UNDERSTANDING THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN VEGETATION AND HYDROLOGICAL SYSTEMS IN TROPICAL URBAN AREAS FOR SUSTAINABLE WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT

... stormwater management 1.2 Research Objectives The main objective of this dissertation is to advance the understanding of the interactions between vegetation and the hydrological systems in tropical ... Managing hydrology – vegetation interactions for sustainability of urbanization Figure 1.5 Interactions between vegetation and hydrological system i...

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... is the target delay and ε is the probability of exceeding it On the other hand, in multiuser communications the capacity of the channel is no longer fully characterized by a single number Instead, ... , is obtained as the sum of the individual user rates, each of them with its own delay constraint: U CDt , = u=1 Ru t ,ε , D (22) with Dt and being the vector...

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... nomenclature specific to the BIS The words "agent" and "signal" refer to elements of the BIS, and the words "cell" and "cytokine" or "chemokine" refer to living systems Competing interests The author(s) ... listed in the "AGENT TYPES AND ZONES" and "SIGNALS" columns The words "cell" or "lymphocyte" are meant to refer to the actual living structure The wor...

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... COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUES FOR SIMULATING THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN PEPTIDES AND CARBON NANOTUBES CHENG YUAN (B S., FUDAN UNIVERSITY, CHINA) A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR ... energy fitot the sum of inter-molecular forces and external forces F the force acting on the particle s s s Gcnt , G peptide , Gcomplex free energy of the peptide, the ca...

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... the only protein with which one can biochemically assay both DNA endonuclease and RNA maturase activities in vitro This investigation provides the first step in the study of the relationship between ... stringent concentration of KCl, there was a correlation between inhibition of endonuclease activity and inhibition of splicing activity indicating that R...

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... article as: Svendsen and Hilt: The agreement between workers and within workers in regard to occupational exposure to mercury in dental practice assessed from a questionnaire and an interview Journal ... USA) The concordance between participants who had worked in the same clinic regarding the years the participants started and ende...

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... expression Multiple genes are involved in the allergic inflammation (shown in Supplementary Figure 1) Multiple single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in candidate genes for asthma and atopy have been ... within the same gene may also alter functionality in vitro and in vivo This notion may explain some of the controversial findings with regard to associations of individual...

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... Modelling the relationship between obesity and mental health in children and adolescents: findings from the Health Survey for England 2007 Paul A Tiffin*, 2Bronia Arnott, 3Helen J Moore & 3Carolyn ... observed in health survey data since the mid 1990s [44] Our finding of an independent association between obesity and internalising (emotional)...

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... (sequential failures) and SPARE gates We first present the gates added in the DFT framework and we introduce a Markov model of such a system We assume that the failure times and the repair times ... value of the PAND gate If un > S, we just write un into the sequence Then we can begin a simulation with the PAND gate replaced by a component who...

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... Beer and others to the outskirts of Tokyo Another major factor was the reduction of water use in the factory through the utilization of WWR and water conservation efforts mainly due to their cost ... rice and the washings would later be used for watering plants to utilize the remaining nutrients Likewise, making the most of rainwater by RWH should be t...

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... general theory of action and time Artificial Intelligence, 23, 123154 Fum, D., Giangrandi, P and Tasso, C.: Tense Generation in an Intelligent Tutor for Foreign Language Teaching: Some issues in the ... ease at hand The computational application of the naive grammars, in other words, disclosed some deficiencies and incongruities that went unnoticed in the...

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... later than in the case of the histone gene cluster [10] This difference in the timing of somatic pairing perhaps reflects the difference between the complexities of the regulation of the two systems: ... gradual removal of which shifts the ratio between the strength (indicated by the thickness of the curved arrows) of the cis and trans interaction...

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... from the author IZA Discussion Paper No 3096 October 2007 ABSTRACT Interactions Between Workers and the Technology of Production: Evidence from Professional Baseball* This paper examines how the ... Interactions Between Workers and the Technology of Production: Evidence from Professional Baseball Eric D Gould Hebrew University and IZA Ey...

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... SR, AS and HH contributed equally to the content of the article and gave their final approval All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they ... kg−1) A total amount of about 700 kg artificial sediment was prepared for the experiments in the annular flume and half of the sediment was spiked with the abovedes...

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... Interactions between Aquaculture and the Environment Guide for the Sustainable Development of Mediterranean Aquaculture The designation of geographical entities in this book, and the presentation ... Most of the potential environmental impacts of aquaculture can be managed and minimised through the understanding of the processes, responsible management and t...

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