the causes and consequences

... USAID and the Office of Federal Disaster Assistance The team evaluated the extent of the damage and assessed the needs of the victims [8] In addition to the government rescue efforts and the donations ... a hazard The term disaster refers to the consequences of the hazard, and, particularly to the intersection of the hazard with the underlying vulnerabilities and capacities that shape the health ... outcomes themselves The term “hazard” often refers to the event rather than the consequences The distinction between disasters and hazards, however, varies and conflicts between authors [17] For the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 21:20

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2014, 17:30

... battered by the sellers of different food items and cosmetics, other daily markets and the weekly community markets where rural dwellers and their city associates gather for the buying and selling ... debris and eroded banks from rivers and other waterways Some of these pollutants are decomposed by the action of micro-organisms through oxidation and other processes The major problem is the reconcentrations ... in Nigeria Causes and Consequences 593 Introduction The significance of water to human and other biological systems cannot be over emphasised, and there are numerous scientific and economic...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 23:20

... ring there with Governor Norman of the Bank of England Whether the two have been discussing the stabilization of the pound and the dollar, or the even tual return of both to a fixed gold standard, ... world speculators and other private persons The American and, in part, the foreign tax payer has lost again To resume the history of the Bretton Woods agreements and the IMF: Because the Fund was ... look at the international debt situa tion as it stands at the moment of writing this The demand for increased lending by the IMF and other institutions arose in the fall of 1982 because of the huge...

Ngày tải lên: 31/05/2014, 00:38

... approximately the same period as the present study, late summer drought was considered to be the most likely triggering factor for many of the cracks the causes and of the stem cracking Some consequences ... initiated in 1984 with the Trials and stands examined To assess the general importance of the prob- were made within the trials listed in table I All these had known provenance, origin and treatment history ... during cell division during any of these years, except 1981 The hot and dry weather during 1982 and 1983 continued into August and may have caused the cracks dated to the period without cell division...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 19:21

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2014, 21:22

... less on the level of IT spending or on the technical skills of the IT staff and more on the degree of shared business-IT understanding the level common understanding between the IT and the line ... to be shared, the actors involved in the process, and their level of commitment, additional development is needed to synthesize these concepts and understand the association with other potential ... in the relationship and structure may assist the transfer of knowledge between the IS and business units (Ranganathan and Sethi 2002) The formal structures may facilitate the coming together and...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2014, 00:46

... Khaldun believes there are nexus between events  There are similar patterns in the past, the present and the future  Use inductive and deductive methods to derive economic theories and laws which ... public administrator and teacher  The trials and tribulations  The political, economic and social realities of his time  The Muqaddimah is a reflection of these events and his experiences  ... Muqaddimah •To set the record straight on the contribution of Ibn Khaldun to the theory of economic growth and costs of economic growth •To contribute to the existing literature on the theory of economic...

Ngày tải lên: 05/12/2016, 21:28

... disease, cataracts and brain dysfunction.27 q q The quarter of the population with the lowest dietary intake of fruits and vegetables has roughly twice the cancer rate of the quarter with the highest ... been tested and 19 are rodent carcinogens Plants in the human diet contain thousands of natural pesticides that protect them from insects and other predators: 63 have been tested and 35 are rodent ... U.S children and adolescents29 and 68 percent of adults did not meet the intake recommended by the National Cancer Institute and the National Research Council: five servings of fruits and vegetables...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 04:20

... member of the research team In Albania, the Netherlands and Ukraine, the support organisation was also the study partner In Thailand, the study partner was the sister organisation to the service ... Where relevant, their experiences in the IDC are related in the text The two other women were from Laos trafficked to Thailand and their experiences are represented in the text 12 Anderson B & O'Connell-Davidson ... abused by their spouse, four by their father, or “parents,” and one by classmates For these women, this was among the most sensitive subjects and the one they least wanted to discuss A psychotherapist...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 13:20

... to launch and expand the market and, in turn, to further fuel the housing bubble Second, CDS were essential to the creation of synthetic CDOs These synthetic CDOs were merely bets on the performance ... the oil patch and the early s in California and the Northeast.” Within the Fed, the debate grew heated and emotional, Siddique recalled “It got very personal,” he told the Commission The ... to the President, the Congress, and the American people the results of its examination and its conclusions as to the causes of the crisis More than two years after the worst of the financial crisis,...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 09:22

... September (the day of the Gota bankruptcy) the overnight rate was raised to 75 per cent On 16 and 17 September, the UK and Italy left the ERM and the Riksbank now had to increase the overnight ... immediate depreciation the next day by per cent and by 20 per cent by the turn of the year The interaction between the currency crisis and the banking crisis is complex During the 1980s the Swedish private ... September the pound and lira touched the lower limits of their currency bands, and on P Englund September the Finnish markka started floating This led to speculations against the krona and on September...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 02:20

... liver and spleen Fruit bats not show any symptoms Best candidate to be the reservoir More research needs to be done Geography  The link between human infection by the Ebola virus and their proximity ... as the Democratic Republic of Congo In these two instances the mortality rate was between 50 –90% Following those epidemics, Ebola hit Africa in many other instances the worst yet being in the ... photophobia and hyperlacrimation) - hearing loss - unilateral orchitis( inflammation of one or both of the testes) ** These conditions are usually relieved with the treatment of 1% atropine and steroids...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 13:09

... supportive of the hypotheses 23 The inclusion of these companies caused the t-statistic testing the null hypothesis of no difference in total assets between the experimental group and the control ... separation Section describes how the hypotheses will be tested and illustrates the models Section gives the results of the matched pair design, and Section gives the results of the logistic regression ... to the tax provision each quarter, rather than at year end By engaging the auditor to provide income tax services, the implications of tax laws and changes in the tax code for the audit and the...

Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2014, 14:03

... soft-weathering silts, sands, and clays of the early Cretaceous Wealden Beds, also non-marine, into which the cove has been excavated by the sea They pass up into shallow marine greensands and then ... example, that the youngest stage of the Cretaceous is the Maastrichtian and the oldest stage of the Tertiary the Danian In studying the Cretaceous–Tertiary, or K–T, boundary, then, the only hope ... according to the temperature of the sea water The 16O/18O ratios are accurately recorded in the shells of foraminifera, whether they live at the surface or the bottom of the ocean One of the great...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 00:54

... study BGK has peformed the data analysis and interpretation and drafted the article TK, AVM and UW have all been involved in interpreting and discussing the data and revising the article critically ... symptoms The levels of NO2 among the examined 319 mothers were increased by 21% if there was dust exposure found at the mothers' workplace There was an increase of 18% if they used cooking fuels such ... play a role in the mediation of the cough reflext [25,26] and airway nerves and their mediators in general are likely to play an important role in the general pathology of cough and airway inflammation...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... and the other ones at 90–120° from the first) and only the largest, apparently healthy and dominant trees were sampled In the laboratory, all the cores were fixed to wooden supports and smoothed ... valley and the landuse of the territory were strongly influenced by the arrival of 364 R Motta and F Garbarino the Carthusian monks in 1173 Indeed, the presence of these monks affected the entire ... history of the forest stands investigated: the logging chronologies of the forests where the study areas were situated, the releases in radial growth that occurred in the silver fir stands, and the...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 01:21

... The European Economy series contains important reports and communications from the Commission to the Council and the Parliament on the economic situation and developments, such as the Economic ... forecasts, the annual EU economy review and the Public finances in EMU report Subscription terms are shown on the back cover and details on how to obtain the list of sales agents are shown on the inside ... FOREWORD The European economy is in the midst of the deepest recession since the 1930s, with real GDP projected to shrink by some 4% in 2009, the sharpest contraction in the history of the European...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 07:21

... redistribution issues less onerous and eases the terms of the inflation-output trade-off Further financial development and integration can help to improve the effectiveness of and the political incentives ... coordination in the EU By coordinating their crisis policies Member States heighten the credibility of the measures taken, and thus help restore confidence and support the recovery in the short term ... performance and disturbances in the wholesale funding markets Such episodes have happened before and the examples are abundant (e.g Japan and the Nordic countries in the early 1990s, the Asian...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 07:21

... during the past one and a half years or so have shown a steep increase, reflecting the uncertainty regarding the nature and the extent of the crisis IMF (2008a) and Hatzius (2008) estimated the ... depression and the present crisis concerning the geographical origins, causes, duration and impact of the two crises are outlined As both depressions were global, the transmission mechanism and the ... First World War and the contractionary behaviour of France and the 18 The defence of the fixed rate to gold was the fundamental element of the ideology of central bankers in Europe They focused...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 07:21