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Tài liệu From Burden to “Best Buys”: Reducing the Economic Impact of Non-Communicable Diseases in Low- and Middle-Income Countries pdf

Tài liệu From Burden to “Best Buys”: Reducing the Economic Impact of Non-Communicable Diseases in Low- and Middle-Income Countries pdf

Ngày tải lên : 20/02/2014, 19:20
... incurred as a result of its use The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this overview not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the World Health ... society and the private sector with key economic insights needed to help reduce the growing burden of NCDs: • A global analysis of the economic impact of NCDs by the World Economic Forum and the Harvard ... The content of this report stems from the work published in two separate reports, one led by the World Economic Forum and the Harvard School of Public Health, and the other developed by the...
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Greener Events A guide to reducing the environmental impacts of conferences and seminars potx

Greener Events A guide to reducing the environmental impacts of conferences and seminars potx

Ngày tải lên : 16/03/2014, 19:20
... the community and respects the rights of people - all these add together to form the impact of that business on society” The GREENER EVENTS CHECKLIST within this guide can be discussed with the ... have the added benefit of helping to reduce the cost of running the event Event managers can refer the guide to potential venues to highlight the fact that these are the range and type of issues ... organisations can improve their contribution to sustainable development and reduce their environmental impacts but one area that is often overlooked is the use of resources and the release of carbon dioxide...
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greening aid understanding the environmental impact of development assistance may 2008

greening aid understanding the environmental impact of development assistance may 2008

Ngày tải lên : 11/06/2014, 00:10
... the effect of reducing dirty aid and increasing environmental aid on the social development of the poorest states There are many ‘lost’ countries that receive little aid of either type, and often ... generating hypotheses, and establishing the scope conditions of more general theories However, no matter how compelling the case studies, they cannot alone bear the weight of the broad theoretical ... instance of a cooperative equilibrium’ (1997b: 332) From Rio to Gleneagles the likely effectiveness of these two different types of aid 23 Throughout the rest of the book, we will explore whether environmental...
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Honey Bees: Estimating the Environmental Impact of Chemicals - Chapter 2 doc

Honey Bees: Estimating the Environmental Impact of Chemicals - Chapter 2 doc

Ngày tải lên : 12/08/2014, 04:22
... D.H (1968) Pheromones of the honey bee – the secretion of the Nasanoff gland of the worker J Insect Physiol 15, 237–244 54 Boch, R and Morse, R.A (1974) Discrimination of familiar and foreign ... acid in the mandibular glands of the worker bee J Insect Physiol 16, 17–24 Boch, R., Shearer, D.A and Shuel, R.W (1979) Octanoic acid and other volatile acids in the mandibular glands of the honeybee ... involved in the release of worker aggression Behaviour 39, 212–226 51 Boch, R and Shearer, D.A (1962) Identification of geraniol as the active component in the Nassanoff pheromone of the honey bee...
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Honey Bees: Estimating the Environmental Impact of Chemicals - Chapter 3 pps

Honey Bees: Estimating the Environmental Impact of Chemicals - Chapter 3 pps

Ngày tải lên : 12/08/2014, 04:22
... particularly in relation to the reliability of the tests requested and their feasibility The assessment of the effects of plant protection products is based on the calculation of the Hazard Quotient, ... guideline being the CEB test No 95 method of the Commission des essais biologiques (CEB) [13] Assessment of the effects of application of the product outdoors under a wire meshed tunnel; the of cial ... to classifying the product into one of the following categories: high-, medium-, and low-risk products Each stage of the procedure leads to either an assessment of the risk (and therefore classification...
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Honey Bees: Estimating the Environmental Impact of Chemicals - Chapter 5 pdf

Honey Bees: Estimating the Environmental Impact of Chemicals - Chapter 5 pdf

Ngày tải lên : 12/08/2014, 04:22
... to testing), the motivation of the bees to get food would not overpass the fifth trial, the level of the CR then starting to decrease Most often the level of CR reaches a maximum by the third trial ... insect- proof tunnel, the percentage of flights back to the hive decreased in treated foragers, the deltamethrin-treated bees flying in the direction of the sun, without using the local landmarks The ... according to the treatments During the extinction phase, the level of the CR slowly decreased, back to the initial level of spontaneous response (B) This expresses the resistance of the bee’s response...
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Honey Bees: Estimating the Environmental Impact of Chemicals - Chapter 6 pps

Honey Bees: Estimating the Environmental Impact of Chemicals - Chapter 6 pps

Ngày tải lên : 12/08/2014, 04:22
... side of the box allowed the introduction of a single honey bee for a 5-min observation period The position of the honey bee was recorded every s The duration of successive 5-s periods in the same ... effect of the drug at the dose of 1.25 ng/bee was observed on the other functions after the shortest interval We not retain the possibility that the drug needs more time to diffuse from the thorax ... reported as immobility as the locomotor activity of the honey bee in the same square was very low, if nonexistent Otherwise, the honey bee was moving around The effect of the drug on locomotor activity...
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Honey Bees: Estimating the Environmental Impact of Chemicals - Chapter 8 pptx

Honey Bees: Estimating the Environmental Impact of Chemicals - Chapter 8 pptx

Ngày tải lên : 12/08/2014, 04:22
... section of the chapter will briefly review the LANL field studies and the results of these studies The significance of each of these experiments will be examined in the Discussion section of this ... differences in the levels of contaminants in the flowers of the three main forage plants Therefore, the species of flower the bees had visited probably had little influence on the concentrations of radionuclides ... one of these scientists is interested in using these long-term data to estimate the concentration of radionuclides in the environment based on the levels of radionuclides in the bees? If the...
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Honey Bees: Estimating the Environmental Impact of Chemicals - Chapter 10 pdf

Honey Bees: Estimating the Environmental Impact of Chemicals - Chapter 10 pdf

Ngày tải lên : 12/08/2014, 04:22
... segments The concentrations or activities of the majority of the elements studied were lower in the 1-year-old branch segments compared to the branch tops In the case of Rb, 40K, and 137Cs they were ... pierce the bark of the youngest branches and the needles of fir and spruce trees in search of food Honeydew is the secretion of these insects The results of electrical conductivity measurements and ... each of following years, the tips of the branches and older branch segments, including the segments grown in 1994, were taken for analyses The tips of the spruce branches were collected for the...
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Honey Bees: Estimating the Environmental Impact of Chemicals - Chapter 12 pptx

Honey Bees: Estimating the Environmental Impact of Chemicals - Chapter 12 pptx

Ngày tải lên : 12/08/2014, 04:22
... the preparation and chemical analysis of the honeys, the samples were coded and randomized to avoid identification of their location and characteristics by the chemists The mineralization of the ... percent of the total inertia of the system The factorial map F1F2 (Figure 12.2), which accounts for most of the variance of the system (i.e 62.23 percent), clearly reveals an opposition between the ... for 56.86 percent of the total inertia of the system, emphasizes the fact that the presence of cobalt (Co) in the honey samples is correlated with that of molybdenum (Mo) Of the 46 samples containing...
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Honey Bees: Estimating the Environmental Impact of Chemicals - Chapter 13 ppt

Honey Bees: Estimating the Environmental Impact of Chemicals - Chapter 13 ppt

Ngày tải lên : 12/08/2014, 04:22
... damage to the crop, very often other insects can feed on the plant If they are sensitive to the expressed toxin, they will also be affected which, of course, is advantageous in terms of crop protection ... on the protease content of the gut of different Coleoptera have shown the presence of cysteine proteases, which, in many cases, represent the major class of digestive proteases [33] The cDNA of ... nematodes (Cry 5) Most of these proteins, even in the Cry1 subfamily, have a distinctive insecticidal spectrum The size of most of these Cry proteins is about 130 kDa and they are produced in an...
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Honey Bees: Estimating the Environmental Impact of Chemicals - Chapter 15 (end) docx

Honey Bees: Estimating the Environmental Impact of Chemicals - Chapter 15 (end) docx

Ngày tải lên : 12/08/2014, 04:22
... from the top of the flower visited on the plant), or the type of behavior (exploration of the flower, foraging for nectar, scratching of stamina, pollen pellet gathering, cleaning, etc.) The mean ... parcels of each type, were sown in the South-west of France (Spring 2000) From the beginning of the flowering, the diversity of the pollinators was evaluated by counting the foragers visiting the ... conclusion, there are two possibilities to avoid risk for honey bees: the nonexpression of the toxin in the tissues bees feed on, or the innocuousness of the toxin for bees The risk assessment of the...
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Environmental Impact of Products (EIPRO) Analysis of the life cycle environmental impacts related to the final consumption of the EU-25 pot

Environmental Impact of Products (EIPRO) Analysis of the life cycle environmental impacts related to the final consumption of the EU-25 pot

Ngày tải lên : 23/03/2014, 08:21
... exist into the environmental impacts of products; Chapter forms the second main pillar of the study: it gives a detailed analysis of the environmental impacts of products in the EU-25, with the newly ... be identified on the basis of the environmental impacts of the whole volume of the product used The impact per euro value will also be taken into account Environmental Impact of Products (EIPRO) ... policy of the Journal of Industrial Ecology, Spring 2006 22 2.1 Objectives of the project The objective of the project is to identify the products that have the greatest environmental impact...
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The Economic Impact of Environmental Regulation pptx

The Economic Impact of Environmental Regulation pptx

Ngày tải lên : 23/03/2014, 20:20
... Look, the public benefits from our products They use them and they get jobs Part of the price of this benefit is the impact we have on the environment That should be born by the public, not the ... these differences tabulating and comparing the characteristics of environmental policies among the states produces an interesting snapshot of the relative degree of “environmentalism” among the ... for environmental controls.) Moving into the 1980s these same states might feel the drag of their environmental policies accumulating to a degree sufficient to slow their growth relative to their...
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Báo cáo hóa học: "Prognostic impact of clinical course-specific mRNA expression profiles in the serum of perioperative patients with esophageal cancer in the ICU: a case control study" potx

Báo cáo hóa học: "Prognostic impact of clinical course-specific mRNA expression profiles in the serum of perioperative patients with esophageal cancer in the ICU: a case control study" potx

Ngày tải lên : 18/06/2014, 16:20
... predictive cut-off value was evaluated as the nearest point from the left upper edge of the ROC curve analysis graph Sensitivity was calculated as the mean confidence interval (CI) of the area Table ... refer to IL-6 mRNA, IL-6, mean of normal IL-6 level in plasma, and predictive cut-off level of IL-6 mRNA, respectively (c) SPSS software analysis of the AUC of the ROC curve was 0.809 and 0.453 ... al.: Prognostic impact of clinical coursespecific mRNA expression profiles in the serum of perioperative patients with esophageal cancer in the ICU: a case control study Journal of Translational...
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Friends of the Earth Europe, Greenpeace, Justice and Environment and European Environmental Bureau position paper regarding the Review of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Directive pdf

Friends of the Earth Europe, Greenpeace, Justice and Environment and European Environmental Bureau position paper regarding the Review of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Directive pdf

Ngày tải lên : 29/06/2014, 02:20
... Labem city and the edge of the SPA Meanwhile, development consent for another section was issued which led the highway to the borders of the SPA from the other side Necessary changes: The Directive ... with the basic goals of the Directive (see above), with Article and Annex II of the Espoo Convention or with the special requirements of other EU environmental norms (see namely Article 6.4 of the ... activity nearby A further serious impact of the project is the absorption of large amounts of agricultural land Despite all these facts, the competent authority decided that the estate shall not...
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IELTS Part 2 and Part 3 Topics and Questions -The Cultural Impact of Overseas Travel

IELTS Part 2 and Part 3 Topics and Questions -The Cultural Impact of Overseas Travel

Ngày tải lên : 04/10/2013, 17:20
... quality or the safety of the food? • (Similar to above) In general, are people in China concerned about such matters as the nutritional value of the food or the contents of the food they buy (for ... to the food)? FQ (This question might include: the packaging and the origin of the food) • What are the possible results if all (or the majority of) the people were not very concerned about the ... about the contents of the food they eat? (假设的问题) • (Similar to above) What could happen if all (or the majority of) the people were not very concerned about the contents of the food they eat? Food...
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Tài liệu PREVENTING DISEASE THROUGH HEALTHY ENVIRONMENTS: Towards an estimate of the environmental burden of disease doc

Tài liệu PREVENTING DISEASE THROUGH HEALTHY ENVIRONMENTS: Towards an estimate of the environmental burden of disease doc

Ngày tải lên : 12/02/2014, 12:20
... (38—63%) in the European Region; and 64% (51—77%) in the Region of the Americas The potential of environmental management to reduce the disease burden of malaria differed according to the type of environment ... n m e n ts ANALYSIS OF ESTIMATES OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL ATTRIBUTABLE FRACTION, BY DISEASE There are three main approaches to the environmental management of malaria: • Modify the environment This ... At the time these definitions were formulated, the third approach included the use of mosquito nets The successful introduction of insecticide-treated mosquito nets has put them in a category of...
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Tài liệu THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN AUSTIN ppt

Tài liệu THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN AUSTIN ppt

Ngày tải lên : 15/02/2014, 13:20
... non-profit that advocates for affordable housing, retained Civic Economics to analyze the economic impact of the 2006 commitment and to consider the prospective impact of another round of bonds ... of these costs, we elected to take a conservative approach b The costs of these supportive services are here treated as positive in terms of local economic impact There exists a strong body of ... 3.6 THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING MAY 2012 Map Civic Economics THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING THE ECONOMIC IMPACT...
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Tài liệu Ford Report on the BUSINESS IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE docx

Tài liệu Ford Report on the BUSINESS IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE docx

Ngày tải lên : 18/02/2014, 00:20
... senior management, the Office of the Chairman and Chief Executive (OCCE) as well as the Environmental and Public Policy Committee of the Board of Directors What you will read in the following pages ... program to offset the CO2 emitted from the production of our hybrid vehicles in the U.S The purchase price of the offset is applied to a project that reduces or sequesters the emission of CO2 elsewhere ... recovered in the sales price Third, the GHG footprint of the in-use phase of light duty vehicles must be measured on a well-to-wheels basis, that is, the total emissions from the production of the original...
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