risks and scientific responsibilities in nanotechnology

... common starting point for spatial and quantitative thinking remains controversial in the field and used that point to highlight the need for caution in presenting research findings of this kind to ... mathematics and science learning include categorization, symbolic reasoning, and causal reasoning Unfortunately, these advances in understanding of children’s thinking not seem to be shaping practice and ... first strand, including consideration of financing, minimal licensing standards, and the schedules for care, tend to surround the child care settings serving the poorest families—families leaving...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 09:20

... large, including premiums for directors’ and officers’ insurance, expensive audit fees, costs of maintaining an investor relations department, transfer agent fees, and legal and accounting costs ... selling individual buildings Also, he notes, REIT investing makes it much easier to obtain the required diversification And many new institutional investors are beginning to invest in REITs The University ... outstanding shares, according to the Deutsche Bank study.) While there hasn’t been a flood of new institutional funds pouring into REIT shares, interest has been increasing steadily According to Institutional...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 13:15

... accessing women in safe and appropriate ways; overcoming language and cultural barriers; gaining trust and offering support; and Immigration and police authorities interviewed in Italy, United Kingdom, ... trafficking in women and adolescents findings from a european study Table of contents Trafficked women defining trafficking Summary of findings and general recommendations Terms and definitions ... assistance, approaching women and sensitive subjects slowly and in nonjudgemental ways, and maintaining continuity of care Women in both integration and reintegration settings expressed concerns about...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 13:20

... 23/07/2010 Le Xuan Sinh (2009) Social impacts of coastal aquaculture in the Mekong Delta of Viet Nam in “Measuring the contribution of small-scale aquaculture”; FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Technical ... Long, 2011 Ðánh giá hiệu kinh tế mô hình canh tác Lúa - Tôm sú Lúa - Tôm sú - Cua biển vùng U Minh Thuợng, tỉnh Kiên Giang Luận văn cao học, Khoa Kinh Tế & Quản Trị Kinh Doanh, Trường Ðại học ... thiết thông qua việc sử dụng phần mềm SPSS for Windows Microsoft Excel Kết nghiên cứu trình bày chủ yếu dạng thống kê mô tả đặc điểm chung nông hộ tiêu kinh tế-kỹ thuật chủ yếu mô hình T-L, sử dụng...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 01:33

... Xujiaping 1,Lanzhou, Gansu, People’s Republic of China 730046 Introduction Since 1970s, Oil adjuvant vaccines against FMD in which the virus antigen producing by BHK21, and inactivating by binary ... FMDv and spread it to sites with no clinical FMD But more importantly, ring vaccination is compromising the routine vaccination (taking away vaccine supply, manpower and financial means) leaving ... elements including, but not limited to, vaccine performance characteristics in relation to circulating virus strains, vaccine coverage, age of vaccinates, maintenance of the cold chain during vaccine...

Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 00:20

... DATA HANDLING IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY -VOLUME Advanced scientific computing in BASIC with applications in chemistry, biology and pharmacology DATA HANDLING IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ... PRonSsING Classical mthods Interpolation Smmthing Differentiation Integratim Spline functions in signal prccessing Interpolating splines Smmthing splines Fourier transform spectral methods Continuous ... coefficients and interpolated valws Local cubic interpolation 5-pint cubic smoothing by Savitzky and Golay Determination of interpolating cubic spline Function value, derivatives and definite integral...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 23:20

... obtained to build capacity in community-based systems for sustaining care and support to vulnerable children and households over the long term; and Household survey of behavioural risks and HIV ... targeting a wide range of settings in order to make them accessible These strategies should include issues of consistent and correct condom use, use and abuse of alcohol, and informed decision-making ... Response and Management System Baseline Information Baseline information on national HIV/AIDS monitoring and evaluation indicators A desk review Gaborone: Government of Botswana UNICEF and Government...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 09:20

... building buildings The steps used in estimating damage costs in the case of Bangkok and Manila are identified in Figure 2.4 Identifying, classifying, and valuing damage to buildings The Bangkok and ... and sector plans, and incorporating climate change considerations into the earliest stages of decision making Targeted, city-specific solutions combining infrastructure investments, zoning, and ... mm and registering areas, where existing rainfall over the basin is 1,130 mm, varying from 1,000 rainfall from 1,000 registering the in the northeastern region of the basin .in 2050 to the rainfall...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 07:20

... the EA in the field, each ‘visiting point’ in the EA was counted A visiting point could be defined as a stand, physical address, a flat in a block of flats, a shack, or a bed in a hostel In each ... of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval ... household, four individuals were randomly selected, using Kish’s Grid1 after initial household listing only in households where the head agreed to members participating We randomly sampled four individuals...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 07:20

... lecturer in the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, UBA, and is currently working as JTP in Latin American Social Geography and Resources and Society She is a teaching mentor in the School of Training and ... applying an integrated approach comprising of qualitative and quantitative methodologies; (e) integrating the views from a wide range of scientific disciplines in an interdisciplinary and international ... liberalised in Latin America and the need for foreign investment has increased greatly In this scenario of growing Spanish investment, there is also an increase in partnerships, joint-ventures and trade...

Ngày tải lên: 29/05/2014, 23:42

... Season: Spring–Summer 2005 in Mekong River Delta, and autumn 2005 in the Central highlands and in South Central Coast Location • • • Central Highlands: Lam Dong province (Bao Loc town, Di Linh and Duc ... the plains and highlands of South Viet Nam and to select adapted hybrids with high oil content In 2004, hybrids Hysun 38 and G101 gained the temporary approval from Ministry of Agriculture and Rural ... Vegetable oil consumption in Viet Nam is increasing and calories obtained from vegetable oils is likely to increase from 15-20% of the total diet to 35-45% as incomes increase and as government policies...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 13:20

... Abuse and Alcoholism, 2007) In contrast, in the United Kingdom binge drinking is defined as the consumption of more than eight drinks in men and more than six drinks in women in a single day (Institute ... summarized Alcohol drinking patterns When talking about “alcohol drinking”, two main patterns have to be distinguished: acute “binge drinking” and “chronic drinking” As reviewed by Zakhari and Li (2007), ... prevalence of binge drinking decreases, both in the United States and United Kingdom, with increasing age, indicating that the phenomenon “binge drinking” is as an important problem especially in young...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 16:20

... dynamics (MD) simulations have played increasing roles in our understanding of physical and chemical processes of complex systems and in advancing science and technology Over the past forty years, ... the ABINIT-MP input file containing the list of fragments and 3D atomic coordinates, executes an intermediate shell script to run ABINITMP, receives the resultant FMO energy and force, and updates ... cis- and trans-platin, the origin of their difference in biochemical activity still remains unclear The final step of the antitumor treatment is the combination of cis-platin and DNA leading modifications...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 10:20

... defining illnesses In this perspective, anti-smoking campaigns may be crucial in making antiretroviral treatments more effective Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing ... one seen, in HIVinfected persons, for smoking-related cancers Our group has recently shown, in Italian AIDS cases, a 4-fold higher risk in men and a 6-fold higher risk in women of developing lung ... the incidence of type diabetes mellitus in HIV-infected participants in the Swiss cohort study Clin Infect Dis 2007, 45:111-119 D:A:D Study Group: Use of nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21

... Discussion In our study, between and 15% of local IDU reported receiving assistance with injecting in outdoor settings and this practice was independently and positively associated with being female, ... engage in this practice in outdoor venues In the present study, we demonstrated that being female was associated with receiving assistance with injecting in outdoor settings This finding is consistent ... preparation and administration of drugs [23] Further, in our setting, Shannon et al recently demonstrated that individuals involved in sex trade work are being pushed to work and inject in remote...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... risks are more likely than CS instability The objective of clinical decision-making is to minimize secondary brain injury and secondary spinal injury risks Brain injury severity (unstable, high ... to remain focused on the principal strategy for maximizing functional survival in coma patients, namely prevention of secondary brain injury events Accordingly, secondary brain injury risks associated ... carry risks for secondary brain injury, in part related to brain injury severity The literature-based evidence suggests that prolonged cervical collar use and MRI secondary brain injury risks...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... limitations (i.e some very interesting research problems are going to take longer to resolve than the remaining span of my scientific and physical endeavor) Nonetheless, I am optimistic and hopeful that, ... contributed to Retrovirology's progress in our first year Acknowledgements I thank Andrew Lever and Ben Berkhout for reading and commenting on this writing References Nisole S, Saïb A: Early steps ... other hand, 100 million infants (even those in remote regions of the world) receive basic vaccinations each year This fact suggests that when an AIDS vaccine does become available, that vaccine...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:20

... trade and financing Incentivising investment Investment incentives are set to remain in place for the foreseeable future This includes tax breaks, rebates on corporate income and capital gains ... reducing administrative costs for businesses that Business risks and opportunities in Central and Eastern Europe have foreign owners or seek foreign investors and/ or financing Deficiencies in institutions ... as financing, accounting and banking services, IT solutions, software development and e-services The surge in technology start-ups in the past 18 Business risks and opportunities in Central and...

Ngày tải lên: 04/12/2015, 00:08

... Opportunities and risks for institutional investors in 2012 Asia and Latin America: New focus on smaller markets Slower growth in China and India is shifting attention to some leading to concerns ... boom in up-market housing is also measures to prevent a sharp decline, including generating concern In February housing prices greater public expenditure on social housing in 100 major cities in ... Growth Opportunities and risks for institutional investors in 2012 keep rising at a healthy pace in China and the rest of emerging Asia As a result, survey respondents expect oil and gas to be one...

Ngày tải lên: 04/12/2015, 00:24