... electroplating, smelting, and ore processing (ATSDR 1994) Mine tailings and drainage from mines can contain high concentrations of zinc (Cobb et al 2000) The fate and transport of zinc (Zn+2) in the ... effects of the accidental ingestion of paint chips or the inhalation of aerosolized lead from decaying paint In 1991, the amount of Pb was greatly reduced in gasoline (Anonymous2001a) Most of the ... Weighting and Combining Using Meta -analysis 59 13 R, R2, Slope and Y-intercept Values Combined From Like Plant-Metal Groups and the Number of Studies in Each Group 14 Values Used in...
... picture of loci involved in the regulation of crude protein content, starch content, thousand-grain weight, flowering time, and plant height there is a risk of overlooking an association in genome-wide ... (GAMYB), the barley leucine zippers and (BLZ1, BLZ2), and the barley prolamin box binding factor Page of 11 (BPBF) that were shown to be involved in the transcription of B-hordeins encoded by the ... was inferred from the SSR data by using the STRUCTURE 2.0 software package [18,19] The individual steps ofanalysis were described in detail by Haseneyer et al [16] Genotyping and genetic mapping...
... in spite of being related to the work in [13], the Markov chain 2.1 Individual mobility models IMMs represent the movement pattern of an MN independent of other MNs in the neighborhood, and are ... Analytical modeling The SIMM model uses two Markov chains with discrete parameters and states (0, 1, and 2), to represent movements in the x- and y-coordinate, with changes in coordinates x and y assumed ... representing the shift in directions x and y allow transitions to take place from state (0) to itself Also, instead of representing the changes in each direction by individual Markov chains, as...
... exertion and an increase (morning and night intervals) in sympathetic activityIn this settings, we would expect increased contractility, blood pressure, metabolic demand, and ischemia, instead of ... largest during the morning interval, and the lowest during the night interval, which is in agreement with observations in [13, 14] This indicates a much greater risk of ischemia in the morning interval ... timedomain parameters by calculating the mean and standard deviation of the IHR in the intervals and two time series of the frequency-domain parameters of the IHR: fraction of the total IHR power in...
... Expression of MUC5AC and MUC5B mucins in normal and cystic fibrosis lung Respir Med 2002, 96(2):81-86 Springer J, Groneberg DA, Pregla R, Fischer A: Inflammatory cells as source of tachykinin-induced ... IL13 in allergic asthma Measurements of IL-13 in secretions might be taken into account as a noninvasive marker of airway inflammation and to assess the detrimental effects of ETS Regarding the ... cross-sectional study in random population samples of adults in Switzerland reported prevalences of chronic cough in percent by smoking status and found 3.3 (2.8 – 3.8, 95% confidence interval) of never smokers...
... (protein) amino acids which can be leucine (L) and arginine (R) in microcystin LR, arginine (R) and arginine (R) in microcystin RR, Leucine (L) and tryosine (Y) in microcystin LY etc Microcystins ... cylindrospermopsin and neurotoxins such as anatoxin-a, anatoxin-a(s) and saxitoxins, the marine toxin aplysiatoxin, debromoaplysiatoxin and lyngbyatoxin-a), and lipopolysaccharides (LPS) All are biotoxins ... microcystins, nodularin and cylindrospermopsin) in water and potential effects of exposure to microcystins were investigated The effect of exposure of a human cell line to low amounts of microcystins...
... claims that Vingroup will expand its business by focusing on developing Vinpearl and Vincharm and Vinmec Secondly, In years later, Vingroup’s revenue still based on sale of inventory, including apartments ... competitors and new players Figure 13: Figure 11: Figure 12: FINANCIAL ANALYSIS Huge gain in revenue in 2010 and 2012 In 2012, Vingroup recorded a huge gain in revenue in 2010 and 2012 In 2010, ... According to CBRE, at the end of 2012, the rents of Grade A and B office had a slight increase and the vacancy rate of the office leasing market also increased In Ho Chi Minh City, the supply continues...
... planning of Steel industry and Socio – Economic Development planning of Bac Kan province Moreover, Matexim company is implementing the project of mining and processing iron ore in Ban Cuon and ... unanimously agreed by the parties to invest + Initial cost of investment in fixed assets includes the original costs of land, cost of equipment, means of transport, and cost of technology transfer need ... = beginning + incurred balance balance in period Repayment + Debt - amount in increased period (3) Interest incurred in period is defined based on the period-beginning balance corresponding to...
... coding (VLC) is introduced into the area of coding In VLC, the input is sliced into fixed units, while the corresponding output comes in chunks of variable size, e.g., Huffman coding [45] VLC coding ... capable of providing even higher coding efficiency than MPEG-4 This is a joint work of ITU and MPEG, and it is expected to be a subset of MPEG-4 standard In Table I, we list main applications and target ... chapter by giving the motivation of R-D analysisand modeling and some preliminary knowledge in Section A and Section B, respectively Due to the importance of source properties in R-D modeling, we...
... a contributing factor in the number of turns taken and the distribution of speaking time; and Individuals from collectivistic cultures (e.g., Hong Kong, China, Japan, Indonesia) and individualistic ... collectivistic and individualistic cultures in terms of individuals’ turn-taking and speaking time distribution Smaller S.D indicates that the turns are shared more evenly and that speaking time is ... turn-taking and speaking time in intercultural groups, the use of language and the second-language proficiency of the interlocutors are also likely to be relevant factors that influence the number of...
... coding (VLC) is introduced into the area of coding In VLC, the input is sliced into fixed units, while the corresponding output comes in chunks of variable size, e.g., Huffman coding [45] VLC coding ... capable of providing even higher coding efficiency than MPEG-4 This is a joint work of ITU and MPEG, and it is expected to be a subset of MPEG-4 standard In Table I, we list main applications and target ... chapter by giving the motivation of R-D analysisand modeling and some preliminary knowledge in Section A and Section B, respectively Due to the importance of source properties in R-D modeling, we...
... Dewatripont and Maskin (1995), Earle and alii (1996), Earle and alii (1997), Berglöf and Roland (1998), Bai and Wang (1998) For an analysisof the shortcomings and measurement errors of the accounting ... reflects a falling level ofcredit demand: 1: anticipated indebtedness increases; 2: remains stable; 3: decreases; 4: not indebted and not going to be We then test the following credit demand model: ... equal to « » (increase in indebtedness) by 15 points (33 minus 18), and increases the probability of Expected-Debt to be equal to « » (not indebted and not going to be) by 13 points (34 minus 21)...
... companies investing in a big way in palm plantations in Kalimantan and Sumatra and with palm oil prices expected to be bullish, the torching of forest lands in Indonesia could be on an industrial ... particularly of open-cast alluvium mines, also pose a hazard to life and property Paya Indah, covering 4000 hectares of degraded tin-mining land and bogged peat swamp forest, including the Kuala ... km2 and an Exclusive Economic Zone of 450,000 km2 Economic Setting Malaysia consists of a federation of 11 states in Peninsular Malaysia and the states of Sabah and Sarawak in the north of Kalimantan...
... illustrated in Fig 2B (step 1) Interactions with small integrin-binding ligand N-linked glycoprotein (SIBLING) Individual members of the SIBLING family are known to bind strongly to both pro- and active ... autocatalytic step of the activation by binding to the 64 kDa intermediate form of MMP-2 [52] Binding and activation of MMP-2 was abrogated in the presence of avb3 integrin-binding macromolecules ... proMMP-binding partners involved in activation Allosteric activation Gelatinase interactions with collagen and gelatin Binding of macromolecules or specific thiol-binding reagents to an MMP with an intact...
... collecting a number of different items (e.g the share of individuals making more trips per day, the share of individuals parking on kerbside and so forth) describing the driving habits of the individuals ... some individuals Table 2-22 Share of individuals retained in the sample for the analysisof driving profiles after quality checksreports the size of the revised sample in comparison to the original ... driving and parking patternsin minute intervals For each trip several details such as departure and arrival time, distance and parking place were registered Socioeconomic characteristics of individuals...
... number of cells was analyzed (Fig 2B) In order to investigate whether CEdG has the potential to accumulate in genomic DNA of nongrowing cells, HSC-T6 cells were kept in minimal medium containing ... protein activity, increasing with higher modification rates of the encoding vector Table Concentrations of CEdG (nmolỈlg)1 plasmid) measured by ELISA CEdG adducts were introduced by incubation of ... we investigated whether CEdG accumulates in resting HSC-T6 cells After 14 days of incubation, a 1.7-fold increase of CEdG content in the genomic DNA of the cells was measured These results indicated...
... less a straight line passing through the origin In case of a higher initial pH and/ or in the presence of buffer, the curve initially increases very slowly and approaches a straight line for larger ... stationary phase, in which l becomes equal to zero The decline in the specific growth rate is in this model obtained as a consequence of an increasing amount of lactic acid in the environment ... considered in the cited paper), and (iv) an initial pH of 6.3, the specific growth rate is visualised in Fig in two and three dimensions The different lines in the two-dimensional plots represent intersections...
... coincident index and housing price index to indicate state as well as national business and real estate cycles The analyses in this essay suggest that there are no distinct and persistent patterns ... business cycles As a representation of a random industry, we analyze real-estate industry of the United States for two main reasons: one, real estate is one of the dominant industry sectors of ... role in the formation of the business cycle patternsof the formar group of states The business cycle patternsof the major oil supply states are distinctly different from the national business...
... are involved in the decoding process, including the gain of the amplifiers, the triggering level of the hysteresis quantizer δ as well as the output voltage level of the quantizer The effect of ... Unlimited The views, opinions, and/ or findings contained in this article/presentation are those of the author/presenter and should not be interpreted as representing the official views or policies, ... decoding machines Proceedings of the Conference on Telecommunication Systems, Modeling andAnalysis (ICTSM’05) (2005) HG Feichtinger, K Grochenig, Theory and practice of irregular sampling in Wavelets:...
... Properties of ϕa are described in the following lemma Lemma 2.1 Let assumption 1.7 hold and let a ∈ 0, ∞ Then ϕa ∈ C a, ∞ ∩ C1 a, ∞ , and ϕa is increasing on a, ∞ Advances in Difference Equations Proof ... a, c , and ϕa is increasing on a, c by 4, Lemma 2.3 where is replaced by c Since c > a is arbitrary, the result immediately follows In the following lemma, we introduce functions γ and χ and discuss ... properties of μ that the functions 1−αμ t , 1/ g v dv are continuous, positive, and increasing on 0, Hence 2.25 implies that p ∈ C 0, and p is increasing Moreover, limt → 1− p t μ t ∞ since s 1/...