new approaches to environment and development

... system and differentiates between semi-automatic and fully automatic face recognizer The goal of an automatic face detector is to search for human faces in a still image and, if found, to accurately ... order, from top to bottom, and this sequence is 10 New Approaches to Characterization and Recognition of Faces immutable, even if the face is moderately rotated The first attempts to use HMMs ... rectangular window from left -to- right and top -to- bottom and the observation vectors are extracted Step then the sequence of observation vectors is introduced in each EHMM model and its corresponding...

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... system and differentiates between semi-automatic and fully automatic face recognizer The goal of an automatic face detector is to search for human faces in a still image and, if found, to accurately ... order, from top to bottom, and this sequence is 10 New Approaches to Characterization and Recognition of Faces immutable, even if the face is moderately rotated The first attempts to use HMMs ... rectangular window from left -to- right and top -to- bottom and the observation vectors are extracted Step then the sequence of observation vectors is introduced in each EHMM model and its corresponding...

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... is not easy to conceive of Ireland, Denmark, and Russia without potatoes However, both tomatoes and potatoes are of New World origin (figure 1.1) At the time of their introduction into the Old ... Animals and Plants under Domestication, 2nd ed D Appleton, New York, ny, usa Davidson, A 1992 Europeans’ wary encounter with tomatoes, potatoes, and other New World foods In N Foster and L S ... sequence data to eliminate certain species of Artocarpus from consideration as putative ancestors of cultivated breadfruit and were able to narrow down the candidate ancestors to two other species...

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... linked by and : old and musty with, a long and winding road, hard and fast rules When the premodifiers are two color adjectives, it is obligatory to use and, not the commas as: the yellow and blue ... examples to understand deeply about the order of their orders : English a nice big new red Japanese car Vietnamese xe Nhật mầu đỏ to đẹp a nice big new red Japanese car xe Nhật to mầu đỏ đẹp * a new ... adjectives According to researches, adjectives are classified into stative and dynamic, gradable and non- gradable as follows: 2.2.1 Stative and dynamic adjectives According to the opinion of Quirk...

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... marital rape and sexual abuse, and against violence towards women and girls as a human rights violation; and for programmes to encourage and enable men to adopt safe and responsible sexual and reproductive ... respond to them; the need to go beyond a health-needs and fertility-based approach, and to include legislation, advocacy and education to change cultures that condone violence and inhibit men and ... to offering men and male adolescents abilities to resist pressure from peers and to experiment with new masculine roles New models of masculinity are needed to reduce violence, and involve men...

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... required to resolve the interactions and to further contribute to the understanding of paper as a material In this thesis a new outlook to fibre bonding and paper strength was adopted in order to explain ... thesis, a new outlook to fibre bonding and paper strength was adopted in order to explain the interactions between strength additives and fibres, and to understand the mechanisms of strength development ... first, to further the understanding of mechanical behaviour of paper in respect to development of strength upon drying and to the mechanisms of action of different strength additives; second, to...

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... prevalence of HIV and lack of capacity to quickly and effectively diagnose and identify the disease To prevent XDR-TB from spreading, there is an urgent need for new diagnostic tools and new and more ... More funding has to be directed towards research and development of new TB drugs and vaccines if the pandemic is to be defeated effectively With regard to anti-tuberculosis drugs and vaccines, the ... TB and XDRTB; (4) Expand surveillance of MDR-TB and XDR-TB to better understand the magnitude and trends of drug resistance and the links with HIV; (5) Foster sound infection control measures to...

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... Conjoint,l) a n d (lclete(Cand t.Coatd2.nil from List leavin~ NewList) and linearize(pairn Ni,wSI 1~1 and NewS2 I~2 candidates Newl,i~t yiving Restot'Sentence) and append(Conjoined RestofS(,stteuce Sentence) ... need to ni;tke explicit use 125 and similar(St to S2 common Similar) and n o t same(Simil~ an nil) a n d remove{Siutih~x from St leaving NewS[) and r,,nove(Siulilar from $2 lenving NewS2) and ... r,,nove(Siulilar from $2 lenving NewS2) and line.'u'ize{pairs NewS1 El ,rod NewS2 E2 candidates List ~li,,ing RestOfSentenee) and appeud(Similmr RestOl~,.ntenee Seutenee) / conjoin ia rewer.sible / conjoin(lint...

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... survival and ability to adapt to changing environmental demands requires that we willfully and consciously direct attention toward critical internal or external stimuli and accurately appraise and ... COGNITIVE APPROACHES TO OBSESSIONS AND COMPULSIONS THEORY, ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT This Page Intentionally Left Blank COGNITIVE APPROACHES TO OBSESSIONS AND COMPULSIONS THEORY, ASSESSMENT, AND TREATMENT ... intrusive thoughts) appears to lead to attempts to suppress thoughts, and that both likelihood TAF and thought suppression contribute to obsessive compulsive symptoms Their findings suggest that...

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... hearts and have shown lots of love and care for me Swamy Laxminarayan would like to express his loving acknowledgements to his wife xv xvi PDE and Level Sets Marijke and to his kids, Malini and ... asymptotic Properties and above indicate that the Laplace Transform converts differentiation and integration to algebraic operations Properties 1, 2, and are used to find Laplace Transforms and ... Kluwer Online at: and Kluwer's eBookstore at: http://kluweronline.com http://ebooks.kluweronline.com Jasjit Suri would like to dedicate this book to his parents and especially to his late mother...

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... harmful to the environment Draft International Covenant on Environment and Development ARTICLE RESILIENCE The capacity of natural systems and human communities to withstand and recover from environmental ... harm to the environment and to enhance or restore environmental quality ARTICLE 44 MONITORING OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY Parties shall conduct scientific research and establish, strengthen, and ... law” on environment and development (many of which are now declaratory of customary international law); • to facilitate institutional and other linkages to be made between existing treaties and their...

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... this to happen, we must understand better the symptoms of stress that confront us, we must identify the causes, and we must design new approaches to managing environmental resources and to sustaining ... agricultural development, and so on These have been slow to take the environmental effects of their work into account, although some are trying to so 38 The ability to anticipate and prevent environmental ... basis of development Governments now need to fill major gaps in existing national and international law related to the environment, to find ways to recognize and protect the rights of present and...

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... interest to academics, politicians, planners, and public health professionals attempting to understand or reduce urban health risks, create safe urban environments, and deliver effective and sustainable ... Christoffel, K Public health advocacy: Process and product American Journal of Public Health, 90 (2000): 722–726 McEwen, B S Protective and damaging effects of stress mediators New England Journal ... Economics and Politics of Growing Older in America (Schulz and Binstock), 242 Air pollution: Bronx minority population and sources of, 100 fig; Bronx (New York) health disparities related to, 94–119;...

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... URBAN HEALTH AND SOCIETY URBAN HEALTH AND SOCIETY Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research and Practice NICHOLAS FREUDENBERG SUSAN KLITZMAN SUSAN SAEGERT Editors Copyright © 2009 by ... Urban health and society: interdisciplinary approaches to research and practice/ Nicholas Freudenberg, Susan Klitzman, Susan Saegert, editors p ; cm Includes bibliographical references and index ... Summary ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE PRAXIS: IMPLICATIONS FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY URBAN PUBLIC HEALTH Tom Angotti, Julie Sze Environmental Justice and Public Health The Built Environment, Urban Planning, and...

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... us to compile this book At City University of New York, we have worked together to develop interdisciplinary approaches to teaching and research, created new courses on interdisciplinary approaches ... interdisciplinary approaches to health research, our focus is more practical We want to help our colleagues and students to use these methods to improve their work and increase its relevance to improving ... were kind enough to read chapters and provide helpful suggestions to authors and editors These include Tom Angotti, Mimi Fahs, Sandro Galea, Mary Clare Lennon, Shirley Lindenbaum, and Amy Schulz...

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... historical and environmental health approaches to the study of urban environmental hazards and Maantay and her colleagues, who in Chapter Five synthesize geographic and medical perspectives to ... of programmes to combat social exclusion, to protect and repair the environment and to promote human development. ”3 As the urban population grows and as cities become more diverse and complex, ... reentry from jail, violence and crime, mothers’ and children’s mental health problems, and obesity and diabetes In each of these cases, our efforts to understand and reduce the health problems...

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