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Handbook of exchange rates

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Facilitating trade through competitive, low-carbon transport : the case for Vietnam's inland and coastal waterways / by Blancas, Luis C.

Table of Contents: “…Context -- Objectives of the report -- Scope and methodology -- Key data sources -- Structure of the report -- Demand for waterborne and multimodal transport -- Size and historical growth patterns of IWT and coastal shipping -- Growth projections for IWT and coastal shipping -- Commodity tonnage and tonnage distribution by mode -- Inland and coastal shipping lengths of haul -- Main freight flows -- Regional routes and modal competition -- Primary intra- and interregional corridors -- Red River delta region -- Mekong delta -- Coastal shipping -- Corridor 1: Hanoi, Haiphong, Quang Ninh -- Corridor 2: Quang Ninh, Ninh Binh -- Corridor 3: Hanoi, Ninh Binh -- Corridor 1: HCMC northwest -- Corridor 3: HCMC southwest --Container transport in the Mekong delta -- IWT market structure -- Shipping companies -- Coastal shipping -- Shipping volumes -- Container flows -- Containerized cargo (domestic cargo) -- Ccontainerized cargo (feeder cargo) -- Sea-river transport -- Market structure for coastal shipping -- Vinalines -- Competitive position of IWT and coastal shipping -- Competitive position of IWT -- Competitive position of coastal shipping -- Supply chains and logistics costs in Vietnam -- Conclusions on demand -- Supply-side considerations: waterways, ports, and fleet -- Institutional framework for the waterway and port sectors -- Waterway infrastructure -- Northern waterways -- Southern waterways -- Central region waterways -- Technical classification of the waterways -- Planned investments in waterways -- The IWT master plan for 2020 -- Major channel projects -- Ports -- River ports -- Planned investments in river ports -- Seaports -- Fleet -- Fleet of river-going vessels -- Fleet of sea-going vessels -- Fleet of sea-river vessels -- Modernization of IWT fleet -- Conclusions on waterways, ports, and fleet -- Modal differences in fuel efficiency and GHG emissions -- Relative carbon intensity among transport modes -- Main challenges and recommendations -- Planning -- Institutional/regulatory environment -- Phsical bottlenecks -- Lack of IWT hinders market development -- Financing -- Strategy and action plan -- Estimated impact of public sector interventions in IWT and coastal shipping -- Translating the IWT/coastal shipping strategy into tangible interventions -- Methodology: translating interventions into impacts -- Modal shift and emissions impact of the proposed interventions -- CBA results -- References -- Appendix A: list of stakeholders interviewed -- Appendix B: major waterway routes in the north and south -- Appendix C: general considerations on DWT capacity increases in the national IWT fleet -- Appendix D: cargo data and modal split model -- Cargo flows for northern provinces: road transport in tons per day -- Cargo flows for northern provinces: iwt in tons per day -- Cargo flows for southern provinces: road transport in tons per day -- Cargo flows for southern provinces: IWT in tons per day -- Appendix E: detailed description of proposed interventions -- Appendix F: detailed impacts of proposed interventions.…”
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Bringing strategy back : how strategic shock absorbers make planning relevant in a world of constant change / by Sampler, Jeffrey L.

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Pathways to peace : the transformative power of children and families /

Table of Contents: “…Porges -- Epigenetics : significance of the gene-environment interface for brain -- Development / Eric B. …”
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Analyzing and modeling spatial and temporal dynamics of infectious diseases /

Table of Contents: “…Feng and Charmaine Dean -- The zoonosismags project (part 1) : population-based geosimulation of zoonoses in an informed virtual geographic environment / Bernard Moulin, Mondher Bouden, Daniel Navarro -- Zoonosismags project (part 2) : complementarity of a rapid-propotyping tool and of a full-scale geosimulator for population-based geosimulation of zoonoses / Bernard Moulin, Daniel Navarro, Dominic Marcotte, Said Sedrati -- Web-mapping and behaviour pattern extraction tools to assess lyme disease risk for humans in peri-urban forests / Hedi Haddad, Bernard Moulin, Franck Manirakiza Christelle Maha, Vincent Godard and Samuel Mermet -- An integrated approach for communicable disease geosimulation based on epidemiological, human mobility and public intervention models / Hedi Haddad, Bernard Moulin, Marius Thariault -- Smartphone trajectories as data sources for agent-based infection spread modeling / M.R. …”
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Handbook of exchange rates

An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Facilitating trade through competitive, low-carbon transport : the case for Vietnam's inland and coastal waterways / by Blancas, Luis C.

Table of Contents: “…Context -- Objectives of the report -- Scope and methodology -- Key data sources -- Structure of the report -- Demand for waterborne and multimodal transport -- Size and historical growth patterns of IWT and coastal shipping -- Growth projections for IWT and coastal shipping -- Commodity tonnage and tonnage distribution by mode -- Inland and coastal shipping lengths of haul -- Main freight flows -- Regional routes and modal competition -- Primary intra- and interregional corridors -- Red River delta region -- Mekong delta -- Coastal shipping -- Corridor 1: Hanoi, Haiphong, Quang Ninh -- Corridor 2: Quang Ninh, Ninh Binh -- Corridor 3: Hanoi, Ninh Binh -- Corridor 1: HCMC northwest -- Corridor 3: HCMC southwest --Container transport in the Mekong delta -- IWT market structure -- Shipping companies -- Coastal shipping -- Shipping volumes -- Container flows -- Containerized cargo (domestic cargo) -- Ccontainerized cargo (feeder cargo) -- Sea-river transport -- Market structure for coastal shipping -- Vinalines -- Competitive position of IWT and coastal shipping -- Competitive position of IWT -- Competitive position of coastal shipping -- Supply chains and logistics costs in Vietnam -- Conclusions on demand -- Supply-side considerations: waterways, ports, and fleet -- Institutional framework for the waterway and port sectors -- Waterway infrastructure -- Northern waterways -- Southern waterways -- Central region waterways -- Technical classification of the waterways -- Planned investments in waterways -- The IWT master plan for 2020 -- Major channel projects -- Ports -- River ports -- Planned investments in river ports -- Seaports -- Fleet -- Fleet of river-going vessels -- Fleet of sea-going vessels -- Fleet of sea-river vessels -- Modernization of IWT fleet -- Conclusions on waterways, ports, and fleet -- Modal differences in fuel efficiency and GHG emissions -- Relative carbon intensity among transport modes -- Main challenges and recommendations -- Planning -- Institutional/regulatory environment -- Phsical bottlenecks -- Lack of IWT hinders market development -- Financing -- Strategy and action plan -- Estimated impact of public sector interventions in IWT and coastal shipping -- Translating the IWT/coastal shipping strategy into tangible interventions -- Methodology: translating interventions into impacts -- Modal shift and emissions impact of the proposed interventions -- CBA results -- References -- Appendix A: list of stakeholders interviewed -- Appendix B: major waterway routes in the north and south -- Appendix C: general considerations on DWT capacity increases in the national IWT fleet -- Appendix D: cargo data and modal split model -- Cargo flows for northern provinces: road transport in tons per day -- Cargo flows for northern provinces: iwt in tons per day -- Cargo flows for southern provinces: road transport in tons per day -- Cargo flows for southern provinces: IWT in tons per day -- Appendix E: detailed description of proposed interventions -- Appendix F: detailed impacts of proposed interventions.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Bringing strategy back : how strategic shock absorbers make planning relevant in a world of constant change / by Sampler, Jeffrey L.

An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Pathways to peace : the transformative power of children and families /

Table of Contents: “…Porges -- Epigenetics : significance of the gene-environment interface for brain -- Development / Eric B. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Analyzing and modeling spatial and temporal dynamics of infectious diseases /

Table of Contents: “…Feng and Charmaine Dean -- The zoonosismags project (part 1) : population-based geosimulation of zoonoses in an informed virtual geographic environment / Bernard Moulin, Mondher Bouden, Daniel Navarro -- Zoonosismags project (part 2) : complementarity of a rapid-propotyping tool and of a full-scale geosimulator for population-based geosimulation of zoonoses / Bernard Moulin, Daniel Navarro, Dominic Marcotte, Said Sedrati -- Web-mapping and behaviour pattern extraction tools to assess lyme disease risk for humans in peri-urban forests / Hedi Haddad, Bernard Moulin, Franck Manirakiza Christelle Maha, Vincent Godard and Samuel Mermet -- An integrated approach for communicable disease geosimulation based on epidemiological, human mobility and public intervention models / Hedi Haddad, Bernard Moulin, Marius Thariault -- Smartphone trajectories as data sources for agent-based infection spread modeling / M.R. …”
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The physics of degradation in engineered materials and devices : fundamentals and principles / by Swingler, Jonathan, Feinberg, Alec

Table of Contents: “…Equilibrium thermodynamic damage assessment -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The system (device) and its environment -- 4.3 Thermodynamic work and the first law -- 4.4 Thermodynamic second law in terms of device entropy damage -- 4.5 Thermodynamic catastrophic and parametric failures -- 4.6 Entropy of a complex system -- 4.7 Measuring damage entropy processes -- 4.8 Measures for system-level entropy damage -- Section 2. …”
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Thermoactive foundations for sustainable buildings / by McCartney, John Scott, 1979-, Krarti, Moncef, Kwag, Byung Chang, Bouazza, Abdelmalek, Singh, Rao Martand, Faizal, Mohammed

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Diversity and discrimination in research organizations /

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Creating a sustainable competitive position : ethical challenges for international firms /

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Access Controlled : The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace /

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Orphaned Landscapes : Violence, Visuality, and Appearance in Indonesia / by Spyer, Patricia, 1957-

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Landscapes and Social Transformations on the Northwest Coast : Colonial Encounters in the Fraser Valley / by Oliver, Jeff, 1973-

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Opportunity 08 independent ideas for America's next president /

Table of Contents: “…Bush III -- Constructing a successful China strategy : promote balance and democratic ideas in Asia / Michael Green -- Tackling trade and climate : leadership on the home front of foreign policy / William Antholis and Strobe Talbott -- Ending oil dependence : protecting national security, the environment, and the economy / David Sandalow -- Waning chances for stability : navigating bad options in Iraq / Carlos Pascual and Kenneth M. …”
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Diversity and discrimination in research organizations /

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Creating a sustainable competitive position : ethical challenges for international firms /

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