... indigenous shrubland or forest remnants We assume, forthe purposes of this study, that all such land is eligible forthe creation of Kyoto forest (for further discussion, see Sect 3.3) The VCM/LCDB intersected ... of thepotential area for shrubland A/R is in North Island, with a large proportion of that area confined to the Tertiary softrock, erodible hill country along the east coast Potentially, then, ... similar to the figure of 7.6 SU ha–1 obtained from independent data in the NZLRI database [11, 21], for a km radius around the Gisborne sites The similarity of SU values for land around the mānuka/kānuka...
... in the present model Another assumption of the presented model is that single dose fractions of a radiotherapy treatment are treated independently Therefore the linear-no-threshold theory for ... normal tissue The solid, dotted and dashed lines represent Gy, Gy and Gy fractions The total dose to the target was 50 Gy forthe Gy fractionation schedule and was adjusted forthe other fraction ... function of dose per fraction For sarcoma in a) and for carcinoma in b) The diamonds represent the average over the whole dose range and the squares are averages up to 10% of the target dose which is...
... growth for Vietnam - Thepotentialfor renewable energy in Vietnam is quite large d Challenge There is still some objection to green economy in the world Challenges are also found in the inefficient ... jobs in Vietnam: the rural and urban areas, developed and developing countries, especially the benefits forthe youth, women, farmers, the poor, workers in unofficial sector, the vulnerable, and ... green economy Derived from the requirements of the greening of business (labor demand) and the workers (labor supply), the working paper also figures out some points for further consideration and...
... is bowed toward the upper left-hand corner of the graph, the greater is the accuracy of the test Since the ROC curves are bounded by the interval [0,1], the maximum value forthe area under an ... using these common variables and then apply the food and overall poverty lines developed by the GSO and the World Bank for use with the VLSS surveys (Poverty Working Group, 1999) The lower of these ... in urban areas Indeed, a Chow test strongly rejects the hypothesis that the coefficients forthe urban sub-sample are the same as those forthe rural 11 sub-sample (F=6.16, p< 001) This implies...
... strain beyond yield will occur in the web Once the liner is restrained by the formation, the total axial force P in the pipe will be the same in the web as in the hoop The normal liner stress σn is ... Summing the axial forces, we get the net shear force W on the weld holding the screen ) ( Ls is the length of the screen between welds It is 5.65 m for an average 13.3 m (43.6 ft.) joint where the ... in the reservoir, MPa W = total force on the weld holding the screen to the base pipe, N x = distance from the free end of the liner toward the fixed end, m Xo = distance from the end of the...
... by the US Environmental Agency as a possible human carcinogen (Mueller, 1998) Therefore, there is an urgent need for new strategies Thus, in recent years, research has focused on a search for ... 2002) ITCs were chosen for this study because of the pesticidal properties of these chemicals (Fenwick at al., 1983) and because of thepotential use of methyl ITC as fumigant for wheat (Ducom, 1994) ... (temperature = 70◦ C) for h to facilitate the hydrolysis of sinigrin to ITC by the enzyme myrosinase which is found inside the seeds The second step is steam distillation with use of the Dean–Stark...
... dependant upon the following factors: the size of the firm, the age of the firm, the technology level of the firm, the age of the CEO, occurrence of planning and the perceived dynamism in the firm’s ... relationships in the UK, the mode of entry, determination and commitment of the people to the goal etc will determine whether they can convince the UK consumer that the product is the right one The most ... however the emotional component is for now unknown and is dictated purely on the marketing component of the launch of the product 1.3 HYPOTHESES From the above set goals the following hypotheses...
... Watson are ready to modify their initial conclusion They still have not been able to gather all of the information they hoped for meeting the new neighbor face-to-face—but they have been able to ... this The 1960s saw the rise of the Robert Ardrey/man -the- territorialhunter/big-cojones school of human evolution Drawing upon the social system of the savanna baboon as a surrogate for our formative ... blank Beyond War The Human Potentialfor Peace Douglas P Fry OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 2007 OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Oxford University Press, Inc., publishes works that further Oxford University's...
... σj (Q) = σj (Q) for j = 1, 2, 3, then Q(x) = Q(x) on [0, π] The purpose of this paper is to generalize the above theorem forthe case m ≥ The idea we use is the Weyl’s matrix for matrix-valued ... shall prove the first main theorem For simplicity, if a symbol a denotes an object related to Lm(Q, h, H), then the symbol α denotes the analogous object related ˜ ˜ H) to Lm (Q, h, Theorem 2.3 ... (λ) = ij (λ) for ≤ i < j ≤ m ˜ ˜ ˜ This implies Lm (Q, h, H) = Lm (Q, h, H) The authors want to emphasis that for n = 1, the result is classical; for n = 2, Theorem 2.6 leads to Theorem 1.1 Shen...
... supervised the organic synthesis and compound characterization and participated in the draft of the manuscript LAVS was responsible forthe antitumoral evaluation of the compound EP supervised the studies ... ASA and EMSC conceived the study, were responsible forthe interpretation of results, and drafted the manuscript ASA carried out the liposome preparation, the DLS and zeta potential measurements ... Besides, due to the energy transfer from compound to NBD, the fluorescence intensity of the latter notably increases (Figure 3) The effect is stronger forthe membrane of 12 to 14 KDa The percentage...
... critical forthe successful winter survival of the species Accordingly, the January isotherm rather than latitude is more useful for predicting the northern limit of the beetle distribution Also, the ... also the wilt disease If the range of the disease outbreak goes beyond the beetle’s range in northern regions, there are likely to be other vector species to transmit the disease Therefore, the ... and other vectors in the field, in theory the disease is likely to extend farther and even exceed the distribution range of the beetle The beetle is one of the most important vectors of the disease...
... nearest alluvial deciduous forest (i.e forest occurring in the floodplain of the same river) and (ii) local ones: the basal surface using the Bitterlich relascop, the tree density extrapolated ... were negatively correlated with the two distance measures (Tab II) on the whole The distance to the nearest alluvial forest had a greater explaining power than the other distance measure This isolation ... (data did not fit normality) At this step of the analysis, only the sapling dataset was included because thepotential of seedlings is uncertain for forestry Plot data were averaged per stand to...
... studies should be performed to clarify the role of sigma-1 receptors in the efficacy of fluvoxamine for psychotic depression Consent Written informed consents were obtained from the all patients ... receptors in the intact human brain at therapeutic doses [5], suggesting that sigma-1 receptors are involved in the active mechanisms of fluvoxamine [5] Based on all these findings, a hypothesis has ... interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Authors' contributions TF contributed to the clinical and rating evaluations during the follow-up periods KH conceived of the study...
... procedure [20–22] The conditions needed forthe generation of Th3 cells are poorly understood Other workers have produced regulatory CD4+ cells by repeatedly stimulating with the antigen in the presence ... [27] These regulatory CD4+ cells have been called Treg (Tr1) cells and they produce significant quantities of IL-10 They not proliferate in response to antigen and not produce IL-2 Therefore, they ... infections [30] The fact that some regulatory T cells produce predominantly TGF-β and others IL-10 is not fortuitous The combination of TGF-β and IL-10 is more immunosuppressive than either of the cytokines...
... Mahalingam and others put forth a hypothesis that Page of 20 the nuclear localization function resides primarily in the alpha helices while the G2 arrest property is determined by the carboxyl-terminus ... of these results, they have also reported opposite results forthe same mutations or support the notion that the two properties are independent [11,50,59] It is noteworthy to mention that these ... cells and are therefore not subject to the cell-cycle arrest function of Vpr and even lack the prerequisite ATR induction in the presence of Vpr [132] The findings that demonstrate the importance...
... hesitant to perform them, and patients are hesitant to agree to them due to the pain and discomfort of the procedure; the following histology requires expert analysis and is therefore expensive; ... relative amounts in the whole saliva samples compared to exudate samples To further elucidate the composition of the exudate proteome, we compared it to the proteome derived from the epithelial cells ... exudates, and analyzed the isolated protein using shotgun proteomics The proteins identified from the three brush biopsy samples were then compared to the proteins identified from the three exudate...
... genome into contact with the REase, one could nevertheless argue that the virus is no longer infectious by the time the genome is released from the virion, which would make the REase redundant A ... made forthe Lactobacillus approach Once the virus has infected Lactobacillus, it cannot infect the vaginal epithelium, so destruction of the genome by REase appears unnecessary Moreover, the ... to disrupt the viral envelope and capsid Irrespective of the answers to these questions, such nanoparticles would have advantages of their own For instance: (i) they help to increase the stability...
... Seclecting the Yen Bai taro variety is thepotential variety in Yen Bai , which will be study te cultivation techniques in the next year, 2012 1.3 The results of the cultivation measures forthepotential ... plain The research on taro plants in mountainous and technical measures forthe local varieties in the mountainous northern province has been limited Therefore, it is very essential to study of the ... increase income for farmers From the above theory, we have implemented the study titled "Research on the growth and development of taro varieties and cultivation techniques forthepotential variety...
... another PBS The first PBS cleans up the polarization of the beam, transmitting only the horizontally polarized component of the beam The HWP allows a rotation of the beam polarization before the ... Forthe vertical direction, we move the beam with the last mirror before the DLP chip However, forthe horizontal direction, we cannot this since this will change the angle of incidence and therefore ... understanding the time-stability of the beam For each image taken, we fit thethe data to the flat-top profile, then calculate the RMS error and the maximum error We can see from figure 5.33 that the error...