“…For him, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) was a blessing. It included an ethical position about the environment, and the law required some level of accountability in the form of an environmental impact statement, or EIS. …”

“…Its interactive process helps individuals set and act upon goals, make better decisions, and produce results. 10 Steps to Successful Coaching offers meaningful advice to help you embrace and elevate your existing coaching skills, drawing upon your strengths as a leader, colleague, or employee to bring out the strengths of others. …”

“…It presents the origins of testamentary acts in the Kingdom of Poland and its centre, Krakow, and their subsequent transformation from so called ‘canonical wills’ to ‘communal wills’. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Low-Frequency Sound and Marine Mammals -- Copyright -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- LIMITATIONS OF CURRENT KNOWLEDGE -- CHANGES PROPOSED IN REGULATORY STRUCTURE -- RECOMMENDED RESEARCH -- 1 A Review of Current Knowledge -- CHANGES IN OCEAN SOUNDS AND POTENTIAL EFFECTS ON MARINE MAMMALS -- EVALUATING NOISE INTERFERENCE -- Transmission Loss of Sound in the Ocean -- Ambient Noise Level of the Sea -- Acoustic Characteristics of Marine Mammal Hearing Organs -- THE NEED FOR ADDITIONAL RESEARCH -- ORIGINS AND DRAWBACKS OF THE "120-DB CRITERION -- REFERENCES -- 2 Regulatory Barriers and Possible Alternatives -- THE MARINE MAMMAL PROTECTION ACT AND ITS INTERPRETATION -- HARASSMENT OF MARINE MAMMALS -- PERMITTING IMPLICATIONS FOR RESEARCH ACTIVITY -- Scientific Research Permits -- Small Incidental Take (SIT) Authorizations -- MAGNITUDE OF POTENTIAL NOISE POLLUTION FROM OCEANIC ACOUSTIC STUDIES -- PROPOSED CHANGES IN THE REGULATORY STRUCTURE -- Using a New Mechanism to Regulate Scientific "Takes -- Utilization of the IACUC System -- Streamlining Existing Regulations -- SUMMARY OF RECOMMENDED CHANGES -- REFERENCES -- 3 Topics for Future Research -- BEHAVIOR OF MARINE MAMMALS IN THE WILD -- Natural, Ecologically Important Signals -- Habituation to Repeated Human-made Sounds -- Differential Responses of Migrating Whales to Various Human-made Sounds -- Responses of Deep-diving Marine Mammals to Low-frequency Sounds -- STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF THE AUDITORY SYSTEM -- Basic Studies of Audiometry -- Measurements on Ensnared or Beached Marine Mammals -- Replication of Data -- Temporary Threshold Shift -- Basic Studies of the Anatomy and Physiology of the Auditory System -- EFFECTS OF LOW-FREQUENCY SOUNDS ON THE FOOD CHAIN -- DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES -- Tag Development…”

“…Marketing and corporate social initiatives requires a delicate balancing act between generating financial and social dividends. …”

“…It must also take into account peoples' ability to weigh options carefully and act prudently. Understanding one's own intellectual shortcomings, and learning how to overcome, is as important as developing one's strengths. …”

“…Pull it up by the roots and have a look at it - it hasn't got a chance. So you have to act as a sort of parent to the idea - protect it and give it a chance to grow in spite of these pressures; you have to be able to tolerate this state of ignorance…”

“…The event also explored how patients, clinicians, and payers assess and act upon the risks and benefits of genomic screening and diagnostic testing. …”

“…Consistency definitions provide rules about loads and stores (or memory reads and writes) and how they act upon memory. As part of supporting a memory consistency model, many machines also provide cache coherence protocols that ensure that multiple cached copies of data are kept up-to-date. …”

“…The contributors to this volume examine these case studies, along with Mongolia, Malaysia and India, arguing that the common element is the extent to which political parties, including opposition parties, have become institutionalized and act as stabilizers on democracy. They contend that the role of political parties has been significantly underestimated in comparison with structural elements, which are insufficient to explain how these democracies have persisted. …”

“…A key corollary of this hypothesis is active inference—the idea that all behavior involves the selective sampling of sensory data so that we experience what we expect to (in order to avoid surprises). Simply put, we act upon the world to fulfill our expectations. …”

“…., blockchain) and adds new sections on strategy based on the OODA (observe-orient-decide-act) loop in the cycle. It also includes an entire chapter on tools used by the professionals in the field. …”

“…This concept is important because everything that we know and do in the world is predicated on a prior act of learning.A concept can have many meanings and can be used in a number of different ways, and this creates difficulty when considering the nature of objects and the relationships between them. …”

“…As Herman Narula shows, the metaverse is actually the latest manifestation of an ancient human tendency: the act of world building. From the Egyptians, whose conception of death inspired them to build the pyramids, to modern-day sports fans, whose passion for a game inspires extreme behavior, humans have long sought to supplement their day-to-day lives with a rich diversity of alternative experiences. …”

“…Professionals, artists, and others who organize and curate video game exhibitions and events act within a rhizomatic network of methods, missions, and goals. …”

“…Besides cultural and demographic trends, the author identifies the main factors leading to this failure: the divergent interests of individual European powers, their incapacity to act in a geopolitical context and the rapid erosion of Europe's civilizational identity"--…”

“…This with the dreamy pretension that our students launch themselves into the void and discover the richness of writing as an escape from pleasure, but also as an act to represent the voices that accompany the multiple faces of human life, an exercise similar to painting or putting music to a voice La Facultad de Psicología de la Universidad de San Buenaventura Cali, ha emprendido desde hace varios años la tarea de acompañar a nuestros estudiantes de Taller de Escritura I en el ejercicio de la materalización de una crónica para plasmar la vida a través de las letras y para que quien la lea, comprenda desde otro punto de vista una realidad que atrapa, desgarra y lastima, pero que transforma nuestro pensamiento y nuestro ser. …”

“…Atlantic salmon in Maine, once abundant but now seriously depleted, were listed as endangered under the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA) in November 2000. The listing covers the wild fish in eight Maine rivers as a single "distinct population segment." …”

“…Social Security Administration (SSA) provides benefits to adults and children who meet the eligibility requirements for a disability as described in Title II and Title XVI of the Social Security Act. To determine whether more accurate or precise techniques exist for determining if a previously evaluated physical impairment is either more or less severe, SSA requested the National Academies assemble a committee to review new or improved diagnostic or evaluative techniques that have become generally available within the past 30 years for cardiovascular, neurological, respiratory, hematological, and digestive conditions. …”