... components of the air pollution mixture, and high-risk subgroups, and by furthering understanding of exposure-response relationships · All indicators of disease and health-related quality of life ... air pollution alert systems They will also likely continue to contribute to scientific understanding by identifying factors that modify the effects of air pollution on mortality and morbidity, toxic ... interpretation, and presentation of uncertainties of health impact estimates This report focuses on the use of epidemiologic methods and data for health impact assessment of air pollution Although laboratory...
... creasing water demand due to population and economic growth in the world may threat the balance of freshwater supply and demand Consequently, almost 30% of world population is expected to be suffering ... ratio of consumed amount of freshwater to the amount of available freshwater resources, in dicating physical scarcity of freshwater as shown in equation The impact indicator = Consumed amount of ... and ecosytem due to freshwater consumption for cot ton textile production Summary As shown in the example ofwater footprinting, the amount of consumed freshwater is not an enough indicator to...
... ¼/¼ ½Tftotal Amax À Amin ð2Þ ½Yb3þ free ¼ ½Yb3þ total À ½Yb3þ bind Binding of Yb3+ to apo-hTf ¼ ½Yb3þ total À ½Yb3 Æ Tf The thermodynamics of binding of Yb3+ to apoTf Binding of Yb3+ to apo-Tf ... added to a solution of apo-Tf containing 2.5 mol equiv of Yb3+, a new broad band centred at 465 nm appeared and increased in Fig The dependence of e (top) and k (bottom) on the molar ratio of Yb3+ ... Yb3+ to apo-Tf After addition of 2.0 and 2.5 mol equiv of Yb3+ to apo-Tf, the final ratios of Yb3+ to Tf, after removal of low molecular mass components via ultrafiltration, were % 1.70 : and 1.98...
... be permitted to give loans to the microfinance sector, which in the aggregate exceed 10% of its total assets Areas of Concern The advent of MFIs in the Microfinance sector appears to have resulted ... relevant to the terms of 2.1 The Microfinance sector Microfinance is an economic development tool whose objective is to assist the poor to work their way out of poverty It covers a range of services ... The Board of Directors of the Reserve Bank of India, at its meeting held on October 15, 2010 formed a Sub-Committee of the Board to study issues and concerns in the microfinance sector in so...
... accounted for 70% of the hemolin binding to M lysodeikticus, 46% of the binding to E coli, and 25% of the binding to S cerevisiae Thus, binding of hemolin to Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria ... be related to its ability to bind to the surface of hemocytes [5,13–15] andto bacteria Hemolin has been shown to bind to E coli [4,23] andto increase the association of E coli with hemocytes ... agglutination of bacteria and yeast by hemolin may be due to binding and crossing-linking of these micro-organisms by hemolin Binding of hemolin to bacteria and yeast cells M sexta hemolin was reported to...
... to have care and support, they often find ways to get as much as possible Or if they want to leave the hospital, they often lie to the nurse that the doctor already agreed Or when they have to ... infected." Doctor, PMTCT site Health workers confront their fear of infectionTo reduce both fear and risk of infection, health workers often find ways to protect themselves, either by trying to identify ... carefully to avoid transmission to other patients and staff." Fear of "annoying clients" Not only fear of HIV infection influenced the quality of care provided to HIV-positive women Some of the...
... monitored by magnetic counters and regular periods of observation All mice received an intraperitoneal injection of calcein (Sigma, St Louis, MO) at a dose of 30 mg/kg of body mass on day and ... indicative of anterior diaphyseal drift (anterior is to the left in this image) gible after the 16th week of life in this strain of mice [13] Femora were harvested and cleaned of soft tissue and then ... stage [8,10], but the effects of loading and estrogen may be independent of each other [11] The aim of this study is to further examine the relationship between age and mechanically-induced bone...
... 21-bands cover a frequency range ofto 7.7 KHz Energies of each of the 21-filter outputs are computed and normalized to the total energy This normalized energy spectrum is used as a feature vector ... prototype The prototype is computed as the mean of feature vectors corresponding to signals in the reference set belonging to a particular class The prototype, referred to as a centroid vector, ... phonation consists of some random part mainly due to turbulence of airflow through the glottis (anterior and/ or posterior glottis) and due to pitch perturbations A windowed segment s(n) of the voiced...
... Kim and Hyun-Soo Kim and virus isolation[12,13,14] In this study, we examined PRRSV antibody from a total of 3,391 swine serum samples which were submitted to our laboratory for the diagnosis of ... period of January to December, 2001 Table Seroprevalence of PRRSV antibody in swine sera collected from 256 farms for the diagnosis of PRRS during the period of January to December, 2001 Age No of ... pigs at around 30 to 40 days old was thought to be a decrease of maternal antibodies The majority of PRRSV infection was known to be defined to the grower/finisher herds This kind of infection pattern...
... species of antireceptor or antireceptors may have several domains, each reacting with a different receptor Mutations of receptors may cause a loss of the capacity of a receptor and antireceptor to ... development of genetic engineering of livestock and that it would be foolish not to take advantage of the new technologies Thus introduction of new mechanisms of disease resistance in livestock by ... COEVOLUTION OF HOSTS AND VIRUSES Basic understanding of the parallel evolution of viruses and their hosts provides a useful starting point for the consideration of strategies for genetic engineering of...
... decision-making The field of psychology has developed a large body of theoretical and empirical work devoted to conceptualizing and testing the determinants of behavior and behavior change [30] ... The ability of these constructs to predict behavior depends upon how well the behavior is defined and upon the degree of correspondence between the measure of behavior and the measures of the constructs ... descriptive normative beliefs, and strength of efficacy beliefs can be used to develop a more fine-grained understanding of the effects of this atheoretical intervention Page of 10 (page number not for...
... decision-making The field of psychology has developed a large body of theoretical and empirical work devoted to conceptualizing and testing the determinants of behavior and behavior change [30] ... The ability of these constructs to predict behavior depends upon how well the behavior is defined and upon the degree of correspondence between the measure of behavior and the measures of the constructs ... descriptive normative beliefs, and strength of efficacy beliefs can be used to develop a more fine-grained understanding of the effects of this atheoretical intervention Page of 10 (page number not for...
... They trained a group of intensivists with hours of didactic teaching and hours of practical teaching, and provided a range of pre-recorded examinations for the intensivists to study in their own ... of prebiotic and probiotic) therapy, on the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonias [10] In their blinded, randomised, placebocontrolled trial, the authors compared a total of 259 patients ... the development of ventilator-acquired pneumonia The use of synbiotics had no significant effect on the development of ventilator-acquired pneumonia, nor the secondary endpoints of oropharyngeal...
... Finbergy' in a recent editorial, has emphasized that the issue of IVH and alkali therapy relates more to the concentration and the rate of infusion of sodium bicarbonate than to the total a m o u n t ... administration of hypertonic alkali solutions and IVH in preterm infants? -~ Wigglesworth et aP concluded that there was a possible causal relationship, yet Roberton and Howat and Anderson et aP ... is difficult to delineate what relationship the use of alkali and hypernatremia may have to IVH in preterm infants Several investigators have reviewed autopsy data in an attempt to define an...
... interval of IVH to the occur- presented in Table In 6), serial ultrasound of IVH prior to the of time between nor- mal ultrasound scan and occurrence of pneumothotwo hours in two patients, and 12 ... 0.64 to 0.74, mean and a of tient IVH (ie, scan of pneumothorax immediate in Pulsatility occurrence 2) to Pneumothorax scan patient 8, pneumothorax of 10 hours, and IVH ultrasound changes TABLE to ... pneumoThe connected P1 to resoluand of, respec± infant 0.03 at the following the time andof, were, The Pco2 statistically P1 (Mean SE) ± in 7.35 each decrease to, BP of pneumotime were, of pneumothorax...
... the studies of many groups of compounds The improvement of sensitivity and the miniaturization of CE technique are two major trends of capillary electrophoresis which have gain more and more attention ... need to custom-make a detection cell for each capillary The LOD was found to be 3ppm The linear range was between to 1000 ppm, and RSD value was satisfactory, i.e < 1.5% in the same day and < ... Effect of Stability of Inclusion Complexes on Concentration Factor……………………………………………………………………… 67~69 2.3.4 Effect of Displacer plug on Concentration Factor…………………69~73 2.3.5 Optimization of Injection...
... either to increase the amount of analyte added to the capillary or to improve the sensitivity of the detector, may be applied However, due to the characteristics of the CE technique, both of these ... consumption of sample and reagent, and reduced production of waste, as well as portability and disposability of the devices are also the potential advantages of on-chip CE [89] Another direction of development ... such as GC, supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) and HPLC It is because of the plug-like profile of electrokinetic flow in contrast to the parabolic profile of laminar flow Thirdly, the peak...
... presence of MO which resulted in slow reduction of TOC, while the presence of RB4 inhibited methane productivity TOC reduction oftreatmentof RB4 was similar to the control (Figure 11) Due to the ... concentration of VFAs, gas production, TOC reduction, together with the reduction of dye were investigated The obtained results of decolorization of 100mgL-1 of RB4 and 200mgL-1 of MO used in ... anaerobic consortia from waste -water treatment plants in the reductive decolorization of azo and anthraquinone dyes A large proportion of textile waste- waters, mainly from the dyebath and rinsing processes,...
... of wastewater treatments, and direct wastewater dumping into the water flows A possible indicator to assess the rate ofwaterpollution caused by each sector is looking at the percentage of Chemical ... and Brazil to become one of the biggest contributors to global pollution Every year Chinese rivers, lakes and coastal waters receive about 36 billion tons of untreated industrial wastewater and ... polluting freshwater of China and Brazil will be studied and compared In order to assess how China and Brazil deal with the problem ofwater pollution, the pollution intensity of GDP and the environmental...
... relevant towaste application Waste remediation processes in soils Types ofwaste applied to soils, particularly organic wasteandwastewater Rice nutrient requirements Principles and methods ofwaste ... effective treatment strategies for That is possible in Compliance of discharge of wastewater and solids from years to develop and wastewater and fishponds into the aquatic environment to demonstrate ... impacts ofwaste application on land Case studies in land application of wastes Possible lab and workshop sessions: Soil organic matter determination Characterisation ofwastewaterandwater quality...