... seen as the main benefit ofenvironmentalrisk management 7) Climate change is an opportunity as well as a risk 8) Lack of certainty – about the impact ofenvironmental liabilities and the future ... know Other, please specif Under the spotlight The transition ofenvironmentalrisk management In which ofthe following business activities does your company conduct a formal consideration ofenvironmental ... will keep track of these risks on a regular basis once the due diligence period is complete Clearly, both are essential if the management of these risks is to be effective over the long term When...
... profile 24 The fundamental premise of sound risk management is that the board of directors and bank management understand the nature and complexity ofthe risks inherent in the portfolio of bank ... independent review Depending on the bank’s nature, size and complexity, and therisk profile of a bank’s activities, the degree of formality of how these three lines of defence are implemented will ... that therisk measurement methodology results in an operational risk capital charge that credibly reflects the operational risk profile ofthe bank In addition to the quantitative aspects of internal...
... place at the top level ofthe restriction part ofthe every-NP, the indefinite should count as a proper antecedent for the pronoun on the reading where the every-NP takes wide scope over the whole ... facts: The decision of whether a pronoun can be bound by a N P cannot be made on thebasisof semantic information only There are basically two possible ways out: On the one hand, one can pass the ... reading and a wide-scope reading ofthe existential N P a book The former corresponds to the constituent structure of (7), the latter is due to a "delayed application" ofthe existential NP, which can...
... or required further explanation ofthe need for their samples I often thought ofthe irony ofthe situation At these reunion parties, Dr Garcia would oversee the administration ofthe electrical ... with the arrowheads representing the short, direct repeats formed at the point of insertion The left half of Alu contains the A and B boxes ofthe RNA polymerase III promoter The two halves ofthe ... (3) elucidation ofthe chemical basisof heredity, the molecular basisof disease has been addressed in the context of how mutations affect the structure, function, or regulation of a gene or its...
... during their migration through the epididymis, the oxidation of sulfhydryls is related to the acquisition of motility [4,5] During epididymial migration, sulfhydryls in the nucleus and the tail of ... investigate the contribution of de novo synthesis and the recycling of GSH to the intracellular glutathione pool, the Ó FEBS 2002 1574 T Kaneko et al (Eur J Biochem 269) Fig GR activity and the protein ... attributed to the proliferation of spermatogenic cells around the pubertal stage, and the reduction in the population of Sertoli cells relative to the spermatogenic cells Even though the GR content...
... thought of as being in the domain ofthe doctor These nurses need to be taught skills during the first weeks of training which are themselves based on sound knowledge One ofthe skills they need ... existence ofthe individual The blood has the task of transporting: water and nutrients from the digestive system to the cells; oxygen from the lungs to the cells; carbon dioxide from the cells to the ... valve on the left and pulmonary valve on the right The aorta is the main artery taking blood from the left side ofthe heart for distribution around the body 31 THE BIOLOGICAL BASISOF NURSING:...
... The structural basisof calpain behavior Y Benyamin two parts, DIIa and DIIb, come closer together, with concomitant release of constraints between the domains (large arrows) ... questions are raised by these molecular studies What is the correlation between the in vitro and in vivo Ca2+ requirements for calpain activity? How the two isoforms target their specific substrates ... and oscillations of [Ca2+], in particular those involving specific phosphorylations of calpastatin, calpains and targets The following Minireviews develop three themes on the role of calpain and...
... it arises in the same way with the lexis The first stage is likewise one of translation equivalence, the second stage is the use ofthe determining features ofthe target language The question ... equivalences The autonomy thus acquired by the lexis ofthe target language allows the thesaurus stage ofthe dictionary to be the same for one target language whatever the source language, and at the ... language, and the particular determining features ofthe latter The less use made of comparative systematization, the more use must be made ofthe particular systematization ofthe target language...
... these differences tabulating and comparing the characteristics ofenvironmental policies among the states produces an interesting snapshot ofthe relative degree of “environmentalism” among the ... for the period 1982-1992.3 State Environmentalism Among other things the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and related national environmental legislation were born out ofthe concern that the ... for environmental controls.) Moving into the 1980s these same states might feel the drag of their environmental policies accumulating to a degree sufficient to slow their growth relative to their...
... cases, or if the managers own themselves a few percentages ofthe shares, the management ofthe company 18 manages often to get the control ofthe company and ofthe board of directors, and they can ... actions The empirical part ofthe book has many references of class actions A detailed explanation ofthe process of class actions is given at the end ofthe book The origin ofthe abuse of minority ... stunning The volume ofthe financial transactions ofthe ‘90s is 40 times higher than the productive economy ofthe US‚ while the volume of transactions of CS First Boston is higher than the GNP of the...
... characterized the contribution of these assay components by omitting them individually In the absence of ferredoxin the reaction rate decreased to 46.5% ofthe complete reaction while the absence of ascorbate ... account for the failure ofthe PsHO1 probe to detect any HO2-like sequences in Southern blot experiments Whatever thebasisofthe recovery of phytochrome responses in older pcd1 plants, they still ... region of Arabidopsis thaliana HO1 (AtHO1) and was used as thebasis for the design of gene specific primers The 5¢- and 3¢-ends ofthe pea HO1 cDNA were obtained by rapid amplification of cDNA...
... coincidence that placed these presentations back to back: the last ofthe structural eras and the first oftheenvironmental ones The changing ofthe guard officially occurred in the early 1970s and ... to further the systems basisof architecture: function as the foundation of design and industrial standardization as thebasisof construction The Bauhaus sought to close the gap between the progress ... in the common sense ofthe word Chance and confusion play no role in the weather, in the irregular pattern ofthe earth’s orbit, in the growth pattern of a tree, or in the population limits of...
... assist them in their day-to-day work The successful growth of GARP, the Global Association ofRisk Professionals, has brought together thousands ofrisk professionals and has enabled the sharing of ... specified amount of a specified commodity – the underlying asset – to the other at a specified date in the future (the The Professional’s Handbook of Financial Risk Management maturity date ofthe contract) ... at the exercise price The amount ofthe underlying asset is called the notional principal or underlying amount The price ofthe option contract is called the option premium The issuer of the...
... length of human life, according to the Greeks, was in the hands ofthe Fates, or Moerae These three sisters, daughters ofthe Goddess ofthe Night, measured out the beginning, the middle, and the ... isolation of many elderly people T h e overall loss ofthe ability to control the image of ourselves seen by others may be one ofthe most devastating changes of growing old, ranking with the fear of ... percent of what it was at the end ofthe nineteenth century These factors still compromise the survival of women in some parts ofthe world T h e reason for the longer average lifespan of women...
... revise them The areas in question involve the nature of persons; the possibilities for personal relationships; the nature ofthe people and the state; and the role of political values The Nature of ... Professor of Technology and Society at the University of Maastricht Samuel Bowles is Research Professor and Director ofthe Behavioral Sciences Program ofthe Santa Fe Institute and Professor of ... Associate Professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa Aleida Assmann is Professor of English in the Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft ofthe University of Konstanz...
... becomes the fertile void the Buddhists speak of: the void that generates the “ten thousand things,” the whole array of created beings The roaring ofthe ocean waves arises out ofthe silence ofthe ... The Love of Nature and the End ofthe World This page intentionally left blank The Love of Nature and the End ofthe World The Unspoken Dimensions ofEnvironmental Concern ... different kind of silence 16 Chapter The Awe Before There Are Words The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging ofthe stormy sea, and the destructive sword are portions of eternity,...
... by counting the number of alleles per locus and taking the average of these counts These values then can be compared with the effective number of alleles (ne), which is the number of alleles needed ... etc Another impact ofthe Pleistocene glacials pertained to the connection between the Borneo and Thai-Malay Peninsula (the continent of Asia) The land bridge ofthe Sundaland accelerated the migration ... specific binding site on the exon ofthe target sequence, while the arbitrary primers will bind to most ofthe introns during the PCR amplifications If the distribution of these gene elements allows...
... Tsix The role of DNA methylation Figure Transcription of Xist and Tsix on the X chromosome The coding sequences of Xist and Tsix overlap on opposite strands ofthe X-chromosome DNA effect: the ... initiated A second cause of non-random X-chromosome inactivation is the selective death of cells that inactivate the incorrect number of X chromosomes: because the fates ofthe X chromosomes are ... transcriptional silencing [15] These epigenetic marks also characterize the XI, and their recruitment to the XI requires transcription of Xist [16-18] Together, these results suggest that the increase in Xist...
... , and by Theorem 3.17 they are in bijective correspondence with the elements ofthe natural basisof AM,N Expanding each cluster monomial in terms ofthe natural basisof AM,N as in Theorem 4.2, ... well-known description ofthe natural basis in terms of Mat3 (N), we will show in Theorem 4.3 that the set M of cluster monomials is a basis as well (The fact that M is a basis also follows from ... monomials in terms ofthe natural basis In the proof ofthe following proposition, we will say that a word a1 · · · ad consisting of distinct letters in N matches the pattern of a permutation b...