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... aeruginosa [59] and 3.2% for Acinetobacter spp [60] have been reported Between 1997 and 1999 and 2004 and 2006, imipenem nonsusceptibility in P aeruginosa increased from 23.6% to 29.3% and from 33.3% ... 0.5 and Reproduced with permission from Kuti et al [42] For 2004 and 2005, meropenem nonsusceptibility for P aeruginosa was 9.7% and 12.4%, respectively, and for Acinetobacter spp was 23.9% and ... MIC > 30%, 50%, and 100%) as a function of MIC for imipenem and meropenem at a dosage of 500 mg q6h The 30% and 50% targets represent conservative estimates for bacteriostatic and bactericidal...

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... Ireland’s Failure and Belated Convergence Working Paper 133 The Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin Freeman, R (1988) Labour Market Institutions and Economic Performance Economic Policy ... Tille, C., and K.-M Yi (2001) Curbing Unemployment in Europe: Are There Lessons from Ireland and the Netherlands? Current Issues in Economics and Finance (5): 1–6 Zarnowitz, V (2000) The Old and the ... Calmfors, L., and J Driffill (1988) Bargaining Structure, Corporatism and Macroeconomic Performance Economic Policy (1): 13–61 Clarida, R., J Gali and M Gertler (1999) The Science of Monetary Policy: ...

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... Creation” THE BUDGET STATEMENT AND ECONOMIC POLICY FOR FISCAL YEAR 2011 Madam Speaker, I beg to move that this august House approves the Budget Statement and Economic Policy of the Government for ... Constitution, I have the singular honour and privilege to stand before this august House and the people of Ghana to present the 2011 Budget Statement and Economic Policy on behalf of the President, ... socioeconomic landscape of the country, as well as sustained shifts in the structure, relative composition and distribution of production across and within sectors and activity groups MACROECONOMIC...

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... Political, Economic, and Security Issues and U.S Interests Trade, Economic, and Energy Issues Russia and the Global Economic Crisis51 The Russian economy was hit hard by the global financial crisis and ... Russian Political, Economic, and Security Issues and U.S Interests somewhat more stable areas, including the Astrakhan, Volgograd, and Rostov Regions, the Adygea and Kalmykia Republics, and the Krasnodar ... Research Service 30 Russian Political, Economic, and Security Issues and U.S Interests Foreign Policy Russia and the West After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the turmoil associated with the...

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... than one thousand state-owned and collective mills, and nine times as many other (private, or township and village enterprise) operations, almost all with capacities under ten thousand tons China’s ... American Pulp and Paper Industry, Forest Science Monograph 28 Carlson, G.A., and M.E Wetzstein (1993), “Pesticides and Pest Management,” in Agricultural and Environmental Resource Economics, eds ... (1997), Economic Analysis, Third Edition, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, ch 11 Griliches, Z (1986), Economic Data Issues, ” in Handbook of Econometrics, eds by Z Griliches and M.D...

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... inflation and interest rates, and the key drivers of macroeconomic growth and cycles; and how to develop policy recommendations and conduct practical policy analysis of increasing trade integration and ... International Economics and Economic Policy (IEEP) is our answer to the challenges of a globalizing economy for businesses, economic policy and society It is designed to endow students with the economic ... CREST-INSEE (Paris), and CERGE Review, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, and (Prague) He was a SPES Fellow of the EU and Prof Dr Matthias Blonski International Review of Law and Economics a Fellow...

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... (US) 229 L Land Drainage Act 1994 233 Landfill sites 233 Landfill (England and Wales) Regulations 2002 – 2005 234 Landfill: disposal of waste 235 Landfill tax 236 Land pollution 236 Landspreading ... keeping requirements and administration and enforcement respectively Animal and vegetable matter and food industries Animal by-products Pollution Prevention and Control (England and Wales) Regulations ... Prevention and Control (England and Wales) Regulations 2000 318 Pollution Prevention and Control (PPC) 320 Pollution Prevention and Control Act 1999 321 Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and other...

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... xLand ,k +  Land ,t [pLand ,t  pLand ,k ] where (r ) (r ) xLand ,t and pLand ,t are percentage changes in the quantity and rental rate of land employed in agricultural activity (t,r) (r ) xLand ... rapid economic growth and poverty alleviation in its transition from a command economy to a market economy Via both the 1988 Land Law and its subsequent revisions in 1988 and 2001, and the new Land ... the effective land input, X Land , via the multi-input production function:  X Land  g X Land ,1 , , X Land , AGGLND(1)  (18) where g is a positive function and X Land ,1 ,…, X Land , AGGLND(1)...

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... Demirguc-Kunt and Maksimovic (2004), Beck, Demirguc-Kunt and Levine (2006), Claessens and Laeven (2004), and Demirguc-Kunt, Laeven and Levine (2004) 21 more concentrated lending and lower economic ... Development and Economic Growth: Views and Agenda, Journal of Economic Literature 35, 688–726 Levine, R., Loayza, N., and Beck, T 2000 “Financial Intermediation and Growth: Causality and Causes.” ... joint hearing of the subcommittees on Economic Policy and International Trade and Finance, US Congress, April Cecchetti, S and Krause, S 2004 “Deposit Insurance and External Finance,” NBER Working...

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... require political and public awareness and economic resources for timely and efficient policy treatment In particular – and of no less significance than climate change – natural and humanmade hazards ... making, and (2) the establishment of ‘boundary organizations’ and institutional changes that increase the transfer of knowledge between not only science and policy, but also science, policy and practice ... hazards using a multicriteria and systems approach towards the setting of policy priorities and resource sharing In addition to and developing from these conceptual issues, several implementation...

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... both DRR and CCA (e.g UNISDR Working Group on Climate Change and the Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Change Center), suggesting that DRR has much to contribute to CCA policy and research (Handmer, ... specifically flooding, landslides and windstorms Extreme temperature events and earthquakes seem to follow the traditional thought more closely This has significant policy and practical implications ... et al (2003) attribute coping capacity and adaptive capacity as separate dimensions of resilience, Smit and Wandel (2006) lump them together To Smit and Wandel (2006), adaptive capacity is equivalent...

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... organizations and our current proposal is that Guston (2001) focuses on how science can guide policy making while not becoming politicized and Brooke (2008) focuses on biodiversity conservation and CCA and ... organizations as necessary to catalyse fluid communication and information transfer between science, policy and practice, not just science and policy As Vogel et al suggest: Where the science – ... scholars, and increase collaboration between the young and the seasoned within academic institutions, development and relief organizations and government We see this path, embedded in adaptive and...

Ngày tải lên: 07/10/2012, 15:56

... variability in landfalls 3.2 Landfall rates and proportion Table shows for three different periods – 1900 – 2008, 1951–2008 and 1979–2008 – the frequency of annual landfalls in the first and second ... relationships of ENSO, NAO and AMO on landfalling storms and damage (e.g Elsner and Jagger, 2006; Jagger et al., 2008) Elsner and Jagger (2008) find a relationship between the solar cycle and US hurricane ... hurricane season, and in each case predicting landfall numbers to be above average For these three years the number of landfalls was well below the historical mean in 2006 and 2007 and above average...

Ngày tải lên: 07/10/2012, 15:57

... Change SAMUEL FANKHAUSER1, *, DAVID KENNEDY2 AND JIM SKEA3 Grantham Research Institute and Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A ... States hurricane landfalls and damages 199 Coughlin, K., Bellone, E., Laepple, T., Jewson, S and Nzerem, K., 2009 A relationship between all Atlantic hurricanes and those that make landfall in the ... doi:10.1038/nature04477 Landsea, C W., 2007 Counting Atlantic Tropical Cyclones back to 1900 EOS, 88 197 and 202 Lonfat, M., Boissonnade, A and Muir-Wood, R., 2007 Atlantic Basin, US and Caribbean landfall rates...

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... Netherlands Natural disasters have increased in frequency and severity during the last few decades, causing considerable economic damage and loss of life A combination of climate and socio -economic ... Environmental Science and Technology & Department of Economics and Economic History, ` Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain; Faculty of Economics and Business Administration & Institute for Environmental ... Climate change and the frequency and severity of natural disasters In addition to socio -economic developments, climate change may increase the intensity and severity of weather extremes and contribute...

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... namely low economic growth (RC) and high growth (GE) and corresponding changes in the ‘portfolio of properties at risk’ module of Figure were based on a land use model of the Netherlands (Janssen ... of climate and socio -economic change and estimating their influence on risk may be a useful first step in assessing future risk Statistical models can be used to assess how frequencies and severities ... change and socio -economic development on future natural disaster risk (IPCC, 2007) Considerable uncertainty and ambiguity is associated with both the frequency of a disaster occurring and the...

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... and Management, 13(4) 307 – 314 Rose, A., 2004b Economic principles, issues, and research priorities in hazard loss estimation Modelling Spatial and Economic Impacts of Disasters, Y Okuyama and ... Netherlands Natural Hazards, forthcoming Botzen, W J W., Bouwer, L M and van den Bergh, J C J M., 2009b Climate change and hailstorm damage: empirical evidence and implications for agriculture and ... Innovation in Policy and Practice, S Begum, M J F Stive and J W Hall (eds) Springer, Dordrecht de Moel, H., van Alphen, J and Aerts, J C J H., 2009 Flood maps in Europe – methods, availability and use...

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