particulate, monitoring, heart rate variability, heart rate, personal particulate, air, Bangkok, health, mortality.
In 1990, a risk ranking study funded by the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the Agency for International Development determined that out of a range of environmental health hazards in Bangkok, Thailand, ambient particulate matter posed "the most serious threat to public health".
This estimation comes from extrapolating from epidemiological studies that depended entirely on fixed-site ambient air monitoring to determine exposure.
Studies looking at heart rate variability as a predictor variable have not previously been done in Thailand.
This is a cross-sectional study to examine the relationship between personal particulate matter exposure (PM2.5 and PM10) and heart rate variability in adults living in Bangkok, Thailand.
relation http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/rpp/13/relation.pdf
homicides, strangers, intimate, Australia, friends, acquaintances, offender, transport, unknown.
This "distance" and the types of conflicts and corresponding social controls operating obviously differ between incidents, depending on the relationship in question.
Both of these, in turn, differ quite markedly from the types of social interactions which lead to a homicide between friends and acquaintances.
And, homicides committed between strangers have their own particular set of circumstances.
Note: Number of homicide incidents is shown in brackets.
Of all homicide incidents in which the gender of victim and offender are recorded, male-on-male cases comprise 55 per cent of the total.
Nearly twothirds of male-on-female incidents and female-on-male cases are classified as intimate partner homicides.
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victims, homicides, offenders, incidents, spouses, unknown, males, recording, high proportion.
At least 80 per cent of Aboriginal offenders had criminal histories: twice as many Aboriginal offenders as whites had previous convictions for serious assault.
Figure 7 shows the number of victims in each category of relationship.
Refers to friends, long and short-term acquaintances, homoual relationships and gang members.
*Refers to friends, long and short-term acquaintances, homoual relationships and gang members.
Forty-two per cent of all female victims were killed by their spouses, and 6 per cent of all males.
It is probable that a proportion of the 45 unsolved incidents would have involved offenders unknown to the victim, as these clearly are the more difficult cases to solve.
15thanniversary
AIL, Omnicon, Omnicon Group, business, engineering, Island, anniversaries, customers, Scott Abrams.
Colonel Robert Stewart become the first humans to fly free of a spacecraft.
It was also the year a young engineer, Scott Abrams, founded Mil-Tech Services, the forerunner of The Omnicon Group and began working with a company that was to become one of his oldest clients, AIL Systems, Inc.
As Omnicon begins its fifteenth year of business, AIL celebrates its 54th anniversary.
During its decade-and-a-half relationship with AIL, Omnicon has performed scores of engineering tasks for its client on a wide range of components and products introduced by the company, a leading electronics and subsystem developer.
Having spent many years on Long Island and graduating with a degree from nearby State University of New York at Stony Brook, Scott was somewhat familiar with AIL, a major Long Island company.
4.ER-III
employee, modeling, Ling Liu, DB04, supplier, entity types, design, participation, constraints.
Each employee has a list of dependents for health care and accidental benefits.
A session corresponds to one and only one course.
A Manager is an Employee, but not vice versa.
Example: An employee can be either engineer, or sales person or secretary, but can not be more than one role.
A university database consists of students, faculty, and courses.
A student can take more than one courses, a course is registered by many students and can be taught by more than one faculty.
Start with a schema with high data abstractions, and then apply successive top-down refinement.
A journal or a proceeding is also a book.
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risk, assets, systematic risk, diversification, banking, stock, industry, portfolios, depositors.
This trend toward fewer, larger activities of large and small bank holding companies have banks raises an interesting question: How does the size of a evolved and, most important, differences in the leverage of banking company affect the amount and type of risk it large and small companies have declined significantly.
Although the low capital ratios and have engaged heavily in risky lendadvantage of size has allowed larger institutions to ing and off-balance-sheet activities, characteristics generdiversify their risk, differences in activities and leverage ally associated with large banking companies.
The strength of these effects is demonstrated in Table 2, which illustrates how risk changes as we move from the portfolio attributes of the typical small bank holding company to those of the typical large company.9 For instance, changing from the capital-to-assets ratio of the small bank holding company to that of the large company leads to a 12 percent increase in systematic risk and a 20 percent increase in firm-specific risk.
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restorative justice, punishment, retribution, offender, victims, conferences, Braithwaite, reparation, community.
Revisiting the Relationship between Retributive and Restorative Justice by Kathleen Daly In this essay, I raise a complex and contentious question: what is the role of punishment in a restorative justice process?
These assumptions can be easily challenged by critical legal scholars, who call attention to the injustices of criminal law and justice system practices as they are applied in unequal societies.
outcomes in youth justice conference cases as often or more often than in court cases (see also Sherman et al. 1998: 87-99).
Although principles of repaying the victim and community were expressed more often in conferences than in court, the most frequently aired principle in both settings was preventing future offences, not restoration or punishment.
global http://www.askemployees.com/why/docs/global.pdf
employees, commitment, workers, globalization, North Americans, report, countries, loyalty, Walker Information.
Designed by leading Human Resource and Market Research experts, the ERR is based on the latest scientific evidence of what really has an impact on employee commitment in your organization.
Global differences aside, employees of the world speak the same language when it comes to their employers -- they want to be treated fairly, they want employers to operate out of care and concern for them, and they want to be trusted to do their jobs.
Workers in Asia/Pacific, the Middle East and Latin America ranked fairness at work their first priority.
North American workers have the highest level of agreement, while European employees have the lowest level.
2002cnfra20 http://www.nnf.cornell.edu/2002cnfra/2002cnfra20.pdf
interfacial areas, fluid, saturation, flow, network, porous media, water, pore, image processing techniques.
This project developed an experimental method of studying the possible constitutive relationship between capillary pressure, saturation and fluid specific interfacial areas of two-phase porous media system.
This is of great interest in the recent development of a more general theory of multiphase flow incorporating the physics of phase interfaces [1, 2].
Bound with Pyrex glass tops, the micro-flow cells were observed under a fluorescent microscope while the wetting fluid (water) was displaced by the nonwetting fluid (mineral oil).
Future work will concentrate on testing on a variety of network patterns and pore size distributions and obtaining data of full cycles of displacements including imbibitions to further study the hysteresis behavior in the new constitutive relationship.
evalu9 http://www.bradford.ac.uk/acad/sbtwc/evaluation/evalu9.pdf
Protocol, Convention, obligations, BTWC, Prohibition, rights, weapons, international agreements, States Parties.
1. The Ad Hoc Group (AHG) is considering measures to strengthen the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) through a legally binding instrument.
The pace of the AHG negotiations has quickened during the past year and there is now a clear political will to see the negotiation of the Protocol completed as soon as possible before the Fifth Review Conference in 2001.
1. [This Protocol, being [supplementary] [and] [additional] to the Convention shall not be interpreted as in any way modifying or amending the Convention, or limiting or detracting from the rights and obligations assumed by any State under the Convention.]
200136pap http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/feds/2001/200136/200136pap.pdf
finance, lending, business, banks, credit, loans, loan officers, firms, Udell.
Models of equilibrium credit rationing that point to moral hazard and adverse selection problems (e.g., Stiglitz and Weiss, 1981) suggest that small firms may be particularly vulnerable because they are often so informationally opaque.
That is, the informational wedge between insiders and outsiders tends to be more acute for small companies, which makes the provision of external finance particularly challenging.
Traditionally, empirical studies of relationship lending have measured the strength of the relationship in terms of its temporal length -- the amount of time the bank has provided loan, deposit, or other services to the firm (e.g., Petersen and Rajan, 1994,1995; Berger and Udell, 1995; Angelini, P. et al., 1998; Scott and Dunkelberg, 1999; Ongena and Smith, 2000).
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unemployment, growth, country, exports, domestic demand, employment, labour, economists, GDP.
In this paper, the macroeconomic links between economic growth and the labour market are analysed.
The first relationship is governed mainly by economic factors, the second one by demographic influences and labour market policies.
There is still a strong and positive correlation between GDP-growth and the change in employment.
But employment, of course, will rise only if economic growth rates are outstripping productivity gains.
The increase in part-time employment (e.g. Netherlands) obscures the correlation between GDP and employment.
In the eighties and nineties, most politicians and along with them the mainstream of economists were playing down the relationship between growth and unemployment.
