Background of asthma Prevalence in the world: 1.6 hundred million in China:1-3 in Shenyang: 1.24 %(1999) GINA: Global Initiative for Asthma(1994) WHO/HLBI Bronchial asthmatic diagnosis guideline (1997) Chinese medical academy

Outline Review u Examined basics of GPS signal structure and how gnal is tracked a Looked at methods used to acquire satellites and start g Today we look at

The Open Economy No nation was ever ruined by tr Benjamin Franklin Even if you never leave your home town, you are an active participant in a global conomy. When you go to the grocery store, for instance, you might choose be- tween apples grown locally and grapes grown in Chile. When you make a de posit into your local bank, the bank might lend those funds to your next-door

全球变化(global change)是指地球生态系统在自 然和人为影响下出现的可能改变地球承载生物能力的 全球环境变化,包括全球气候变化、温室效应、环境 污染、生态退化等人类生态环境的变化。 1992年在巴西里约热内卢召开的联合国环境与发展 大会上提出了《气候变化框架公约》,列出全球变化 项目除全球气候变化外,还包括全球人口增长、土地 利用和覆盖的变化、大气成分变化、营养物质生物地 化循环变化、生物多样性丧失等方面。这些变化是相 互作用的

Data on world forest extent ,plantation extent ,and forest management and ownership provide the basis for monitoring the status of the world’s forest, as well as analyzing the effects of markets and government on those forests

Being exposed to the risk of criminal victimization or actually being a victim of crime is a common feature of life for most people in most countries throughout the world. Concern about risk and the effects of crime are reflected in various national legal provisions and, at an international level, in the Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice

solar energy as the driving force for this global process (Fig. 1). All living organisms also require a source of nitro￾gen, which is necessary for the synthesis of amino acids, nucleotides, and other compounds. Plants can generally use either ammonia or nitrate as their sole source of ni￾trogen, but vertebrates must obtain nitrogen in the form

1 世纪议程 Agenda 21 （the international plan of action adopted by governments in 1992 in Rio de Janeiro Brazil（巴西里约）, — provides the global consensus on the road map towards sustainable development） 世界环境日 World Environment Day (June

Privatization and Self-Regulation as Tropes of Global Media Restructuring There is a power to language itself in affecting media reform around the world. The field of media regulation is filled with examples of strong ideas, encapsulated in words and phrases, that have an enormous impact on legislative transformation, and the export of which seems a characteristic of globalization. Just think of the ideology-laden tropes

Reading-Centred Activities 1. Global Reading Task Answer the questions on page 69to get the main idea of the text. Predicting an author’s ideas Analyze the text structure byquestion and answer technique