a case study from the caribbean region

... policy change on food imports and availability in Central America, in the context of regional changes in diet and health and a progressive liberalization agenda. The region provides a particularly ... with associated health and economic implications [11-13]. Third, information and data are available about trade policies and trade between Central America and the United States. And fourth, the ... Organization's Trade Policy Review, trade policy analyses conducted by the USDA's Economic Research Service, the UNCTADs TRAINS database and academic articles. Analysis Changes in tariff and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21

... treated as dummy variables Table 1 summarizes the explanatory variables and hypotheses Variables Table 1: Explanatory... visitor valued at P9,373.32, the annual aggregate monetary recreational ... reveals the value that people place on recreational, tourism or leisure aspects of PAs. The study by Navrud and Mungatana (Navrud & Mungatana, 1994) shows that the Travel Cost (TC) and the ... THE ECO-TOURISM VALUE OF NATIONAL PARK: A CASE STUDY FROM THE PHILIPPINES Gladys M. Navarro 1 Eleanor D. Paca Carlo Rimas ABSTRACT National parks or generally protected areas...

Ngày tải lên: 25/03/2014, 20:23

... that these shers can observe and that are important to their livelihoods, such as the size and composition of their catches, the habitats and localities that particular species prefer and the ... use bag-nets rather than gillnets as their major gear. These bag-nets catch sh alive and in good condition and as a result post-tagging mortality is comparatively low. Secondly, the bag-net ... a case study from. .. from the Tonle Sap, Cambodia Length distribution of Pangasius larnaudiei tagged and released at the Tonle Sap River bag-net fishery, October 2003–March...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 22:20

... of taxon cover entered into the DCA analysis, y – percentage cover value This transformation suppressed the significance of dominant taxa in the analysis A map of actual vegetation at the Mramor ... stand maps from 1902 At present, the Mramor forests are dominated by Quercus petraea agg., Tilia cordata, Fagus sylvatica and Carpinus betulus, with mixed – sexual and/or asexual – origin The ... correspondence analysis (DCA) of the set of 188 relevés from Mramor Horizontal and vertical axes show the most significant directions of variability in the data set (non-canonical axes and 2) The analysis...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 10:22

... mixed stands: a case study from the southern Russian taiga Fyodor TATARINOV a, b,c *, Yury BOCHKAREV d , Alexander OLTCHEV a, e , Nadezhda NADEZHDINA b , Jan CERMAK b a Institute of Ecology and ... calculate the basal area growth of mean trees for each 2-cm-DBH class. The growth of stand basal area for each day of measurements was esti- mated by two steps: multiplication of the mean basal ... basal area of aspen was 10 times higher compared to alder. Thus, the stand basal area dynamics showed the transformation of secondary stand with domination of aspens into the stand with dominant...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:22

... BLACK SEA N .A. F Z GEORGIA GREECE AR M EN IA Ankara Erzincan Sivas Karliova Study area ELAZIĞ F E .A Z Lake Van B.S.Z IRAN TURKEY Van Maraş Hakkari IRAQ y in Pl ch ren o T ab r t S N .A. F.Z.: E .A. F.Z.: ... 1990) Şaroğlu and Yılmaz (1987) pointed out that the Eastern Anatolian Fault has a dominantly dip slip movement along the area between Maraş and Hatay (Figure 1) and therefore the plate movement ... area with the general tectonic features of the Elazığ Area Around the study area, the general orientations of fold axes are approximately E-W (Figure 6) But in the study area the fold axial orientations...

Ngày tải lên: 13/01/2020, 15:05

... In this study, the target area that was chosen had inadequate and unusable data, and we used the data as effectively as possible The Handeresi area is located in the Biga Peninsula of northwestern ... data The number of x, y coordinates and z elevation data points in the area is 5292 These data are digitized from the topographic map from Yücelay (1976) The topographic map has a 10-m contour interval ... Fytas 1991) The method creates variogram models of the data set that represent the relation of the variance of the data pairs with distance This variogram indicates the extent of the spatial autocorrelations...

Ngày tải lên: 13/01/2020, 15:54

... indicates that as the farm area increases, the likelihood of farmers choosing adaptive measures other than the base choice decreases signifi­ cantly Larger farm areas are associated with a reduced ... increase the likelihood of farmers choosing the appropriate adaptation compared to the reference adaptation A negative coefficient for an explanatory variable implies that a unit increase in that ... that variable will decrease the likelihood of farmers choosing a certain adaptation option, relative to the reference adaptation Factors Table Parameter estimates of MNL adaptation choices AQUACULTURE...

Ngày tải lên: 08/02/2024, 13:46

... Nicotiana tabacum, Solanum americanum, Solanum mammosum, Solanum spp Urticaceae: Urera cf Baccifera Verbenaceae: Lantana camara Intestinal parasites 15% Amaranthaceae: Iresine diffusa Annonaceae: Annona ... Calathea sp Onagraceae: Ludwigia peploides Headache 15% Anacardiaceae: Tapirira guianensis Araceae: Anthurium dombeyanum Asteraceae: Mikania micrantha Campanulaceae: Centropogon sp Euphorbiaceae: ... plowmanii Arecaceae:Iriartea cf deltoidea Aspleniaceae: Asplenium sp Asteraceae: Munnozia hastifolia, Tagetes erecta, Trixis divaricata Bignoniaceae: Mansoa alliacea Combretaceae: Terminalia sp Costaceae:...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:21

... in the causal pathway might be Another important example of a decision in data analysis where causal diagrams may be of importance is the analysis of change, which is of great importance with the ... Fig Ideal causal (counterfactual) contrast and estimated causal contrast In the counterfactual framework, randomization can be seen as a means of obtaining the observed contrast as close as possible ... that there are problems to solve and agreements to reach within the field of large databases and use of secondary data In addition, large databases and secondary analyses may not be useful to answer...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 10:20

... spaces,” Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol 318, no 1, pp 43–52, 2006 Y Yao, A general iterative method for a finite family of nonexpansive mappings,” Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, ... Fixed Point Theory and Applications In 2007, S Takahashi and W Takahashi introduced a viscosity approximation method for finding a common element of EP G and F T from an arbitrary initial element ... nonexpansive mappings,” Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol 298, no 1, pp 279–291, 2004 G Marino and H.-K Xu, A general iterative method for nonexpansive mappings in Hilbert spaces,”...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 11:20

... derived from the analysis of the subtour elimination constraints, as well as from other observations made on the model The inequalities were used as cuts in a constraint-relaxation algorithm: a lower ... considered a system where the supply at the central warehouse is limited, and the demand at the different customers is considered as a random variable The objective was therefore to minimize the total ... customer i and that all share the same geographical location Cumulated quantities Given the nature of the inventory constraints (3.8) and (3.9), cumulated quantities such as demand, delivered quantities...

Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 15:43

... Heyer AG (2010) Mathematical modelling of the central carbohydrate metabolism in Arabidopsis thaliana reveals a substantial regulatory influence of vacuolar invertase on whole plant carbon metabolism ... to the measured leakage values with graphpad prism software Gas exchange measurement Exchange rates of CO2 were measured with an infrared gas analysis system (Uras G; Hartmann & Braun AG, Frankfurt ... photosynthetically active source organs to consuming sink organs or metabolic pathways other than carbohydrate pathways was calculated as the difference between net carbon uptake and changes in...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 22:20

... GAGATGGATAAAGTTTTAAACAGAG-3¢ and LTA1R, 5¢-TGAAGGCAAATCTCTGGAC-3¢ for the former, and LTA–M2F, 5¢-CAGCTGTTTTGCTTGAATTATG-3¢ and LTA–2R, 5¢-GAATTCATTATGTTTCAGGTTCA GGGG-3¢ for the latter The PCR products ... the wild-type SV40T Ag and the 3¢ portion of the tsA58T Ag cDNA carrying the A4 38V mutation were PCR-amplified from COS-7 cDNAs using the following primers: LTA-1F, 5¢-CTC GAGATGGATAAAGTTTTAAACAGAG-3¢ ... QG, Bernasconi S, Lostaglio S, De Calmanovici RW, Martin-Padura I, Breviario F, Garlanda C, Ramponi S, Mantovani A & Vecchi A (1997) A general strategy for isolation of endothelial cells from murine...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 17:20

... GAG AGG AAC TGA ACA GAA CAT TG 3¢ 5¢ CAA CTG CGT ATT AGT GAA GAA TG 3¢ 5¢ AAT CAA ATT TTA TTA TAA GAC C 3¢ 5¢ AAT AGC TAA TTA GAG ACC AT 3¢ using the 2400 (or 480) thermal cycler To estimate the ... CAA CAA TAT GC 3¢ 5¢ GTC CCA ACT TGA AAT CCT GAT C 3¢ 5¢ CAA GTT TAT AGT CTA CAC GTT GTA C 3¢ 5¢ CTT AGC ATC TTC CAT GGC TTG ATC 3¢ 5¢ ATA CAC ACA AAC TCA CAA GG 3¢ 5¢ CAA CAT ATT TTA AAT AAA ATT ... TTG AAA AGG AG 3¢ 5¢ CCA GTG AAT ATT CAG GAC TGA T 3¢ 5¢ AGG CTC TAG CAT GAT TTG ATG T 3¢ 5¢ GCA TTT TTA TTT TGA ATG TAA A 3¢ 5¢ TAG TTC AAA TGC ACA TCT TAT 3¢ 5¢ GGC AGA GAA TAC GTT TAT ACT AA...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 04:20

... sub5910 strates of H+ ⁄ peptide cotransporters, such as Gly-Sar, Ala-Ala, Lys-Lys, Ala-Asp, d-Phe-Ala, Ala-Ala-Ala, d-aminolevulinic acid, cefadroxil and Ala-4-nitroanilide (all 100 lm, Table 1) ... (Little Chalfont, UK) Dexamethasone, apotransferrin, Gly-Gln, AlaAla, Ala-Ala-Ala, Lys-Lys, d-aminolevulinic acid, cefadroxil, Gly, Pro-Ala, 8-aminooctanoic acid and Gly-Sar were from Sigma-Aldrich ... purchased from Invitrogen (Karlsruhe, Germany) or PAA (Pasching, Austria) Fetal bovine serum was from Biochrom (Berlin, Germany) and collagenase A from Roche (Mannheim, Germany) Ala-4-nitroanilide...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 05:20

... Biosciences, Columbia, MD, USA) with sense primer SOE-3 (5¢-AAAAATCA ACGCTGAACAATGGTGAGCAAAGGGCGAG-3¢) and antisense primer SOE-4 (5¢-GAATGCGGCCGCTTACT TGTAACAGCTCGTCCATG-3¢), which introduced a NotI site ... was amplified from pZEOSV (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, USA) by PCR using sense primer 5¢-ATCAAAACAACCAAAA TGGCCAAGTTGACCAGTGC-3¢ and antisense primer 5¢-GAATGCGGCCGCTCAGTCCTGCTCCTCGGCCAC-3¢, which ... fcp1.9kb using the sense primer 5¢-GAT CTTTGCTACGTACGAACG-3¢ and the antisense primer 5¢-GCTCTAGAGATATCTAGTCTTTGTGATAAAGAAA ATTATG-3¢ The resulting 165-bp PCR product contained an Eco105I restriction...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 21:20

... A- 6-D50061: Alcaligenes xylosoxydans ssp xylosoxydans A- 6 N-acylD-glutamate amidohydrolase; Alicaligenes faecalis-DA1: Alcaligenes faecalis DA1 N-acyl–D-amino acid amidohydrolase; V paradoxus Iso1: Variovorax ... between the vector-borne ShineDalgarno sequence and the N-D-AAase start codon The sequence upstream of the N-D-AAase gene is: 5¢…AGGACAGACGAATG…3¢ (The Shine-Dalgarno sequence and start codon are ... bold) The recombinant plasmid was named pTrc 2A- damA3 without His-tag Expression and purification of the N -D-AAase from the E coli transformant The E coli Top10 harbouring the pTrc 2A- damA3 was subcultured...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 16:20

... spaces,” Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol 341, no 1, pp 276–286, 2008 23 S Takahashi and W Takahashi, “Strong convergence theorem for a generalized equilibrium problem and ... problem and variational inequality problem,” Fixed Point Theory and Applications, vol 2010, Article ID 383740, 19 pages, 2010 11 P Cholamjiak and S Suantai, A new hybrid algorithm for variational ... of families of nonexpansive mappings,” Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol 211, no 1, pp 71–83, 1997 39 K.-K Tan and H K Xu, The nonlinear ergodic theorem for asymptotically...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20

... application aux e’quations inte’grales,” Fundamenta Mathematicae, vol 3, pp 133–181, 1922 A Meir and E Keeler, A theorem on contraction mappings,” Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol ... nonlinear mappings in Hilbert space,” Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol 20, pp 197–228, 1967 S Banach, “Surles ope’rations dans les ensembles abstraits et leur application aux ... of nonexpansive mappings in Banach spaces,” Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol 302, no 2, pp 509–520, 2005 16 S.-Y Matsushita and W Takahashi, “Strong convergence theorems...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 11:20