the intergovernmental panel on climate change

... Beside the Declaration, one other Level process achieved a concluded international action by the time of the Conference That was in the field of marine pollution, the London Dumping Convention formally ... globalization of the environment movement as Secretary-General of both the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, which first put the environment on the international agenda, and the ... representative in the formulation of several International multilateral treaty processes, including the Stockholm Convention on POPS, the Basel Convention, the SAICM process, as well as the ongoing intergovernmental...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 22:20

... goods they manufacture in China on the occasion of the reduction of that country’s tariffs and the improvement of the operating environment there Rather, Korean companies tend to be much more concerned ... accession, this study can make the most updated simulation on the latest information on tariff reduction (2) Estimates Derived from the GTAP Model i) Simulation Scenario This simulation is conducted ... attention because of their substantial impact on the world economy as a whole First, the EU continues to widen and deepen its ongoing economic integration The European Council met in Nice on December...

Ngày tải lên: 23/10/2012, 13:09

... About the Authors of the National Committee on MPA Education and of the Public Management Education Committee of the Ministry of Education He is the vice chair of the Political Science Association ... strong There is regional distinctiveness in preferences in using participation and consultation for consensus building and avoiding open conflict (lack of harmony), for casting consultation very ... people and how they deal with specific situations; it provides the foundation and other building blocks on which public administration stands The third approach, then, identifies common tasks and...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 06:21

... Korea draws on some of the contributions to that conference In many ways though it goes beyond the original intentions of the conference The topics covered at the conference included the importance ... three others in the large ports of the southeast In 1995 (Map 2.5), three additional teams joined the league: the Chonbuk Hyundai Motors, based in Chonju in the centre of the country; the Suwon Samsung ... and its territory: only one national federation in each country and one confederation per continent This structure is capped by a single international federation, the owner of the sport in charge...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 21:21

... (2000a) contends that government protection may be too long if the notional welfare loss for consumers due to slow imitation outweighs the benefit gained from the additional innovation On the other ... institutional compulsion as well as conditions to monitor them effectively Conditions And Compulsion For Growth Enhancing Rents What are the necessary political and institutional conditions for ... question goes to the heart of many current debates on the role of markets and the State during the economic and social transformation that successful developing countries have gone through Most economists...

Ngày tải lên: 09/04/2014, 00:24

... about Japan itself, one must refer to the economic situation because of its obvious connection with the international situation In the first place, there is the strong impression that Japan is over-extended ... abolition of further concessions, and the uniting of the financial resources of the banks in the Consortium for the economic development of China itself By an ironical coincidence, the Hong Kong-Shanghai ... prognostications They are accomplished facts Yet the facts give only the framework of the picture What is actually going on within Shantung? One of the demands of the "postponed" group of the Twenty-one...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 11:20

... 2006 The outcome measure was whether or not the CHS in the municipality had a chain of care structure (CCS) based on the following criteria: (a) the CHS had a person or unit responsible for the ... (rural, rural/urban or urban) were gathered from Statistics Norway Information on the position of the informant in the CHS (leader/non-leader) was gathered through the interview EDs at Norwegian general ... supports the associations observed The main limitations of this study lay inherent within the study design and the limited conclusions that can be drawn from an observational study based on self-reported...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:21

... International Trade Classification data in our estimation6 2.1.2 Early Theoretical Explanations As a possible solution to the famous Leontief paradox, which rejected empirically the traditional factor ... factor proportions theory, Linder (1961) proposed an alternative theory that was consistent with Leontief's findings Linder‟s Theory focuses on the role of demand, rather than supply, on trade patterns ... literature, the following hypotheses are proposed 4.1 Hypotheses The greater the degree of product differentiation in an industry, the higher the degree of IIT Product differentiation is often used as the...

Ngày tải lên: 28/11/2015, 13:33

... driver of the economy as well as the social development Nevertheless, within the scope of the study, this research only concentrates on analyzing the influence of the corporate culture on the management ... name, organizations, departments and current positions The second part comprises the questions of which the answers are the findings of the survey stated in the section “Findings from the survey” ... attention to at the danger of their organization’s future Underneath lays the much-harder-to-grasp “essence” of the organization, the learned, shared, tacit assumptions on which people base their...

Ngày tải lên: 13/03/2014, 14:20

... Distribution of Responses on the existing level of the which of the following factors effected on the current cooperation between Collegess and Enterprises 59 4.11 Mean Distribution of Responses on the ... The respondents shall answer the questionnaire based on a five point scale (Linker's Scale) to measure the perception The result shall be ranked and averaged to get the common perception of the ... respondents Each questionnaire is composed of two Part I pertains to the personal profile of the respondent, Part II bring forth the respondent's perception on elements of level of cooperation...

Ngày tải lên: 13/05/2014, 14:46

... impartial consideration of the country's development situation and potential implications for the future Our aim is to encourage informed discussion and debate through the presentation of information ... some conclusions 1 The Elderly Population Figure shows the age distribution of the Vietnamese population using VHLSS data in five-year bands Defining the elderly as a distinct group solely by their ... lessen their work when they receive a pension would probably continue to work or have higher earnings in the absence of a pension Another reason is that without pensions and remittances the patterns...

Ngày tải lên: 27/05/2014, 07:47

... Leone, Swaziland, Togo, Zimbabwe The number of non-focus countries reporting each health indicator varies from 31 to 34 ** The p value addresses the question of whether the median fractional change ... a non-significant p value is noted among all of the health indicators, with the exception of neonates PAB against neonatal tetanus Although both focus and non-focus countries showed fractional ... programme funding based on a national health strategy, rather than on the donors' interests This results in signif- Page of icantly less donor control when compared with traditional bilateral funding...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... (2) they select one of the prime numbers, each of them on the basis of their position in the list of addresses {C, D, E, F } specified in the previously mentioned IM; (3) they send the components ... worth mentioning that, using the proposed CRTbased scheme, a perfect synchronization among all the nodes of the network is not needed and we will demonstrate that a synchronization among consecutive ... Synchronization of the nodes belonging to cluster is straightforward In fact, we can consider that all the nodes in cluster (i.e., the nodes that receive the first IM from the sink) start their...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 11:20

... augmented the induction of MMP-1 in co-culture (Fig 4) In contrast, PGE2 reduced the amount of total MMP-1 and decreased the conversion of the 52 kDa form to the lower molecular weight forms in the ... 2b) The addition of exogenous PGE2 decreased the conversion of MMP-9 to the 83 kDa form MMP-9 Neither indomethacin nor PGE2 induced release of gelatinase activity in monocytes cultured alone ... augmented the induction of MMP-3 while PGE2 reduced the conversion of MMP-3 to lower molecular weight forms (Fig 6) Neither indomethacin nor PGE had an effect on MMP-3 on fibroblasts or monocytes...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20

... Robustness of a function requires minimal variation in the function (panel a) while the discovery of new functions requires the testing of a large number of functional variants (panel b) The existence ... conflict is unresolvable only when robustness is conferred in both the genotype and the phenotype On the other hand, if the phenotype is robustly maintained in the presence of genetic mutations, ... to different contexts While the functionalities of some components appear to be similar under specific conditions, they differ under others This conditional similarity of functions within biological...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:20

... Information on the company contracting policy (YES/NO) Information on the distribution of employees by gender (YES/NO) Information on the distribution of employees by age (YES/NO) Information on average ... CEO functions fall onto the same person – CEO duality – the concentration of too much power in one person may compromise the monitoring role of the board (Forker, 1992) and affect the quality ... representing the estimated value of the percentage of independent directors on the board The signs of the regression are consistent with expectations in all cases The results on the main governance...

Ngày tải lên: 06/01/2015, 19:46

... a consideration of the context the transnational FBO is trying to establish its operations in 2.2 Religion and the Environment The literature that examines the relationship between religion and ... transnational environmental faith-based organisation 2.7 Transnational Environmental Faith-Based Organisation – a Conceptual Framework While there is research done on the intersection between religion ... and Key Concerns Just as the above discussion on transnationalism focused on the role of nonstate actors in the changing arena of world politics, the term ‘nongovernmental organisation’ emerged...

Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2015, 19:05

... each pass the region size is put equal to the change of each variable during the pass In order to avoid the collapse of the region size, if the change is less than 10−6 then the region size is ... respectively After the first pass the initial region size was determined by the extent of the variation of the variables during the previous pass To avoid the collapse of the region size, the region collapse ... 2000a) The procedure is straightforward, but the user must specify the initial center of the region x∗ , the initial region size vector r1 , the region reduction factor γ and decide on the number...

Ngày tải lên: 01/04/2014, 11:36

... and KC participated in the conception of the work, compiled the information, reviewed and wrote the manuscript PW participated in the conception of the work, development of the test battery, and ... cognitive function based on neuropsychological testing http://www.ro-journal.com/content/3/1/26 were considered abnormal on the MMSE [70] Furthermore, scores on the MMSE did not change despite ... Larson M, Hendrickson F, Griffin T, Roth R: Ultra-rapid high dose irradiation schedules for the palliation of brain metastases: final results of the first two studies by the Radiation Therapy Oncology...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:22