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Ministerial Resolution No. 572-2010-Mem/Dm - National Plan Of Rural Electrification 2011-2020, Ministerio De Energía Y Minas - Perú Dec 2010

Ministerial Resolution No. 572-2010-Mem/Dm - National Plan Of Rural Electrification 2011-2020, Ministerio De Energía Y Minas - Perú

Latin American Energy Policies

Approves the National Plan of Rural Electrification of Peru for the period 2011-2020 (PNER).


Ministerial Resolution No. 573-2010-Mem/Dm - Short Term Plan For The National Plan Of Rural Electrification, Ministerio De Energía Y Minas - Perú Dec 2010

Ministerial Resolution No. 573-2010-Mem/Dm - Short Term Plan For The National Plan Of Rural Electrification, Ministerio De Energía Y Minas - Perú

Latin American Energy Policies

Approves Per's Short Term Plan for the National Plan of Rural Electrification for the period 2011-2020.


Summary Of Aa Primo Builders, Llc V. Washington, 125 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 61, Michael Roche Dec 2010

Summary Of Aa Primo Builders, Llc V. Washington, 125 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 61, Michael Roche

Nevada Supreme Court Summaries

An appeal from summary judgment that was granted on the theory that a Nevada LLC whose charter is revoked loses its capacity to sue.


Summary Of Fanders V. Riverside Resort & Casino, 126 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 50, Bracken Longhurst Dec 2010

Summary Of Fanders V. Riverside Resort & Casino, 126 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 50, Bracken Longhurst

Nevada Supreme Court Summaries

An appeal of an Eighth Judicial District Court’s summary judgment in a tort action against a former employer and co-employees based on the exclusivity provisions of the workers’ compensation statutes that arose around the time of employment termination.


Summary Of Yonker Construction, Inc. V. Hulme, 126 Nev. Adv. Op. 54, Justin Shiroff Dec 2010

Summary Of Yonker Construction, Inc. V. Hulme, 126 Nev. Adv. Op. 54, Justin Shiroff

Nevada Supreme Court Summaries

The Court considered an appeal from a district court order expunging a mechanic’s lien under NRS 108.2275.


Analysis Of Factors Affecting Technological Innovativeness In Engineering Enterprises In Tanzania, Emanuel Mjema Dec 2010

Analysis Of Factors Affecting Technological Innovativeness In Engineering Enterprises In Tanzania, Emanuel Mjema

Tanzania Journal of Engineering and Technology (TJET)

This paper discusses the technological innovativeness in engineering enterprises in Tanzania and analyses the factors affecting the innovativeness. It starts by analyzing various concepts regarding innovation, then analyzed from documentary review factors affecting innovativeness and then analyzed the innovativeness in Tanzanian enterprises. From the documentary review it was learnt that the following key factors influence technological innovativeness: Existence of innovation management; Existence of market to absorb the products of innovation; Existence of partnership between the universities and the firms; Existence of positive culture and politics towards innovation; The government playing its role to influence innovation; Existence of the right knowledge; …


Hampton Inn & Suites Holiday Classic: Day One Wrapup, Armstrong State University Dec 2010

Hampton Inn & Suites Holiday Classic: Day One Wrapup, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Athletics: Men's Basketball News (Archived)

Hampton Inn & Suites Holiday Classic: Day One Wrapup. The Armstrong Atlantic State University men's basketball team placed four players in double figures en route to an 82-61 win over St. Augustine's, wrapping up the first day of action in the 2010 Hampton Inn & Suites Holiday Classic at Alumni Arena in Savannah.


Using Phytotechnologies To Remediate Brownfields, Landfills, And Other Urban Areas, Ronald S. Zalesny Jr, Jill A. Zalesny Dec 2010

Using Phytotechnologies To Remediate Brownfields, Landfills, And Other Urban Areas, Ronald S. Zalesny Jr, Jill A. Zalesny

Cities and the Environment (CATE)

Urban areas requiring remedial work has prompted the use of phytotechnologies to improve water quality, soil health, and biodiversity, as well as to achieve sustainable social and economic goals. Phytotechnologies directly use plants to clean up contaminated groundwater, soil, and sediment. While woody and herbaceous crops are candidates for such remediation systems, trees within the genera Populus (poplars, cottonwoods, aspens) and Salix (willows) are ideal given their fast growth, extensive root systems, and elevated rates of photosynthesis and transpiration. The genetic diversity within these genera substantially increases the establishment and growth potential across heterogeneous sites. We have tested these trees …


Human Health & Well-Being: Evidence For An Expanded Framework Of Ecosystem Services In Cities, Kathleen L. Wolf Dec 2010

Human Health & Well-Being: Evidence For An Expanded Framework Of Ecosystem Services In Cities, Kathleen L. Wolf

Cities and the Environment (CATE)

Scientific research across recent decades has provided evidence of the broad array of benefits provided by urban greening. "Ecosystem services" is a concept that provides a framework for understanding and strategically generating nature based functions and benefits. Several classifications of ecosystem services have been proposed (including the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005). Within the urban context, environmental benefits and services are becoming better understood and more recognized. Unfortunately, human health and well being (HHWB) benefits are often reduced to a simple matter of aesthetics in public dialog. A comprehensive research literature review and summary is being prepared to serve as a …


Restoring Native Plant And Pollinator Communities On New York City Green Roofs, Melanie C. Smith, Matthew I. Palmer Dec 2010

Restoring Native Plant And Pollinator Communities On New York City Green Roofs, Melanie C. Smith, Matthew I. Palmer

Cities and the Environment (CATE)

Urban development has dramatically decreased habitat for native plants and other wildlife. One of the native insect groups affected by this change are the bees and wasps (Order: Hymenoptera), which provide valuable ecosystem services like pollination of crops and ornamental plants. These insects are experiencing rapid population declines in urbanizing areas. A major obstacle to restoring pollinator populations in cities is the scarcity of space available that can be managed as habitat. A potential solution to this is to create patches of native vegetation on green roofs. Green roofs consist of live plants, growing media, and a drainage layer on …


Assessing Survival On Milliontreesnyc Reforestation Sites, Brady L. Simmons Dec 2010

Assessing Survival On Milliontreesnyc Reforestation Sites, Brady L. Simmons

Cities and the Environment (CATE)

The City of New York Parks & Recreation’s (Parks) Natural Resources Group (NRG) is leading a large scale, citywide reforestation effort as part of the MillionTreesNYC goal to plant 450,000 trees in parks across the city. The reforestation monitoring study was developed as one tool to test the success of the reforestation efforts. This study addresses the basic survivability and health of the trees since planting began in the fall of 2007. This study captured the container trees planted by In house staff, volunteer groups, and contractors.


What Is Urban Environmental Stewardship? Working Toward A Practitioner-Derived Definition In Seattle, Michele Romolini, Weston Brinkley, Kathleen Wolf Dec 2010

What Is Urban Environmental Stewardship? Working Toward A Practitioner-Derived Definition In Seattle, Michele Romolini, Weston Brinkley, Kathleen Wolf

Cities and the Environment (CATE)

While “stewardship” is often used to describe environmental improvement efforts, it is difficult to find an agreed upon definition of the term. Current research examines stewardship programs, activities, networks, and outcomes. A comprehensive definition should take into account the perspectives of all stakeholders. Practitioners and project managers have particularly direct experiences of stewardship, however little has been done to determine how they define the term and its implementation. Establishing a shared concept of stewardship is essential to further research, and the intent of this preliminary study is to begin to develop a definition. Researchers conducted semi-structured interviews with representatives of …


Community Gardens: An Exploration Of Urban Agriculture In The Bronx, New York City, Michelle Ma Ottmann, Juliana A. Maantay, Kristen Grady, Nerio A. Cardoso, Nilce N. Fonte Dec 2010

Community Gardens: An Exploration Of Urban Agriculture In The Bronx, New York City, Michelle Ma Ottmann, Juliana A. Maantay, Kristen Grady, Nerio A. Cardoso, Nilce N. Fonte

Cities and the Environment (CATE)

Urban agriculture/community gardening in the Bronx has multiple roles, including health-promoting, economic, environmental, and cultural. These roles are particularly important in light of urban sustainability issues and environmental justice concerns, such as differential access to open space, recreation, and fresh produce in poorer communities and communities of color, as well as differential environmental and health impacts of unsustainable practices on these communities. The gardens generally help promote a sense of place - a focus for communities - which often have little access to safe parks or recreational space within their neighborhoods, and create a center for community cultural and educational …


Diversity And Conservation Of Butterflies In The New York City Metropolitan Area, Kevin C. Matteson, Nell Roberts Dec 2010

Diversity And Conservation Of Butterflies In The New York City Metropolitan Area, Kevin C. Matteson, Nell Roberts

Cities and the Environment (CATE)

Butterflies are charismatic microfauna that provide opportunities for humans living in urbanized landscapes to directly experience biodiversity. However, very little has been published on which butterfly species currently persist in densely populated urban landscapes, such as the New York City metropolitan area. As a first step towards conservation of butterflies in this heavily populated landscape, we analyzed data on butterfly sightings in the five boroughs of New York City and adjacent counties from January 2001 to November 2009. In total, we compiled 12,732 reported sightings (5822 from within NYC limits) representing 106 butterfly species (87 from within NYC limits) that …


Design In Urban In Ecology, Victoria J. Marshall Dec 2010

Design In Urban In Ecology, Victoria J. Marshall

Cities and the Environment (CATE)

Social ecologists, economists and epidemiologists note that systems are ‘leaky’ particularly at the stage of reorganization, therefore for long term research, the challenge is not to gather information over time but rather, to measure in time, particularly with relation to collective memory and lagged effects. Similarly art and design research with an ecosystem approach has seen a shift in attention from a subject’s location in space toward an understanding of the subject being duration in time. These drawings explore various experiments into this approach at Parsons the New School for Design in 2009 and 2010. Consciously seeking alternatives to geographical …


Sustainable Urban Forest Management Planning Using Criteria And Indicators, W Andrew Kenny, Philip J. Van Wassenaer, Alexander Satel Dec 2010

Sustainable Urban Forest Management Planning Using Criteria And Indicators, W Andrew Kenny, Philip J. Van Wassenaer, Alexander Satel

Cities and the Environment (CATE)

This poster discusses how Criteria and Indicators (C&I) for success in sustainable urban forest management, first outlined by Clark et al. (1997), can be successfully applied as tools to improve Strategic Urban Forest Management planning. It presents updates and modifications to the original tables, developed by van Wassenaer, Kenney and Satel (in press) to improve their application in strategic planning. A case study demonstrates how C&I were used to evaluate current management practices in the Town of Oakville, Ontario. This poster also outlines the strategic planning framework used in the preparation of the Oakville Plan, and presents it as a …


Evaluation Of The Stormwater Capture Potential Of New York City Soils: Implications Of Infiltration Rate Variability On Urban Runoff Predictions, Kimberly A. Digiovanni, Franco Montalto, Alisha Goldstein Dec 2010

Evaluation Of The Stormwater Capture Potential Of New York City Soils: Implications Of Infiltration Rate Variability On Urban Runoff Predictions, Kimberly A. Digiovanni, Franco Montalto, Alisha Goldstein

Cities and the Environment (CATE)

The properties used to characterize soils and, more specifically, those that are used to describe the rate at which water infiltrates into them, are key parameters in most rainfall-runoff models. Because these parameters are known to be highly variable, they are a known source of uncertainty in our ability to predict runoff from pervious surfaces. The goals of this study were to a) characterize the heterogeneity in soil and infiltration characteristics in specific types of pervious surfaces found in New York City, and b) to study the potential effect of this heterogeneity on prediction of the total volume and peak …


The Urbis Partnership Proposal For Global Designation, Christine Alfsen, Laura C. Dickinson, Keith G. Tidball Dec 2010

The Urbis Partnership Proposal For Global Designation, Christine Alfsen, Laura C. Dickinson, Keith G. Tidball

Cities and the Environment (CATE)

The URBIS Partnership is proposing a designation process to recognize urban regions’ efforts to engage in participatory, inclusive, and comprehensive approaches in urban planning for sustainability. Through this process, sustainable management practices would be developed and then cataloged for sharing and dissemination as part of a site-based global knowledge network. The URBIS Partnership is inviting expertise in fields including urban ecology, environmental education, policy, and urban planning to develop this process. Currently, urban regions involved include Stockholm, Montreal, Shanghai, Cape Town, Chicago, Istanbul, New Orleans, and New York. This effort will culminate in the establishment of the URBIS Partnership with …


Million Treesnyc Conference Proceedings: Editor's Introduction, Eric G. Strauss Dec 2010

Million Treesnyc Conference Proceedings: Editor's Introduction, Eric G. Strauss

Cities and the Environment (CATE)

The manuscript is the Editor's Introduction for the 2010 Special Edition of CATE featuring the proceedings of the Million TreesNYC Conference held in March 2010 in New York City.


Mirsky Holiday Lectures On Science 2010, The Rockefeller University Dec 2010

Mirsky Holiday Lectures On Science 2010, The Rockefeller University

Posters

51st Annual Alfred E. Mirsky Holiday Lecture on Science for high school students When Good Cells Go Bad: How Cancer Cells Gain the Power to Multiply and Spread delivered by Sohail Tavozoie


Deafdigest: Deaf Sports News December 29, 2010, Barry Strassler Dec 2010

Deafdigest: Deaf Sports News December 29, 2010, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Sports 2010

No abstract provided.


12/29/2010 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries Dec 2010

12/29/2010 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries

Obituaries

List of Obituaries for individuals who passed away on 12/29/2010. Scroll down to see the names and obituary description.


Deafdigest: Mid-Week Edition, December 29, 2010, Barry Strassler Dec 2010

Deafdigest: Mid-Week Edition, December 29, 2010, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Mid-Week 2010

No abstract provided.


Top Ten From 2010, Center For Persons With Disabilities Dec 2010

Top Ten From 2010, Center For Persons With Disabilities

Blog Posts

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The Murray Ledger And Times, December 29, 2010, The Murray Ledger And Times Dec 2010

The Murray Ledger And Times, December 29, 2010, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

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Usa V. Reggie Ritter Dec 2010

Usa V. Reggie Ritter

2010 Decisions

USDC for the District Court of the Virgin Islands


Zepeda V. State Clerk's Record Dckt. 38199 Dec 2010

Zepeda V. State Clerk's Record Dckt. 38199

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

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Birmingham's First Einstein Bros. Bagels Opening On Uab Campus, Staff Dec 2010

Birmingham's First Einstein Bros. Bagels Opening On Uab Campus, Staff

Browse All News

No abstract provided.


Birmingham's First Einstein Bros. Bagels Opens On Uab Campus, Jim Bakken Dec 2010

Birmingham's First Einstein Bros. Bagels Opens On Uab Campus, Jim Bakken

Browse All News

No abstract provided.


Guatemalan Workers In Iowa Reunite With Family Members They Left Behind, Carol Hoverman Dec 2010

Guatemalan Workers In Iowa Reunite With Family Members They Left Behind, Carol Hoverman

Postville Project Documents

Catholic News Service article from Dec. 29, 2010: More than two dozen Guatemalans were reunited in December with their family members, eight former Agriprocessors workers whom they had not seen in years.