... additional context for the interviews and informed the overall argument For interviewing, purposeful sampling was used to identify research participants that presented ‘information-rich cases’ ... Environment and Energy (MINAE) has a local office in Gandoca, and is legally responsible for managing the refuge ´ Asociacion ANAI, a Costa Rican NGO, has been working in Gandoca since 1978 (ANAI, n.d.) ... ecotourism including environmental education and striving towards sustainable management, primarily in the form of continued support for both conservation and local economies Honey (1999), for example,...
... running In Guatemala, the Forestry Incentives Program (PINFOR) makes direct payments to forest stewards who manage forests for conservation goals (World Bank 2000) The PES Program inCostaRica ... to gain a lot from participating in the emerging international carbon market Carbon forestry therefore offers a good potential mechanism for the finance of reforestation and PES initiatives in ... Panama CostaRica has been a pioneer in developing systems of paymentsfor environmental services Land users can receive paymentsfor specified land uses, including new plantations, sustainable...
... Assessing impacts of Africanized honey bees inCostaRica and California: A progress report In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Apiculture in Tropical Climates, Costa Rica, ... known pollination systems in this forest POLLINATION IN THE CHANGING DRY FOREST OF COSTARICA Given that dry-forest plant communities show definite reproductive structure from a pollination F ... main geohazards of the region are hydrometeorological; they increase during times of strong rainfall and storms, which in some instances are indirect effects of hurricanes originating far in...
... beginning in 1996, developed two fundamental processes: training geared towards a change in attitudes and actions for sustainable development, and strengthening of Sustainability and peace inCosta ... Universidad de Costa Rica, adopted in 1993, will then be discussed, including the creation in 1995 of the Programa Institucional de Sostenibilidad y Paz (PRINSOPAZ) Finally, the founding of the Grupo ... some of the University of CostaRica s initiatives intended to further the sustainable development of Costa Rican society It is difficult to determine at what point in time a community assumes...
... planted forests The soil cover in many places is strongly eroded, exposing bed rock For this sub-area, priority is given to the zoning of forest for regeneration, forest planting, soil protection, ... environmental protection • Vang Danh coal mining sub-area The vast mining sites of Vang Danh, Vietmindo and Nam Mau coal companies to the NE of Uong Bi Town The extent and output of coal mining are increasing ... solutions for implementation The main research methods used include: Field survey; Sample analysis for environmental components; Mapping, remote sensing and GIS Integrated and inter-disciplinary...
... humans by activating the plasma membrane NADPH oxidase via a signaling pathway involving trimeric G-protein, phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase, Src family tyrosine kinases, and an increase in cytosolic ... ferritin, correlates with their inability to form a complex with DNA [7,8,11,19], whereas the short, two-Lys-containing N-terminus of B subtilis MrgA accounts for its binding to DNA [19,30] In Streptococcus ... developed for proteins containing SH groups (HP-NAP has no SH groups) The SDS concentration was 0.5% w ⁄ v in the gels used for separating and stacking gels, and 2% in the sample buffer The protein...
... restaurants include Mary Elaine’s Dining Room (jackets for men required at this dining room only), the Outdoor Terrace, and The Windows on the Green The Pointe Hilton on South Mountain 23 The Pointe ... Dining facilities include The Golden Swan, an indoor/outdoor restaurant; The Squash Blossom, with a beautiful view of the cascading fountain area; and Sandolo, for casual dining GOLF: The Gainey ... an interesting layout with undulating terrain on the back side, a rather flat front nine and a liberal supply of water coming into play RATES: (EP) Lodging - $165/$185 Green fees - $55, including...
... prevailing oak in the top layer and coppice in the bottom layer proved very interesting from an economic point of view, and the coppice-with-standards form remained in use in many floodplain forests ... years old During the following updates in the forest management plan, little was changed in the already set principles and the floodplain forest was managed in the form of a composite forest with ... of oak in the floodplain forest at that period Intensive grazing was common in the floodplain forest until around 1850, when it was officially abolished In 1754, the city forests were geodetically...
... Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica, showing marine protected areas (MPAs) and the locations of the experimental fishing trips (circles) portion of the Nicoya Peninsula in northwestern CostaRica (Figure ... northwestern Costa Rica, the Costa Rican nongovernmental organization Programa Restauraci´ n de Tortugas o Marinas has been working with artisanal fishers since 2007 to promote sustainable fishing practices, ... 3), corroborating the findings of our multiple comparison analysis Depth, day of fishing, and the interaction between the two were also factors explaining the difference in ML In an ordinary least...
... 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 ... 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 ... Pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic drug interactions with HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors Clin Pharmacokinet 2002; 41(5):343-370 Hatanaka T Clinical pharmacokinetics of pravastatin: mechanisms of pharmacokinetic...
... THIỆU VỀ INTEL VÀ COSTARICA Đôi nét đất nước CostaRica Đôi nét tập đoàn Intel (Integrated Electronics) Dự án đầu tư Intel lên CostaRica .9 II COSTARICA ĐÃ ... ĐỘNG CỦA INTEL LÊN COSTARICA Khi Intel định đầu tư dự án vào CostaRica – điều tạo nên thay đổi lớn đất nước CostaRica bé nhỏ Cụ thể, CostaRica bị ảnh hưởng bốn lĩnh vực : • Nền kinh tế , ... OF COSTARICA Tuy nhiên, CostaRica chia sẻ suy thoái Intel Khi hoạt động Intel giảm đáng kể năm 2000, tăng trưởng GDP đất nước đạt 1,4% , Intel , GDP tăng 3% Kinh nghiệm cho thấy rõ Costa Rica, ...
... high-intensity warfarin (INR over 3.0) with or without low-dose aspirin (75 mg/day) was significantly more effective than low-intensity warfarin (INR under 3.0) with or without low-dose aspirin, ... serum obtained from patients with positive IgG cardiolipin antibodies interfered with protein C activation [2] Protein C activation is disturbed in patients with APS [17] Since protein C is closely ... cerebral hemorrhage was noted in the single antiplatelet therapy group, and one subcutaneous hemorrhage was found in the combination therapy group As for the patient in the single antiplatelet therapy...
... encouraged to work isometricaly against the swinging platform.The number of sets was identical with the strength training regimen It took about 20 minutes to fulfill a training session of the last ... pre-training, hollow bars = post-training mean ± SE Figure 4: Glucose plasma-concentrations during OGTT before (black) and after the training period (hollow) Left top: Flexibility training group, ... After training intervention, fasting glucose concentrations were slightly reduced in all groups (n.s., Tab 2) Within the 150 minutes observation period of OGTT, pre- and posttraining results in the...
... note that with the increasing numbers of international students taking Master courses in Business, Finance, Accounting and Banking, the area of Academic Business English is beginning to assume much ... but correct business letters, memos, faxes and reports - To participate in business contexts giving personal information, exchanging information and expressing opinions 2.1.2 The business English ... learning English as most respondents (38/42) accounting for 90% say that they study English for finding a good job in the future The remaining accounting for 10% claim that they study English for...
... Moreover, JOIN and QUIT messages in CBT can slightly increased contribution to maintaining the necessary information of the central node to determine whether it is a centroid node or not Before we ... multicast group (in other words, a computer is no longer interested in receiving multicast traffic again) The IGMP router used to maintain information for each port of the router is the router multicast ... for mobile ad hoc networks maintain only approximate and minimal topology information, and therefore designing a center selection heuristics require more precise information than what is available...
... THIỆU VỀ INTEL VÀ COSTARICA .4 Đôi nét đất nước CostaRica Đôi nét tập đoàn Intel (Integrated Electronics) Dự án đầu tư Intel lên CostaRica .9 II COSTARICA ... ĐỘNG CỦA INTEL LÊN COSTARICA Khi Intel định đầu tư dự án vào CostaRica – điều tạo nên thay đổi lớn đất nước CostaRica bé nhỏ Cụ thể, CostaRica bị ảnh hưởng bốn lĩnh vực : • Nền kinh tế , ... OF COSTARICA Tuy nhiên, CostaRica chia sẻ suy thoái Intel Khi hoạt động Intel giảm đáng kể năm 2000, tăng trưởng GDP đất nước đạt 1,4% , Intel , GDP tăng 3% Kinh nghiệm cho thấy rõ Costa Rica, ...
... denoising 5.7 MSE performance for channel estimation based different interpolation 113 technique using LS technique for pilot estimation combined with wavelet denoising 5.8 MSE performance for ... property Since in continuous time, a convolution in time domain is back to the multiplication in frequency domain This concept is true in discrete time but only when the signals are of infinite length ... time boundary for orthogonality as well as the periodic interval T which performs the symbol period, as has been shown in Weinstein and Ebert (1971) In frequency domain, the produced Sin function...