... factor in explaining accelerated evolution has been called into question by recent findings on marine fossils ; however these findings are consistent with the speciation burst hypothesis These mainly ... duration The majority of the species becoming extinct were from the newly formed ones This 1.5 Myr interval of time representing approximately 1/3 of the Myr span compared contains the greatest ... hold for another living fossil, the Limulus polyphemus, the horseshoe crab, which remains virtually unchanged for the past 230 Myr (V 1980) , A ts I The intriguing periods of acceleration in evolution...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 22:22
... space of both the diamond mining and producing countries The diamonds industry involves the processes of mining, sorting, cutting and polishing, manufacturing and ... the mining sector of the diamonds industry China is however having an impact on the diamonds industry in the polishing and cutting sector and in ... panoply of institutions that facilitates the involvement of Chinese firms in Africa, especially for the mining of certain resources So far, most analyses of Sino-‐African...
Ngày tải lên: 03/10/2015, 20:33
the scientific explanation for the existence of vampires
... could explain the growth of the vampire legend .In the Stephen King book Salem's Lot which is the story of a town that is infested byVampires and due to the infestation of vampires causes the town ... wasnot in their right mind In Anne Rice's book The Vampire Lestat at one point one of thevampires in the book just looks at the other one and simply says "You're the mad one." (Rice, Anne The Vampire ... fact that the town could be inthe middle of an epidemic such as the black plague during the Dark Ages In StephenKing's book a town would just seem to disappear for no reason and the only explanationwould...
Ngày tải lên: 02/04/2014, 17:58
Báo cáo sinh học: "Search for a ‘Tree of Life’ in the thicket of the phylogenetic forest" doc
... Percentage of trees >80% Random ‘NUTs’ Figure Similarity of the trees in the forest of life to the NUTs (a) For each of the 102 NUTs, the breakdown of the rest of the trees in the forest by percent ... measure of how representative the topology of the given tree is of the entire forest of life (the IS is the fraction of the times the splits from a given tree are found in all trees of the forest) The ... [49] In the case of the 102 NUTs, the highest value of the gap function was observed at K = 1, for K ∈ [1,30], indicating a single cluster in the tree space In the case of the 3,789 COG trees, the...
Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 19:20
Báo cáo y học: "Another explanation for the low allergy rate in the rural Alpine foothills" ppsx
... in previous reviews [30,31] The transition of a farming society into the industrial age neither coincides with the main peak of the allergy prevalence in Western countries nor does it match the ... "environmental changes affecting the whole of society have promoted an increase in asthma, allergic rhinitis and eczema in both farming and non-farming environments whereas the protective effect of growing ... concomitant inhalation of allergen challenge [73] It is therefore not unexpected that endotoxin exposure is still the main determinant of lung function decline in farmers [74,75] Is endotoxin to blame?...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:22
the american practical navigator table 25 change of altitude in given time from meridian ~1
... entered with the meridian angle of the Moon in arc units, such units should correspond to the meridian angle in time units as given in the Increments and Corrections section of the Nautical Almanac ... entered with the meridian angle of the Moon in arc units, such units should correspond to the meridian angle in time units as given in the Increments and Corrections section of the Nautical Almanac ... TABLE 25 TABLE 25 Change of Altitude in Given Time from Meridian Transit Change of Altitude in Given Time from Meridian Transit t, meridian angle a (table...
Ngày tải lên: 09/05/2016, 09:02
A WEB APPLICANTION FOR THE TOURISM INDUSTRY IN HANOI by Dinh Huu Son
... Lack of information or instructions to places of beauty that tourists want to go • External causes like starting effects of the financial crisis in Asia and the declining of other currencies in the ... to the development of the tourism industry in Vietnam 1.1.4 Hanoi Hanoi is the capital of Vietnam It is the second biggest city of the country, behind Hochiminh City in terms of size With the ... development of information infrastructure Beginning with the early research in packet switching, the government, industry and academia have been partners in evolving and deploying this exciting new...
Ngày tải lên: 07/04/2013, 23:51
Tài liệu Knowledge Management in OSS—an Enterprise Information System for the Telecommunications Industry doc
... edge in the global market, OSS plays a similar role in the telecom industry Telecommunications industry is a very specific high-tech service industry The main feature of the telecommunications industry ... architecture (Kim et al., 2003) The other questions of interest include the interaction among these elements, the structure of the system, and the function of the system Main Factors In uence Knowledge Management ... useful information and knowledge Information is a flow of processed data after being processed Knowledge involves the capacity of gathering and using information Knowledge becomes information...
Ngày tải lên: 24/01/2014, 00:20
Tài liệu Personal Exposure to Air Pollution for Various Modes of Transport in Auckland, New Zealand doc
... as the pollutant of interest Of all of the modes of commuting, the highest mean exposures were experienced by the motorcyclist This is consistent with the results of other studies found in the ... Langan Products Inc.) used in many of the studies of personal exposure found in the literature [13, 19] The monitor has a resolution of 0.05 ppm and a range of 0-200 ppm In each case, the monitor ... for the motorcyclist on Route to 67 minutes for the runner on Route Fig (2) is an example of an evening commute for Route Note the very high variability in the concentrations experienced by the...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 04:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "Phrase-Based Backoff Models for Machine Translation of Highly Inflected Languages" docx
... backoff models for combining in- domain and 42 out -of- domain data for the purpose of bootstrapping a part -of- speech tagger for Chinese, outperforming standard methods such as EM i i i Backoff ... random selections of a subset of the full training set The sizes of the partitions are shown in Table 1, together with the resulting percentage of out -of- vocabulary (OOV) words in the development ... to the baseline system An analysis of the backoff system output showed that in some cases (e.g examples C and 45 Set train1 train2 train3 train4 train5 Set Set train1 train2 train3 train4 train5...
Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 02:20
THE WORLD LEADER IN TRANSPORT EQUIPMENT, INTRODUCES SOME REEL INNOVATIONS FOR THE FISHING INDUSTRY pot
... of a highdensity polyethylene for comfort and durability The dual gimbal system on the 7400 allows the angler to move the gimbal pin from one to the other providing flexibility in fish fighting ... fishing enthusiasts Room for everything you want including a large interior cargo space for boots and bulky clothing items • Large interior compartment will accommodate boots and bulky clothing ... padded with foam and the inverted top end slides conveniently into the base for space saving storage The SKB-7500 Rod Transport System is fitted with the highest quality stainless steel hardware...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 19:20
Risks Ahead for the Financial Industry in a Changing Interest Rate Environment pdf
... At the core of these principles is the involvement of the board and senior management in the oversight of interest rate risk, and the responsibility of senior management in ensuring that the ... RISKS AHEAD FOR THE FINANCIAL INDUSTRY IN A CHANGING INTEREST RATE ENVIRONMENT lagging in Europe However, profit reports of major European banks for the first half of 2010 have been rather positive, ... on the nature of the institution and the currency of its home market 14 OECD JOURNAL: FINANCIAL MARKET TRENDS – VOLUME 2010 ISSUE © OECD 2010 RISKS AHEAD FOR THE FINANCIAL INDUSTRY IN A CHANGING...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 01:20
On the process and aesthetics of sampling in electronic music production* ppt
... pop music in the digital age of reproduction’, Andrew Goodwin frets over the increasing difficulty in distinguishing human- from machine-generated music and unleashes a barrage of incriminating ... Existing literature does not justice to the musicality of the sampling process; instead, it fosters an incomplete understanding of sampling and spreads a certain amount of misinformation In his ... The ‘Resist!’ samples are triggered with increasing pace from the margins of the mix until one repeated sample of a woman saying ‘Feminist fury’ reclaims the centre of the mix; the voice of the...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 13:20
Báo cáo Y học: Evidence for general stabilization of mRNAs in response to UV light pdf
... modulating the degradation rate of mRNAs In the present study we investigated the effect of UV light on the stability of mRNAs expressed using the tet-off system which allows the termination of only ... did not result in any detectable change in the amounts of complexes containing coexpressed Myc-tagged HuR (Fig 3B, lanes and 6), nor in the pattern of other complexes formed with the RNA (additional ... respectively inserted into the BglII site of the b-globin 3¢-UTR [16,26] The pUHC13-3 plasmid, kindly donated by H Bujard, contains the Photinus pyralis luciferase cDNA downstream of a tetracycline-regulated...
Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 08:20
new generation of protective coatings intended for the power industry
... discussion The first stage of the research carried out was the determination of the factors that in uence the properties of the aluminium phosphate binder The applied technological procedures for binder ... boilers The developed variants of the production technology of coatings of the required utilitarian properties take into account the complex conditions of their operation in the power industry The ... for the modification of the thermally sprayed coatings surface structure, the material being an element that would bind the components of the ceramic coating Furthermore, it was assumed that the...
Ngày tải lên: 30/05/2014, 12:08
Báo cáo hóa học: " A New MAC Protocol with Pseudo-TDMA Behavior for Supporting Quality of Service in 802.11 Wireless LANs" docx
... University of Thessaloniki (2002) He is currently in the process of defending his Ph.D thesis in telecommunications in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the University of Patras, ... Member of the academic staff of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Patras and holds the position of Associate Professor Since 2004, he has been the Director of ... arbitrary IFS, Nw the number of terminals demanding such traffic, and pTw the probability that a terminal is accessing the channel in a specific slot for a packet of the specific AC All these should be...
Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 22:20
Gums and stabilisers for the food industry 14 (special publications) royal society of chemistry (2008)
... responsible for the polydispersity of the gum The AG ữaction contains 88 % of the total gum with small amounts of protein 0.35 % which represents 20 % of the total protein content, while the AGP ... 10 % of the total gum with 12 % protein which is 49.5 % of the total protein content Finally the GP íraction contains 1.24 % of the total gum with 50 % protein, which represents 27 % of the total ... the change in the properties on maturing (19) After storage over a year the speciíic rotation, nitrogen (hence protein) and intrinsic viscosity changed significantly, indicative of a continuing...
Ngày tải lên: 24/06/2014, 15:59
Báo cáo khoa học: "Surgical treatment for different forms of hernias in sheep and goats" ppt
... ,secnatsni esoht nI seidob ngierof lanimur evomer ot esac ni enod saw ymotonemuR )elecoretsyh( tnetnoc lainreh eht saw suretu divarg ehT yhpahrroinreh erofeb sewe rof demrofrep saw noitces naeraseC ... ni sainreh fo sepyt eht gnoma etar sseccus eht ni ecnereffid tnacifingis on erew ereht dna hgih yrev erew sainreh fo sepyt lla rof tnemtaert lacigrus fo setar sseccus ehT riaper ainreh rof nemiger ... hsem nolyN yhpahrroinreh dna stnetnoc lainreh eht fo noitcuder etatilicaf ot ecnatropmi saw elbat lacigrus no lamina eht fo gninoitisop ,revewoH riaper lacigrus gnimrofrep rof tneiciffus etiuq...
Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 20:23
Báo cáo sinh học: "Strategies for controlling rates of inbreeding in MOET nucleus schemes" pot
... with IND2 The other strategies led to clear reductions in response Of these, the best was culling of animals after being used for a period of time since for a given level of inbreeding, the response ... of inbreeding However, the response was affected DISCUSSION The control of rates of inbreeding has become important in the design of breeding programmes since several procedures, introduced in ... Thompson, 1994) The breeding value of an individual is the sum of the Mendelian sampling term specific to that individual, plus the average breeding value of its parents The breeding value of the parents...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:21