... observed at the beginning of the study period, in term S3, and decreased to about 10 mg/L in June 1999, in term A Chl.a concentration showed a peak in the beginning of term S2 and then it increased rapidly ... concentration increased and showed a maximum value of 0.38 mg/L in March 2000, in term S3 (Fig 3-b) CODMn concentration of 12.6 mg/L was observed at the beginning of the study period, in term S3 and showed ... examination of water and wastewater, 20th edition, APHA, Washington Akiyama M (ed) (1996) Algae in Lakes Shinjiko and Nakaumi, Research Circle of Algae in Lakes Shinjiko and Nakaumi, Shimane (in Japanese)...
... Laos, including the development of the meaning of “land”, the history of the land concessions, from the first beginnings to the present, rights and powers in the management and use of land, and ... production modelin Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, andin Hainan itself The spread of the state farms into the border administration lands of Yunnan, where many ethnic minority groups were living, ... the hinterland of Indochina Instead, most of the colonial rubber estates were established in the south of Vietnam and Cambodia The history of the expansion of the rubber estates in Indochina did...
... privacy and confidentiality of their patients as well as maintain a standard of professionalism in all social media and social networking interactions The FSMB is grateful for the efforts of the ... be parity of ethical and professional standards applied to all aspects of a physician's practice, including online interactions through social media and social networking sites Referencing the ... and Social Networking in Medical Practice The following guidelines are recommended for physicians who use social media and social networking in their personal and professional lives Interacting...
... decrease in the bias of β with increasing df is explained in Dominici et al (2004) for the natural spline case and explored by Rice (1986) and Speckman (1988) in the nonparametric setting Dominici ... importance of distinguishing between model uncertainty and adjustment uncertainty When addressing model uncertainty, we select the covariates that best explain the variability in the response which, in ... notion of ‘degrees of freedom’ ∼ N 0, σ / σ > 2.1 Representing f Common choices for representing the smooth function f inmodel (1) include natural splines, penalized splines and smoothing splines...
... variables of RICELAND, ANTRLAND, PERETRLAND, FORESTLAND, WATERAREA, GRASSLAND, RESILAND, GARDENLAND, and TEMPLAND They stand for area of rice cultivation per year, area of annual crops, area of perennial ... and Fields & Yoo (2000) instead of the traditional method His empirical analysis resulted in using both conventional and regression approaches in measuring income inequality Vietnam’s footprints ... Promulgation of the Land Law, affirming the land use right of farming households 1988 Reform of banking system; Resolution 10 of Vietnam Communist Party granting business autonomy to farming households...
... applied in four different areas, the first main field is in “general research , including basic researchand understanding the role of nutrition in biological systems e.g serum retinol for Vitamin ... proxy for iodine intake under defined circumstances, the quantification of iodine content in table salt is in general not sufficient in assessing iodine intake as the main source of salt (and therefore ... food intake and decreased iodine intake in adults (99–101) Currently, dietary guidelines for healthy eating advise to increase consumption of plant-based foods and limiting intake of salt (in its...
... percent of ethnic minorities are living in poverty in 2004 while only 15 percent of Kinh and Chinese people within the same region are poor Figure shows trends for Kinh and ethnic minority poverty in ... improvements in living standards In the central Highlands, for example, 13.6 percent of the Kinh and Chinese population are poor in 2004 Andin the North West, the poorest region in the country ... Annual cropland Irrigated annual Perennial cropland Forest land % having land Size1 (m2) % having land2 Size1 (m2) % having land Size1 (m2) % having land Size1 (m2) North East Kinh Ethnic Min 87 98...
... cloning of bcp1, bcp3 and bcp4 and the characterization of the recombinant products and, next, we investigate the possible role of the SSO0192 ⁄ SSO2416 system as an in vivo partner of Bcps in ... the quantification of microgram quantities of protein utilizing the principle of protein-dye binding Anal Biochem 72, 248–254 Weber K, Pringle JR & Osborn M (1972) Measurement of molecular weight ... Da and a theoretical pI of 7.65; bcp3 encodes a putative protein of 149 amino acids with a predicted molecular mass of 16 976.42 Da and a theoretical pI of 8.84 Comparison of the sequences of...
... risk of the underlying pool of instruments This condition would be met in respect of a tranche if, for example, in the event of the underlying pool of instruments losing 50% as a result of credit ... reduces variability of cash lows) Interest linked to the unleveraged inlation index in the currency of the instrument (in this case the linkage to inlation resets the time value of money to the current ... at the date of initial application of the standard and is applied retrospectively IFRS retains the concept of ‘held-for-trading’ used in IAS 39 However, for the purpose of determining eligibility...
... Online-Behavior and Interests not statistically significant over Interests BOW, online-behavior, and lexical-stylistic features combined did best achieving accuracy of 77.45% and 80.88% in 1979 and 1984 ... C Herring, L.A Scheidt, S Bonus, and E Wright 2004 Bridging the gap: A genre analysisof weblogs In Proceedings of the 37th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences Dan Klein and Christopher ... D Manning 2003a Accurate unlexicalized parsing In Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 423–430 Dan Klein and Christopher D Manning 2003b...
... Jamaica in 1970 My interest in midwifery and birthing in the South grew out of academic and personal reasons At Johns Hopkins, I developed an interest in health and healing traditions in the African ... it and established a way of ordering that world in the face of the dramatic transitions that were under way Remembering and Forgetting I am drawn to the nature of remembering and forgetting in ... Longine, showed striking and sympathetic images of the midwife attending a young woman through labor and delivery, nursing the sick and shutin, offering a postnatal check to a poor white mother of...
... market.15 Sweetman and McBride (2004) examine the role of field of study in immigrant earnings and find that immigrants’ differing field of study profile can explain at most 14% of the immigrant ... Royal Bank of Canada and may not be reproduced in any way, in whole or in part, without express authorization of the copyright holder in writing The statements and statistics contained herein have ... skills Autor, Levy, and Murnane (2003) document the changing profile of jobs in the US away from routine cognitive tasks and toward analytic and interactive tasks As the change in the US labour...
... presence of CMP and AMP (from FAD) GMP was not present in any Qor extract, indicating that the host strains did not incorporate Mo-MGD, or free GMP, into the cofactor binding domain of the Qor protein ... Qor activity and protein content, and determination of the apparent Km and kcat values for quinoline The activity of Qor was determined spectrophotometrically by measuring the quinoline-dependent ... hydroxylase in heterologous hosts, the iorAB genes of Brevundimonas diminuta 7, coding for isoquinoline 1-oxidoreductase, were cloned in P putida KT2440 andin the quinoline degrading strain, P putida...
... rabbit muscle (Roche) and a sample of purified AcnB in a final volume of mL Gel electrophoresis and blotting of proteins The protein fractions obtained from the purification of 2-methylisocitrate ... specifically induced by iron and redox stress [29] Interestingly, two enzymes are involved in the conversion of methylcitrate into 2-methylisocitrate PrpD is involved in the dehydration of (2S,3S)-methylcitrate ... focus on the activity of this enzyme in the presence of chelating agents such as EDTA and o-phenanthroline In this paper we report the in vitro reconstitution of the oxidation of propionyl-CoA to...
... range in Laos •the planted intensity rose in different slope gradients 1980 Slope (°) 1990 2000 2010 Within China Within China Within Myanm ar Within China Within Laos Within Myanm ar Within China ... plantations in slopes below 15° declined, while in slopes beyond 15° increased •The expansion of rubber plantations mainly occurred between 15° and 35° and gradually extended in steep and abrupt ... slopes •The planted intensity of rubber plantations gradually increased at all slopes with increase of 6.83% in gentle slopes and 4.06% in abrupt slopes China (1980-2010): •expanded gradually to...
... arginine levels The levels of ornithine, citrulline and arginine remained low, at between 0.01 and 0.04 lmolặg)1 fresh weight (Fig 3E) However, arginine accumulated up to 70-fold and 80-fold in ... 5.8-fold increase in arginine relative to the wild-type plants in air, whereas in high CO2, arginine remained at a wild-type level, indicating that the high level of photorespiratory ammonium was in ... contents in leaves of Arabidopsis plants cultured with mM nitrate in air (F) Ornithine, citrulline and arginine contents in leaves of Arabidopsis plants cultured with mM ammonium in air (G) Ornithine,...
... neutralizing ability of the sera, suggesting that the RBD epitope in the S protein is a critical determinant in developing vaccine strategies [62] 2.1 Cloned N protein The N protein of SARS-CoV ... originating from one SARS-CoV strain infection in one animal species or cell line in the development of a human vaccine The rapid development of an effective SARS-CoV vaccine depends upon continuing ... gap in our understanding of how SARS-CoV interacts with the host cell and the rapidly changing genome of SARS-CoV indicates the potential variability of such interactions [25] Development of successful...
... neutralizing ability of the sera, suggesting that the RBD epitope in the S protein is a critical determinant in developing vaccine strategies [62] 2.1 Cloned N protein The N protein of SARS-CoV ... originating from one SARS-CoV strain infection in one animal species or cell line in the development of a human vaccine The rapid development of an effective SARS-CoV vaccine depends upon continuing ... gap in our understanding of how SARS-CoV interacts with the host cell and the rapidly changing genome of SARS-CoV indicates the potential variability of such interactions [25] Development of successful...
... study, analysed and interpreted the data, and drafted the manuscript SS and ID collected the data ID, CE and SM were involved in guiding the study including the designand coordination All authors ... scores of the clinic and the control samples Finally, analysisof covariance was used to investigate the interaction effect of pubertal status and obesity on PedsQL scores, as well as the interaction ... impact on physical and psychological functioning in a mixed-ethnic clinical sample of obese children and adolescents Additionally, as there are reports of increasing levels of obesity in very young...
... inversion methods outlined in (6)–(8) and (9)– (11) were used to generate the following test HRTF-Based Inverse Filtering for Single Passenger For the rendering mode with a single passenger and ... point receiver-based rendering approaches z−D w3 H(z) in (6) are measured The matching model matrices and the inverse filters are given in (7) and (8) The weight = 0.45 and delay = ms are used in ... position A monitoring microphone instead of the KEMAR is required in measuring the acoustical plants and the matching model responses between the input signals and the control points Hence, the...