... significant increase in rainfall in wet season resulting in an increase in river flow. By contrast, the decreasing trend of river flow in dry season is a consequence ofthe decline of rainfall and increase ... expenditure for construction and protection of infrastructure in low-lying areas; and (5) Increased pollution ofthe aquatic environment inthe coastal zone and salinity intrusion ofthe Huong River ... Impacts onthe coastal zone The coastal zone accounts for 30% ofthe area and more than 30% ofthe human population of Thua Thien - Hue Province. Climate change impacts onthe coastal zone in the...
... is, the coefficients ofthe marginal effects ofthe Poisson model can be interpreted as the proportionate change inthe conditional mean if the jth regressor changes by one unit. Finally, the ... No information is available onthe costs of culling, diagnostic testing of samples, cleaning and disinfection, and other administrative costs (Obi, Oparinde, and Maina 2008). Regarding the ... anecdotal information onthenumberof farmers who have gone bankrupt due to the loss of markets as a result ofthe ban on poultry and the reductions inthe demand for poultry products during and...
... determining thenumber of senses in which an ambiguous word isused in a large corpus. It is based on the use of global criterion functions that assess the quality of a clustering solution.1 Introduction The ... spaces. In Proceedings ofthe Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, pages41–48, Boston, MA.S. Salvador and P. Chan. 2004. Determining the number of clusters/segments in hierarchical ... Introduction The goal of word sense discrimination is to cluster the occurrences of a word in context based on itsunderlying meaning. This is often approached as aproblem in unsupervised learning,...
... the salinity and turbulence ofthe Gulf. Monsoons also control the surface currents ofthe Gulf, being clockwise during the southwest monsoon and anti-clockwise during the northeast monsoon. ... solution. There are plans to reuse the sludge inthe shrimp pond. The idea is to build bricks ofthe sludge and place them onthe pond wall to prevent the sides from erosion. Inthe meantime, the ... farming further increases the amount of sludge and thereby the amount of organic material onthe bottom ofthe pond through erosion. The shrimp ponds in Thailand today have a maximum life of...
... prevalence of chronic diseases among the elderlypopulation and found that the degree of impact on HRQOL depends onthe type of disease. The results highlight the importance of preventing and controlling ... as the active participation ofthe el-derly inthe community so as to maintainor improve quality of life (39). The present findings stress the needfor better organization of and quality in ... diseases,as well the impact ofthenumber of chronic conditions, onthe eight areas as-sessed by SF-36®. The results were simi-lar to those obtained in other countries,and there is general...
... and developing guidance to assist companies in deciding whether their products are covered by the regulations. Producers indicate several areas of confusion in definitions used in the Directive. ... joined together to found EPSC, which also involves industry associations, including the Information Technology Association of Canada and Electro-Federation Canada. The focus is initially on ... restrictions on reselling of secondary material amongst other issues. Respondents based in Germany cited, in particular, the role played by the German Cartel office in this field and the caution...
... MekongDelta.Thissituationisapressure on suburbanfarmers in keepingagriculturalproduction[6].Accordingto the investigation of Institute of Economic Research in June 1996, the number of farmers owned the ... biggestindustrialandcommercialcenter of the country.Accordingto the statistics in 2005,itspopulationwasabout6.2millionpeople. Inthe suburbanareas ofthe city, particularly inthe northern part, agriculturalactivities produce the main income of these local residents. Within the ... East ofthe city andalong the mainroads. Inthe upcomingyears,duetotrend of expansion,HoChiMinhCitywill become a special urbanwith populationmorethan10millionsby2010year[3].Urbanexpansionsuppliedconditionstodisperse the habitants...
... & Tager, H.S. (1987) Role ofthe COOH-terminal B-chain domain in insulin–receptor interactions:identification of perturbations involving the insulin mainchain.J. Biol. Chem. 262, 12054–12058.20. ... of insulin–insulin receptor interaction, the areaconsisting of Ile25, Val29, Phe31 and Ile33 inthe 4-kDapeptide should play a critical role inthe interaction with the 43-kDa protein. These ... to the solvent. Thissuggests that the aromatic residue, Phe28, plays a vitalrole in maintaining the hairpin-b during interaction withsolvent.Interaction of insulin with the 43-kDa proteinSimilarly...
... found inthe scenes of everyday and prison life in the film. And the transformation of life inthe musical numbers of Pennies From Heaven provide criticalperspectives onthe degradation of everyday ... valorization of non-conformity and individualistic heroism inthe new age of entrepreneurial glory.A more multi-dimensional reading ofthe film, however, would have to bring inthe dimensions of race ... Staiger.@+{1 }In Studies inthe Theories of Ideology, John Thompson examines many recent theories of ideology and finds that many of them sever the link between ideology and domination, and thereforerob...
... role of B cells inthe optimal host response against MTB by increasing the infection inoculum (Vordermeier et al., 1996; Maglione et al., 2007). In addition the protection of mice against ... status ofthe patients in this study. Immunity against MTB comprises of a predominant cellular response and majority of researchers have dismissed the participation of B cells in defending against ... higher numbers and percentage of CD3-CD16+CD56+ NK cells detected in patients with PTB in this study may therefore indicate the contribution of NK cells inthe host immune response against...
... dividing the Palestinians into isolated and blockaded communities. Road construction inthe OPT far exceeds the rate of construction inside Israel.” See Shir Hever, The Economy ofthe Occupation, ... Advisory Opinion ofthe International Court of Justice onthe Legal Consequences ofthe Construction of a Wall inthe Occupied Palestinian Territory, 9 July 2004 (A/ES-10/723). 35. The UN General ... after the start ofthe second Intifada, between 1998 and 2002. In 2005, Talia Sasson, the former head of the State Prosecution Criminal Department, conducted an inquiry at the request of the...
... evidence of a decrease in gasoline consump tion or an increase in public transportation. Instead, HNC is associated withan increase inthe total numberof private vehicles in circulation as well ... Specifications include weather covariates and indicator variables formonth ofthe year, day ofthe week and hour ofthe day, as well as interac-tions between weekends and hour ofthe day. The R2for ... low-emissions forms of transportation, there is no evidence of a decrease in gasoline sales or an increase in public transportation use. Instead, the evidence indicates that HNC led to an increase in the total...
... differing hurricane climatology, as shown in Figure 3-1. The regions have been selected based on consideration of trends in (1) INTERIM GUIDELINES ON HURRICANE CONDITIONS IN THE GULF OF ... observations. Of the four regions, changes relative to previous API RP 2A-WSD values are most pronounced in the Central region. Conditions in other regions are similar to those contained in ... follows: Section I: Introduction. Section 2: Definitions of terms used. Section 3: A description of the four regions, and notes of areas and water depths where the conditions do not...
... resultingaccurate and timely information (Cigolini et al. 2004),and internal cost savings in functional areas such aswarehousing, manufacturing, and accounting via the adoption of information ... expand the definition to include the full utilisation of people,equipment, materials and parts’.JIT strategies, therefore, focus onthe elimination of waste and the full utilisation of resources. ... and Information Management,International Journal of Mobile Communications, International Journal of Electronic Healthcare andInternational Journal of Human Resources Management.R. Anthony Inman...