CRITICAL ISSUES IN WEATHER MODIFICATION RESEARCH docx

... uncertainties limiting advances in weather modification science and operation; 1 2 CRITICAL ISSUES IN WEATHER MODIFICATION RESEARCH x identify future directions in weather modification research ... seeding effects 6 CRITICAL ISSUES IN WEATHER MODIFICATION RESEARCH Seeding-related issues x Targeting of seeding agents, diffusion and transport of se...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 13:20

... be made for investors and firms from investing or operating globally. A challenge in international business research is to formulate a holistic perspective not just in terms of viewing corporate ... global playing field. Military security no longer dominates international politics as economic and social issues play an increasingly important role in international relations. Reacting to...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 04:20

... based on a single dominant gene (Lebeda and Pink, 1998; pers. comm., S. McClement, HRI, UK). During the last two decades, researchers and breeders have been increasingly interested in the exploitation ... and Boukema, 1991; Lebeda and Reinink, 1994; Lebeda and Pink, 1998; Reinink, 1999). Several studies showed that wild species may possess a new and very interesting resistance to B. lactuca...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 15:20

... of return This index takes into account the initial investment in flexible machines (robot, handling devices, sensors, load/unload machines, computers, etc.) and the investment in inflexible components ... ¼ IInf OCF ÀðIIf ÀðIIf à Annuityðn; rÞÞ where IIf: initial investment on flexible components IInf: initial investment on non flexible components OCF: operating cash flow in year t n: life...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 20:20

... Perinatal HIV Intervention Research in Developing Countries Workshop Participants, 1999), and the risk of anaemia (Halsey, 1997). In a consensus statement (Perinatal HIV Intervention Research in ... 12: 21–6. UK Intercollegiate Working Party for Enhancing Voluntary ConWdential HIV Testing in Pregnancy (1998). Reducing Mother to Child Transmission of HIV Infection in the United K...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... adaptive scheme. In the remaining sections of this chapter, we discuss the combined issues of robustness and convergence from a deterministic standpoint. In particular, the following issues are discussed: • ... structure in Fig. 20.5 that has a lossless mapping T in its feedforward path and an arbitrary mapping F in its feedback path. The input/output signals of interest are den...

Ngày tải lên: 16/12/2013, 04:15

... can draw the following two conclusions regarding this quantity: • The misadjustment increases as the step size is increased. • The misadjustment increases as the filter length is increased. Both ... requires more information than is typically available in practice. Modeling criteria, such as Akaike’s Information Criterion [18] and minimum description length (MDL) [19] could be used in this...

Ngày tải lên: 16/12/2013, 04:15

... al. Leptin-regulated endocannabinoids are involved in maintaining food intake. Nature 2001;410:822-825. 125. Tanaka Y, Eda H, Fujimoto K, et al. Anticachectic activity of 5′-deoxy-5-fluorouri- dine in ... NPY feeding systems are dysfunctional in anorectic tumor-bearing rats. NPY injected intrahypo- thalamically stimulated feeding less potently in rats bearing methylcholanthrene-induce...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 04:20

... cloud- aerosol forcing issues: • Research in new remote sensors and in combinations of instruments, such as lidar and radar, for vertical profiling, • Formation flying, and • Group flying. In general, ... the single- scattering albedo of an aerosol to below the critical point, causing the aerosol to have a net heating effect instead of a cooling effect. Simple radiative-transfer c...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 07:20

... binding profiles in a time-dependent manner in ERE1 and ERE2 (Fig. 5B). In agreement with the above findings, binding of ERa and ERb was increased in both ERE1 and ERE2 in the presence of E2. Interestingly, ... However, in the case of ERb, some constitutive binding was observed in ERE2 even in the absence of E2, and this binding was increased in the presence of E2 (Fig. 5A,B;...

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