... trained soil doctors since 1995, and presently there are 55 000 soil doctors in villages in Thailand (LDD 2005b) They are in charge of coordinating land development between the LDD and farmers in ... processing and marketing through providing improved varieties of rubber seedlings, aiding in the establishment of both new plantations and replantings and providing technology and guidance (Chaninthornsongkhla ... from Thai into English In Buriram and Nong Khai, local soil doctor” volunteers trained by LDD were interviewed for information on soil types, soil condition and problems related tosoil The LDD...
... (http://www.dnr.state.md.us/bay/ monitoring/water/index.html) In particular, it is noted that in the Bay, low temperatures during winter and anoxia during summer, in combination with the changes in salinity, are associated ... to hypoxia 696 and emersion showed a 3-fold increase in glucose and a more than 30-fold increase in lactate, whereas the levels in controls remained constant The arginine kinase gene (AK) and ... staining in the cytoplasm (Fig 4C) with a visibly large nucleus, whereas others had less intensive but punctuated and B Fig Immunohistochemistry of PO staining with PO-CHH antiserum (A, B) Intrinsic...
... (f.) Poole and Pinus contorta Douglas ex Loudon spp contorta at alpine and subalpine altitudes, in: Waring R.H (Ed.), Carbon Uptake and Allocation in Subalpine Ecosystems as a Key to Management, ... model are presented to interpret the processes limiting canopy net carbon uptake RESULTS 4.1 Independent changes in Na and L Increasing or decreasing leaf area index, L, up to 50% from the actual ... begin by reviewing data on rates of photosynthesis at the leaf scale inrelationto nitrogen concentration and light use efficiency at the canopy scale for woody species indigenous to New Zealand...
... bare-root stock, compared to containerized stock [15] and desiccation or injury to roots during planting activities [27] Stock type, scarification, and vegetation can interact to influence plantation ... transportation, handling and planting remain other important factors influencing manager’s choice of large stock type [10] Burgess D., Baldock J.A., Wetzel S., Brand D.G., Scarification, fertilization and ... containerized and bare-root seedling in water immediately before transplanting, thus favouring high initial water potential and stimulating the immediate onset of photosynthesis [8] Within each...
... implicated in the autocross-linking of these cellulosic fibers during the production of paper and hardboard in the so called process (Back, 1987; Horn and Setterholm, 1988) In order to try to understand ... resistance against biotic and abiotic factors According to Atlan (1974), a self-organizing system is a complex system in which changes in organization occur with increasing efficiency in spite of ... main feature of lignin Characteristic variations in lignin structure and monomeric composition have indeed been found and confirmed between plant species (Logan and Thomas, 1985), between plant...
... to evaluate the presence and importance of G × E interactionsin a slow growing commercial line of chickens used for French “Label Rouge” type production, in order to take them into account in ... respectively In agreement with BW values, L and K were lower in E and higher in C After in ection, the decrease in the growth rate was slower in E than in S and C BRY and AFY were significantly different in ... originating from the environment lower, and heritability higher in A than in B This was the case for BRY and LY, more heritable in S than in C, and for K, more heritable in SC than in E In the...
... an amino terminal variable domain, a serine/threonine kinase domain, a junction autoinhibitory domain, and a C-terminal calmodulin domain These features make CPKs ideally structured to rapidly ... channel proteins (the L japonicus CASTOR and POLLUX proteins; DMI1a and DMI1b in M truncatula), a calcium and calmodulin-dependent protein kinase (CCaMK in L japonicus; DMI3 in M truncatula) and CYCLOPS ... Ca 2+ plays a central role in the AMinduced signaling pathway, it was of interest to investigate to what extent CPKs are involved in the AM-induced signaling pathway Towards this goal, the expression...
... in the SD ingesting fraction SX Captopril and NBC were examined at the same time to act as positive controls Ace inhibitor agents, like captopril, have been reported to have insulin-sensitizing ... changes in appetite or body weight We attribute the rise in creatinine levels in those SD consuming fractions SX and D to changes in muscle mass secondary to the status of insulin sensitivity and ... regular insulin/kg BW (Eli Lilly Co., Indianapolis, IN) and glucose 250 mg/Kg were administered intraperitoneally (i.p.) Blood for glucose determinations was obtained from the tail vein at 7.5 minutes...
... causing HD: an expanded CAG repeat in the gene encoding a protein that came to be known as huntingtin [5] Normal individuals have 10–34 CAG repeats in this gene 2348 T L Spires and A J Hannan Individuals ... Spires and A J Hannan interactionsin HD, in the hope of using environmental manipulations as powerful tools to dissect cause and effect in disease pathogenesis The search for molecular and cellular ... containing a trinucleotide repeat that is expanded and unstable on Huntington’s disease chromosomes Cell 72, 971–983 2356 T L Spires and A J Hannan Young AB (2003) Huntingtin in health and disease...
... introductory psychology textbook andin many other textbooks within that discipline and beyond (e.g., education, nursing) However, according to Paul and Blumenthal (1989), investigators have pointed ... reported in a single paper into smaller published studies (i.e., salami-slicing), copyright infringement, and the practice of text recycling We now examine these issues in more detail Redundant and ... paraphrasing Paraphrasing and Summarizing Scholarly writing, including scientific writing, often involves the paraphrasing and summarizing of others’ work For example, in the introduction of a traditional...
... been investigated [5,9,23,24], and amino acid–nucleotide interactions contributing to its stability have been characterized [13,25], but the role of protein–protein and protein–RNA interactionsin ... completely understood, and we have investigated these questions in this work We sought to determine the role of protein–RNA and protein–protein interactionsin virus stability, measuring the effects ... the two monomers to covalently link them To facilitate purification, both dlFG and a single-chain dimer, sc-dlFG, contain an N-terminal six-histidine nickelaffinity tag Using intrinsic fluorescence...
... Vietnam in 1990, then continued with a three year postgraduate training as a resident doctor in dermato-venereology and obtained a Master of Science in Medicine in 1998 Since 1995, I have been working ... women often try to pretend not to know and/ or to persuade the husband to come back in order to keep family harmony andto maintain a good family image in their children’s eyes and those of outsiders.47 ... syndromes are covered in the training package, including (i) urethral discharge in men, (ii) vaginal discharge, (iii) lower abdominal pain in women, and (iv) genital ulcer in men and women.181 Management...
... Giardia intestinalis isolates from children and dogs and its relationship to host origin Parasitol Res 2005, 97, 1-6 Itoh N, Itoh S Survey on nematode in the digestive tract of adult dogs reared in ... of G intestinalis andother intestinal parasites in private household dogs has not always decreased, and the potential for parasitic zoonotic transmission from dogs to humans seems to remain at ... 2002 and 2007 Parasites Giardia intestinalis Group 1a b Others Isospora spp Group 1a b Others Toxocara canis Group 2a Othersb Ancylostoma caninum Group 3a Othersb Trichuris vulpis Group 3a Othersb...
... regression relationships among ECM colonization and edaphic properties at each combination of site and sampling Ectomycorrhizas inrelationto season andsoil parameters 329 Table VI Ectomycorrhizal ... Correlation between ectomycorrhizal formation in Pinus and organic matter, nitrogen, phosphorus contents and acidity in the forest soil, in: Proceedings, 17th IUFRO Congress, Ibaeaki, Kyoto, ... [16] El Karkouri K., Martin F., Mousain D., Dominance of the mycorrhizal fungus Rhizopogon rubescens in a plantation of Pinus pinea seedlings inoculated with Suillus collinitus, Ann For Sci 59...
... of water and nutrient budgets in predicting site index variations The climate/water-related factors and nutrient-related factors explained to 25% andto 74% of the variance in site index, respectively ... (T1 to T3), the climate/water-related factors and nutrient-related factors explained to 16% and 20 to 35% of the variance in site index, respectively The confounding effect accounted for 13% to ... high-forest stands of oaks grown from seedlings Stands were selected according to official information on the origin of the stand (seedling or sprout) in the forest management plan (if available) and/ ...
... all investigated trees At Svenstorp the concentrations of Fe(s) and Mn(s) tended to be higher in trees standing at the bottom of the slope near a wet outflow area, than in trees standing in the ... drought, and winter frost as possible predisposing factors of oak decline in northern Germany, in: Luisi N., Lerario P and Vannini A (Eds.), Recent advances in studies on oak decline, Tipolitografia ... Andersson M., Toxicity and tolerance of aluminium in vascular plants, Water Air Soil Pollut 39 (1988) 439-462 [2] Aronsson A., Indikationer på stress vid obalans i trädens växtnäringsinnehåll, K...
... trees in the stand were kept unpruned for reference The same pruning operations were repeated in 1972 and 1976, in order to maintain the pruning level at 50 and 60% of the current height Finally, ... Growth stress mainly depends on the individual history of trees, including silvicultural factors, such as thinning or pruning, while the composition of the cell wall might result from the combined ... splitting For trees No 67 and 90 end splitting is clearly related to high growth stresses in the stem In the case of tree No 78, which was also severely damaged, the critical stress intensity factor...
... inextricably bound to the WGD events in Metazoa, and that the most illuminating approach to studying their evolutionary history and the relationship between genes and their regulatory inputs should ... assumed to contain an ancestral arrangement of genes in GRBs [1] - see Rationale), we need to define the orthologous mapping positions of bystander genes inrelationto the target gene Here we define ... loci in zebrafish, and that the bystander genes have largely re-diploidized In contrast, there are other cases in which target genes and the other GRB components (bystander genes and HCNEs) remain...
... Anxiousness, Age at initiation of daily smoking, Age at initiation of drinking to intoxication SUD diagnoses, Basic education MEAF, Mental Health in Early Adulthood in Finland * in 2001 ** in 2003-2005 ... pre-existing liability to SUD [25] Early initiation and heavy smoking have also been found to be risk factors for heavy drinking, and alcohol andother substance use disorders [27,28] In epidemiological ... Finland This finding suggests that the importance of cultural factors notwithstanding, these factors are related to SUDs despite varying cultures of alcohol andother substance use Further, in...
... Greenberg RA, Bauman KE, LaVange LM: Urinary cotinine and parent history (questionnaire) as indicators of passive smoking and predictors of lower respiratory illness in infants Pediatr Pulmonol 1997, ... M: Incidence of acute respiratory infections and the relationship with some factors in infancy in Antalya, Turkey Pediatr Int 2002, 44:64-69 24 Fergusson DM, Horwood LJ: Parental smoking and ... wheezing during infancy A study of 5,953 infants Acta Paediatr Scand 1987, 76:719-726 11 Burr ML, Miskelly FG, Butland BK, Merrett TG, Vaughan-Williams E: Environmental factors and symptoms in infants...