Motor Vehicle Crash Fatalities for Week Ending, October 3, 2008

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Supply chain management as a competitive advantage in the Spanish grocery sector

Adversarial relationships have long dominated business relationships,but Supply Chain Management (SCM) entails a new perspective. SCM requiresa movement away from arms-length relationships toward partnership stylerelations. SCM involves integration, co-ordination and collaborationacross organisations and throughout the supply chain. It means that SCMrequires internal (intraorganisational) and external (interorganisational)integration. This paper analyses the relationship between internal andexternal integration processes, their effect on firms performance andtheir contribution to the achievement of a competitive advantage.Performance improvements are analysed through costs, stock out and leadtime reductions. And, the achievement of a better competitive positionis measured by comparing the firm s performance with its competitors performance. To analyse this, an empirical study has been conducted inthe Spanish grocery sector.

Building adaptive capacity and resilience to climate change in the water sector in Cape Verde

Purpose of the evaluation This is a scheduled standard mid-term evaluation (MTR) of a UNDP implemented GEF LDCF co-financed project. It is conducted by a team of an international and a national independent evaluator. The objective of the MTR, as set out in the Terms of Reference (TORs; Annex 1), is to provide an independent analysis of the progress of the project so far. The MTR aims to:  identify potential project design problems,  assess progress towards the achievement of the project objective and outcomes,  identify and document lessons learned (including lessons that might improve design and implementation of other projects, including UNDP-GEF supported projects), and  make recommendations regarding specific actions that should be taken to improve the project. The MTR is intended to assess signs of project success or failure and identify the necessary changes to be made. The project commenced its implementation in the first half of 2010 with the recruitment of project staff. According to the updated project plan, it is due to close in July 201410 with operations scaling down in December 2013 due to funding limits. Because of a slow implementation start, the mid-term evaluation was delayed to July 201311 The intended target audience of the evaluation are:  The project team and decision makers in the INGRH  The GEF and UNFCCC Operational Focal Points  The project partners and beneficiaries  UNDP in Cape Verde as well as the regional and headquarter (HQ) office levels  The GEF Secretariat.

Motor Vehicle Crash Fatalities for Week Ending, October 24, 2008

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Early attentional processes distinguish selective from global motor inhibitory control : An electrical neuroimaging study

The rapid stopping of specific parts of movements is frequently required in daily life. Yet, whether selective inhibitory control of movements is mediated by a specific neural pathway or by the combination between a global stopping of all ongoing motor activity followed by the re-initiation of task-relevant movements remains unclear. To address this question, we applied time-wise statistical analyses of the topography, global field power and electrical sources of the event-related potentials to the global vs selective inhibition stimuli presented during a Go/NoGo task. Participants (n = 18) had to respond as fast as possible with their two hands to Go stimuli and to withhold the response from the two hands (global inhibition condition, GNG) or from only one hand (selective inhibition condition, SNG) when specific NoGo stimuli were presented. Behaviorally, we replicated previous evidence for slower response times in the SNG than in the Go condition. Electrophysiologically, there were two distinct phases of event-related potentials modulations between the GNG and the SNG conditions. At 110âeuro"150 ms post-stimulus onset, there was a difference in the strength of the electric field without concomitant topographic modulation, indicating the differential engagement of statistically indistinguishable configurations of neural generators for selective and global inhibitory control. At 150âeuro"200 ms, there was topographic modulation, indicating the engagement of distinct brain networks. Source estimations localized these effects within bilateral temporo-parieto-occipital and within parieto-central networks, respectively. Our results suggest that while both types of motor inhibitory control depend on global stopping mechanisms, selective and global inhibition still differ quantitatively at early attention-related processing phases.

Motor Vehicle Crash Fatalities for Week Ending, October 31, 2008

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Motor Vehicle Crash Fatalities for Week Ending, November 7, 2008

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Percepção dos Agentes Económicos do Sector do Turismo da Ilha de São Vicente Face aos Impactos Económicos do Turismo de Cruzeiros

O sector do turismo é considerado pelo Governo de Cabo Verde como um dos motores de desenvolvimento do país devido aos impactos económicos gerados, pelo que, exige um planeamento a curto, médio e longo prazo de forma a maximizar os efeitos positivos e atenuar os potenciais impactos negativos que possam surgir. Assim, dada a pertinência do tema, bem como a importância atribuída a esses impactos surgiu a temática discutida neste trabalho com o objectivo de se conhecer qual a percepção dos agentes económicos do sector do turismo da ilha de São Vicente face aos impactos económicos do turismo de cruzeiros. Para dar resposta a este objectivo, fez-se uma análise conceptual do sector do turismo e dos impactos económicos gerados, bem como a contextualização do sector de cruzeiros a nível mundial e nacional. Desta revisão teórica, desenvolveu-se uma metodologia que permitiu identificar a percepção dos agentes económicos do sector do turismo da ilha de São Vicente, e para tal recorreu-se a um inquérito por questionário, com uma amostra representativa de 165 indivíduos da ilha de São Vicente. Dos resultados obtidos, concluiu-se que o turismo de cruzeiros contribui de forma positiva na ilha de São Vicente para o aumento do emprego, do rendimento dos residentes, para o surgimento de novas oportunidades de negócio, para aumentar a riqueza do Estado, para melhorar a qualidade de vida na ilha e ainda, de forma geral, contribui para o desenvolvimento da mesma. Por outro lado, concluiu-se que este contribui para aumentar o preço dos bens e serviços na ilha (inflação e especulação imobiliária), para aumentar os impostos e ainda está a contribuir para tornar a ilha dependente deste sector.

Motor Vehicle Crash Fatalities for Week Ending, November 21, 2008

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Motor Vehicle Crash Fatalities for Week Ending, November 28, 2008

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Motor Vehicle Crash Fatalities for Week Ending, December 5, 2008

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Motor Vehicle Crash Fatalities for Week Ending, November 28, 2008

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Motor Vehicle Crash Fatalities for Week Ending, December 12, 2008

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