address risk management and risk communication

... Colborn and Clement (1992); Colborn (1993); Colborn, von Saal, and Soto (1993); Colborn and Smolen (1996); and Rolland, Gilbertson, and Peterson (1997) The ability of certain contaminants, especially ... of water and tissue contaminant levels, and in a few cases by examination of maternal (ovarian) tissue burdens, accompanied infrequently by shipboard spawning and survival experiments, and even ... pituitary, brain, and liver Inhibition of production and release of hormones of the hypothalamus, pituitary, and gonads * Measures of reproductive success, as described by Spies and Rice (1988),...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:22

... human grand mal epileptic seizure wherein the subject is unconscious And while this argument may be appropriate for sheep and pigs, who display the high-frequency polyspike activity found in grand ... it eliminates uncrating and shackling of conscious birds and thus contributes to reduce stress to the birds The procedure is fast, painless, efficient and there is no risk of recovery from unconsciousness.” ... transport crate until dead and the killing procedure itself is fast, painless, and efficient There is no risk of recovery from unconsciousness.” While both nitrogen and argon have been found to...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 08:20

... listening and speaking skills, 47 eight lessons on reading and writing, one lesson on listening and writing and one lesson on listening and speaking Depending on the focus of skills lesson and its ... Listen and speak, Read and speak or Listen and write The activities or tasks designed in the skills lesson are about the main topic and provide the basic and real application of vocabulary and grammar ... techniques and the management of the classroom itself The present book loosely follows 20 both this model and its philosophy, by focusing on material (design) and methods (procedure), and trying...

Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 18:25

... communicate on the telephone and understand radio and television • Can meet work demands that require reading and writing and can interact with the public • Can use common software and learn new applications ... other hand, it is desirable to promote speaking skills through direct testing and locally appropriate program and course assessment procedures 140 BA I L E Y EFFECTIVE PRACTICES AND STANDARDS ... and performance As Brindley (1998) notes, “Variously known as standards, benchmarks, attainment targets, bandscales, profiles and competencies, outcome statements are, broadly speaking, standards...

Ngày tải lên: 24/02/2014, 18:20

... in stages We begin with atomic named entities, and then detect structured entities, relationships, and events To so, we rely on both rule-based and statistical means 3.1 Named entities In Maytag, ... had no existing methods to address financial events or relations, we took this opportunity to develop a trainable approach Recent work has begun to address relation and event extraction through ... classification stage The role stage uses a shallow parser to chunk the sentence, and considers the nominal chunks and named entities as candidate role fillers For acquisition events, for example, these roles...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 21:20

... °Cc, °CF20° and 20 °CF0°) Control beetles exhibited the lowest amounts of Glu and Lys, and the highest levels of Asn ⁄ Ser and Arg ⁄ Thr (Fig 1A,B) Gln was significantly lower in control and °Cc beetles ... reared in darkness at 20 °C and supplied with water and food ad libitum, consisting of moistened bran and dry dog food All the insects used for this study were between and months old at the beginning ... 70% ethanol and Fontainebleau sand, before adding 1.5 mL of 40% ethanol The homogenate was centrifuged for 10 at 4500 g and °C (Sigma 2-16 K, angle rotor 10 · 20, Sigma-Aldrich Co.), and the supernatant...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 11:20

... to Gln109 and Gln129 in CRBPI and CRBPII While all FABPs and CRBPs studied to date have the same tertiary structure, the amino-acid residues at positions 109 and 129 may determine ligand-binding ... CRBPII- and I-FABP-specific antisense and negative control I-FABP sense probes Transverse (A) and coronal (B) zebrafish sections were hybridized to the I-FABP, CRBPII and negative control probes and ... intestinal cell line and that the amount of CRBPI and CRBPII mRNA and protein is directly related to the rate of retinol absorption It is believed that CRBPII directs retinal and retinol to the...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 11:20

... crucial for the binding and activation of the receptor [36,37], such as the TM2 and TM3, have 88–92% and 89–96% amino acid identity between the dogfish and human MC3R and MC5R orthologues, respectively ... solution and separated on 1.4% agarose gel using Mops buffer (20 mM Mops, mM sodium acetate and mM EDTA); this resulted in a single band in Southern blots To estimate the length of the bands on ... products obtained from ClaI and KpnI fragments contained a MC3R sequence and we were able to extend the sequence in both 3¢ and 5¢ directions to overlap the stop codon and initiating ATG codon,...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 15:20

... can be realized by ordering the starts and stops Related Work The Timebank corpus provides hand-tagged features, including tense, aspect, modality, polarity and event class There have been significant ... only know about paresis.start relative to other MEs and may not be able determine paresis.stop For recurring and continuous events like chills and fever, if the time period of recurrence is continuous ... center and annotated with MEs, temporal expressions, relations and event chains The annotation agreement across our team of annotators is high; all annotators agreed on 89.5% of the events and our...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 17:20

... (x-axis) and the four corresponding event counts on the y-axis in the gating strategy NO DEAD and NO DUMP (blue), WITH DEAD and NO DUMP (black), NO DEAD and WITH DUMP (red), WITH DEAD and WITH ... file (NO DUMP/NO DEAD and NO DUMP/ WITH DEAD and WITH DUMP/NO DEAD and WITH DUMP/WITH DEAD) As shown in Figure the highest signals were typically observed when NO DUMP and NO dead cell dye were ... Sweden, Switzerland and USA) Organizational and scientific panel leadership was provided by two leaders experienced in MULTIMER staining, in collaboration with the CIC executive office and the steering...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... CR3/43 and GFAP in the mid-temporal cortex was determined KP1 (anti-CD68) is a marker for phagocytic microglia (and macrophages) and CR3/43 detects the class II antigens HLA-DP, DQ, DR and is ... GFAP, ppRb and COX-2 in the temporal cortex of nondemented control and AD Immunoreactivity scores for KP1, CR3/43, GFAP, ppRb and COX-2 in the temporal cortex of nondemented control and AD cases ... microglia and astrocytes with the Braak score for neurofibrillary changes and high levels of activated glial cells in cases with Braak score B and C (figure 1) We observed maximal neuronal ppRb and...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... (x-axis) and the four corresponding event counts on the y-axis in the gating strategy NO DEAD and NO DUMP (blue), WITH DEAD and NO DUMP (black), NO DEAD and WITH DUMP (red), WITH DEAD and WITH ... file (NO DUMP/NO DEAD and NO DUMP/ WITH DEAD and WITH DUMP/NO DEAD and WITH DUMP/WITH DEAD) As shown in Figure the highest signals were typically observed when NO DUMP and NO dead cell dye were ... Sweden, Switzerland and USA) Organizational and scientific panel leadership was provided by two leaders experienced in MULTIMER staining, in collaboration with the CIC executive office and the steering...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... Witness Insert Name and Title Insert Name and Title 3; EQUIPMENT AND SERVICES HANDOVER This is to certify that the above personnel inputs have been delivered and the equipment and services identified ... Witness Insert Name and Title Insert Name and Title 3; EQUIPMENT AND SERVICES HANDOVER This is to certify that the above personnel inputs have been delivered and the equipment and services identified ... wastewater and solid wastes directly into canals Both liquid and solid waste from aquaculture contain carbon and nutrients which can be recycled on farms to boost production of rice, vegetables and...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 04:20

... weight and histopathology of reproductive organs, sperm count and sperm motility, and levels of phospholipid hydroxide glutathione peroxidase (PHGPx) mRNA expression were investigated Materials and ... under anesthesia with ethyl ether, and their reproductive organs including testis, epididymis and prostate were removed and weighed Sperm counts in testis and cauda epididymis Testicular parenchyma ... Body weights (every week) and sex organ weights including testis, epididymis, and prostate were measured Testis, epididymis, and prostate were fixed in Bouin’s fixative and washed with saturated...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 18:20

... susceptible and resistant rat strains Several loci that control the onset of arthritis, the severity and chronicity of the disease, and autoantibody production have been identified and been confirmed ... and 13, one for CD4/CD8 ratio on chromosome 2, and one for cell proliferation on chromosome 16 The group also described the first example of an epistatic interaction involving mitochondrial and ... Arthritis Research & Therapy Vol No Ibrahim and Paleolog as lymph nodes and joints at various stages of disease in susceptible DBA/1J and resistant FVB/N strains In parallel, a genome screen...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:23

... Therapies and Vaccines 2006, 4:7 Background The introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) to the management of patients infected with HIV has significantly decreased mortality and ... therapy intensification and vaccination with Remune™ before multiple rounds of TI We observed that the magnitude and breadth of HIV-specific responses detected in IFN-γ ELISPOT and intracellular cytokine ... month 3, 6, of the HAART intensification phase, and every months for 36 months thereafter for virological and immunological assessments HAART and HU were resumed if VL did not decrease to

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 10:23

... and sequence analysis and drafted the manuscript MAN carried out real-time PCR analyses MJR and LZ performed pigments measurements and contributed to draft the manuscript EA and MC designed and ... neoxanthin, violaxanthin isomers and mutatoxanthin, zeaxanthin (Extrasynthese) for zeaxanthin and antheraxanthin, and b-carotene (Sigma) Standards of phytoene, phytofluene and ζ-carotene for quantification ... dashed line Vertical bars in (C) represent standard deviation chlorophylls and total and individual carotenoids were determined in flavedo from both mutants and parental fruits at two different developmental...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 11:21

... Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia, 4Department of Renal Medicine, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia and 5School of Medicine, The University of Queensland, ... program and successfully donated a kidney to her husband To the best of our knowledge, this is the first reported use of LAGB in this situation Reported complications of this procedure include band ... infection, and a mortality rate of 0.53% [10] Most of these complications can be managed by band removal or adjustment [11] Other bariatric surgical procedures such as Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and vertical...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:20

... oseltamivir, but we believe that the higher sales and prescription figures in 2005 and 2006 can be explained by the public's stockpiling in fear of a pandemic, and does not represent actual usage in this ... increased influenza activity[9] and the highest peaks of sales of oseltamivir in 2005 and 2006 In 2005 there was an increased media attention on pandemic flu, and private stockpiling of oseltamivir ... data from the Wholesales Register and NorPD and participated in drafting of the manuscript; KB, OH and SD all participated in the drafting of the manuscript and PA participated in the initiation...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:21

... oseltamivir, but we believe that the higher sales and prescription figures in 2005 and 2006 can be explained by the public's stockpiling in fear of a pandemic, and does not represent actual usage in this ... increased influenza activity[9] and the highest peaks of sales of oseltamivir in 2005 and 2006 In 2005 there was an increased media attention on pandemic flu, and private stockpiling of oseltamivir ... data from the Wholesales Register and NorPD and participated in drafting of the manuscript; KB, OH and SD all participated in the drafting of the manuscript and PA participated in the initiation...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:21