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Báo cáo " Impacts of climate change on water resources in the Huong River basin and adaptation measures " pptx

Báo cáo " Impacts of climate change on water resources in the Huong River basin and adaptation measures " pptx

... significant increase in rainfall in wet season resulting in an increase in river flow. By contrast, the decreasing trend of river flow in dry season is a consequence of the decline of rainfall and increase ... expenditure for construction and protection of infrastructure in low-lying areas; and (5) Increased pollution of the aquatic environment in the coastal zone and salinity intrusion of the Huong River ... Impacts on the coastal zone The coastal zone accounts for 30% of the area and more than 30% of the human population of Thua Thien - Hue Province. Climate change impacts on the coastal zone in the...

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Tài liệu Investigating the Role of Poultry in Livelihoods and the Impact of Avian Flu on Livelihoods Outcomes in Africa docx

Tài liệu Investigating the Role of Poultry in Livelihoods and the Impact of Avian Flu on Livelihoods Outcomes in Africa docx

... is, the coefficients of the marginal effects of the Poisson model can be interpreted as the proportionate change in the conditional mean if the jth regressor changes by one unit. Finally, the ... No information is available on the costs of culling, diagnostic testing of samples, cleaning and disinfection, and other administrative costs (Obi, Oparinde, and Maina 2008). Regarding the ... anecdotal information on the number of farmers who have gone bankrupt due to the loss of markets as a result of the ban on poultry and the reductions in the demand for poultry products during and...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 01:20

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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "Selecting the “Right” Number of Senses Based on Clustering Criterion Functions" pdf

Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "Selecting the “Right” Number of Senses Based on Clustering Criterion Functions" pdf

... determining the number of senses in which an ambiguous word is used in a large corpus. It is based on the use of global criterion functions that assess the quality of a clustering solution. 1 Introduction The ... spaces. In Proceedings of the Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, pages 41–48, Boston, MA. S. Salvador and P. Chan. 2004. Determining the number of clusters/segments in hierarchical ... Introduction The goal of word sense discrimination is to cluster the occurrences of a word in context based on its underlying meaning. This is often approached as a problem in unsupervised learning,...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 02:20

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Tài liệu STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT on shrimp farms in the southeast of Thailand docx

Tài liệu STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT on shrimp farms in the southeast of Thailand docx

... the salinity and turbulence of the Gulf. Monsoons also control the surface currents of the Gulf, being clockwise during the southwest monsoon and anti-clockwise during the northeast monsoon. ... solution. There are plans to reuse the sludge in the shrimp pond. The idea is to build bricks of the sludge and place them on the pond wall to prevent the sides from erosion. In the meantime, the ... farming further increases the amount of sludge and thereby the amount of organic material on the bottom of the pond through erosion. The shrimp ponds in Thailand today have a maximum life of...

Ngày tải lên: 26/02/2014, 20:20

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Impact of chronic disease on quality of life among the elderly in the state of São Paulo, Brazil: a population-based study pptx

Impact of chronic disease on quality of life among the elderly in the state of São Paulo, Brazil: a population-based study pptx

... prevalence of chronic diseases among the elderly population and found that the degree of impact on HRQOL depends on the type of disease. The results highlight the importance of preventing and controlling ... as the active participation of the el- derly in the community so as to maintain or improve quality of life (39). The present findings stress the need for better organization of and quality in ... diseases, as well the impact of the number of chronic conditions, on the eight areas as- sessed by SF-36 ® . The results were simi- lar to those obtained in other countries, and there is general...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20

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Implementation of the Waste Electric and Electronic Equipment Directive in the EU pot

Implementation of the Waste Electric and Electronic Equipment Directive in the EU pot

... and developing guidance to assist companies in deciding whether their products are covered by the regulations. Producers indicate several areas of confusion in definitions used in the Directive. ... joined together to found EPSC, which also involves industry associations, including the Information Technology Association of Canada and Electro- Federation Canada. The focus is initially on ... restrictions on reselling of secondary material amongst other issues. Respondents based in Germany cited, in particular, the role played by the German Cartel office in this field and the caution...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 13:20

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Báo cáo " Research on the effect of urban expansion on agricultural land in Ho Chi Minh City by using remote sensing method " ppt

Báo cáo " Research on the effect of urban expansion on agricultural land in Ho Chi Minh City by using remote sensing method " ppt

... MekongDelta.Thissituation isapressure on suburbanfarmers in keeping agricultural production[6]. Accordingto the investigation of Institute of Economic Research in June 1996, the number of farmers owned the ... biggestindustrial andcommercialcenter of the country.Accordingto the statistics in 2005,itspopulationwasabout 6.2millionpeople. In the suburbanareas of the city, particularly in the northern part, agricultural activities produce the main income of these local residents. Within the ... East of the city and along the mainroads. In the upcomingyears, duetotrend of expansion,HoChiMinhCity will become a special urban with population morethan10millionsby2010year[3].Urban expansionsuppliedconditionstodisperse the habitants...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 15:20

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Báo cáo khoa học: Amino acid residues on the surface of soybean 4-kDa peptide involved in the interaction with its binding protein potx

Báo cáo khoa học: Amino acid residues on the surface of soybean 4-kDa peptide involved in the interaction with its binding protein potx

... & Tager, H.S. (1987) Role of the COOH- terminal B-chain domain in insulin–receptor interactions: identification of perturbations involving the insulin mainchain. J. Biol. Chem. 262, 12054–12058. 20. ... of insulin–insulin receptor interaction, the area consisting of Ile25, Val29, Phe31 and Ile33 in the 4-kDa peptide should play a critical role in the interaction with the 43-kDa protein. These ... to the solvent. This suggests that the aromatic residue, Phe28, plays a vital role in maintaining the hairpin-b during interaction with solvent. Interaction of insulin with the 43-kDa protein Similarly...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 03:20

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Film, Politics, and Ideology: Reflections on Hollywood Film in the Age of Reagan* ppt

Film, Politics, and Ideology: Reflections on Hollywood Film in the Age of Reagan* ppt

... found in the scenes of everyday and prison life in the film. And the transformation of life in the musical numbers of Pennies From Heaven provide critical perspectives on the degradation of everyday ... valorization of non- conformity and individualistic heroism in the new age of entrepreneurial glory. A more multi-dimensional reading of the film, however, would have to bring in the dimensions of race ... Staiger. @+{1 }In Studies in the Theories of Ideology, John Thompson examines many recent theories of ideology and finds that many of them sever the link between ideology and domination, and therefore rob...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 12:20

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Pulmonary tuberculosis associated with increased number and percentage of natural killer and B cells in the peripheral blood pot

Pulmonary tuberculosis associated with increased number and percentage of natural killer and B cells in the peripheral blood pot

... role of B cells in the optimal host response against MTB by increasing the infection inoculum (Vordermeier et al., 1996; Maglione et al., 2007). In addition the protection of mice against ... status of the patients in this study. Immunity against MTB comprises of a predominant cellular response and majority of researchers have dismissed the participation of B cells in defending against ... higher numbers and percentage of CD3 - CD16 + CD56 + NK cells detected in patients with PTB in this study may therefore indicate the contribution of NK cells in the host immune response against...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 03:20

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THE HUMANITARIAN IMPACT ON PALESTINIANS OF ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS AND OTHER INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE WEST BANK doc

THE HUMANITARIAN IMPACT ON PALESTINIANS OF ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS AND OTHER INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE WEST BANK doc

... dividing the Palestinians into isolated and blockaded communities. Road construction in the OPT far exceeds the rate of construction inside Israel.” See Shir Hever, The Economy of the Occupation, ... Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice on the Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, 9 July 2004 (A/ES-10/723). 35. The UN General ... after the start of the second Intifada , between 1998 and 2002. In 2005, Talia Sasson, the former head of the State Prosecution Criminal Department, conducted an inquiry at the request of the...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 08:20

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The Effect of Driving Restrictions on Air Quality in Mexico City pdf

The Effect of Driving Restrictions on Air Quality in Mexico City pdf

... evidence of a decrease in gasoline consump tion or an increase in public transportation. Instead, HNC is associated with an increase in the total number of private vehicles in circulation as well ... Specifications include weather covariates and indicator variables for month of the year, day of the week and hour of the day, as well as interac- tions between weekends and hour of the day. The R 2 for ... low- emissions forms of transportation, there is no evidence of a decrease in gasoline sales or an increase in public transportation use. Instead, the evidence indicates that HNC led to an increase in the total...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 14:20

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\ Interim Guidance on Hurricane  Conditions in the Gulf of Mexico

\ Interim Guidance on Hurricane Conditions in the Gulf of Mexico

... differing hurricane climatology, as shown in Figure 3-1. The regions have been selected based on consideration of trends in (1) INTERIM GUIDELINES ON HURRICANE CONDITIONS IN THE GULF OF ... observations. Of the four regions, changes relative to previous API RP 2A-WSD values are most pronounced in the Central region. Conditions in other regions are similar to those contained in ... follows: Section I: Introduction. Section 2: Definitions of terms used. Section 3: A description of the four regions, and notes of areas and water depths where the conditions do not...

Ngày tải lên: 02/04/2014, 09:28

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Tài liệu The impact of timely information on organisational performance in a supply chain

Tài liệu The impact of timely information on organisational performance in a supply chain

... resulting accurate and timely information (Cigolini et al. 2004), and internal cost savings in functional areas such as warehousing, manufacturing, and accounting via the adoption of information ... expand the definition to include the full utilisation of people, equipment, materials and parts’. JIT strategies, therefore, focus on the elimination of waste and the full utilisation of resources. ... and Information Management, International Journal of Mobile Communications, International Journal of Electronic Healthcare and International Journal of Human Resources Management. R. Anthony Inman...

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