regional characterization of inland valley agroecosystems in west and central africa using high resolution remotely sensed data

GIS for Water Resources and Watershed Management - Chapter 8 pot

Ngày tải lên : 12/08/2014, 03:20

... valleys (valley bottoms plus valley fringes), determining the cultivation intensities of inland valleys and their uplands, and studying the land-use characteristics of inland valley bottoms and fringes, ... shown in Figure 8.6 in the color section) of West and Central Africa to characterize and map inland valley agroecosystems The characteristics studied include: inventorying the areas of inland valleys ... groundtruthing using a GPS Digital georeferenced databases generated include spatial distribution of inland valleys and land-use classes of inland valleys and uplands Save (Republic of Benin) study...

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Technology Gap and Efficiency in Cocoa Production in West and Central Africa: Implications for Cocoa Sector Development. ppt

Ngày tải lên : 18/03/2014, 02:20

... part in explaining the ability of the cocoa sector in one country to compete with cocoa sectors in other regions in West and Central Africa (Nkamleu 2004b) From a policy standpoint, the results of ... Agriculture in 2002 in Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, and Cameroon A baseline survey of major cocoagrowing regions of West and Central Africa was conducted to provide baseline parameter estimates of production ... technique to investigate productivity potentials and efficiencies in cocoa production in West and Central Africa Since technology is a representation of the state of knowledge pertaining to the...

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Poultry Meat Exports from the European Union to West- and Central Africa: Comments on EU Answers to APRODEV Questions pptx

Ngày tải lên : 31/03/2014, 08:20

... evolution of the poultry industry in West and Central Africa and its causes According to FAO data, chicken meat production in West/ Central African countries has increased between 1996 and 2003 In CEMAC ... Furthermore, since the high prices for chicks and particularly for feed are the main problem of chicken production in Western and Central Africa, and since locally produced frozen chicken would have a higher ... broiler production units in Central and Western Africa An intensive and large-scale poultry production does in some Western and Central African countries exist, as it does in the egg production...

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Báo cáo y học: "Regional characterization of energy metabolism in the brain of normal and MPTP-intoxicated mice using new markers of glucose and phosphate transport" doc

Ngày tải lên : 10/08/2014, 05:21

... PiT1-binding immunoadhesin generated by fusing the aminoterminal residues of the GALV (SEATO strain) Env, comprising the signal peptide, the RBD and the proline-rich region, to the rFc tag, herein, ... significant differences in body weight between normal and intoxicated animals Regional GLUT1, PiT1 and PiT2 distribution in the brain of normal mice Cortex staining: GLUT1 staining was heterogeneous ... and PiT2 ligands PiT1 staining exhibited a linear pattern with few stained cells following the myelinated fiber bundles corresponding to oligodendrocytes (Figure 3B) Basal ganglia staining: In...

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Characterization of the microbial community in the anaerobic/oxic/anoxic process combine

Ngày tải lên : 05/09/2013, 09:38

... determined in this study and those retrieved from the database were aligned using Clustal W (Thompson et al., 1994) Phylogenetic trees were constructed using Clustal W and Tree View (Page, 1996) using ... slope of the line describing the linear decrease in phosphate concentration The ratio of anoxic PUR to aerobic PUR (anoxic/oxic PUR ratio) was used as an index reflecting the fraction of DNPAOs ... retention time of wastewater in the sewer line (lower composition of fatty acids), and (iii) low nitrogen loading to the anoxic tank In this study, the nitrate concentration in the influent to the...

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Characterization of the Carbon Stable Isotope Ratio and Fatty Acid Structure of Zostera japonica in Coastal Areas

Ngày tải lên : 05/09/2013, 10:17

... of PC1-axio, suggest that 18:2n6c and LCFAs were contained in greater amounts in the roots and rhizomes than in the leaves and stems, and 18:3n3 was contained in lesser amounts in the roots and ... structure in Z japonica We found about 30 kinds of fatty acids in the leaves and stems and about 36 kinds of fatty acids in the roots and rhizomes of Z japonica We focused on the fatty acid content of ... Z.marina RR LS -14 -13 -12 -11 -10 -9 -8 δ13C（‰） Fig.2 Comparison of δ Z in Z japonica Fig - Comparison of δ13C in 13C japonica and Z marina and Z marina LS: leaves and stems LS: leaves and stems...

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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Characterization of chitinase-like proteins (Cg-Clp1 and Cg-Clp2) involved in immune defence of the mollusc Crassostrea gigas docx

Ngày tải lên : 19/02/2014, 00:20

... ﬁndings argue for an early evolutionary origin and a high conservation of this class of proteins at both the structural and functional levels Given the multiplicity of CLPs in humans and insects ... transcripts during development and in adult tissues To gain insights into possible physiological functions of Cg-Clp2, determination of its tissue distribution and temporal pattern of expression during ... on the conserved amino acid sequences of the catalytic domain of members of the GH18 family resulted in the ampliﬁcation of an expected 147 bp sequence Cloning and sequencing of this fragment revealed...

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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Biochemical characterization of human 3-methylglutaconyl-CoA hydratase and its role in leucine metabolism docx

Ngày tải lên : 19/02/2014, 07:20

... using 2014 crotonyl-CoA as a substrate [15] The gene encoding this bifunctional protein was named AUH (‘AU binding homolog of enoyl-CoA hydratase’) The RNAbinding activity of the human protein ... protein (AUHp40) Western blot analysis of brain extracts consistently revealed a 32 kDa AUH protein and it was thus assumed that the mature form of human AUH in brain has a molecular weight of ... For the kinetic characterization of AUH described in the work at hand, AUH was overproduced in Escherichia coli as a maltose binding protein fusion (MBP-AUH) The complete AUH gene (producing MBP-AUHp40...

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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Characterization of electrogenic bromosulfophthalein transport in carnation petal microsomes and its inhibition by antibodies against bilitranslocase docx

Ngày tải lên : 20/02/2014, 01:20

... (1988) Binding of sulfobromophthalein to rat and human ligandins: characterization of a binding-site peptide Biochim Biophys Acta 955, 296–300 52 Gregus Z & Klaassen CD (1982) Role of ligandin as ... containing 29 lM BSP and increasing concentrations of sucrose After attainment of the steady state, lL (¼ lg) valinomycin was added Data (n ¼ 3) are means ± SEM and were ﬁtted to a straight line ... found to linearly depend on the addition of protein (2.6 ± 0.04 lmolÆmin)1Æmg protein)1, with lg valinomycin), as well as of K+ (6.25 ± 0.16 unitsÆmEq)1 K+, with lg valinomycin) and valinomycin (0.51...

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Báo cáo khoa học: Kinetic and mechanistic characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis glutamyl–tRNA synthetase and determination of its oligomeric structure in solution pptx

Ngày tải lên : 07/03/2014, 03:20

... goal of contributing to understanding of the metabolism of this pathogen and providing the enzyme for the identication and development of selective inhibitors, we cloned and expressed Rv2992c in ... the discriminating behaviour of Mt-GluRS in E coli Studies on Tt-GluRS indicated that discriminating and nondiscriminating GluRS can be distinguished on the basis of the presence of a specic ... exceptions in that activation of the amino acid requires the presence of the cognate tRNA [2,4] In these aaRS the binding of tRNA induces an ATP productive binding mode [5] GluRS are also distinguished...

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Báo cáo khoa học: Puriﬁcation and characterization of the cysteine proteinases in the latex of Vasconcellea spp. ppt

Ngày tải lên : 07/03/2014, 11:20

... [19], and papain [11], VS-A, VS-B and VXH-A lack the insertion of four amino acids between position 168 and 169, which is present in all other cysteine proteinases of plant or animal origin Unfortunately, ... cysteine proteinases The N-terminal amino acid sequences of the proteins VXH-I, VXH-III, VXH-IVa and VXH-IVb are shown in Fig 6, and are compared with the known N-terminal sequences of the cysteine ... enzymes will be evaluated in the following experiments cDNAs coding for cysteine proteinases in V · heilbornii and V stipulata Using a PCR approach with a cysteine proteinase primer (CyPr), speciﬁcally...

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Báo cáo khoa học: Characterization of the ﬂavin association in hexose oxidase from Chondrus crispus pot

Ngày tải lên : 16/03/2014, 14:20

... fluorescence of the flavin in HOX by acid hydrolysis might provide a novel and quick method to distinguish between this type of flavin-binding motif and other covalent-binding motifs The following line of ... according to the 2695 Characterization of flavin in hexose oxidase T Rand et al apparent extinction coefficient of the flavin in the mutant enzyme (e437 ¼ 5.5 mm)1Æcm)1), only half of the flavin is incorporated ... position of histidine The higher pKa value is attributed to the in uence of the remaining free amino acids in the hydrolysate HOX, GOOX comparison According to the model of FAD in HOX presented in...

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Báo cáo khóa học: Characterization of novel structural features in the lipopolysaccharide of nondisease associated nontypeable Haemophilus inﬂuenzae pptx

Ngày tải lên : 16/03/2014, 16:20

... model of infection, and with relative sensitivity to host factors such as complement mediated killing [36] Structural analyses of a majority of H in uenzae strains including strain Rd [8] and several ... the members of the Finnish Otitis Media Study Group at the National Public Health Institute in Finland for the provision of NTHi strains from the nasopharynx, obtained as part of the Finnish Otitis ... derivatives In addition, small amounts of glycine and traces of N-acetyl neuraminic acid (Neu5Ac) were detected as substituents of LPS by HPAEC following treatment of 0.1 M NaOH and neuraminidase,...

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Báo cáo khoa học: Identiﬁcation and characterization of novel PKA holoenzymes in human T lymphocytes pdf

Ngày tải lên : 16/03/2014, 18:20

... kDa band in T cells and Jurkat cells and a 40 kDa protein band in Jurkat cells As no 40 kDa band could be detected using the anti-Cb(SNO157) in B C Fig Identification of PKA catalytic subunits in ... kDa band in T cells A Cb-specific antibody anti-Cb(SNO157) (vi) recognized the 47 kDa band in T-cells, and the 40- and 47 kDa protein bands in Jurkat cells (C) Linear depiction of Ca1, Cb1 and ... analogue was included to avoid potential binding of non-Cb2 C-subuints to the R-subunits The resulting precipitates were analysed by SDS ⁄ PAGE and immunoblotting using anti-Cmono (Fig 2B) and a PKA-specific...

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Economic Impact of the Abolition of the Milk Quota Regime – Regional Analysis of the Milk Production in the EU – doc

Ngày tải lên : 18/03/2014, 00:20

... +22%) In turn, regional homogeneity is highest within the Netherlands, Austria and Hungary, when comparing production changes in the 20% least expanding and receding countries The increase in cow ... following the drop in fat and protein prices but still remaining above intervention (which was also reduced in the baseline 14 See Annex for some explanations on the balancing of fat and protein in ... expansion of 2% in 2008 for the EU-27 and also incorporates some decreases in production in the NMS due to a decline in subsistence production, mainly observed in Poland, Bulgaria and Romania12 In Table...

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Characterization of Spin Coated Polymers in Nano-environments as a Function of Film Thickness pot

Ngày tải lên : 23/03/2014, 01:20

... divided spin coating into the four stages of deposition, spin-up, spin-off, and evaporation (Figure 2.31) By taking both the force of spinning and the concentration-controlled evaporation into account, ... interaction, and a polymerinterface strong interaction can be seen in Figure 2.2-2 This research aids in understanding the behavior of thin polymer films Free-standing films have increased mobility ... behavior using the intermolecular and intramolecular forces among polymer chains, was employed to understand the behavior of these thin films Another type of thin film, a polymer brush, was investigated...

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Báo cáo khoa học: Proteomic characterization of lipid raft proteins in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis mouse spinal cord pot

Ngày tải lên : 23/03/2014, 04:21

... SDR family member Destrin (actin-depolymerizing factor) EF-hand domain containing protein 2, Swiprosin-1 Ezrin (p81) (cytovillin) (villin-2) Heat shock 27 kDa protein Integrin a-M precursor Lysosome-associated ... membrane staining of annexin II in G93A motor neurons Immunofluorescent staining of annexin II and the neuronal marker neurofilament M (NF-M) in spinal cord motor neurons in 90-day-old and 125-day-old ... majority of the proteins in the above two functional categories, i.e seven of 10 proteins involved in cytoskeletal regulation, and five of six proteins involved in microglia activation, showed higher...

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Báo cáo khoa học: Identiﬁcation and functional characterization of an aggregation domain in long myosin light chain kinase ppt

Ngày tải lên : 30/03/2014, 04:20

... in intracellular cytoskeletal proteins, including titin, MyBP-Cm, MyBP-M, MyBPH, myotilin, and palladin [30–35] As Ig-C2 domains may serve as molecular spacers and bind to a diversity of ligands, ... domain in myosin light chain kinase A Fig Prediction for a conserved aggregation domain in the 4Ig region of L-MLCK and recombinant expression of MLCK variants (A) The sequences of the N-terminal ... barrier in intestinal disease Lab Invest 84, 282–291 12 Tran QK, Watanabe H, Zhang XX, Takahashi R & Ohno R (1999) Involvement of myosin light-chain kinase in chloride-sensitive Ca2+ in ux in porcine...

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Báo cáo khoa học: Characterization of the serotoninergic system in the C57BL/6 mouse skin potx

Ngày tải lên : 31/03/2014, 07:20

... gene in normal and malignant mouse melanocytes, in anagen and catagen skin, and in pituitary and spleen In telogen skin gene expression was low Expression of the TPH gene in skin and in skin-derived ... function of NAS in skin physiology In summary, we present the molecular and biochemical characterization of the apparatus producing and metabolizing serotonin and N-acetylserotonin in the skin of C57BL/6 ... tryptamine and serotonin changed during hair cycling from approximately in telogen and anagen III to 16 and 17 in middle and late anagen VI, being 14 in catagen The same ratio was 1.5 in the ear and...

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Báo cáo Y học: Detailed characterization of polydnavirus immunoevasive proteins in an endoparasitoid wasp doc

Ngày tải lên : 31/03/2014, 15:20

... right of each line The sequence of the N-terminal 25 amino acid residues (IEP-1) determined in the prior study [21] is underlined The amino acid sequence (10 amino acids) of IEP-2 determined in ... microscope RESULTS Finding of IEP homolog Fig Tissue distribution of the IEP proteins and corresponding mRNA (A) Western-blot analyses were performed with anti-IEP IgG Immunostaining of male and female ... eggs preincubated with anti-IEP IgG for 30 were injected into a day last instar larvae After 12 h, injected eggs were collected and observed under a microscope Cloning, sequencing and in vitro...

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