... location of wetland, the economic and ecological value ofthe wetland, andthe type and incidence of human threat [2]. They are used as basis for the formulation of conservation priorities, the ... livelihood ofthe people;, and management strategies for the exploitation, development andconservationofthe wetland. The multi-level action plan for theconservationof forest wetlands in the MD ... across the Vietnam border, the inland high rainfall andthe effects of high tide from the sea, yearly between 1.2 and 1.9 million hectares of land are inundated, mainly the Northern parts of the...
... of wild-type and mutant Hsp25 The binding of ANS and other hydrophobic probes to aprotein enables the comparative determination of the Table 2. Summary of changes in structure and function of ... 0.02% NaN3,with 100 lL being loaded onto the column. The peak positions of the elution of molecular standards are indicated at the top of the graph. The elution of wild-type Hsp25 corresponds ... known to be involvedin the organization ofthe quaternary structure of sHsps and interactionwith their target proteins, the role ofthe C-terminal extension is enigmatic.Despite the lack of sequence...
... position ofthe telescope, and take the mean ofthe readings of the horizontal circle. I t must be remembered thatthe reading ofthe compass needle, when the sight line ofthe instrument is in the ... Equatorial Belts.North ofthe narrow, light rift in the northern part ofthe north belt, the color wasfrequently of a deep, rich vermilion, while the rest ofthe belt towards the equator was of amuch ... Thatthe Publications ofthe Astronomical Society ofthe Pacific be regularly sent to the following Observatories, etc., andthatthe Secretaries ofthe Society be instructedto notify them of...
... to the management and conduct ofthe office of district attorney ofthe United States for the southern district of Alabama." The incumbent of this office on the 1st day of January, 1885, and ... growing demand for homes, and the A Compilation ofthe Messages and Papers ofthe Presidents 48 The laws of progress are vital and organic, and we must be conscious ofthat irresistible tide of commercialexpansion ... to the official papers and documents in the various public offices ofthe United States created by laws enacted by themselves.I do not suppose that " ;the public offices ofthe United States& quot;...
... models that allow the characterization of the molecular profile of non-cancer cells in the TME and of their soluble products, and how these cells canbe regu-lated at different stages of cancer ... lev-els. In contrast, there is a lot to be done with respect totranslating the insights gained in the laboratory on the involvement ofthe TME in cancer pathogenesis to the clinic andthe biomedical ... defined cancer microen-vironment biomarkers with incidence, response to and outcome of therapy.4) Laboratory studies of new drugs and biologicalagents thatcan target the TME and exert beneficial...
... the focus ofthe professional. Also, profession-als should be made aware ofthe consequences of care forparents during their training. Furthermore, they should be trained in how to detect and ... contains the direct effects ofthe back-ground characteristics on HRQoL, andthe third part (3)contains the effects ofthe mediating factors on HRQoL. The total effect of a variable on HRQoL canbe ... drafted and revised the manuscript.HH supervised design and execution ofthe study and revised the manuscript. MG designed and supervised exe-cution ofthe study, analyzed and interpreted data and revised...
... community [5].Each of these domains canbe measured with the objective of establishing the performance or health condition and the subjective perception of health. The HRQoL can be quantified through ... though they only showa reduction in MCS-12 in the most advanced phases of the disease. The determinant factors of both components of HRQoL include sex, FEV1, use of oxygen therapy and number of ... version ofthe SF-36health questionnaire that contains 12 items [9]. These 12items explain more than 90% ofthe variance ofthe phys-ical and mental component scores ofthe SF-36. Fromthem two...
... according to the amount of stress suffered.We calculated both the number of LEs andthe Life Change Unit (LCU) score, a summary ofthe amount of stressinherent to the event andthe time elapsed ... differences in the association between LEs on HRQoL by runningsimilar models where the gender andthe interactionbetween gender and LCU s cores were included and evaluating the significance ofthe interaction ... eachdimension and for the overall score and are transformedinto T-values with a mean of 50 and standard dev iation(SD) of 10. The T scores refer to the mean values and SD from a representative sample of...
... balance and walking distance) of theseindividuals to the amount of daily PA they undertake.This will enhance our understanding and identify the level of functional ability of individuals that ... isexpected to be supplementary to the other well knownhealth benefits of PA [5] and our res ults emphasize the importance of PA after stroke. PA has been reported toimprove motor function, ADL and decrease ... since the median score s the mean Physical and Mental Composite scores of the SF-36 of our community-dwelling sample withmild motor impairment were lower than the norms. The scores ofthe SF-36...
... analyses. The values ofthe VIF are generally below2 and always below 5, so there is no indication of highmulticollinearity. The baseline values explain between42.0% and 59.4% ofthe variance ofthe ... domains ofthe HRQOL. The con-firmation ofthe significance of anger and cynicism iscompatible with existing studies [21-23], and it should be mentioned as a strength of our study that a number of ... small and correlations can be overestimated [66]. The problem is somewhat mitigatedby the fact that we did not measure the objectively obser-vable behavior ofthe physician, but rather the behaviorassessed...
... isunalterable.It is then ofthe greatest possibleimportance thatthe men who controlduring their lifetime, and createendowments when they are dead, shouldshare the best civilization of their age and country. ... voice. The little fellow was silenced, and hevividly remembered the event, the tone, and the scene, to old age. His employerwas a maker of harness, carriages, and trunks, and it was the boy's ... tomastership.Most of these chapters were publishedoriginally in " ;The Ledger" of New York, and a few of them in " ;The Youths'Companion" of Boston, the largest twocirculations in the...
... produced the cotton gin, the sewing machine, the printing press, the steam engine, the electric motor, the telephone, the incandescent lamp andthe othergreat inventions of civilization.Why is it that ... most ofthe able PRESS, THE STEAM ENGINE, THE ELECTRIC MOTOR, THE TELEPHONE, THE INCANDESCENT LAMP AND THE OTHER GREAT INVENTIONS OF CIVILIZATION. SOME RELIGIOUSENTHUSIASTS THINK ONLY OF THE “LILIES ... addedthereto;—namely, the habit of work.They have inherited a certain ruggedintegrity from their mothers and agift of vision from their fatherswhich, when combined with the habit of work—forced upon them by theirfamily’s...
... principles," and the first of these seems to be the substitution of a serious and criticaldiscernment for the light-hearted sympathy of former days. Our grandfathers cried alittle and laughed ... noted, that we read some of the letters ofthe early fathers—those grave and hallowed figures seen through a mist of centuries and find them jesting at one basis of every English soul, and though ... receives at the hands of the disaffected is because ofthe ratherselfish way in which the initiated enjoytheir fun; for there is always a secretirritation about a laugh in which wecannot join....