the ethical basis of environmental risk analysis

... seen as the main benefit of environmental risk management 7) Climate change is an opportunity as well as a risk 8) Lack of certainty – about the impact of environmental liabilities and the future ... know Other, please specif Under the spotlight The transition of environmental risk management In which of the following business activities does your company conduct a formal consideration of environmental ... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 06/12/2015, 23:10

... profile 24 The fundamental premise of sound risk management is that the board of directors and bank management understand the nature and complexity of the risks inherent in the portfolio of bank ... independent review Depending on the bank’s nature, size and complexity, and the risk profile of a bank’s activities, the degree of formality of how these three lines of defence are implemented will ... that the risk measurement methodology results in an operational risk capital charge that credibly reflects the operational risk profile of the bank In addition to the quantitative aspects of internal...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 11:20

... place at the top level of the restriction part of the 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 the basis of semantic information only There are basically two possible ways out: On the one hand, one can pass the ... reading and a wide-scope reading of the existential N P a book The former corresponds to the constituent structure of (7), the latter is due to a "delayed application" of the existential NP, which can...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 10:20

... or required further explanation of the need for their samples I often thought of the irony of the situation At these reunion parties, Dr Garcia would oversee the administration of the 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 of the RNA polymerase III promoter The two halves of the ... (3) elucidation of the chemical basis of heredity, the molecular basis of disease has been addressed in the context of how mutations affect the structure, function, or regulation of a gene or its...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 23:20

... 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...

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Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 02:20

... thought of as being in the domain of the doctor These nurses need to be taught skills during the first weeks of training which are themselves based on sound knowledge One of the skills they need ... existence of the 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 of the heart for distribution around the body 31 THE BIOLOGICAL BASIS OF NURSING:...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 22:20

... The structural basis of 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...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 10:21

... it arises in the same way with the lexis The first stage is likewise one of translation equivalence, the second stage is the use of the determining features of the target language The question ... equivalences The autonomy thus acquired by the lexis of the target language allows the thesaurus stage of the dictionary to be the same for one target language whatever the source language, and at the ... language, and the particular determining features of the latter The less use made of comparative systematization, the more use must be made of the particular systematization of the target language...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 13:20

... these differences tabulating and comparing the characteristics of environmental policies among the states produces an interesting snapshot of the 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 of the 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...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 20:20

... cases, or if the managers own themselves a few percentages of the shares, the management of the company 18 manages often to get the control of the company and of the board of directors, and they can ... actions The empirical part of the book has many references of class actions A detailed explanation of the process of class actions is given at the end of the book The origin of the abuse of minority ... stunning The volume of the financial transactions of the ‘90s is 40 times higher than the productive economy of the US‚ while the volume of transactions of CS First Boston is higher than the GNP of the...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 19:20

... characterized the contribution of these assay components by omitting them individually In the absence of ferredoxin the reaction rate decreased to 46.5% of the complete reaction while the absence of ascorbate ... account for the failure of the PsHO1 probe to detect any HO2-like sequences in Southern blot experiments Whatever the basis of the recovery of phytochrome responses in older pcd1 plants, they still ... region of Arabidopsis thaliana HO1 (AtHO1) and was used as the basis for the design of gene specific primers The 5¢- and 3¢-ends of the pea HO1 cDNA were obtained by rapid amplification of cDNA...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 11:20

... coincidence that placed these presentations back to back: the last of the structural eras and the first of the environmental ones The changing of the guard officially occurred in the early 1970s and ... to further the systems basis of architecture: function as the foundation of design and industrial standardization as the basis of construction The Bauhaus sought to close the gap between the progress ... in the common sense of the word Chance and confusion play no role in the weather, in the irregular pattern of the earth’s orbit, in the growth pattern of a tree, or in the population limits of...

Ngày tải lên: 29/04/2014, 15:42

... assist them in their day-to-day work The successful growth of GARP, the Global Association of Risk Professionals, has brought together thousands of risk 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 of the contract) ... at the exercise price The amount of the underlying asset is called the notional principal or underlying amount The price of the option contract is called the option premium The issuer of the...

Ngày tải lên: 04/06/2014, 13:17

... length of human life, according to the Greeks, was in the hands of the Fates, or Moerae These three sisters, daughters of the Goddess of the Night, measured out the beginning, the middle, and the ... isolation of many elderly people T h e overall loss of the ability to control the image of ourselves seen by others may be one of the most devastating changes of growing old, ranking with the fear of ... percent of what it was at the end of the nineteenth century These factors still compromise the survival of women in some parts of the world T h e reason for the longer average lifespan of women...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 05:26

... revise them The areas in question involve the nature of persons; the possibilities for personal relationships; the nature of the 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 of the Behavioral Sciences Program of the 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 of the University of Konstanz...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 10:39

... becomes the fertile void the Buddhists speak of: the void that generates the “ten thousand things,” the whole array of created beings The roaring of the ocean waves arises out of the silence of the ... The Love of Nature and the End of the World This page intentionally left blank The Love of Nature and the End of the World The Unspoken Dimensions of Environmental Concern ... different kind of silence 16 Chapter The Awe Before There Are Words The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword are portions of eternity,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:48

... 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 of the Pleistocene glacials pertained to the connection between the Borneo and Thai-Malay Peninsula (the continent of Asia) The land bridge of the Sundaland accelerated the migration ... specific binding site on the exon of the target sequence, while the arbitrary primers will bind to most of the introns during the PCR amplifications If the distribution of these gene elements allows...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 11:20

... 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 of the 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 of the 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...

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 18:21

... , and by Theorem 3.17 they are in bijective correspondence with the elements of the natural basis of AM,N Expanding each cluster monomial in terms of the natural basis of AM,N as in Theorem 4.2, ... well-known description of the 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 of the natural basis In the proof of the following proposition, we will say that a word a1 · · · ad consisting of distinct letters in N matches the pattern of a permutation b...

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