agriculture apos s contribution to development in a changing world
Expect the Unexpected: Building business value in a changing world pptx
... making natural resources scarcer, more expensive and less diverse – increasing the costs of water and escalating the damage caused by invasive species to sectors including agriculture, fishing, ... business context may generate insights such as: • Demand and supply stresses are likely to be concentrated in areas such as China and India that already experience massive challenges of water availability ... Ecological Restoration s s s s s s Smart Cities Smart Cities Source: Expect the Unexpected: Building business value in a changing world, KPMG International 2012 This nexus suggests that sustainable...
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Developing solutions in a changing world
... biological systems 1.2.3 Catalysis and this has led both to chemical approaches to intervening in disease states and synthesising pared-down chemi- Catalysts are commonly used in industry and research ... vital to the challenge of exploiting intermittent sources such as wind and ocean energies and encompasses a range of Europe faces vast challenges in securing a sustainable, af- research areas in ... passive solar heating available options, the most abundant and versatile is solar and daylighting, solar hot water, and biomass energy, in addition to secondary sources such as wind, biomass,...
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báo cáo hóa học: " The Second Young Environmental Scientist (YES) meeting 2011 at RWTH Aachen University environmental challenges in a changing world" potx
... Belgium An exposure assessment of novel brominated flame retardants to toddlers and adults using dust samples from Belgian homes and offices and UK day care centers and schools Fierens et al., VITO, ... al., University of Manitoba, Canada Buresova et al., Alterra Wageningen, Netherlands Zafar et al., Wageningen University, Netherlands Attenuation and dynamics of pharmaceuticals in a German stream ... Germany) Session “Nanoparticles: fate, effects and risks” (Chairs: Dominic Kaiser, André Dabrunz) Pang et al., Roskilde University, Denmark Assessing risks of manufactured nanomaterials - are current...
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A discussion proposal on people''''s adaptability to floods in the Mekong river delta
... upstream and deposit alluvium to the fields of the Delta Flooding water eliminates a great part of the salinity in the soil in the coastal areas and flushes toxicity released from acid sulfate soil Also, ... Also, floods kill the insets and rats population Otherwise, flood brings natural fishes, brings plankton which is food for fishes in cases and pools In some questionnaire survey and interviews ... the seasonal flows, forecast the relation between the warm atmosphere and the storms in the tropical monsoon Asia Survey and forecast the effects of the dams and irrigation systems in upstream to...
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Tài liệu REPORT BY THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL ON THE UNITED NATIONS DECADE OF EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: INTERNATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION SCHEME AND UNESCO’S CONTRIBUTION TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DECADE doc
... businesses business associations regional business associations international associations of businesses (e.g in the extractive sector) TNCs (eg media corporations) 172 EX/11 Annex I – page With such ... introduced to address energy, water and waste management issues Addressing other environmental, social and human resources issues are proving to be rewarding In fact some leading schools of business include ... Understanding and addressing these global issues of sustainability that affect individual nations and communities are at the heart of ESD These issues come from the three spheres of sustainable development...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "What’s There to Talk About? A Multi-Modal Model of Referring Behavior in the Presence of Shared Visual Information" potx
... the task As Table demonstrates, we use a small random selection of data consisting of 10 dialogues from each of the Shared Visual Information and No Shared Visual Information conditions Each of ... these parameters in detail Second, we plan to appreciably enhance the integrated model It appears from both our initial data analysis, as well as our qualitative examination of the data, that ... visual 13 features such as limited field-of-views, delays in providing the shared visual information, and various asymmetries in the interlocutors’ visual information In addition to this we plan...
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Tài liệu People''''s adaptability to floods in the Mekong river delta pptx
... upstream and deposit alluvium to the fields of the Delta Flooding water eliminates a great part of the salinity in the soil in the coastal areas and flushes toxicity released from acid sulfate soil Also, ... Also, floods kill the insets and rats population Otherwise, flood brings natural fishes, brings plankton which is food for fishes in cases and pools In some questionnaire survey and interviews ... the seasonal flows, forecast the relation between the warm atmosphere and the storms in the tropical monsoon Asia Survey and forecast the effects of the dams and irrigation systems in upstream to...
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Tài liệu ALLOCATION TO REPRODUCTION IN A HAWKMOTH: A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS USING STABLE CARBON ISOTOPES docx
... dietary sugars into eggs by analyzing egg 13C content across a female s lifetime In addition, we use an isotopically distinct amino acid supplement to address whether nectar amino acids are an ... Statistical analyses All statistical analyses were performed in JMP version 3.1 (SAS Institute, Cary, North Carolina, USA) Means are presented Ϯ1 SE unless otherwise noted The effects of year, sugar ... ANOVA, including sugar type, day, and the interaction between sugar and amino acids as effects The decline in meal size over time was tested with linear regression Nonparametric Spearman rank tests...
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Base Tutorial: From Newbie to Advocate in a one, two... three! pot
... the same attributes In database theory, each class translates to a table With that said, we can attempt to define a Relational Database as a collection of objects -organized in classes- and their ... be clear, Base using the HSQL engine can accept spaces and other special characters as valid characters for names and can also act as caps sensitive as long as you enclose the names within double ... now that we have described a database and its properties, we are ready to offer a definition of Database and Base Database We have seen that database design uses many tables that are all related...
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How to Invest in a Global Economy potx
... better than most In the end you still have to continue doing research because variables in the market can change at any time Investing today also has many more advantages than it had in the past With ... analysts, macroeconomic indicators are used to judge where a stock, exchange or countries economy may go Macroeconomic indicators are treated as statistical indicators which are used for assessment ... goes on to say that financial markets have an interesting feature that has undone many a trading strategy That is once everyone starts believing something, it often stops being true If you discover...
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Protecting Children''''s Health In A Changing Environment - Report Of The Fifth Ministerial Conference On Environment And Health.pdf potx
... financial ones Environment and health must not be seen as costs but as investments In fact, the environment can be seen as a booming sector, investing in a sustainable future Some existing instruments ... on such issues as nutrition and smoking All panellists agreed that financing activities is a key challenge Participants made several proposals on how to move forward A database of more and less ... and promoting training on risk assessment tools in the health sector and risk management techniques, including rapid assessment tools; • developing a health strategy across agencies with a common...
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DETERMINANTS OF CREDIT TO HOUSEHOLDS IN A LIFE-CYCLE MODEL pdf
... five-year averages for all variables and use these averages as cross-sectional data in our estimations Among the variables present in specification (22), individual income uncertainty incu and persistence ... Early warning systems and systemic risk indicators; 3) Assessing contagion risks MaRs is chaired by Philipp Hartmann (ECB) Paolo Angelini (Banca d’Italia), Laurent Clerc (Banque de France), Carsten ... deposit rate deter individuals from savings The aggregate value of deposits, and hence capital, is falling, which leads to an increase of the market rate As regards the lending rate, it is rising...
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A survey of technology thinkers and stakeholders shows they believe the internet will continue to spread in a “flattening” and improving world. There are many, though, who think major problems will accompany technology advances by 2020 doc
... English displaces other languages languages, making a single language less necessary 2) As in all evolutionary systems, very successful, dominant species spawn subspecies; English will continue to ... communicate as effectively as they can across cultures A lingua franca is a common language for use by all participants in a discussion At this point, the world 's lingua franca is English – for example, ... Never has there been a language spoken by so many Linguist David Crystal has estimated in his research that the world has 140 languages in use by at least a million people each He says there has never...
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Influence of different breeds, feeding and housing systems on sow reproductive performance and piglet''''s resistance to diseases in Central Vietnam pdf
... infections and treated 2.5 Statistical and analysis SPSS will be applied for analysis with relationships, correlations and mean, ANOVA will be used for analysis SURVEY RESULTS 3.1 Total of investigated ... General household variables (household characteristics, land uses and area, professional, labour) - Technical variables: Number of sows, pigs and other animals, sow reproductive variables, feeding ... 10 sows (only 1.6%) and 20 sows (0.5%), so we can think how many sows farmers in this areas can raise for project models, in strategies, we advise them to raise in their system from 10 sows depend...
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Báo cáo hóa học: "Research Article A Robust Statistical-Based Speaker’s Location Detection Algorithm in a Vehicular Environment" pptx
... switches automatically between the silent and speech stages according to the VAD result If the VAD result equals to zero, indicating that speakers are silent, then the system switches to the silent ... Japan, September 2005 [4] S Gannot, D Burshtein, and E Weinstein, “Signal enhancement using beamforming and nonstationarity with applications to speech,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, ... simultaneously active speakers Because each location has specific acoustical characteristics, the threshold at each location can be used to determine whether it represents the radio broadcasting...
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Module 6: Configuring Windows XP Professional to Operate in a Microsoft Network potx
... credentials are and how they are used Practice: Joining a Domain In this practice, students will join a domain This practice takes approximately 15 minutes Assessment This module has assessment questions ... post-instruction assessments to validate learning Consider using assessment questions to reinforce learning at the end of the day You can also use them at the beginning of the day as a review of the information ... the user s security settings These security settings enable the user to access resources and perform specific system tasks ! If you make a change to a user account, such as a password change, the...
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Solving Complex Problems: How to survive in a competitive climate
... Gillman, James Denman, Eugene Chung, Mark Gallagher, Mike Arauz, Matt Creamer, Helen Klein Ross, Casey Flanagan, Dave Daines, Faris Yakob, Balind Sieber, Dan Weingrod, Mark Avnet, Mark DiCristina, ... Kimberly Carroll, Tobias Peggs, Sara Williams, Matthew Don, Carmel Hagen, Jane Friedman, Jabe Bloom, Sara Ashton, Johannes Kleske, Stuart Eccles, Utku Can, Robin Wong, Sean M Aaron, C.C Chapman, Len ... Len Kendall, Terence Reis, Adam Wohl, Richard Nevins, Heather Ann Snodgrass, matt gierhart, Stuart Foster, Shaun Abrahamson, Ted Sink, Tim Malbon, Gavin Heaton, Cameron Maddux, Jurandir Craveiro,...
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developer''s guide to collections in microsoft .net
... you can use instead of a simple array when such issues matter Microsoft has a class with similar functionality called ArrayList This class is named ArrayEx(T) to eliminate any possible confusion ... product, and so on using arrays that represent matrices and vectors You can easily calculate the size and element indices of an array at run time This makes arrays useful for streaming values to disk ... can use the ArrayList or List(T) class that is discussed in Chapter 4, “Generic Collections.” Advantages of Arrays The biggest advantage of arrays is that you can access any item in them using...
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