... decline bur plays a crucial role in absorbing its shocks, replacing lost income, containing/reducing poverty, maintaining health care, strengthening social solidarity, reducing inequalities and ... services and a reduction in contributory social insurance, hence generating pressure to increase efficiency and cur administrative costs In a context of declining contributory revenue and rising inflation, ... recovering pre-crisis level in 2011, and 2) L-shaped: -2.1% in 2009, -1.8% in 2010 and 0.3% in 2011, recovering pre-crisis levels in 2013 Herein social securiry is used in irs broader integrated...
... 4.3.4 Social capital andsocial life Social capital andsocial trust Social capital andsocial participation Social capital and living maintenance Social capital andsocial safety net Social ... Major income-earner 10 Household annual income B Social trust Trust andsocial life Trust and civic engagement C Maintaining and improving livelihood Social capital and livelihood maintenance Social ... Self-management and gender’s roles: Social capital andsocial network in wedding ceremonies Social capital andsocial network in funeral ceremonies Social capital andsocial network in local ritual...
... rainforest in French Guyana (South America) and poplar in Kyoto university experimental forest (Japan) Experiments on mani and chestnut involved measurements of RGS and longitudinal drying shrinkage, ... support stress Growth stress is the sum of maturation stressand support stress It can be shown that the support stress is low in peripheral wood layers, and generally much lower than maturation stress ... measuring RGS They are based on the same principle, which consists in measuring the longitudinal strain at the wood surface, after artificially releasing the stress [15, 30] For chestnuts and mani,...
... the 1968-1969 examination Discussion Main finding of this study Smoking, low socio-economic status, mental stress, and obesity predicted obstructive symptoms in women and smoking alone also predicted ... difference in smoking effects on adult pulmonary function Eur Respir J 1994; 7: 477-83 Xu X, Weiss ST, Rijcken B, et al Smoking, changes in smoking habits, and rate of decline in FEV1: new insight into ... participants in the population study were physically examined and interviewed by physicians and research nurses Information concerning education and socio-economic group was obtained by questionnaire,...
... containing Val favours reduction in tonic dopamine but increases in phasic dopamine, giving rise to decreased cognitive stability but increased cognitive flexibility For the enzyme containing ... to stressin psychosis is dopamine sensitisation resulting in alterations in dopamine transmission That is, prolonged or severe stress may lead to hyper-reactivity of dopamine (DA) neurons in ... trauma and psychosis may in part be mediated by lasting alterations in adult stress- sensitivity We thus investigated the effect of childhood trauma on stress sensitivity in adult life in a sample...
... illegal land grabbing It also outlines concerns regarding the intimidation of journalists who critically reported about incidents of land grabbing in the country Finally, it addresses the concerning ... concern regarding the possible broad interpretation of “clear information”, and have urged alternative wording such as “convincing evidence” that would be more in line with international standards ... clarity regarding land titles and rights has increased the vulnerability of small landholders A recent housing survey (Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction, 2003), points out...
... cell protection against oxidative injuries [42], a typical feature of chilling injury [43] In addition, sHsps are effective in preserving the integrity of the actin cytoskeleton and microlaments ... long-standing focus on Hsp70, which remains the most commonly studied stress protein in cold-related studies [11,16,21] Even if the level of Hsp70 expression is a good indicator of the whole inducible ... the associated chilling injuries accumulate, and the time needed for recovery increases In our experiments, recovery times (Fig 2) followed periods of stress exposure, increasing signicantly with...
... long chain fatty acids (Elovl3), type iodothyronine deiondinase (Dio2), homeobox C9 (Hoxc9), insulin-like growth factor binding protein (Igfbp3), dermatopontin (Dpt), and b-actin are showed in Table ... standard deviation inflammatory response and IR development, were examined in mice As shown in Figure 3, PM 2.5 exposure induced a marked increase in macrophage (F4/80+ cells) infiltration in ... reduced in both eWAT and iBAT in response to PM2.5 exposure Recent studies have implicated PM2.5 in increased adipose inflammation and insulin resistance [11,12], and epidemiological studies indicate...
... for example in arranging appointments, in explaining how to use the service and giving timely information This leads at times to disorganisation in our response to the individual and inefficiency ... important social resources in rural areas, providing informal care and supporting the cultural andsocial lives of their communities.7 The health andsocial care system has a role in enabling older ... Haphazard Change A Growing & Ageing Population Poorer Health and Growth in Chronic Conditions Instability in the Health andSocial Care System Increasing Pressure on Health andSocial Care 18 Poorer...
... established in 17th, February, 2006 The main business of VIPACO – JSC is manufacturing and trading in various kind of packing, pulp, paper and all products relevant to paper The table below shows information ... -16- was defined by Elkington (1997) presented information about economic, environmental andsocial within three P’s: People, Planet and Profit In summary, almost the definition and conceptualization ... for businesses to evaluate and demonstrate their strategies for sustainable growth TBL report takes into account the influence of company insocialand environment valuations together with financial...
... inclusive financial, commercial andsocial approach, leading to a long term and strategy minimizing risks linked to uncertainly 1.1.3 CSR in multinational companies operating in Vietnam Vietnam is a ... asking respondents‟ understanding and opinion From conducting research, it can show the understanding and awareness of CSR concept of multinational companies operating in Vietnam is unlimited, ... improvement in order to understanding CSR communication Moreover, social accounting and reporting are the management tools which able to bring the changing of culture needed to expand the financial...
... CSR “responsibilities of the institutions in shaping, directing and controlling the business in the direction of respecting individual rights and promote human happiness” Beside many arguments ... reporting is emerging need for the business in the world today That is because of the demands by investors, consumers and society for CSR reporting There are many reporting schemes and standards ... surveys and collected 185 definitions given in textbooks and research papers from 1961 to 1981 to find “business ethics” how is defined? in the research papers andin the consciousness of the business...
... concepts and models that may help to move us beyond the territory of just treating symptoms, and may be useful in giving meaning to experience, andin enabling and supporting recovery 10 SOCIAL ... found in users’ newsletters, journals and other publications and now increasingly in professional publications and mainstream print and broadcast media In addition, service users are now 40 SOCIAL ... been linked with the development of user-led training for professionals and highlighted the need for better training, understanding and advocacy in accident and emergency departments Thus in a...
... soft: including, on the one hand, engineering and computer science and, on the other, psychology and the social sciences It can therefore be seen as an academic discipline, or rather, being at ... national boundaries, and that the creators and providers of information include experts and non-experts (in a particular domain, as well as in technology use and understanding) we can see that ... to accessing, understanding, regulating, and distinguishing the valid from the invalid are not trivial However, whilst some of the issues are challenging they are not xi insurmountable and great...
... Funds has been put into operation in the case of the lagging areas, the declining industrialised areas and the rural areas Urzainqui and de Andrés present the case of the lagging regions of the ... rewarding The main example is the internationalisation or Europeanisation of firms which is necessary both for increasing their industrial and innovative capacity and for enlarging the industrial ... endowing the EC with a progressive revenue source and therefore eliminating the regressive bias inescapable in the current revenue system; • improving the decision-making process by linking the...
... alkaline phosphatase (calf intestine), T4 DNA ligase and Ex Taq DNA polymerase were from Enzyme assay, SDS/PAGE and protein determination Acinetobacter strains and the recombinant E coli strains ... contains the gene encoding DCH lacking the C-terminal region, in which Asp and His residues involved in the catalytic triad are contained The kanamycin resistance gene (KmR), including its own promoter, ... containing a BglII site (in italics), cloned into pT7Blue, excised with EcoRI and BglII, and then replaced at the EcoRI and BglII sites of pADH10 The resulting plasmid, named pDHEB, contains the...
... rubber planting and processing industry in Malaysia takes into consideration of the concept of sustainable development Improvement in productivity, efficiency and quality; attainment of sustainable ... relatively low income The consequences were abandoned holdings and productivity declines amidst uneconomic size holdings and skilled tappers shortage that plagued the industry The scenario of the industry ... competitiveness in low carbon economy RESTRUCTURING SMALLHOLDING • Significant transformation took place in the smallholding sector by the way of land and management consolidation into cooperative...
... longitudinal sections are shown in (A) (magnification ·20; scale bars = mm) The hemotoxylin and eosin-stained sections of the left ventricle are shown in (B) and Masson’s trichrome stained sections ... MDA, GSH and T-AOC in heart tissue Cardiac tissue from mice at the age of months was fixed in 4% formaldehyde and mounted in paraffin blocks Sections were stained with hemotoxylin and eosin or Masson’s ... mice and CYP2E1 transgenic mice beginning at months of age, with respective death rates of 17.5% in cTnTR141W transgenic mice and 13.75% in CYP2E1 transgenic mice being detected between and months...
... Opening Social Insurance Access to All Reviewing the Mandates (Benefits Packages) of Social Insurance Programs Making Social Insurance Subsidy Systems Transparent and Progressive Making Social ... create unintended disincentives for work and savings And improvements in the effectiveness with which social insurance instruments promote investment in human capital and facilitate transitions into ... maintaining mandatory insurance in the formal sector but also promoting the inclusion of informal sector workers in contributory SI programs on an optional basis, with adequate financial and institutional...