidity risk See Arain and Song (2008, p 2) and Bank of England (2008, p 15) LIBOR is set by the British Banker’s Association...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 07:20

... Casadesus-Masanell and Tarun Khanna Bruce Kogut and Gordon Walker June 2003 Gerald A McDermott June 2003 Witold J Henisz and Bennet A Zelner Andrew Spicer and William Pyle June 2003 Jennifer Tobin and Susan ... and Rostowski, J (2000) ‘Investment and finance in de novo private firms: empirical results from the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland’, Economics of Transition, 8(1), pp 101-116 Cärare, O and ... absence of direct observations on supply and demand, observed bank lending only provides information on the intersection of the supply and demand curves and this is not sufficient to identify correctly...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 07:20

... water across the land and these shifts can trigger volcanic activity and underwater landslides Both the natural and human-mediated damage to the land must be mitigated whenever and wherever possible ... environment and to the health of individuals and societies The insightful writings of scientists such as Edward O Wilson and Steven J Gould, humanists such as Wendell Berry and Bill McKibben and economists ... Las Vegas, by Landcare Research in Lincoln, New Zealand and by US NSF grants DEB-0080538 and DEB-0218039 to the Puerto Rico Long-Term Ecological Research Program ix x Preface and acknowledgements...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 04:20

... resilience and capacity for emergencies • Priority 2: Integrate SRH into health risk assessment and provide early warning for communities and vulnerable groups Incorporate assessments of SRH risks, ... multisectoral and health emergency risk management policies and plans at national and local levels Allocate human and financial resources to integrate SRH into the national health emergency risk management ... Integrating sexual and reproductive health into health emergency and disaster risk management Health emergency and disaster risk management Sexual and reproductive health: a public...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 16:20

... Basel II and the main commercially available credit risk models Interest rate risk, on the other hand, is captured by earnings at risk, the approach banks use traditionally to measure this risk type ... credit, interest rate risk in the banking book, operational and other risks) and computing returns on risk weighted assets, Kuritzkes and Schuermann (2007) find that interest rate risk in the banking ... Cash Flow Risk- free rate +15bps Risk- free rate minus variable negative spread34 Risk- free rate Risk- free rate minus variable negative spread35 Risk- free rate Risk- free rate +15bps Risk- free rate...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 13:20

... students, and teachers; they were easy to and low-tech; they could meet standards for “doing science”; and they could be done in parallel by the students and research faculty Students and teachers ... writers of their newspapers and take it upon themselves to help better understand and appreciate the nature of science and the kinds of issues and problems that science can and cannot address SUMMARY ... students and other teachers The goal of the program is to help teachers to understand the scientific process, what it means to science, and that science is ever-changing and often tedious and repetitive...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 13:20