the effect of noise pollution on our health and wellbeing

... wedlock. 2 If the characteristics of the parents and their relationship that determine the risk of union dissolution also affect child wellbeing, then estimates of the effect of separation on child ... that the test of the balancing property is performed only on the observations whose propensity score belongs to the intersection of the supports of the propensity score of treated and controls. ... between the treated and control groups: β OLS = E[C i (1)|S i = 1] −E[C i (0)|S i = 0]. The ATE is the average of the treatment effect on the treated and the treatment effect on the controls....

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... by four months of age, only children up to 15 months of age at the time of survey would have been “at risk” of not receiving the vaccination during the prior 11 months. For assessing whether ... affect population health. In this paper, we present one of the first investigations of the impact of small and moderate disasters on childhood morbidity, physical growth, and immunizations by combining ... treat these health conditions. Due to the narrow reference window for which these indicators were collected, these measures will only reflect the immediate effects of disasters. Medium- and longer-term...

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... intervals for the observed performances did allow us to do so. 6 Discussion The presented analysis of the effects of noise in the test corpus on the evaluation of POS taggers leads us to conclude ... of joint E/A CL meeting. 1001 On the Evaluation and Comparison of Taggers: the Effect of Noise in Testing Corpora. Llufs Padr6 and Llufs M~rquez Dep. LSI. Technical University of Catalonia ... systematic- and thus the resulting tagger will tend to make the same errors that appear in the test set. On the contrary, if the train- ing and test sets come from different sources -sharing only the...

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... between emissions on the one hand and exposure and effects on the other hand. The EUROAIRNET information system is developed and maintained by the European Topic Centre on Air Quality on behalf of the European ... design and site selection • Selection and evaluation of measurement methods and equipment • Management of the laboratory and training of personnel The major components of quality control are: • Controlling ... being used more and more frequently on a routine basis for decision making and evaluating the economic consequences of the impact of air pollution on health 42-45 . The key value of APHEIS lies...

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... Hai_Trung-Anh strongly, and many buildings and big houses are grown up a lot.Morever, the growth of economy has given a lot of advantages by making people richer, healther, and freer to enjoy their lives.I ... of advantages by making people richer, healther, and freer to enjoy their lives.I always pride of my city whenever I talk about him.I wished that could work at my hometown after finishing at...

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... part of several tens percent of H C and the last one whereas can only reach several hundreds of gauss. Thus, the increasing of Co-concentration led to the increasing of anisotropy property of ... Co 2+ content and they are tabulated in Table 1. This increase of lattice parameter with Co 2+ due to the difference in ionic sizes of the component ions. The Co 2+ ions have larger ionic radius ... X-ray diffraction study shows the presence of cubic spinel. The increase of Co 2+ ion concentration yields the monotonic increase of M S , H C . Magnetic measurements show the studied system...

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... revision of the 1999 Protocol to Abate Acidification, Eutrophication and Ground-level Ozone. This Protocol is one of the eight multilateral environmental agreements under the UNECE Convention on Long-range ... of the nitrogen critical load provides an indication of the level of risk of adverse effects of nitrogen on ecosystems Air pollution will remain a problem in the future • Air pollution continues ... an indication of the level of risk of adverse effects of nitrogen on ecosystems Air pollution will remain a problem in the future • Air pollution continues to cause cardiovascular and respiratory...

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... structures onto existing nature by means of our imagination. On the one hand, we project our aesthetic appreciation into the existing nature. On the other hand, existing nature interprets forms of ... aesthetic and ethical values leads me now to my conclusion on the ethical impact of aesthetic experience on a moral attitude towards nature. CONCLUSION Even if the aesthetic autonomy of ... our visions of the world 4 . In other words, imagination creates the form and the arrangement of material existence. Before I begin to expose the specific importance of imagination for aesthetic...

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... sequence of shifts. When intonation and centering collide My synthesis of the claims in PH90 and GJW89 pro- duces an attentional interpretation of pitch accents, modeled by operations on Cf, and ... effect is attentional, on the order of items in Cf; (2) the obligation to accent a pronominal for attentional r~asons depends on the variance between what the text predicts and what the speaker ... empty at the end of the discourse (Grosz and Sidner, 1986), mu- tual beliefs persist throughout the conversation, pre- serving at the end the semantic and pragmatic out- come of the discourse....

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... appreciable effect on the tertiary and secondary structure was found only at higher concentrations of the solvent [13]. At low concentrations of trifluoroethanol, the propagation of helical structures seems ... the content of secondary structure only after the disruption of the native tertiary structure of RNase A (Figs 2–4). Interestingly, the preservation of the tertiary structure coincides with the ... backbone by trifluoroethanol molecules, the proton donator/acceptor properties of the trifluoroethanol molecule for hydrogen bonds and the influence of trifluoroethanol on the dielectric constant of the...

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... them to find out the effect of monetary incentive on their effort and task performance. Survey questions only continue to be conducted if and only if the respondents answer that there is remunerative ... this was the premise of the appearance of the term “motivation” and then it has rapidly become one of the most common concepts in everyday language. Nowadays, it is a concerning issue of almost ... the effectiveness and awareness of monetary policies in the workplace. The second objective is obtained from the questionnaire. The research will give the common test about the application of...

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... the historicaldevelopment of aregion.Thisstudy uses the Landsat TM and ETM + toextract the built‐up land in the city and evaluate the change of agricultural land under urbanizationinHoChiMinhCity. 2. The studyarea Ho ... poor on quality due to the alum‐salted effect plus unfavourable conditions on topography and water.Thishas influenced land exploitation potential on goods orientation. As consequence, ... that urbanexpansionhasspatiallyincreasedinall directions, but it was mainly concentrated in the North, West and East of the city and along the mainroads.In the upcomingyears, duetotrend of expansion,HoChiMinhCity will...

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