... and their staffs in Mexico City There is interest from these groups in applying the model to their work and in modifying it for use in other regions of Mexico, particularly the City of Toluca in ... over the time period of the analysis, including the program would restrict a growing number of vehicles inthe baseline according to an increasing emissions 35 deterioration By contrast, when these ... al., 2002) One should therefore be cautious inthe interpretation of the results from the present analysis 27 III.2.4 Determining baseline emissions Following the emissions inventory (CAM, 2002a),...
... analysis' frameworks [28,29], consisting of reading and re-reading the field notes and transcribed texts, manual coding inthe margins, and synthesizing and grouping data in relatively exhaustive categories ... since they could not fully control the feeding situation FGDs revealed that mothers in law have considerable power in issues related to infant feeding Women who spent the confinement period in ... constraints and limited inter-personal communication and counselling skills Dissemination of findings and initial consensus building In line with the study team's participatory approach, the formative...
... understanding of how local and international students are experiencing internationalisation in Singapore 11 Intercultural Interaction, Internationalisation, and an Interest in Singapore The following ... Design & Environment Business Engineering Medicine Engineering Yana Sook Chan Liam Ricky Deepa Malaysia Chinese Female China PRC Indonesia Indonesia India Chinese Chinese Chinese Indian Female Male ... inferences from the media mainly inform the information available to the public on how many international students there are in Singapore, where they are studying, where they are from, and what they are...
... proteins, including a 36 kDa protein (arrow), inthe cytoskeletal fraction 11) Again these data support the view that complex formation is due to binding of a protein to the 3¢UTR implicated in localization ... and increasing amounts of unlabelled MW prior to cross-linking As shown in Fig 2(A), increasing amounts of unlabelled MW reduced the binding of RNA to the 36 kDa protein such that binding was reduced ... mRNA the localization signal lies in an 86-nucleotide region within the 3¢UTR and is abrogated by a mutation in a conserved AUUUA [11] The RNA-binding protein(s) involved in this retention of the...
... either at a very low level or were below the level of detection of the assay inthe non-infected control group, and the objective of the study was to evaluate the effect of motavizumab inthe inflammatory ... of the administration of the anti-RSV antibody had no effect on the cytokine profile or other clinical and inflammatory parameters evaluated, therefore those controls were not included inthe ... assessed by measuring the AO; in fact, mice treated with the mAb remained clinically asymptomatic throughout the experiment compared with the RSV-infected untreated mice (Figure 1) Furthermore, motavizumab...
... either at a very low level or were below the level of detection of the assay inthe non-infected control group, and the objective of the study was to evaluate the effect of motavizumab inthe inflammatory ... of the administration of the anti-RSV antibody had no effect on the cytokine profile or other clinical and inflammatory parameters evaluated, therefore those controls were not included inthe ... assessed by measuring the AO; in fact, mice treated with the mAb remained clinically asymptomatic throughout the experiment compared with the RSV-infected untreated mice (Figure 1) Furthermore, motavizumab...
... N data points to be clustered Thelocal maximum of a data point i is the data point whose magnitude is the maximum among all the data points within a certain distance from the data point i A peak ... identified, all data points can be assigned into these peaks according to their local maximum points inthe way that a data point belongs to the same peak as its local maximum point Figure shows a ... clustered into these four peaks according to their local maximum points For example, for data point a, if data point b is the one that has the maximum magnitude in all data points within r0 from...
... since h ≥ a + ≥ We know that every path constructed lies inthe tree or in its mirror image, except for the paths inthe case g = Inthe case g ≥ 2, the length of these paths is at most g, in ... node in S has neighbors in at most two of the Hi Let Fi denote the graph consisting of Hi , its neighbors in S, and the edges between Hi and S Let us label the nodes of S in every Fi Then m ... assume that the root has degree 1, else we can delete all branches but the deepest from the root Let a denote the length of the path P in T from the root r to the first branching point or leaf...
... half of the radioactivity detected on the plant was found inthe epicuticular waxes and nearly all the rest was inthe washing solution (table I) The LABS proportion found inthe washing solution ... salt were sprayed in combination In this paper, we report the influence of marine salt on the leaf uptake of LABS in Pinus halepensis Mill To mimic the conditions found during storms, trees were ... More than 95% of the incorporated radioactivity was detected inthe epicuticular waxes whatever the polluted solution used (table II) In contrast, the incorporation of LABS in other sampled aerial...
... economic interest inthe Basque country in northern Spain (162.000 ha) This species was first introduced at the end of the last century followed by a second introduction inthe 1920s A breeding program ... INTRODUCTION total of 560 seedlings (initial spacing 2.5 m x 2.5 m) Before introducing tree species into a specific new environment or at the beginning of local breeding programs, ... from the CSIRO Collection (1978) One hundred seeds of each subprovenance and of thelocal population were sown in containers inthe greenhouse in February 1989 In May 1990, uniform seedlings of the...
... for the chronically ill They indicate the 'knowledge broker' role of the mass media, and popu- Page of lar community opinion leaders - locating these against the backdrop of wider national and international ... are occurring alongside continuing high rates of infectious diseases These two broad types of diseases not simply exist in parallel, but can actually interact, one exacerbating the other For example, ... role in shaping the lifestyle decisions that drive chronic illness, and peoples' interpretations of and responses to pain and suffering [34] Community networks play a key role in determining the...
... practising, understanding and teaching the inherently ‘politicised’ nature of global health’ The field is about building and re-building, researching and analysing, teaching and learning the links ... unpublished definition of global health inthe year 2007 As is pointed out inthe following paragraph, their definition brings key aspects of the above mentioned definitions of global health’ ... definition includes the developing country heritage of the term ‘international health’ as well as the new emphasis on the impacts of globalization, including on industrialized countries At the...
... of the red and the green fluorescence in these protoplasts confirmed the co-expression of both proteins inthe same cell (Fig 3) In addition to the GFP-derived green fluores- To examine whether ... ligated into plasmid peqFP611 The 99 amino-acid long N-terminal part from KAT2 including the peroxisomal targeting signal (from amino acids to 34) is now fused in frame upstream the eqFP611 coding ... added into the tool box of red fluorescent proteins for use in plants Methods In addition, the plasmids created inthe course of this work are convenient tools for the investigation of the subcellular...
... suggests that the synthesis occur close to the epithelium rather than in deeper sub-epithelial tissues of the udder Interestingly, the relative concentration of IgA in milk compared to that in afferent ... considering the particularly high permeability inthe high endothelial venules inthe lymph nodes Ig concentrations in milk increased more slowly than in any of the lymph fluids post-infusion, the highest ... concentration in milk was even higher than that in afferent lymph inthe non-challenged mammary gland [5] The results indicate a local synthesis of IgA inthe mammary tissue, in addition to the amount...
... cofilin mRNA RNA secondary structure of 3'-UTR of cofilin mRNA The arrow indicates the U-rich signal sequence that could be involved inthe localization of the messenger The mRNAs containing the ... an mRNA binding protein intreacts with the signal-sequence forming a putative complex that is anchored to a kinesin protein The mRNAs that not contain such a U-sequence might remain inthe cell ... conflicting location signals inthe 3'-UTR (one U-rich and tau-like, the other DTE-like) raises questions about how the final destination of such mRNAs is determined within the neuron Conclusion In the...
... state budget in general and thelocal state budget in particular, including proposing and verifying investment projects, consulting, completing and using the projects; + The workforce inthe sector ... development investment capital from thelocal state budget; d) Implementing investment; e) Examining, supervising and evaluating 3.4 Evaluating the influences of development investment from thelocal ... applying the research framework, the thesis analyses the situation of the development investment from thelocal state budget in Ha Nam inthe period 20082013 and gives some findings as follows: There...
... on the mean curvature and the second fundamental form, the immersion of the manifold becomes an embedding The main step to obtain this result is to use conditions on the total integral of the ... attaching finite points (Huber, 1957, [17]) Furthermore, the deficit between the Euler number of the surface Introduction and the total Gaussian curvature is just the total isoperimetric number (Finn, ... Gaussian curvature Kn in (2.7) Actually, there is an intrinsic expression of Kn , Kn dvM = n! εi1 ,··· ,in Ωi1 i2 ∧ · · · ∧ in 1 in (2.19) i1 ,··· ,in Now we determine the explicit formula of...
... resources to be reserved locally, so as to use them for the building and maintenance of thelocal drainage system, as compared to the taxes paid to the central government In other words, Li responded ... commentaries of the passage “Office of Earth” inthe classic Rites of Zhou to the Qing dynasty’s politics inthe early years, with regards to issues of thelocal government and the drainage system ... Rituals The discussions of these studies generally concentrated on the literati from the Jiangnan area, focusing on intellects of the Ming-Qing transition period, or those from mid-Qing period...
... y are the components of the displacement vector of the solid ε = ε 11 + ε 22 denotes the dilation of the solid In a similar way the strain inthe fluid is defined by the 16 Chapter An introduction: ... grid points to approximate the derivatives This is exemplified in Figure 2.3 If we want to find the derivatives at point A, we then find a neighbourhood of point A The number of points inthe neighbourhood ... to the reciprocal of N from Eq (2.28) This relation is schematically shown in Figure 2.2 Inthe figure, the abscissa is the number of grid point N The ordinate is either the residual R1 or the...
... owing to the lack of visitors They feel dissatisfaction with the infrastructure damage in addition to raising the maintaining rates Weather alteration increases the risk of loss of income in ... conditions to access due to the early investment of travelling expansion In general, thelocal tourism in Ho Chi Minh is certainly on the increase Inthe direction of strengthening the city brand, it ... available for serving They feel fascinated by cuisine diversity and hospitality of thelocal people living inthe city On the other hand, Ho Chi Minh is still facing several weak issues For instance,...