... Toro was born in Medellin, Colombia He received his degree in civil engineering in 1993 He worked in Colombia in the construction of the Metro in the city of Medellin and in an engineering consultant ... of GIS since the mid-1980s More recently, he has started investigating the incorporation of marine and coastal areas into SDI initiatives, issues surrounding the diffusion to and use of GIS in ... incorporation of GIS within wider information infrastructures to techniques of visualisation, the importance of error and uncertainty in coastal databases, and the interfacing of GIS with simulation...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:21
... changes in the comparative magnitude of most conditions, the single exception being HIV/AIDs, largely as a result of the explosion of the epidemic during the 1990s in Southern Africa Nor have these ... example, in the case of tobacco, the theoretical minimum distribution would be 100% of the population being life-long nonsmokers; for BMI it would be 100% of the population having a BMI of 21 (SD1) ... well as for the world These regions were further grouped into "developed" "low-mortality developing" including China and much of Latin America, and "high mortality developing" including Sub-Saharan...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20
National Identity and Global Sports Events ppt
... as shown in the case of the national distinctiveness of the mainstream sports of the United States and football’s continued marginalization there despite the staging of the most commercially ... nations and soaring through the highest imaginable roof in costs, the glamour of the World Cup in Italy in 1990, or the multicultural optimism of the French triumph when hosting the 1998 World ... distinguish the characteristics of spectacle as one performance genre among others, retaining the critical edge without lapsing into the hyperboles that in the end reveal the critiques of Boorstin,...
Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 02:21
national responsibility and global justice jan 2008
... duties to the members of these groupings as such The pervasive injustice that they generate deprives them of such intrinsic value as they might otherwise have had, so they are not the kind of attachments ... planes, they can see only the desperation and the wounds, and would never think of asking whether the migrants have not brought their troubles on themselves There is also another cast of mind that, ... One involves denying that national borders any longer have the importance they once had in marking off separate spheres of human interaction The intensification of investment and trade across these...
Ngày tải lên: 10/06/2014, 22:24
Tài liệu MODERN TECHNOLOGY, TRANSNATIONALIZATION, REGIONAL AND NATIONAL SITUATIONS potx
... publications 420 The end of agribusiness or the emergence of biotechnology Kostas Vergopoulos The agribusiness question has been evolving since the beginning of the 1970s within a shifting frame of reference, ... sense of the term, that is, the transnationalization not only of the ownership of the capital operating in the sphere, and not only of the production process, but also of the cycle of the food ... h e industrialization of raw materials, privatization, the merging of the stages of food production these are the means towards the elimination of the stage of primary production within the agribusiness...
Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 05:20
Student Mobility & Credit Transfer: A National and Global Survey pot
... country so in the UK There has been a marked change in the composition of overseas students In particular, there has been a substantial growth in the number of incoming EU students, increasing from ... community, particularly in light of the significant developments in the rest of Europe The expansion of higher education in the United Kingdom in the 1990s opened up a series of new policy discussions ... plan was required The first step toward the plan was the introduction of the Education Act in 1989 One of the highlights of the Act was the development of a 44 Educational Policy Institute framework...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 08:20
Carbon Tariffs: Impacts on Technology Choice, Regional Competitiveness, and Global Emissions pdf
... offshoring increasing global emissions by a minimum estimate of million tons of CO2 (Boston Consulting Group 2008) Within settings where domestic firms produce locally (i.e., ε < εo ), increases in ... technology k − in the interval [˜o , εd ), for all k ∈ {2, , k o } Following from Proposition 1, the number of entrants increases εk ˜k in ε within this interval at a rate of −αk +nd (αk−1 ... where the regulator can shift market share in the favor of domestic firms by increasing emissions price, which they are incapable of doing through emissions price without a border adjustment In settings...
Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 05:20
Báo cáo y học: "Conflict-affected displaced persons need to benefit more from HIV and malaria national strategic plans and Global Fund grants" doc
... in drafting of the manuscript HH participated in the research, analysis and drafting of the paper EP participated in the research, analysis and drafting of the paper MS participated in the analysis ... additional cost in including them in proposals and programmes is marginal, as Governments must also provide such interventions to their citizens already living in these areas Governments may ... the analysis and drafting of the paper All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Page of Received: 31 August...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 14:20
Cambridge.University.Press.War.Land.on.the.Eastern.Front.Culture.National.Identity.and.German.Occupation.in.World.War.I.May.2000.pdf
... moved to assess the importance of the First World War in molding the distinctive contours of the modern Robert Wohl’s study of the mythologizing of the generation of 1914 demonstrated the war’s impact ... Warsaw, as winter closed the campaign With the start of the new year in 1915, German armies went over to the oVensive in the East They regained their foothold in the Russian empire after the winter ... politics and the acceptance of political violence in Germany between the wars As the mythical Wgure in the West gained in deWnition, growing clearer in outline, in the East limits were lost There,...
Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 11:02
National Framework and recommendations for better local governance in Vietnam
... chuyển biến rõ rệt theo hướng công khai, minh bạch tạo thuận lợi cho người dân, doanh nghiệp; + Bộ máy hành hoạt động hiệu (do tinh gọn hơn, cấu bên phân định rõ hơn, công khai, minh bạch hơn, quyền ... cho phát triển kinh tế - xã hội b) Tiếp tục đổi chế, sách tài doanh nghiệp nhà nước c) Đổi chế sử dụng kinh phí nhà nước chế xây dựng, triển khai nhiệm vụ khoa học, công nghệ theo hướng lấy mục ... hành tiến tới xóa bỏ chế độ cấp kinh phí theo số lượng biên chế, thay chế cấp ngân sách dựa kết chất lượng hoạt động, hướng vào kiểm soát đầu ra, chất lượng chi tiêu theo mục tiêu, nhiệm vụ quan...
Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2012, 09:05
Evaluating the Reliability and Validity of an English Achievement Test for Third-year Non- major students at the University of Technology, Ho Chi Minh National University and some suggestions for chan
... tests Chapter 3- The study is the main part of the thesis showing the context of the study and the detailed results obtained from collected tests and findings in response to the research questions ... fed into a common item bank that is controlled by a kind of software in a server Before the examinations, the person who is in charge of preparing the tests will use the software to mix the test ... study Finally, the writer collected the data, analysed and evaluated the data in order to find answers to the research questions raised at the very beginning of the study The study answered the...
Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 15:05
A comparative analysis of institutions, national policies, and cooperative responses to floods in Asia
... also on the advances of domestic economic and political reforms Financing Problems in financing are often indicated as one of the most important factors defining failures in performance of institutions; ... Journal of Environment and Development 11 Bankoff, G 2004 In the eye of the storm: the social construction of the forces of nature and the climatic and seismic construction of god in the Philippines ... weakness of local and regional authorities and deficit in financial resources during the transition period in the nineties in Russia had been the major reason explaining the neglect of structural...
Ngày tải lên: 22/10/2013, 10:15
Tài liệu Global Farming Systems Study: Challenges and Priorities to 2030 SYNTHESIS AND GLOBAL OVERVIEW doc
... refinement 49 Rice-Wheat Farming System This farming system covers 19 percent of the land in the region, and dominates the Indo-Gangetic plain, including the Terai of Nepal, the Gangetic plain in ... building and training 37 Human resource development is key for the future development of this system, including training in financial and business management and in human resource management Training ... Mountain and hilly areas of more the 30 percent slope comprise the remaining 11 percent of total area of the region The level of development differs widely across the region On the average, in 1998...
Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 19:15
Tài liệu Caring for Our Children: National Health and Safety Performance Standards; Guidelines for Early Care and Education Programs, Third Edition doc
... during sleep, caregivers/ teachers could consider discontinuing the practice of placing infant(s) in a separate room for sleep, but instead placing the infant’s crib in the area used by the other ... services in settings including children without special health care needs The following are the guiding principles used in writing these standards: The health and safety of all children in early ... needs of the child; Child care staff members are important figures in the lives of the young children in their care and in the well-being of families and the community Child care staff training...
Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 11:20
Tài liệu Regulatory Europeanization, National Autonomy and Regulatory Effectiveness: Marketing Authorization for Pharmaceuticals pptx
... push the CP into a joint decision-making framework re-opening the procedure to interadministrative/intergovernmental negotiations In the MRP, the first phase mode of open coordination dominates the ... focuses mainly on implementation Policy-making in the European multi-level system has received most of the attention in the last decades But when inquiring into the governing capacity of the EC, the ... mentioning this facilitating factor for successful Europeanization, one is also reminded again of the type of companies mainly involved in the CP They are the ones not only with a high interest in...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 07:20
Tài liệu WHO policy on collaborative TB/HIV activities -Guidelines for national programmes and other stakeholders doc
... from the evidence are close to the actual effects of interest The usefulness of an estimate of the effect (of the intervention) depends on the level of confidence in that estimate The higher the ... distinct objectives (establishing and strengthening the mechanisms for delivering integrated TB and HIV services, reducing the burden of TB among people living with HIV, and reducing the burden of ... the burden of TB in people living with HIV, their families and communities by ensuring the delivery of the Three I’s for HIV/TB and the early initiation of ART in line with WHO guidelines; (3)...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 15:20
Tài liệu NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION FY 2013 PRESIDENT''''S BUDGET REQUEST SUMMARY ppt
... development of the ground system, resulting in an increase in the ground systems development cost but offset by a reduction in operations costs Minor changes included increases for the development of the ... research in interdisciplinary areas Present foci for the Interdisciplinary Science investigations include studies of the physics of the ocean-ice shelf interface and the impacts of urbanization on the ... integration onto the Observatory The Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) has completed development of the instrument and began environmental testing during the fourth quarter of FY 2011 The GPM GMI instrument...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 05:20
National Summary and Fertility Clinic Reports 2007 pdf
... combining them with sperm in the laboratory, and returning them to the woman’s body or donating them to another woman They NOT include treatments in which only sperm are handled (i.e., intrauterine—or ... Westat review the report • Necessary changes are incorporated and proofread • The report is submitted to the Government Printing Office to begin the printing and production process These steps ... vitro fertilization) Involves extracting a woman’s eggs, fertilizing the eggs in the laboratory, IVF and then transferring the resulting embryos into the woman’s uterus through the cervix For some...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 16:20
New Media Power: The Internet and Global Activism doc
... rights, developmental and protectionist groups and individuals who came together around the turn of the century against the injustices of the international financial system and its leading member, the ... Internet Thus informed, the activists use major worldwide meetings of officials of the international as forums to gather in protest and publicly communicate the threats they perceive Their often militant ... actions in the name of the organization, the agenda of the organization reflects the churn of local initiatives and virtual deliberations One result is that ATTAC (Association for the Taxation of Financial...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 21:20
Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Ministry of Public Health National Child and Adolescent Health Strategy 2009 - 2013 pdf
... facilitate the joint monitoring at provincial level under the authority of the PPHD The HMIS Unit manages all the routine statistics of the MOPH, and will assist the DCAH in determining the indicators ... completion of the missing vaccines Evaluate the pilot of offering vaccination through private outlets, and scale up the intervention according to the findings 2.5.1 Immunization of mothers Immunization ... with the MOHE, ensure inclusion of the IMCI approach in the pre-service training of MDs and mid-level health workers in all major training institutions; Decentralize the case management training...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 04:20