... executed previously; due to these constraints existing anti-flood disaster action plans turned into ‘dead letters’. Similar factors are in effect today in Vietnam. Internal factors. Among critical ... be done to enhance institutional capacity in each country to make local communities more resilient to hazards in the coming years. Why are existing institutions and behavior of main actors not ... economic and political reforms. Financing. Problems in financing are often indicated as one of the most important factors defining failures in performance of institutions; while on the contrary...
... school as contributing measurably to my ability to interact socially with others in a gracious manner. In high school, in addition to beingnamed to the National Honor Society and winning the Freshman ... part, the backgroundinvestigation failed to reveal the felony background of Mr. Jarvis. I am not interested in pointing a finger or finding a scapegoat; I want to find a solution to this problem.What ... 90V3. Seeking first job in publishing or advertising 91V4 Seeking first job utilizing history degree 92V5. Seeking first job in media journalism and English 93V6. Seeking first job in nursing field...
... dietary intakefor Cd was estimated at about 23 mg Cd dayy1 in Ž.France Table 1 ; in comparison, the increase in Cd in cereals and potato tubers alone may lead to anincrease in the range of 41% to ... concentra-tion in wheat grain were generally too inconsistent to allow conclusions to be drawn. However, higher CdŽ.concentrations were found in wheat grain ) 30%grown was found in a continuous wheat ... between pH4.0 to 7.7. Increasing soil pH value from 5.7 to 7.6Ž.using basic slags in truncated Chromic Luvisolsover jurassic limestones decreased Cd in wheat grainy1Žfrom 0.14 to 0.05 mg Cd...
... very far into the reservoir. Initial investigations were performed to evaluate the suitability of tin-bismuth alloy nanoparticles as nanosensors with a sensing mechanism of size increase induced ... efficiency. Finally, reservoir engineering techniques will be tailored to promising nanosensors in order to estimate measurement geolocation. In the case of dye-releasing nanosensors, more realistic ... synthesized using a sonochemical method, and a bench heating experiment was performed using these nanoparticles. Particle growth due to melting was observed, indicating that tin-bismuth nanoparticles...
... period. Full stocking and a fi ve-year thinning interval were assumed. Where stocking was not full, the thinning intensity decreased to 30–50% of the original amount. On the variants 4t in young ... likely to result in an increase in drought resistance only in the young pine stands. Subsequently our study suggests that the thinning of older pine stands leads to an insig-nifi cant change in ... important mainly during the growing season. In the observed experi-ments, climate variations in the spring season from April to June (A–J) and in the vegetation period from Aprilto September...
... virgin forest. e testing of the in u-ence of the altitude revealed its great in uence in the growth stage. In the optimum and breakdown stages a statistically significant difference in the index ... of the virgin forest is very heterogeneous in this altitudinal zone.e number of the individuals from natural re-generation (individuals of the height below 130 cm) is declining in all stages ... altitudes up to 1,300 m confirmed that soil was the prevailing seedbed. In relation to the developmental stage of the virgin forest, we found from 5,600 ind/ha (growth stage) to 18,467 ind/ha (breakdown...
... adjustment in maritime pine cuttingsNoteOsmotic adjustment in Pinus pinaster cuttings in response to a soil drying cycleAnne Nguyen-Queyrensa*, Paulo Costa†b, Denis Loustauaand Christophe ... cut into small pieces (2–3 mm long) and placed in a2 mL syringe: needle sap was squeezed out after freezing (in liquidnitrogen) and thawing. Sap osmolality was measured in 10 µL sam-ples using ... the final protocol for a standard genotype testingsystem remains to be determined with the precautions em-phasized in the present study. In addition, the values reportedhere should be interesting...
... developing at rates similar to thoseobserved in natural conditions, and to inves-tigate if the rate of soil drying influencesthe degree of osmotic adjustment. Oakseedlings ... accli-matation of photosynthesis to leaf water deficit.Photosynth Res 28, 9-20SAS Institute Inc (1989) SAS/STAT User’s Guide. Ver-sion 6, 4th edn. SAS Institute Inc, Cary, NC, ... treat-ment, drought was insufficient in 1992 to induce any change in Πo. However, in 1993,predawn Ψw and Πo decreased slowly dur-ing summer, and at...
... response to [CO2] in C allo-cation to fine roots does not mean that rootactivity has not been modified by CO2enrichment. Original insights into fine rootactivity in response ... five remaining plants were our short-term 13C labelling and biomassresults pointed to a similarity in the patternsof C allocation to fine roots of Quercusrobur in both ... expressions).RSA describes the proportion of newly incorpo-rated atoms relative to total atoms in a givensample, and is also interpreted as an index of Cturnover whereas %P describes...
... Luria's motorseries test (tests motor series programming requiring tem-poral organization, maintenance and execution of succes-sive action), conflicting instructions (tests sensitivity to interference, ... battery: testdescriptions, instructions, clinical data and interpretation. In Proceedings of the National Workshop in Clinical Neuropsychology: 24–29October NIMHANS, Bangalore, India Bangalore: NIMHANS ... attributed to 75% of the sam-ple that remained employed in spite of the significant cog-nitive deficits. Similar employment rates have beenshown in previous studies from India [14]. The findings in the...
... flies emerging from the OPu!atia fruits were too low to obtainmeaningful conclusions. Breeding opportunities for Drosophila species in Opuntiasites are frequent during the ... twoloci. In: Mathematical Evolutionary Theory (ME Feldman, ed), Princeton Univ Press,Princeton, 86-110 D buzzatii flies, which were kept alive in vials containing 5 mL ... grouped together intoa single class. For each species that emerged from the two halves of the 63 fruits thatremained in the field for 108 h, the wing length of up to...
... ripening mechanism, similar to the Si QD case[33], leading to a size increasing of precipitates with a con-comitant a-c transition occurring in the 600°C to 8 00°Crange [20]. The inset in Figure ... open triangles in Figure 5, revealing that after 800°C annealing, the DOS in Ge QDs involved in the light absorption (proportional to B) is strongly reduced to about one third, indepen-dently ... the photon absorption in Ge QDs (2 to 10 nm in size) embedded in silica, providing the ther-mal e volution of the absorption spectra in connectionwith the a-c transition and the QD ripening....