... respectively The impacts include salt scarring, soil salinization and oil contamination, and brine and petroleum contamination of ground water and surface water, including Skiatook Lake, a 4,250-hectare ... Issues and Solutions in Exploration, Production and Refining, Albuquerque, NM: Integrated Petroleum Environmental Consortium (IPEC) and the University of Tulsa, Continuing Engineering and Science ... Issues and Solutions in Exploration, Production and Refining, Albuquerque, NM: Integrated Petroleum Environmental Consortium (IPEC) and the University of Tulsa, Continuing Engineering and Science...
... design of survey instruments and/ or data collection and processing; and Susheela Singh, Akinrinola Bankole, Ann E Biddlecom and Humera Ahmed from the Guttmacher Institute, for helping to develop ... Demographic and Health Survey training protocols for conducting an interview, making callbacks and completing survey questionnaires The interviewer training manual was based on the core Demographic and ... social indicators than the Central and Southern Regions Some 60% of people living in the Southern Region are in poverty and the corresponding rates for the Central andNorthern Regions are 44% and...
... and Rebecca Stallings—for input into all facets of the survey design and coordinating the pretest, sample selection, training, fielding, and data editing and cleaning The key institution behind ... protection from pregnancy and STIs, including HIV/AIDS Continued effort must be made in providing information and messages on abstinence, faithfulness and the effectiveness of condom use in preventing ... 18–25 years Training was extensive and was based on standard DHS training protocols for conducting an interview, making callbacks and completing survey questionnaires The training manual used...
... Shanghai-China Hong Kong-China Korea Macao-China Singapore Finland Japan Turkey Canada Portugal Chinese Taipei Poland New Zealand Spain Liechtenstein Estonia Netherlands Italy Switzerland Latvia ... recognising the main idea in a text, understanding relationships, or construing meaning within a limited part of the text when the information is not prominent and the reader must make low level inferences ... A changing yardstick for educational success Globalisation and modernisation are rapidly posing new and demanding challenges to individuals and societies alike Increasingly diverse and interconnected...
... aliphatic side-chains of Leu125 and Val127 In L125F ⁄ V127F, the slight increase in KD and KM values suggests that replacing leucine and valine with phenylalanines cannot increase the binding affinity ... dissociation and unfolding of the dimeric human papillomavirus strain-16, E2 DNA-binding domain Protein Sci 5, 310–319 47 Otwinowski Z (1993) Data collection and processing In Proceedings of the ... d-equilenin was obtained in a buffer containing 10 mM potassium phosphate and 5% (v ⁄ v) methanol b The KD for 19-nortestosterone was obtained in a buffer containing 50 mM Tris ⁄ HCl and 100 mM...
... Dominant Themes and Outstanding Contributions 43 England, and Hans Degryse and Mark Van Achter in their Marjolin Prize winning paper on Alternative Trading Systems, pointed to the contrasting ... Policy, Taxation and the Financial System in an Increasingly Integrated Europe C17: Berlin, October 1992: The New Europe: Evolving Economic and Financial Systems in East and West C18: Dublin, May 1994: ... every 18 months, alternatively in spring and autumn, the first one taking place in Tilburg, The Netherlands, in 1969, and number 24 in Tallinn, Estonia, being held in 2003 The regularity of the...
... temperature in streptavidin–peroxidase complex (1:500 in DPBS; Dako), rinsed in distilled water and incubated in fast-DAB (3,3'-diaminobenzidine) peroxidase substrate (Sigma) for minutes and counterstained ... antibody (green), and 4',6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (blue) Results showed strong staining for CD13, CD29, CD44, CD90 and CD105, weak staining for 3G5, and negative staining for low-affinity nerve growth ... procollagen chains in vivo andin vitro [48] HIF2α is closely related to HIF1α, with similarities in DNA binding and dimerisation, but with differences in transactivation domains [49] The genes...
... have no competing interests 10 13 Authors' contributions PD and II analyzed and interpreted the data from the physical examination of the patient and PD was a major contributor in writing the manuscript ... eliciting atrophy in adipose tissue for final writing of the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Conclusion In summary, this is the first gene expression analysis in adipose ... receptor-γ; pRB: retinoblastoma protein; Pref-1: Preadipocyte factor-1; TNF-α: tumor necrosis factor-α; UCP2: Uncoupling protein-2; UCP3: Uncoupling protein-3 11 Competing interests 12 The authors...
... soap and water and thereafter dried with paper In order to minimise contamination of the sample by bacteria from the vagina and perineum the sampling was performed using a gloved hand in the vagina ... antibiotics, penicillin G and ampicillin, and also to cephalothin, erythromycin, spiramycin and chloramphenicol Discussion Mares included in this study were selected for reproductive disorders and only 32% ... uterine infections in the mare Materials and methods Sampling Clinicians representing different types of stud farms, geographically located all over Sweden, were invited to send uterine samples from...
... seven instances are detectable in the corresponding comparisons The findings for human-mouse and human-opossum comparisons are presented in Tables and 5, and similar comparisons between human and ... comparisons (Fisher's exact test; see Tables and 7) These include 'cell-cell signaling' and response to stress and biotic stimuli On the other hand, the TFBS conservation rate for the 'protein binding' ... Paul Samollow for being the driving force behind the idea of sequencing Monodelphis We also thank the people from the Broad Institute for their efforts in sequencing and annotating the Monodelphis...
... Rising-Falling Falling-Rising Rising-Falling Or questions intonation patterns Rising-Falling Rising-Falling Yes/No questions intonation patterns Falling-Rising Terminal falling pitch Falling-Rising ... level of IU and the falling and rising tunes 2.2.2.2 Falling/Rising Tunes and Sentence Types in SCs and CCs The correlation between sentence types and Falling and Rising tunes would be examined based ... Types in SCs and CCs 30 2.2.2.2.1.Declarative and Falling/Rising Tunes 31 2.2.2.2.2 WH-Interrogative and Falling/Rising Tunes 32 2.2.2.2.3 Yes/No Interrogative and Falling/Rising Tunes...
... variations in such things as voice quality, tempo and loudness are included.” With that vivid transformation and nonstop development as well as the increasingly important roles in linguistics, intonation ... correlation of the tunes and the grammatical structures of utterances This is particularly meaningful and importance in the case of EFL learning and teaching in VietNam, where intonation is an exotic ... tones in communication - offer a helping hand in deciding the tone choice as speakers and understanding the message as listeners ORGANISATION OF THE STUDY The thesis is composed with main parts:...
... relevant ranking Second application is a search engine for imaged documents in PDF files In particular, a plug -in is implemented in Acrobat Reader and performs all the preprocessing and matching procedures ... written in Bold style; • In 49% cases, the paper abstract section is printed in Italic style; • In 30% cases, the figure or table captions are printed in Bold style andin 19% cases, in Italic ... captions and text associated with the image needed, but also a multitude of information gained from other domains, such as linguistics, pictorial information, and document category [M97] In the...
... operations by altering the timing of cashflow recognition in earnings Invented in 1494 by a Franciscan monk named Luca The financial reporting industry is a huge and lucrative one In Final Report of ... must be recognized in future earnings Since the intriguing results in the seminal paper by Sloan (1996) that high or income-increasing (low or income-decreasing) accruals are related to negative ... items in the following year, or higher „core earnings‟ in the following year Because Dechow and Ge not control for the effect of the denominator and not separate future earnings into its core and...
... envelope sequences from HIV-1 infected individuals fromNorthern India and report the presence of HIV-1 CRF02_AG for the first time Methods Genomic DNA isolation and Polymerase chain reaction Genomic ... HIV-1 envelope sequences fromNorthern India Nine unrelated and mother-child pairs (Pair 1, D & E 57 and Pair 2, D & E 58) were selected randomly from two locations (one from GTB Hospital, Delhi ... understood how certain subtypes dominate different regions of the world For e.g subtype B predominates in US and UK but subtype C is predominant in India, some parts of Asia and Africa [6] fragment...
... caffeine-sensitive individuals [39] The absence of changes in blood pressure, resting heart-rate and self-ratings in the four treatment groups involving p-synephrine, naringin and hesperidin relative ... blood pressure were observed in response to p-synephrine or p-synephrine in combination with naringin and hesperidin (Table 2) p-Synephrine differs from ephedrine in that it has a hydroxyl group ... This increase in thermogenesis is similar to the increases reportedin previous studies involving p-synephrine [17, 18] The increase in RMR between Group 4, the combination of p-synephrine with...
... Chorus Distribution of microcystinproducing and non-microcystin producing Microcystis sp in European freshwater bodies: detection of microcystins and microcystin genes in individual colonies., Syst ... toxin-producing ability depend on species, in the same species in populations of cyanobacteria, both microcystin-producing and non-microcystin-producing individuals may coexist [15] Therefore, in ... hepatotoxin, in drinking water sampled in Hainen and Fusui, N.T.T Lien et al / VNU Journal of Science, Natural Sciences and Technology 26 (2010) 172-177 endemic areas of primary liver cancer in China,...
... to freshwater supplies and aquatic biodiversity Fish kills and observations of intersex infish have been increasing in regularity in the Shenandoah River and Potomac River basins in Virginia ... health, fish exhibiting external lesions, incidences of intersex, and death, have been observed recently within the Potomac River basin The basin receives surface runoff and direct inputs from agricultural, ... Chemicals in the North Fork of the Shenandoah River, Virginia, Spring 2007 dichloromethane and 200 μL of percent methoxyamineHCl in pyridine The samples were sealed in capped tubes and heated...
... 2 Bảng 3 3.4.4 Ðộ thành thục tuyến sinh dục 4 3.4.4.1 Cá 5 - Quan sát bụng lỗ sinh dục cá nơi đủ ánh sáng để phân biệt màu 6 sắc, hình dạng bụng lỗ sinh dục 7 - Dùng ống thăm trứng lấy trứng ... 60% cồn 70 – 90o, 30 % formon 4 10 % axít acetic đậm đặc (dung dịch Serra vàdung dịch Bau-Kien-Tsing) 5 3.3 Thu mẫu Thu ngẫu nhiên – cá thể – cá thể đực số cá 6 bố mẹ nuôi vỗ tuyển chọn đẻ 7 ... cá Tra Pangasius hypophthalmus 7 8 1.2 Phạm vi áp dụng 9 Tiêu chuẩn áp dụng cho sở sản xuất kinh doanh giống thuỷ sản 10 phạm vi nước 11 Yêu cầu kỹ thuật 12 2.1 Cá bố mẹ nuôi vỗ đẻ 13 2.1.1...
... urban and rural areas impacts on eating were most prevalent (24.5% in urban and 24.4% in rural), followed by cleaning (19.3% in urban and 21.3% in rural) and sleeping (19.1% in urban and 17.2% in ... chewing efficiency and inadequate nutrition [11] Inefficient chewing might increase the likelihood of over-preparing food in an effort to make consumption possible, whilst in this process, loosing ... consent was obtained from all participants in the study and verbal consent was obtained prior to each examination and interview Measures Structured interviews were designed with EpiHandy software...