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THE EFFECTIVENESS OF NEUROFEEDBACK ON DISSOCIATION AND EMOTION REGULATION, POSSIBLE MEDIATORS OF EXTERNALIZING BEHAVIOR IN ADOLESCENTS IN RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF NEUROFEEDBACK ON DISSOCIATION AND EMOTION REGULATION, POSSIBLE MEDIATORS OF EXTERNALIZING BEHAVIOR IN ADOLESCENTS IN RESIDENTIAL TREATMEN
Turning Brownfields into Jobfields
A handbook for practitioners and citizens on making brownfields development work
Fixed Points of a Generalized Discrete Baker's Transformation
In this note we investigate the fixed point sets for the iterations of a generalization of the two-dimensional discrete baker's transformation. In particular, we will derive explicit formulas for the fixed points, and the number of fixed points. Moreover, we will show that the set of all fixed points is a closed set. This generalizes the some of known results for the classical baker's transformation
Student Recital: Timothy Swenson, Horn; Julian Dawson, Piano; Greg Kunde, Tenor; May 5, 1977
Hayden AuditoriumThursday EveningMay 5, 19778:30 p.m
Senior Recital: Rodger Burnett, Horn; Julian Dawson, Piano; Maggie Mooha, Piano; Greg Kunde, Tenor; May 2, 1976
Centennial East Recital HallSunday EveningMay 2, 19768:30 p.m
Faculty Recital: Brass Quintet
Center for the Performing ArtsNovember 8, 2011Tuesday Evening8:00 p.m
Corporate Strategies for Addressing Climate Change
Executive Summary
Climate change is now a bright, blinking issue on the radar screens of companies
worldwide. Companies have started addressing climate change for a myriad of
reasons – reasons as diverse as their respective business models. The
academic and business literature has done a fairly good job of exploring why
companies are addressing climate change. This study examines how they are
addressing climate change. It explores the risks, rewards, opportunities and
barriers surrounding corporate action on climate change and provides insight into
the strategies employed by companies that have led the way in taking early
action. The lessons learned by early actors can inform the efforts of those who
follow.
Climate change presents companies with significant risks, uncertainties, and an
increasing number of market opportunities. Companies now confront a patchwork
of regional regulation. In addition, most companies in our survey expect federal
regulations to limit GHG emissions within the next decade. The unknowns of
potential regulation create uncertainty, and therefore risk, for businesses making
strategic decisions. Volatile energy prices wreak havoc on cost structures,
severely impairing the ability to accurately forecast profitability. Large storm
events have caused companies to think differently about the physical risks of
climate change. Accumulating scientific evidence, coupled with these large
storms, has boosted public awareness, leading to changing consumer
preferences. Companies are looking at these changing preferences and
identifying market opportunities, broadening the traditional risk-mitigationcentered
approach to climate change.
The focus of this study is “climate-related strategies,” defined as the set of goals
and implementation plans within a corporation that either aim to reduce GHG
emissions, or that significantly reduce GHG emissions as a co-benefit. This
includes strategies and measures for achieving near-term emission reductions
from a company’s own operations; research, development, and investment in
low-carbon production and process-related technologies; alternative products
that have a more attractive carbon profile; energy-efficiency initiatives; reductions
obtained through offsets and emissions trading; and activities to reduce
“upstream” or “downstream” GHG emissions along their value chain.Master of Science (MS)School of Natural Resources and EnvironmentUniversity of Michiganhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/49546/1/SNRE Masters Project Report - Final.pd
Project Report No. 63, Site Index Equations for Loblolly and Slash Pine Plantations in East Texas, Update: Fall 2000
This update utilizes height-age pairs measured from 1982- 1999. As a result, the number.of observations available for analysis is 1,900 loblolly and 852 slash. It is anticipated that the equations in this Fall 2000 update may quantify the productivity of East Texas loblolly and slash pine plantations in a more accurate and reliable manner than the eight previous sets of equations
Exploring the measurement of markedness and its relationship with other linguistic variables
Antonym pair members can be differentiated by each word's markedness-that distinction attributable to the presence or absence of features at morphological or semantic levels. Morphologically marked words incorporate their unmarked counterpart with additional morphs (e.g., "unlucky" vs. "lucky"); properties used to determine semantically marked words (e.g., "short" vs. "long") are less clearly defined. Despite extensive theoretical scrutiny, the lexical properties of markedness have received scant empirical study. The current paper employs an antonym sequencing approach to measure markedness: establishing markedness probabilities for individual words and evaluating their relationship with other lexical properties (e.g., length, frequency, valence). Regression analyses reveal that markedness probability is, as predicted, related to affixation and also strongly related to valence. Our results support the suggestion that antonym sequence is reflected in discourse, and further analysis demonstrates that markedness probabilities, derived from the antonym sequencing task, reflect the ordering of antonyms within natural language. In line with the Pollyanna Hypothesis, we argue that markedness is closely related to valence; language users demonstrate a tendency to present words evaluated positively ahead of those evaluated negatively if given the choice. Future research should consider the relationship of markedness and valence, and the influence of contextual information in determining which member of an antonym pair is marked or unmarked within discourse
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