... Build Resilience oftheUrban Poor Chapter Vulnerable Cities: AssessingClimateChangeandDisasterRiskinUrbanCentersoftheDevelopingWorld Introduction and Objective ofthe Study Background, ... Vulnerable Cities: AssessingClimateChangeandDisasterRiskinUrbanCentersoftheDevelopingWorld Key Messages • Exposure to the impacts ofclimatechangeand natural hazards is on the rise incities ... covering (1) a broad look at climatechangeanddisasterriskincitiesofthedeveloping world, with particular implications for theurban poor; (2) analysis ofthe vulnerability ofthe urban...
... outcome ofthe 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 ofthe Internet, the improving cost-efficiency of data storage and communications, the growing power of computation processing, andthe globalization of trade and ... determined by the Academy, the Council has become the principal operating agency of both the National Academy of Sciences andthe National Academy of Engineering in providing services to the government,...
... by the Academy, the Council has become the principal operating agency of both the National Academy of Sciences andthe 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...
... 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 inthe remaining states of India and has in India ... “catalysts” to develop and scale their initiatives in countries by joining partners inthe Innovation Working Group; The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health and working with the United Nations...
... 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 inthe scenarios and some of them far from the building ... Moreover, and especially in Experiment (due to the height ofthe buildings) the reflections ofthe signal on neighboring buildings coming through the windows is visible In order to evaluate the accuracy ... Computations In each cube located on the borders ofthe 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...
... can explain the decrease inthe relative LD content per cell as a consequence ofthe sharing of a constant amount of LD between an increasing number of cells From our measurements, andin agreement ... to thechangeinthe surface area ofthe 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...
... supporting systemic long term changes to remove barriers and increase access for women and girls, enhancing monitoring and evaluation ofthe health of women and girls, improving the training of health ... through the postnatal period andinthe two years after birth and supports the health ofthe fetus during pregnancy andthe child during the postnatal period and its early years.92 The phases ofthe ... Planning: The ability of families or persons to anticipate and attain their desired number of children andthe spacing and timing of births Infant Health: The health of a child from birth through the...
... 5.3 The role ofthe internet for Finnish industrial marketing The impact ofthe internet and investments in internet marketing have been growing in industrial markets, but traditional marketing ... years Changes in marketing communications Besides the growing importance ofthe 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,...
... 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 ofthe ... 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.,...
... 6, 8–19 andthe reference therein But, in these references, the authors only considered at most finite family of equilibrium problems and few of authors investigate thein nite family of equilibrium ... 1.15 Inthe case of A ≡ 0, EP G, A is deduced to EP Inthe 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 andinthe 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...
... = F0 (t) and Fs (t) is the absolute value ofthe sth remainder ofthe Taylor series ofthe exponential exp(−t) The following lemma shows that the problem of estimations ofthe volume of smooth ... number ofthe 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 ofthe 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...
... acknowledged Inthe course of preparing the report, members oftheWorld Bank team visited Rwanda, and members ofthe Rwandan team traveled to Washington, D.C These visits were greatly facilitated by the ... an understanding ofthe current performance of Rwandas education system, the constraints on the systems progress, andthe tradeoffs that may have to be made inthe 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 inthe Ministry of Education (MINEDUC), under the overall...
... 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 inthe muscles of individuals after a lipid infusion In addition, in these individuals the insulin action inthe 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...
... Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, andthe scientific and engineering communities The Council is administered jointly by both Academies andthe Institute of Medicine ... the training landscape and mechanisms; The special needs of nursing; The pipeline andthe career path for clinical researchers; andThe 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, andthe conduct of clinical trials and peer review The actions produced by the recommendations...
... below on the level of compliance, safety of products and functioning ofthe internal market for the product categories you know? B11.1 Impact ofthe following elements of Action on the level of non-compliance ... inthe light ofthe 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 ofthe following elements of Action on well-functioning ofthe internal market (i.e creation of a level playing field within the EU where economic operators are subject to the same rules and...
... Rating the importance ofthe influence of 11 consumer concerns on the development ofthe 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 ofthe major issues influencing the industry across the UK, Europe, Asia andthe 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...
... disposes ofthe 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 inthe process of specialization ... of exporting manufactured products to thedevelopingand often colonized regions oftheworldin 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 ofthe way firms benefit themselves,...
... loss) and support for the health and independence ofthe 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 inthe ... 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...
... Jiangsu, and Liaoning Since the Chinese government readjusted the allocation of resources, stimulating more consumption and less capital accumulation, both the funds ofthe country andthe 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...