In-depth review of earthquake insurance solutions

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Earthquake insurance market in California Historical background Earthquake insurance in California started in the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake but was initially unpopular (Buffinton 1961; Meltsner 1978; Goltz 1985; Muir-Wood 2016a)....

Valuation of bundles of ecosystem services associated to the Cévennes landscapes 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Evidence of the mainstreaming of the ecosystem services concept As pointed out in the introduction, much effort is undertaken to inform decision-making about the management of ES by using economic valuation. Therefore, it...

THE SENSITIVITY OF VEGETAL SPECIES TO GLOBAL CHANGE 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Presentation of the region The Thesis work concerned only Northeast France because a very important data set was available for this area and forests are present in a great part of the region...

Ecological systems in an unsteady world

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Adaptation as a response to uctuations and changes An ecosystem subject to uctuations or changes can respond in di erent ways. The two main categories of responses are demographic changes (changes in the...

EFFECT OF OPERATING PARAMETERS ON PROCESS EFFICIENCY

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Membrane bioreactor (MBR) Membrane filtration Membrane filtration, widely used in chemical and biotechnology processes, is already established as a valuable means of filtering and cleaning wastewater. Membrane filtration denotes the separation process in...

The Boolean and arithmetic proportions as parallelograms

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Models with analogical proportions In this section, we will describe models that have made explicit use of analogical proportions. Solving geometric problems The ANALOGY program of Thomas Evans [Eva64] is one of the...

Farm typology in the Berambadi watershed (India)

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Today’s and tomorrow’s challenges for the agriculture Agriculture is facing many challenges both in terms of productivity and revenue and in terms of environmental and health impacts. Agriculture must thus face a demand...

Facteurs de Contrôle des Variations Saisonnières des Isotopes du Silicium

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Sample collection, spike and incubation conditions The isotopic dilution technique adapted by Fripiat et al. (2009) from Corvaisier et al. (2005) aims at simultaneously determining the rates of Si uptake (i.e. silica production)...

ASSOCIATION BETWEEN ANIMAL, TRANSPORTATION, SLAUGHTERHOUSE PRACTICES AND BEEF EXTREME CARCASS BRUISES AND ULTIMATE MEAT pH 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » STRATEGIES TO INCREASE THE OUTPUT OF INTENSIVE BEEF PRODUCTION Introduction Although a considerable amount of effort has been made to improve beef production efficiency, few studies have taken into account improvements in terms...

Relational Conditions for Knowledge Flows to Entrepreneurs

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » ENTREPRENEURS’ NEEDS FOR INTANGIBLE SUPPORT Entrepreneurship is an emotionally harrowing process to go through (Rauch et al., 2018). Entrepreneurs face lack of resources (Jarillo, 1989; Stevenson & Jarillo, 1990; Villanueva, Van de Ven,...