... percentage of child deaths in the total the losses of life in the flood seasons in the MD. Save the Children (2003) reported that the vast majority ofthe drowning deaths in recent years in the region ... FLOODS IN THE MEKONG DELTA The Mekong River Delta, the most downstream section ofthe Mekong River, is known as the "rice bowl" of Vietnam (Figure 1). Due to its location, the delta ... Cambodia across the Vietnam border. Viewed from the sky, it is easy to identify the extension of flood inundated areas in the Long Xuyen quadrangle and the Plain of Reeds, the lands between...
... by the feet, a nine-inch length of ropebeing attached to the off foreleg of one and the near foreleg ofthe other, the animals facing each other inrows, and eating from a common supply in the ... mediation,waving their chopsticks in the air, and whilst the mother turned upon them in grossest abuse the daughtercleared out at the back ofthe premises. I left the irate parent brandishing the bamboo; ... called upon to make way for another party of travelers. Remarkable is the agility of thesemen. They swing along over eight inches of wood as if they were in the middle of a well-paved road.Ch'u-tung...
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... employees. What share are these small businesses ofthe overall economy, and what is the role of im-migrants in them?Second—and for the larger partof this re-port—we look at the immigrant small ... share of labor force is 36 percent and immigrants are 35 per-cent of business owners.At the other end ofthe spectrum, in places with low immigrant share ofthe poplulation, immigrant share of ... Immigrants in the 25 largest metro areasThroughout this report we have looked at the United States as a whole. But there is a great deal of variety around the country. In some parts ofthe country...
... in the Chair: Mr Miguel Barceló Pérez (Spain, EPP/CD)) a. Examination of credentials (Doc. 11124) b. Election ofthe President ofthe Assembly c. Election ofthe Vice-Presidents ofthe ... moratorium on the death penalty by Council of Europe member states" f. Adoption ofthe order of business g. Adoption ofthe minutes ofthe meeting ofthe Standing Committee (17 November ... 7.30 p.m. End ofthe sitting - 2 - Monday 22 January 2007 8 a.m. Bureau ofthe Assembly 9.30 a.m. Political groups 11.30 a.m. 1. Opening ofthe first partofthe 2007 Ordinary...
... epitopes locatedin the MUC5AC C-terminal cysteine-rich part. Further localization ofthe epitopes of 45M1,2-12 M1 and 166M1In order to further locate the epitopes ofthe hithertounmapped 45M1, ... detailedmap ofthe epitopes for the mAbs, where 45M1 recog-nizes an epitope located in the N-terminal region of the C-terminal cysteine-rich partof MUC5AC, pre-sumably in the last CysD domain ofthe ... cysteine-richFig. 1. The recombinant C-terminal cysteine-rich partof humanMUC5AC. A schematic picture ofthe recombinant C-terminal cyste-ine-rich partof human MUC5AC is given in the upper partof the figure....
... mutation of Arg46 had the dualeffect of (a) decreasing agonist affinity and (b) promoting the agonist-induced active conformation due to the loss of astabilizing constraint on the ground state ofthe ... with the corresponding sequence of the V1aR [10]. The role ofthe N-terminus has beenaddressed recently by alanine-scanning mutagenesis of the N-terminus ofthe V1aR; this revealed that a ... transmembrane domains traversing the lipid bilayer. The enlarged circle shows the amino acid sequence ofthe distal N-terminus of the V1aR and indicates the position of Arg46 that was subjected...
... global bound:maxMnwi≤ C. The next result summarizes the properties ofthe limit w = limiwi.Recall from the proof of Theorem 3.5 the definition ofthe tensor: Sg=Ric − 2δσ1(Ag)g. ... important feature of (1.19) is that both sides ofthe inequality have the same homogeneity under the natural dilation structure of equation (1.18);see the proof of Lemma 3.1 and the remark following ... dw(x0,x) ≤ r} is the annulus in the metric gw= e−2wg in the end N1, and ωnis the volume ratio of Euclideanspace.Proof. The proof is based on a construction ofthe geometric tangent...
... the plateauat229Ma.Thisdispositionindicateaargonlossfrom the sites release in lower temperaturerelating to partial reopening of these sites ataround of 125 Ma, after the closing ofthe site the mostretentivearound of 230Ma(Fig.3).+VN577 ... sample(VN571) in the northern partofthe studiedarea, far from zone of shear, has beeninvestigated.Age of thissamplecorrespondstoage of metamorphism of Kham Duc Formationat255.9 ... sheardeformationathightemperatureandisolate the VuVanTichetal./VNUJournal of Science,EarthSciences23(2007)253‐264257metamorphism.But,here,takeintoaccount: the direction and slope of regional foliation; smallnumber of sample and their location; the proximity of dextral movement ofthe numerous shear...
... also subject of prosperous potential of oil and gas. For the first study of margin deltas in the northern partofthe Red River basin, the Miocene deposits in the northern partofthe Red River ... An existence ofthe margin deltas in Miocene in the northern partofthe Red River basin confirms a presence of basin floor fans in the central partofthe Red River basin. These basin floor ... in the study area the upper part ofthe second sequence ofthe Phong Chau Formation from borehole 103-TH-1X, second sequence ofthe Phong Chau Formation of borehole 103-TG-1X, upper part of...
... an atypical stress response thatresults in the synthesis of a 53 kDa protein of undefined function namedsquamous epithelial-induced stress protein of 53 kDa (SEP53). Given the role of deoxycholic ... patients. Stand-ard ratios represent the peak area of each1mgÆmL)1standard compared with the peak area ofthe internal standard. (B) Sum-mary ofthe range ofthe total bile acid con-centrations ... max)(y-axis). This can then be used to calculateKd of the indicator, which is the inverse log ofthe x-inter-cept. To label cells with Fura-2, Fura-2AM was used, as the addition ofthe AM group results...
... preliminary stress analysis in the linear elastic regime in order to determine the magnitude ofthe theoretical stress concentration factor Kt as well as the pattern ofthestress distribution. The ... done using the local strain approach where thestress and strain at the root ofthestress concentrator are estimated as a function ofthe theoretical stress concentration factor and of a constitutive ... the ones shown in Fig. (2), was used. The model was loaded from zero to the yield stress in steps of 50 MPa and observed the levels ofstress and strain in the root ofthe notch as well as the...
... joints, stress concentrations occur at the weld toe or at the weld root, which make these regions the points from which cracks may initiate. The values ofstress intensity factor (KI) for the ... study the effect of variation of crack position (toe, root or cold lab crack) on thestress intensity factor (KI) under a constant load. The applied edge stress for the model was based on the ... (4) shows the results of a crack increment step (Δa). It was noticed that there are no effects on the stability of results and the very close agreements between the three types of a crack...
... SomniferumOn the banks ofthe Ganges some distance east of Benares, in the most wretched and neglected partof the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, lies the little town of Ghazipur. It is not much of ... until the intense dry heat ofthe north Indian plain had lowered the water content to 30 percent. Then it and the poppy petal sheets went together to the caking room.Down the sides ofthe caking ... wait for the rains ofthe summer monsoon to sweep up from the Bay of Bengal. But in fact there is activity here even at this time ofthe year. For Ghazipur is one ofthe few places in the world...