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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"NRDc"”.
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Environmental NGOs and Business: A Grounded Theory of Assessment, Targeting, and Influencing
… five ENGOs: Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Greenpeace, Environmental Defense (ED), World Resources Institute (WRI), and Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). NRDC and WRI served as pilot studies. NRDC, Greenpeace, and ED were considered case studies for the purpose of drawing …
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Investigating the Post-Translational Modification of Notch1 Intracellular Domain: From Proteolytic Cleavage to Mass Spectrometric Profiling
… In the first part of the study, the role of NRDc, a zinc-dependent metallopeptidase, in mediating cryptic cleavage of N1ICD, particularly at ~50 kDa, was explored. Pharmacological inhibition with 1,10-phenanthroline did not significantly alter the expression of this cleavage product, …
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Improved relative discriminative criterion using rare and informative terms and ringed seal search-support vector machine techniques for text classification
… Existing feature selection techniques (e.g. RDC, NRDC) consider frequently occurring terms and ignore rarely occurring terms count in a class. However, this study proposes the Improved Relative Discriminative Criterion (IRDC) technique which considers rarely occurring terms count. It is argued …
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Green Neighborhood Standards from a Planning Perspective: A LEED for Neighborhood Deelopment (LEED-ND) Case Study
… and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) in 2007. The rating system is evaluated based on its application as a broad set of national standards meant to encourage green neighborhood development. The main case study is a master planned community in semi-rural Paso Robles, California. …
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Advocates For the People & the Test Ban
… to as the Natural Resource Defense Council (NRDC), remains the subject of debate. Despite their anonymity, this private group played a significant part in the arms control debate during this period. Following the "Reagan/Bush Era" the future of nuclear testing was questionable. This thesis …
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Exploring the Harmful Health Effects of Chlorpyrifos on Children: An Argument for Policy Reform
… to deny the petition, filed in 2007 by the NRDC and PANNA, to revoke all uses of chlorpyrifos on food crops. Further work will include suing the EPA to appeal the government’s decision and implement a court-imposed ban on chlorpyrifos. If this proves unsuccessful advocates and coalitions …
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MEASURING EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY REGULATIONS IN U.S. HOUSEHOLDS
… be about 3.6% of GDP by the end of 21st century (NRDC, 2008). The second chapter investigates how projected July temperatures will increase the demand for electricity in the U.S. by 0.8%, while projected January temperatures will decrease the demand for natural gas and heating oil by 1% and 2.3%, …