... (DOC and others compounds) with lower molecular weight In the case ofthe sediment without clams, the degradation of particulate organic matters are likely due to an ectoenzymatic activity of attached ... removal rate of NO3-N from the sediment, especially in the sediment with clams The increases of carbon and nutrient concentration with higher biodegradability promoted the microbial growth in the sediment ... side ofthe sediment corresponding to about 1000 clams.m-2 on July 26, 2002 Seawater was pumped from about 200 m far from seashore and was flowed to the mesocosms The tide of seawater in the mesocosms...
... providers use their time, rather than the amount of time they have available, is what matters Thecontributionof MCH and delivery services In most developing countries, the great majority of pregnant ... care to the mother and reduce the likelihood of MTCT of HIV ‘ The core goal of all medical therapy is to bring the patient’s viral load to an undetectable level When that goal is reached, the chance ... However, in the past decade, they have gained higher visibility both through the ICPD Programme of Action and because they are cofactors of sexual transmission of HIV Because ofthe tendency...
... and the developments associated with it A more advanced understanding ofthe production of military activities would be valuable to the readiness ofthe armed forces, the effectiveness ofthe ... range of questions on the utilization ofthe individual, the conduct of job training, and the individual’s overall performance The supervisor was first asked to describe the productivity of a ... NEWCREW to define the percentage of personnel with less than one year in the Navy; and TIME_CO to be the number of months that the ship’s commanding officer has had command ofthe ship The authors...
... with such a mechanism The most parsimonious explanation ofthe loss ofthe potentiating effect in the mutant receptor is that the mutation results in the loss ofthe ability of dTC to act as such ... Representation ofthe extracellular domains ofthe c–a subunits based on the crystal structure of AChBP The positions of cE93 and aR55 at the subunit interface are indicated and modeling suggests that these ... the loop D domain) as specific sites of ligand incorporation [5,15-17] In the present study, we have investigated the effects of mutations ofthe equivalent residue (aR55) lying in loop D of the...
... 4) The vertical axis in Figure represents the ratio of errors in the set of low scored translations according to a given metric The horizontal axis represents the ratio of errors over the set of ... correlation In the case of Metric A, a high score implies a high human assessed quality, but not the reverse This is the tendency hypothesized by Culy and Riehemann (2003) In the case of Metric B, the high ... instance, Table shows the best 10 metrics in CE05 according to their correlation with human judges at the system level, and then the ranking they obtain in the AE05 testbed There are substantial...
... 115, and 119 The model of this region as an a-helix places Trp125 two turns ofthe helix above His119 and not on the same face ofthe helix Therefore, the distance and the orientation of His119 ... genome into the cell [18,23] Therefore, the influx of protons through the M2 protein is important in the life cycle ofthe virus The M2 protein has a histidine residue, His37, located in the transmembrane ... cells The requirement for cPLA2 for both the activation of superoxide generation [26] and the gating ofthe proton channel [27,28] can be over come by the addition of arachidonate acid The site of...
... to the question ofthe Dijon conference, but she also depicts how the influence of economic theory and of its most prominent advocates varies – depending on the strength ofthe resistance of other ... diminish the force ofthe argument in favor of a mixed system of financing for HE, for this rests on the concept of cost-sharing (the subject ofthe next section), as well as the concept of education ... than the rest ofthe population…but since the abolition of fees in 1974, students have not contributed directly to the costs of their tuition The fundamental inequity in our present system of financing...
... ions ofthe lattice and between Cu2+ each other make the intensity ofthe green band decrease Hence, at xCu = 5.10-4 mol% the intensities of these two bands are equal to each other and they merge ... the green band is greater than that ofthe blue band As increasing the concentration of Cu, the intensity ofthe blue band decreases while the intensity ofthe green band increases and reaches ... vacancies of Zn in ZnO crystal With the increasing of concentration of Co beyond 10-1 mol%, interaction can occur between Co2+ ions and ions ofthe lattice or between Co2+ ions each other Thereby, the...
... acceptance ofthe project among the authorities A further problem in Egypt is that although the RH rights of a couple may be acceptable, there is a reluctance to accept the concept ofthe RH rights of ... 60% of adolescent marriages, the final decision regarding marriage rests with the girl's father Negotiations regarding the marriage occur Towards the implementation ofthe Convention ofthe Rights ... expansion of services and the training of staff The 4CP focused on the further institutionalisation of MCH/FP services, but 13% ofthe budget was allocated to the Ministry of Education’s (MOE) population...
... function, the determination of actual strengths appears to depend on the interaction ofthe intrinsic strength of a boundary with the strengths of other boundaries in the sentence, as well as the distance ... between these boundaries The most salient ofthe interactions we observed was between the placement of a boundary at the subject-predicate junction and the placement of a boundary following the verb-complement ... relativized), the parser does not identify the relations ofthe modifier constituent to the elements ofthe core sentence Hence the relative clause is not attached to any other syntactic node in the tree...
... FEBS The purpose ofthe present study was to analyse thecontributionof post-transcriptional mechanisms in the cell cycle regulation of cyclin mRNAs Previous studies on HeLa cells [11,12] and colorectal ... by half-life changes It is possible that the majority ofthe regulation of these transcripts may reside in the choice of polyadenylation site The lack of changes in mRNA stability for mRNAs, which ... raises the question of how their levels decrease at the end of M-phase We have to assume a prolonged period of transcription inhibition to explain the decay of an mRNA that fluctuates 10-fold in the...
... related to monetary matters, such as “$$$” or “%” Therefore, we also measured the ratio of special characters, the number of emoticons, and the number of special character patterns in SMS messages ... lengths to judge the authorship of texts, followed by Yule (1939) and Morton (1965) with the use of sentence lengths In this paper, we measure the overall byte length of SMS messages and the average ... vector of feature weight parameters w Given a test sample X with its feature vector x, the filer outputs the conditional probability of predicting the data as spam, P (Y = 1|X = x) We use the L-BFGS...
... not-for-profit sector The discussions focused on their perceptions ofthe effects and usefulness ofthe deployment of international health volunteers in their work setting More specifically themes ... made contributions to the conception ofthe research and revising the intellectual content ofthe paper IB collected data and reviewed successive versions ofthe paper WVD made substantial contribution ... epidemiology, the local practice of health care and the organization ofthe health system They were often seen to have insufficient technical skills, training and professional experience to work in their...
... constant for the duration ofthe experiment (96 h) BACE1 levels, on the other hand, took longer to increase and gave no indication of leveling off by 96 h when they reached ~400-600% of control The cytokine ... Page 11 of 17 was capable of strongly inducing the expression of endogenous astrocytic APP, at least up to 48 h of exposure under the culture conditions that we tested To determine whether the Ab42-stimulated ... via the JAK/STAT signaling pathway in astrocytes [39] Other studies in APP transgenic mice have provided further support for Page of 17 the involvement of TNF-a and IFN-g in the development of...
... Note that the position of those regions depends on the position and the direction ofthe light on the camera Since the three color channels have not been recorded at the same time and therefore ... is most ofthe time moving, the RGB components ofthe images are misaligned in the videos Figure illustrates the problem: the black oriented curve symbolized the camera trajectory As the camera ... in colonoscopy videos The result ofthe restoration process is therefore better appreciated looking at the center ofthe images and in particular near the strong edges ofthe lumen EXPERIMENTAL...
... damages (Fig 4) The identication ofthe species and the estimation ofthe degradation intensity of crown structure of each inventoried tree are accurate when they are based on the use of three-dimensional ... the water content of soil, because the aerodynamic roughness ofthe tree canopy is high and the high tree cover fraction does not allow for a contributionofthe understory [11] In the case of ... area of south-western France strongly aected by the heat wave A shortening ofthe 2003 phenological cycle was observed for the meadows and crops, but the response ofthe deciduous forests of the...
... are the double ofthe default values (and, consequently, the lifetimes were reduced to half ofthe default values) The minimum values ofthe annual decay rate were assumed to be equal to the ... source Thus, they are mainly estimated based on assumptions and wood-using practices The ranges ofthe lifetimes (the inverse ofthe annual decay rates) of long-lived products found in the literature ... The maximum estimate ofthe stock-change approach exceeded the default estimate in about 20% on average in the whole period The largest contributions came from the biomass conversion factor of...
... component ofthe carbon balance of bon surements trees in forest ecosystems But available estimations ofthecontributionof root respiration to soil CO efflux are still rather scarce, and the most ... copper/con2 stantan thermocouple penetration probe inserted in the soil to a depth of 10 cm in the vicinity ofthe soil respiration chamber Volumetric water content ofthe soil (&thetas; ) v was ... should therefore be considered as a rough estimation Nevertheless, we calculated that a 20 % variation in the values ofthe decay constants would change our estimation ofthecontributionof root...