... implementation of International Humanitarian Law obligations – national and international approaches to the enforcement ofthe law and – the interactions between International Humanitarian Law and other ... two grounds: as an act of collective self-defence by Kuwait and other states against an armed attack andas action authorized by the Security Council against an act of aggression The action caused ... clear that the ousting of Saddam Hussein was a great gain, the aim of establishing democracy and human rights in Iraq through war and occupation would hardly have sufficed asa legal basis for armed...
... cultural, historical and national elements − A central city and surrounding residential areas − A market with identifiable attributes − A base for local industry, and an agglomorate of quasi industrial ... ofa place 35 Main subjects: a b c d e Determinants ofthe image ofa place How to measure the image What elements can guide the designing ofthe image for a place Ways to communicate the image ... Sustain the Growth of Places 49 A What main challenges the places are facing? Places are threatened more and more by the increasing pace of changes in the economic, political and technological...
... Program Administrators (STAPPA) andthe Association of Local Air Pollution Control Of cials (ALAPCO) are the two national associations of air quality of cials in the states, territories and major ... adolescence and young adulthood, and higher again in middle age through old age asthe incidence of heart and lung disease and diabetes increases Factors that increase the risk of heart attack, such as ... areas of Africa and Asia lift coarse particles to high elevations; the resulting dust clouds can be transported as far as North America Emissions Trends and Regional Characteristics EPA and the...
... the limbs ofthe natives of Van Diemen's Land and New Holland was as 50 degrees of power, while that ofthe Frenchmen was 69, andofthe Englishmen 71 The same order of facts are maintained in ... floor ofthe building, anda leakage from either can be immediately prevented The officers who supply the commodities of gas and water have admission to the subways, and find it most easy and economical ... virulence and fatality, and may at any moment be made active under accidental or systematic ignorance A CITY OF HEALTH I now come to the design I have in hand Mr Chadwick has many times told us that...
... Jurkat cells andthe induction was repressed by all-trans-RA treatment in a dose-dependent manner (Fig 1A) FasL transcription was decreased at all-trans-RA concentrations as low as 0.01 lM, and ... concentrations as low as 0.1 lM, and NFAT binding was abolished in the presence of 1.0 lM all-trans-RA In contrast, SP-1 binding was similar at all concentrations of all-trans-RA tested All-trans-RA ... demonstrated that therepressionof FasL transcription by RA was mediated through the inhibition of NFAT function Both reporter gene analyses and DNA binding assays indicated that alltrans-RA mediated...
... in the upper phase andthe pellet showed identical patterns and it was therefore concluded that the same polysaccharide was present A hydrolysate ofthe upper phase, analyzed as alditol acetates, ... lipopolysaccharide gave a pellet and an upper phase, the latter containing most ofthe material SDS/PAGE ofthe two materials Fig SDS/PAGE ofthe upper phase (1) andthe pellet (2) obtained on ultracentrifugation ... chromatography on a Sephadex G-50 column gave a major O-polysaccharide peak at the void volume (O-polysaccharide) anda minor peak just after The material in the major peak was devoid of neuraminic...
... Caesar, and its final establishment’; and for book the specific nature of monarchical rule, andthe fluctuations ofthe monarchy, as well asthe general circumstances of government caused by the ... ‘theatres of war’, similar to the geographical arrangement of volume V ofthe History of Rome As was to be expected, there is a repetition ofthe contradictory assessment ofthe principate as ... the agrarian middle class, and on the other through Roman subjugation of foreign peoples, with whom, as he saw it, real assimilation was not feasible The age ofthe Roman emperors shows us the...
... triplicate andthe results represent the mean value and standard error was calculated In all the transfection experiments the measured Luciferase activity is expressed asa percentage of that observed ... expression profiling allows an individualized DNA-base approach to cancer therapy The therapeutic potential ofthe DTA-H19 vector was tested in a rat animal tumor model for colorectal liver metastases ... coordination, and data interpretation and drafted the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Acknowledgements We thank Dr A Ben-Shushan and Dr M Edelman from the Department of Obstetrics...
... area ofthe malignant tissue of each bladder was determined by ImagePro Plus software Another healthy mice were used as control The total tumor area of each bladder was determined andthe mean ... invasion, and metastatic activity), and by the ability to treat bladder tumors intravesically, the same way human bladders are clinically treated Therefore we evaluated the feasibility of intravesical ... determined andthe mean ofthe total areas was calculated for each group The Mean and SD of bladder tumor area (A) and weight (B) are shown Amit and Hochberg Journal of Translational Medicine 2010,...
... O’Regan and R Precup, Theorems of Leray-Schauder Type and Applications, vol of Series in Mathematical Analysis and Applications, Gordon and Breach Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2001 A Jim´ ... contractive maps, the property of having a fixed point is invariant by a certain class of homotopies, obtaining asa consequence a Leray-Schauder alternative for weakly contractive maps in the ... for a class of generalized contractions, thus complementing a result of Agarwal and O’Regan 11 Weakly Contractive Maps In this chapter we deal with the concept of weakly contractive maps, as...
... use of ritonavir and fluticasone has also been shown to greatly increase plasma fluticasone concentrations, leading to cases of Cushing’s syndrome andAS Approximately 25 cases (15 adult and ... mainstay of asthma management, physicians and other healthcare professionals need to be aware ofthe risk for AS in all asthma patients using ICS therapy, regardless ofthe dose prescribed Although ... the day, a random cortisol measurement is not an adequate measure ofAS in children Other measures of adrenal insufficiency are available, such asthe assessment of urinary or salivary cortisol...
... in the mycorrhiza, which exhibited a high level of NAD-GDH activity as did the non-mycorrhizal roots (Fig B) As for aspartate aminotransferase, the distinct isoforms found in mycorrhizas, always ... Conclusion In all the associations investigated, fungal AAT was strongly repressed, whereas fungal NADP-GDH was only repressed in beech!ctomycorrhizas These results suggest that therepression may come ... present (Table I) A similar distribution of enzyme activities was observed in the Douglas fir-L laccata association (not shown) These results contrast with those obtained with Beech ectomycorrhizas...
... interactions between cells and surrounding medium as Graner and Sawada did And finally it borrows from Graner and Glazier an additional constraint on the shape of cells In addition, one strength of ... interactions play a major role in tumorigenesis [18] Better understanding and estimating the nature of these interactions may play a key role for an early detection of cancer In addition, the invasive ... models These models are dual to the centric models [15,16], and they have the same characteristics in terms of realism and computational behavior The fourth class of models, called sub-cellular lattice...
... liters of water It was especially designed for the whale sharks andthe thousands of other animals that live in the ocean The second largest habitat was designed to copy the natural environment of ... education and adventures with sharks is the National Aquarium in Baltimore, Maryland The Baltimore Aquarium has more than ten thousand sea animals It opened in nineteen eighty-one Its shark adventure ... against other hard objects The otters hit their toys against the walls ofthe tank in front ofthe happy visitors VOICE ONE: At the center ofthe Monterey Bay Aquarium is a huge tank more than...
... INTRODUCTION Vedas andthe Mahabharat, ofthe architects ofthe Taj Mahal or Beejapore, of Toder Mull and Nana Furvana, of Baber and Hyder Ali Yet to read nine-tenths of what has been written on Indian life ... have spoken in the highest terms At Plassey and Assaye, at Wandiwash and Seringapatam, as in the Punjab and during the astounding campaigns in Nepaul, our native troops have shown themselves well ... with, andthe arrangement for payment of land taxation was made with the ryots themselves demanded was, in the first instance, The amount equal to a third ofthe crop, andthe settlement occasioned...
... electromechanical system, the scheme of which is represented in Fie The vibrator consists ofa cantilever beam anda block of mass /?/, which is made of magnetic material The elastic force ofthe beam is assumed ... assumed to have a nonlinear char acteristic / = -A\ v-/?,.v3, where A is the coordinate ofthe mass m The inductance u x ) ofthe coil in the electrical circuit R-L-C is a variable quantity depending ... depending on the position Aofthe mass m swinging F ig underthe coil L and thus modifying the reluctance of its magnetic circuit We assume that the function L(x) may be expanded in a power of x:...
... T o study the stability o f stationary oscillations, the variational equations based on tlie Stationary solution will be considered By setting a = ơ0 + a, where aand ôy) we have are d = 4e ... which the conditions (2.10) are Violated It should also be noted that the boundary between the stable and unstable regions shows the locus o f vertical tangency ( d w / d a — 0) with the resonant ... —4?/>) F i g I Since Ơ and V not v a ry very rapidly, we shall integrate the right-hand sides o f (3.6) ’ as if aand w were constant We thus obtain n -n (3.7) ì6 a - a - f = ysin 20 — y +...
... activated carcinogens can bind to DNA and form DNA adducts that are capable of inducing mutations and initiating carcinogenesis The capacity to repair DNA damage induced by activated carcinogens 61 appears ... Summary ORs associated with the ERCC2/XPD Asp312Asn polymorphism are also shown in Table No significant association between lung cancer andthe heterozygous Asp/Asn genotype was found for all of ... created asa result ofthe combined action ofthe XPB helicase andthe ERCC2/XPD helicase at the DNA damage site In human cells, ERCC5/XPG catalyses an incision approximately nucleotides 3' to the...
... between the studied objects in terms of MiCA and MaCA basing on the theoretical background As far as MiCA was concerned, these two verbs are analyzed and contrasted in respects of grammatical features, ... singular form (of a noun ofa particular class), and ‘teachers’ is plural form (of a noun ofa particular class); andthe difference between singular forms and plural form is semantically relevant: ... • What are the grammatical and semantic features of each verb and how are they similar and different in terms of these features? • What are their synonyms and idioms? • What are the implications...