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vulnerable cities assessing climate change and disaster risk in urban centers of the developing world

CLIMATE CHANGE DISAS CLIMATE CHANGE DISASTER RISK AND THE URBAN POORTER

CLIMATE CHANGE DISAS CLIMATE CHANGE DISASTER RISK AND THE URBAN POORTER

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... Build Resilience of the Urban Poor Chapter Vulnerable Cities: Assessing Climate Change and Disaster Risk in Urban Centers of the Developing World Introduction and Objective of the Study Background, ... Vulnerable Cities: Assessing Climate Change and Disaster Risk in Urban Centers of the Developing World Key Messages • Exposure to the impacts of climate change and natural hazards is on the rise in cities ... covering (1) a broad look at climate change and disaster risk in cities of the developing world, with particular implications for the urban poor; (2) analysis of the vulnerability of the urban...
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Tài liệu Geological and Geotechnical Engineering in the New Millennium: Opportunities for Research and Technological Innovation doc

Tài liệu Geological and Geotechnical Engineering in the New Millennium: Opportunities for Research and Technological Innovation doc

Kĩ thuật Viễn thông

... outcome of the forecast, • Gathering and analyzing the data using a variety of methodologies, and • Interpreting the results and assembling the forecast from the available information Framing the ... advances the increasing ubiquity of the Internet, the improving cost-efficiency of data storage and communications, the growing power of computation processing, and the globalization of trade and ... determined by the Academy, the Council has become the principal operating agency of both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering in providing services to the government,...
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Tài liệu Geological and Geotechnical Engineering in the New Millennium: Opportunities for Research and Technological Innovation pptx

Tài liệu Geological and Geotechnical Engineering in the New Millennium: Opportunities for Research and Technological Innovation pptx

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... by the Academy, the Council has become the principal operating agency of both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering in providing services to the government, the ... geological engineering, hydrological engineering, and Earth-related parts of petroleum engineering and mining engineering The rapid expansion of nanotechnology, biotechnology, and information technology ... engineering, geological engineering, hydrological engineering, as well as Earth-related parts of petroleum engineering and mining engineering Many different types of problems and projects, ranging...
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Private Enterprise for Public Health Opportunities for Business to Improve Women’s and Children’s Health pptx

Private Enterprise for Public Health Opportunities for Business to Improve Women’s and Children’s Health pptx

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... deliver the broadband connectivity; networking partners, including Cisco, support in setting up state -of- the- art networking infrastructure nationally; and software partners, including Microsoft, ... villages in 10 states in rural India, reaching a total essential population of 42 million Novartis has ambitious plans medicines for the future in the remaining states of India and has in India ... “catalysts” to develop and scale their initiatives in countries by joining partners in the Innovation Working Group; The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health and working with the United Nations...
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Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article Implementation and Validation of a New Combined Model for Outdoor to Indoor Radio Coverage Predictions" pptx

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... providing a RMSE of dB, which is acceptable considering the arguments given in Section 3.3 and also the fact that the points where distributed in the scenarios and some of them far from the building ... Moreover, and especially in Experiment (due to the height of the buildings) the reflections of the signal on neighboring buildings coming through the windows is visible In order to evaluate the accuracy ... Computations In each cube located on the borders of the building (at the height corresponding to the floor), the amplitudes and directions of all the N rays reaching the cube are stored Each arriving ray...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Quantitative modeling of triacylglycerol homeostasis in yeast – metabolic requirement for lipolysis to promote membrane lipid synthesis and cellular growth potx

Báo cáo khoa học: Quantitative modeling of triacylglycerol homeostasis in yeast – metabolic requirement for lipolysis to promote membrane lipid synthesis and cellular growth potx

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... can explain the decrease in the relative LD content per cell as a consequence of the sharing of a constant amount of LD between an increasing number of cells From our measurements, and in agreement ... to the change in the surface area of the cell As membranes are typically of constant thickness, any increase in membrane material results in a gain of membrane surface In fact, Fig shows that the ... as sinks for internal fluxes From a biological point of view, they allow the cell to dispose of excess metabolites by storing them in an inert form When demand for these metabolites is high, they...
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THE U.S. GOVERNMENT’S EFFORTS TO ADDRESS GLOBAL MATERNAL, NEWBORN, AND CHILD HEALTH: The Global Health Initiative and Beyond doc

THE U.S. GOVERNMENT’S EFFORTS TO ADDRESS GLOBAL MATERNAL, NEWBORN, AND CHILD HEALTH: The Global Health Initiative and Beyond doc

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... supporting systemic long term changes to remove barriers and increase access for women and girls, enhancing monitoring and evaluation of the health of women and girls, improving the training of health ... through the postnatal period and in the two years after birth and supports the health of the fetus during pregnancy and the child during the postnatal period and its early years.92 The phases of the ... Planning: The ability of families or persons to anticipate and attain their desired number of children and the spacing and timing of births Infant Health: The health of a child from birth through the...
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HARNESSING WEB 2.0 FOR BUSINESS TO BUSINESS MARKETING - LITERATURE REVIEW AND AN EMPIRICAL PERSPECTRIVE FROM FINLAND pdf

HARNESSING WEB 2.0 FOR BUSINESS TO BUSINESS MARKETING - LITERATURE REVIEW AND AN EMPIRICAL PERSPECTRIVE FROM FINLAND pdf

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... 5.3 The role of the internet for Finnish industrial marketing The impact of the internet and investments in internet marketing have been growing in industrial markets, but traditional marketing ... years Changes in marketing communications Besides the growing importance of the internet for marketing, our interviewees have experienced other kinds of changes in marketing communications too The ... and constant updating Social networks Content sharing, creating and maintaining relationships Maintaining customer relationships, brand building Informing of new products Easy to set up a profile,...
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Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article New Iterative Scheme for Finite Families of Equilibrium, Variational Inequality, and Fixed Point Problems in Banach Spaces" doc

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... Point Theory and Applications Let C be a nonempty closed and convex subset of E The generalized projection Π : E → C is a mapping that assigns to an arbitrary point x ∈ E the minimum point of the ... Fixed point theory and Its application S Reich, “A weak convergence theorem for the alternating method with Bregman distances,” in Theory and Applications of Nonlinear Operators of Accretive and ... projection operators in Banach spaces: properties and applications,” in Theory and Applications of Nonlinear Operators of Accretive and Monotone Type, vol 178 of Lecture Notes in Pure and Appl Math.,...
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báo cáo hóa học:" Research Article Strong Convergence of a New Iterative Method for Infinite Family of Generalized Equilibrium and Fixed-Point Problems of Nonexpansive Mappings in Hilbert Spaces" pptx

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... 6, 8–19 and the reference therein But, in these references, the authors only considered at most finite family of equilibrium problems and few of authors investigate the in nite family of equilibrium ... 1.15 In the case of A ≡ 0, EP G, A is deduced to EP In the case of G ≡ 0, EP G, A is also denoted by VI C, A Fixed Point Theory and Applications In 2007, S Takahashi and W Takahashi introduced ... equilibrium problems and in the common fixed-point set of a finite family of nonexpansive mappings in a Hilbert space Let {Tn }N N ≥ be a finite family of n nonexpansive mappings of H into itself, be...
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NEW EXPLICITINDIMENSION ESTIMATES FOR THE CARDINALITY OF HIGHDIMENSIONAL HYPERBOLIC CROSSES AND APPROXIMATION OF FUNCTIONS HAVING MIXED SMOOTHNESS

NEW EXPLICITINDIMENSION ESTIMATES FOR THE CARDINALITY OF HIGHDIMENSIONAL HYPERBOLIC CROSSES AND APPROXIMATION OF FUNCTIONS HAVING MIXED SMOOTHNESS

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... = F0 (t) and Fs (t) is the absolute value of the sth remainder of the Taylor series of the exponential exp(−t) The following lemma shows that the problem of estimations of the volume of smooth ... number of the integer points in a domain such as a ball and a sphere [43], [6], [26], a hyperbolic domain [29], [12], [24], [15], etc Specially, in [15] the convergence rate of cardinality of the intersection ... a finite set G Notice that the problem of computing |Γ(s, T, a)| and |Γ± (s, T, a)| in our setting is itself interesting as a problem of a classical direction in Number Theory investigating the...
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education in rwanda rebalancing resources to accelerate post-conflict development and poverty reduction

education in rwanda rebalancing resources to accelerate post-conflict development and poverty reduction

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... acknowledged In the course of preparing the report, members of the World Bank team visited Rwanda, and members of the Rwandan team traveled to Washington, D.C These visits were greatly facilitated by the ... an understanding of the current performance of Rwandas education system, the constraints on the systems progress, and the tradeoffs that may have to be made in the coming years Building a shared ... current status of education in Rwanda The Rwandan government team was led by Claver Yisa, Director of Research and Planning of Education in the Ministry of Education (MINEDUC), under the overall...
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Probiotics as a novel approach to modulate incretins, insulin secretion and risk factors of type 2 diabetes and complications

Probiotics as a novel approach to modulate incretins, insulin secretion and risk factors of type 2 diabetes and complications

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... resulting in an impaired insulin secretion in response to glucose In particular, the first-phase of insulin secretion (ISR) is diminished in T2D, indicating the important role of incretins as ... is reduced in the muscles of individuals after a lipid infusion In addition, in these individuals the insulin action in the liver, which has some similarities with the insulin action in muscle, ... of one participant The area under the curve (AUC) of insulin determined during OGTT (green) minus the AUC of insulin determined during isoglycemic intravenous glucose infusion test (orange) indicate...
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OPPORTUNITIES TO ADDRESS CLINICAL RESEARCH WORKFORCE DIVERSITY NEEDS FOR 2O1O docx

OPPORTUNITIES TO ADDRESS CLINICAL RESEARCH WORKFORCE DIVERSITY NEEDS FOR 2O1O docx

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... Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities The Council is administered jointly by both Academies and the Institute of Medicine ... the training landscape and mechanisms; The special needs of nursing; The pipeline and the career path for clinical researchers; and The role of professional societies These themes contain systemic ... research, such as financing, the role of clinical research centers, the recruitment and training of its workforce, and the conduct of clinical trials and peer review The actions produced by the recommendations...
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Tài liệu Response statistics for ''''New Legislative Framework for the marketing of products: proposal to align 10 product harmonisation directives to Decision 768/2008.'''' pdf

Tài liệu Response statistics for ''''New Legislative Framework for the marketing of products: proposal to align 10 product harmonisation directives to Decision 768/2008.'''' pdf

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... below on the level of compliance, safety of products and functioning of the internal market for the product categories you know? B11.1 Impact of the following elements of Action on the level of non-compliance ... in the light of the risks presented by a product to the health and safety of consumers If necessary, they must also keep a register of complaints, nonconforming products and product recalls and ... Impact of the following elements of Action on well-functioning of the internal market (i.e creation of a level playing field within the EU where economic operators are subject to the same rules and...
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New Profit Opportunities in Health and Nutrition to 2009: Changing Consumer Concerns and Market Influencers in Food and Drinks doc

New Profit Opportunities in Health and Nutrition to 2009: Changing Consumer Concerns and Market Influencers in Food and Drinks doc

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... Rating the importance of the influence of 11 consumer concerns on the development of the food and drinks industry 19 Do you think the food and drinks industry should be held responsible for the ... The aim of this report is to investigate the opinions of food and drinks executives with regards to some of the major issues influencing the industry across the UK, Europe, Asia and the United ... to inform consumers about what they are eating and drinking, this can be anything from how much sugar and fat the product contains to the glycaemic index Despite the high level of interest in...
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Evolving to a New Dominant Logic for Marketing pdf

Evolving to a New Dominant Logic for Marketing pdf

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... disposes of the limitations of thinking of marketing in terms of goods taken to the market, and it points to opportunities for expanding the market by assisting the consumer in the process of specialization ... of exporting manufactured products to the developing and often colonized regions of the world in exchange for raw materials for the purpose of increasing national wealth In addition, making the ... maintaining the responsibility for disposing and recycling toxic chemicals Hawken, Lovins, and Lovins (1999, pp 125–27) cite these and other examples as indicative of the way firms benefit themselves,...
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ELDERLY SERVICES IN HEALTH CENTERS: A Guide to Address Unique Challenges of Caring for Elderly People with Disabilities, Frailty, and Other Special Needs pot

ELDERLY SERVICES IN HEALTH CENTERS: A Guide to Address Unique Challenges of Caring for Elderly People with Disabilities, Frailty, and Other Special Needs pot

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... loss) and support for the health and independence of the elder also provide a critical link Patient Empowerment: By welcoming and incorporating the feedback of a Patient Advisory Group into the ... Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) such as eating, dressing, bathing, toileting or Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADLs) such as cooking, grocery shopping, or making phone calls The trend in the ... DEMOGRAPHICS OF AGING AND DISABILITY In our health centers we are feeling the effects of aging Our communities are aging and where we once could concentrate on serving the “Moms and Kids” population...
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China''''s Market Potential: Opportunities for New Zealand''''s Exporters ppt

China''''s Market Potential: Opportunities for New Zealand''''s Exporters ppt

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... Jiangsu, and Liaoning Since the Chinese government readjusted the allocation of resources, stimulating more consumption and less capital accumulation, both the funds of the country and the savings of ... equipment, and precision scientific instruments, together with machines for special industries, general industrial machinery and electric machinery, including textile and leather machinery, food machinery, ... some of New Zealand products are not fully suitable to the needs of China For instance, there is a great demand for machines and cereals in China but New Zealand's capability for providing them...
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