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... making as a skill Create a pull for risk information Seek diversity in perspectives and information sources Minimize uncertainty in time, control, and information Recognize and minimize bias in ... laboration in implementing team risk management In: Technical Report, CMU/SEI-95-TR-016 Software Engineering Institute Hall, D.C., 2001 Development program risk management: a case study In: 2001 INCOSE ... Quality Software,, pp 297–305 Klein, S.A., 1998 Putting methodology in perspective from a project risk viewpoint In: IEEE Power Engineering Society 1999 Winter Meeting, vol 1,, pp 362–365 Kwak,...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 00:20

... centered in Kotte in the southwest and in Kandy in the central highlands, and a predominantly Hindu Tamil Kingdom in the north of the island, centered in Jaffna See Whall, 2000b This history is in ... may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from RAND Published ... urban contingency planning and to develop innovative approaches for doing so This monograph will be of interest to individuals within the government whose responsibilities include doctrine, policy...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 16:20

... training infrastructures, including military academies and in- service training programmes Their participation is critical to the institutionalization of projects However, working with the training ... provided in clinics and health centres by upgrading facilities and equipment, providing training in managerial as well as clinical skills, and training regional coordinators in monitoring and supervision ... Nicaragua, Paraguay and Ukraine However, training activities are inadequate in most of the other projects reviewed Except when it is included in academic training, on-the-job training is a short, one-time...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 15:20

... 143.4 COIN win COIN loss COIN loss COIN win Ongoing Ongoing SOURCE: Data collected by Martin Libicki based on coding by RAND researchers 2.9 Money in the Bank: Lessons Learned from Past Counterinsurgency ... 143.4 COIN win COIN loss COIN loss COIN win Ongoing Ongoing SOURCE: Data collected by Martin Libicki based on coding by RAND researchers Money in the Bank: Lessons Learned from Past Counterinsurgency ... forces who were instrumental in capturing the insurgent leader, gathering intelligence, and protecting the population from insurgent retribution Algeria (1954–1962) In Algeria, the insurgent goal...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 20:20

... found to be alarmingly high, although rates of specific RTIs were Preliminary Results: Findings from RTI Baseline Survey in Chengjiang and Luliang (N=2020) lower (Table 2) In examining Diseases possible ... China's HIV, mainly concentrated among injected heroin users near the Burmese border The Yunnan study mandate was two-fold We began by compiling and reviewing existing information on RTIs in ... based on these findings, is developing intervention strategies Survey findings reveal the following: · poor knowledge of hygiene in general, and of menstrual and sexual hygiene in particular;...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 12:20

... 143.4 COIN win COIN loss COIN loss COIN win Ongoing Ongoing SOURCE: Data collected by Martin Libicki based on coding by RAND researchers 2.9 Money in the Bank: Lessons Learned from Past Counterinsurgency ... 143.4 COIN win COIN loss COIN loss COIN win Ongoing Ongoing SOURCE: Data collected by Martin Libicki based on coding by RAND researchers Money in the Bank: Lessons Learned from Past Counterinsurgency ... forces who were instrumental in capturing the insurgent leader, gathering intelligence, and protecting the population from insurgent retribution Algeria (1954–1962) In Algeria, the insurgent goal...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 02:20

... drinking; • Collecting samples of water from these sources; • Adding specified doses of chlorine; and • Measuring the chlorine residual over time to ensure that water remains safe for drinking ... long recovery time involved in regaining consumer trust underscores the importance of obtaining early product approval from all relevant ministries, keeping those ministries informed about the ... units (NTUs) An increase in turbidity in drinking water is associated with increased potential for gastrointestinal illness 15 investigation revealed that the equipment used to measure small volumes...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 04:21

... include adding a third week to the minimum package of training for MCH staff, or adding refresher training or separate training for infant feeding counselors All training should incorporate innovative ... skills in infant feeding counseling Preservice and inservice training for doctors, nurses, and community health workers should include instruction on infant feeding counseling For in- service training, ... receiving infant feeding counseling Routine monitoring of the quality of counseling in the clinic setting also remains problematic, and supervisors lack a simple tool that they can use routinely...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 09:20

... Training settings vary from remote indigenous communities in Canada and Australia, rural regions of Africa to urban slums in Venezuela and marginalized communities in the Philippines including ... clinical education and training that bridges the later phases of undergraduate medical education to junior training and into vocational training programs Clinical training capacity would be distributed ... under-utilized resource in medical training, offering potential solutions for bottlenecks in clinical training at tertiary care hospitals, a situation particularly acute in high income countries Their...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 21:20

... meeting.     Draft of the forest land use planning was prepared as follows.   • The  DWG  in coordination  with  the  consultants  entered  the  information  in the  future  land use planning and boundaries into the 1/10,000 scale topographical map. This map  ... Preparation for the village meeting and consolidation of the proposals;   • Village meetings;   • CLAC meetings;  • District Steering Committee (SC) meetings and  • Trainings on the use of ViLis software.   ... village meetings  with  the  participation  of  58,539  person times. This included:  + Commune meetings (2 meetings/commune):   102; 4,189 person times   + Village meetings (2 meetings/village):  ...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 04:20

... and into new lines of business, on the other hand, were constrained by investors’ fixation on growth in the company’s earnings per share New services, like the company’s award-winning WorldNet Internet ... Congress Cataloging -in- Publication Data Martin, Dick, 1946– Tough calls : AT&T and the hard lessons learned from the telecom wars / Dick Martin p cm Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN ... sheets in the industry Mike Armstrong, for his part, made a string of small acquisitions that expanded AT&T’s wireless and data businesses He built a $4 billion outsourcing business from scratch in...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 15:33

... course, a small boy who first goes to school (especially if it is a boarding-school) does not at the beginning feel very happy He is surrounded by unfamiliar faces and the life is very different from ... the lessons afterwards, when they become men Then a boy cannot live in a community of boys without, as we say, getting the rough angles knocked off Boys in their social life out of class and in ... suffer much But on the whole the influences of school life are healthy and good For one thing, the strict discipline of a school has a healthy effect upon growing boys At home a boy is too often...

Ngày tải lên: 22/07/2014, 04:20

... than just broadly increasing services across the whole system The UCSD-county partnership was instrumental in gathering, consolidating and analyzing stakeholder input and in conducting service utilization ... and coordination, and discontinued the more frequent staff meetings replacing them with regular meetings to discuss scientific progress These meetings were held monthly and included investigators, ... conservatorized persons (with individual assent and conservator consent) in minimal-risk research as defined in 45CFR46 [29], helping to make the study samples more representative and increasing the potential...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... methodologies) quagmire in doing KT research, but instead to foster interdisciplinary research and evaluation in addition to ensuring interdisciplinary care provision in healthcare The lessons described ... research in healthcare practice, it inherently involves partnership Therefore, researchers from various disciplines (e.g sociology, medicine, psychology, nursing, nutrition, engineering) engage in ... participants with interests in KT and facilitated important interpersonal relationships between trainees and faculty All attendees expressed interest in maintaining relationships, keeping abreast of...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... than just broadly increasing services across the whole system The UCSD-county partnership was instrumental in gathering, consolidating and analyzing stakeholder input and in conducting service utilization ... and coordination, and discontinued the more frequent staff meetings replacing them with regular meetings to discuss scientific progress These meetings were held monthly and included investigators, ... conservatorized persons (with individual assent and conservator consent) in minimal-risk research as defined in 45CFR46 [29], helping to make the study samples more representative and increasing the potential...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20

... methodologies) quagmire in doing KT research, but instead to foster interdisciplinary research and evaluation in addition to ensuring interdisciplinary care provision in healthcare The lessons described ... research in healthcare practice, it inherently involves partnership Therefore, researchers from various disciplines (e.g sociology, medicine, psychology, nursing, nutrition, engineering) engage in ... participants with interests in KT and facilitated important interpersonal relationships between trainees and faculty All attendees expressed interest in maintaining relationships, keeping abreast of...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20

... combined Variables representing frequency of using a previously used needle, giving used syringes to another IDU, exchanging needles for another IDU, sharing other injection materials, cleaning ... sharing syringes (OR = 0.66), sharing equipment other than syringes (OR = 0.70), or reusing syringes (OR = 0.34) Follow-up users were also more likely to report exchanging syringes for another individual ... number of individuals who reported ever having been tested for HIV, as well as increases in the number of individuals who reported cleaning their skin either before or after injecting There was...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... were trained in drop -in settings, the largest numbers of users were trained on street corners To illustrate this point, one day in February, the SEP training team was set up at a new site in a warm ... organizations interested in minimizing the adverse consequences of drug use in several cities in the US, including Los Angeles, Providence, Pittsburgh and Boston, are in the process of planning and ... resulting in 319 reversals which were associated with 20% decrease in overdoses in 2001 and a 10% decrease in 2002 and 2003 This reversed a steady increase in heroin overdoses since 1991 [25] In...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... also be used in combination Therapeutic lifestyle changes include smoking cessation, increasing physical activity, and modifying one's diet, including keeping daily cholesterol intake less than ... should be updated In particular, as there are conflicting data about CHD, including data suggesting that there may not be an increased risk, these findings may underestimate savings http://www.resource-allocation.com/content/7/1/7 ... can include HMG CoA reductase inhibitors (commonly known as statins), selective cholesterol absorption inhibitors, renin inhibitors, fibrates, and niacin These medications can also be used in...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... region reported is in two contigs of finished BACs linked by one overlapping, unfinished BAC [EMBL:CU207400] A minimal BAC tilepath was selected by assessing shared fingerprint bands in the contact ... http://genomebiology.com/2007/8/8/R168 Table (Continued) List of manually annotated pig loci RNPC1 RNA-binding region (RNP1, RRM) containing 5993104 6007945 CTCFL CCCTC-binding factor (zinc finger protein-like) 6070196 6102129 ... sequencing A physical map of the porcine genome was constructed using the fingerprints and end sequences generated from over 264,000 BACs from BAC libraries and ordering information derived from...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:20