... several decades.18 Finding: The world’s tropical forests are disappearing at an alarming rate The direct causes of tropicaldeforestation vary by region—mainly ranching, agriculture, and logging—but ... California and New York, have already begun implementing regional cap-and-trade programs Prior to his inauguration President Obama called on Congress to enact a national cap-and-trade law A cap-and-trade ... Southeast and changing precipitation patterns in the Southwest Internationally, climate change acts as a “threat multiplier” against U.S national security and humanitarian interests Climate-induced...
... cardiovascular readings were obtained after a slight warming between 13.00 h and 17.00 h Multiple readings on individual rats at each reading were taken To be accepted, SBP measurements on a given ... tail vein at 7.5 minutes after injection Glucose was estimated using commercial glucose strips (Lifescan, One Touch Ultra, Melitas, CA) Losartan Challenge: After performing baseline SBP readings, ... furylacryloylphenylalanine (FAP) and glycylglycine Hydrolysis of FAPGG results ina decreased absorbency at 340 nm Serum ACE activity was determined by comparing the sample reaction rate to that...
... aided in data analysis and drafting Page of 10 and revising the manuscript SM performed data analysis and aided in drafting and revising the manuscript CMS performed data acquisition, aided in ... aided in data analysis and drafting the manuscript AMH aided in data acquisition, subject recruitment and drafting the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests ... necessary for using a MANCOVA using a Generalized Linear Model approach, and these criteria were met (p > 0.05) Alpha was set at 0.05 for all analyses Multifactor ANOVA studies are conducted when...
... site Paracou (tropical experimental station managed by CIRAD-forêts) is located in Sinnamary, in the equatorial lowland rainforest of French Guiana (5°15’ N, 52°55’ W) Mean annual rainfall for ... the soil was obtained using the bulk density data The sampling site in the clear-cut was dominated by Cyperaceae and Poaceae, and the soil surface was much more exposed to solar radiation Due ... spatial variation in soil tem- surinamensis Stafleu As in the primary forest the canopy was closed Mean soil temperature during the measurements was 25.0 °C, and diurnal changes were small (ca...
... treatment (C); they also had greater leaf area than those in the nematode-inoculated (Ni) treatment The Si treatment increases leaf area more than the Ri treatment The curves in figure show leaflet ... guianensis in French Guiana (Béreau and Garbaye, 1994) ance The analysis of variance of the data was first performed two-ways (four blocks and four treatments) for detecting general effects, and ... including Dicorynia guianensis Amshoff (local names: Angélique, Basralocus, Angelica Para, Tapiuna), an important timber species economically Thus, the aim of the present work was to examine experimentally...
... Kogata Y, Tsuji G, Nakazawa T, Kawano S, Saigo K, Morinobu A, Koshiba M, Kuntz KM, Kamae I, Kumagai S: Meta-analysis: diagnostic accuracy of anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide antibody and rheumatoid ... OPLS-DA model can map and separate all disease discriminating variation (predictive variation) from the variation that is uncorrelated to disease discrimination (orthogonal variation) Page of Examples ... for diagnosing RA This may be achieved by fitting an OPLS-DA model to discriminate RA patients from controls A binary response variable in which “1” indicated RA patients and “-1” indicated controls...
... Africa Western Ghats, India Kinabalu National Park, Borneo Riviere Bleue, New Caledonia Barro Colorado Island, Panama Barro Colorado Island, Panama Atherton Tablelands, Australia Kununurra, Australia ... Australia Vicosa, Brazil Mkomazi Game Reserve, Tanzania Popondetta, Papua New Guinea Sarapiqui, Costa Rica Catanduanes Island, The Philippines Dimona and Porto Alegre, Brazil Lambir Hills National ... observation that ants and vascular plants have ecological parallels (Andersen, 1991) Vascular plants generally have similar ecological requirements and strategies in that individuals are situated in...
... Bitterman N, Skapa E, Gutterman A: Starvation and dehydration attenuate CNS oxygen toxicity in rats Brain Res 761(1):146-50 1997 Jun 27 Kambal A: Evaporative water loss in adult surgical patients in ... centre In effect our data is not biased by variation of referred cases as we deal with a large stable local population base Also as our population base is local no significant delays in transporting ... Mumbai The project did not entail accessing any individual patient data or identifiable information and was reviewed by the hospital research committee Prospectively maintained database recording...
... potential groundwater and surface water contamination by these contaminants Arsenic can exist in inorganic form, organic form, and gaseous state The oxidation states of As in the natural systems are ... values of their parameters as well as the correlation of determinations (r2 ) Arsenate and Se(IV) adsorption increased significantly with increased adsorbate loading initially and then increased ... the Examination of Water and Wastewater American Public Health Association, NW, Washington, DC Carbonell Barrachina, A. A., Burl Carbonell, F.M., Mataix o Beneyto, J.J., 1996 Kinetics of arsenite...
... Transamination gave rise to Ala and a- ketoglutarate Such an increase in Ala contents is necessary to shuttle the amino group derived from the conversion of Pro to alpha-Ketoglutarate (a- KG) in ... considering FAA only as a part of the osmo- and cryoprotective arsenal, they should also be regarded as main actors involved in the multiple regulatory pathways activated during cold acclimation ... Tyr plays an important role in that process, as a precursor of several stress hormones in insects (including DA, OA and tyramine [15,20]) It was demonstrated in Drosophila species that heat exposures...
... mite larvae) It is mainly distributed in Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Sri-Lanka, Kashmir, China, Nepal, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, Laos, Philippines, Papua New Guinea and Australia (Figure ... Bhumiratana, Apiradee Intarapuk, Danai Sangthong, Surachart Koyadun, Prapassorn Pechgit and Jinrapa Pothikasikorn Chapter 24 Lymphatic Filariasis Transmission and Control: A Mathematical Modelling Approach ... Rhipicephalus Mediterranean area, sanguineus ticks Argentina, USA? R aeschlimannii Hyalomma marginatum Africa, Europe? ticks R slovaca Dermacentor marginatus Europe R rioja ticks R raoultii R sibirica...
... Nam Higaki T and Imamura JS., 1985 (a) Volcanic Black Cinder as medium for growing Anthuriums HortScience, Vol 20 (2), April 1985 Marco Van Hert., 1998 Cultivation Guide Anthurium Global know ... “Optimization of Anthurium andreanum mineral nutrition in soilless culture under Tropical conditions” In: Plant nutrition Vol.92 Springer Netherlands T¹p chÝ khoa häc vµ c«ng nghÖ n«ng nghiÖp ViÖt Nam ... giai đoạn vườn ươm sau in vitro 1.1 ghiên cứu ảnh hưởng giá thể đến sinh trưởng, phát triển giai đoạn sau in vitro Sử dụng in vitro có - lá, chiều cao trung bình - cm Các trồng vào khay nhựa...
... Standing biomass, biomass C content, and annual litter-fall of rubber plants quadratically and significantly increased Greater accumulation litter-fall on the surface linearly and significantly ... concentration and stocks Data analysis by SAS as (age) x (soil depth) factorial combination at p
... Austrobaileyaceae, Eupomatiaceae, Himantandraceae, Myristicaceae and Winteraceae of the order Magnoliales; Atherospermataceae, Gyrocarpaceae, Hernandiaceae, Idiospermaceae, Lauraceae and Monimiaceae of ... National Park Guatemala 57 600 Sinharaja Forest Reserve Sri Lanka 864 Montane rainforest Venezuela Talamanca/Amistad Costa Rica/Panama 791 592 Sangay National Park Equador 271 925 Machu Picchu Peru ... et al (2001) have shown that these upland forests are particularly sensitive to changes in temperature and rainfall Changes as small as a 1°C increase in temperature and a 10% decline in rainfall...
... China, Japan and Korea, and Thailand where it appears to be associated with widespread vaccination campaigns; in contrast it appears to be increasing in parts of Bangladesh, Burma, India, Nepal, ... encephalitis in Bali, Indonesia BMC Med 2006, 4:8 Akiba T, Osaka K, Tang S, Nakayama M, Yamamoto A, Kurane I, Okabe N, Umenai T: Analysis of Japanese encephalitis epidemic in Western Nepal in 1997 ... Japanese encephalitis in Lakhimpur district of Assam in 1989 J Indian Med Assoc 1992, 90:114-115 Vijayarani H, Gajanana A: Low rate of Japanese encephalitis infection in rural children in Thanjavur...