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MULTI - SCALE INTEGRATED ANALYSIS OF AGROECOSYSTEMS - CHAPTER 9 ppt
... Multi- Scale Integrated Analysis of Agroecosystems: Bridging Disciplinary Gaps and Hierarchical Levels This chapter has the goal of illustrating examples of multi- scale integrated analysis of societal ... 284 Multi- Scale Integrated Analysis of Agroecosystems An analysis of the congruence over the loop of the reciprocal definition of identities of (1) the whole, (2) parts, (3) subparts and inputs ... 15=Percent of GDP expended for food © 2004 by CRC Press LLC Multi- Scale Integrated Analysis of Agroecosystems 301 TABLE 9.1 Correlation of the Proposed Set of Integrated Indicators with Conventional Indicators...
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Báo cáo khoa học: The oxidative effect of bacterial lipopolysaccharide on native and cross-linked human hemoglobin as a function of the structure of the lipopolysaccharide A comparison of the effects of smooth and rough lipopolysaccharide ppt
... of the LPS Overall, the E coli LPSs were more effective than the S minnesota LPSs in increasing the rate of oxidation, suggesting a difference in binding of the two types of LPSs The effect of ... revealed that in the presence of EDTA, the increase in the rate of oxidation of Hb A0 produced by the LPSs of rough and smooth S minnesota was solely due to a sharp increase in the initial rate ... affinity of the cross-linked derivative The data in Fig indicate that at pH 7.0, in the presence of EDTA, the oxidation of cross-linked Hb mediated by the LPS of rough S minnesota was very slow In...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Hematopoietic differentiation from human ESCs as a model for developmental studies and future clinical translations Invited review following the FEBS Anniversary Prize received on 5 July 2009 at the 34th FEBS Congress in Prague docx
... Nature 464, 112–115 Sabin FR (1920) Studies on the origin of blood vessels and of red blood corpuscles as seen in the living blastoderm of chicks during the second day of incubation Contrib Embryol ... to induce hematopoietic differentiation of hESCs Expression of CD34 was found in all cases from day and peaked at day 18, matching the peak of activity of colony-forming cells Co-culture of hESCs ... described the use of hematopoietic cytokines in combination with BMP4 to induce hematopoiesis Using this method, the proportion of CD34+ cells at day 15 of differentiation increased from 10%...
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Báo cáo y học: "Characterization of Human Erythrocytes as Potential Carrier for Pravastatin: An In Vitro Study"
... the loading of pravastatin into erythrocytes was directly proportional with increase of drug concentration in the incubation medium, in the 2-10 mg/ml concentration range This finding is in concurrence ... The new invented method of pravastatin sodium extraction and assay in erythrocytes using UPLC was validated according to FDA guidelines Recovery of extraction method was (96%-108%), the analysis ... statins including inhibition of the metabolism [5], administration of statins with certain juices [6] or inhibition of Pgp [3] Unfortunately these strategies are frequently associated with increase...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Acetyl-CoA:1-O-alkyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine acetyltransferase (lyso-PAF AT) activity in cortical and medullary human renal tissue docx
... molecule Moreover, inhibitors of platelet aggregation such as BN-52021, indomethacin and the enzymatic system of creatinine phosphate and creatinine phosphate kinase exerted the same inhibitory effect ... determined Incubation of cortical or medullary microsomes with [3H]-acetyl-CoA in the absence of lyso-PAF or incubation of [3H]-acetyl-CoA with lyso-PAF in the absence of microsomes resulted in ... dissolved in a small medulla, containing 10–40 lg of total protein, were incuvolume of HPLC grade methanol–water (70 : 30, v/v) bated with nmol of lyso-PAF and 40 nmol of [H3]acetyl0.01 M in ammonium...
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báo cáo hóa học: " Physical activity as a mediator of the impact of chronic conditions on quality of life in older adults" pptx
... writing and editing of multiple drafts CAM was involved in the design, assisted in the interpretation of results and edited multiple drafts of the manuscript All authors read and approved the final ... contributing to the substantial increase in the incidence of chronic conditions in the latter part of the 20th century Thus, physical activity can prevent the onset of chronic conditions Our findings ... the interpretation of the results and contributed to the writing and editing of multiple drafts WCM conceived and designed the project, obtained funding, assisted with the interpretation of the...
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Báo cáo hóa học: " The inhibition of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus type 1 activity by crude and purified human pregnancy plug mucus and mucins in an inhibition assay" ppt
... those in saliva, still remain major routes of transmission of the virus In the case of breast milk we showed that its MUC1 component inhibited the HIV-1 from infecting CEM SS cells in an in vitro ... plug mucins reduce the infection of CEM SS cells by an approximately 39 fold (Fig 4) To determine the effect of time (incubation period) on the rate of viral infection or inhibition ability of the ... inhibitory effect of mucins or the infectivity of the virus This suggested that the mucins aggregated the virus immediately and permanently However, shorter starting times of incubation of mucins and the...
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Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article Combination of Accumulated Motion and Color Segmentation for Human Activity Analysis" ppt
... 2) contain the signatures of the motions taking place in the subsequence being examined The number of nonzero areas gives an indication of the number of moving entities in the scene In practice, ... more robust techniques for extracting regions of activity Finally, areas of future research include the extraction of higher level semantics by incorporating in the analysis process a priori knowledge ... human action segmentation using a spatio-temporal probabilistic framework,” in Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing (IIHMSP...
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Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article Joint Wavelet Video Denoising and Motion Activity Detection in Multimodal Human Activity Analysis: Application to Video-Assisted " doc
... tλ ;IN , tλ;OUT = Ø, tIN mE = tV ;IN vE , tS ;IN sE , tB ;IN bE tOUT mE = max tV ;OUT vE , tS;OUT sE , tB;OUT bE , (21) where tIN /tOUT is the time-equivalent starting/ending location of the multimedia ... , tV ;IN /tV ;OUT , tS ;IN /tS;OUT and tB ;IN /tB;OUT are the corresponding timing (start/end locations) of the coincident video vE , sound sE , and bioacoustic bE events In the case of multimedia ... produced via a single denoising process (i.e., spatial filtering), while the IN ∼2 (i, j, n) value is estimated after the insertion of a second denoising process (i.e., temporal smoothing) In any case,...
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financial report 1999 holderbank the financial results posted in 1999 demonstrate that the group has further consolidated its position and created real added value
... liabilities denominated in foreign currencies IAS 38 on intangible assets In addition, the Group adopt- against swings in currency exchange rates on specific ed the findings of the Standard Interpretation ... published by the International Ac- in the annual statement of income Exchange gains and counting Standards Committee (IASC) The listing rules of losses resulting from the translation of transactions are ... discloses that portion of a financial instrument that bining various derivative instruments, individual hedging has already been taken to the statement of income The transactions may be several...
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Báo cáo y học: " Diagnostic value of anti-human citrullinated fibrinogen ELISA and comparison with four other anti-citrullinated protein assays" potx
... directed against various proteins that have one trait in common; some of their arginines have been converted to citrulline by post-translational modification, catalyzed by peptidylarginine deiminase ... deiminated fibrinogen (5 μg/ml) diluted in phosphate-buffered saline (PBS; pH 7.4) The plates were blocked with PBS containing 2% bovine serum albumin A volume of 100 μl sera, diluted to 1:50 in ... detection of ACPAs in immunoblot assays and in an ELISA, resulting in an assay with 52% sensitivity at a specificity of 95% in a cohort of patients with established disease [9,10] An ELISA using a...
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Báo cáo y học: "Bioavailable constituents/metabolites of pomegranate (Punica granatum L) preferentially inhibit COX2 activity ex vivo and IL-1beta-induced PGE2 production in human chondrocytes in vitro" pps
... treatment of inflammatory diseases in the traditional medicine systems of Asia and Europe In this study using rabbits we determined whether after oral ingestion of a standardized preparation of pomegranate ... of PFE exert an antiinflammatory effect by inhibiting the activity of eicosanoid generating enzymes and the production of NO This further suggests that consumption of PFE may be of value in inhibiting ... inhibiting inflammatory stimuli-induced cartilage breakdown and production of inflammatory mediators in arthritis Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Page of...
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Báo cáo y học: "valuation of a recombinant human gelatin as a substitute for a hydrolyzed porcine gelatin in a refrigerator-stable Oka/Merck live varicella vaccine." pps
... nonhydrolyzed gelatin in vaccine formulations by Japanese vaccine makers in the past led to higher incidence of gelatin-specific immediate-type hypersensitivity reactions in vaccinated subjects in Japan ... structure/appearance of a lyophilized vaccine cake [2] The current manufacturing process of hydrolyzed porcine gelatin yields preparations which consist of a mixture of protein fragments of different ... formulation challenge in terms of stabilizing and preserving vaccine viability during manufacturing, storage and administration [2] The refrigerator-stable varicella vaccine formulation contains stabilizers...
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Báo cáo y học: " The value of Institute of Human Virology meeting abstracts and beyond" potx
... F, Le Grand R: First Dominique Dormont international conference on "Host-pathogen interactions in chronic infections – viral and host determinants of HCV, HCMV, and HIV infections" Retrovirology ... organizer interested in the rapid and broad dissemination (with permanent archiving) of the presentations from your conference, it may be worth your while to consider publishing your meeting in Retrovirology ... 2005 International Meeting of The Instituteof Human Virology Retrovirology 2005, 2(Suppl 1S1 [http:// www.retrovirology.com/supplements/2/S1] Freed EO, Ross SR: Retroviruses 2004: Review of the...
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INHIBITION OF APE1’S DNA REPAIR ACTIVITY AS A TARGET IN CANCER: IDENTIFICATION OF NOVEL SMALL MOLECULES THAT HAVE TRANSLATIONAL POTENTIAL FOR MOLECULARLY TARGETED CANCER THERAPY
... reduction of the critical cysteines in the DNA binding domains of the transcription factors increases their DNA binding ability thereby activating them and resulting in the transcription of several ... disctinct from each other Ape1 is a multifunctional protein with roles in DNA repair as well as in redox signaling in the cell besides making protein-protein interactions with a number of proteins ... Target in Cancer 19 Consequences of Inhibiting the BER Pathway Proteins in Cancer 19 Inhibition of the DNA Repair Function of Ape1 as a Target in Cancer 22 Existing Ape1 DNA Repair Inhibitors...
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HUMAN ACTIVITY RECOGNITION USING HKM AND HYBRID DEEP NETWORK IN VIDEO
... contains 11 activity categories: basketball shooting, biking/cycling, diving, golf swinging, horseback riding, soccer juggling, swinging, tennis swinging, trampoline jumping, volley ball spiking, ... consists of ten different types of action classes: bending downwards, running, walking, skipping, jumping-jack, jumping, forward, jumping in place, galloping sideways, waving with two hands, and waving ... Pre-training Help Deep Learning?‖ The research indicates that pre-training is a kind of regularization mechanism, by minimizing variance and introducing a bias towards configurations of the parameter...
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Human range expansions, contractions and extinctions
... being the best at doing so Viewed in this manner the extinction of the Neanderthals (Chapter 7) is not unusual or even surprising It is the extinction of a complex of regional populations in ... the following refinements: (1) As increasing climate variability created increasing spatial heterogeneity of habitats and landscapes in Africa, hominids became increasingly dependent on intermediate ... are examples I argue in this book that the complex social systems of Moderns, their extended networks and their systems of operating at large scales and storing and caching resources effectively...
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The transference of meaning through class of words denoting parts of the human body in english and vietnames
... to12 inches 48 The lowest part of something, the base of bottom of something Manner of walking or moving 32) Ganglion A mass of nerve cells A type of cyst ( a hollow growth in the body, containing ... having primary meanings denoting parts of the human body possessing the transference of meaning The number of words having two or three meaning make up 75% ( 53/71) and the number of words having ... and narrowing and broadening of meaning Analytical result of the definitions in dictionary of these words allows us to define 17 forms of the types of semantic transference that are used in this...
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Tài liệu The Influence of Human Activity on the Environment ppt
... causing extinction of species Intensive Farming • Farming has become more intensive to provide a higher % yield from land • Many people regard intensive farming of animals to be cruel • In order ... diminishing fossil fuel reserves by using solar power or wind power Benefits of conserving endangered species • Ecotourism • Agricultural benefits • Species indicators • Maintaining diversity in ... will dissolve in rain producing Acid Rain • Acid rain damages trees and pollutes rivers and lakes Acid rain causes erosion of buildings and statues particularly if they are made of limestone...
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