... phylogeographic and biogeographic patterns of multiple, partially or fully codistributed taxa, to understand the broad strokes of the history of the terrestrialand freshwater biota of the land masses of ... history and nature of Walacean versus Darwinian islands This is followed by an extensive overview of biogeographical studies and phylogeographical patterns of the flora and fauna of the islands ... Islands 35 (Cowie and Holland 2008; Dunbar-Co, Wieczorek, and Morden 2008; Parent, Caccone, and Petren 2008) Yet, the extreme isolation of these islands reduces the interplay between islands and...
... example, analyses of the degree of partitioning of a variety of metals have been performed to provide insight concerning their persistence in the water column and the rate of delivery of sorbed metal ... needs of simplicity and transparency on the one hand, and realism on the other It is a mass balance model that describes the fate of metals in a generic setting comprising both terrestrialand ... multidisciplinary and international group of 47 scientists, managers, and policymakers from Australia, Belgium, Canada, Germany, The Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States for days of discussions...
... and expressed in terms of binding affinity constants (Fig 2) Each of the tested viruses bound SLec, Su-SLec and STF with the same affinity and none of the viruses discriminated between SLex and ... specificity of poultry H5, H7, and H9 viruses is similar to that of equine and avian-like swine viruses If sulfated and fucosylated sialyloligosaccharides are present in the target cells of both terrestrial ... explained by a lack of interference between the fucose moiety and the short side chain of the alanine in position 222 of the HA Essential role of amino acid in position 222 in the binding of fucosylated...
... engaged in the study of environmental problems, management and regulation of natural resources, education, research and development, and manufacturing and distribution Specific goals of the society ... in-depth discussion of the potential to assess bioavailability of metals to fish and invertebrates (Bergman and Dorward-King 1996) and which led to the development of the Biotic Ligand Model (BLM) ... Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC), with of ces currently in North America and Europe, is a nonprofit, professional society established to provide a forum for individuals and...
... mean of KDs from relevant habitatsof M edulis, for example, temperate coastal regions In the context of hazard assessment and the current state of the science of biodynamic modeling, the use of ... the use of BCFs and BAFs for metals as an indicator of chronic toxicity (both direct toxicity and trophic transfer impacts) is not supported by the current understanding of the science of metal ... membranes of gill and other epithelia that can take up both Ca2+ and Cd2+ (Verbost et al 1987) because of similarities in their charge and ionic radius Another important aspect of metal uptake and...
... the role of labile metal complexes as buffers of free metal activity at the interface between the biotic ligand and exposure solution which, under conditions of high rates of metal uptake and low ... concentrations of metal in soils, (2) lack of consensus for derivation of wildlife toxicity threshold values, (3) complexity of dietary estimates, and (4) concentration and soil-type dependence of uptake ... time, and temperature The attenuation of Cu lability was modeled on the basis of processes: precipitation/nucleation of Cu on soil surfaces, Cu occlusion within organic matter, and diffusion of...
... capture and expenditure of chemical energy in the covalent bonds of biomass is the phenomenon of metabolism The expenditure of that energy powers changes in the size, organization, and activity of ... battery W, and the sources of chemical energy available to it, measured against loss to heat ME is therefore a ratio of amperes of anabolism to amperes of catabolism The recharge rate of the organic ... curve for each value of W An examination of graphs and table Decrease in ME from increased energy availability (the denominator of the ratio) is the inefficiency of abundance Page of (page number...
... constructed wetland **FWS: Free water surface wetland 30 Figures BM1 BM2 CW1 CW2 Figure Experimental setup of biofilters and free water surface wetlands BM1- biofilter without slag, BM2- biofilter ... applicability of biofilters and free water surface wetlands for ADDM treatment employing SNAD; and 2) to evaluate the effects of pH and temperature on nitrogen removal via SNAD in biofilters 17 and free ... surface wetlands at the end of Phase III 29 Table Nitrogen removal performance in different wetland treatment systems 30 v List of Figures Figure Experimental setup of biofilters and...
... as a cache of secondary storage data pages The effect of this kind of caching on the performance of UNIX and its traditional suite of application programs is dramatic Compilation of a small program ... introduction of new hardware architectures and was never able to efficiently support the large body of UNIX software used within the academic community [16] In addition, from the point of view of a system ... network copy-on-reference of process data The interaction of message and memory primitives can also be an important tool in the design and implementation of transaction and database management...
... for attempting to understand historical patterns of law and authority, by reference to interior moral and exterior political impulses, and versions of history and visions of the future, in chapter ... ‘globalise’ and ‘universalise’, suggesting the attempt or purport of the act of globalising and universalising, falling short of the achievement of the actual end of this action Such a use of the ... Introduction understand the reality of law and what constitutes law; to attempt to fathom, where possible, the limits and potentials of attitudes towards the social order and law; and to formulate...
... Ecosystems and Environment, 27, 493-503 Qiao, L., Hofstede, H and Ho, G E (1993) The mobility of heavy metals in clay amended sewage sludge and municipal solid waste compost In: Proceeding of 9th ... fixing of the free metal ions through metal precipitation as hydroxides and carbonates, adsorption onto oxides and mineral surfaces and chemisorption or complexation with inorganic ligands The ... 1993) In order to determine the long-term fate and potential hazard of land application of MSW compost, it is necessary to investigate the speciation of heavy metals Difficulties in studying this...
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... later, though the number of men remained unchanged, the number of women rose to 550 000 A similar situation was seen in the wholesale and retail trade sector, where the number of women rose from about ... decades between 1975 and 1995 brought significant changes in the representation of women in Freedonia's work force, according to the graphs In 1975, for example, some 300 000 men and 250 000 women ... finance and banking institutions in 1975, the number increased to 450 000 by 1995 The number of men grew only marginally from 425 000 to 480 000 over the same period In defence, the number of men...
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... (sum of y)] [(n) (sum of (xx)) ]-[ (sum of x) (sum of x)] where: n = # of observations (36 months) x = rate of return for the S&P 500 Index y = rate of return for the fund 14 Dictionary of Finantial ... makeup of the liabilities and stockholders' equity side of the balance sheet, especially the ratio of debt to equity and the mixture of short and long maturities Capital surplus Amounts of directly ... Deferred annuities offer deferral of taxes with the option of withdrawing one's funds in the form of life annuity Deficit An excess of liabilities over assets, of losses over profits, or of expenditure...