... The Philippines is an archipelago in Southeast Asia and is made up of around 7101 islands with a long coastline of around 17,460km, anda large shelf and coral reef areas (Table 1) In addition, ... poultry and fertilizers into coastal waters, contributing to the deterioration of the fisheries habitats In addition, most of the coastal areas adjacent to industrial and urbanized areas in the Philippines ... sharks and coral reefs are threatened with extinction More seriously, in some heavily exploited areas such as Manila Bay and Samar Sea, large, long-lived and high-value fish are caught The remaining...
... which has gone on to dilatation and its consequences Nevertheless, in the absence of any statistics to the contrary, I strongly suspect that I am an exceptional case, and my aquatic career was not ... Lucknow, one foundered on board the " London" in the Bay of Biscay, another was drowned in swimming a young horse across a river in Australia, another was murdered by poachers, and another accidentally ... remarks : " I feel certain that the Putney race alone would not have brought on the, inflammation that ensued C was a man who had never had any rest from hard training and racing for at least...
... primers, a lower strand primerACGATTTSAGTGCCTTCGTAGATG anda upper strand primer-CATCTACGAAGGCACTSAAATCGT Data were assembled using MacDNASIS and sequences were edited by manual comparison of overlapping ... original alignment of Ito and Braitwaite [1] and overlap regions designated as regions and by Villarreal et al [4] VanDevanter et al [5] used degenerate primers to the DNA polymerase gene of mammalian ... sealed, incubated at 37°C, and candled daily Those eggs containing live embryos days later, were opened andthe CAMs in the area of inoculation were examined CAMs containing plaques or similarly-suspicious...
... protein annotations, and other databases In the future, the database will also display phosphorylation sites that have been mapped as part of the MitoCheck project The mtcPTM database therefore handles ... The following additional data are available with the online version of the paper Additional data file provides examples of phosphosites found at the flanks of structured domains Additional data ... dehydrogenase [22], signal transducer and activator of transcription [STAT]3B [23], STAT-1 [24], and Stage II sporulation protein (SpoII)AA/SpoIIAB [25]) Onthe other hand, the modifications could cause...
... and U) are used as the notation for a random variable or a random vector; and lower case letters (e.g u i and u) are used as the notation for a specific value of the random variable or the random ... data) + Varv|data E (ai |v, data) the first term Ev|data Var (ai |v, data) = Ev|data Var (ai |v) (because p (ai |v, data) = p (ai |v), which follows from the conditional independence of and data ... Var (ai ) − E Var (ai |data) (follows from ˆ Var (ai ) = Var E (ai |data) + E Var (ai |data) ) and inserting in the expression for PEV, it follows that PEV = E Var (ai |data) so that an unbiased...
... (FAPESP), Programa Nacional de DST/AIDS Ministério da Saúde and Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa (CNPq) 20 Gurunathan S, Klinman DM, Seder RA: DNA vaccines: immunology, application, and optimization* ... Messenger RNA for beta-actin was detected by PCR using cDNA and betaactin-specific primers (sense 5' ATGTTTGAGACCTTCAACA-3' and antisense 5'-CACGTCAGACTTCATGATGG-3'; giving a 495-bp band) The PCR ... monocyte-derived macrophages and DCs Figure Phenotypic characterization of monocyte-derived macrophages and DCs (A) Expression of markers CD11b (Mac1), CD86 and HLA-DR onthe surface of macrophages, and (B)...
... things as treating all the learners the same … and acting upon their hopes and aspirations Most of it depends on paying more attention to the learner than to the teacher” According to Nunan (1991: ... at writing and reading since they like and usually practice these skills; in contrary, they are bad at listening and speaking as their vocabulary is not enough and their pronunciation is not good, ... Students have to what their teacher tells them Teacher can ask students questions and their students have to answer Nevertheless, the traditional teaching method has many limitations and has been...
... sional DWT the IDWT to is applied to the LL sub-band The detail images get back to the spatial domain and obtain the w are called the atermarked vertical (LH), the horizontal (HL) andthe diagon ... lection d’un es Yaghmaie andA Aliabadian, pace d’insertion decomposition and radon transform,” Interna 0,1 tional Journal of a b c d e f Electronics and communication (AEÜ), pp Fig 12 LL sub-band ... after watermark re basedon applying the same attacks onthe Goldhill t extraction from the LL sub-band They show that the SRs of est image watermarked with the same binary logo for each co the...
... “Tatouage d’images couleur additif : vers la selection d’un espace d’insertion optimal,” Coresa03, 2003 S Rastegar, F Namazi, K Yaghmaie andA Aliabadian, “Hybrid watermarking algorithm basedon ... representations of an image: an approximation image (LL) and three detail ones (LH, HL and HH) The approximation image represents the image low frequencies, it has the largest coefficient magnitudes at ... different attacks to the watermarked Goldhill image For each attacked image, we have extracted the two embedded watermarks and calculated the SRs Figures and provide the extracted watermarks from the...
... the capacity of the system is above 22.8 Ah, the system is reliable, though the capacity of a battery is lower than 5700 mAh Suppose the capacity of the first branch is 5600 mAh andthe capacity ... Generating Function in Reliability Analysis and Optimization, London: Springer, 2005 A Lisnianski, and G Levitin, Multi-state System Reliability: Assessment, Optimization and Applications Singapore: World ... 5700} Basedonthe operators defined in (7) and (8), the universal generating function of the branches can be obtained, and then the universal generating function of the power system can be computed...
... and health incorporation onthe patterns observed among the total population—in social institutions such as the educational and health care systems, andon markers of health and social inequality ... Pakistan and Bangladesh have lower education and occupational qualifications than whites, on average, those from India, Africa and China have higher average qualifications (Modood 2003) Although ... migration decisions and/ or cultural practices of families from Latin America (e.g., Landale, Oropesa and Gorman 2000; Palloni and Arias 2004) The predominant focus on Hispanics raises questions about...
... inquiry, among the votaries of the plant in question I shall therefore leave it to their candid decision, after a full and free investigation enables them to arrive at a just conclusion The great increase ... has been learned by common observation, as well by the peasant as by the man of erudition The fact, that man, "made of one blood, can dwell" in all the varieties of climate, "on the face of the ... earth," and can sustain himself, without any change of organization, at one period onthe burning sands of a Numidian desert, at another among the ice-bergs of a Greenland winter exhibits in the...
... (v/v) acetonitrile to give octasaccharide (F8), nonasaccharide (F9), decasaccharide (F10) and undecasaccharide (F11) fractions Each subfraction was purified by reverse-phase HPLC ona Zorbax octadecyl ... fragment ions from both branches, and as no additional fragment ions are apparent, it can be deduced that the disaccharide sequence onthe 3-branch shares the same terminal sequence Gal1–3GlcNAc- Taken ... from cleavage of the core residue Gal (Fig 3A) , and by 0, 3A5 at m/z 1111 The C 2a ion at m/z 528 shows that one Fuc is at the subterminal GlcNAc, andthe characteristic D 1a- 2a ion [13] at m/z 348...
... media containing fermentable or nonfermentable carbon sources and then incubating at 30 °C The results are summarized in Table Among the single deletion mutants, only the subunit (MES8) and subunit ... cytochrome b, appear to play an important role in the structural organization of the bc1 complex This suggests that these subunits associate at an early step in the assembly pathway In contrast, the supernumerary ... composition of mitochondrial membranes from a yeast mutant lacking mitochondrial DNA anda yeast mutant with a truncated cytochrome b gene The wild-type (WT), q°, and CKL57 yeast strains were grown on...
... dictionary Onthe other hand, in the case where random choice was performed, the Nichigai dictionary andthe Webbased encyclopedia were comparable in terms of both the coverage and accuracy Additionally, ... generated through our Web -based method can be used in a number of applications, including human usage, thesaurus production (Hearst, 1992; Nakamura and Nagao, 1988) and natural language understanding ... Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 189–196 Yuji Matsumoto, Akira Kitauchi, Tatsuo Yamashita, Yoshitaka Hirano, Osamu Imaichi, and Tomoaki Imamura 1997 Japanese...
... initial concentration of MABA-CDP bound to the enzyme, A is its total concentration, and P is the total concentration of human UCK Data were analyzed using kaleidagraph (Abelbeck Software, ALSYD, ... part of a multi-organism call for proposals We also thank the Agence Nationale de Recherches (France) for grant ANR-05-BLAN-0368 (L A Agrofoglio and D Deville-Bonne), andthe Agence Nationale de ... [17] Mant-ATP was displaced by ATP with a K ATP ẳ 10 lm in a competitive titration and in an D indirect titration assay for several ATP concentrations (not shown) Other nucleotides such as CTP and...
... speaker and utterance elements contain information about the characters who speak and what they said at each dialogue turn Onthe other hand, context elements contain all the additional information ... tokenization and vectorization of the user input is carried out During tokenization, an additional checking is conducted by the dialogue manager It looks for any adaptation command that could ... system that is basedonthe vector space model framework The system belongs to the class of example -based dialogue systems and builds its chat capabilities ona dual search strategy over a large...