the future for allotments in urban landscapes

A simplified method for conducting ecological studies of land snail communities in urban landscapes

A simplified method for conducting ecological studies of land snail communities in urban landscapes

... are therefore not included in the analysis since their identification can be problematic In BN, we collected the soil in each quadrat separately (n = 4) In JE, two samples were lumped together ... Sample sizes The first step was to define the best sample size for each method, i.e the minimum size providing more than 80–85% of the species, obtained by adding samples The shape of the curve allows ... buildings, and all of the soil was brought from outside when the complex was built The third site was another part of the garden of the National Museum of Natural History known as the Labyrinthe...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2014, 20:14

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Tài liệu Security Essentials Day 2 Threat and the Need for Defense in Depth docx

Tài liệu Security Essentials Day 2 Threat and the Need for Defense in Depth docx

... Application Info Defense in Depth - SANS ©2001 This diagram shows another way to think of the Defense In Depth concept At the center of the diagram is your information However, the center can be anything ... such as the Indexing Services exploited by the Code Red variants, are running For an auditor this is an important starting point in hardening a system By disabling unneeded services the likelihood ... validated instances of damage based on those threats In some ways these may be the most serious, because they have already happened and are likely to happen again in the future The final type...

Ngày tải lên: 09/12/2013, 17:15

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Tài liệu The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times doc

Tài liệu The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times doc

... ring in the great poets The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times 11 The preference for the practical and social-economic is traceable in their feeling for ... together, and to the boding crows with three-fold note greeting the ruddy torch of the rising dawn; and in the half light of the morning to hear the nightingale warbling in the bushes, and the swallow ... raised their voices together and competed with the birds in song, swaying up and down in charming lines, singing and laughing in the cool shade They were dressed in red and white, like the flowers...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 20:20

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The Future Of Water In African Cities pptx

The Future Of Water In African Cities pptx

... that the use of the content contained in the work will not infringe on the rights of third parties The risk of claims resulting from such infringement rests solely with you The findings, interpretations, ... respond to the uncertain conditions of the future In other words, IUWM is about doing things differently, rather than about doing different things Overview The Challenge Africa is urbanizing fast ... watering their gardens from mountain streams, leaving less water for the city downstream This kind of increased competition for water in a catchment is happening through- The Future of Water in...

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Surviving the War for Talent in Asia: How Innovation Can Help

Surviving the War for Talent in Asia: How Innovation Can Help

... foot in that country Further, since joining the WTO, China has been flexible in its rules and procedures for foreign companies These multinational companies have grown and expanded their businesses ... job roles Their only option is to search for the right Chinese talent outside of China, and they have since ventured into Europe, the United States, and other locations in Asia In China there is ... Fueled by the increasing pull to expand and transform into global companies, the pressure and strain to find the right talent has heightened This brings us to another interesting point: Amid...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 18:59

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Evaluation of a reproductive health awareness program for adolescence in urban Tanzania-A quasi-experimental pre-test post-test research pptx

Evaluation of a reproductive health awareness program for adolescence in urban Tanzania-A quasi-experimental pre-test post-test research pptx

... participated in reviewing and drafting the manuscript in all stages All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests ... program for the improvement of reproductive health for unmarried adolescents using a questionnaire assessing their knowledge, attitude, and behavior The findings indicated an increase in knowledge ... to think about the decisions they may make in the future Program name The program name For a Better Tomorrow” (Kesho iliyo njeme) means a program that prepares adolescents to meet their future...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 12:20

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Credit for the Elderly or the Disabled For use in preparing 2012 Returns docx

Credit for the Elderly or the Disabled For use in preparing 2012 Returns docx

... Worksheet in the instructions 22 Credit for the elderly or the disabled Enter the smaller of line 20 or line 21 Also enter this amount on Form 1040A, line 30, or include on Form 1040, line 53 (check ... releases during the year – The first release will ship the beginning of January 2013 – The final release will ship the beginning of March 2013 Purchase the DVD from National Technical Information ... See instructions TIP In most cases, the IRS can figure the credit for you See instructions Part I Check the Box for Your Filing Status and Age If your filing status is: And by the end of 2012: Single,...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

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Towards a safer use of the Internet for children in the EU – a parents’ perspective ppt

Towards a safer use of the Internet for children in the EU – a parents’ perspective ppt

... Sweden were again at the bottom of the distribution – in these countries one in five or less of the parents were worried about their child finding this kind of information on the Internet and less ... Buying online 17 14 Spending a lot of time online 14 Using instant messaging tools 12 Downloading/playing films Downloading/playing music 11 Giving out personal information 10 Accessing certain websites ... year-olds in the EU27 in the opinion of a parent Furthermore, this increase in Internet use was observed in almost all Member States The eastern European countries saw the largest increase For example,...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 19:20

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The Future Security Environment in the Middle East - Conflict, Stability, and Political Change pptx

The Future Security Environment in the Middle East - Conflict, Stability, and Political Change pptx

... Alleviating Poverty The Jungle of Cities Saving Water Obtaining Food Attracting Money for Investment Egypt The Background of Reform The Promise of Reform The Performance ... identifying U.S national interests in the region and the potential threats to those interests U.S INTERESTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST The United States has many vital and enduring interests in the Middle ... public opinion, in general the public had little input into foreign policy decisionmaking and leaders could mostly cloak their actions Increases in popular input into decisionmaking and the explosion...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 20:20

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The Case for Determinism in Database Systems doc

The Case for Determinism in Database Systems doc

... scheme The prospect of a seamless, on -the- fly protocol for shifting between execution models presents an intriguing future avenue of research THE CASE FOR NONDETERMINISM Before making the case for ... minimizing superfluous context switches (i.e avoiding prematurely scheduling threads blocked on multiple contentions) is key to maintaining acceptable performance in deterministic systems in the ... not, then when the master fails, log records in flight at the time of the failure may not be delivered In such a case, either the in- flight transactions are lost, reducing durability, or they are...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 13:20

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beyond rationality the search for wisdom in a troubled time jan 2007

beyond rationality the search for wisdom in a troubled time jan 2007

... enthusiasm for Mr Bush’s style by complaining that there wasn’t enough use of instinctive judgment in forming foreign policy The regress from the seventeenth-century “Age of Reason” to the instinctive ... the growth engine of the U.S economy, indicated his uncertainty by referring to the tentativeness of our projections.” He then asked, “What if, for example, the forces driving the surge in the ... if the benevolence of the gods driving the surge in the flood waters begins to dissipate or reverse in ways we not now foresee?” There is nothing new in the way that irreducible uncertainty induces...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 10:32

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báo cáo hóa học:" Meaning in life in the Federal Republic of Germany: results of a representative survey with the Schedule for Meaning in Life Evaluation (SMiLE)" ppt

báo cáo hóa học:" Meaning in life in the Federal Republic of Germany: results of a representative survey with the Schedule for Meaning in Life Evaluation (SMiLE)" ppt

... the data, interpreted the results and wrote the manuscript MK, CB and GDB were involved in the planning of the design, the interpretation of the results and the writing of the manuscript All authors ... important to their individual MiL Since a consensus in the definition of MiL is still missing [39], an attempt to define MiL for the individualized approach may read as follows (paraphrasing O'Boyle ... point of view [24] O'Boyle et al therefore developed the "Schedule for the Evaluation of Individual Quality of Life – Direct Weighting" (SEIQoL-DW, [26,27]) In the SEIQoLDW, the respondent indicates...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

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AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE FUTURE OF RESEARCH IN CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME ppt

AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE FUTURE OF RESEARCH IN CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME ppt

... (Leong & Fehinger 2010) In the cell membrane of the infected cell perforin facilitates the binding of granzymes to different organelles of the cell and induce either caspase dependent or independent ... artefact remains highly controversial If the findings linking XMRV with CFS are not due to laboratory artefacts, how can we explain the failure of other investigators to replicate the findings? Different ... expressed in the chapters are these of the individual contributors and not necessarily those of the editors or publisher No responsibility is accepted for the accuracy of information contained in the...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 11:20

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CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY – THE NEED FOR IMPROVEMENT IN MEDICAL AND INTERVENTIONAL THERAPY pot

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY – THE NEED FOR IMPROVEMENT IN MEDICAL AND INTERVENTIONAL THERAPY pot

... of the interventionalist performing the procedure During the study period, six interventionalists performed primary PCI for STEMI Concern about performing PCI prior to the availability of information ... guide catheter shape and size (6 or French) In the culprit PCI group, the location of the presumed infarct lesion was based only on the initial ECG obtained in the emergency department In these ... were in the first group and 192 patients were in the second group The type of procedural strategy was left to the discretion of the interventionalists The baseline characteristics, including clinical,...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 05:20

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The Future of Work in the Age of Social Network

The Future of Work in the Age of Social Network

... Consider this… Ten years ago there were no social networks Ten years before that we didn't have the Web.  If you work in the web programming, online marketing, or mobile phone industries… st xi te no ... now? The people out of work today will soon find jobs again The people out of work today will soon find jobs again What is the FUTURE OF WORK? The future of work is… TRANSPARENT No one is going ... allowing 700 customer service reps to work from home with no central office In the future, location will not matter The future of work is… COMPETITIVE No one is going to pay you just for having...

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 21:22

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Báo cáo y học: "The need for prognosticators in rheumatoid arthritis. Biological and clinical markers: where are we now" potx

Báo cáo y học: "The need for prognosticators in rheumatoid arthritis. Biological and clinical markers: where are we now" potx

... osteoblast function, including proteins involved in the Wnt signaling pathways [85], may therefore constitute further interesting markers for the future Importantly, however, achieving low disease ... present in the synovium even if depelted in peripheral blood [39,47] This finding also indicates that the periphery often does not reflect the events occurring in the joint, but these by themselves ... may therefore allow for optimized understanding and prediction of the fate of the individual RA patient There is recognition that clinical assessment (measuring and noting the change in index...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:23

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báo cáo khoa học: "Implementing health research through academic and clinical partnerships: a realistic evaluation of the Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC)" pot

báo cáo khoa học: "Implementing health research through academic and clinical partnerships: a realistic evaluation of the Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC)" pot

... opportunities for sharing and verifying emerging findings This evaluation was funded to provide information for learning, not for judgement The purpose of the evaluation is formative, focusing on processes ... each CLAHRC and with the three other NIHR SDO Programme evaluation teams Discussion The rationale underpinning the investment in the CLAHRC initiative and the theory on which they have been established ... provided input into initial and final refinements of the full manuscript All authors read and approved the final submitted manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20

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Báo cáo y học: " Assessing medically unexplained symptoms: evaluation of a shortened version of the SOMS for use in primary care" doc

Báo cáo y học: " Assessing medically unexplained symptoms: evaluation of a shortened version of the SOMS for use in primary care" doc

... somatization in general This study was designed to validate the Portuguese version of the SOMS-2 for use in PC settings The performance of the screening tool was also tested in the presence of ... about the symptom was reached (explained or unexplained), yielding the Final Clinical Symptom Evaluation (FCSE) Whenever information was insufficient for a decision on a reported "borderline" ... were included in the final version The McNemar test or binomial distribution was used to compare the "prevalence" of symptoms at self-report and after clinical validation The cut-off point for the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

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The Future Security Environment in the Middle East Conflict, Stability, and Political Change phần 1 ppt

The Future Security Environment in the Middle East Conflict, Stability, and Political Change phần 1 ppt

... Alleviating Poverty The Jungle of Cities Saving Water Obtaining Food Attracting Money for Investment Egypt The Background of Reform The Promise of Reform The Performance ... identifying U.S national interests in the region and the potential threats to those interests U.S INTERESTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST The United States has many vital and enduring interests in the Middle ... public opinion, in general the public had little input into foreign policy decisionmaking and leaders could mostly cloak their actions Increases in popular input into decisionmaking and the explosion...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:20

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The Future Security Environment in the Middle East Conflict, Stability, and Political Change phần 2 ppt

The Future Security Environment in the Middle East Conflict, Stability, and Political Change phần 2 ppt

... about maintaining power, not achieving democracy, and they may calculate that even limited increases in participation will strengthen their survival prospects in the long term.22 They therefore ... opponents include Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz, the minister of the interior, and Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz, the minister of defense Tyler, 2003 52 The Future Security Environment in the Middle East ... whether these measures are indeed first steps on the path to genuine reform Yet the pressures for reform, both from inside and outside the Kingdom, seem likely to continue and perhaps even increase...

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