... HD, Miller VM, Schulte S, O'Fallon WM, Weyand CM: Human leukocyte antigen class II immune response genes, female gender, and cigarette smoking as risk and modulating factors in abdominal aortic ... selected and unselected controls (P = 0.61) Acute-phase reactants The pre-operative ESR and CRP measurements in the cases and controls are presented in Table ESR was determined in 13 cases and 22 ... study and participated in study design, data acquisition, data interpretation, and manuscript preparation CSC carried out statistical analysis KPL, CJM, KJW, and ELM participated in study design and...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 13:22
... function, and cardiovascular risk New England Journal of Medicine 2003; 348: 593-600 43 Vasa M, Fichtlscherer S, Aicher A, Adler K, Urbich C, Martin H, Zeiher AM, Dimmeler S Number and migratory ... weight adults, and the colony-forming capacity of these cells is blunted [17, 18] Alterations in endothelial cells and EPC function associated with obesity precede atherosclerosis and thrombosis ... atherosclerosis and thrombosis [19-21] Moreover, EPCs expanded from the obese subjects possessed reduced adhesive, migratory, and angiogenic capacity [22] and fail to respond to vascular endothelial growth...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:51
Aggravation and mitigation
... Flood-Page and Mackie (1998), pp 90–1 79 Hood (1992), p 125 167 168 Aggravation and mitigation Table 11 Males aged 21 and over sentenced for indicable offences at the Crown Court: plea rates and custodial ... 34.0 Theft and handling stolen goods Other theft or unauthorised taking Handling stolen goods Theft from the person of another Theft by an employee Theft from shops All theft and handling stolen ... sexual assault 82 Flood-Page and Mackie (1998), pp 91–2 83 The exception is the category of theft and handling, and this is perhaps because many of those who are caught red-handed (e.g on CCTV or with...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 09:20
Practical industrial safety, risk assessment and shutdown systems, elsevier (2003)
... lEC 61508 and a similar safety life cycle model will be used Hazards and risk reduction 2.1 Introduction In this chapter we are going to build up an understanding of hazards and risk and look ... Introduction to hazards and risks The first part of the book is all about the identification of hazards and the reduction of the risks they present What is a hazard and what is a risk? A hazard is ... lEC standard for exact wording SLC phase no and name Concept Overall scope definitions Hazard and risk analysis Objectives Scope Inputs Outputs To develop a level of understanding of the EDO and...
Ngày tải lên: 02/01/2014, 09:47
Tài liệu Traffic Related Air Pollution: Spatial Variation, Health Effects and Mitigation Measures pdf
... Netherlands) and modeled NO2 concentrations from a previously described land use regression model.97 More information on the study area and population, hospital admission and covariates, and exposure ... Netherlands) and modeling contributions of sources in the Netherlands and other European countries excluding local traffic The OPS model calculates annual average concentrations based on emissions and ... sources (such as traffic and industry), spatial characteristics (ranging from street and building configuration to the size and elevation of a city and its surroundings) and atmospheric processes...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 10:20
Tài liệu Psychiatric Aspects of Justification, Excuse and Mitigation in Anglo-American Criminal Law docx
... excuse and mitigation (Hart 1968, p.13; see also p.13 above) The first thing to be established is what we mean by justification, excuse and mitigation This will be addressed in Chapters and 3; ... How is a jury to balance the low risk of serious harm against the higher risk of something less serious? An economist might give harm and risk a statistical value and multiply them together for ... in R v Dudley and Stephens and the American Law Institute Self-defence The law in England and Wales makes a distinction between the use of force in defence of oneself or others and its use in...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 12:20
Tài liệu Child Survival in Nigeria: Situation, Response, and Prospects ppt
... 1995 and adopted in 1998 Provision of Adequate Pre- and Postnatal Care for Mothers The relationship between high maternal morbidity and mortality and high infant and under-five morbidity and mortality ... religious/ethnic conflict, Ife/Modakeke, and the Urhobo, Ijaw and Itsekiri conflicts, which have left a host of abandoned and orphaned children Also, the recent Lagos bomb explosion and the Yoruba/Hausa communities ... water supply and sanitation is linked with insufficient funding of operations and maintenance, lack of capital to complete and initiate water projects, and inadequacy of skilled labour and management...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 15:20
Tài liệu Principles for Sound Liquidity Risk Management and Supervision doc
... credit risk managers Moreover, liquidity risk and its potential interaction with other risks should be included in the risks addressed by risk management committees and/ or independent risk management ... on funding liquidity risk Funding liquidity risk is the risk that the firm will not be able to meet efficiently both expected and unexpected current and future cash flow and collateral needs ... benefits and risks to all significant business activities; • the identification and measurement of the full range of liquidity risks, including contingent liquidity risks; • the design and use...
Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 11:20
Tài liệu RISK MANAGEMENT AND FOOD SAFETY ppt
... namely risk assessment, risk management and risk communication That consultation recognised risk communication as an interactive process of exchange of information and opinion on risk among risk ... separation of risk management and risk assessment serves to ensure the scientific integrity of the risk assessment process and reduce any conflict of interest between risk assessment and risk management ... at risk, (e.g human health, economic concerns); potential consequences; consumer perception of the risks; and the distribution of risks and benefits RISK MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK ELEMENTS OF RISK...
Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 12:20
Communicable disease risk assessment and interventions ppt
... Epidemic and Pandemic Alert and Response (EPR), the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), Food Safety, Zoonoses and Foodborne Diseases (FOS), Public Health and Environment ... hygiene and toilet facilities, and unsafe food preparation and handling practices are all associated with transmission Following the cyclone and flooding, an immediate risk of waterborne and foodborne ... Health and Development (CAH), Immunizations, Vaccines and Biologicals (IVB) in the Family and Community Health (FCH) cluster; Injuries and Violence Prevention (VIP) and Nutrition for Health and...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 12:20
WORKING PAPER NO 13 CREDIT RISK TRANSFER AND FINANCIAL SECTOR PERFORMANCE Wolf Wagner & Ian Marsh potx
... Default and Liquidity Risk The Supervisory Approach: A Critique Depreciation Bias, Financial-Sector Fragility and Currency Risk The New Basel Accord and Developing Countries: Problems and Alternatives ... of a Realistic Banking System Within a Post-Keynesian Stock-flow Consistent Model Credit -Risk Transfer and Financial Sector Performance Please address enquiries about the series to: The Administrator ... Problems and Alternatives Economic Slowdown in the U.S., - The Revitalisation of Fiscal Policy and the Case for a Co-Ordinated Global Reflation Establishing a European Securities Regulator: Is...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 08:20
Principles for Sound Liquidity Risk Management and Supervision potx
... credit risk managers Moreover, liquidity risk and its potential interaction with other risks should be included in the risks addressed by risk management committees and/ or independent risk management ... on funding liquidity risk Funding liquidity risk is the risk that the firm will not be able to meet efficiently both expected and unexpected current and future cash flow and collateral needs ... benefits and risks to all significant business activities; • the identification and measurement of the full range of liquidity risks, including contingent liquidity risks; • the design and use...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 09:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Nuclear localization of human spermine oxidase isoforms – possible implications in drug response and disease etiology pptx
... existence of SMO5 in human normal and tumor cell lines SMO5 cDNA was subcloned and sequenced, and active protein was produced, purified and assayed for kinetic properties and substrate specificities NCI-H157 ... to inclusion bodies, and therefore was denatured and refolded prior to analysis All SMO5 protein production and purification steps were performed in parallel with SMO ⁄ PAOh1 and PAOh4 proteins ... decreases in intracellular spermine pools and increased spermidine levels in SMO1 and SMO5 cells These changes in spermine and spermidine levels in both SMO1 and SMO5 overexpressing cell lines were...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 05:20
Using Online Learning for At-Risk Students and Credit Recovery ppt
... scalable and able to expand more easily than programs based entirely on brick -and- mortar classrooms Success stories and anecdotes regarding the benefits and value of online learning for both at -risk ... Convergence of Online and Face-To-Face Education Using Online Learning for Credit Recovery and At -Risk Students Oversight and Management of Online Programs: Ensuring Quality and Accountability ... underway Using Online Learning for At -Risk Students and Credit Recovery Online learning programs are designed to expand high-quality educational opportunities and to meet the needs of diverse students...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 04:20
The Due Diligence Handbook: Corporate Governance, Risk Management and Business Planning pptx
... legal and financial course of action, first designed to avoid litigation and risk, second to determine the value, price and risk of a transaction, and third to confirm various facts, data and representations’ ... diligence and risk management: sustainability and corporate governance Chapter Overview Transactional tools Environmental auditing and international standards Environmental accounting and managerial ... completed an MSc in Insurance and Risk Management at Cass Business School (dissertation and interest in reputation risk management, etc.) in 2005 and her MA in Politics, Security and Integration at SSEES,...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 17:20
Climate-Smart Agriculture: A Synthesis of Empirical Evidence of Food Security and Mitigation Benefits from Improved Cropland Management docx
... Philippines, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Vietnam, Zambia and Zimbabwe – and mainly over cereals—maize, wheat, sorghum, millet and teff (see Tables and 3) Table ... Brazil (Paraná and Rio Grande Sul) and again maize (+ 47%), soya (+83%), and wheat (+82%) in Brazil (Santa Caterina) Proper water management can help capture more rainfall (Vohland and Barry 2009), ... previous land use patterns, and current land use and management practices Yield variability can also increase in the short term where changes in activities require new knowledge and experience, and...
Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 15:20
Financing Pulp Mills An Appraisal of Risk Assessment and Safeguard Procedures potx
... ensuring minimum standards are effectively upheld in new projects, and another focusing on raising standards in existing projects To better understand to how pulp projects obtain funding, and to what ... predictive Risk control and monitoring mechanisms are in place, but in actual practise these are geared to avoiding liabilities and meeting legal requirements, rather than to actively uncover risks and ... capacity financiers and markets, and the risk assessment and safeguard mechanisms that they employ 2.5 Conclusion This chapter analysed how proposed new pulp capacity obtained its financing and looked...
Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 02:20
Disasters: Impact on Mental Health in an Elderly Population and Practical Suggestions for Preparation, Response, and Recovery pptx
... Department of Health and Human Services: Disasters and Emergencies http://www.hhs.gov/emergency Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Pandemic and Avian Flu www.pandemicflu.gov/ Pandemic Influenza ... events and to foster short and long-term adaptive functioning Developed by the National Center for PTSD and the National Child Traumatic Stress Network and used by American Red Cross and the ... Normalize and validate feelings and reactions • Help define and prioritize needs • Help design strategies for addressing needs • Help to adapt/re-establish coping skills • Offer practical assistance and...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 14:20
Interbank lending, credit riSk Premia and collateral potx
... between asset risk and credit risk in the interbank market, p = p ˆ 20 ECB Working Paper Series No 1107 November 2009 risk, p, there are two effects at play: the risk premium δ and the ratio between ... starting with Diamond and Dybvig (1983), Bhattacharya and Gale (1987), Jacklin (1987) For recent examples, see Diamond and Rajan (2001), Allen and Gale (2004), or Farhi, Golosov, and Tsyvinski (2008) ... benchmark case when there is no asset risk and hence no credit risk Substituting p = into (10) yields the following result: Corollary (No risk) Without risk, p = 1, the interest rate in the unsecured...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 20:20
WORKING PAPER SERIES NO 1457 / AUGUST 2012: EXCESSIVE BANK RISK TAKING AND MONETARY POLICY pptx
... Marquez-Ibanez (2010), Dell’Ariccia, Laeven and Marquez (2010), Buch, Eickmeier and Prieto (2010), Delis and Brissimis (2010), Delis and Kouretas (2011) and Delis, Hasan and Mylonidis (2011) The economic ... monetary policy and leverage of Adrian and Shin (2008, 2009, 2010a,b), Angeloni, Faia and Lo Duca (2010) and Dell’Ariccia, Laeven and Marquez (2010) levered bank has less to lose from risky loans ... this are Angeloni and Faia (2009), Angeloni, Faia and Lo Duca (2010) and Gertler and Karadi (2011) who construct macro models with banks that decide upon riskiness However, all risk taking occurs...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20