... allowed the process
for the acceptance ofthe second part ofthe 1999 amendments to theAsiaandPacific Plant Protection
Agreement to proceed. The amendment is about the deletion of Article IV and ... 1
ARTICLE IV OFTHE APPPC
Functions ofthe Commission
1. The function ofthe Commission shall include:
a. the determination of procedures and arrangements necessary for the implementation ofthe Agreement
and ... the
introduction and spread of pests;
c. the promotion of appropriate measures to prevent the introduction and spread of pests ofplants and
plant products, and to control pests, including the use of integrated...
... across Asia, Table 5).
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Peru. From here, they were introduced to the North-western Pacific coast ofthe
Americas in the USA and Hawaii, and to the Eastern Atlantic coast from Carolina
and ... by, amongst others, FAO, the OIE, NACA, ASEAN, SEAFDEC
and the GAA have clearly defined most ofthe issues involved. With the
availability of SPF and SPF/SPR stocks of P. vannamei and P. stylirostris ...
2
The designation and presentation of material in this publication do not imply the expression of
any opinion whatsoever on the part ofthe Food and Agriculture Organization ofthe United...
... challenge.
Enhancing Elderly Care Services in AsiaandthePacific
Outcome Document of
the
Regional Forum on Elderly Care Services in Asiaandthe Pacific
21-22 January 2011, Nanjing, China ... ensuring quality health and long-term care services for
older persons in Asiaandthe Pacific.
I. Key gaps and challenges
The Forum identified the following gaps and challenges facing ... designing and implementing policies and programmes
towards the full realization ofthe rights of older persons.
Allocate adequate budgetary resources for the implementation of policies
and...
... improves the
screening of fund-seekers andthe monitoring ofthe recipients of funds, which improves the
allocation of resources. Secondly, in the presence of information and transactions costs, the ... contribute to the attainment of one objective at the cost of another. Both
financial development and its inclusivity are essential for achievement ofthe MDGs in Asia
and the Pacific.
Box 9. The Post ... and under 5
mortality rate in AsiaandthePacific ……………………………………………
15
Figure 15: The relationship between inclusive financial development andthe HIV
prevalence rate in AsiaandthePacific …………………………………………...
... indicators
I. Asian Development Bank.
The views expressed in this book do not necessarily reflect the views and policies ofthe
Asian Development Bank (ADB) or its Board of Governors or the governments they ...
and Governance. Each theme is further divided into subtopics. The tables contain indicators related to a subtopic.
The MDGs and themes in Parts II and III start with a brief analysis of key ... (million)
Non-AsiaAsia
Note: Extrapolation and interpolation were used to estimate urbanization level and corresponding starting years for Latin America andthe Caribbean and Northern America.
Sources:...
... responsible for the focus on the health of children under
five years of age, and he was the leader in the definition ofthe health status and
determinants indicators that framed the literature ... sanitation, and air pollution)
3. “Overview of Urbanization in Asiaandthe Near East”: trends and projections of
urban growth and population density in three cities and assessment of urban
poverty and ... health and a description of
key characteristics ofthe health and family situations of small children living in
slums in the ANE region
6. “Players and Programs”: overview ofthe key bi- and...
... confronta-
tion between the Soviet Union andthe United States was the central
reality in world politics. With the end ofthe Cold War andthe disso-
lution ofthe Soviet Union, the world continues ... interpretation of both the crude Chinese nuclear threats
over the Taiwan crisis and Chinese views ofthe U.S. bombing of the
Chinese embassy in Yugoslavia. If the strategic views of China and
the United ... result of agreements
with the United States and unilateral actions in the aftermath of the
Cold War, and partly because ofthe state ofthe Russian economy.
Even if Russia had not ratified the Strategic...
... Development
Economics, 1996 (Washington, DC: The World Bank).
Chernow, Ron, 1997, The Death ofthe Banker. The Decline andthe Fall ofthe Great Financial
Dynasties. The Triumph ofthe Small Investor (New York: ... output stabilizes the flow of funds that firms need to re-
appropriate at the end ofthe circuit process. In terms ofthe CTF model discussed above, the large
role ofthe state in the financial sector ... position
and counterparties, on their side, might consider for them unnecessary to further assess the
riskiness ofthe bank. Finally, the inadequacy ofthe static accounting framework, underpinning
the...
... understand the lyrics ofthe original song and they make comparison, they mainly
recognize that major of covered songs are not as good as the original ones. Hence, they may
look down on the musicians, ... a lot of singers
“borrow” foreign songs without “permission” of authors and then they said those are their
songs. Furthermore a lot of people don’t really understand about Music cover, they just ... types of students in other university, NEU students are the
perfect entity to take the research. The study illustrates the effects of music cover and
NEU students’ behaviors towards the spread of...
... one ofthe two less successful
did improve on par with the average ofthe other
four, but the other unsuccessfu l plant actually
experienced a reduction of productivity of 20%.
(The six plants ... Furthermore,
the will to compete, with other shifts and other
plants, also appears to be a motivator. In a sense,
the lack of communication in the unsuccessful
plants also highlights a lack of ... chain of hotels or super-
markets, a software vendor or a consulting com-
pany, regardless ofthe nature of knowledge. The
method of analysis is generalization to theory,
and given the level of...
... may provide the competent authorities the authority to inform the right
holder ofthe names and addresses ofthe consignor, the importer andthe consignee, and
of the quantity ofthe goods in ... activities as the exchange of experience and training of staff, and have the aim of
strengthening the legislative and regulatory framework in the field of intellectual property
law, strengthening the administration ... taken ofthe knowledge ofthe trademark in the relevant sector ofthe public, including
knowledge in the Party's territory obtained as a result ofthe promotion ofthe trademark.
Neither...
... re-evaluation ofthe role of BCG
vaccination in the prevention and control of TB in the United States. CDC, the Advisory
Council for the Elimination of Tuberculosis (ACET), andthe Advisory Committee ... Control and Prevention. The role of BCG vaccine in the pre-
vention and control of tuberculosis in the United States: a joint statement by the
Advisory Council for the Elimination of Tuberculosis and ... BCG, andthe skin-test results of such persons are used to support or
exclude the diagnosis of
M. tuberculosis
infection. A diagnosis of
M. tuberculosis
infection andthe use of preventive therapy...
... P
r
. Then one ofthe following oc-
curs:
(i) One has 3 r 9 and X is either
a. the image ofthe blow-up of P
2
at 9 − r suitable points, mapped to
P
r
via the linear system of cubics through the ... 3.3) and let G = G
X
be its associated graph. We denote by
• V : the (indexed) set of vertices of G;
• v : the cardinality of V , i.e. the number of irreducible components of X;
• E : the set of ... points of X along γ off the
Zappatic singularities of X;
• d
γ
= deg(D
γ
);
• d
X
the total number of double points of X off the Zappatic singularities
of X.
The main result of this section is the...