beyond concern for europes

Concern for Europe’s Tomorrow Health and the Environment in the WHO European Region pot

Ngày tải lên : 15/03/2014, 19:20

... all ministries of health and of the environment in the Region for their active support. The network of national focal points for Concern for Europe’s Tomorrow (CET), acting as links between the national ... was entitled Concern for Europe’s Tomorrow, and the Scientific Ad- visory Board of the European Centre de- cided that the final report should be avail- able as the scientific basis for deliberations at ... the former USSR. None of the countries of our Region, however, has room for complacency. As one example, substantial areas of many Euro- pean cities provide a deteriorating environment for...

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Multiple Access Protocols for Mobile Communications - GPRS, UMTS and Beyond

Ngày tải lên : 02/03/2013, 16:59

... Models for the Physical Layer and for User Trafﬁc Generation 221 5.1 How to Account for the Physical Layer? 221 5.1.1 What to Account For and How? 221 5.1.2 Using Approximations for Error Performance ... error-coding R max Maximum bit-rate for DRAC operation R p PRMA channel rate before error-coding R s Source rate (voice terminal) S Throughput (normalised) S 0 Maximum throughput level for S-ALOHA S[t] Number ... stands for UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access), for instance, they could be applied both on the Common Packet Channel (CPCH) and on dedicated channels, as discussed in more detail in Chapter 10. For...

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Tài liệu Extending Reach Beyond CSA Range for xDSL Services doc

Ngày tải lên : 17/01/2014, 11:20

... as an important corporate asset and vigorously enforces its patents. Products or features contained herein may be covered by one or more U.S. or foreign patents. 1234645 6/02 Original © 2002 ADC ... distribution system. Outside Plant Installation For above and below ground applications, EnCaser 819 apparatus case provides an optical thermal environment for increased installation density and reliability ... Call Toll Free: 1-800-366-3891 • Outside of North America: +1-952-938-8080 Fax: +1-952-946-3292 For a complete listing of ADC's global sales office locations, please refer to our web site. Implementation Chassis...

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Mammography and Beyond: Developing Technologies for the Early Detection of Breast Cancer pptx

Ngày tải lên : 05/03/2014, 12:20

... tests must have acceptable performance characteristics (for example, high levels of sensitivity and specificity, see Box 1-1 for defini- tions of screening test performance). 3. The tests must ... before decisions about coverage are made—including offering and paying for screening—are all critical questions that need to be ad- dressed. According to Edward Golub at the Pacific Center for ... World Health Organization proposed guidelines for clinical trials of tests used to screen for diseases (Wilson and Jungren, 1968): 1. The disorder screened for should be an important cause of morbid- ity,...

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Financial Innovations for Catastrophic Risk: Cat Bonds and Beyond docx

Ngày tải lên : 06/03/2014, 08:20

... Georgia State University and Insurance Information Institute, 2007. World Economic Forum. “Global Risks 2008: A Global Risk Network Report.” World Economic Forum 2008. Worthington, Andrew, and Abbas ... company and insider information with competitors and therefore have a greater need to turn to alternative sources of capital. In contrast, insurance companies have more options for buying protection ... Currently, sponsors for the most part obtain coverage for multiple risks in the same transaction. U.S. wind was the largest risk securitized in 2006 and 2007. Other perils included: Californian earthquakes...

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Beyond the Business Cycle: The Need for a Technology-Based Growth Strategy potx

Ngày tải lên : 08/03/2014, 16:20

... productivity are coming from. It does result in lower employment for the domestic supply chain as a whole. 35 For the long run, the major problems for future productivity growth are a stagnant national ... information technology). These mission agencies have varying degrees of freedom to support portions of a technology’s development that go well beyond the range of investment support allowed for ... Washington, given that the foreign content of Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner is 90 percent. 28 Yet, while these indicators imply the need for a crisis approach to education reform and much more investment...

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Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping--Updated and Revised for the Internet, the Global Consumer, and Beyond

Ngày tải lên : 15/03/2014, 15:16

... time to change the system completely for each job- we may need to do one new comparison for a project today and then not have to perform that function again for seven months. In the early '90s, ... the science of shopping is a force today. Generations ago, the commercial messages intended for consumers' ears came in highly concentr~ted, reliable forms. There were three TV networks, ... main customers for cold drinks were teenagers, and our observation showed many of them entering and making a beeline for the coolers. In fact, this was a favorite place for the mall's...

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Báo cáo khoa học: "Beyond NomBank: A Study of Implicit Arguments for Nominal Predicates" doc

Ngày tải lên : 17/03/2014, 00:20

... verbal forms. The normalization allows an existing arg 0 for the verb invested to ﬁll an iarg 0 for the noun investment. We also evaluated an oracle model that made gold-standard predictions for ... pieces of information: (1) the average difference between the number of roles expressed in nominal form (in NomBank) versus verbal form (in PropBank) and (2) the frequency of the nominal form in ... ﬁlled for an instance of a predicate’s noun form or verb form within the TreeBank. Verbal role averages were computed using PropBank. predicate instances. Below, we give an example annotation for...

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Fear Appeals in Social Marketing: Strategic and Ethical Reasons for Concern ppt

Ngày tải lên : 23/03/2014, 03:20

... and discomfort experienced when watching or listening to a fear message may trigger the very behavior that the ad is designed to prevent (Henley, 2002). For instance, it is not unusual for smokers ... Hoenig, 1989). For example, in recent years sev- eral major U.K. charities such as Barnardo’s, the NSPCC (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children), the Commission for Racial Equality, ... par- ents into keeping their children indoors. Support for these concerns is provided by ethical theory. Deontologi- cal, or duty, theory, which is concerned with the inherent morality, humaneness,...

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Báo cáo khoa học: "Beyond Log-Linear Models: Boosted Minimum Error Rate Training for N-best Re-ranking" docx

Ngày tải lên : 23/03/2014, 17:20

... Li, 2007), developed for document ranking in information retrieval. Our main difference lies in Lines 4-7 in Algorithm 1: AdaRank proposes a simple closed form solution for α and combines only ... 37–40, Columbus, Ohio, USA, June 2008. c 2008 Association for Computational Linguistics Beyond Log-Linear Models: Boosted Minimum Error Rate Training for N-best Re-ranking Kevin Duh ∗ Dept. of Electrical ... believe more gain is possible if we go beyond log-linear models. For example, Shen’s method (2004) produces large- margins but observed little gains in performance. Our BoostedMERT should not be...

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Báo cáo khoa học: Macromolecular NMR spectroscopy for the non-spectroscopist: beyond macromolecular solution structure determination potx

Ngày tải lên : 29/03/2014, 00:20

... during the titration (for fast exchange data) or intensity changes (for slow exchange data) can also be ﬁtted to determine the K d [12]. This approach is most straight- forward in the former case, and ... saturated with ligand. For each of the resonances indicated with arrows, two peaks are observed at 0.5 : 1, one for the free protein and another for the complex. Macromolecular NMR for the non-spectroscopist ... rates can report on rare conformations [67] that cannot be observed directly and yet must be accessed for exchange to occur. The experiment hinges on the idea that for an amide hydrogen to exchange...

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IBM Institute for Business Value: Automotive 2020 Clarity beyond the chaos doc

Ngày tải lên : 30/03/2014, 10:20

... by 2020. Transform retail The automotive industry should transform its retail model to adapt to the more sophisticated consumer. The consumer of 2020 is highly informed, aware, concerned and ... responsibility initiatives that transform the image of the industry. These concerns will increasingly drive consumer expectations and have the potential for far- reaching impact: Brand image• ... provide for greater assistance in naviga- tion, enhanced driver information about the vehicle, its environment and vehicle connec- tivity. Consumers, with a plethora of electronic devices that inform...

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Beyond the Golden Section and Normative Aesthetics: Why Do Individuals Differ so Much in Their Aesthetic Preferences for Rectangles? pot

Ngày tải lên : 30/03/2014, 16:20

... squares and, perhaps, cubes] transforms itself into a solid, compact form and becomes elegant and forceful. It ends up as a slim, unstable form, at which point the form then appears to deteriorate ... to go beyond a normative aesthetics based in the mathematics of the Golden Section, for which there is no empirical support and instead— both for historical reasons in tribute to Fechner and for practical ... preference function for the rectangle factor. Still, however, some form of explanation for differences in rectangle preferences is required. McManus and Weatherby (1997) put forward a tentative...

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springer publishing an introduction to php for scientists and engineers, beyond javascript (2008)

Ngày tải lên : 28/04/2014, 17:08

... heart failure and renal insufficiency. For finer estimation of risk, the GRACE score performs very well, especially for the prediction of long-term events. For ST-elevation myocardial infarction, ... fibrin to form thrombus. A platelet-rich thrombus forms at areas of high shear stress and is called a white thrombus, while a fibrin-rich thrombus is called a red thrombus. A red thrombus forms ... first myocardial infarction is 66 years for men and 70 years for women. Globally, the WHO reported that deaths from cardiovascular diseases are highest for Finnish men and women from the United...