... but growing number of banks also are formally calculating carbon risk in A their loan portfolios, including Citi Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Mizuho Financial Citi, Group, Group, Group Royal ... AG 52 Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC 55 Fortis N.V 54 Credit Suisse Group 50 ING Groep N.V 52 Morgan Stanley 49 UBS AG 52 Royal Bank of Canada 49 Credit Suisse Group 50 BNP Paribas 48 Royal ... Corp 56 ABN AMRO Holding N.V 66 Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC 55 Barclays PLC 61 Fortis N.V 54 HBOS PLC 61 Goldman Sachs Group, Inc 53 Deutsche Bank AG 60 ING Groep N.V 52 Citigroup Inc 59 Merrill...
... forecast (including 12 sub-project) Providing special loans for promoting cleaner production and energy efficiency in industry VEPF Phasing out Incandescent Lamps through Lighting Market Transformation ... investment into CDM projects, climate change response projects, and environmentally friendly technology transfer projects to facilitate foreign partners to invest into projects in Vietnam b) ... requirement of budgeting and reporting of climate change financing) potentially problematic This issue also forms part of the concerns of the SD&CC project Viet Nam has developed Strategic Environmental...
... Equilibrium modeling, participation in crop modeling software improvements); University of Florida (leading role in DSSAT crop modeling software improvements), FAO tbc (coordinating role in creation of an integrated framework for CGE‐ ... ICRISAT ‐‐ 100%) assimilation for crop forecasting); Kansas State U. (biological threat early warning); IRI‐Columbia U. (seasonal forecasting, crop forecasting, meteorological data reconstruction); U. ... Regions approaches, policies, and investments processes; Synthesis and research reports developed on lessons partners, PROLINNOVA, CARE, CG contributing to improved science‐ from linking land health and soil carbon measures with ...
... G20 meetings in London have explicitly requested MDBs to take a more proactive role in promoting clean energy and “green transition” While Africa’s role in the causes of GHG IPCC, Working Group ... Capital Project, the Nigeria Nitrogenous Fertilizer Plant and the Uganda Buseruka Hydropower Project include CDM options in their design Starting 2009, the Bank will support RMCs to develop CDM projects ... Framework was approved in March 2008 Progress towards the CEIF implementation has been achieved through a three pronged approach: Firstly, the Financing Small Scale Energy Users programme (FINESSE)...
... in Quy Nhon were developed by the Vietnam Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environment (IMHEN) with several emission scenarios (from low to high) MAGICC/SCENGEN 5.3 software and statistical ... developed is supporting these groups to gain new vocational skills to change their livelihoods to get a better and more sustainable life Tourism: the proportion of revenue from tourism in Quy ... months would be around 31oC, increasing by 0.6 to 1.1oC April is projected to be the hottest month in the year, increasing by 0.7oC in 2020 to 1.5oC in 2050 (Figure 1) b) Rainfall Projected results...
... in the library or from the electronic sources provided by the library As and when appropriate the relevant addresses of the internet sites will be provided through the course web site on WebCT ... students are encouraged to ask questions as the lecture proceeds This is a natural way to provide continuous feedback in the learning process There are two assignments First assignment will be ... misadventure which affects your course progress For advice on UNSW policies and procedures for granting special consideration and supplementary exams, see: ‘UNSW Policy and Process for Special Consideration’:...
... with the cardiac troponin T test in patients with acute ischemic chest pain presenting to the ED Methodology This study was a prospective cross-sectional study It was conducted from February 2008 ... released from necrotizing myocardium in a time-specific manner Biochemical markers of myocardial injury, such as cardiac troponin and creatine kinase (CK), are detected in plasma approximately ... -0.283 to 0.949 TropT 1.000 0.180 1.000 - 1.000 Combine CardioD & TropT 0.833 0.371 0.384-1.282 > 24 h (group 4) *The closer the ROC curve comes to the 45-degree diagonal line of the ROC space, the...
... inward, and let ∂V be the vector field on the boundary ∂M obtained by first restricting V to the boundary and then projecting V |∂M to its component field tangent to the boundary Then ∂ V = ∂V |∂ M ... with nonisolated zeros This is the formula (1.1) Now (1.1) was rediscovered by Gottlieb [10] and Pugh [17] Gottlieb further found further interesting applications in [9, 11, 12] Throughout this paper, ... follows: in Section 2, we list some properties of fixed point indices; our first main result, Theorem 3.1, is proven in Section Fixed point index and its properties In this section, we use the...
... Environment and Water under the National Climate Strategy Development project, the CC-WATERS project of the European Regional Development Fund (SEE/A/022/2.1/X), the European Union and the European ... continuous support and assistance during the creation of this book Especial thanks are due to Ms Ana Pantar for inviting us to lead this exciting project, and to Ms Iva Lipovic for coordinating ... divided by the Rocky Mountains, reflecting the seasonal march of upper-level winds interacting with the orography The spring-fall oscillation and the semiannual cycle both reveal an oscillating dipole...
... electronic journal of combinatorics 15 (2008), #R61 11 4.3 The Alternating Subgroup of Bn + Let Bn be the alternating subgroup of the Coxeter group of type B; namely, the subgroup consisting ... (6) completing the proof 4.2 Classical Weyl Groups Recall the three infinite series of classical Weyl group: the symmetric groups Sn (Weyl groups of type A), the signed permutation groups (sometimes ... to solve a problem of Foata regarding the hyperoctahedral group In this paper, this approach is extended to complex reflection groups 2.1 Concepts and Results Background: Wreath Products The colored...
... (Yn , Zir )hir (Yn , Z0 ) the electronic journal of combinatorics 17 (2010), #R34 Proof of Lemma 3.2 repeats the proof of relation (68) of [7] It follows from four lemmas of [7], namely Lemmas ... ir • Proof of Theorem 1.1 The claim follows from Lemmas 3.1 and 3.2 • As in [7], Theorem 1.1 (more exactly Lemma 3.1) implies the following statement Corollary 3.3 The commutative generating series ... electronic journal of combinatorics 17 (2010), #R34 (2) Proof of Theorem 1.1 Let A = {a, b, c, } be an alphabet, A∗ the set of (non-commutative) words on A, and ǫ the empty word The shuffle product...
... toughness of woods Proc R Soc London A 398, 261-280 Barnacle JC, Gottstein JW (1968) Control of end splitting in round timber For Prod Tech Notes, 1-6 Barnacle JC (1973) Cracking in round timber: a ... propagation generally occurs through the cell-wall layers In green conditions, the crack mainly progresses in the middle lamella and primary wall, and only the vessels are broken DISCUSSION From ... prediction of the probability of end splitting before felling, and could lead to precautions to avoid (or limit) this problem Peak values of growth stress generally result from tree leaning, although...
... ANCA was identified by ELISA as proteinase for two sera (25 and 40 AU/ml) and both myeloperoxidase and proteinase for one serum (45 and 30 AU/ml) For the RA control group, ANCA were observed in two ... relationship between a particular serological profile and the occurrence of infection, thrombosis or thrombocytopenia for the aPL autoantibody-positive subgroup In contrast with other studies ... Rutgeerts P: Autoimmunity associated with anti-tumor necrosis factor alpha treatment in Crohn's disease: a prospective cohort study Gastroenterology 2003, 125:32-39 Markham A, Lamb HM: Infliximab...
... of chromosome around the col9a1 gene Shown is a gene map of the genotyped chromosome from 10th and 11th generations of mice backcrossed to B10.Q (C9T-BQ) and DBA/1 (C9T-DQ) strains, indicating ... electroporation but could not be distinguished from 129/sv by the microsatellite markers used These strains seemed to have normal knee joints, because we did not find any microscopic or macroscopic ... free from genetic contamination, this line was kept by intercrossed breeding, and B10.Q animals were used as controls in the experiments All mice were kept in a climate-controlled environment...
... from 620 to 700 nm Across all the measured wavelengths, there was a low reflectance ratio in group H compared with control Photomicrographs of cartilage plugs (between the arrows) (a,b) At arrows) ... control cartilage were 100.4 ± 6.3% in group H and 99.5 ± 3.3% in group F The SRP470 values of the control cartilage were 101.9 ± 6.6% in group H and 99.7 ± 2.3% in group F Compared to the control ... significantly lower in group H than in group F (P = 0.02), whereas the a* values were significantly higher in group H than in group F (P = 0.006) However, the b* values in groups H and F did not...
... analysed within and between the Amy and Amy genotypes Line grouping s F was performed according to deviations outside ± standard errors (SE) from the mean value of the observed parameter In this way, ... the group of S/S lines, whose specific activities range within ± SE of the mean, and the group of F/F lines which is at least + SE below the mean (U 7.00, P < 0.05), as well as between the groups ... S/S and F/F lines grouped in three categories When the groups are formed according to the number of active regions, the same test shows no statistically significant intergroup difference in the...
... 2.0 Chromosome Pos (MB) 2000 Figure Chromosomal distribution of probe intensities The 100-kb sliding window averages for At (red), Aa (blue), As (gold), and F1As (brown) on chromosome Chromosome ... accession SRA025958 Microarray preprocessing and normalization The Arabidopsis Tiling Microarray is composed of over 3.2 million probe pairs tiled throughout the complete At genome Probes are tiled ... information) Interestingly, the region 1.60 M-1.78 M on chromosome (Figure 1) is coincident with the heterochromatic knob known to be hypervariable in At [50] The 22.98 M-23.46 M region of chromosome (Figure...
... Flemington EK, Prockop DJ, Pochampally R: Human multipotent stromal cells from bone marrow and microRNA: Regulation of differentiation and leukemia inhibitory factor expression Proc Natl Acad Sci ... Quarto R: Clonal mesenchymal progenitors from human bone marrow differentiate in vitro according to a hierarchical model J Cell Sci 2000, 113:1161-1166 Ahdjoudj S, Fromigue O, Marie PJ: Plasticity ... 32:508-511 Gimble JM, Robinson CE, Wu X, Kelly KA: The function of adipocytes in the bone marrow stroma: an update Bone 1996, 19:421-428 10 Meunier P, Aaron J, Edouard C, Vignon G: Osteoporosis and the...
... Cattoli G, Mutinelli F, Rodriguez J: Development of a DIVA (Differentiating Infected from Vaccinated Animals) strategy using a vaccine containing a heterologous neuraminidase for the control of avian ... J Virol 1998, 72:4866-4873 19 Stokes A, Alber DG, Cameron RS, Marshall RN, Allen GP, Killington RA: The production of a truncated form of baculovirus expressed EHV-1 glycoprotein C and its role ... Virol 2005, 150:2549-2565 14 Robbins A, Ryan J, Whealy M, Enquist L: The gene encoding the gIII envelope protein of pseudorabies virus vaccine strain Bartha contains a mutation affecting protein...
... while that from the Sp1 site, not prototypically known to be responsive to Tax, was not Page of 12 (page number not for citation purposes) Retrovirology 2004, 1:18 http://www.retrovirology.com/content/1/1/18 ... promoter (Fig 6B, lane and Fig 6D, group 1) As a control for Gal4-Tax, we Page of 12 (page number not for citation purposes) Retrovirology 2004, 1:18 http://www.retrovirology.com/content/1/1/18 Figure ... McGuire K, Dokhelar MC, Sodroski JG, Haseltine WA: Transformation to continuous growth of primary human T Page 11 of 12 (page number not for citation purposes) Retrovirology 2004, 1:18 41 42 43...