the impact of technological change on building materials

... will offer a collective interpretation of climatic impacts on populations of avian species across the USA whilst retaining the resolution of the state-level approach During the production of CIIs, ... utility of SDMs to speculate future impacts of climate change on biodiversity SDMs rarely take into consideration biotic interactions, species dispersal or evolutionary change (Pearson & Dawson, ... validate them, this is contingent on their appropriate use and acknowledgement of their assumptions and limitations (Araújo & Peterson, 2012) SDMs often use presence-absence data for the distributions...

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... considering the overlapping of the influence and the lag effect of the driving forces 1.1.2 Mathematical modelling of the impact and limitation of current research There is a growing concern about the impact ... and non-linear trend analysis, to examine the trend, the slope of the trend and the abrupt change point in the time series The 24 relationship between the change of rainfall and the change of water ... 90% The change of forest in the catchment was failed to be related to sediment in the river due to various reason like the immaturity of the trees, the lack of the undergrowth and the location of...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 14:05

... of monetary policy on the economy and on residential property prices (CGFS 2006) On the other hand, Tsatsaronis and Zhu (2004) conjecture that the prevalence of securitisation should reduce the ... triggered by the adoption of tight monetary policy in Germany to offset the aggregate demand effects of German Reunification The figure indicates that following the collapse of the “bubble economy” ... also for these countries the existence of cointegration could not be rejected We therefore specify the VAR models in the level of the variables Nevertheless, we neither impose the number of cointegrating...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2012, 09:40

... the questionnaire The results of the questionnaire are presented in the following sections IV.5.1 Result of the first part of the questionnaire Table indicates the results of the first part of ... increase the validity of the later generalization of the result to the population Involving the generalization of the results, extraneous variables need controlling prior to the experimental like the ... sub-groups within the two groups and also the results of the questionnaire The findings are valuable for the discussion in the last section of this chapter IV.6 Discussion The results of the reading...

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... Tbb the paths are not completely resolved and the contribution of the second term of (2.47) depends on relative difference in the multipath phases and the value of the autocorrelation function ... demodulate the strongest multipath components In general, the first correlator is synchronized to the strongest multipath component, followed by the second strongest component synchronized to the second ... in Section 2.2.2.3 2.2.2.2 Refraction Refraction is defined as the bending of the normal to the wavefront of a propagating wave upon passing from one medium to another where the propagation velocity...

Ngày tải lên: 20/11/2012, 11:36

... culture of the organization If the organization is one that relies on face-to-face and one -on- one communication, HR practitioners must not only address the impact of the new technology, but must monitor ... IT change Rather, we have found that the contrary is true HR must respond to the frustration expressed by professionals concerning the actual changes and the implementation process To address these ... examination of employees’ experiences of change, we investigate their perceptions of changes in effective communication during major organizational change implementation in a hospital context While the...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 08:20

... the sum of all students in the class This then raises the question of the validity and authority of knowledge gained over the Internet How can the learner be sure of the sources of information? ... interaction The first is the interaction of the learner with the machine As the sophistication of multimedia design has increased, so have the types and forms of interaction, although they have ... explanations or answers not previously considered by the designer of the multiple choice questions Consequently, a more common form of response is the use of words or phrases, usually typed into the...

Ngày tải lên: 04/11/2013, 20:15

... HIV/ AIDS on professional health Health professionals, i.e., doctors, nurses, workers in the health sector other professionals 3.2 Impact of HIV/ AIDS on non-professional health workers in the health ... practitioners; • 33 other health professionals eg social workers, psychologists; and • 167 non-professionals eg cleaners ©DoH 2003 The Impact of HIV/AIDS on the Health Sector Information on the number ... correction of given sa mple sizes for public hospita ls in the Ea stern Ca pe HOSPITAL HOSPITAL MOS NUMBER of nurses NO OF of medical of other of non- practitioners professionals PATIENTS professionals...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 10:20

... condition was assigned a value of 1, one in fair condition 0.67, and one in poor condition 0.5 The wealth score is then calculated as the weighted sum of the number of assets owned, drawing on ... administration and its impact on the tenure security of the vulnerable Forecasting the impact of HIV/AIDS on land rights into the future Why the discrepancy between these findings and the perception at ... the subject of much debate,1 what are the implications of this tenure choice in the context of the stresses For a recent contribution to the debate, see the newly released report by D Hunt, The...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 04:20

... necessary condition for the possibility of aesthetic nature, which is itself vital for a 'rich' life The junction of the ethical and the aesthetic leads Seel to the moral proposition that the conservation ... depend on the degree of freedom but on our ability to acknowledge its freedom Therefore the potential freedom of existing nature is a condition for the imaginative construction of aesthetic nature ... introduction on the subject His description of fantasy brings us closer to understanding the meaning of the term of imagination According to him, the concept of fantasy is nowadays often related...

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... is, the coefficients of the marginal effects of the Poisson model can be interpreted as the proportionate change in the conditional mean if the jth regressor changes by one unit Finally, the ... bird raised The Poisson regression model is the development of the Poisson distribution presented in Equation to a nonlinear regression model of the effect of independent variables x i on a scalar ... and asset portfolio rather than solely the poultry income, thereby providing a more accurate measure of the impact of the disease If one looked only at the impact of HPAI on the income from poultry...

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... collaboration with DG Education and Culture, Directorate A, Unit A1 (Lifelong Learning: contribution to the Lisbon process) The IPTS contribution to the strategic policy work of DG EAC consists of techno-economic ... BRIEF The Use of the Internet for Information and Learning Purposes Over the last few years, the Internet has had a profound effect on the private and professional lives of European citizens, offering ... for the conception, development, implementation and monitoring of EU policies As a service of the European Commission, the JRC functions as a reference centre of science and technology for the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 21:20

... causes changes in flow in the basin The consequence of climate change is the change of air temperature causing change in evapotranspiration As the temperature, annual evapotranspiration will ... Year Figure Change in evapotranspiration (%) relative to the period 1980-1999 at selected stations Impacts of climate change on river flow In order to assess impacts of climate change on water resources, ... baseline period The results corresponding to B2 and B1 reduced by approximately 1.06% and 0.96% The change of flow in different branches is the results of the different changes of rainfall Son Diem 2040-2059...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 16:20

... org/education/apeid/news/news-details/article/consultation-meeting -on -the- impact- of- theeconomic-crisis -on- higher-education-in-asia-and -the- pacific UNESCO Bangkok 2010 Information Note Regional Seminar on the Impact of the Economic Crisis on Higher Education ... framework containing three basic research questions: ‡ what is the impact of the economic crisis on higher education budgets and government responses to cushion the impact; ‡ what is the impact of the ... staff) The expansion of the role of the private sector has been a key feature in the transformation of the Hong Kong higher education system The system consists of 12 UGC-funded higher education...

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... organization are need to make decisions, also to implement the right ones A decision is concerned with the selection of an action often out of a number of alternatives To make the right decision, manager ... systems, the decision will not made alone on the main of this assessment between alternative Other factors (Crothers, D (2004)) that need to considered , this is the aims of the business, the on hand ... comparisons in order to consider and evaluate the results of business operation in relation to the overall economy, the key competitors in the domain of industry, and the previous performance of the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/03/2014, 14:20

... through the periodic reports on the production costs of each unit, the report analyzes the use of materials Based on these reports, company control costs better in the production of next month The ... to milk, common policies, information on the price of milk on the market and the price adjustment Increasing the cost of production is one of the main reasons for increase price of products Apparently, ... Competition is the gain of market share The nature of competition is the search for profit which is higher than average profits of enterprises The outcome of the competitive process is the average profitability...

Ngày tải lên: 13/03/2014, 14:20

... spreads of savings banks’ bonds increased upon the announcement of the decision to remove the guarantee, while the yield spread of bonds issued by the control group remained unchanged In light of the ... in the midst of a crisis, in which case the effects of the guarantees on the portfolio risk of banks are confounded by the effects of the crisis itself on portfolio risk of banks To disentangle the ... Regulation, the CEPR conference on Bank Crisis Prevention and Resolution, the European Finance Association Conference, the Reserve Bank of Chicago Conference on Bank Structure and Competition, the...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 10:20

... and the nature of the process or other conditions of receipt The intention to sell or use the allowances links into the questions regarding provisions and assets in the books of emitters or traders ... for the company’s own use or for profit Some also act as creators of emission reductions and/or consultants There are also examples of companies running their own exchanges We consider some of the ... later than the beginning of the compliance year, but may be earlier • On another date? If advised of the full five year allocation, full recognition may be possible depending on the reasonable assurance...

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